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Haaland tour casts light on Native American boarding school abuses
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will visit Oklahoma on Saturday for the first stop on a yearlong nationwide tour to hear about the painful experiences of Native Americans who were sent to government-backed boarding schools designed to strip them of their cultural identities.
Haaland, of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, is the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history, and the agency she oversees recently released a report that identified more than 400 of the schools, which sought to assimilate Native children into white society during a period that stretched from the late 18th century until the late 1960s.
Although most closed their doors long ago and none still exist to strip students of their identities, some still function as schools, albeit with drastically different missions that celebrate the cultural backgrounds of their Native students. Among them is the Riverside Indian School in Anadarko, about 80 miles southwest of Oklahoma City, which is one of the oldest and is where Haaland will meet with former students and their descendants Saturday.
Riverside, which opened in 1871, serves students from grades four through 12 these days, offering them specialized academic programs as well as courses on cultural topics such as bead-working, shawl-making and an introduction to tribal art, foods and games. Currently operated by the Bureau of Indian Education, it has nearly 800 students from more than 75 tribes across the country, and the school’s administration, staff and faculty are mostly Native American.
It is one of 183 elementary and secondary schools across the country funded by the Bureau of Indian Education that seek to provide education aligned with a tribe’s needs for cultural and economic well-being, according to the bureau’s website.
Until recently, the federal government hadn’t been open to examining its role in the troubled history of Native American boarding schools, where children were taken from their families, prohibited from speaking their languages and often abused. That has changed because people who know about the trauma that was inflicted hold prominent positions in government.
At least 500 children died at such schools, but that number is expected to reach into the thousands or tens of thousands as more research is done.
The Interior Department’s report includes a list of the boarding schools in what were states or territories that operated between 1819 and 1969 that had a housing component and received support from the federal government.
Oklahoma had the most, 76, followed by Arizona, which had 47, and New Mexico, which had 43. All three states still have significant Native American populations.
Former students might be hesitant to recount the painful past and trust a government whose policies were to eradicate tribes and, later, assimilate them under the veil of education. But some welcome the opportunity to share their stories for the first time.
Lahoma Schultz, a citizen of the Muscogee Nation who lives in Bixby, Oklahoma, said she uncovered records that show her grandfather was forced to wear military clothing, learn English and perform unpaid labor while attending boarding schools in Oklahoma and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.
Schultz said she got angry as she pieced together how such schools affected generations of her family. Her mother, Mollie Hicks, attended boarding school for a semester in 1938 and was punished for speaking the Creek language.
“She said if she ever got married and had children, she would not teach them the language,” Schultz said. “Here I am in my 70s trying to learn my language, and it’s really disheartening.”
Her mother’s experience led Schultz to research boarding schools and her family history in the early 2000s after getting a doctorate in psychology. She has learned the names of relatives she never knew and better understands why her parents were adamant that their children not attend boarding schools.
“That’s been healing, even for me, because I’m putting together more information on my own family,” she said.
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Felicia Fonseca contributed to this report from Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Man from U.P. held at Visakhapatnam railway station, 15 kg ganja seized
Officials from Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB), led by Inspector SEB Station IV Ch. V.S. Prasad, conducted a raid at Platform No.7 of Visakhapatnam Railway Station and arrested a person, while he were allegedly transporting about 15 kg of ganja in his luggage bag, here on Staurday. The SEB officials have identified the accused as Himanshu Dwivedi from Uttar Pradesh. He has allegedly procured the ganja from Odisha and is about to shift it to his native place. Cases were booked.
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Kids From Wisconsin 'Big Bang Boom' show coming July 20
The Kids From Wisconsin will return to Antigo this month for a stop on their 2022 summer tour, “Big Bang Boom.”
Through the decades, eclectic fads, explosive dance crazes, artists and bands have burst forth onto the music scene and into our psyche. British invasions, Swedish bands, Motown, swing dance and Disney are just some of the influences that have ignited today’s music genres.
The Kids From Wisconsin’s Big Bang Boom tour will bring these sensations, and much more, to life in a high-powered two-hour Vegas style production. Join dozens of the state’s most talented singers, dancers and instrumentalists in celebrating the world’s most dynamic and impactful music styles and cultures.
Their visit to Antigo is sponsored by the Antigo Rotary Club.There will be one show only, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. July 20 at the Antigo High School Volm Theater.
Several students from Shawano, Rothschild, Weston, Wausau, Medord and other surrounding communities are part of the 2022 tour.
Tickets are available at CoVantage Credit Union, 723 Sixth Ave.; Lakeside Pharmacy & Market, 536 Fifth Ave.; Pick ‘n Save, 406 Highway 64; or by calling 715-216-6713. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2657246625732/kids-from-wisconsin-big-bang-boom-show-coming-july-20 | 2022-07-09T13:17:08Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2657246625732/kids-from-wisconsin-big-bang-boom-show-coming-july-20 | true |
Updated July 9, 2022 at 7:25 AM ET
Rogers, one of Canada's largest telecommunications companies, said Saturday morning it had restored services to the "vast majority" of its customers following major outages to its cellular, internet and cable services across the country.
The outages, which began Friday morning, left some customers unable to use ATMs or reach 911 emergency services.
Rogers said it was working to restore services to its remaining customers as soon as possible.
The company said midafternoon Friday that it was making progress in its efforts to restore its services.
In a late afternoon message on its website, Rogers acknowledged "the impact our outage is having on your life" and said it has "every technical resource and partner fully deployed to solve the problem. As soon as we know the specific time the Networks will be fully operational, we will share that with you. Right now, we are focused on the solution."
The company added that it will credit customers for the outage.
Millions rely on Rogers for its services throughout Canada, with a total of 11.3 million wireless subscribers in 2021, according to Statista.
A quarter of Canada's internet traffic went down Friday, according to data from NetBlocks, an internet watchdog group.
Some Rogers cellular customers in Toronto were having trouble connecting to 911, Toronto Police Operations tweeted.
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— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) July 8, 2022
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- The Rogers Network is experiencing some technical difficulties
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Toronto Police said that although some Rogers cellular customers might have trouble connecting, 911 is still "fully operational."
The outage is also affecting ATMs and other financial services, according to the CBC.
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Scott Simon talks with Marie Vega of Weymouth, Mass., and Lydia Mullan of Cambridge, Mass., about the film "Jaws." Both saw it for the first time for our series, Movies You Missed.
Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. | https://www.wdiy.org/2022-07-09/movies-you-missed-jaws | 2022-07-09T13:21:28Z | https://www.wdiy.org/2022-07-09/movies-you-missed-jaws | true |
By MATTHEW LEE
AP Diplomatic Writer
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met his Chinese counterpart on Saturday in a new effort to try to rein in or at least manage rampant hostility that has come to define recent relations between Washington and Beijing that are now complicated by the war in Ukraine.
Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held five hours of talks in the Indonesian resort of Bali, a day after they both attended a gathering of top diplomats from the Group of 20 rich and large developing countries that ended without a joint call to end Russia’s war in Ukraine or plan for how to deal with its impacts on food and energy security.
However, Blinken said he believed Russia had come away from G-20 meeting isolated and alone as most participants expressed opposition to the Ukraine war. However, the ministers were unable to come to a unified G-20 call for an end to the conflict.
“There was a strong consensus and Russia was left isolated,” Blinken said of individual condemnations of Russia’s actions from various ministers, some of whom shunned conversations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
He noted that Lavrov had left the meeting early, possibly because he didn’t like what he was hearing from his counterparts.
“It was very important that he heard loudly and clearly from around the world condemnation of Russia’s aggression,” Blinken said, adding: “We see no signs whatsoever that Russia at his point is prepared to engage in diplomacy.”
On China, Blinken said he and Wang discussed a range of contentious issues from tariffs and trade and human rights to Taiwan and disputes in the South China Sea that have all been complicated by the Chinese position on Ukraine.
Just two days earlier, the countries’ top military officers had faced off over Taiwan during a virtual meeting. Blinken said that the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its territory was just one of a series of problematic issues.
He said he stressed U.S. concerns with China’s “increasingly provocative rhetoric and activity near Taiwan and the vital importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.” He added that he had also raised human rights concerns regarding minorities in Tibet and in the western Xinjiang region.
Going into the talks, Wang said “it is necessary for the two countries to maintain normal exchanges” and “to work together to ensure that this relationship will continue to move forward along the right track.”
He echoed frequent Chinese lines about remaining committed to the principles of “mutual respect,” “peaceful coexistence” and “win-win cooperation.” That, he said, “serves the interests of the two countries and two peoples. It is also the shared aspiration of the international community.”
U.S. officials hd said ahead of time they don’t expect any breakthroughs from Blinken’s talks with Wang. But they said they were hopeful the conversation can help keep lines of communications open and create “guardrails” to guide the world’s two largest economies as they navigate increasingly complex and potentially explosive matters.
“We’re committed to managing this relationship, this competition responsibly as the world expects us to do,” Blinken said.
The United States and China have staked out increasingly confrontational positions, including on Ukraine, that some fear could lead to miscalculation and conflict. The U.S. has watched warily as China has refused to criticize the Russian invasion, while condemning Western sanctions against Russia and accusing the U.S. and NATO of provoking the conflict.
“We are concerned about the PRC’s alignment with Russia,” Blinken said, adding that he did not accept Chinese protestations that it is neutral in the Ukraine conflict. “I don’t believe China is acting in a way that is neutral.”
The Biden administration had hoped that China, with its long history of opposing what it sees as interference in its own internal affairs, would take a similar position with Russia and Ukraine. But, it has not, choosing instead what U.S. officials see as a hybrid position that is damaging the international rules-based order.
At the G-20 meeting, Wang made an oblique reference to China’s policy on global stability, saying “to place one’s own security above the security of others and intensify military blocs will only split the international community and make oneself less secure,” according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
On Thursday, China’s joint chiefs of staff chairman Gen. Li Zuocheng upbraided his U.S. counterpart Gen. Mark Milley over Washington’s support for Taiwan.
Li demanded that the U.S. cease military “collusion” with Taiwan, saying China has “no room for compromise” on issues affecting its “core interests,” which include self-governing Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary.
“China demands the U.S. … cease reversing history, cease U.S.-Taiwan military collusion and avoid impacting China-U.S. ties and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” Li said.
At the same time, Li was also quoted in a Defense Ministry news release as saying China hoped to “further strengthen dialogue, handle risks, and promote cooperation, rather than deliberately creating confrontation, provoking incidents and becoming mutually exclusive.”
China routinely flies warplanes near Taiwan to advertise its threat to attack, and the island’s Defense Ministry said Chinese air force aircraft crossed the middle line of the Taiwan Strait dividing the two sides on Friday morning.
The meeting between Li and Milley followed fiery comments by Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe at a regional security conference last month that was also attended by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Wei accused the United States of trying to “hijack” the support of countries in the Asia-Pacific region to turn them against Beijing, saying Washington is seeking to advance its own interests “under the guise of multilateralism.”
At the same meeting in Singapore, Austin said China was causing instability with its claim to Taiwan and its increased military activity in the area.
In May, Blinken incurred Chinese wrath by calling the country the “most serious long-term challenge to the international order” for the United States, with its claims to Taiwan and efforts to dominate the strategic South China Sea.
The U.S. and its allies have responded with what they term “freedom of navigation” patrols in the South China Sea, prompting angry responses from Beijing.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers have agreed on a $122 million, two-year extension that puts the Olympic gold medalist under contract through the 2026-27 season, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Friday.
Lillard will make about $59 million in 2025-26, then about $63 million the next year, said the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity on Friday because the extension has not been announced.
He’ll make about $137 million over the next three seasons, before the extension begins.
Lillard is a six-time All-Star who has spent all 10 of his NBA seasons in Portland. He was limited to 29 games this past season because of a core injury that required surgery, and told ESPN in a televised interview early Friday that the time off — while frustrating — should help him long-term.
“My body is stronger than it was before in certain areas,” Lillard said while watching games at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.
Lillard, who turns 32 on July 15, also said the mental break was helpful, along with the physical rest.
He has averaged 24.6 points in his career, is a six-time All-NBA player and was selected as a member of the league’s top 75 players as part of the NBA’s 75th anniversary celebration this past season.
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(NEXSTAR) – Amid recent reports of so-called “forever chemicals” found in drinking water, it’s not hard to imagine that some Americans might be hypersensitive when it comes to the taste of their tap water this summer.
If you do notice an odd taste, however, the reason might be more benign than you think.
Complaints of an “earthy” or “musty” taste or smell might just be the result of a regular summer phenomenon for many water systems, the accelerated growth of some algae compounds thanks to warmer weather.
“Specifically, it is metabolites from the algae that are producing the slightly off-putting smell and taste,” Wilmington, Delaware, officials said in a news release at the end of June. “The City said the water is safe to drink and there is no need to boil the water.”
Cyanobacteria, formerly referred to as blue-green algae, can create two compounds – geosmin and methylisoborneol (MIB) – that are responsible for the unpleasant odor and taste. City utilities treat drinking water to kill the bacteria that causes the compounds, but the harmless compounds may remain.
“While the taste and odor can be unpleasant, geosmin and MIB are not toxic or harmful,” the City of Sacramento’s website advises. “Chilling your water or adding lemon is known to help diminish the musty or earthy taste.”
Health officials warn, however, that cyanobacteria in the rivers, lakes and reservoirs that feed drinking water systems can be dangerous while untreated. Tampa, Florida officials warned residents Friday that the algae had been found locally and could potentially kill pets within minutes of exposure.
Conventional water treatment can generally remove cyanotoxins from the bacteria in the source waters, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but such systems can “face challenges” during a severe bloom event.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday by a gunman who opened fire on him as he delivered a campaign speech on a street in western Japan, shocking the country.
Here’s a global look at other high-profile political assassinations in the 21st century:
— Oct. 15 2021: British lawmaker David Amess is stabbed to death by an Islamic State supporter while meeting with voters.
— July 7, 2021: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated by gunmen who also wound his wife Martine in an overnight raid on their Port-au-Prince home. More than 40 people have been arrested in Haiti for the attack, including high-ranking police officers and a group of former Colombian soldiers.
— April 20, 2021: Chad President Idriss Deby Itno is killed while battling rebels in the north. Hours earlier he had been declared the winner of an election that would have given him another six years in power.
— Dec. 19, 2016: Russia’s ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is shot dead by a Turkish policeman shouting condemnation of Russia’s military role in Syria, in front of a shocked gathering at a photo exhibit. The gunman was later killed in a shootout with police.
— June 16, 2016: British lawmaker Jo Cox is shot and stabbed to death by a far-right supporter in the English village of Birstall, part of her constituency.
— Feb. 6, 2013: Tunisian left-wing opposition leader Chokri Belaid is fatally shot outside his Tunis home. His killing — followed six months later by that of another left-wing leader, Mohammed Brahmi — plunged Tunisia into political chaos with effects reverberating to this day. No one has been convicted in either case.
— Sept. 11, 2012: U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens is killed when militants storm the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Another three Americans died.
— Oct. 20, 2011: Longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is hunted and summarily killed by insurgents after being toppled in a NATO-backed uprising.
— March 2, 2009: Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira is killed by renegade soldiers in his palace, hours after a bomb blast killed his rival in the West African nation.
— December 27, 2007: Benazir Bhutto, the first female prime minister in a Muslim-majority country as well as Pakistan’s second nationally elected prime minister, was shot at then attacked by a suicide bomber at a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
— Feb. 14, 2005: Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is killed by a suicide truck bomb on a seaside boulevard in Beirut. Another 21 people died and 226 were wounded in the attack, which is seen by many in Lebanon as the work of neighboring Syria.
— Dec. 29, 2003: Archbishop Michael Courtney, the pope’s ambassador in Burundi, is shot by gunmen as he was returning from a funeral and died during surgery.
— March 12, 2003: Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is shot dead in front of the Serbian government headquarters in Belgrade. He was a key leader of the revolt that toppled former President Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000. Twelve people were convicted in connection with the killing, which was carried out to halt his pro-Western reforms, according to a Serbian court ruling.
— May 6, 2002: Populist Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is gunned down in a northern Netherlands city, days before a general election in which he was a candidate, by an animal rights activist.
— June 1, 2001: Nepal’s King Birendra is killed when his son, Crown Prince Dipendra, opens fire on his family in the royal palace. The dead include Queen Aiswarya, a prince and five others. Officials said the shooting followed a dispute over the prince’s marriage.
— Jan. 18, 2001: Congo President Laurent Kabila is assassinated in the presidential palace in the capital, Kinshasa, by one of his bodyguards, who was killed minutes later by security forces. | https://www.myhighplains.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/a-look-at-high-profile-political-assassinations-this-century/ | 2022-07-09T13:41:43Z | https://www.myhighplains.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/a-look-at-high-profile-political-assassinations-this-century/ | false |
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Bid to reduce Lee Mill traffic
Councillors are hoping for central government cash to help reduce traffic in Lee Mill village. They are hoping for funding for a new slip road of the A38 eastbound.
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Hopes of new government cash to reduce traffic in Lee Mill village have been boosted after councillors agreed to work with Devon County Council on a multi-million pound bid.
South Hams District Council executive committee met on Thursday (July 7) to approve an application to the Levelling Up Fund (tranche 2) for capital funding for the A38 corridor.
The plans are for a new slip road off the eastbound A38 which would take traffic to a new roundabout and tie in with existing local roads.
Cllr Hilary Bastone (Cons, Dartmouth and East Dart) proposed that councillors work with the county to help secure Levelling Up Fund (LUF) cash and outlined details of a council report into the matter.
He said: “The report also sets out the collaborative approach we have taken to support Devon County Council bid with funding through the Levelling Up Fund (2), which is a capital bid of £15 million to improve the eastbound off-slip from the A38, so that traffic no longer goes through the Lee Mill village.
“Whilst Devon County Council would deliver the scheme, if it’s successful, our council will be the sponsoring organisation.
“We’ve taken this approach and collaborated with Devon to allow them to submit more than one bid across the county.”
Central government’s LUF initiative is part of the 2020 Spending Review to support communities to regenerate town centres, enable investment in cultural facilities or upgrade local transport infrastructure.
The Lee Mill development will also include a new bus interchange with drop off area and cycle parking facilities.
South Hams hopes its multi-modal approach to blend bus and rail transport, cycling and car use, while focussing on active and inclusive travel will see the application viewed favourably.
South Hams executive members also discussed a separate bid for cash from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) bid.
SHDC can bid for a total of £1,062,367 from the fund and agreed to grant authority to the director of place and enterprise to submit a bid.
Among the suggestions for how the money may be used, many councillors thought projects aimed at sustainability would be suitable.
But Conservative councillor for Woolwell, Nicky Hopwood, asked for reassurances that all parts of the district would be considered.
She said: “When you speak to Sustainable South Hams or whichever organisations you speak to with regards [about] all things carbon and green etc., remind them that the South Hams does spread far and wide and does go down as as far as Woolwell and Roborough and doesn’t end at Ivybridge.”
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HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Hanover is currently working with community members to update its Comprehensive Plan, the county’s vision for the future.
As part of the Comprehensive Plan update, two interactive workshops are scheduled this summer for citizens to work together to discuss future land uses throughout the county.
The first workshop will be held on Thursday, July 28, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at the Montpelier Center for Arts and Education at 17205 Mountain Road in Montpelier. The second workshop will be held on Wednesday, August 3, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at the Atlee Branch Library, located at 9212 Rutlandshire Drive in Mechanicsville. Both workshops will include the same activities.
Pre-registration for these workshops is encouraged. Visit the Envision Hanvover website or call 804-365-6171 for registration and more information on the Comprehensive Plan.
The plan addresses many aspects of life in Hanover, including land use, housing, economic development and natural resources. It is continuing to be developed and will likely be finished in late 2023. | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/hanover-county/hanover-to-involve-residents-in-discussions-around-comprehensive-plan-for-land-use-housing-economic-development/ | 2022-07-09T13:47:13Z | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/hanover-county/hanover-to-involve-residents-in-discussions-around-comprehensive-plan-for-land-use-housing-economic-development/ | false |
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. – Bobby Shapiro ran down Central Avenue in socks, moving toward the street corner where gunfire had erupted just moments before. At first, he only wanted to confirm that what he was hearing was real — a mass shooting at a July 4 parade in Highland Park.
Any sense of disbelief vanished with the sight of bone fragments, blood and pieces of flesh lying in the street where a parade was marching just minutes before. Then he saw the bodies.
“It was pure horror. It was a battle zone,” Shapiro, 52, said in an interview. When the gunshots first went off, he had been changing out of his cycling shoes about 100 yards away.
Emergency vehicles and first responders were not yet at the scene, so Shapiro, a tech salesman with no medical training, began doing whatever he could to help.
From the bystanders who tied tourniquets and administered CPR to the fleeing paradegoers who rescued and cared for an orphaned two-year-old covered in blood, people from every corner of the Highland Park community sprung into action on July 4 in the wake of unspeakable tragedy.
Nearly a dozen people, including off-duty doctors, nurses and a football coach, were among the first to administer lifesaving assistance to victims of the parade shooting.
“Things happen so quickly that your brain can’t possibly comprehend that there is an active shooter in your town, in your sleepy little neighborhood,” said Dr. Wendy Rush, an anesthesiologist with decades of experience working in trauma centers.
Rush joined Shapiro in trying to save an elderly man who had a gunshot wound in his thigh and another that left a gaping hole in his abdomen.
While Rush used a ventilation mask and bag to help the elderly man breathe, Shapiro and another bystander took turns giving chest compressions and holding pressure on his wounds.
All the while, “We didn’t know where the shooter was. We knew he wasn’t dead,” Rush said.
Nearly 30 minutes later, Rush boarded an ambulance alongside the dying man, and Shapiro, in shorts stained with blood, walked back to the bench where he’d been changing his shoes what felt like hours earlier.
The man died at the hospital, and was later identified as Stephen Straus, an 88-year-old financial advisor.
Rush’s husband and son were also on the scene. As members of Highland Park’s Community Emergency Response Team, both men have training in first aid and basic life support. They were working the parade expecting to assist with the regular crowd control and the occasional lost child.
Rush’s son cared for people with less critical gunshot wounds, applying tourniquets and pressure to stop their bleeding. Her husband, Rush said, spent most of his time caring for Keely Roberts, a school superintendent shot twice in her foot and leg.
Roberts’ 8-year-old son Cooper, shot in the chest, remains in serious condition at University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital with a severed spine.
His twin brother, Luke, was nearby.
“I’ll never forget his face. He was just hysterical. He kept saying, ‘Don’t let my mommy die, don’t let my mommy die. Don’t let her lips turn blue like my brother.’ It was the worst you could ever imagine,” Eddie Rush told Fox 32 Chicago.
Football coach Brad Hokin was at his usual spot at the beginning of the route when the shooting started. He took off running down the bloodied street past those with minor injuries and toward the people he could tell needed assistance most urgently.
When his wife, nurse practitioner Jacquie Toia, called from their seats about a quarter mile away to make sure he was OK, Hokin simply told her, “Get up here. We need you.”
Toia, 64, hurried to the scene still unsure of what was happening. When she saw the destruction, her instincts kicked into gear. As a nurse for 36 years, Toia had experience working in an emergency setting.
By that point, paramedics on scene had equipment, and Toia and another nurse on the scene began to administer IVs.
Meanwhile Hokin, with no prior medical training, was holding pressure on gunshot wounds and helping EMTs load the wounded onto gurneys until all the victims were safely en route to hospitals.
“We did what we could to take care of the immediate needs, and that’s probably the real tragedy – we didn’t have enough hands to do what needed to be done,” Toia said. Responders were overwhelmed by the sheer number of casualties.
“Thirty-six years in medicine is enough that loss is not a stranger to me,” Toia said. “This was so different. This was hell.”
Dr. David Baum, an OBGYN and longtime attendee of the parade, was sitting with his family when the shooting started. The doctor rushed to help, and found bodies destroyed by bullets. Baum recalled trying to move people to ambulances and seeing wounds unlike anything he’d dealt with before.
“These were wartime injuries,” Baum said.
Baum and Toia both expressed their frustrations that the shooter had such easy access to high-capacity weapons. “You should never have to worry about being killed in your street on the Fourth of July at a parade,” Toia said.
Dr. Rush’s son, Shane Selig, said everyone is still processing what happened.
“There are those that feel guilty they didn’t do more,” he said, while adding, “at least I could do something.”
But it is hard, this aftermath. People, he said, will be “forever scarred by this.” And it makes him angry.
The images of the hurt and dying haunt those who ran to help.
Shapiro wakes up and when he opens his eyes, “It’s the ’bang, bang, bang, bang, bang of the shooting and initial panic again.”
For Toia, “The children’s faces running and screaming and crying and falling will never escape me.”
Still, Hokin says it won't deter him next year from joining with the community he loves.
In his 58 years, he's been to the parade 52 times. Even during the pandemic when the parade was canceled, he went out just to say he was there.
“I’m sure next Fourth of July, I’ll be on the corner at 8 o’clock, waiting for the parade.”
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Associated Press reporters Heather Hollingsworth, Grant Schulte, and Claire Savage contributed to this report. Venhuizen reported from Madison, Wisconsin; Hollingsworth from Kansas City; Savage from Chicago; and Schulte from Lincoln, Nebraska.
Savage and Venhuizen are corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was closed Friday and hundreds of people ordered evacuated nearby as a wildfire burning through dense forest became the latest in recent years to threaten the world’s largest trees.
A team was being sent to the Mariposa Grove to wrap some of the massive trunks in fire-resistant foil to protect them as the blaze burned out of control, said Nancy Phillipe, a Yosemite fire information spokesperson.
More than 500 mature sequoias were threatened but there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, such as the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.
The cause of the fire was under investigation and the rest of the park remained open as nearly 300 firefighters tried to control the flames with the help of two water-dropping helicopters and an air tanker dumping flame retardant, Phillipe said.
The giant sequoias, native in only about 70 groves spread along the western slope of California’s Sierra Nevada range, were once considered impervious to flames but have become increasingly vulnerable as wildfires fueled by a buildup of undergrowth from a century of fire suppression and drought exacerbated by climate change have become more intense and destructive.
Lightning-sparked wildfires over the past two years have killed up to a fifth of the estimated 75,000 large sequoias, which are the biggest trees by volume.
There was no obvious natural spark for the fire that broke out Thursday next to the park’s Washburn Trail, Phillipe said. Smoke was reported by visitors walking in the grove that reopened in 2018 after a $40 million renovation that took three years.
The grove, which is inside the park’s southern entrance, was evacuated and no one was injured.
The fire had grown to 466 acres (188 hectares) by Friday evening, authorities said.
Evacuation orders were issued Friday for the grove along with the nearby community of Wawona — which is surrounded by the park — and the Wawona Campground, where about 600 to 700 people were staying in a campground, cabins and an historic hotel.
A fierce windstorm ripped through the grove a year-and-a-half ago and toppled 15 giant sequoias, along with countless other trees.
The downed trees, along with massive numbers of pines killed by bark beetles, provided ample fuel for the flames, but winds Friday were calm and the fire was not spreading rapidly.
The park has used prescribed burns to clear brush around the sequoias, which helps protect them if flames spread farther into the grove.
“When the unwanted fires hit those areas, it tends to slow the rate of spread and helps us gain some control,” Phillipe said.
In the Sierra foothills, 80 miles (128 kilometers) to the northwest of the Yosemite fire, some evacuation orders were lifted as containment grew to 70% on the Electra Fire that had burned 7 square miles (18 square kilometers).
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What's happening
President Biden still hasn't announced his decision on widespread student loan forgiveness, but millions of borrowers have already had $25 billion in debt canceled during his term.
Why it matters
With one in five Americans owing student debt, loan forgiveness can help ease the pain of soaring inflation and economic uncertainty.
Student loan payments have been paused for over two years, but that moratorium is set to expire on Aug. 31, 2022. Without another extension, payments and interest on loans will start again in September. About 1 in 5 Americans owe money on student loans for a total of $1.6 trillion, or an average of $37,013 per borrower.
President Joe Biden campaigned in 2020 on canceling a "minimum of $10,000" in student loan debt for everyone, and on April 28 promised a decision "in the next couple of weeks," but months have passed with no action on widespread student loan forgiveness.
However, more than $25 billion in student loan debt for millions of Americans has been forgiven since Biden took office in January 2021. Learn who has qualified for student loan forgiveness so far, and how you can check to see if you're one of the borrowers eligible for debt cancellation. For more, here's what we know about how debt forgiveness could affect your credit score and why you might continue to make student loan payments even though you aren't required.
$7.3 billion in student loans discharged for public servants
In October last year, the Department of Education announced "transformative" changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, immediately making 22,000 borrowers immediately eligible for debt cancellation. The department expects its policy changes to enable more than 550,000 borrowers who had consolidated their loans to eventually become eligible for debt forgiveness.
The PSLF program cancels the remaining balance on a student loan after the borrower makes 120 qualifying monthly payments. Anyone who works for a federal, state or local government agency can apply for the program, including teachers, firefighters, military members, nurses and other employees in the public sector. The PSLF program has canceled $7.3 billion in student loan debt for 127,000 borrowers so far during Biden's term.
The biggest changes to PSLF let borrowers count all previous payments made on Federal Family Education Loans and Perkins Loans and waive requirements of full-amount and on-time payments. However, to receive this relief, borrowers need to submit a PSLF application by Oct. 31, 2022. Note: if you need to consolidate your debt to qualify for PSLF relief, that process can take 45 days, so build time into meeting that end of October deadline.
For more information about PSLF policy changes and to see if you are eligible for the program and the waiver for previous payments, visit the PSLF Help Tool on the Federal Student Aid website.
$5.8 billion in student loans discharged for borrowers with disabilities
In August last year, the Department of Education implemented a regulation change that allowed 323 million student loan borrowers with "total and permanent" disabilities to have more than $5.8 million of their federal loans canceled. Borrowers with these disabilities no longer have to apply for relief -- they'll be determined by data matches in the Social Security Administration, which began identifying these borrowers on a quarterly basis in September last year.
Before the policy change, only about half of borrowers with total and permanent disabilities who were identified as eligible via Social Security matches had received loan forgiveness.
If you believe that you might qualify for student loan relief from a total disability, complete the online disability application on the Social Security website.
$7.55 billion in student loans discharged for defense claims against specific schools
Student loan borrowers who have been misled or defrauded by educational institutions have a right to file "borrower defense claims" with the Department of Education. If these schools are found to have violated state laws, borrowers may be eligible for partial or complete student loan cancellation.
Throughout 2021 and 2022, the Department of Education has announced specific relief measures for student loan borrowers who attended colleges and universities that made fraudulent claims about their schools or misled students when they were applying for loans.
These student loan discharges include:
- ITT Technical Institute: 115,000 borrowers were given $1.1 billion in loan cancellations in August 2021.
- DeVry University: In February, 16,000 borrowers received $415 million in student loan discharges, along with additional forgiveness for students at Westwood College, the nursing program at ITT, and criminal justice programs at Minnesota School of Business and Globe University.
- Marinello Schools of Beauty: Due to "pervasive and widespread misconduct" at Marinello schools, 28,000 borrowers had $238 million in loans discharged in April.
- Corinthian Colleges: In the largest defense claim discharge of the year so far, the DoE announced $5.8 billion in forgiveness for 560,000 borrowers on June 1.
If you attended one of these schools and owes money on a student loan, you'll need to file an official borrower defense claim on the Federal Student Aid website to receive relief. After you complete your application, which should take about 30 minutes, the DoE says that they will contact you by email with information about your loan discharge.
264,000 more borrowers set to receive student loan relief from defense claims
On June 22, the Department of Education announced a proposed settlement in the class action lawsuit Sweet v. Cardona. About 264,000 borrowers sued the agency, saying it illegally delayed action on longstanding defense claims.
If approved by a judge, the proposed settlement will provide student loan debt relief to students from more than 50 mostly for-profit colleges and significantly reduce the backlog of defense claims that began during the President Donald Trump administration and grew during the Biden administration.
The debt relief proposed in the settlement will only apply to borrowers who have already filed defense claims with the Education Department. The Project on Predatory Student Lending says that all borrowers with pending defense claims as of June 22, 2022, or those who received denials after December 2019 are eligible to be plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit.
It's not yet known if the Department of Education will expand relief to borrowers who attended the offending schools but have not filed defense claims.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — China’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine is complicating U.S.-Chinese relations at a time when they are already beset by rifts and enmity over numerous other issues, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Chinese counterpart on Saturday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi blamed the U.S. for the downturn in relations and said that American policy has been derailed by what he called a misperception of China as a threat.
“Many people believe that the United States is suffering from a China-phobia,” he said, according to a Chinese statement. “If such threat-expansion is allowed to grow, U.S. policy toward China will be a dead end with no way out.”
In five hours of talks in their first-to-face meeting since October, Blinken said he expressed deep concern about China’s stance on Russia’s actions in Ukraine and did not believe Beijing’s protestations that it is neutral in the conflict.
The talks had been arranged in a new effort to try to rein in or at least manage rampant hostility that has come to define recent relations between Washington and Beijing.
“We are concerned about the PRC’s alignment with Russia,” Blinken told reporters after the meeting in the Indonesian resort of Bali. He said it is difficult to be “neutral” in a conflict in which there is a clear aggressor but that even it were possible, “I don’t believe China is acting in a way that is neutral.”
The Chinese statement said the two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on Ukraine but provided no details.
The Biden administration had hoped that China, with its long history of opposing what it sees as interference in its own internal affairs, would take a similar position with Russia and Ukraine. But it has not, choosing instead what U.S. officials see as a hybrid position that is damaging the international rules-based order.
Blinken said every nation, China included, stands to lose if that order is eroded.
The two men met a day after they both attended a gathering of top diplomats from the Group of 20 rich and large developing countries that ended without a joint call to end Russia’s war in Ukraine or plan for how to deal with its impacts on food and energy security.
However, Blinken said he believed Russia had come away from G-20 meeting isolated and alone as most participants expressed opposition to the Ukraine war. However, the ministers were unable to come to a unified G-20 call for an end to the conflict.
“There was a strong consensus and Russia was left isolated,” Blinken said of individual condemnations of Russia’s actions from various ministers, some of whom shunned conversations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
He noted that Lavrov had left the meeting early, possibly because he didn’t like what he was hearing from his counterparts.
“It was very important that he heard loudly and clearly from around the world condemnation of Russia’s aggression,” Blinken said, adding: “We see no signs whatsoever that Russia at his point is prepared to engage in diplomacy.”
On China, Blinken said he and Wang discussed a range of contentious issues from tariffs and trade and human rights to Taiwan and disputes in the South China Sea that have all been complicated by the Chinese position on Ukraine.
Wang called on the U.S. to lift tariffs on imports from China as soon as possible, stop interfering in his country’s internal affairs and refrain from harming its interests in the name of human rights and democracy. He also accused the U.S. of using “salami-slicing” tactics on Taiwan, a self-governing island that China claims as its territory and says should come under its control.
Just two days earlier, the countries’ top military officers had faced off over Taiwan during a virtual meeting. Blinken said he stressed U.S. concerns with China’s “increasingly provocative rhetoric and activity near Taiwan and the vital importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.” He added that he had also raised human rights concerns regarding minorities in Tibet and in the western Xinjiang region.
Wang refuted some “erroneous U.S. views” on Xinjiang, Hong Kong and the South China Sea, the Chinese statement said.
U.S. officials had said ahead of time they didn’t expect any breakthroughs from Blinken’s talks with Wang. But they said they were hopeful the conversation could help keep lines of communications open and create “guardrails” to guide the world’s two largest economies as they navigate increasingly complex and potentially explosive matters.
“We’re committed to managing this relationship, this competition responsibly as the world expects us to do,” Blinken said.
The United States and China have staked out increasingly confrontational positions, including on Ukraine, that some fear could lead to miscalculation and conflict. The U.S. has watched warily as China has refused to criticize the Russian invasion, while condemning Western sanctions against Russia and accusing the U.S. and NATO of provoking the conflict.
At the G-20 meeting, Wang made an oblique reference to China’s policy on global stability, saying “to place one’s own security above the security of others and intensify military blocs will only split the international community and make oneself less secure,” according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
On Thursday, China’s joint chiefs of staff chairman Gen. Li Zuocheng upbraided his U.S. counterpart Gen. Mark Milley over Washington’s support for Taiwan.
Li demanded that the U.S. cease military “collusion” with Taiwan, saying China has “no room for compromise” on issues affecting its “core interests.”
The meeting between Li and Milley followed fiery comments by Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe at a regional security conference last month that was also attended by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Wei accused the United States of trying to “hijack” the support of countries in the Asia-Pacific region to turn them against Beijing, saying Washington is seeking to advance its own interests “under the guise of multilateralism.”
At the same meeting in Singapore, Austin said China was causing instability with its claim to Taiwan and its increased military activity in the area.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia — China's support for Russia's war in Ukraine is complicating U.S.-Chinese relations at a time when they are already beset by rifts and enmity over numerous other issues, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Chinese counterpart on Saturday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi blamed the U.S. for the downturn in relations and said that American policy has been derailed by what he called a misperception of China as a threat.
"Many people believe that the United States is suffering from a China-phobia," he said, according to a Chinese statement. "If such threat-expansion is allowed to grow, U.S. policy toward China will be a dead end with no way out."
In five hours of talks in their first-to-face meeting since October, Blinken said he expressed deep concern about China's stance on Russia's actions in Ukraine and did not believe Beijing's protestations that it is neutral in the conflict.
The talks had been arranged in a new effort to try to rein in or at least manage rampant hostility that has come to define recent relations between Washington and Beijing.
"We are concerned about the PRC's alignment with Russia," Blinken told reporters after the meeting in the Indonesian resort of Bali. He said it is difficult to be "neutral" in a conflict in which there is a clear aggressor but that even it were possible, "I don't believe China is acting in a way that is neutral."
The Chinese statement said the two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on Ukraine but provided no details.
The Biden administration had hoped that China, with its long history of opposing what it sees as interference in its own internal affairs, would take a similar position with Russia and Ukraine. But it has not, choosing instead what U.S. officials see as a hybrid position that is damaging the international rules-based order.
Blinken said every nation, China included, stands to lose if that order is eroded.
The two men met a day after they both attended a gathering of top diplomats from the Group of 20 rich and large developing countries that ended without a joint call to end Russia's war in Ukraine or plan for how to deal with its impacts on food and energy security.
However, Blinken said he believed Russia had come away from G-20 meeting isolated and alone as most participants expressed opposition to the Ukraine war. However, the ministers were unable to come to a unified G-20 call for an end to the conflict.
"There was a strong consensus and Russia was left isolated," Blinken said of individual condemnations of Russia's actions from various ministers, some of whom shunned conversations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
He noted that Lavrov had left the meeting early, possibly because he didn't like what he was hearing from his counterparts.
"It was very important that he heard loudly and clearly from around the world condemnation of Russia's aggression," Blinken said, adding: "We see no signs whatsoever that Russia at his point is prepared to engage in diplomacy."
On China, Blinken said he and Wang discussed a range of contentious issues from tariffs and trade and human rights to Taiwan and disputes in the South China Sea that have all been complicated by the Chinese position on Ukraine.
Wang called on the U.S. to lift tariffs on imports from China as soon as possible, stop interfering in his country's internal affairs and refrain from harming its interests in the name of human rights and democracy. He also accused the U.S. of using "salami-slicing" tactics on Taiwan, a self-governing island that China claims as its territory and says should come under its control.
Just two days earlier, the countries' top military officers had faced off over Taiwan during a virtual meeting. Blinken said he stressed U.S. concerns with China's "increasingly provocative rhetoric and activity near Taiwan and the vital importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait." He added that he had also raised human rights concerns regarding minorities in Tibet and in the western Xinjiang region.
Wang refuted some "erroneous U.S. views" on Xinjiang, Hong Kong and the South China Sea, the Chinese statement said.
U.S. officials had said ahead of time they didn't expect any breakthroughs from Blinken's talks with Wang. But they said they were hopeful the conversation could help keep lines of communications open and create "guardrails" to guide the world's two largest economies as they navigate increasingly complex and potentially explosive matters.
"We're committed to managing this relationship, this competition responsibly as the world expects us to do," Blinken said.
The United States and China have staked out increasingly confrontational positions, including on Ukraine, that some fear could lead to miscalculation and conflict. The U.S. has watched warily as China has refused to criticize the Russian invasion, while condemning Western sanctions against Russia and accusing the U.S. and NATO of provoking the conflict.
At the G-20 meeting, Wang made an oblique reference to China's policy on global stability, saying "to place one's own security above the security of others and intensify military blocs will only split the international community and make oneself less secure," according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
On Thursday, China's joint chiefs of staff chairman Gen. Li Zuocheng upbraided his U.S. counterpart Gen. Mark Milley over Washington's support for Taiwan.
Li demanded that the U.S. cease military "collusion" with Taiwan, saying China has "no room for compromise" on issues affecting its "core interests."
The meeting between Li and Milley followed fiery comments by Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe at a regional security conference last month that was also attended by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Wei accused the United States of trying to "hijack" the support of countries in the Asia-Pacific region to turn them against Beijing, saying Washington is seeking to advance its own interests "under the guise of multilateralism."
At the same meeting in Singapore, Austin said China was causing instability with its claim to Taiwan and its increased military activity in the area.
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Has anyone ever looked less impressed than Selena Gomez about working with two comedy legends?
"Well, this was my life every day for five months," she informed Stephen Colbert on the Late Show last year, pointing to her Only Murders in the Building co-stars Martin Short and Steve Martin. The longtime buddies had, naturally, started hamming it up in their respective ways the minute they hit the stage, firing a barrage of wisecracks about the host's new mustache, Martin assuring Gomez as they sat down, "Sorry, you'll get to speak in a minute."
The singer-actress admitted she wasn't sure how audiences were going to react to their odd-trio murder-mystery comedy (now back for a second season on Hulu) and she was pleasantly "shocked" at the warm reception. Then that quickly devolved into Martin saying he was also shocked by a particularly good review Short received. "Because," Martin explained, "I was there." Short proceeded to suggest Martin had been huffing something out of a bag.
Gomez, with a wince and an "Oh, Marty" shake of her head, turned back to Colbert, getting the interview back on the rails.
Alternating compliments with good-natured ridicule, guffaws with sniffs of exasperation, pats on the back with eye rolls?
Why, they're family!
"In that we often eat meals together in total silence," Gomez deadpanned after Short suggested that very concept when the pair presented at the SAG Awards in February. (Or "Shag Awards," as Short joked, prompting that now-signature wince from his co-star. "Yes, for as I've learned from you, Marty," she said, "leave the audience wanting less.")
So obviously Gomez has been a quick study at the family business.
With Martin, 76, and Short, 72, having locked down the roles of comedically sparring brothers over 35 years of friendship and professional collaboration, from The Three Amigos and Father of the Bride to their recent stage show A Night You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life, Gomez, 29, has joined the troupe as a sort of tolerant, bemused niece.
And the People's Choice winner for Comedy TV Star of 2021 has had many opportunities to act the part since Only Murders in the Building premiered last August and was quickly renewed for a second season. In fact, Gomez seamlessly slipped into the role of The Sane One, onscreen and off.
"We have a bit of craziness," she told E! News at the show's season two premiere in June, gesturing to the fellows on either side of her, "and I get to be the ground of it all sometimes. That's fun."
In fact, the premise of the show—has-been TV star Charles (Martin) teaming with egomaniacal and quasi-delusional theater producer Oliver (Short) and their wary neighbor Mabel (Gomez) to solve a murder that's been committed in their grand New York apartment building and document their progress in a true-crime podcast—rests on that well-oiled clash of personalities.
Gomez's "unique" delivery is "like the third point of the triangle between me and Marty," Martin told the Los Angeles Times recently. "There's this focus that's completely different than ours, in terms of how the lines come out, the timing, the volume. Everything is different. So it's a great balance for us."
And the age chasm between Gomez and her co-stars (the three are also executive producers) not only fuels the relatability of Mabel's "What is wrong with you two?" frustrations, it also enhances the charm of their friendship, which starts as a conditional alliance and evolves into the real deal.
Which sort of mirrored their real-life getting-to-know-you process.
Martin would get "really mad" when anyone expressed doubt about whether she was up to the task of going toe-to-toe with him and Short, Gomez said on the June 12 episode of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast. "Steve will get super defensive of me and it's really sweet."
But they also acknowledged that they didn't really know how it would go, she added. "Steve said he loved the idea [of adding a woman of an entirely different generation to the mix] and thought it was really fun," Gomez said. "The next part was them hoping I wasn't going to be annoying—and that's honestly the truth."
Of course, Short and Martin were presumably aware that Only Murders in the Building only benefitted from having an actress with 334 million Instagram followers on board.
"I can feel the cameraman coming back, I'm talking about Selena," Martin quipped on Sunday TODAY last summer as the discussion turned to their co-star. Short told host Willie Geist he thought "it was kind of a brilliant idea" to complete their trio with a youngster. And the generation gap is the point, Martin added, noting, "That's what you want. I don't want to be up talking the lingo of a 29-year-old."
"Just using the word 'lingo' kind of covers that," Short noted.
Actually, Martin said on the Late Show in September, "There was no generation gap. In the morning she comes out and she puts out our pills, it's so nice."
"That's really sad," Gomez offered.
Ultimately, however, she told Awards Chatter, "I couldn't have been luckier because they called me and I talked to everyone for awhile and I just told them all of my fascination with true crime—and then it happened and I can't picture the show with three men."
And while she got busy catching up with some of their classic movies that she hadn't seen yet, Martin and Short got a crash course in young-people culture.
"It was hysterical," Gomez recalled of the day she played Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP" for them. "They were so confused—they weren't offended, they were just confused. They were like, 'Wait, do women like this?' Like, 'Yeah, I guess it's a thing, it's a vibe, I don't know." So they're hilarious, they'll be singing Joni Mitchell and I'll throw in some rap music now and then, just to spice things up."
The three of them don't have a group text chain going or anything like that, she told the LA Times, but they do keep in touch digitally. "It is really funny when I do email them because...it's email," she said. "They always sign their names. It's really sweet."
But just because she's adept at the OMG eye roll doesn't mean Gomez isn't very impressed by her partners in crime-solving.
In fact, she admitted to the Times, "At the beginning, I was very nervous. And then I got to be a little bit more involved. They made me feel really comfortable. I would say by the second season, I felt like I got a really good groove with Mabel, and in general, I felt more comfortable to ask for their advice on a scene, or if maybe that sounded bad. They're honest with me. It's nice."
Short agreed, noting, "Selena actually does keep a pencil and paper, and she writes things down. And one time I looked over, assuming it was things she'd learned, and the headline was 'Things not to do.'"
But shtick aside, the bond is real. Shooting during a pandemic will do that to a cast—if they're lucky.
"We actually only spent time together," Gomez said on Awards Chatter. "Thank God I find them very fascinating, 'cause I don't know what I would do! But I love them, and so, I have a great time."
And it turned out she was impressed by much more than Short and Martin's comedic chops, sharp as they are.
"They are very sweet and kind and hilarious—and inappropriate sometimes, and it's the best," Gomez said on Awards Chatter. "I just learned so much. And my expectation for a man, to be honest, or any human, is to be as decent as these two human beings are. They have been doing this longer than I have been alive and they are the kindest people."
The feeling is mutual.
Short recalled to Colbert last summer how he first met Gomez in the makeup chair, "and I was struck by this beautiful, engaging and right away charming person. It was a very easy shoot that way, because I think the three of us like to work in great ease. But I didn't know her." He turned to Gomez. "You could have been horrible."
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California panel on Friday denied parole for a follower of cult leader Charles Manson convicted of slayings more than a half-century ago.
Bruce Davis was previously recommended for parole seven times, but those findings were rejected by three consecutive governors. Parole commissioners told the 79-year-old Davis to try again in three years.
“They said he lacks empathy,” Michael Beckman, Davis’ attorney, said after the hearing before two parole commissioners.
Davis has said he helped kill musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea in 1969. He previously said he cut Shea with a knife and held a gun while Manson cut Hinman’s face with a sword.
“I wanted to be Charlie’s favorite guy,” he said during a 2014 parole hearing.
Afterward, other followers wrote “political piggy” on the wall of Hinman’s home in his own blood.
Davis was not involved in the more notorious killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others by the Manson cult the same year.
“The last 14 commissioners of the parole board found Bruce Davis suitable for parole,” as did the last nine experts who found him at a low risk for violence, said Beckman, Davis’ attorney. “For these two commissioners to think they know better is appalling.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom has consistently rejected parole recommendations for Davis and for other followers of Manson, who died in prison in 2017 at age 83. His release was previously blocked by governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown.
Anthony DiMaria, a nephew of victim Thomas Jay Sebring, argued against Davis’ parole on behalf of Hinman’s family.
“Bruce Davis remains in prison because his crimes were so severe and profound that they shook our country to its core with permanent repercussions,” said DiMaria. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/parole-denied-for-manson-follower-charged-in-1969-slayings-they-said-he-lacks-empathy/ | 2022-07-09T14:04:40Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/parole-denied-for-manson-follower-charged-in-1969-slayings-they-said-he-lacks-empathy/ | false |
Alfie Hewett loses in Wimbledon doubles - but still has chance in singles
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Norfolk's wheelchair tennis sensation Alfie Hewett's hopes of winning an 11th consecutive wheelchair doubles grand slam were dashed at Wimbledon.
Hewett and Gordon Reid were beaten 6-3 6-1 by Gustavo Fernandez and Shingo Kunieda in the final on Court Three.
The top-seeded British duo had not lost a slam final together since Wimbledon in 2019 but their reign was brought to a disappointing end when Hewett double-faulted on match point.
However, all is not lost for the Norfolk-born star as Hewett faces top seed Kunieda of Japan in the singles final on Sunday (July 10), having beaten Argentinian Fernandez in the semi-final late on Friday night.
Hewett said: “We can’t take anything away from these guys, they’ve been desperate to beat us for some time now.
“Yesterday was a massive day for myself, an incredible day that I’ll always remember, so today was challenging to go again. But we’ll be back next year.” | https://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/alfie-hewett-loses-wheelchair-doubles-final-at-wimbledon-9133540 | 2022-07-09T14:09:50Z | https://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/alfie-hewett-loses-wheelchair-doubles-final-at-wimbledon-9133540 | true |
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THIRA, Greece (AP) — Cruise-ship tourists crowding souvenir shops and couples chasing the perfect Instagram sunset throng the alleyway outside the Monastery of St. Catherine, steps from Santorini’s world-famous volcanic cliffs.
Inside this convent on one of the trendiest islands in Greece, a predominantly Christian Orthodox country, 13 cloistered Catholic nuns devote their lives to praying for those visitors and for the world.
It's a crucial if often misunderstood mission within the church, where constant prayer is deemed necessary to support more outwardly engaged ministries.
“In such a touristy island, the last thing one thinks about is praying — so we are the ones who do it,” Sister Lucía María de Fátima, the prioress, said on a recent morning.
She and other sisters spoke in the convent's parlor, from behind a widely spaced white iron grille that demarcates the cloistered space from the outside world. Ending more than two years of pandemic seclusion, the sisters will welcome visitors back to the public part of their church starting at a Mass in early August for the convent’s 425th anniversary.
The rest of the convent is considered a sacred space, where the nuns live mostly in silence and contemplation, leaving only for medical reasons or government requirements.
“After going beyond the grille, we miss nothing. When God gave us the vocation to being cloistered, he gave us the complete package,” said Sister María Esclava, who’s originally from Puerto Rico.
The Rev. Félix del Valle, a Spanish priest, has led periodic spiritual exercises at the convent for more than 10 years, part of the rigorous religious training for the sisters that starts with nine years of preparation before entering the cloistered life.
“In a world of consumption, of diversions, they give witness that God alone is enough,” he said.
Many orders of nuns are active in teaching, health care and ministry to vulnerable groups like migrants. But contemplative nuns carry on a tradition of complete devotion to prayer that traces its origins to the first desert hermits, who sought closeness to God by removing all earthly distractions.
“For these women, they find God in a dedicated life of prayer or contemplation,” said Margaret McGuinness, professor emerita of religion at La Salle University in Philadelphia.
Sister María de la Iglesia spent nearly 40 years in Santorini before moving to Spain to lead the Federación Madre de Dios, or Mother of God Federation, which oversees the island's convent and nine other Catholic Dominican convents on four continents.
“In today’s logic our life is not understood or valued, but within the church it is," she said. "We’re the voice of the church that tirelessly praises, petitions on behalf of our entire humanity. It’s a thrilling mission.”
When not praying or practicing music and hymns, the sisters — ranging in age from 40s to 80s — do housework; tend to the garden, where they grow tomatoes, lemons and grapes; and make communion wafers for most of the Catholic parishes in Greece.
During two daily recesses, they break their silence to chat on the wide terraces, the Aegean Sea shimmering in the distance.
At dawn, a bell calls to the first of about nine hours of prayer, most sung in Latin, Spanish and Greek.
“While the sun rises, creation and the human person join in harmony of praise to God,” Sister María Guadalupe said, adding that with monasteries across time zones, someone is always keeping prayer active. “We’re not out of the world, but rather very involved in the world.”
In majority-Orthodox Greece, the Catholic convent’s presence speaks to desired unity with other Christians, the sisters say. They exchange holiday greetings with the island’s Orthodox monks and nuns, and recall enthusiastically one visit when they sang hymns together.
“Despite being cloistered, nuns have always been an important element in the life of a place,” said Fermín Labarga, professor of church history at the University of Navarra in Spain.
It was in that country that the Dominican order of cloistered nuns was founded more than 800 years ago by St. Dominic, to pray constantly in what Labarga termed the “rearguard” while their fellow religious brought the Gospel to the world.
That “missionary spirit within a contemplative space,” in Sister María de la Iglesia’s words, continues to animate today’s nuns, who wear the historic Dominican black veil and all-enveloping white habit — representing penitence and innocence. They came to Santorini mostly from the Caribbean (Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo), as well as Angola, Korea, Argentina, Greece and Spain.
Sister María de la Iglesia was sent to the island by her order in 1981, when only three nuns were left in the convent.
It was first established in 1596 on the rocky promontory of Skaros — today a popular sunset-watching spot, but then a hideout from pirates. After an earthquake, it was relocated to the main town of Thira a few miles away, where it survived another devastating quake in 1956 that led many residents, including most other Catholic religious, to abandon the island.
Large rocks are embedded in the artistic grille that divides the church’s public area from where the sisters pray, near a globe that further symbolizes their connection to their surroundings.
The sisters keep up to date on world events through various Catholic media outlets and newsletters, plus daily Mass homilies. In recent ones, the priest delved into the war in Ukraine, the metaverse and the dangers of parkour.
They also receive prayer petitions from other religious as well as visitors, asking for everything from world peace to healing from disease — “and babies, lots of babies,” Sister Maria Flor de la Eucaristía said playfully.
“We suffer too with them, we feel the pain of the families and of the world, but with a certitude of hope that gives us joy,” said Sister Maria Fátima, who hails from Angola.
That certainty of belief shines through the sisters’ cheerful demeanor despite an austere life that demands sacrifice not only from them but from their families, whom they can only see occasionally behind the grilles.
“It’s a calling from God. You can’t follow any other path. A constant call, so that you can follow it with joy,” said Sister Lucía María de Fátima, originally from Argentina.
That joy they find plentifully in their vocation, despite forgoing most activities that draw hundreds of thousands of tourists to Santorini — like going to the beach.
Sister María Isabel said she liked beaches a lot in her native Puerto Rico. Upon entering the Dominican convent there, she could no longer see the ocean.
When she was moved to the main convent in Olmedo, deep in Spain’s heartland, she thought she would never see a wave again. Then came the mission in Santorini.
“God gives you grace that you had not expected,” she said, smiling broadly, before the bell tolled, and she rushed off to church, to keep singing God’s praise.
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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — No parent wants the words “in memory of” listed in front of their child’s name, but Angela Pope hopes a vehicle dedicated to her daughter will save other families from the pain hers experienced.
Lauren Pope was 26 when she died after snorting heroin laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid and powerful painkiller. Police told her parents, Angela and Jake Pope of Spotsylvania County, that it looked like someone left her in a bathroom by the way the young woman was positioned.
Had she received Narcan, a nasal spray to reverse the effects of opioid overdoses, Angela Pope wonders if her firstborn would still be alive. She often thinks about the way her daughter’s life ended, as well as how things changed dramatically in her mid-teens.
The once-bubbly and busy runner and cheerleader was about 15 when her mother said she fell into the wrong crowd and started using drugs. An unwanted pregnancy and abortion followed, and her mother suspects possible sex trafficking or gang violence. But she just doesn’t know because months would pass without a word from her child.
“I sit and dwell on it,” she said, “and there’s nothing that’s going to change the situation so I have to try to do something positive with it.”
The Popes said they were honored when Zoe Freedom Center, a faith-based recovery program in Spotsylvania, recently launched a Mobile Harm Reduction Unit, or “Narcan van,” in memory of Lauren Pope. Lauren was the first client at Zoe, and co-founder Dana Brown helped get her into a recovery program.
After Brown spoke at her funeral, she and her husband, Mark, the center’s co-founder, talked about a mobile unit that would regularly dispense boxes of Narcan to individuals and businesses. The Browns promised the Popes it would bear Lauren’s name.
The Narcan van made its début on a recent Saturday as Zoe Freedom Center volunteers met in Fredericksburg and canvassed the downtown area, passing out goodie bags and materials about the center’s free services, including counseling and peer support groups. They also asked people if they would put Narcan in their first-aid kits.
Some businesses wanted a box for each kit in the building, others declined the offer. The center plans to return to downtown, visit hotels along U.S. 1 and set up regular routes and distribution times when it has enough volunteers.
Based on past experience, Dana Brown believes the same divine guidance that helped Zoe get off the ground—a month before the pandemic started—will get their mobile unit out on a regular course.
“I feel like we’re gonna have enough volunteers to do at least a once-a-week route, probably within a month,” she said. “We’re excited about being able to meet the needs on a routed, time-based schedule so people in the community who need our help know when we’re coming.”
And there’s plenty of need, said Sherry Norton–Williams, a prevention specialist with the Rappahannock Area Community Services Board. For five years, she’s led REVIVE! training on how to recognize and respond to an opioid emergency using Narcan, the brand name for the chemical naloxone.
RACSB offers regular virtual trainings and twice-a-month distributions when people who’ve completed the class can pick up free Narcan. More than 2,000 people have been through the program since 2017—including many who then trained others—and Norton–Williams has noticed an increase this year in the demand for Narcan.
In the past, maybe half of those trained picked up their Narcan at a separate distribution site. This year, more than 8 of every 10 people trained have gotten it.
“We are seeing more lives being lost,” Norton–Williams said, not because there are necessarily more drugs on the street but because of what they contain. “It’s about fentanyl being in everything or possibly being in everything. People are realizing the medicine cabinet is not necessarily the problem. It’s the illicit substance people are getting their hands on.”
Last year, 81% of the fatal overdoses in the Fredericksburg region, from Culpeper to the Northern Neck, involved fentanyl, according to the Virginia Department of Health website. The state hasn’t reported any 2022 statistics yet, but Dana Brown said she’s hearing about increasing numbers of overdoses from local police officers.
While in her office off Bragg Road, Brown showed a graphic from the Journal of American Medical Association, showing the number of fatalities involving fentanyl among adolescents. Nationwide, 253 young people between the ages of 10 and 19 died in 2019 from overdoses involving fentanyl. The death toll climbed to 680 in 2020 and shot up to 884 in 2021.
Brown believes many of those who overdosed probably thought they were getting something else from a friend, maybe Adderall or Percocet. Adderall is used to treat hyperactivity but has become widely misused by high school and college students who want to pull all-nighters and cram for exams or write lengthy term papers, according to American Addiction Centers.
Likewise, Percocet is a common pain pill, but can become lethal when laced with fentanyl.
“That’s starting to happen more and more,” Dana Brown said. “This is why (Narcan) is so important. Having this in your first-aid kit will give you the only tool that you can possibly have to save your child’s life.”
Norton–Williams hopes people who receive Narcan will never need to use the treatment on loved ones but she often finds the opposite is true.
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a person walk up to a table at an event or pick up a second dose” because they already used the first one or it had expired, she said. “I had one gentleman in a training program who’s overdosed seven times.”
She’s trained workers in local shelters, convenience stores and national parks on how to administer Narcan. The free online class, REVIVE!, takes about 60 minutes, and Norton–Williams and others at RACSB will offer training to businesses and organizations. Those interested can contact her at 540/940-2325 or snorton@rappahannockareacsb.org. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Virginia-based-van-training-targets-opioid-17294370.php | 2022-07-09T14:13:10Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Virginia-based-van-training-targets-opioid-17294370.php | false |
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Paul Rudd may play a big-screen superhero who routinely saves the day, but he became the ultimate champion for one child who felt left out at school.
Cassandra Cooper’s 12-year-old son Brody Ridder was feeling down when nearly none of his classmates at his school in Colorado signed his yearbook.
Cooper posted an image of the signature page to Facebook, noting that most of the few signatures were from teachers.
One was from Brody himself.
“Hope you make some more friends!” he wrote.
“My poor son,” Cooper said in her May post. “Doesn’t seem like it’s getting any better. 2 teachers and a total of 2 students wrote in his yearbook. Despite Brody asking all kinds of kids to sign it. So Brody took it upon himself to write to himself. My heart is shattered Teach your kids kindness.”
The post went viral and moved a bunch of older students to head to Brody’s class to sign his yearbook. His story also found Rudd, the Passaic native who plays Ant-Man in the Marvel movies.
Rudd, 53, who grew up in Kansas, personally called Brody on FaceTime in June. Cooper documented the call in a video she shared on Facebook.
“I heard about you,” he told Brody. “And I’m like, ‘I gotta talk to this kid. Because this kid sounds like my kind of guy — likes chess, likes fencing, likes dinosaurs.’ Am I right?”
Cooper said Rudd’s sister Mandi set up the exchange
“Like this this real life?!” she said. “Pinch me now! Brody was so excited!”
“You truly made Brody so happy!” she said, addressing Rudd in her post. “My heart is so full right now!”
Rudd also sent Brody a handwritten letter and a signed Ant-Man helmet.
The actor texted his new friend that he’d sent him something.
“(You’re) my favorite superhero,” Brody replied.
“You’re mine,” Rudd replied.
“It was great talking to you the other day,” the actor said in the letter. “It’s important to remember that even when life is tough that things get better. There are so many people that love you and think you’re the coolest kid there is — me being one of them! I can’t wait to see all the amazing things you’re going to accomplish. Your pal, Paul.”
The message on the helmet?
“To my good friend Brody for when he takes on the world!”
Brody has since received many other letters, greetings and packages in the mail, which his mother has been sharing.
She invited people to write to Brody and said she’ll be putting together a book with all the letters he receives.
The address:
Brody Ridder
PO Box 99
Henderson, CO 80640.
The cast of “Dear Evan Hansen” also invited Brody to see the show on Broadway. In a video message, the actors said hello and promised to sign his yearbook.
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By Denny Jacob
Twitter Inc. shares slipped 5.7% to $34.70 in after-hours trading Friday after Elon Musk notified the company that he is terminating his agreement to acquire the company.
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It is most definitely July. You can tell by the combination of oppressive heat and huge thunderstorms. Can you tell I’m not a fan of this month? July was named after Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was a Roman general, statesman and historian. He did not, however, invent the Caesar salad, nor is it named after him. It was named after its creator, Caesar Cardini, a French-inspired Italian chef who immigrated to America before moving to Mexico to escape prohibition. Cardini’s daughter claimed July 4, 1924, was the day her father created the masterpiece. Running short of supplies, her father threw together lettuce, olive oil, raw egg, croutons, Parmesan cheese and Worcestershire sauce and served his concoction. All of this is just my way of saying, in the words of someone wise: ‘‘Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.’’
Use your (Patrick) wisdom on this week’s quiz and don’t strike out.
1. The first time Tony La Russa was the manager of the White Sox, who immediately preceded him in that role?
a. Paul Richards
b. Don Kessinger
c. Larry Doby
d. Chuck Tanner
2. This is as close as I can get to a
geography question without a GPS: This coming week, the Sox are playing the Guardians. In 2021, which state’s major-league teams had more wins:
a. Illinois
b. Ohio
c. The same
3. Since 2000, the most victories in July for a Chicago team has been 18, achieved by both the Sox and Cubs. Who did it most recently? (Extra dressing if you know the year.)
a. Cubs
b. Sox
c. The same season
4. On June 30, Patrick Wisdom struck out for the 100th time this season. That doesn’t make him a bad person, just a guy who whiffs a lot. Paul Konerko played for the Sox for 18 wonderful seasons. How many seasons did Paulie have 100+ strikeouts?
a. 1
b. 18
c. 5
d. 9
5. While we’re on the subject of strikeouts, let’s give Wisdom something to shoot for or to avoid, depending on your point of view. Former Sox Pat Seerey holds the all-time Chicago record for whiffs in July with 48. Since 2000, who holds the Chicago record for most strikeouts in July? (Extra anchovies in your salad or on the side if you know the year or the total.)
a. Corey Patterson
b. Kris Bryant
c. Jim Thome
d. James McCann
6. Who holds the record for the most career saves in Chicago history? (Extra Parmesan cheese if you know the total.)
a. Lee Smith
b. Bruce Sutter
c. Bobby Thigpen
d. Bobby Jenks
7. On May 25, 2022, Josh Rojas of the Diamondbacks hit three home runs at Wrigley Field. Before that, who was the last visiting player to hit at least three homers in Chicago?
a. Nelson Cruz
b. Manny Machado
c. Brad Miller
d. Jose Abreu
8. By the time June ended, the Yankees had hit 58 homers in the month. By the time June ended, did the Cubs and Sox combined have more, fewer or the same number of homers as the Yankees?
9. Caesar Cardini recycled what was left in the kitchen to create his famous salad, which got me thinking about the cycle. Two players completed their cycle by slamming a walk-off homer against the Cubs. Who are they?
a. Ken Boyer
b. Nolan Arenado
c. Carlos Gonzalez
d. Babe Herman
ANSWERS
1. Player/manager Don Kessinger was at the helm for the first 106 games of 1979 and went 46-60. Tony La Russa, 34, took over, and the Sox went 27-27 the rest of the season.
2. The Cubs and Sox went 164-160. The Reds and Guardians went 163-161.
3. The Cubs went 18-9 in July 2009. The Sox went 18-8 in July 2010.
4. Paul Konerko had five seasons in which his strikeout total ranged from 102 to 110.
5. Kris Bryant had 37 whiffs in July 2015.
6. Lee Smith had 180 saves, but Bobby Thigpen had 201.
7. Nelson Cruz hit three at Comiskey (you can call it what you want) on July 25, 2019, but it was Brad Miller who did it on July 8, 2021, at Wrigley. Now before you get on my case about including Jose Abreu as a possible answer, I would like to remind you that on Aug. 22, 2020, Jose and his Sox were visiting Wrigley, and the big guy went deep three times.
8. The Cubs hit 27 homers and the Sox hit 20 in June for a combined total of 47. That would have put them behind the Yankees, the Braves (54 homers) and the Blue Jays (50 homers).
9. Ken Boyer of the Cardinals did it in the 11th inning of the second game of a doubleheader on Sept. 14, 1961, and Carlos Gonzalez of the Rockies did it on July 31, 2010.
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI, CHISATO TANAKA and FOSTER KLUG
NARA, Japan — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned the nation that has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.
The 67-year-old Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving leader when he resigned in 2020, collapsed bleeding and was airlifted to a nearby hospital in Nara, although he was not breathing and his heart had stopped. He was later pronounced dead after receiving massive blood transfusions, officials said.
Nara Medical University emergency department chief Hidetada Fukushima said Abe suffered major damage to his heart, along with two neck wounds that damaged an artery. He never regained his vital signs, Fukushima said.
Prefectural police in Nara arrested the suspected gunman at the scene of the attack and identified him as Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, a former member of Japan’s navy. Broadcaster NHK reported that he said he wanted to kill Abe because he had complaints about him unrelated to politics.
Dramatic video from NHK showed Abe standing and giving a speech outside a train station in Nara ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary election. As he raised his fist to make a point, two gunshots rang out, and he collapsed holding his chest, his shirt smeared with blood as security guards run toward him.
Guards leapt onto the gunman, who was face down on the pavement. A double-barreled device that appeared to be a handmade gun was seen on the ground.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Cabinet ministers hastily returned to Tokyo from campaign events around the country after the shooting, which he called “dastardly and barbaric.” He pledged that the election, which chooses members for Japan’s less-powerful upper house of parliament, would go on as planned.
“I use the harshest words to condemn (the act),” Kishida said, struggling to control his emotions. He said the government planned to review the security situation, but added that Abe had the highest protection.
Even though he was out of office, Abe was still highly influential in the governing Liberal Democratic Party and headed its largest faction, Seiwakai.
Opposition leaders condemned the attack as a challenge to Japan’s democracy. In Tokyo, people stopped on the street to grab extra editions of newspapers or watch TV coverage of the shooting.
When he resigned as prime minister, Abe said he had a recurrence of the ulcerative colitis he’d had since he was a teenager.
He told reporters at the time that it was “gut wrenching” to leave many of his goals unfinished. He spoke of his failure to resolve the issue of Japanese abducted years ago by North Korea, a territorial dispute with Russia and a revision of Japan’s war-renouncing constitution.
That last goal made him a divisive figure. His ultra-nationalism riled the Koreas and China, and his push to create what he saw as a more normal defense posture angered many Japanese. Abe failed to achieve his cherished goal of formally rewriting the U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution because of poor public support.
Loyalists said that his legacy was a stronger U.S.-Japan relationship that was meant to bolster Japan’s defense capability. But Abe made enemies by forcing his defense goals and other contentious issues through parliament, despite strong public opposition.
Abe was groomed to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. His political rhetoric often focused on making Japan a “normal” and “beautiful” nation with a stronger military and bigger role in international affairs.
Many foreign officials expressed shock over the shooting — especially because of Japan’s strict gun laws. With a population of 125 million, Japan had only 10 gun-related criminal cases last year, resulting in one death and four injuries, according to police. Eight of those cases were gang-related. Tokyo had no gun incidents, injuries or deaths in the same year, although 61 guns were seized.
Abe was proud of his work to strengthen Japan’s security alliance with the U.S. and shepherding the first visit by a serving U.S. president to the atom-bombed city of Hiroshima. He also helped Tokyo gain the right to host the 2020 Olympics by pledging that a disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant was “under control” when it was not.
Abe became Japan’s youngest prime minister in 2006, at age 52, but his overly nationalistic first stint abruptly ended a year later, also because of his health.
The end of Abe’s scandal-laden first stint as prime minister was the beginning of six years of annual leadership change, remembered as an era of “revolving door” politics that lacked stability and long-term policies.
When he returned to office in 2012, Abe vowed to revitalize the nation and get its economy out of its deflationary doldrums with his “Abenomics” formula, which combines fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms.
He won six national elections and built a rock-solid grip on power, bolstering Japan’s defense role and capability and its security alliance with the U.S. He also stepped up patriotic education at schools and raised Japan’s international profile.
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Yamaguchi and Klug reported from Tokyo. | https://www.news-herald.com/2022/07/08/japans-ex-leader-shinzo-abe-assassinated-during-a-speech/ | 2022-07-09T14:44:27Z | https://www.news-herald.com/2022/07/08/japans-ex-leader-shinzo-abe-assassinated-during-a-speech/ | true |
Maisie Smith flashes her legs in black hot pants and a hoodie as she departs her 21st birthday breakfast with Strictly: Keeeep Dancing! tour co-stars
Maisie Smith kept things casual as she celebrated her 21st birthday with a breakfast in Eastbourne on Saturday, amid the Strictly Presents: Keeeep Dancing! tour.
The EastEnders star flashed her bronzed legs in a pair of black hot pants and a matching hoodie which a birthday badge had been attached to.
She departed the café carrying flowers and an inflatable unicorn before she, Max George, Nancy Xu, Ryhs Stephenson and Neil Jones headed to the Congress Theatre for their matinee show.
Emerging: Maisie Smith kept things casual as she celebrated her 21st birthday with a breakfast in Eastbourne on Saturday, amid the Strictly Presents: Keeeep Dancing! tour
Last week, Maisie helped kick off The Strictly Come Dancing summer tour, Strictly Presents: Keeep Dancing.
She got fully into the swing of things at the Globe Theatre in Stockton-on-Tees, as she put on a sizzling display with professional dancer Neil Jones during one steamy routine.
The star looked incredible in a metallic gold dress with fringe detailing and cut out sections, which highlighted her toned pins as she spun around the dancefloor.
Maisie wore her strawberry blonde locks loose in a carefree wavy style and opted for a glamorous coat of make-up to finish her show-stopping look.
Hot stuff: The EastEnders star flashed her bronzed legs in a pair of black hot pants and a matching hoodie which a birthday badge had been attached to
Looking good: She completed her look with a pair of black crocs and clutched a can of Diet Coke
Gifts: She departed the café carrying flowers and an inflatable unicorn before heading to the Congress Theatre for her matinee show
Low-key: Max George sported a black motif T-shirt and grey joggers as he followed
Later in the show, she switched her look and changed into an elegant white gown with a feathered hem and gem-encrusted bust, which was covered in black and gold sequins.
During the routine - which she was partnered with Neil for - Maisie beamed as she waltzed with the tuxedo-clad star as they twirled around the floor.
The 35-date tour, which follows on from the now-finished Strictly Come Dancing Live tour, also sees the likes of Max George, 33, take to the stage alongside his former co-stars.
Strictly 2021 semi-finalist and CBBC presenter Rhys Stephenson, 28, also appears in the show, which kicked off on 22 June at Tunbridge Wells' Assembly Hall.
Professional dancers Neil, 39, Jowita Przystal, 27, and Nancy Xu, 30, dance with the celebrities on the tour.
Gorka Marquez, 31, was slated to appear but had to be replaced by Cameron Lombard at the last minute.
Strictly Presents: Keeep Dancing sees the celebrities and professional dancers give a unique insight into the popular BBC show via stunning choreography and fascinating storytelling.
Audiences learn how long it takes to create the routines, from the first day of learning the choreography through to the TV show performance, and how it feels to be in the dance off.
Gang: Ryhs Stephenson, Nancy Xu and Neil Jones (L-R) appeared to be in high spirits
Crew: They flashed beaming smiles as they headed to the auditorium ahead of their matinee | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10997843/Maisie-Smith-wears-black-hot-pants-hoodie-departs-21st-birthday-breakfast.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-09T14:52:39Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10997843/Maisie-Smith-wears-black-hot-pants-hoodie-departs-21st-birthday-breakfast.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Brewers meet the Pirates with 1-0 series lead
The Milwaukee Brewers lead 1-0 in a three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates
Pittsburgh Pirates (34-50, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (48-37, first in the NL Central)
Milwaukee; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Zach Thompson (3-6, 4.42 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 43 strikeouts); Brewers: Brandon Woodruff (7-3, 3.95 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 71 strikeouts)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Brewers -253, Pirates +209; over/under is 7 1/2 runs
BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Brewers lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Milwaukee has a 21-17 record at home and a 48-37 record overall. The Brewers have gone 26-8 in games when they hit at least two home runs.
Pittsburgh has a 34-50 record overall and a 14-27 record in road games. The Pirates are seventh in the NL with 90 total home runs, averaging 1.1 per game.
The teams play Saturday for the 12th time this season. The Brewers are up 9-2 in the season series.
TOP PERFORMERS: Willy Adames has 12 doubles, 17 home runs and 46 RBI for the Brewers. Rowdy Tellez is 5-for-36 with a double and four home runs over the past 10 games.
Daniel Vogelbach has nine doubles, a triple, 11 home runs and 29 RBI for the Pirates. Bryan Reynolds is 12-for-34 with three doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Brewers: 6-4, .248 batting average, 3.64 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs
Pirates: 5-5, .222 batting average, 6.44 ERA, outscored by 30 runs
INJURIES: Brewers: Tyrone Taylor: 7-Day IL (concussion), Adrian Houser: 15-Day IL (flexor), Jonathan Davis: day-to-day (back/rib cage), Miguel Sanchez: 15-Day IL (elbow), Hunter Renfroe: 10-Day IL (calf), Freddy Peralta: 60-Day IL (lat), Alex Jackson: 10-Day IL (finger), Jake Cousins: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Topa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Luis Perdomo: 15-Day IL (elbow)
Pirates: Max Kranick: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Marisnick: 60-Day IL (thumb), Dillon Peters: 15-Day IL (back), Canaan Smith-Njigba: 60-Day IL (wrist), Roberto Perez: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Greg Allen: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Blake Cederlind: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (elbow)
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NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — Greg Norman once talked about playing in the British Open next week. Now he doesn't even get to attend the dinner at St. Andrews for past champions.
Norman, who won the Open at Turnberry in 1986 and at Royal St. George's in 1993, would have been eligible for the four-hole “Celebration of Champions” exhibition that takes place only at St. Andrews, along with the Champions' Dinner.
The R&A said Saturday it contacted Norman to tell him “we decided not to invite him to attend on this occasion.”
“The 150th Open is an extremely important milestone for golf and we want to ensure that the focus remains on celebrating the championship and its heritage,” the R&A said. “Unfortunately, we do not believe that would be the case if Greg were to attend.”
Norman has been viewed as a disruptor in golf as CEO of the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series that is paying as much as $150 million to sign former major champions like Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau and staging 54-hole events with a shotgun start that pays $25 million in prize money.
The PGA Tour has suspended players who have signed up for the rebel league, and the European tour is fining its players 100,000 pounds ($120,000) for each LIV event they play.
Norman already rubbed the R&A the wrong way with an interview earlier this year with Australia-based News Corp. in which he said he was filling out his entry form for the 150th Open and “I think I can still get in.”
It led the R&A to issue a statement that said, “We have no plans for any additional exemptions.”
Norman is 67 and past Open champions are exempt only until they are 60. His final year of eligibility was in 2015 at St. Andrews. He chose not to play, saying he hasn't practiced enough and he didn't feel right about taking a spot in the field from a younger player.
The R&A did not deny exemptions for eligible players, following the decision of the USGA for the U.S. Open because of the open nature of their majors. There are 23 players in the field at St. Andrews who played in the last LIV Golf event.
It was not clear if Norman intended to be at St. Andrews. The R&A said it was responding to inquiries in releasing a statement that ended, “We hope that when circumstances allow Greg will be able to attend again in the future.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will visit Oklahoma on Saturday for the first stop on a yearlong nationwide tour to hear about the painful experiences of Native Americans who were sent to government-backed boarding schools designed to strip them of their cultural identities.
Haaland, of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, is the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history, and the agency she oversees recently released a report that identified more than 400 of the schools, which sought to assimilate Native children into white society during a period that stretched from the late 18th century until the late 1960s.
Although most closed their doors long ago and none still exist to strip students of their identities, some still function as schools, albeit with drastically different missions that celebrate the cultural backgrounds of their Native students. Among them is the Riverside Indian School in Anadarko, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma City, which is one of the oldest and is where Haaland will meet with former students and their descendants Saturday.
Riverside, which opened in 1871, serves students from grades four through 12 these days, offering them specialized academic programs as well as courses on cultural topics such as bead-working, shawl-making and an introduction to tribal art, foods and games. Currently operated by the Bureau of Indian Education, it has nearly 800 students from more than 75 tribes across the country, and the school’s administration, staff and faculty are mostly Native American.
It is one of 183 elementary and secondary schools across the country funded by the Bureau of Indian Education that seek to provide education aligned with a tribe’s needs for cultural and economic well-being, according to the bureau’s website.
Until recently, the federal government hadn’t been open to examining its role in the troubled history of Native American boarding schools, where children were taken from their families, prohibited from speaking their languages and often abused. That has changed because people who know about the trauma that was inflicted hold prominent positions in government.
At least 500 children died at such schools, but that number is expected to reach into the thousands or tens of thousands as more research is done.
The Interior Department’s report includes a list of the boarding schools in what were states or territories that operated between 1819 and 1969 that had a housing component and received support from the federal government.
Oklahoma had the most, 76, followed by Arizona, which had 47, and New Mexico, which had 43. All three states still have significant Native American populations.
Former students might be hesitant to recount the painful past and trust a government whose policies were to eradicate tribes and, later, assimilate them under the veil of education. But some welcome the opportunity to share their stories for the first time.
Lahoma Schultz, a citizen of the Muscogee Nation who lives in Bixby, Oklahoma, said she uncovered records that show her grandfather was forced to wear military clothing, learn English and perform unpaid labor while attending boarding schools in Oklahoma and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.
Schultz said she got angry as she pieced together how such schools affected generations of her family. Her mother, Mollie Hicks, attended boarding school for a semester in 1938 and was punished for speaking the Creek language.
“She said if she ever got married and had children, she would not teach them the language,” Schultz said. “Here I am in my 70s trying to learn my language, and it’s really disheartening.”
Her mother’s experience led Schultz to research boarding schools and her family history in the early 2000s after getting a doctorate in psychology. She has learned the names of relatives she never knew and better understands why her parents were adamant that their children not attend boarding schools.
“That’s been healing, even for me, because I’m putting together more information on my own family,” she said.
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Felicia Fonseca contributed to this report from Flagstaff, Arizona. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/haaland-tour-casts-light-on-native-boarding-school-abuses/ | 2022-07-09T15:00:06Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/haaland-tour-casts-light-on-native-boarding-school-abuses/ | true |
CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Friday, July 8, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Sunday.
CAZ300-092300-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 68. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 100. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 73. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 105. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 64 to 72. Highs 92 to
102.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to
74. Highs 92 to 102.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 103.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 89 62 95 / 0 0 0
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CAZ301-092300-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 97. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 59 to 65. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 102. Light winds in the morning
becoming north around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 71. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 70.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 104.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to
71. Highs 98 to 104.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 93 60 98 / 0 0 0
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CAZ302-092300-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 97. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 57 to 62. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 68. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 69. Highs
99 to 104.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 98 to
104. Lows 63 to 70.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 93 58 97 / 0 0 0
Merced 96 60 99 / 0 0 0
Chowchilla 96 59 99 / 0 0 0
Madera 96 60 99 / 0 0 0
Firebaugh 95 60 99 / 0 0 0
Mendota 96 61 99 / 0 0 0
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CAZ303-092300-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 98. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 59 to 64. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 71. Northwest winds
around 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds in the morning
becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 71. Highs
99 to 104.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 98 to
104. Lows 64 to 72.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 95 60 99 / 0 0 0
Le Grand 94 60 98 / 0 0 0
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CAZ304-092300-
Coalinga - Avenal-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. East winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 70. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 102. Light winds in the morning
becoming northeast up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 69 to 74. Northeast winds around
10 mph in the evening shifting to the west after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 72. Highs
99 to 104.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 99 to
105. Lows 68 to 76.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 97 67 100 / 0 0 0
Avenal 96 68 99 / 0 0 0
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CAZ305-092300-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 67. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 102. Light winds in the morning
becoming north up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 72. Northwest winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 103 to 108. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 64 to 71. Highs
101 to 106.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 100 to
106. Lows 67 to 74.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 103 to 108.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 98 64 100 / 0 0 0
Five Points 98 63 100 / 0 0 0
NAS Lemoore 98 63 100 / 0 0 0
Kettleman City 98 68 100 / 0 0 0
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CAZ306-092300-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 25 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 58 to 63. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 102. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 68. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 69. Highs
101 to 106.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 99 to 107. Lows
65 to 72.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 98 63 99 / 0 0 0
Kingsburg 98 60 99 / 0 0 0
Sanger 97 62 99 / 0 0 0
Kerman 96 60 99 / 0 0 0
Caruthers 97 60 99 / 0 0 0
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CAZ307-092300-
Fresno-Clovis-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 100. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 67. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 99. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 72. Northwest winds around
10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 103 to 108. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 73. Highs
around 103.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 99 to
106. Lows 68 to 75.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 97 66 99 / 0 0 0
Fresno 97 66 99 / 0 0 0
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CAZ308-092300-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. East winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 71. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph in
the evening shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101. East winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 70 to 75. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph in the evening shifting to the west after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 72. Highs
97 to 102.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 98 to
105. Lows 70 to 77.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 93 58 97 / 0 0 0
Merced 96 60 99 / 0 0 0
Chowchilla 96 59 99 / 0 0 0
Madera 96 60 99 / 0 0 0
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CAZ309-092300-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 100. North winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 64 to 69. North winds 10 to 15 mph in the
evening shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 102. Light winds in the morning
becoming north up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 72. Light winds in the evening
becoming west up to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 71. Highs
100 to 105.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 100 to
106. Lows 69 to 76.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 97 66 99 / 0 0 0
Buttonwillow 97 67 99 / 0 0 0
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CAZ310-092300-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 67. North winds around 10 mph in the
evening shifting to the southwest up to 10 mph after midnight.
Gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101. Light winds in the morning
becoming north up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 70. North winds up to 10 mph in
the evening shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 71. Highs
99 to 104.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 99 to
105. Lows 68 to 75.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 96 64 97 / 0 0 0
Allensworth 97 65 99 / 0 0 0
Wasco 96 64 98 / 0 0 0
Delano 96 65 98 / 0 0 0
McFarland 96 64 98 / 0 0 0
Shafter 96 65 99 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ311-092300-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 65. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 68. Light winds in the evening
becoming northwest up to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 64 to 70. Highs
99 to 104.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 99 to 107. Lows
66 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 97 63 99 / 0 0 0
Hanford 98 63 100 / 0 0 0
Corcoran 97 64 99 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ312-092300-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 66. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101. Light winds in the morning
becoming west up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 64 to 70. West winds up to 10 mph in
the evening becoming light and variable after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 71. Highs
100 to 105.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 99 to 106. Lows
67 to 74.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 97 61 99 / 0 0 0
Dinuba 96 61 99 / 0 0 0
Visalia 96 62 98 / 0 0 0
Exeter 96 63 98 / 0 0 0
Tulare 97 65 99 / 0 0 0
Lindsay 96 63 98 / 0 0 0
Porterville 96 66 97 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ313-092300-
Buena Vista-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 72. North winds 10 to 15 mph in the
evening shifting to the west after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101. Light winds in the morning
becoming north up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 70 to 75. Northeast winds up to
10 mph in the evening shifting to the west after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 71 to 76. Highs 100 to
105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 70 to
80. Highs 99 to 105.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 95 71 97 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ314-092300-
Bakersfield-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 98. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 71. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 100. West winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 75. Northwest winds around
10 mph in the evening shifting to the east up to 10 mph after
midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 69 to 77. Highs 101 to
106.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to
79. Highs 100 to 106.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 96 70 98 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ315-092300-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 97. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 64 to 69. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. Southwest winds up to 10 mph in
the morning shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 73. Northwest winds around
10 mph in the evening shifting to the southeast up to 10 mph
after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 74. Highs
99 to 104.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 98 to
104. Lows 71 to 77.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 96 64 97 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ316-092300-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 98. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 72. Northwest winds up to 10 mph in
the evening shifting to the southwest with gusts to around 25 mph
after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 100. West winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 70 to 75. Northwest winds up to
10 mph in the evening shifting to the south after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 72 to 77. Highs 100 to
105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 80.
Highs 99 to 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 96 68 99 / 0 0 0
Lamont 96 67 99 / 0 0 0
Mettler 94 68 97 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ317-092300-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 96. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 68. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Haze in the morning. Highs 94 to 100. West winds
up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 74. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 105. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 74. Highs
97 to 103.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 95 to
103. Lows 68 to 76.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 103.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 88 65 92 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ318-092300-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Haze and areas of smoke in the morning. Highs
81 to 91.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of smoke through the night. Haze
after midnight. Lows 57 to 67.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Haze and areas of smoke in the morning.
Highs 85 to 95.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Areas
of smoke after midnight. Lows 61 to 71.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 73. Highs
88 to 98.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 88 to 98. Lows
64 to 74.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 92 56 95 / 0 0 0
Bass Lake 87 58 90 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ319-092300-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 91 to 97.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 64 to 70.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 99.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 69 to 75.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 69 to 76. Highs
97 to 103.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 96 to 104. Lows
72 to 78.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 96 65 99 / 0 0 0
Three Rivers 97 66 99 / 0 0 0
Springville 90 63 92 / 0 0 0
Tule River Reservation 94 71 96 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ320-092300-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 91.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Haze and areas of smoke after midnight.
Lows 62 to 72.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Haze and areas of smoke in the morning. Highs
84 to 94.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 76.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 76. Highs
88 to 98.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 88 to 98. Lows
68 to 78.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 91 69 94 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ321-092300-
South End Sierra Foothills-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 95.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 71.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 97.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 71 to 76.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 103.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 72 to 77. Highs 97 to
102.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 76. Highs
96 to 101.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 73 to 78.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 97 to 102.
Lows 74 to 79.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 103.
=
$$
CAZ322-092300-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 80 to 90.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 69.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 82 to 92.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 73.
.MONDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 88 to 98.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 66 to 74. Highs 87 to 97.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 73. Highs
86 to 96.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 68 to 76.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 87 to 97. Lows
68 to 76.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 81 57 84 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ323-092300-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Haze and areas of smoke. Highs 78 to 83 at
5000 feet...65 to 73 at 8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Haze and areas of smoke. Lows 54 to
64 at 5000 feet...44 to 54 at 8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Haze and areas of smoke. Near the crest, haze in
the afternoon. Warmer. Highs 82 to 88 at 5000 feet...70 to 78 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Haze in the evening. Lows 59 to 69 at
5000 feet...49 to 59 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 92 at 5000 feet...74 to 82 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 70 at
5000 feet...50 to 60 at 8000 feet. Highs 86 to 92 at 5000 feet...
74 to 82 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 84 to 90 at
5000 feet...72 to 80 at 8000 feet. Lows 59 to 69 at 5000 feet...
49 to 59 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 85 to 90 at 5000 feet...71 to
79 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 70 at
5000 feet...50 to 60 at 8000 feet. Highs 85 to 90 at 5000 feet...
71 to 79 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 72 40 78 / 0 0 0
Wawona 85 57 90 / 0 0 0
Hetch Hetchy 87 61 92 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ324-092300-
Yosemite Valley-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of smoke in the morning. Haze
through the day. Highs 79 to 89. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Haze in the evening, then areas of
smoke after midnight. Lows 56 to 66. South winds up to 10 mph in
the evening becoming light and variable after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of smoke in the morning. Haze
through the day. Highs 84 to 94. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 70. Southwest winds up to
10 mph in the evening shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 98. East winds around 10 mph in the
morning shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 72. Highs
87 to 97.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 86 to 96.
Lows 61 to 71.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 86 to 96.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 72. Highs
86 to 96.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 93 55 98 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ325-092300-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 87. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Haze and areas of smoke. Lows 57 to 67.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph in the evening becoming light and
variable after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke in the morning. Haze through the
day. Highs 81 to 91. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming clear.
Haze and areas of smoke after midnight. Lows 61 to 71. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph in the evening shifting to the northeast after
midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. Northeast winds up to 10 mph in
the morning shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 73. Highs
85 to 95.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 83 to 93.
Lows 63 to 73.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 83 to 93.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 73. Highs
83 to 93.
=
$$
CAZ326-092300-
Upper San Joaquin River-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke in the afternoon. Highs 63 to 73.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Haze and areas of smoke. Lows 44 to 54.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Haze and areas of smoke. Highs 68 to 78.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of smoke through the night.
Haze after midnight. Lows 48 to 58.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 81.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 50 to 60. Highs
71 to 81.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 69 to 79.
Lows 49 to 59.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 78.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 59. Highs
67 to 77.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 72 50 77 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ327-092300-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 80 at 5000 feet...67 to 75 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 59 to 67 at 5000 feet...46 to 54 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Haze in the morning. Highs 79 to 84 at
5000 feet...71 to 77 at 8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Haze after midnight. Lows 64 to 71 at
5000 feet...50 to 58 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 90 at 5000 feet...75 to 81 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 73 at
5000 feet...51 to 60 at 8000 feet. Highs 82 to 88 at 5000 feet...
75 to 81 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 82 to 87 at
5000 feet...74 to 79 at 8000 feet. Lows 65 to 72 at 5000 feet...
52 to 60 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 82 to 87 at 5000 feet...73 to
79 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 73 at
5000 feet...52 to 60 at 8000 feet. Highs 82 to 87 at 5000 feet...
73 to 79 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 70 51 74 / 0 0 0
Shaver Lake 75 54 79 / 0 0 0
Lake Wishon 73 55 77 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ328-092300-
Kings Canyon NP-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 84 at 5000 feet...68 to 78 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 59 at 5000 feet...47 to
55 at 8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 88 at 5000 feet...72 to 81 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 64 at 5000 feet...51 to 59 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90 at 5000 feet...75 to 84 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 65 at
5000 feet...53 to 60 at 8000 feet. Highs 87 to 92 at 5000 feet...
74 to 84 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows
62 to 67 at 5000 feet...52 to 59 at 8000 feet. Highs around 87 at
5000 feet...72 to 81 at 8000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 87 at 5000 feet...72 to 80 at
8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 89 57 93 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ329-092300-
Grant Grove Area-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 84 at 5000 feet...66 to 71 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 67 at 5000 feet...47 to 55 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Haze in the morning. Highs 82 to 87 at
5000 feet...69 to 75 at 8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 71 at 5000 feet...51 to 59 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 91 at 5000 feet...74 to 79 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 68 to 73 at 5000 feet...
54 to 61 at 8000 feet. Highs 86 to 91 at 5000 feet...73 to 78 at
8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 73 at
5000 feet...53 to 61 at 8000 feet. Highs 84 to 89 at 5000 feet...
72 to 78 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 75 55 78 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ330-092300-
Sequoia NP-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 81 at 5000 feet...64 to 74 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 63 at 5000 feet...45 to 55 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 80 to 85 at 5000 feet...67 to 77 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 67 at 5000 feet...48 to 58 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 89 at 5000 feet...71 to 81 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 70 at 5000 feet...51 to
61 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 88 at 5000 feet...71 to 81 at
8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 69 at
5000 feet...50 to 60 at 8000 feet. Highs 82 to 87 at 5000 feet...
70 to 80 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 65 to 70 at
5000 feet...51 to 61 at 8000 feet. Highs 82 to 87 at 5000 feet...
69 to 79 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 70 at
5000 feet...50 to 60 at 8000 feet. Highs 82 to 87 at 5000 feet...
68 to 78 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 73 49 76 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ331-092300-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 87 at 5000 feet...71 to 80 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 56 to 63 at 5000 feet...47 to 57 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 91 at 5000 feet...73 to 82 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 67 at 5000 feet...51 to 61 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95 at 5000 feet...77 to 85 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 62 to 69 at 5000 feet...
53 to 63 at 8000 feet. Highs 84 to 94 at 5000 feet...77 to 85 at
8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 69 at
5000 feet...54 to 63 at 8000 feet. Highs 83 to 93 at 5000 feet...
76 to 84 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 63 to 69 at
5000 feet...54 to 64 at 8000 feet. Highs 83 to 93 at 5000 feet...
75 to 83 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 70 at
5000 feet...54 to 64 at 8000 feet. Highs 83 to 93 at 5000 feet...
74 to 82 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 86 51 89 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ332-092300-
Kern River Valley-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 68. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 99. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 72. West winds 10 to 20 mph in
the evening shifting to the north up to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 103. Light winds in the morning
becoming south around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 68 to 74. Highs 95 to
103.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 74. Highs
94 to 102.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 70 to 76.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 94 to 102. Lows
70 to 76.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 75 58 79 / 0 0 0
Kernville 94 63 97 / 0 0 0
Lake Isabella 93 66 97 / 0 0 0
Weldon 94 66 98 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ333-092300-
Piute Walker Basin-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 78 to 88.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 55 to 65.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 91.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 87 to 97.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 62 to 72. Highs 86 to 96.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 72. Highs
86 to 96.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 64 to 74.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 86 to 96. Lows
64 to 74.
=
$$
CAZ334-092300-
Tehachapi-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 78 to 88.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 55 to 65.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 91.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 87 to 97.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 62 to 72. Highs 86 to 96.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 72. Highs
86 to 96.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 64 to 74.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 86 to 96. Lows
65 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 80 56 84 / 0 0 0
Tehachapi 83 57 87 / 0 0 0
Twin Oaks 88 61 91 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ335-092300-
Grapevine-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 78 to 88. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 68. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 82 to 92. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 71. Northwest winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 88 to 98. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 63 to 73. Highs 86 to 96.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 72. Highs
86 to 96.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 66 to 75.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 87 to 97. Lows
67 to 76.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 91 68 94 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ336-092300-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
500 AM PDT Sat Jul 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 87.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 56 to 66.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 80 to 90.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 71.
.MONDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 86 to 96.
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Kris Bryant is finally healthy, and his bat is looking pretty fit, too.
The high-priced free agent is now officially on his first tear as a member of the Colorado Rockies. He will look to keep the production coming on Saturday against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix.
Bryant smacked two homers and a long double on Friday during Colorado’s 6-5 victory over the Diamondbacks. It was his second three-hit game of the season, with the other coming against Arizona last Saturday.
Bryant has three homers in the past four games after hitting none in his first 23 games with the club. He missed two months with back woes but is now looking comfortable at the plate.
“I feel like I’ve been swinging the bat well, seeing the ball well, and hitting a lot of balls hard,” Bryant said after the 17th multi-homer game of his career. “Anytime you go out there and contribute after taking a lot of time off, it feels good.”
Bryant, 30, wasn’t looking like a four-time All-Star early in the season after receiving a seven-year, $182 million contract as a free agent.
The former National League MVP with the Chicago Cubs returned from his second injured-list stint on June 27, and two games later, the production cranked up.
Bryant had two hits against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 29 to start an eight-game stretch in which he is 13-for-32 (.406) with three homers, three doubles, five RBIs and nine runs.
While Bryant is feeling good, two of his teammates departed Friday’s game.
First baseman C.J. Cron left in the fifth inning with a left wrist contusion after being plunked by a pitch from Arizona’s Zac Gallen. X-rays were negative, and Cron said he is hopeful of playing on Saturday.
Shortstop Jose Iglesias won’t be in the starting lineup after sustaining a head injury during a home-plate collision with Diamondbacks catcher Jose Herrera in the sixth inning. Rockies manager Bud Black said Iglesias was dizzy when he exited.
Black said Saturday afternoon was a planned off day for Iglesias, who had two hits on Friday to raise his career count to 999.
It could be a tension-filled contest on Saturday. After Cron was hit, Colorado pitcher Chad Kuhl threw a pitch behind Daulton Varsho in the bottom of the inning. That peeved Arizona manager Torey Lovullo.
“It seemed to me there was clear intent by their pitcher who went rogue,” Lovullo said. “I don’t know if he was told to go rogue and try and throw at our batter, the first batter after he got two outs. I thought that was the design of it, and that’s my opinion.”
Arizona’s Sergio Alcantara hit a two-run homer and Josh Rojas went 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Rojas had a homer, a double, a walk, a suicide-squeeze bunt and a stolen base.
Diamondbacks left-hander Madison Bumgarner (4-8, 3.74 ERA) will look for his second straight victory on Saturday after going 1-7 over his previous nine outings.
Bumgarner beat the San Francisco Giants on Monday when he gave up three runs and five hits over five innings.
The 32-year-old veteran is 18-10 with a 3.39 ERA in 39 career starts against Colorado. Charlie Blackmon is 17-for-50 (.340) with three homers against Bumgarner, while Bryant is 4-for-23 (.174) with eight strikeouts.
The Rockies will start left-hander Kyle Freeland (4-6, 4.43), who lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday. He gave up four runs and six hits over 5 2/3 innings.
Freeland, 29, was 3-0 with a 3.27 ERA over his previous five starts before the setback.
Freeland received a no-decision against Arizona on May 7 when he gave up five hits over six shutout innings. He is 3-5 with a 5.17 ERA in 16 career starts against the Diamondbacks.
Carson Kelly (4-for-12) and Christian Walker (6-for-22) have each hit two homers off Freeland.
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State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities S.H. Panchapakesan has issued notices to filmmaker Shaji Kailas and producers Supriya Menon and Listin Stephen seeking an explanation for the alleged derogatory dialogues against differently abled persons in the film Kaduva, directed by Shaji Kailas.
The order to issue notices was based on a complaint filed by Parivaar, an association of parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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In a sequence from the movie, the protagonist played by Prithviraj says that differently abled children are born with such conditions as a result of the sins of their parents. The Parivaar, in its complaint, said such unscientific and insensitive dialogues cause immense pain to the parents of differently abled children as well as the children themselves.
It is a crime as per Section 92 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, which deals with punishment for intentionally insult or intimidation with intent to humiliate a person with disability in any place within public view.
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The Water-Wise Landscape of the Month competition is now underway in San Luis Obispo.
The City of SLO is celebrating those who embrace water-wise landscaping with a competition once a month through the remainder of the summer.
Community members can nominate a property or enter their own property to receive a complimentary water-wise landscape sign.
The property with the most votes from community members each month will receive a 45-gallon rain barrel.
Below are the property requirements to be eligible for the chance to win a rain barrel:
- Located within San Luis Obispo city limits
- Receives city water service
- Property has a ring of mulch or woodchips surrounding all plants
- Has a weather or soil moisture-based smart irrigation controller
- Water-efficient plants and less than 25% traditional lawn
- Properties that utilize xeriscaping
Nominate a landscape here: https://forms.slocity.org/Forms/Water-Wise-Landscape-Nomination [lnks.gd]
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MONTREAL (AP) — When Brian MacLellan declared his intention to change up the Washington Capitals’ goaltending situation, the seasoned general manager knew he was joining a crowded market given how many teams already had the same need.
It didn’t matter. He made a move anyway to trade a goalie and create a void in net.
“I jumped in,” MacLellan said. “I jumped into the fire. Probably not the smartest thing, right?”
Certainly not the cheapest thing. The goalie carousel kept spinning on the second day of the NHL draft, with MacLellan trading Vitek Vanecek to the New Jersey Devils and the Detroit Red Wings acquiring and signing Ville Husso from the St. Louis Blues.
Those moves were half of four completed Friday involving NHL players. The Philadelphia Flyers also got polarizing defenseman Anthony DeAngelo from the Carolina Hurricanes for three high draft picks and the San Jose Sharks sent a pick and a prospect to the Nashville Predators for forward Luke Kunin. But the wheels in motion for goaltenders dominated the conversation and will continue to with free agency opening Wednesday.
“If you line it up and you look and kind of pay attention to what teams are thinking, it’s a little chaotic and scrambly,” MacLellan said. “You’ve got to be constantly monitoring it and seeing what’s happening.”
Things started happening Friday morning even before the start of the second round, with St. Louis trading Husso’s rights for the 73rd pick and Washington sending Vanecek and No. 46 to New Jersey for picks 37 and 70.
The domino effect started Thursday when the Stanley Cup-winning Colorado Avalanche got Alexandar Georgiev from the New York Rangers. That move ensured playoff starter Darcy Kuemper would hit the open market.
There’s no shortage of teams interested in Kuemper and other goaltenders available by trade or in free agency.
Husso was set to be one of those options before Detroit sent the 73rd pick to St. Louis for the 27-year-old Finn. He got a $14.25 million deal with a $4.75 million annual cap hit over the next three seasons.
The Red Wings will now pair Husso with Alex Nedeljkovic, whom they acquired last offseason, as they move from rebuilding into contending.
New Jersey is still a couple of years away from that, but the Devils needed a goalie and got one in Vanecek along with the 46th pick after sending Nos. 37 and 70 to Washington. The Capitals are in the market for a veteran netminder to play in tandem with Ilya Samsonov, unless they also move on from him.
GMs not yet in the thick of the goalie search but preparing to enter it understand why colleagues were quick to address the situation at the draft.
“I think it’s natural to have that feeling,” Kevyn Adams of the Buffalo Sabres said. “You have to have a plan, and you have to have a priority list. I’ve had a lot of discussions with teams about different options, things that we think about, and then you go through that list and check it off. Maybe some conversations pick up a little bit more, some go away. We’ve had that, we’ll continue to have that. We know there are some options available if we decide to go that route, but what we won’t do is panic.”
The Hurricanes didn’t panic when it became clear they were having difficulties re-signing DeAngelo. They instead got the 101st pick, a third-rounder next year and a second in 2024 from the Flyers.
“We had teams that were interested,” GM Don Waddell said, “so we did our best to maximize the return value.”
Philadelphia paid a hefty price because it was able to agree to terms on a $10 million, two-year deal with DeAngelo, an offensively skilled right-shot defenseman who put up 51 points in 64 games last season. But DeAngelo’s play has never been the problem as much as off-ice questions.
DeAngelo was sent home by the New York Rangers during the 2021 season following an undisclosed incident, went unclaimed by the rest of the league on waivers and was bought out. He was suspended three games by the NHL for abuse of officials late in 2016 and eight games by the Ontario Hockey League in 2014 for directing a racist slur at a teammate — the second time he was involved in such an incident — and has been criticized for social media posts.
Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher said his team looked into adding DeAngelo last year and is confident the player has learned from his mistakes, adding that new coach John Tortorella was on board with the trade.
“I don’t anticipate any issues,” Fletcher said. “We’re confident this will be a good relationship.”
Elsewhere around the league, the Panthers continued their relationship with forward Eetu Luostarinen, signing him to a $3 million, two-year deal.
“Eetu is a selfless, dependable and cerebral player who plays with consistency each and every night,” GM Bill Zito said. “We are excited to have him back in our lineup.”
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Saudi Arabia finally reopened the holy city of Mecca to international travelers after a two-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. But a new set of travel restrictions and operating procedures produced a different set of problems for those who wished to make the journey this Eid al-Adha.
Saudi Arabia reopened the country for 1 million people wishing to make the 2022 pilgrimage to Mecca. About 2 million people normally descend upon the city for hajj, but officials decided to limit the number of participants this year because of the ongoing pandemic.
But for many, the limited capacity was not the biggest obstacle in their way. Saudi Arabia implemented a new booking system requiring prospective-pilgrims to go through a single online platform, which many found to be difficult to navigate.
Problems with the new booking system
Traditionally, many Muslims in Western countries such as the United States, the U.K. and Australia, utilize travel agencies to book everything from flights and accommodations to guides on the ground. But Saudi Arabia's new rules have removed the middle man. Instead, people were required to book their trip through Motawif, the single online platform for handling travel arrangements for hajj.
Mahmoud Ghanem, a biochemist in Delaware, was initially excited about the changes because they came with a promise that things would not only be cheaper, but easier as well.
"When the Saudi government announced that they're gonna use one portal or whatever, I was so happy. I told myself, "Oh, my God, my dreams came true,'" Mahmoud said. "But it turned out to be a nightmare."
He tried to book a trip for him and his wife to no avail. But he encountered repeated error messages each time he tried to select a travel package, which totaled nearly $30,000 for the two of them over 10 days. He desperately reached out to Motawif, but was assured he would be able to make the journey.
He finally secured his travel arrangements on June 28 and paid in full. But the following morning, after staying up all night to prepare for the trip, Ghanem got a call from Dubai telling him not to board the flight; there was no room.
"I was just calling them like twice a day and like begging them like to get me the e-ticket, and nothing," Mahmoud said. "Then, starting from July 2, I saw on Twitter some people getting emails telling them you have two options: to book your own flight, or you cancel and then we will refund you and we will guarantee you a spotlight for next year's hajj. But I didn't even get that."
With so many people trying to make the pilgrimage, he said he would have understood if someone had told him he couldn't go. He just wanted someone to be transparent. Instead, Mahmoud said he and his wife were strung along for days by representatives who assured them they would be able to make it to Mecca.
But having seen what others have faced upon arrival, he's actually glad they never made it to Saudi Arabia.
Troubles on the ground
This year's hajj began on the evening of July 7, and will end on the evening of July 12. Millions of people participate in the ritual that follows the same steps that the Prophet Muhammad took about 1,400 years ago every year. Which is why so much effort goes into ensuring that travelers have what they need for what may be a once in a lifetime trip.
Having said that, many who did make it to this year's hajj have shared their frustrations and concerns about their pilgrimage on social media.
Mohammed Nasim said his mother and father were able to make the journey from the U.K., but only after their trip was pushed back more than a week. They had initially booked a hotel only a five-minute walk from al-Masjid al-Ḥarām, the Great Mosque of Mecca, but instead found themselves in another hotel an hour's walk away.
They had also been promised three meals a day, but the food never came.
"My parents are both diabetic (type 2) so eating on time is important," Nasim said. "They took a few biscuits thinking Motawif will provide food on time all the time... but they're not."
In Mina, about 5 miles from the Great Mosque of Mecca, tents that stretch as far as the eye can see are provided to travelers who stay at the camp while performing other parts of the pilgrimage. Some share a tent with dozens of others, while others opt for more privacy, reserving one for just those in their party.
When temperatures climb above 100 degrees, air conditioning tends to tip from a luxury item to a necessity. And some Twitter users staying in Mina have said their AC isn't working, resulting in unbearable living conditions.
@Motawif_SA @HajMinistry @MoHU_En our Mina tent has NO AC. We can’t breathe in these tents. It feels like an oven. Given Indome for lunch. HELP!! We will die of heat stroke.
— travelthew0rld (@travelthew0rld2) July 7, 2022
"Our Mina tent has NO AC. We can't breathe in these tents. It feels like an oven. Given [Instant noodles] for lunch," one user wrote. "HELP!! We will die of heat stroke."
Others have complained that the toilets are subpar, there's a lack of drinking water and a lack of English-speaking guides to show the way. And the overwhelming majority of those unhappy with their hajj experience are pointing the finger at Motawif, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Hajj and Umrah and the government itself.
The hajj has always been imperfect
Though the hajj pilgrimage is only a one-time requirement, many Muslims make the journey multiple times. According to Hassan Shibly, a lawyer from Florida, first-time hajj participants can be both overwhelmed and unpleasantly surprised by the experience. But for those who have been before, like Shibly, this year's hajj is only slightly out of the ordinary.
"Things aren't perfect, they're messy, but that's always the case," Shibly said. "I've been coming to hajj since I was 17. It's always an adventure, and it's always transformative. Even the challenges and the hardships are part of the sweetness of the journey, our one opportunity to sacrifice in the face of God in the heat and lose the conveniences that we are used to. You learn to enjoy the challenges."
This year marks his seventh or eighth hajj. In years past, he has volunteered to help guide newcomers who are more often than not unsure of where to go and when. But this year, he said, his services are more important than ever with the shortage of English-speaking guides.
He admits that things could be going better. But he's also witnessed members of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah making their rounds collecting feedback.
"They're engaging and receptive. That legitimately surprised me," Shibly said. "I think I'd have a different view if it wasn't for that."
Ghanem is less optimistic. This year would have been his first hajj. He's still fighting to get his money back from this year's attempt and is unsure if he wants to risked tens of thousands of dollars again next year.
As a dual citizen, he and his wife can try and attend next year's hajj through the Egyptian government. He tried to go through them before going through the United States in June, but was told he wasn't selected. But at least they were transparent, Ghanem said, which keeps his expectations grounded.
Despite all of his setbacks, he said he remains determined to make it to Mecca. Ghanem just wishes the Saudi government would reconsider its approach to the hajj by making it easier and more affordable for Muslims the world over to fulfill their religious obligation.
"It should be kind of like more of a religious kind of event. The profit should be minimum, you know?" Ghanem said. "But it's been a business over the years."
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Elena Rybakina beat Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the Wimbledon final on Saturday to become the first tennis player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles championship.
Rybakina is a 23-year-old who was born in Moscow and has represented Kazakhstan since 2018, when that country offered her funding to support her tennis career. The switch has been a topic of conversation during Wimbledon, because The All England Club barred all players who represent Russia or Belarus from entering the tournament because of the war in Ukraine.
This was the first women’s title match since 1962 at the All England Club between two players who were making their debuts in a major final.
Rybakina is ranked No. 23. Since the WTA computer rankings began in 1975, just one woman ranked lower than Rybakina won Wimbledon — Venus Williams in 2007 at No. 31, although she previously had been No. 1 and already won three of her five career trophies at the All England Club.
Rybakina used her big serve and powerful forehand to overcome Jabeur’s mix of spins and slices at Centre Court on Saturday. Rybakina ended Jabeur’s 12-match winning streak, which came entirely on grass courts.
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LONDON (AP) — A British Cabinet minister tipped to be a frontrunner in the Conservative Party’s leadership race ruled himself out of the contest Saturday.
Defense Minister Ben Wallace said after “careful consideration” and discussion with colleagues and family, he will not be running to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and the country’s next prime minister.
Wallace was seen by some as the favorite choice among Conservative party members in what’s set to be a wide open leadership race following Johnson’s resignation announcement on Thursday.
Johnson quit as party leader after months of insisting he would stay in the job despite mounting ethics scandals. He said he would stay on as prime minister until the party chooses his successor.
Former chancellor Rishi Sunak, the best-known of the leadership contenders and regarded as the bookmakers’ favorite to win, launched his bid on Friday. Sunak resigned on Tuesday, kicking off a mass exodus of government officials that toppled Johnson.
Attorney General Suella Braverman, lawmaker Tom Tugendhat and former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch have also thrown their hat into the ring, and more announcements are expected over the coming days.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi and trade minister Penny Mordaunt are widely expected to run, as are former health secretaries Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt.
Wallace said his decision wasn’t “an easy choice to make, but my focus is on my current job and keeping this great country safe.”
Conservative party officials on Monday are expected to set out the timetable for a leadership contest, with the aim of having a winner by the end of the summer. The two-step process involves Tory lawmakers voting to reduce the field of candidates to two, who will go to a ballot of all party members.
Johnson’s resignation marked the end of three tumultuous years that saw the divisive leader fend off numerous scandals and a Conservative leadership challenge. For months, he managed to cling on to power despite allegations that he protected supporters from bullying and corruption allegations, and that he misled Parliament about government office parties that broke COVID-19 lockdown rules.
But his handling of allegations about a senior politician who had been accused of sexual misconduct proved the last straw for many Conservatives, who this week openly revolted and forced him out of office.
Johnson remains in office to head a caretaker administration, but many Conservatives don’t want a lame-duck leader — especially amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis triggered by soaring food and energy prices.
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Rybakina wins women’s Wimbledon title, 1st Slam
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Elena Rybakina beat Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the Wimbledon final on Saturday to become the first tennis player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles championship.
Rybakina is a 23-year-old who was born in Moscow and has represented Kazakhstan since 2018, when that country offered her funding to support her tennis career. The switch has been a topic of conversation during Wimbledon, because The All England Club barred all players who represent Russia or Belarus from entering the tournament because of the war in Ukraine.
This was the first women’s title match since 1962 at the All England Club between two players who were making their debuts in a major final.
Rybakina is ranked No. 23. Since the WTA computer rankings began in 1975, just one woman ranked lower than Rybakina won Wimbledon — Venus Williams in 2007 at No. 31, although she previously had been No. 1 and already won three of her five career trophies at the All England Club.
Rybakina used her big serve and powerful forehand to overcome Jabeur’s mix of spins and slices at Centre Court on Saturday. Rybakina ended Jabeur’s 12-match winning streak, which came entirely on grass courts.
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Inflation is raging. The stock market is tumbling and interest rates rising. American consumers are depressed and angry. Economists warn of potentially dark times ahead.
But employers? They just keep hiring.
The Labor Department reported Friday that America’s dinged and dented economy managed to add a vigorous 372,000 jobs in June, well above the 275,000 that economists had expected. And the unemployment rate remained at 3.6%, just a tick above the 50-year low that was recorded just before the coronavirus pandemic flattened the economy in early 2020.
“The labor market’s continued strength is simply astonishing, despite all the headwinds new hiring faces,'' said Christopher Rupkey, chief economist at the research firm FWDBONDS LLC, dismissing concerns that the economy might headed for a downturn sometime soon. “This isn't what a recession looks like.''
The American job market has staged a remarkable comeback from the depths of the COVID-19 recession in the spring of 2020: In March and April that year, the United States lost a staggering 22 million jobs.
But the government's vast infusions of spending, including expanded unemployment benefits and relief checks to most households and ultra-low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve, fueled a propulsive recovery. Employers added a record 6.7 million jobs last year. And they've been tacking on an average of 457,000 a month more so far in 2022.
The nation is now just 524,00 jobs short of the number it had in February 2020, just before COVID erupted. Counting last month's hiring, in fact, the private sector has regained all the jobs it lost to the pandemic recession. The remaining shortfall resides entirely on government payrolls.
The strong recovery does have a downside: It has fueled the hottest inflation in 40 years. And the Fed will likely see June's hiring spree as another reason to keep aggressively raising its benchmark short-term interest rate as it did in March, May and June to try to tame inflation. Higher rates will probably weaken the economy because they will make loans steadily more expensive for consumers and businesses.
Here are five takeaways from the June jobs report:
5 takeaways from the June 2022 jobs report
Hiring is strong but slowing
“The recent numbers usually would be consistent with a raging economic boom,'' noted Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. But hiring has lost some momentum. From April through June, employers added an average 375,000 jobs a month, down from an average of 539,000 in the first three months of 2022 and a monthly average of 562,000 last year.
What's more, in its employment report Friday, the government said hiring was weaker during the spring than it had originally estimated. Its revisions lopped a combined 74,000 jobs from April and May payrolls.
Pay raises are getting smaller
Average hourly wages rose 0.3% from May to June and 5.1% over the past year. The year-over-year gain was the lowest since December. And it wasn't nearly enough to keep up with the 12-month jump in consumer prices, which reached a 40-year high of 8.6% in May.
Economists Sarah House and Michael Pugliesi of Wells Fargo said the Fed's policymakers would likely welcome “the tepid rise in earnings'' because it might ease concerns that rising pay would fuel ever-higher prices, far above the central bank's 2% target. At the same time, the economists cautioned that decelerating pay gains are “another blow to households grapping with the highest inflation in more than a generation.''
And as households lose purchasing power to higher prices, they may slash their spending, which typically accounts for about 70% of the economy's output.
Manufacturing jobs are back
American factories added 29,000 jobs last month, restoring manufacturing payrolls to nearly 12.8 million, just above pre-pandemic levels.
Locked in at home during the pandemic and sitting on savings from relief checks and in some cases lower commuting costs, consumers have been eagerly buying up manufactured goods — everything from appliances to lawn furniture to cars. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, says its manufacturing index has signaled growth for 25 straight months, although it dipped in June.
But factory boom may not last. Higher interest rates are raising borrowing costs. More expensive loans, in turn, could slow demand for factory goods and drive up the value of the U.S. dollar, which makes American-made products more expensive in foreign markets.
Help wanted at restaurants, bars, hotels
As the COVID-19 threat recedes — or seems to — consumers have been shifting their spending away from manufactured goods and toward the services they had to forgo while hunkered down at home. Restaurants, bars and hotels, devastated in the early days of the pandemic, are now on a hiring spree. Eating and drinking establishments added nearly 41,000 jobs last month. Hotels tacked on nearly 15,000. Payrolls in both businesses, though, remain well below pre-pandemic levels.
Leisure and hospitality companies, including hotels, restaurants and bars, raised hourly wages 9.1% last month from a year ago, staying ahead of inflation, and 1% from May — three times the average month-over-month private-sector pay hike.
Black unemployment dips
The unemployment rate for Black Americans dropped to 5.8% last month from 6.2% in May. At 21.2 million, the number of Black Americans in the labor force — which includes those either working or looking for work — tops pre-pandemic levels, though the figure dipped from May.
The number of whites in the labor force is 1.4 million short of where it stood in February 2020. White unemployment ticked up to 3.3% from 3.2% in May. Hispanic joblessness was unchanged at 4.3%.
In June, the percentage of Black Americans who either had a job or were looking for one — the so-called labor force participation rate — was 62.2%, down from 63% in May but exceeded the participation rate for whites (61.9% in June) for a third straight month.
The most in-demand jobs in the U.S.
The Most In-Demand Jobs in the U.S.
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Healthcare and personal care occupations are expected to grow the most over the next decade
15. Crematory operators and personal care and service workers
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — Bobby Shapiro ran down Central Avenue in socks, moving toward the street corner where gunfire had erupted just moments before. At first, he only wanted to confirm that what he was hearing was real — a mass shooting at a July 4 parade in Highland Park.
Any sense of disbelief vanished with the sight of bone fragments, blood and pieces of flesh lying in the street where a parade was marching just minutes before. Then he saw the bodies.
“It was pure horror. It was a battle zone,” Shapiro, 52, said in an interview. When the gunshots first went off, he had been changing out of his cycling shoes about 100 yards away.
Emergency vehicles and first responders were not yet at the scene, so Shapiro, a tech salesman with no medical training, began doing whatever he could to help.
From the bystanders who tied tourniquets and administered CPR to the fleeing paradegoers who rescued and cared for an orphaned two-year-old covered in blood, people from every corner of the Highland Park community sprung into action on July 4 in the wake of unspeakable tragedy.
Nearly a dozen people, including off-duty doctors, nurses and a football coach, were among the first to administer lifesaving assistance to victims of the parade shooting.
“Things happen so quickly that your brain can’t possibly comprehend that there is an active shooter in your town, in your sleepy little neighborhood,” said Dr. Wendy Rush, an anesthesiologist with decades of experience working in trauma centers.
Rush joined Shapiro in trying to save an elderly man who had a gunshot wound in his thigh and another that left a gaping hole in his abdomen.
While Rush used a ventilation mask and bag to help the elderly man breathe, Shapiro and another bystander took turns giving chest compressions and holding pressure on his wounds.
All the while, “We didn’t know where the shooter was. We knew he wasn’t dead,” Rush said.
Nearly 30 minutes later, Rush boarded an ambulance alongside the dying man, and Shapiro, in shorts stained with blood, walked back to the bench where he’d been changing his shoes what felt like hours earlier.
The man died at the hospital, and was later identified as Stephen Straus, an 88-year-old financial advisor.
Rush’s husband and son were also on the scene. As members of Highland Park’s Community Emergency Response Team, both men have training in first aid and basic life support. They were working the parade expecting to assist with the regular crowd control and the occasional lost child.
Rush’s son cared for people with less critical gunshot wounds, applying tourniquets and pressure to stop their bleeding. Her husband, Rush said, spent most of his time caring for Keely Roberts, a school superintendent shot twice in her foot and leg.
Roberts’ 8-year-old son Cooper, shot in the chest, remains in serious condition at University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital with a severed spine.
His twin brother, Luke, was nearby.
“I’ll never forget his face. He was just hysterical. He kept saying, ‘Don’t let my mommy die, don’t let my mommy die. Don’t let her lips turn blue like my brother.’ It was the worst you could ever imagine,” Eddie Rush told Fox 32 Chicago.
Football coach Brad Hokin was at his usual spot at the beginning of the route when the shooting started. He took off running down the bloodied street past those with minor injuries and toward the people he could tell needed assistance most urgently.
When his wife, nurse practitioner Jacquie Toia, called from their seats about a quarter mile away to make sure he was OK, Hokin simply told her, “Get up here. We need you.”
Toia, 64, hurried to the scene still unsure of what was happening. When she saw the destruction, her instincts kicked into gear. As a nurse for 36 years, Toia had experience working in an emergency setting.
By that point, paramedics on scene had equipment, and Toia and another nurse on the scene began to administer IVs.
Meanwhile Hokin, with no prior medical training, was holding pressure on gunshot wounds and helping EMTs load the wounded onto gurneys until all the victims were safely en route to hospitals.
“We did what we could to take care of the immediate needs, and that’s probably the real tragedy – we didn’t have enough hands to do what needed to be done,” Toia said. Responders were overwhelmed by the sheer number of casualties.
“Thirty-six years in medicine is enough that loss is not a stranger to me,” Toia said. “This was so different. This was hell.”
Dr. David Baum, an OBGYN and longtime attendee of the parade, was sitting with his family when the shooting started. The doctor rushed to help, and found bodies destroyed by bullets. Baum recalled trying to move people to ambulances and seeing wounds unlike anything he’d dealt with before.
“These were wartime injuries,” Baum said.
Baum and Toia both expressed their frustrations that the shooter had such easy access to high-capacity weapons. “You should never have to worry about being killed in your street on the Fourth of July at a parade,” Toia said.
Dr. Rush’s son, Shane Selig, said everyone is still processing what happened.
“There are those that feel guilty they didn’t do more,” he said, while adding, “at least I could do something.”
But it is hard, this aftermath. People, he said, will be “forever scarred by this.” And it makes him angry.
The images of the hurt and dying haunt those who ran to help.
Shapiro wakes up and when he opens his eyes, “It’s the ’bang, bang, bang, bang, bang of the shooting and initial panic again.”
For Toia, “The children’s faces running and screaming and crying and falling will never escape me.”
Still, Hokin says it won’t deter him next year from joining with the community he loves.
In his 58 years, he’s been to the parade 52 times. Even during the pandemic when the parade was canceled, he went out just to say he was there.
“I’m sure next Fourth of July, I’ll be on the corner at 8 o’clock, waiting for the parade.”
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Associated Press reporters Heather Hollingsworth, Grant Schulte, and Claire Savage contributed to this report. Venhuizen reported from Madison, Wisconsin; Hollingsworth from Kansas City; Savage from Chicago; and Schulte from Lincoln, Nebraska.
Savage and Venhuizen are corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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UK defense minister rules himself out of leadership race
By SYLVIA HUI
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — A British Cabinet minister tipped to be a frontrunner in the Conservative Party’s leadership race ruled himself out of the contest Saturday.
Defense Minister Ben Wallace said after “careful consideration” and discussion with colleagues and family, he will not be running to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and the country’s next prime minister.
Wallace was seen by some as the favorite choice among Conservative party members in what’s set to be a wide open leadership race following Johnson’s resignation announcement on Thursday.
Johnson quit as party leader after months of insisting he would stay in the job despite mounting ethics scandals. He said he would stay on as prime minister until the party chooses his successor.
Former chancellor Rishi Sunak, the best-known of the leadership contenders and regarded as the bookmakers’ favorite to win, launched his bid on Friday. Sunak resigned on Tuesday, kicking off a mass exodus of government officials that toppled Johnson.
Attorney General Suella Braverman, lawmaker Tom Tugendhat and former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch have also thrown their hat into the ring, and more announcements are expected over the coming days.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi and trade minister Penny Mordaunt are widely expected to run, as are former health secretaries Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt.
Wallace said his decision wasn’t “an easy choice to make, but my focus is on my current job and keeping this great country safe.”
Conservative party officials on Monday are expected to set out the timetable for a leadership contest, with the aim of having a winner by the end of the summer. The two-step process involves Tory lawmakers voting to reduce the field of candidates to two, who will go to a ballot of all party members.
Johnson’s resignation marked the end of three tumultuous years that saw the divisive leader fend off numerous scandals and a Conservative leadership challenge. For months, he managed to cling on to power despite allegations that he protected supporters from bullying and corruption allegations, and that he misled Parliament about government office parties that broke COVID-19 lockdown rules.
But his handling of allegations about a senior politician who had been accused of sexual misconduct proved the last straw for many Conservatives, who this week openly revolted and forced him out of office.
Johnson remains in office to head a caretaker administration, but many Conservatives don’t want a lame-duck leader — especially amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis triggered by soaring food and energy prices.
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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:
1-3-7, FIREBALL: 5
(one, three, seven; FIREBALL: five)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
1-3-7, FIREBALL: 5
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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to decades in prison in the rapes of four former Penn State students over a seven-year period.
Jeffrey Fields, 38, of Port Matilda was sentenced Friday in Centre County to 29 1/2 to 61 years in state prison in the assaults, which occurred between 2010 and 2017 in State College, the Centre Daily Times reported.
Fields, who worked in State College at the time, pleaded guilty in March to all but two of the charges filed against him, including felony counts of rape and sexual assault.
First Assistant District Attorney Sean McGraw said Fields was a “very sophisticated rapist” who committed “calculated, planned attacks on vulnerable women.”
One victim said in a statement to President Judge Pamela Ruest that the defendant “changed my life completely. He changed who I am at my core.”
Defense attorney Steve Trialonas said in a sentencing memo that each of the rapes had “overtones of power and control; two aspects in Jeff’s life that were absent outside these crimes.” He said his client never challenged the evidence against him since his July 2020 arrest, never sought bail and didn't want the victims to have to testify.
Fields spoke for nearly 20 minutes, calling his crimes “unspeakable.”
“I regret everything I’ve done. You did not deserve to go through this. I am so sorry," he said, later adding “If I could go back in time and change everything, I would."
The father of one victim said he lives in a “constant state of anger,” and no sentence would be tough enough.
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Talk about a get out of jail free card.
Out of all the people Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s profligate spending has — or will — hurt, one person will emerge unscathed.
Janice McGeachin.
With hubris rather than prudence the order of the day, the erstwhile gubernatorial challenger spent her modest office budget into a crater.
It began when McGeachin refused to follow Idaho’s public records act — denying reporters access to records into last year’s inquisition into nonexistent “critical race theory, socialism, communism and Marxism” in the public schools. When Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s office advised McGeachin to hand over the records, she hired an attorney who told her what she wanted to hear.
That led to a judicial tongue-lashing, a fine, a potential contempt of court citation and a bill — McGeachin’s shop owed the Idaho Press Club the $29,000 it spent on attorneys and court fees to secure the lieutenant governor’s compliance. Coming in October, that gave McGeachin roughly a half-year to economize enough to free up the cash and avoid a budget deficit when the fiscal year ended on June 30.
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Instead, she doubled her staff by adding an administrative assistant and increased her monthly payroll by nearly 33%
But the Legislature’s budget committee refused McGeachin’s plea for a bail out. So by March, she was facing the prospect of a $15,373 deficit at the end of the fiscal cycle.
With Idaho’s Constitution requiring state agencies to balance their budgets, the cost savings began.
Gone were McGeachin’s two staffers, including Chief of Staff Jordan Watters.
By May, reporters found her office essentially shut down. The doors were locked. The lights were off. The curtains were drawn. A note offered “office hours, Tues/Thurs. 10-2 or by appt.” and a telephone number with a California area code that initially got answered by a recorded message selling insurance or gift cards to Walmart or Target.
Still, it fell short. As the fiscal year closed, McGeachin’s office lacked enough money to cover her paycheck of $2,743 every two weeks. The state Controller’s Office paid her $723.70 — $148.50 in gross wages and $575.20 to cover benefits such as health insurance, retirement and Social Security payroll taxes.
“This would close the fiscal year with an estimated $0.72 remaining in the appropriation budget for the office,” Chief Deputy Controller Joshua Whitworth wrote in a memo obtained by the Idaho Statesman.
For anyone else working in state government, the story would have ended there.
But state law says constitutional officers — from the part-time lieutenant governor to the attorney general and all the way up to governor — get paid no matter what. So unlike virtually anyone else in state government who blows up a budget, McGeachin will be allowed to pay last year’s bills — essentially her own salary — with next year’s money.
Come Aug. 5, McGeachin will collect the remaining $1,713.26.
And the business of balancing this new budget by next June 30 will fall to one of her successors — either House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, or Democratic candidate Terri Pickens Manweiler of Boise. Maybe they’ll keep the lights off a little longer. Or they could go hat in hand to the Legislature for the extra cash.
What a terrible precedent this could set.
Far better would be a change in state law that forces elected officials to obey the same rules everyone else must follow.
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Collin Reeves: Sentence review for ex-soldier who murdered couple
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The Attorney General has been asked to review a sentence given to a former soldier who murdered his neighbours while their children slept upstairs.
Collin Reeves, 35, killed Jennifer and Stephen Chapple in Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, on 21 November following a long-running dispute about parking.
Reeves was handed a life sentence, with a minimum term of 38 years.
The jail term will now be considered under the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
The ex-Royal Engineer stabbed Mrs Chapple, 33, and Mr Chapple, 36, six times each in their home.
Bristol Crown Court heard he used a ceremonial dagger, given to him when he left the Army, to kill the couple.
Reeves called the police shortly after the killings to confess but later denied murder, claiming he was guilty of manslaughter by diminished responsibility.
But Reeves was convicted of murder at Bristol Crown Court on 17 June, on the eighth day of his trial.
A spokesperson for the Attorney General's Office said: "We have received a request for the case of Collin Reeves to be considered under the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
"Only one request is required for us to review whether a sentence is too low.
"The Law Officers have 28 days from sentencing to consider the case and make a decision on whether to refer the sentence to the Court of Appeal."
If the case is referred to the Court of Appeal, judges will then consider whether the original sentence should be upheld or amended.
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DETROIT (AP) — Carlos Santana has postponed his next six shows after collapsing on stage during a concert on Tuesday, temporarily stepping away from the stage “out of an abundance of caution for the artist’s health.”
July concerts in Noblesville, Indiana; Cincinnati, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Rogers, Arkansas; Dallas, Texas; and Woodlands, Texas, have been pushed back, Michael Vrionis, Santana’s manager said in a statement.
“Carlos is doing well and is anxious to be back on stage soon. He just needs rest,” Vrionis said. “Doctors have recommended that Mr. Santana gets rest to recuperate fully.”
Live Nation will be announcing the rescheduled show dates. All shows as planned beginning July 23 in Paso Robles, California, through the end of 2022 are still confirmed and will be performed as scheduled.
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(The Hill) – Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), a member of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, on Friday said former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone did not contradict the testimony of previous witnesses when he met with the panel that day.
The meeting took place behind closed doors and came after explosive public testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to ex-Trump chief-of-staff Mark Meadows, that placed him as a central player in the behind-the-scenes drama at the White House on Jan. 6.
“Mr. Cipollone did appear voluntarily and answer a whole variety of questions. He did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses. And I think we did learn a few things, which we will be rolling out in the hearings to come,” Lofgren told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
“So I think it was a, you know, a grueling day for all involved — Mr. Cipollone and the staff and the members, but it was well worth it.”
Blizter asked if people could be assume that Cipollone confirmed the testimony offered by Hutchinson.
“Not contradicting is not the same as confirming,” Lofgren said.
“He could say so-and-so was wrong, which he did not say. There were things that he might not be present for, or, in some cases, couldn’t recall with precision. My sense was that he, as I say, he did appear voluntarily. I think he was candid with the committee. He was careful in his answers, and I believe that he was honest in his answers,” she said.
The House panel subpoenaed Cipollone following surprising testimony offered by Hutchinson.
Hutchinson said she had a conversation with him the morning of the riot, and he had stressed that Trump should not be taken to the Capitol that day, warning that “we’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable” if Trump went.
The former Meadows aide also testified that Cipollone had urged Meadows to take action on Jan. 6, at one point saying, “Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your effing hands.” | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/cipollone-did-not-contradict-the-testimony-of-other-witnesses-in-meeting-with-jan-6-panel-lofgren-says/ | 2022-07-09T15:51:58Z | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/cipollone-did-not-contradict-the-testimony-of-other-witnesses-in-meeting-with-jan-6-panel-lofgren-says/ | true |
The Real Housewives of Orange County are losing two housewives.
Noella Bergener and Dr. Jen Armstrong will be leaving RHOC, they announced Friday on their respective Instagram pages.
Bergener joined the Bravo reality series in season 14 as a guest star and was promoted to main cast member in season 16. Armstrong first appeared in the 15th season before being featured as a main cast member in season 16.
"After a wild season of ups and downs, I will not be returning to The Real Housewives of Orange County," Bergener revealed on her Instagram story. "Thank you to all of the fans for all of the love and support during quite possibly the hardest year of my life."
The lawyer, whose divorce from estranged husband James Bergener was a focal point of the most recent season, is focused on her next chapter post-RHOC: "I am looking forward to brighter skies ahead, and can't wait to share what's next."
Armstrong, who filed for legal separation from husband Ryne Holliday in May, joined Bergener in the "one-and-done" club, taking to Instagram on Friday to express her gratitude for the support she's received following news of her departure.
"I loved opening up about being a working mom on Real Housewives of Orange County. I am so grateful to have had the privilege to talk about my father, my kids, and a real modern relationship on national television. My family and my work are the most important aspects of my life, so I am stepping away from RHOC and focusing on them," Armstrong wrote.
"Thank you to everyone who has reached out in support- especially from the working moms," the cosmetic dermatalogist added. "Women can really have it all if you work for it. I believe in you, and I’ll still be here to chat about it with you ♥️♥️ I love inspiring people to be their best."
"I am forever grateful for the friends I made, and the lovely people at @bravo & @evolutionmedia. Here’s to the next chapter, and I hope you’ll follow along for the journey. There are so many exciting things to come, so stay tuned," Armstrong promised.
The latest season of RHOC also starred Heather Dubrow, Shannon Storms Beador, Gina Kirschenheiter and Emily Simpson, with Nicole James appearing as a friend of the housewives.
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Which Burton gloves are best?
Burton is a staple in the outdoor market, particularly when it comes to sports like snowboarding. The company specializes in keeping you warm and dry on the slopes. Not only is it high on utility, but it’s also become a part of the snowboarding style. Along with jackets, pants, snowboards, helmets and goggles, Burton produces a ton of high-quality gloves. For insulated, water-resistant gloves that you can use with your phone, the Snow Profile Gloves are the best choice.
What to know before you buy Burton gloves
Snowboarding gloves
Snowboarding gloves are the primary focus for Burton. They include several features that make them ideal for long sessions on the slopes. First and foremost, their gloves are warm. Burton’s Dryride layer is an ultra-wicking fiber that keeps moisture on the outer layer of the fabric and therefore away from your skin. The next addition is that they’re resistant to water and snow. The last thing you want to experience while you’re in the cold is for your clothes to become wet. Burton’s gloves often use Gore-Tex technology, which is waterproof and perfect for keeping your hands dry.
Liner gloves
Some of the more comprehensive Burton gloves will already include liners. If you buy a pair of snowboarding gloves, they’ll come with a second, much-thinner glove on the inside. This way, you can remove your outer layer and use your fingers for smaller tasks. However, Burton also sells liner gloves that are much thinner than snowboarding gloves. They’re usually made with fleece and Dryride fabric without the Gore-Tex shell. They’re great for daily use and situations where you won’t need to worry about falling in the snow.
Mittens
There’s a reason why your mom made you wear mittens on the walk to school when you were young. Turns out they’re much better at keeping your fingers warm than regular gloves. This is because your fingers are sharing an area of heat instead of being separated into their own sections. Burton makes mittens built for snowboarding and skiing that are very, very warm. It uses Gore-Tex’s waterproof shell along with Dryride lining for ultimate warmth and protection from the elements. The downfall of wearing mittens is that you will lose a lot of the dexterity in your fingers.
What to look for in quality Burton gloves
Adjustable closure
Some high-quality Burton gloves use a strap at the base that closes around the wrist. If you’re a frequent skier or snowboarder, you’ll know how uncomfortable it is to get snow in your arm sleeve by way of a loose-fitting glove. Not only is this cold, but the snow quickly melts and you’re left with a wet sleeve. Adjustable closures allow you to close the opening in your glove, keeping them snugly against your wrist.
Gripped palm
On certain gloves, Burton uses Tough Grip material on the palm. This added layer not only adds extra protection from cold and snow but significantly increases your grip. Skiers and snow hikers will benefit from a gripped palm more so than snowboarders. This is because both sports involve holding poles for balance and better handling over the terrain. Very cold weather can decrease blood flow to your hands causing them to feel weak. For this reason, gloves with a gripped palm are extremely useful when the temperatures drop down.
Unisex
Look for the term “unisex” when shopping for gloves if you’re looking for a more universal fit. These gloves don’t cater to specific hand sizes and instead focus on generic sizing. Even though it may say unisex, you can still find sizes such as small, medium and even extra-large. In Burton’s case, many of the men’s glove sizing is also considered unisex. Expanding your options to unisex sizing will offer many more options when it comes to gloves.
How much you can expect to spend on Burton gloves
Burton gloves cost $35-$80.
Burton gloves FAQ
How do you wash Burton gloves?
A. It’s recommended that technical outdoor gloves from Burton never be washed in a washing machine. These gloves have special coatings, materials and linings that can be ruined if washed too roughly. Instead, hand-wash your gloves in warm water and mild detergent.
Does Burton make gloves for kids?
A. Burton has an entire collection of apparel for kids. This includes gloves, pants, coats, boots and even snowboards. Burton’s kids gloves offer many of the same advantages as their adult lines including waterproof materials and Dryride fabric linings.
What are the best Burton gloves to buy?
Top Burton gloves
Burton Men’s Snow Profile Gloves
What you need to know: The Snow Profile gloves from Burton tackle every issue you may encounter in the bitter cold outdoors.
What you’ll love: Thermacore insulation keeps your hands toasty while the microfiber interior lining makes things ultra-comfortable. The gloves are shaped to have an ergonomic fit that contours with your finger’s natural bend. Plus, they’re touch-screen compatible so you can send a text without removing the gloves.
What you should consider: These gloves are water resistant instead of waterproof.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Burton gloves for the money
Burton Screen Grab Glove Liner
What you need to know: These gloves can be used as a liner beneath your heavy-duty gloves or as stand-alone lightweight gloves during mild weather.
What you’ll love: With a touch-screen compatible index fingertip and thumb tip, the Screen Grab gloves are perfect for daily use when you’ll frequently be pulling out your phone. They’re perfect for a winter hike, shoveling the driveway or simply running errands around town in inclement weather. They’re made with Thermaflex fleece and designed ergonomically.
What you should consider: These gloves are not thick enough for skiing or snowboarding.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: These mittens offer full coverage of your hands and are the toughest and most durable gloves from Burton.
What you’ll love: Gore-Tex is a fully waterproof material that Burton utilizes in these mittens. In fact, it guarantees they’ll keep you warm and dry. There’s a Dryride double layer and brushed microfiber layer which can be removed and worn separately. This way, you can use your phone without fully exposing your skin.
What you should consider: The mittens make it more difficult to use your fingers for small tasks.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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CHICAGO (AP)Chicago Bears receiver David Moore was arrested on drug and weapons charges in his hometown of Gainesville, Texas, last weekend.
In a press release, Gainesville police said officers responding to a possibly intoxicated person at a Taco Bell drive-thru late Sunday night found Moore asleep in the driver’s seat of a silver 2018 Ford F250. Officers smelled marijuana while talking to Moore and found a package of THC edible candies and three pistols while searching the vehicle.
Police arrested Moore and charged him with possession of a controlled substance and unlawful carrying weapons.
The Bears said they are aware of the arrest and ”are in the process of gathering more information.” They said they would ”refrain from making any further comment.”
Moore signed a one-year contract with Chicago in April. He has 78 receptions over five seasons with Seattle, Denver and Green Bay.
The Bears made big changes after going 6-11 last season and missing the playoffs for the ninth time in 11 years. They fired general manager Ryan Pace and coach Matt Nagy and replaced them with Ryan Poles and Matt Eberflus.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — An 8-year-old boy whose spine was severed in the shooting at a Fourth of July parade is conscious for the first time since the attack and asking to see his twin brother, his family said Friday.
Doctors don't think Cooper Roberts suffered any brain damage from the bullets that hit his chest, the family announced in a statement Friday that confirmed he is paralyzed from the waist down.
The boy was removed from the ventilator. He is in serious condition and is in a great deal of pain, but improving.
He and his twin brother, Luke, who was struck by shrapnel and is home, loved the Fourth of July parade in their Chicago suburb.
But now the family is envisioning a “new normal" for Cooper who was wounded in a hail of gunfire that left dozens of others wounded and seven dead in Highland Park, said Tony Loizzi, a family spokesperson, during a Zoom call with reporters Thursday.
The boys' mother, Keely Roberts, who is the superintendent of the 2,300-student Zion Elementary School District, also was hurt but not as seriously. Only the boys' father, Jason Roberts, was unscathed.
The twins are the youngest of six, and their four older sisters — ages 18 to 26 — are doting on Luke while Cooper is hospitalized.
Meanwhile, the boy’s mother, who was shot twice in the foot and leg area, has undergone two surgeries and may need a third, Loizzi said.
“Quite frankly, she probably should not have been discharged,” Loizzi said. But when she found out Cooper was on a ventilator, she “told her doctors and nurses that they should either discharge or she’d walk out on her own because she needed to be with her son,” Loizzi said.
He said the school district where she works is getting offers of support from superintendents around the state, some of them retired. He said they want to help so she can heal and focus on her family.
“They’re devastated,” he said of the family, “but they’re focusing all of their energy right now on Cooper. It’s been a very emotional time for everybody in their circle. And if you know Keely, she’s just a fighter. And it sounds like Cooper got that part of her in him because he’s fighting as hard as he can.”
Loizzi had few details about the shooting itself. He said he didn’t know where the family was standing along the parade route when shots rang out or who helped them.
“To be honest, I have not had that conversation with Keely," he said. “I have tried not to focus on what exactly happened, and have really kept the focus on what we’re doing to help her and her son.”
Loizzi described the boy as having a “passion" for sports and the Milwaukee Brewers.
“Every time I talk to his mom about him, he’s always very active," he added.
A GoFundMe has raised more than $800,000 to help the family with what Loizzi described as “the obvious ongoing treatment and therapy that Cooper will need.” He said that Keely Roberts is a devoted school leader, who works tirelessly for her students and often sends emails in the wee hours of the morning.
“Now," he said, “she and her family need our support. So we just ask you to please continue to keep the Roberts family and all of those impacted by this tragedy in your thoughts and prayers.” | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/boy-paralyzed-in-highland-park-parade-attack-awake/507-ea1f3890-deb8-4a95-a08b-1b33729e5959 | 2022-07-09T16:02:39Z | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/boy-paralyzed-in-highland-park-parade-attack-awake/507-ea1f3890-deb8-4a95-a08b-1b33729e5959 | true |
FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — Attention drivers at the George Washington Bridge: Your cash is no good here.
Starting Sunday, drivers looking to cross the Hudson River from New Jersey into New York will go through an electronic tolling system.
Drivers without E-ZPass who would otherwise be paying cash will instead have their license plates photographed by overhead cameras and bills sent to them by mail.
The move from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey comes as way to help ease congestion at the bridge, the busiest of the three Hudson River crossings that the agency oversees.
“Many advocates have been calling for this for a long time and it’s a welcome move,” said Tom Wright, president of the Regional Plan Association.
With the instituting of the new system, the toll booths currently in place will be taken out, removing a link to a memorable chapter in New Jersey’s political history known as “Bridgegate.”
In 2013, traffic in Fort Lee, New Jersey, was snarled for several days when a group of Republican political operatives had some of the access lanes leading into the toll booths blocked in retaliation for a Democratic mayor not endorsing then-Gov. Chris Christie for reelection.
Christie was not charged with anything, but two people were convicted on federal charges. Those convictions were later overturned by the Supreme Court. Another who had pleaded guilty had that plea vacated.
The George Washington Bridge is a crossing point not only to get into New York City, but also for drivers using Interstate 95. The Port Authority said more than 49 million vehicles crossed eastbound over it last year, and it is the most used Hudson River crossing by trucks.
Cashless tolling has been in use at the Holland Tunnel since December 2020, and is expected to start at the Lincoln Tunnel later this year, the Port Authority said.
Wright said using an electronic system for tolls “serves more motorists faster and more efficiently.” But, he cautioned, that did not mean there would be no more congestion as vehicles converge to get across the span.
“It’s not like a magic wand,” he said. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/goodbye-to-cash-tolls-and-some-notorious-history-at-bridge/ | 2022-07-09T16:05:30Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/goodbye-to-cash-tolls-and-some-notorious-history-at-bridge/ | true |
'Mom I hope I didn't kill nobody': Mother of suspect in deadly Springfield road rage shooting charged
SPRINGFIELD, Pa. - The mother of a man arrested for a deadly road rage shooting in Springfield is now being charged in connection with the case.
According to Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer, Amanda Washington was charged with hindering prosecution in the case relating to the death of 54-year-old King Hua.
On June 29, Hua and his wife were driving south on State Road in the curb lane when Amanda Washington passed them on the shoulder in her dark blue Chevrolet Equinox, authorities say.
Washington's son, 22-year-old Saddiq Washington, was in the passenger seat of the car and fired the fatal shots that killed Hua, according to police.
Springfield Township's Chief Daly said "The suspect's vehicle pulls on to the shoulder of the road, got ahead of the victim's vehicle, got out of the vehicle, fired two shots at the vehicle which permeated the window, killing the operator."
After the shooting, Amanda Washington and her son fled southbound at a high rate of speed, according to investigators.
Police say surveillance video showing Washington's car and license plate coupled with witness testimony helped lead investigators to the suspects.
Once officers arrived at the Darby address listed on the car's registration, they saw the vehicle in the driveway and began surveilling the house while waiting for a warrant, per authorities.
According to police, Washington and two other females were seen leaving the Darby home and getting into the Chevrolet Equinox around 5 a.m. the following day.
Officers then took Amanda and Saddiq Washington into custody as well as the two women seen with her, according to officials.
The DA's Office says officers interviewed Amanda Washington and she told police that she and her son were driving to work, but running late on the day of the shooting.
"She states that she was late, and that the driver of the white Camry was driving very slowly. She stated that when she got in front of Mr. Hua's vehicle she heard shots and realized that her son was shooting out of the passenger side of the vehicle," the DA's Office said.
Authorities also say that Amanda Washington told police that after the shooting, her son said "Go. Go. Go. Go Mom" and "Mom I hope I didn't kill nobody."
According to police, she claimed to have had no knowledge that her son, who was licensed to carry, was carrying the gun on the day of the shooting.
"Last week’s tragic murder of King Hua has truly shocked the entire Delaware County community. The actions of defendant Saddiq Washington were as inexplicable as they were horrifying. As a result of his actions, two families have been irreparably broken – his own, and that of his victim. Although it was her son’s actions that led to this heartbreaking tragedy, we cannot ignore Amanda Washington’s actions. She chose to speed away from the scene of the crime. She chose to remain silent even after the death of Mr. Hua had been announced. It was a catastrophic dereliction of her duties as a parent and as a citizen that led to today’s charge," Stollsteimer said.
According to Stollsteimer, Saddiq Washinton was charged with first-degree murder for Hua's death.
Hua's only daughter said her father worked as a nail technician and immigrated to the United States from Vietnam more than 20 years ago for a better life. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/mom-i-hope-i-didnt-kill-nobody-mother-of-suspect-in-deadly-springfield-road-rage-shooting-charged | 2022-07-09T16:09:01Z | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/mom-i-hope-i-didnt-kill-nobody-mother-of-suspect-in-deadly-springfield-road-rage-shooting-charged | false |
Jagan sounds the poll bugle, asks cadre to give befitting reply to opposition
‘Mission 175’ is not impossible, he tells the party plenary
Giving a clarion call for the party cadre to gear up for the coming general elections, YSRCP national president and Chief Minister Y.S Jagan Mohan Reddy has said that the party has created a bedrock on which the State’s economic, social and political transformation would take place.
“I am happy to say that we have created a sound foundation on which remarkable transformation has taken place in education, health and agricultural sector in three years. I urge you to lead the the battle against the evil conglomerate of opposition parties and their friendly media, like Arjuna in Mahabharata, and tell every person in the State of the good things done by our government, our welfare schemes, our innovative reforms in education, health and agriculture and our mission to ensure transformational changes in social, economic and political landscape,” said Mr. Jagan at the end of two-day plenary session. Earlier, Mr. he was unanimously elected as the lifetime president of the party.
Massive crowds thronged the venue in between Guntur and Vijayawada. The national highway between Guntur and Vijayawada was choc-a-block as thousands came from distant places across the State.
“I urge you to take forward the welfare schemes in education, health, agriculture, local administration and housing directly to the doorstep of people, and also to solve any problems. I want you to tell people that our government has ensured that ₹1.60 lakh crore is directly credited into accounts of beneficiaries by DBT. I also want you to counter the mudslinging of the opposition parties by forming social media teams in every village who will aggressively counter the vile campaign launched by TDP and its friendly media,” said Mr. Jagan.
“Our government has initiated nine reforms in the education sector and spent ₹52,000 crore on reforms in education only, including ₹19, 617 crore and ₹16,352 crore spent on Naadu-Needu transforming the schools. On health, our government has spent ₹30,000 crore and is now constructing 16 government medical colleges,” he said.
Stating that “Mission 175” was not impossible as the party had already swept Kuppam in all local body elections held there in 2022, Mr. Jagan said that the opposition would be on the swing with conspiracies against the government and numerous fake promises to lure people ahead of the elections, and told the cadre to alert the people regarding the opposition’s sly tactics.
In a scathing attack, the Chief Minister once again made it clear that a true leader would have empathy towards people, but not arrogance, and commented that Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu did not have a ‘chip’ to be empathetic towards the poor and reminded that one should have it in mind and heart.
Unlike Mr. Naidu, who used weaker sections at the time of elections, YSRCP stood by them and strengthened them by empowering them socially, economically, and politically by committing to social justice, he said. Mr. Jagan reminded that Mr. Naidu, who had served as a Chief Minister for 14 years, had appealed to the government to make Kuppam a Revenue Division, to which the government obliged as it did good for the people.
Reminiscing the three-year YSRCP government rule, Mr. Jagan said that 95% of the poll promises made in the manifesto were fulfilled. He recalled the journey of strengthening YSRCP, thanked the party workers for their support over the years, and assured them that he would continue to take their responsibility in the coming days as well.
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'Mom I hope I didn't kill nobody': Mother of suspect in deadly Springfield road rage shooting charged
SPRINGFIELD, Pa. - The mother of a man arrested for a deadly road rage shooting in Springfield is now being charged in connection with the case.
According to Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer, Amanda Washington was charged with hindering prosecution in the case relating to the death of 54-year-old King Hua.
On June 29, Hua and his wife were driving south on State Road in the curb lane when Amanda Washington passed them on the shoulder in her dark blue Chevrolet Equinox, authorities say.
Washington's son, 22-year-old Saddiq Washington, was in the passenger seat of the car and fired the fatal shots that killed Hua, according to police.
Springfield Township's Chief Daly said "The suspect's vehicle pulls on to the shoulder of the road, got ahead of the victim's vehicle, got out of the vehicle, fired two shots at the vehicle which permeated the window, killing the operator."
After the shooting, Amanda Washington and her son fled southbound at a high rate of speed, according to investigators.
Police say surveillance video showing Washington's car and license plate coupled with witness testimony helped lead investigators to the suspects.
Once officers arrived at the Darby address listed on the car's registration, they saw the vehicle in the driveway and began surveilling the house while waiting for a warrant, per authorities.
According to police, Washington and two other females were seen leaving the Darby home and getting into the Chevrolet Equinox around 5 a.m. the following day.
Officers then took Amanda and Saddiq Washington into custody as well as the two women seen with her, according to officials.
The DA's Office says officers interviewed Amanda Washington and she told police that she and her son were driving to work, but running late on the day of the shooting.
"She states that she was late, and that the driver of the white Camry was driving very slowly. She stated that when she got in front of Mr. Hua's vehicle she heard shots and realized that her son was shooting out of the passenger side of the vehicle," the DA's Office said.
Authorities also say that Amanda Washington told police that after the shooting, her son said "Go. Go. Go. Go Mom" and "Mom I hope I didn't kill nobody."
According to police, she claimed to have had no knowledge that her son, who was licensed to carry, was carrying the gun on the day of the shooting.
"Last week’s tragic murder of King Hua has truly shocked the entire Delaware County community. The actions of defendant Saddiq Washington were as inexplicable as they were horrifying. As a result of his actions, two families have been irreparably broken – his own, and that of his victim. Although it was her son’s actions that led to this heartbreaking tragedy, we cannot ignore Amanda Washington’s actions. She chose to speed away from the scene of the crime. She chose to remain silent even after the death of Mr. Hua had been announced. It was a catastrophic dereliction of her duties as a parent and as a citizen that led to today’s charge," Stollsteimer said.
According to Stollsteimer, Saddiq Washinton was charged with first-degree murder for Hua's death.
Hua's only daughter said her father worked as a nail technician and immigrated to the United States from Vietnam more than 20 years ago for a better life. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/mom-i-hope-i-didnt-kill-nobody-mother-of-suspect-in-deadly-springfield-road-rage-shooting-charged | 2022-07-09T16:13:21Z | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/mom-i-hope-i-didnt-kill-nobody-mother-of-suspect-in-deadly-springfield-road-rage-shooting-charged | true |
No 10 deny reports that Boris Johnson is planning to stand down as PM on Monday in order to run for Tory leadership and brands claims 'completely untrue'
- Mr Johnson resigned as leader of the Conservative Party on Thursday
- Said will remain in office until successor is elected by MPs and party members
- But claims then emerged that Mr Johnson may be planning to run again
A spokesperson for Boris Johnson said reports that he is planning to stand down as Prime Minister on Monday in order to run again for Tory leader are completely untrue.
Mr Johnson resigned as leader of the Conservative Party on Thursday, but said he intends to remain in office until his successor is elected.
He said on Thursday: 'It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister.
'And I've agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench MPs, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now and the timetable will be announced next week.
'And I've today appointed a Cabinet to serve, as I will, until a new leader is in place.'
But claims then emerged that Mr Johnson may be planning to run again, prompting Number 10 to clarify that Mr Johnson will stay out of the leadership race.
A spokesperson for Boris Johnson said reports that he is planning to stand down as Prime Minister on Monday in order to run again for Tory leader are completely untrue
Journalist Petronella Wyatt, who had an affair with Mr Johnson when they both worked at the Spectator magazine, was among those who reported claims that the PM may attempt to stay in Downing Street.
She said: 'A source at Number 10 tells me that Boris Johnson intends to stand down as Prime Minister on Monday, in order to run for the Tory leadership.'
Ms Wyatt had said earlier this week before Mr Johnson said he was stepping down that he would not resign.
She revealed a former Tory Minister telephoned her last night with the prediction that Boris would be gone by the end of the week.
But she said: 'Knowing Boris as I well as I do, I could not concur. Boris's obsession with his own divine right will tear apart his party and cause collateral damage to the country.'
Number 10's insistence that the PM is definitely stepping down comes after new Education Secretary James Cleverly told Sky News 'there is no such thing as a caretaker Prime Minister'.
Asked what he has resigned from, Mr Cleverly added: 'He is resigning from his role as Prime Minister and leader of the party once a successor has been appointed.'
When presenter Kay Burley asked if that means the PM 'hasn't yet resigned' from his role, Mr Cleverly added: 'What I am saying is he has made an announcement, you can read it...'
Mr Johnson resigned as leader of the Conservative Party on Thursday, but said he intends to remain in office until his successor is elected. Above: Mr Johnson greeting his son Wilfred and wife Carrie Johnson after walking back into Number 10
Journalist Petronella Wyatt, who had an affair with Mr Johnson when they both worked at the Spectator magazine, was among those who reported claims that the PM may attempt to stay in Downing Street
So far, four Tory MPs have announced they are standing to replace Mr Johnson.
Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak has emerged as the frontrunner after launching his campaign with a slick video yesterday.
As well as Mr Sunak, former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch, Attorney General Suella Braverman and backbench MP Tom Tugendhat have confirmed they are running.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace had been widely expected to launch his own bid but announced today that he will not take part in the race.
Mr Wallace said on Twitter: 'After careful consideration and discussing with colleagues and family, I have taken the decision not to enter the contest for leadership of the Conservative Party.'
He added that it had not been an 'easy' choice to make, but said his focus is on his role as Defence Secretary and 'keeping this great country safe'.
Other likely candidates, including Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Health Secretary Sajid Javid are yet to announce their bids.
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Once again, The Boys proved why it's one of the greatest superhero shows on TV. The season 3 finale juggled a thrilling superhero showdown, a couple of twists and teased the next big problems for Butcher and The Boys for future seasons.
It was a satisfying season finale on many layers, including for the often underserved Queen Maeve. Absolutely everyone experienced an intriguing development, from Starlight's new powers to Homelander's new apprentice. Let's dive into everything that happened.
Read more: The Boys is still the perfect antidote to Marvel fatigue
What's Soldier Boy's true identity?
What better time to discover how Soldier Boy first became Soldier Boy than in the finale. As a young man, he went by Ben and wanted nothing more than to prove himself to his father. So, naturally, he visited his father's "golf buddies in the war department" and signed up for Compound V trials. Did becoming America's greatest hero work? Sadly, no. His father still hated him, refusing to even let him take his name.
Later, we discover that Vought scientist Jonah Vogelbaum used Soldier Boy's DNA to create Homelander. In Homelander's warped view of how families work, Soldier Boy is therefore his father.
What actually happened in Nicaragua, 1984?
Thanks to Vought propaganda and Payback lies, it wasn't clear what happened on that fateful day in Nicaragua in 1984. Called Operation Charly, President Reagan's off-the-books project was designed to help the Contra rebels fight the Russian-backed Sandinistas in the country. Lieutenant-Colonel Grace Mallory was charged with trafficking cocaine into the US and using the profits to buy weapons for the rebels.
But when America's greatest superhero team interfered with the mission, failing to prove they would be compatible with the army, the rebel camp was compromised and all of Mallory's soldiers were massacred. This spurred her to create The Boys and go after Vought. It was the day Soldier Boy disappeared into the hands of Russians, but no one aside from Payback knows exactly how. It's all to do with Black Noir...
The mystery of Black Noir
The silent assassin of The Seven and Payback always just got the job done, no fuss involved. But when Soldier Boy returns to the US after decades locked away in a Russian lab, Black Noir inexplicably pulls a runner.
In the finale, we discover exactly why. In Black Noir's cartoon hallucination, we discover that Stan Edgar made a deal with Black Noir to kill Soldier Boy, because years earlier the scientist Vogelbaum had created a superior flying superhero, the next best model: Homelander. Vought wanted Homelander to take over as the lead superhero loved by America. Soldier Boy needed to be out of the way.
It helped that Gunpowder, Swatto, Mindstorm, Black Noir, the TNT Twins and Crimson Countess, Soldier Boy's girlfriend, all hated Soldier Boy. Black Noir, who hated Soldier Boy even more after he brutally beat him up over a stolen film role, agreed to Edgar's terms. Grace Mallory missed everything that happened after falling unconscious during the Russians' attack on the rebel camp. When she came to, it was Crimson Countess who claimed the Russians had created "some kind of gun" that killed Soldier Boy.
But it was Black Noir and the rest of Payback -- particularly Mindstorm -- who managed to team up on Soldier Boy and subdue him, before giving him to the Russians. Black Noir was severely injured in the battle, half his face disfigured. Black Noir never reveals to Homelander what happened. When Homelander uncovers the truth about Soldier Boy being his father and that Black Noir had kept this from him, he punches Black Noir's guts out. Black Noir's cartoon friends wish him peace and bid him a tearful goodbye as he dies.
Homelander finally wins over Ryan
This season began with Butcher grappling with his feelings over whether to look after Becca and Homelander's son, Ryan. On the one hand, it was his wife's dying wish. On the other, this is the son of an evil psychopath. But Butcher gives Ryan a chance, seeing him off into the safe hands of the CIA and "Aunt Grace."
But psych! In one of many twists, Ryan eventually accepts Homelander as his father once more. Homelander finds Ryan thanks to insider information from Congresswoman Victoria Neuman, who works with Grace at the Bureau of Superhuman Affairs. Homelander gives a rousing speech, convincing Ryan that the boy killing Becca was a mistake. Homelander isn't mad, because that's what Supes do: Cause tons of unfortunate, frequently gruesome, accidents.
Maeve isn't dead. Hooray!
You'd be forgiven for thinking Maeve was a goner this season. It looked like she would be killed off not once, but twice. Albeit the first time wasn't convincing. It was no surprise to see Maeve still alive and held captive by Homelander in a white cell 12 floors below Vought's The Tower. Thanks to Starlight's social media campaign #FreeMaeve, which had "every LGBT teen in the world up Vought's ass," a warrant was issued to search Vought. Maeve, far too strong to be drugged, woke up while she was being transported to another location and punched her way to freedom. Mission "Free Maeve" accomplished.
Soldier Boy, meet Ryan
In yet another slick twist, Soldier Boy decides to keep to his word and (attempt to) kill Homelander. After Mindstorm told Soldier Boy that he's technically Homelander's father, it seemed as though Soldier Boy would have a change of heart and take Homelander under his wing, parent him like his own father never did. But when he, Butcher and Maeve confront Homelander, Soldier Boy makes his feelings on Homelander clear, calling Homelander a "weak sniveling pussy, starved for attention." Then Homelander plays his trump card, bringing out Ryan. "Hey, Grandpa."
This throws a spanner in the works, turning Butcher against Soldier Boy, after Soldier Boy attacks Ryan. A big battle ensues...
Starlight shines even brighter
Starlight, Kimiko, Frenchie and Mother's Milk all arrive to provide backup against Soldier Boy. (Meanwhile, Maeve unleashes her rage against Homelander -- about time.) All season, Hughie has been grappling with feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness -- he has a superpowered girlfriend he can't protect without the help of Temp V (the green phial of Compound V that gives people superpowers for 24 hours). But, finally, Hughie sees the light. Instead of using a spare phial, he turns up every single light in the Vought News Network studio and feeds Starlight's powers. He helps her save herself. For the first time, she levitates and unleashes a powerful flash to stun Soldier Boy.
Mother's Milk gets his moment to use Frenchie's concoction of deadly nerve agent to sedate Soldier Boy. But it's not enough...
Maeve saves the day
This episode epitomizes just how much Queen Maeve is the unsung hero of The Boys. Not only does she horrifically lose an eye in battle with Homelander, but she realizes that Soldier Boy is about to explode radiation that'll kill everyone. Proving her hero status once again, she tackles Soldier Boy out the window and they plunge through the air. Somewhere around the middle of Vought Tower, Soldier Boy blows up.
Just this once, everybody (important) lives
But, surprisingly, both Queen Maeve and Soldier Boy survive. Maeve, now powerless (Soldier Boy's radiation removed the Compound V in her system, just like it did to Kimiko), is also free to live the life she always wanted with her girlfriend Elena. The news reports her death, that she sacrificed herself to defeat the "Russian-radicalized Soldier Boy." Even Ashley deletes footage of Maeve being discovered alive in an alley by Mother's Milk. (Well done, The Boys, for not committing the "Bury Your Gays" trope.)
Soldier Boy has also been picked up and carted off to yet another organization's secret chamber. Grace overlooks Soldier Boy's transference to a new cryo chamber.
Those teasers for the future
Not only does Homelander continue to stir up his particular demographic -- basically Nazi Stormfront supporters -- at a pep rally, he introducers his followers to his son Ryan. When a Starlight supporter throws a can at Ryan, Homelander teaches his son that it's OK to laser people to death. Ryan leaves us with a creepy kid smile, indicating that, yes, he'll probably be following in his disturbing father's footsteps.
On top of that, The Boys, now permanently joined by Starlight, have to grapple with the consequences of Victoria Neuman becoming the runmate of presidential candidate Robert Singer (his previous runmate was drowned during an evening pool swim by The Deep, on Homelander's orders). This could see Neuman become the new vice president of America, unless The Boys take the head-popping Supe down -- something Butcher fully intends to do.
Lingering questions...
Will we see Maeve again? Will she be a last-ditch point of call when The Boys run out of ideas? Will Grace Mallory begin her own experiments with Soldier Boy and use him against Vought? What lovely father-son destruction will Homelander and Ryan get up to? Will anything The Boys does again be bigger and more graphic than episode 6's Herogasm?
The good news is that Amazon Studios has already renewed The Boys for a fourth season. After this chapter, there's no doubt the show will continue to deliver some of the smartest, most radical superhero fare on TV. | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/the-boys-season-3-that-ending-explained-and-all-your-questions-answered/ | 2022-07-09T16:24:49Z | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/the-boys-season-3-that-ending-explained-and-all-your-questions-answered/ | false |
Discerning Designs: Warû Co-Founders Mohamed Adib And Rasha Al-Tekreeti
Warû co-founders Mohamed Adib and Rasha Al-Tekreeti are channeling their passion for developing nomadic designs into the work that they do with their firm's clients.
As the co-founders of interior architecture and strategic design agency Warû, Mohamed Adib and Rasha Al-Tekreeti are channeling their passion for developing nomadic designs into the work that they do with their firm's clients. Excerpts from a conversation with Al-Tekreeti:
What inspired you to start Warû?
"Our team has distinctive experiences and share the same passion- we value experiences and connections, and we enjoy exploring, wondering, and wandering in search of connections with people, spaces, and ourselves. We love to create 'nomadic' environments where those connections may flourish, and experiences can be remembered for a lifetime, which is why we established Warû.
Warû is an interior architecture and strategic design agency focused on creating nomadic experiences within hotels, restaurants, workplaces, co-working, and co-living spaces. We place more emphasis on experiences within spaces we design, and we seek to break the norms by embedding design elements factoring in social, psychological, and natural aspects."
Tell us about your approach to creating new designs?
"We enjoy delving deep into our customers' brands, invading them as if they were our own, and then developing strategic solutions from which we begin the creative journey. Throughout this journey, we follow our customers' lead while assisting them to communicate their brand in a distinctive, yet familiar, way."
How would you describe Warû's style to those who aren't familiar with it?
"Warû's philosophy revolves around adaptation to different styles and spaces. It is not about 'our style,' but rather the way we translate our clients' thoughts. It is a journey that we venture on with our clients to guide their thoughts, needs, and objectives to develop initial concepts. We then use our innovative design approaches and techniques to create a customized haven for our clients, a haven that cannot be envisaged in any other way!"
What excites or frustrates you about the current state of the Middle East's architecture and design?
"The greatest thing about the Middle East market and especially Dubai is that it's a melting pot of cultures that define the demand for spaces that we aspire to design. It is a multicultural trading route that nurtures innovative thinking and offers a unique platform to create ideas that have never been thought of, which is in line with our nomadic beliefs.
One disadvantage is that, due to the region's rapid development, everything is expected to be delivered immediately! Which, for perfectionists, does not always leave enough time to develop creativity. Speed, as they say, is the enemy of good design!"
Warû co-founders Mohamed Adib and Rasha Al-Tekreeti
In terms of your personal background, how has it inspired you, and in what way do you believe it has translated into your work across the years?
"We are proud of our background, but I wouldn't say it has impacted our designs; rather, it has influenced our resilience and our desire to explore and always look ahead. What excites and inspires us is delving into the origins of our clients' businesses, how they began, what their story was, what their objective is, and what keeps them evolving. Understanding those components influences how we establish strategy and design."
There's obviously a lot of focus on sustainability now in the design space now- what's your view on this evolution?
"In the past couple of years, there has been a stronger shift towards sustainability, and the way people seek to live within urban spaces. In the long term, designing adaptable spaces to suit several uses has become mainstream, which is a terrific addition to sustainability programs. However, we see a gap in terms of renovating and improving current urban places, which may have a greater impact."
What kinds of projects do you want to work on?
"We have experience designing a variety of projects, and we search for adventurous and innovative clientele who want to push the boundaries. To enrich people's experiences, we are focusing on developing hotels, restaurants, and workspaces that are mobile, open, inviting, people-centric, and rooted in nature. We'd love to work on projects that mix hospitality and the workplace, blending them into hybrid environments where visitors and locals can connect more, experiences are always evolving, and economic prospects are maximized."
Do you have a project that precisely represents the future direction you would like for Warû?
"Before committing to any project, we wanted to focus on our brand and its inception. We have several exciting initiatives in the pipeline, and we want to make sure that any projects we work on complement Warû's personality and portfolio." | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/430960 | 2022-07-09T16:24:56Z | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/430960 | false |
By HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Elena Rybakina beat Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the Wimbledon final on Saturday to become the first tennis player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles championship.
Rybakina is a 23-year-old who was born in Moscow and has represented Kazakhstan since 2018, when that country offered her funding to support her tennis career. The switch has been a topic of conversation during Wimbledon, because The All England Club barred all players who represent Russia or Belarus from entering the tournament because of the war in Ukraine.
This was the first women’s title match since 1962 at the All England Club between two players who were making their debuts in a major final.
Rybakina is ranked No. 23. Since the WTA computer rankings began in 1975, just one woman ranked lower than Rybakina won Wimbledon — Venus Williams in 2007 at No. 31, although she previously had been No. 1 and already won three of her five career trophies at the All England Club.
Rybakina used her big serve and powerful forehand to overcome Jabeur’s mix of spins and slices at Centre Court on Saturday. Rybakina ended Jabeur’s 12-match winning streak, which came entirely on grass courts.
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SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they have discovered 87 migrants crammed into a truck with a trailer in the southern part of the country and arrested two men for migrant smuggling.
Police said the migrants, who included 45 Syrians, 39 Pakistanis, two Congolese and one Indian — were found early Saturday during a routine check on a highway near the border town of Gevgelija.
Two Macedonian citizens, identified only by their initials as A.A. and M.J., were arrested. They face up to five years in prison if found guilty.
The migrants are believed to have entered illegally from Greece, heading for Serbia and onward to wealthier European countries. The migrants were transferred to a reception center in Gevgelija, pending deportation to Greece.
According to police, the migrant Balkan route through North Macedonia has become busier after the lifting of travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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(NewsNation) — Support to bring Brittney Griner home continues to grow despite the WNBA star pleading guilty to drug charges on Thursday.
During an exclusive interview on NewsNation’s “Banfield,” Billy Hayes, who spent five years in a Turkish prison for drug smuggling, shared advice for Griner. He said the mentality she uses to succeed as an athlete will be invaluable as she navigates this situation.
“If you can keep a control on yourself, it puts perspective on things,” Hayes said. But he knows that’s much easier said than done.
In 1970, Hayes was arrested at an airport in Turkey while carrying four pounds of hashish. He was given a life sentence.
Five years after his arrest, with no movement on the diplomatic side, Hayes escaped back to the United States as a fugitive. He later wrote an autobiography, “Midnight Express,” which adapted into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1978.
His story, he told NewsNation, has similarities to that of Griner’s. She was arrested in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after vape cartridges with hashish oil were allegedly found in her luggage.
“Unfortunately, I can relate. The beginning of this process is something that she inadvertently got into,” Hayes said. “I know she had some hashish oil in her bag. It’s for her own personal use, and she had a prescription for this. Unfortunately, that doesn’t really matter in a lot of foreign countries because laws are different. You need to discover the differences quickly, or you end up in a very bad place.”
Hayes said he thinks that Russia would like to bring Griner home because the world is watching.
“We should be emphasizing that we are watching. Hopefully, now that her her sentence is going to be finished, all the legal ramifications that take forever in any country, but especially a foreign countries,” Hayes said.
Hayes said he hopes Brittney will focus on the victories, no matter how big or small.
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American flight makes emergency landing in Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids — An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Grand Rapids, officials said.
Around 10:15 p.m. Friday, the flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago bound for Buffalo, New York, alerted Gerald R. Ford International Airport about possible smoke in the cockpit, Lisa Carr, the Grand Rapids airport public safety and operations director, said in a statement to the Grand Rapids Press.
An aircraft rescue and firefighting team and Kent County officials responded to the call.
The plane landed safely in Grand Rapids, and all passengers left the plane, Carr said.
No injuries were reported.
After American Airlines found a new plane, the redirected flight left Grand Rapids at 12:42 a.m. It landed in Buffalo at 1:37 a.m., three hours after its scheduled arrival time. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/09/american-flight-emergency-landing-grand-rapids/10020814002/ | 2022-07-09T16:46:36Z | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/09/american-flight-emergency-landing-grand-rapids/10020814002/ | true |
The iPhone 13 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra boast the absolute best phone tech around from their supercharged processors, 5G connectivity to their incredible camera systems. But they also demand huge amounts of cash that put them out of reach (or make them simply unnecessary) for many of us. Even Google's marginally more affordable Pixel 6 Pro still costs a whopping $899, which is difficult to swallow particularly at a time when many of us are keeping much closer eyes on our spending.
Buying an older, previous generation phone that's used can save you a lot of money while allowing you to put some seriously potent mobile hardware in your pocket. These phones will feature your everyday essentials, plus things like photo editing, gaming and video streaming. Even better, it saves a phone from going to landfill, which we can all agree is a good thing.
But there are key things to keep in mind if you want the best phone for your money and you want to stay safe when you get it. Here are our top tips on how to safely buy a great used phone, whether you want an iPhone or an Android phone.
What features do you need in a phone?
First, think about what you actually need from your phone, as this will dictate what sort of level (and budget) you need. If you just want something more basic to handle casual WhatsApp messages and play Spotify during your commute, you don't need flagship levels of performance. As a result, a lower-end phone with a smaller price tag will suit just fine.
If, however, you're really into phone photography then you may want to spend a bit more on something with a decent camera. In that case, something like an iPhone X or a Galaxy S10 may be preferable. You'll have to find that balance between the performance you need and the price you're happy to pay. Newer phones with more modern features and better performance will come with a higher price.
Buy from a trusted source
Not every phone seller has your best interests at heart, so it's important to be savvy when you're shopping. Some places to avoid should be obvious; don't buy from the guy selling phones on a street corner from a big box, for example. Others can be hit and miss.
eBay is a well-known source for buying used items, and there's a huge selection of phones to be had. Some of these are sold by refurbishing companies that trade solely in buying and selling used handsets. Others are regular people trying to offload their old devices when they upgrade. The result is that it can sometimes feel like panning for gold, looking for those nuggets you actually want. Check the next section for more tips on buying on eBay.
My best advice though is to go to trusted companies that buy old phones, refurbish them and sell them on. I've used MusicMagpie in the UK and had no problems. Its online catalog is vast, it clearly lists the condition of the phones, every handset is factory reset and you get a 12-month warranty with every purchase. Prices might be a tad higher than you'd find on eBay, but the peace of mind more than makes up for it. They also offer rental options if you can't quite stomach splashing the cash upfront. Gazelle offers a similar service in the US, although we haven't tested it ourselves and so can't vouch for the overall quality of the service.
Check the details on the listing
Whether you're buying from eBay, Amazon Marketplace or anywhere else, it's important to pay close attention to what you're actually getting. Read the listing carefully, including any small print that might be hidden further down among other details. It may be that phrases like "nonfunctioning" or "battery faulty" are intentionally buried to trick people into buying a phone that no longer works. They'll also likely explain whether you're getting the original charging cable, packaging and what sort of nicks and scratches you can expect.
Use your common sense here: If a $1,000 iPhone is being sold for only $100, there's probably something fishy going on. Don't be the guy who bought a picture of an Xbox One for $735.
Don't buy a phone that doesn't get security updates
I'll make this as clear as possible: Do not buy a phone that no longer gets security updates from its manufacturer. Unsupported phones are open to all kinds of vulnerabilities that can give hackers easy access to every single piece of information on your handset -- or even control it completely. Those bank details, cute pics of your kids, sexy selfies you sent to your partner -- all could be accessed and stolen.
Most Android phone manufacturers tend to support their handsets for two to three years. Apple takes that further, however, supporting even 2015's iPhone 6S with the latest iOS 15.4 (as of June 2022). Google's 2018 Pixel 3 is no longer officially supported, however, and the Pixel 4 is only getting "guaranteed" security updates until October 2022, according to Google's support page.
It's frustrating that phones aren't supported for longer, as the hardware remains perfectly capable of handling most everyday tasks you're likely going to need. Some (like the Pixel 4) still pack great cameras that would take beautiful shots on your next vacation. But outdated software makes the phones vulnerable, and it's simply not advisable to continue using phones outside their support period.
Your best bet is to look at phones that came out within the last two years and are therefore likely still receiving security updates. When you find a phone that suits, search the model name and try and find out if it's still getting updates, and if there's an indication of how much longer it'll get them. Companies aren't forthcoming with info about when they're cutting a product loose, but by looking at what other models are being supported you should be able to make a fair estimate.
The Galaxy S10, for example, is still listed on Samsung's support page as getting quarterly security updates, while 2018's Galaxy A9 is only listed as receiving biannual updates. It's reasonably safe to assume that the A9 will be cut off from the support period sooner, so opting for a slightly newer handset like the S10 or even 2020's Galaxy S20 will typically mean you'll have longer with the phone before it becomes increasingly unsafe to use. It might cost a little more, but you'll have a longer usable time with it.
Make sure when your phone of choice arrives that you fully factory reset it yourself, and make sure to check for all available software updates before doing anything else.
If you're keen to save some cash by buying used, make sure to check out our full article on the security advice you need to be aware of. If you're not keen on buying used but still don't want to spend all your savings, take a look at our roundup of the best phones under $200. | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/should-you-buy-a-used-refurbished-phone-on-ebay-things-to-consider/ | 2022-07-09T16:50:57Z | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/should-you-buy-a-used-refurbished-phone-on-ebay-things-to-consider/ | true |
(The Car Connection) — Gas prices have retreated from their $5 record high, and the relief at the pump could continue as the economy cools off and supply catches up with demand. Decreasing oil prices along with an increase in domestic gasoline stock have caused the national average to drop in consecutive weeks, according to the AAA.
“Domestic gasoline demand dipped recently, which took some of the pressure off of pump prices,” AAA spokesperson Andrew Gross said in a statement. “About 80% of stations are now selling regular for under $5 a gallon.”
The national average gas price reached a record high of $5.02 for the week ending June 13, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It has dropped in consecutive weeks after skyrocketing from a 2022 low of $3.28 at the start of the year. The EIA lists the average price at the pump at $4.82 last week (the last available week of data), whereas the AAA says the national average sits at $4.80. The drop is about $.10 from the preceding week, but still $1.78 higher for a gallon of gas than a year ago.
Drivers filling up in Texas, Delaware, Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio have seen at least $.12 declines in the price of a gallon of unleaded gas not exceeding 88 octane.
The price of crude oil increased last week due to forecasts of increased summer driving for Americans, but futures for wholesale gas have retreated on concerns of stalled economic growth due to rising interest rates and inflation. In short, summer gas prices can vary wildly based on demand.
Axios reported that Neil Dutta, head of economics at Renaissance Macro, expects gas prices to drop “about 30 cents per gallon in the weeks ahead.”
AAA was less sanguine. “July is typically the heaviest month for demand as more Americans hit the road, so this trend of easing prices could be short-lived,” Gross said. | https://cbs4indy.com/automotive/relief-at-the-pump-falling-gas-prices-could-continue/ | 2022-07-09T16:52:03Z | https://cbs4indy.com/automotive/relief-at-the-pump-falling-gas-prices-could-continue/ | true |
Putin Is Set to Halt Gas and Germany Fears It’s Not Coming Back
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- Olaf ScholzGerman politician and 9th Federal Chancellor of Germany
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On calendars in Germany’s industrial heartland and the halls of power in Berlin, July 11 has been marked in red for weeks.
When the main conduit for Russian gas to Europe goes down for 10-day maintenance on Monday, Germany and its allies are bracing for President Vladimir Putin to use the opportunity to cut off flows for good.
If Moscow signals the Nord Stream pipeline won’t come back as planned, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government would likely trigger emergency measures such as rationing and company bailouts. The consequences would almost certainly mean a deep recession for Europe’s largest economy and create ripple effects across the continent.
“Are we worried? Yes, we’re very worried,” said Christian Kullmann, chief executive officer of German chemical giant Evonik Industries AG. “It would be naive and starry-eyed not to be worried.”
Given Germany’s dependence on Russia for more than a third of its gas supplies and a lack of viable alternatives in the short term, the chance to inflict damage on Europe in retaliation for sanctions and support for Ukraine may be too good for the Kremlin to pass up.
While Moscow denies it’s using energy as a weapon, the calculus for Putin is as straightforward as it is cynical. Europe is desperate to fill up storage to keep homes heated and factories running through the winter. So the sooner Moscow acts to disrupt gas markets further, the higher the prices and the more time Russia has to reap the rewards.
Read more: Putin Is Pushing Germany’s Economy to the Breaking Point
“Russia has only so many chips they can play,” Olga Khakova, deputy director at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. “They’re trying to maximize the tools they have left.”
Decades of Russia serving as a stable energy partner have gone out the window in the months since its invasion of Ukraine in late February. The German government now has no visibility into Putin’s plans, with lines of communication to state-owned gas giant Gazprom PJSC cut and officials in Berlin referring to the country as a “blackbox.”
Germany has been gradually preparing the country of 80 million people for tough times ahead. Scholz has compared the situation to the inflation surge in the 1960s and 70s and warned it won’t be over soon.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck has evoked images of the financial crisis, warning of Lehman Brothers-like contagion and recently echoing Mario Draghi who as head of the European Central Bank at the time famously vowed to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro.
This time, the urgency is focused on preventing a collapse in energy markets and the fallout that would bring for Europe’s industrial engine.
The impact of the energy squeeze is gradually become more tangible. Munich lowered the temperature of its public pools, Cologne is dimming street lights and Hamburg plans to make warm water only available at certain times of the day.
Parliamentary offices in Berlin are lowering thermostats, and Vonovia SE, Germany’s largest landlord, will start reducing the night-time temperatures in the bulk of its apartments to 17 degrees Celsuis (63 degrees Fahrenheit).
Read more: Germany to Breach Debt Limits Once Again If Putin Shuts Off Gas
In the scramble to prepare, Scholz’s administration is bolstering its powers, including rushing through legislation that would allow it to acquire stakes to rescue struggling energy companies such as Uniper SE. Germany’s biggest buyer of Russian gas and a key supplier to local utilities put pressure on the government by saying on Friday that it was running short of cash.
Chief Executive Officer Klaus-Dieter Maubach warned that Uniper would soon have no choice but to pull gas from storage, raise prices to customers, and even reduce supply. That’s exactly the kind of knock-on effects Habeck has been seeking to avoid as he tries to defend the economy from Russia’s weaponization of its energy resources.
“We won’t allow a systemically-important company go bankrupt and throw the global energy market into turmoil as a result,” Habeck said in a response to Uniper’s statement, adding that the form of the support was still under discussion.
Read more: Germany’s Uniper Seeks Bailout as Victim of Putin’s Gas Feud
To fight the crisis, Germany is also backsliding on environmental commitments by reviving mothballed coal plants to generate electricity. The move would enable the country to cut the amount of gas used for power by 52% over the next 12 months, according to BloombergNEF estimates.
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“State backed energy-saving measures to reduce gas for heating and replace it with coal for power may do little to mitigate the blow, leaving Germany’s industrial sector particularly exposed to supply and price-driven shocks.”
— Joao Martins, BloombergNEF
The government already has the authority to ration gas. It escalated its alert level to the second-highest “alarm” stage in mid-June after Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom PJSC reduced Nord Stream flows by 60%.
Declaring an “emergency” would allow Germany’s network regulator Bundesnetzagentur to control distribution. While households and critical infrastructure like hospitals would be protected, industrial companies could see deliveries reduced and consumers could still be required to reduce thermostats and lower temperatures on water boilers.
The regulator, known as BNetzA, is hurriedly working on models that would allow it to take a “least-worse decision” on rationing, but they won’t be ready until the fall, said Klaus Mueller, the agency’s chief.
Germany aims to have storage facilities at least 90% full by November. The current level is about 63%, and the fill rate over the last week — which will likely drop when Nord Stream goes down — would mean it would take 86 days to reach that target.
In the mean time, companies across Germany are getting ready by securing reserves, scouring for alternative fuels and reviewing the risks of shutting down equipment. Manufacturers in neighboring Poland are also preparing for rationing.
“Being worried about it isn’t enough,” said Evonik’s Kullmann, who also heads Germany’s chemical-industry lobby. “We’re not in a college seminar discussing sociology. Action needs to be taken. We need to prepare for this scenario.”
Even without a complete shutdown of Nord Stream, Putin has already hurt Europe’s economy. ING estimates that the euro zone will succumb to a recession regardless of Russia’s next moves on energy.
As the tension mounts, Habeck has resorted to desperate measures. This week, he made a public appeal to Canada to release a Nord Stream turbine that was in the country for repairs but stranded by sanctions.
While Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia would be able to lift the pipeline’s flows if the component is fixed and returned, Habeck isn’t expecting a change in tact. He told Bloomberg that the plea was intended to “take this road of excuses away” from Putin.
It’s a sign that Berlin is aware it has few options left.
“It was a grievous mistake that Germany was so dependent on one country with the energy supply, and this country is Russia,” Habeck said in an interview. “It took decades to build up the dependency of Russian gas, and we are trying to change this now in months.”
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Mick Jagger Fast Facts
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Here’s a look at the life of singer, songwriter and Rolling Stones front man, Mick Jagger.
Personal
Birth date: July 26, 1943
Birth place: Dartford, England
Birth name: Michael Philip Jagger
Father: Basil “Joe” Jagger, a teacher
Mother: Eva (Scutts) Jagger
Marriages: Jerry Hall (November 21, 1990-August 13, 1999, annulled); Bianca (Pérez Morena De Macías) Jagger (May 21, 1971-November 2, 1979, divorced)
Children: with Melanie Hamrick: a son, 2016; with Luciana Gimenez Morad: Lucas, 1999; with Jerry Hall: Gabriel, 1997; Georgia, 1992; James, 1985; Elizabeth, 1984; with Bianca (Pérez Morena De Macías) Jagger: Jade, 1971; with Marsha Hunt: Karis, 1970
Education: Attended the London School of Economics
Other Facts
Plays the harmonica, tambourine, guitar and piano.
Childhood friends with bandmate Keith Richards.
Nominated for 16 Grammy Awards, solo and with The Rolling Stones, and won three.
Once said, “I’d rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m 45.”
Timeline
1960 – Lead singer of Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys. Richards later joins the band.
1962-present – Lead singer of The Rolling Stones.
June 6, 1965 – “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” is released in the United States. It is #1 for four weeks and is the band’s first gold record.
February 12, 1967 – Jagger and Richards are arrested for drug possession. Jagger is sentenced to three months and Richards to one year. Later, the sentences are overturned on appeal.
July 5, 1969 – The Rolling Stones give a free concert in London’s Hyde Park. Jagger reads poetry and releases 3,500 butterflies in honor of former band mate Brian Jones who was found dead on July 3.
May 28, 1969 – When his London home is raided by police, Jagger and girlfriend Marianne Faithfull are arrested for marijuana possession.
December 6, 1969 – A free concert at Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, results in a fan’s stabbing death. In 1970, the documentary “Gimme Shelter” about the concert tour and the tragedy is released.
June 15, 1970 – Opening day of “Ned Kelly,” Jagger’s first film role.
February 25, 1985 – Releases first solo album “She’s the Boss.”
January 18, 1989 – The Rolling Stones are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1994 – The Rolling Stones win two Grammy Awards – Best Rock Album for “Voodoo Lounge” and Best Music Video, Short Form, for “Love is Strong.”
November 10, 2002 – Appears as himself on “The Simpsons.”
December 12, 2003 – Is knighted by Prince Charles for services to music.
2008 – Director Martin Scorsese releases “Shine a Light,” a documentary film featuring a Stones performance from 2006.
2011 – Collaborates with Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, Damian Marley, Joss Stone and A.R. Rahman, composer of the soundtrack for “Slumdog Millionaire,” to form the new group SuperHeavy.
October 16, 2012 – The band’s book “The Rolling Stones: 50” is published.
October 18, 2012 – “Crossfire Hurricane,” a documentary about the band, opens at the London Film Festival.
March 17, 2014 – Fashion designer and Jagger’s longtime companion L’Wren Scott is found dead of an apparent suicide.
March 25, 2016 – The Rolling Stones become the first major international rock band to play in Cuba, drawing hundreds of thousands of people to a free concert in Havana.
December 2, 2016 – The Rolling Stones release “Blue & Lonesome,” their first studio album in more than a decade.
February 16, 2017 – According to London publisher John Blake, he holds the sole copy of a 1980s autobiographical manuscript written by Jagger that has never been published. According to the New York Times, Blake has not been given permission by Rolling Stones management to publish the memoir.
May 26, 2017 – The documentary film “¡Olé, Olé, Olé! A Trip Across Latin America,” is released for digital download. The film follows the 2016 tour with the Rolling Stones as they travel through Latin America on the way to playing their first show in Havana, Cuba, to more than 1 million fans. The film had a very limited release in theaters in the US and UK in late 2016.
January 28, 2018 – The Rolling Stones win the Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album for “Blue & Lonesome.”
March 30, 2019 – The Rolling Stones announce the postponement of an upcoming North American tour due to problems with Jagger’s health.
April 5, 2019 – A representative for Jagger tells CNN that “Jagger has successfully undergone treatment. He is doing very well and is expected to make a full recovery.” A source close to the band told CNN earlier in the week that Jagger was being treated to replace a valve in his heart, but a representative for the singer declined to elaborate.
June 21, 2019 – The rescheduled North American tour begins at Soldier Field in Chicago.
March 17, 2020 – The Rolling Stones announce that their North American tour is being postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
April 13, 2021 – Jagger and musician Dave Grohl release “Eazy Sleazy,” a song inspired by the coronavirus pandemic.
October 7, 2021 – In an interview with the LA Times, Jagger says that the Rolling Stones have phased out the song “Brown Sugar,” which begins with a slave narrative, from their concert set lists.
June 13, 2022 – The Rolling Stones cancel a concert in Amsterdam, announcing that Jagger has tested positive for Covid-19. In an Instagram post on June 16, Jagger shares that his health is improving.
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‘The ghost of the forest’ and other animals living in a land of extremes
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Let’s venture to one of the few wild places left on the planet.
An incredible diversity of species lives across the extremes of Patagonia — and we’re going to see them in a stunning new way.
The CNN Original Series “Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World” premieres at 9 p.m. ET Sunday and provides a look at the animals and plants found throughout the pristine southern tip of South America.
For more than a year, crews captured footage, revealing species new to science and filming elusive animals for the first time.
The six episodes explore the region’s oceans, deserts, glaciers, jungles, mountains and ice fields, and the surprising creatures who have made their home in one of the remotest places on Earth.
The many wonders of Patagonia, however, are not immune from pollution or human encroachment, and the series reflects on how the choices we make are starting to impact this fragile, distant wilderness.
Wild kingdom
You’ve likely never seen creatures like these.
Patagonia is home to animals like the kodkod, or “the ghost of the forest,” a diminutive wildcat so mysterious that most people have never even glimpsed it, and the huemul, a South Andean deer that is one of the rarest mammals on the planet.
Beneath the ocean surface, cold-water corals build colonies that support a host of other species, and incredibly clever pods of orcas hunt for prey, each led by a wise grandmother matriarch.
Critically endangered hooded grebes, striking black-and-white water birds, do a mating dance that looks like the tango. And the monito del monte is a tiny marsupial that slows its breathing rate during hibernation in an astonishing way — which could reveal insights about human metabolism.
Explore many of Patagonia’s elusive species in our photo gallery.
Dino-mite!
What short arms you have, Meraxes gigas.
Paleontologists have uncovered a previously unknown species of dinosaur in Argentina’s northern Patagonia region. The carnivore was 36 feet (11 meters) long and weighed more than 4 tons — and it had disproportionately stubby arms similar to those of T. rex.
The Cretaceous era-predator used its ferocious head to do the hard work of hunting and ripping up prey.
Aspects of the discovered dino remain puzzling to researchers — like why its small arms and chest muscles were so well developed if they weren’t actually used for hunting.
Fantastic creatures
At first glance, the skies over the northern tip of Patagonia’s desert coast in Argentina seem to be full of dancing clouds. In reality, the formations are flocks of colorful, chatty parrots.
The burrowing parrots tunnel into the crumbling sandstone cliffs of El Cóndor, home of the largest parrot colony in the world.
The highly social birds mate for life and can be very affectionate with one another as they raise their chicks on the mountain, with an enviable view of the Atlantic Ocean.
Once, the burrowing parrot could be found across South America. But the iconic bird’s population is declining as its food source disappears due to deforestation. Watch how this unique bird has carved out a life among the cliffs in the first episode of “Patagonia” on Sunday.
Curiosities
A giant water lily has been hiding in plain sight for 177 years — and it’s kind of hard to miss.
Botanists discovered that a water lily in London’s Royal Botanic Gardens is an entirely new species. Dubbed Victoria boliviana, the plant is the world’s largest known water lily species.
The leaves can reach nearly 10 feet wide (3 meters) when it grows in the wild and can support a weight of at least 176 pounds (80 kilograms). In other words, you could stand or sit on the sprawling leaves (and some have) if you really wanted to.
Across the universe
Marvel at the stunning pink and purple tones of a nebula observed in the Argentine night sky, a reflection of the northern lights in a Canadian lake and swirling clouds of gas on the sun.
These are just some of the cosmic highlights of the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.
Photographers from 67 countries shared their unusual and rare astronomical images for the competition, which is organized by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.
The winning photos will be announced on September 15.
Explorations
Intriguing insights are afoot:
— Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator has fired up for the third time to unlock more secrets of the universe. The Large Hadron Collider will investigate the mysteries of dark matter, an invisible substance that doesn’t absorb, reflect or emit any light.
— Flying insects are rapidly declining in the United Kingdom, but a proposed network of wildflower meadows could provide nectar-rich stepping stones for the country’s tiniest commuters.
— The first five cosmic targets of the James Webb Space Telescope were shared by NASA on Friday, including an exoplanet, stars and faint, distant galaxies. We’ll see the first Webb images Tuesday beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET and experience the awe together.
Like what you’ve read? Oh, but there’s more. Sign up here to receive in your inbox the next edition of Wonder Theory, brought to you by CNN Space and Science writer Ashley Strickland, who finds wonder in planets beyond our solar system and discoveries from the ancient world.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to put in place guidance that prioritizes deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.
The emergency request to the court follows conflicting decisions by federal appeals courts in recent days over a September directive from the Homeland Security Department that paused deportation unless individuals had committed acts of terrorism, espionage or “egregious threats to public safety.”
The federal appeals court in Cincinnati overturned a district judge’s order that put the policy on hold in a lawsuit filed by Arizona, Ohio and Montana.
But in a separate suit filed by Texas and Louisiana, a federal judge in Texas ordered a nationwide halt to the guidance and a federal appellate panel in New Orleans declined to step in.
The administration turned to the Supreme Court in the latter case, asking that the policy be allowed to be put in place nationwide, or at the very least, everywhere outside Texas and Louisiana.
The judge’s order “is disrupting DHS’s efforts to focus its limited resources on the noncitizens who pose the gravest threat to national security, public safety, and the integrity of our Nation’s borders,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in the Supreme Court filing.
The guidance, issued after Joe Biden became president, updated a Trump-era policy that removed people in the country illegally regardless of criminal history or community ties.
Even while disagreeing on many aspects of the immigration issue, the two administrations did find common ground in one respect, calling for the court to limit the power of “single district judges to dictate national policy.”
Prelogar, following her predecessors in the Trump administration, bemoaned an explosion of lawsuits filed by states of one party against a president of the other party. Too many of those suits, she wrote, resulted in orders with nationwide effect. Judges typically decide cases in ways that only affect the parties before them.
The states have until Wednesday to respond, and an order from the Supreme Court is not expected before late next week.
The Biden administration request comes one day after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order authorizing state forces to apprehend migrants and return them to the U.S.-Mexico border, pushing the boundaries of their enforcement powers and the Republican’s escalating efforts to curb the rising number of crossings.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, asked Friday about the order, said “Immigration enforcement is a federal authority and states should not be … meddling in it. That is just, especially Texas Gov. Abbott, who has a track record of causing chaos and confusion at the border.”
It remained unclear Friday how Abbott’s order would be carried out on the ground or whether any apprehensions or transports had already taken place. Ericka Miller, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the state police agency could not discuss operational specifics.
Customs and Border Protection commissioner Chris Magnus, speaking at a news conference in Washington, said his agency has a shared interest with the Texas DPS and other agencies “in maintaining a safe, orderly, humane immigration process.”
“We stand ready to work with Texas to achieve these goals but the challenge is when any state such as Texas takes unilateral action that just makes it harder for us to do this,” he said. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/administration-seeks-supreme-court-ok-on-deportation-policy/ | 2022-07-09T17:02:40Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/administration-seeks-supreme-court-ok-on-deportation-policy/ | true |
The family of a Palestinian-American reporter killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank lashed out at President Joe Biden in a letter released Friday over his administration’s response to her death.
Relatives of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh expressed “grief, outrage and (a) sense of betrayal,” accusing the U.S. of trying to erase Israel’s responsibility for her death. A U.S. statement earlier this week that said Israeli fire likely killed her but that the May 11 shooting in the West Bank town of Jenin was not intentional.
Fallout from the killing is likely to cast a shadow over Biden’s trip to Israel and the occupied West Bank next week. The family asked Biden to meet with them when he visits the region. The White House declined to comment on the letter or the request for a meeting.
A reconstruction by The Associated Press lent support to Palestinian eyewitnesses who said she was shot by Israeli forces without making a final determination. Investigations by CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as monitoring by the U.N. human rights office, reached similar conclusions.
Israel denies she was deliberately targeted, and says she could have been shot by an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian militant during an exchange of fire. The State Department said in a July 4 statement that the bullet that killed her was too badly damaged to determine who fired it.
The statement said the U.S. had summarized separate investigations by Israel and the Palestinian Authority, concluding that she was likely struck by Israeli fire. But it found “no reason to believe that this was intentional,” saying it was the result of “tragic circumstances.”
The U.S. did not explain how it reached those conclusions or cite evidence to support them.
The Abu Akleh family said “all available evidence” suggests she was deliberately killed by an Israeli soldier and that the administration had “thoroughly failed to meet the bare minimum expectation” of a credible, independent investigation.
“Instead, the United States has been skulking toward the erasure of any wrongdoing by Israeli forces,” they said. “It is as if you expect the world and us to now just move on. Silence would have been better.”
Asked about the letter, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she had not yet seen it and declined to comment on Biden’s travel plans. She said Biden has been closely monitoring the investigation and that senior U.S. officials are in touch with the family.
“We feel their pain. We can’t even imagine what they must be going through,” she said. “We continue to urge cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on next steps and we definitely continue to urge accountability.”
U.S. lawmakers have pressed the administration for an independent investigation into the killing of Abu Akleh, a veteran on-air correspondent for Al Jazeera’s Arabic language service who was widely known and respected across the Arab world.
Abu Akleh, who was 51, had spent a quarter-century reporting on the harsh realities of life under Israeli military rule. Palestinians view her as a martyr to journalism as well as their national cause.
Israeli police drew widespread criticism when they beat mourners and pallbearers at her funeral in Jerusalem on May 14. An Israeli newspaper last month reported that a police investigation found wrongdoing by some of its officers, but said those who supervised the event will not be seriously punished.
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Krauss reported from Ottawa, Ontario. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/family-of-journalist-killed-in-west-bank-lashes-out-at-biden/ | 2022-07-09T17:04:01Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/family-of-journalist-killed-in-west-bank-lashes-out-at-biden/ | true |
The Real Housewives of Orange County are losing two housewives.
Noella Bergener and Dr. Jen Armstrong will be leaving RHOC, they announced Friday on their respective Instagram pages.
Bergener joined the Bravo reality series in season 14 as a guest star and was promoted to main cast member in season 16. Armstrong first appeared in the 15th season before being featured as a main cast member in season 16.
"After a wild season of ups and downs, I will not be returning to The Real Housewives of Orange County," Bergener revealed on her Instagram story. "Thank you to all of the fans for all of the love and support during quite possibly the hardest year of my life."
The lawyer, whose divorce from estranged husband James Bergener was a focal point of the most recent season, is focused on her next chapter post-RHOC: "I am looking forward to brighter skies ahead, and can't wait to share what's next."
Armstrong, who filed for legal separation from husband Ryne Holliday in May, joined Bergener in the "one-and-done" club, taking to Instagram on Friday to express her gratitude for the support she's received following news of her departure.
"I loved opening up about being a working mom on Real Housewives of Orange County. I am so grateful to have had the privilege to talk about my father, my kids, and a real modern relationship on national television. My family and my work are the most important aspects of my life, so I am stepping away from RHOC and focusing on them," Armstrong wrote.
"Thank you to everyone who has reached out in support- especially from the working moms," the cosmetic dermatalogist added. "Women can really have it all if you work for it. I believe in you, and I’ll still be here to chat about it with you ♥️♥️ I love inspiring people to be their best."
"I am forever grateful for the friends I made, and the lovely people at @bravo & @evolutionmedia. Here’s to the next chapter, and I hope you’ll follow along for the journey. There are so many exciting things to come, so stay tuned," Armstrong promised.
The latest season of RHOC also starred Heather Dubrow, Shannon Storms Beador, Gina Kirschenheiter and Emily Simpson, with Nicole James appearing as a friend of the housewives.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Caster Semenya is listed to compete at next week’s world championships in Eugene, Oregon, potentially setting up a surprise return to the big stage for the two-time Olympic champion who is still banned from her favorite race, and still at the heart of one of sport’s most contentious issues.
That issue, whether women with intersex conditions should be allowed to compete in female events, has been bubbling again in recent weeks but will be front and center at Hayward Field — the spiritual home of U.S. track and field — if Semenya runs.
Semenya was listed on Friday for the women’s 5,000 meters, an event she has turned to after being barred from her preferred 800 meters by regulations affecting women with conditions that cause high natural testosterone.
Semenya’s inclusion on a competitor list for Eugene released by World Athletics was unexpected after she didn’t make the qualifying time for the 5,000 and was not included in the South Africa team named this week for the worlds. The 31-year-old Semenya is not expected to win a medal in the 5,000 as her personal best in the long-distance race is well off the world’s leading runners. But her presence will be enough to spark more intrigue.
NBC reported Semenya was moved up onto the list for the worlds after some higher-ranked runners didn’t enter the 5,000. South Africa’s track federation and Semenya’s representatives didn’t immediately respond to requests for clarification.
If she runs, it will be the first time Semenya has appeared at a world championships or Olympics since 2017, when she won her third world title in the 800. She also has two Olympic golds over two laps but has been banned from running in races from 400 meters to one mile since 2019 under rules that exclude women who have an intersex condition called 46,XY difference in sex development.
The rules demand the women affected undergo medical intervention to lower their natural hormone levels to below a certain threshold if they want to run in those races. That’s because World Athletics says high testosterone gives DSD athletes an unfair advantage in female races. Semenya and other runners who fall under the rules have declined to lower their natural testosterone and have been forced to compete in other unregulated events for the last three years.
While Semenya has been the face of the testosterone battle for over a decade, and recently began to speak about her experiences, she’s not the only athlete affected by the DSD rules. Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi, a silver medalist behind Semenya in the 800 at the 2016 Olympics, has also been forced to change to the 5,000 meters. Niyonsaba is also listed to run in the 5,000 in Eugene, and is a medal contender, meaning that event will likely draw huge attention.
Two other athletes, Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi, were last year banned from the 400 meters because of high natural testosterone. Both teenagers, they changed to the 200 meters at the Tokyo Olympics, their first major event, and shocked when Mboma won the silver medal and Masilingi finished sixth in the final. Mboma will miss the worlds with injury but Masilingi will compete in the 200 again.
Semenya’s reappearance at a worlds would come just as athletics authorities are considering more changes to their DSD regulations that might go so far as to completely exclude women athletes with 46,XY DSD and high natural testosterone from all female events at major meets.
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has said it will discuss both its transgender and DSD regulations at the end of the year, a move possibly sparked by swimming banning transgender women from female events last month.
The transgender and DSD issues are different but often have crossover because they both deal with the same basic question: If high natural testosterone — higher than the typical female range — gives transgender women and DSD athletes an unfair advantage in female sport?
Semenya is not transgender. She was assigned female at birth, raised as a girl and identifies as a woman. She has never publicly identified herself as intersex — that is, having both male and female traits — or as having the 46,XY DSD condition. However, she essentially acknowledged having the condition by appealing the DSD rules at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2018. She lost that case and a second appeal, and is pursuing a third challenge against the rules at the European Court of Human Rights.
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AVON, Ind. — Members of the staff at Chick-fil-A in Avon are looking for the owner of a furry friend.
The store posted on its Facebook page Wednesday that one of their customers left the sweet bear in their playground.
“Someone’s sweet little bear was left in the playground,” the post read, “We have fed him lunch but he’s ready to be home.”
Three days later, the bear still has not been claimed however many are sharing the Facebook post so Teddy can find his way home safely.
Dear Teddy’s owner, don’t worry, he is enjoying his vacation and some chicken nugs. | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/avon-chick-fil-a-looking-for-owner-of-lost-teddy-bear/ | 2022-07-09T17:09:01Z | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/avon-chick-fil-a-looking-for-owner-of-lost-teddy-bear/ | false |
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(Motor Authority) — Toyota is set to reveal a redesigned version of its Crown sedan on July 15, and the automaker has released the first teaser shot.
The teaser shot shows a design similar to what we saw in patent drawings depicting a high-riding Toyota sedan (or possibly hatchback), which surfaced in June.
On a microsite for the redesigned Crown, Toyota poses the questions, “Sedan?” and “SUV?” and then ends with the statement, “Discover your Crown.” This suggests there will be more than one body style to choose from.
Further confusing the matter, Reuters reported in April that Toyota will unveil a redesigned Crown this summer, followed by a Crown SUV a year later. The SUV will reportedly include hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions that will be exported to the U.S. and China beginning in mid-2023. An electric version of the Crown SUV is also reportedly planned, but it may not be sold in the U.S.
Toyota introduced the Crown nameplate in 1955, on its first passenger car developed and built entirely in Japan. The nameplate is currently into its 15th generation and features on a large sedan closely related to the Toyota Mirai and Lexus LS. The Crown is currently not offered in the U.S., but elsewhere it serves as Toyota’s mainstream flagship (the automaker also has the exclusive Century sedan that sells for Bentley money). | https://www.yourbasin.com/automotive/new-toyota-crown-to-debut-july-15/ | 2022-07-09T17:14:39Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/automotive/new-toyota-crown-to-debut-july-15/ | true |
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WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Friends, neighbors and dignitaries paid their respects Saturday to the family of Eduardo Uvaldo, one of the seven people who were killed in the attack on a July Fourth parade near Chicago.
Uvaldo, who would have turned 70 on Friday, was a native of Mexico who first moved to the United States when he was 15. In an obituary, he was remembered for his love of his large family — he was survived by his wife, Maria, four daughters, four siblings, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
“He was funny, charming, handsome, caring, and most importantly loving,” his obituary read. “His presence brought happiness to each family member.”
Outside the visitation at The Memorial Chapel of Waukegan, attendee Lilia Cervantes told reporters that she had known Uvaldo for 20 years and had worked with him for 11 years.
“It’s a very difficult time for family and co-workers,” she said in Spanish. “He was very kind.”
Among those who paid their respects Saturday were Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Lieutenant Gov. Juliana Stratton, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering and Highland Park's police chief, Lou Jogmen.
Uvaldo died Wednesday at an Evanston hospital from wounds suffered during the attack on the parade.
Separate funerals were held Friday for three of the other victims — 63-year-old Jacquelyn Sundheim, 88-year-old Stephen Straus and 78-year-old Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, who, like Uvaldo, was from Waukegan, a city north of Highland Park along the Lake Michigan coast.
Funeral details for the others killed in the attack haven't been made public. Authorities have identified them as 64-year-old Katherine “Katie” Goldstein and a married couple, 35-year-old Irina McCarthy and 37-year-old Kevin McCarthy, who were attending the parade with their 2-year-old son.
Police say the victims were shot at random and that the assailant had no racial or religious motivation.
Robert E. Crimo III has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors expect to bring more charges representing the more than 30 people were wounded in the attack.
Investigators have said Crimo, of neighboring Highwood, legally purchased five weapons and planned the attack for weeks before he climbed onto the roof of a business along the parade route and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle.
Investigators reported that Crimo fled the parade by blending in with the fleeing crowd, then drove to the Madison, Wisconsin, area, where he contemplated a second attack. He returned to the Highland Park area and his car was spotted by police.
Questions remain about whether Crimo should have been able to legally purchase firearms in Illinois. Illinois State Police officials have defended the approval of his gun license in December 2019, months after police received reports that he had made suicidal and violent threats. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/July-4-parade-attack-victim-remembered-for-love-17294523.php | 2022-07-09T17:15:52Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/July-4-parade-attack-victim-remembered-for-love-17294523.php | true |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces are managing to “raise true hell” in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland despite assessments they were taking an operational pause, a regional governor said Saturday, while another Ukrainian official urged people in Russian-occupied southern areas to evacuate quickly “by all possible means” before a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Deadly Russian shelling was reported in Ukraine’s east and south.
The governor of the eastern Luhansk region, Serhyi Haidai, said Russia launched more than 20 artillery, mortar and rocket strikes on the region overnight and its forces were pressing toward the border with the Donetsk region.
“We are trying to contain the Russians’ armed formations along the entire front line,” Haidai wrote on Telegram.
Last week, Russia captured the last major stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk, the city of Lysychansk. Analysts predicted Moscow’s troops likely would take some time to rearm and regroup.
But “so far, there has been no operational pause announced by the enemy. He is still attacking and shelling our lands with the same intensity as before,” Haidai said. In a later post, he claimed Russian bombardment of Luhansk was suspended because Ukrainian forces had destroyed ammunition depots and barracks used by the Russians.
Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, appealed to residents of Russian-held territories in the south to evacuate so the occupying forces could not use them as human shields during a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“You need to search for a way to leave, because our armed forces are coming to de-occupy,” she said. “There will be a massive fight. I don’t want to scare anyone. Everyone understands all of this anyway.”
Speaking at a news conference late Friday, Vereshchuk said a civilian evacuation effort was underway for parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. She declined to give details, citing safety considerations.
It was not clear how civilians were expected to safely leave Russian-controlled areas while missile strikes and artillery shelling continue in surrounding areas, or whether they would be allowed to depart or even hear the government’s appeal.
The war’s death toll continued to rise.
Five people were killed and eight more wounded in Russian shelling Friday of Siversk and Semyhirya in the Donetsk region, its governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, wrote Saturday on his Telegram channel.
In the city of Sloviansk, named as a likely next target of Russia’s offensive, rescuers said they pulled a 40-year-old man from the rubble of a building destroyed by shelling Saturday. Kyrylenko said multiple people were under the debris.
Russian missiles also killed two people and wounded three others Saturday in the southern city of Kryvyi Rih, according to regional authorities.
“They deliberately targeted residential areas,” Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Telegram. Kryvyi Rih’s mayor, Oleksandr Vilkul, asserted on Facebook that cluster munitions had been used and urged residents not to approach unfamiliar objects in the streets.
Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had been there just the day before to meet with Vilkul and the brigadier general who commands troops in the region. Zelenskyy’s office said he was briefed on the “construction of defensive structures,” the support of the troops, the supply of food and medicine to the city and the conditions provided for people who had fled to Kryvyi Rih after being driven out of their homes elsewhere in Ukraine.
In northeast Ukraine, a Russian rocket strike on Saturday hit the center of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, injuring six people, including a 12-year-old girl, authorities said.
“An Iskander ballistic missile was probably used in the strike,” the Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office said. “One of the missiles hit a two-story building, which led to its destruction. Neighboring houses were damaged.”
The city has been targeted throughout the war, including several times in the past week. As survivor Valentina Mirgorodksaya dabbed at a cut on her cheek, first responders warily inspected the building shattered in Saturday’s strike.
“I don’t know,” Mirgorodksaya said. “I just don’t know.”
Mykolayiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych reported in a Telegram post that six Russian missiles were fired at his city in southern Ukraine, near the Black Sea, but caused no casualties.
Russian defense officials claimed Saturday that their forces destroyed a hangar housing U.S. howitzers in the Donetsk region, near the town of Chasiv Yar. There was no immediate response from Ukraine.
In other developments:
— Ukraine’s national police force said it was opening a criminal investigation into the Russian military’s alleged destruction of crops in the southern Kherson region. In a Telegram post, it accused Russian troops of not allowing residents to put out fires in fields and otherwise sabotaging the harvest.
“Because of the constant shelling, it is extremely difficult to extinguish (field) fires in the de-occupied territories, and in the occupied lands, the Russians deliberately do not allow the extinguishing of fires,” the police force said.
— A civilian woman in separatist-held territory in Luhansk was injured in shelling in the village of Irmino, according to separatist military officials.
— The British Defense Ministry said Russian forces in Ukraine were now being armed with “obsolete or inappropriate equipment,” including MT-LB armored vehicles taken out of long-term storage. The MT-LB entered service in the Soviet military in the 1950s and does not provide the same protection as modern armored vehicles. The Russians also have brought Cold War-era tanks out of storage.
“While MT-LBS have previously been in service in support roles on both sides, Russia long considered them unsuitable for most frontline infantry transport roles,” the British ministry said on Twitter.
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Associated Press journalists across Ukraine contributed.
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MEXICO CITY — Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, blamed for massacres in Mexico half a century ago, has died at the age of 100, current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Saturday.
In his Twitter account, López Obrador sent condolences to Echeverria’s family and friends “in the name of the government of Mexico,” but did not express any personal sadness about the death. López Obrador did not provide a cause of death for Echeverria, who governed Mexico from 1970 to 1976.
Echeverria had been hospitalized for pulmonary problems in 2018.
In 2005, a judge ruled Echeverria could not be tried on genocide charges stemming from a 1971 student massacre depicted in the Oscar-winning movie “Roma.”
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The judge ruled that Echeverria may have been responsible for homicide, but could not be tried because the statute of limitations for that crime expired in 1985.
In 1971, students set out from a teacher’s college just west of the city center for one of the first large-scale protests since hundreds of demonstrators were killed in a far larger massacre in 1968. They didn’t get more than a few blocks before they were set upon by plainclothes thugs.
The main female characters in “Roma” are depicted as incidental witnesses to the slaughter when they go to buy baby furniture at a store near the scene. Unwittingly they run across the protagonist’s sometime boyfriend, who is depicted as participating in the repression.
“Roma” won the Oscar for best foreign language film.
Echeverria had battled respiratory and neurological difficulties in recent years.
In 2004, he became the first former Mexican head of state formally accused of criminal wrongdoing. Prosecutors linked Echeverria to the country’s so-called “dirty war” in which hundreds of leftist activists and members of fringe guerrilla groups were imprisoned, killed, or simply disappeared without a trace.
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A motion filed by special prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo asked a judge to issue an arrest warrant against Echeverria on genocide charges in the two student massacres: first for the 1968 killings at the Tlatelolco plaza, when Echeverria was interior secretary.
On Oct. 2 1968, a few weeks before the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, government sharpshooters opened fire on student protesters and army troops in the Tlatelolco plaza, leading soldiers to open fire. Estimates of the dead have ranged from 25 to more than 300. Echeverria had denied any participation in the attacks.
According to military reports, at least 360 government snipers were placed on buildings surrounding the protesters.
In March 2009, a federal court in Mexico upheld a lower court’s ruling that Echeverria did not have to face genocide charges for his alleged involvement in the 1968 student massacre, and ordered his absolute freedom.
Born on Jan. 17, 1922, in Mexico City, Echeverria received a law degree from Mexico’s Autonomous National University in 1945.
Shortly afterward, he began his political career with the then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. He later held posts in the navy and Education Department, advanced to chief administrative officer of the PRI and organized the presidential campaign of Adolfo Lopez Mateos, who served as Mexico’s leader from 1958-64.
In 1964, under then-President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Echeverria was rewarded with the position of interior secretary, overseeing domestic security. He held that position in 1968, when the government cracked down on student pro-democracy protests, apparently worried they would embarrass Mexico as the host of the Olympics that year.
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Echeverria left the interior post in November 1969, when he became the PRI’s presidential candidate.
He won that race, and was sworn in on Dec. 1, 1970, supporting the regimes of Cuba’s Fidel Castro and leftist Salvador Allende in Chile.
After Allende was assassinated in 1973 during a bloody coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Echeverria opened Mexico’s borders to Chileans fleeing Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Echeverria traveled the world promoting himself as a leader and friend of leftist governments. But within Mexico, he was developing a reputation for cracking down on dissent and guerrilla groups.
Mexican prosecutors allege that Echeverria ordered an elite force of plain-clothes state fighters known as the “Halcones,” or “Falcons,” to attack suspected government enemies. It was that group that participated in the beating or shooting deaths of 12 people during the student demonstration on June 10, 1971.
Despite decades of calls by activists and opposition politicians for justice, Echeverria never spent a day in jail, though he was briefly declared under a form of house arrest. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/09/metro/ex-president-mexico-luis-echeverria-dies-100/ | 2022-07-09T17:25:11Z | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/09/metro/ex-president-mexico-luis-echeverria-dies-100/ | false |
ELBA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Did you buy a Mega Millions ticket from Crosby’s on South Main Street in Elba? $1 million could be yours.
The New York State lottery confirmed one second-prize ticket from the July 8 Mega Millions drawing was purchased at Crosby’s at 64 South Main St. in Elba.
The magic numbers were 20-36-61-62-69.
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(The Hill) – Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said that a “friend” who was in the White House during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot told him that Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows was experiencing “a little bit of both” incompetence and a “nervous breakdown” as the event unfolded.
During an interview with CBS Friday, Mulvaney said that he trusts testimony that Meadows’ former top aide Cassidy Hutchinson gave to the House committee investigating the attack. Hutchinson described Meadows to lawmakers as disengaged.
Mulvaney said he was texting with a friend who was in the West Wing on Jan. 6 as Hutchinson was testifying.
“I said, if I listen to Cassidy closely, it sounds like Mark was either completely incompetent at the job or having a nervous breakdown, and the person texted back it was a little bit of both,” Mulvaney said.
He said the position of chief of staff was “critical” in a moment like the insurrection, but Meadows seems to have “checked out entirely.”
Mulvaney said he defended former President Trump for more than a year, arguing that his actions on that day were not criminal, but Hutchinson’s testimony changed his view of the situation.
Hutchinson testified at a last-minute hearing late last month that was scheduled after the committee had announced a planned break from public hearings until July.
During the hearing, she told the committee that Trump was aware that some rally attendees at the Ellipse, before the insurrection, were armed. She also said Trump insisted on going to the Capitol along with his supporters.
She claimed that the former president tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle to change course.
Mulvaney said Friday he knows Hutchinson, and she has “no reason to lie.”
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chair of the committee, also showed text messages toward the end of the hearing that indicated Trump may have engaged in witness intimidation.
Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone received a subpoena from the committee in the aftermath of Hutchinson’s testimony. He spoke to the committee Friday.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer after the meeting that Cipollone did not contradict anything that other witnesses said but added that “not contradicting is not the same as confirming.”
The Hill has reached out to Meadows for comment through America First Legal, a nonprofit organization led by former Trump administration officials. Meadows serves as a board member of the organization. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/mulvaney-white-house-friend-said-mark-meadows-was-incompetent-had-nervous-breakdown-on-jan-6/ | 2022-07-09T17:35:45Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/mulvaney-white-house-friend-said-mark-meadows-was-incompetent-had-nervous-breakdown-on-jan-6/ | true |
Two Iowa police officers are taking the unusual move of suing six people who participated in a 2020 protest in Des Moines after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, accusing them of assault.
All six people were arrested during the July 1, 2020, protest, and five already pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of assault on a police officer and/or interference with official acts. One of them, Indira Sheumaker, was later elected to the Des Moines City Council.
The lawsuit, first reported by Axios Des Moines, was filed by Peter Wilson and Jeffrey George as individuals and not as representatives of the Des Moines Police Department. They are seeking an unspecified amount for actual and punitive damages.
It will likely be met with skepticism by the court, said Robert Bloom, a professor at Boston College Law School, who noted that the claims of assault and battery appear to be applying criminal complaints to a civil action.
Experts also note that Iowa is among several states that have adopted what’s known as the “fireman’s rule,” which holds that firefighting and policing are inherently dangerous jobs and generally bars emergency responders from suing or collecting damages for injuries that occur in the course of their duties. The rule typically includes some exceptions — such as gross negligence of a property owner or if injury was caused by willful, wanton or intentional action.
The protest was among demonstrations against racism and police brutality that erupted worldwide following Floyd's killing. It began as a rally at the Iowa State Capitol to push for the restored voting rights to felons and turned violent as police led away arrested protesters.
Des Moines protesters have said police escalated tensions and were heavy-handed in their handling of arrests.
The suit describes protesters’ actions as “nothing short of domestic terrorism.”
No charges related to the protest were found against one of the lawsuit defendants in online court records. Only one person was sentenced to jail time — four days — while the others received probation, fines or both.
One person named in the suit, Brad Penna of Des Moines, said he thinks it's intended to “intimidate, function as a scare tactic, and to retaliate” against protesters who fought back against what they saw as unjust police aggression.
Penna was originally charged by police with assault on an officer, but that was dropped when he pleaded guilty to interference of officials' acts and paid a $250 fine. Penna was among five protesters who later successfully sued the state after the Iowa State Patrol banned them from State Capitol grounds.
The officers' lawsuit accuses Penna of pulling on Wilson’s hands and arms to prevent an arrest, causing scrapes and bruises to the officer — an accusation Penna denies.
“I did not touch Pete Wilson, or any officer, and the video footage and evidence shows that,” Penna said Thursday in an email to The Associated Press. “I urged and yelled at Pete Wilson to get off a young Black woman’s head. That was it. Someone may have scratched him, but it wasn’t me. I did not hurt Pete Wilson, not to mention the comparison to protesters literally being thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and the like.”
Des Moines attorney Mark Hedberg, who represents Wilson and George, did not return repeated phone messages left by the AP seeking comment.
Other defendants named in the lawsuit either could not be reached for comment or did not return messages seeking comment. That includes Sheumaker, who pleaded guilty in 2021 to a reduced misdemeanor count of assault on a police officer and was sentenced to two years’ probation.
Later that year, Sheumaker was elected to the City Council on a platform that focused, in part, on police reform.
Bloom, the Boston College Law School professor, wondered if the officers' lawsuit wasn't more about airing grievances over the Des Moines Black Lives Matter organization, which is mentioned throughout the complaint, though it is not named as a defendant.
Bloom said he doesn’t expect to see more such lawsuits by police seeking damages from people they arrest.
“The police already have a remedy in this case, and the remedy is to charge criminally,” Bloom said.
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Omer Yurtseven already showed as a rookie Miami Heat center last year that he could dominate the summer-league portion of the equation.
So while the quadriceps and leg soreness that kept him out of Saturday’s Las Vegas Summer League opener against the Boston Celtics on the UNLV campus was disappointing, the 6-foot-11 big man knows what matters most can’t be accomplished in the desert.
Anything substantive when it comes to playing time only can come when he shows he can play alongside Heat starting center Bam Adebayo.
Which makes that, at the soonest, an issue for training camp and the preseason.
“I think that the stretch that I had last year was very solid and I was dominant in certain games,” Yurtseven said, “but I think it’s just us playing and having some time together.
“I think it’s just seeing us play and dominate the boards and just pretty much dominating all around is going to convince him that we’re going to be a lethal force.”
That’s “him” as in coach Erik Spoelstra, who is in attendance for these games in Las Vegas.
At minimum, should Yurtseven make it to the court from the soreness accumulated from competing last week with the Turkish national team, it could be interesting to see how often the summer coaching staff plays him alongside another true big man.
“Summer league helped me get better, helped me be just a level above and unlock myself and have that confidence,” Yurtseven said of his offseason breakout a year ago. “And this year’s is the same, and improve and jump another level, and use every game.
“Playing the game time is the real fire that you want to be in, to just take that next step, take the leap every game.”
Beyond Saturday’s game, the Heat have four remaining in Las Vegas, a schedule that resumes Tuesday against the summer roster of the Atlanta Hawks. In the interim, Yurtseven will meet with the Heat medical staff, who are in town for the NBA’s annual convention of team physicians.
Regardless, Heat summer-league coach Malik Allen said the time alongside teammates and the staff is time well spent.
“Just talking to him,” Allen said, “I said, ‘You’ve been through it last year. You played in games, played well in games. You’re a Heat guy.’ So just being here and being a part of this is beneficial for us and it’s beneficial for him just to be around, and for the other guys. Put your foot into talking to these guys, just like guys spoke to you and talked to you and helped you along.
“It’s just a pretty cool thing we do and that we have with so many guys from before. And just make sure you’re a part of it. You’re here, just be part of it.”
Allen said a cautious approach was prudent.
“I just know he got banged up, came out of the game. He tried to work out and it was just tight,” he said of Turkey’s victory last weekend over Great Britain. “So we’ll just see how it goes, see what the doc says. And just kind of take it day by day from there.”
Yurtseven knows what he wants, after crossing the Atlantic.
“I do want to play and that’s the reason I’m here,” he said.
Last season, when Adebayo missed seven weeks due to thumb surgery, Yurtseven got to experience NBA life as a leading man. During an 11-game stretch bridging December and January, he pulled down at least 12 rebounds in each outing, the longest such streak in franchise history, and became the first NBA rookie to grab 12 rebounds in at least 11 straight since Blake Griffin in 2010-11. Also, he amassed at least 16 rebounds in four straight games in January, becoming the first rookie to accomplish that since Larry Smith in 1980-81.
Action this week could provide such a taste again.
“I think it’s the freedom that it gives more than anything,” he said of playing summer league. “You have the green light, and being able to have that confidence, going into the game just being focused.”
No matter when the return comes, Allen, as the big-man coach on Spoelstra’s staff, knows what has to come next.
“He just needs to work on the finishing and getting a little bit more more efficient, which I think throughout the course of the year he did,” Allen said. “But I think the big thing with him is just an opportunity to continue to play is what he really, really needs.
“I think a lot of things fall into place for him. Getting him to play at our level, an intensity level where he can continue to keep growing, that’s really what he needs. It’s not like a summer checklist of two to three things skills-wise.”
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Iran arrests activist on state security charges
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iranian authorities arrested an outspoken pro-reform activist, saying he conspired to act against state security, semi-official media in Iran reported Saturday.
The arrest is the latest in a wave of detentions against the backdrop of escalating tensions with the West and Tehran´s rapid advancement of its nuclear work, while talks to revive the landmark 2015 atomic accord remain at a standstill.
The semi-official Fars news agency said activist Mostafa Tajzadeh was taken into custody on Friday afternoon and charged with "gathering (to protest) and conspiracy to act against the country´s security."
Tajzadeh is a well-known activist who has criticized the country´s top leader and high-ranking officials. He spent years in prison following the disputed 2009 re-election of Iran´s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the turmoil that ensued.
Meanwhile, Tehran chief prosecutor Ali Salehi was quoted by the judiciary´s Mizan news agency on Saturday as endorsing the latest arrests and saying that activities of those detained "created divisions" that led to "incitement in the media and society."
On Friday, the state-run IRNA news agency reported the arrests of two filmmakers over an appeal they posted on social media, accusing them of links with opposition groups based outside the country and plotting to undermine state security.
Award-wining filmmaker Mohamad Rasoulof and colleague Mostafa Al-Ahmad were taken into custody for posting a statement on social media urging members of the Iranian security forces to lay down their weapons. At least 70 Iranian filmmakers and movie industry workers had signed the appeal.
The hashtag #put_your_gun_down is a reference to the violent crackdown during the unrest following a building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan that killed at least 41 people earlier this year. The May 23 collapse dredged up painful memories of past national disasters and triggered protests in Abadan during which police clubbed demonstrators and fired tear gas.
Over the past months, there have been protests in Iran over price hikes and the slashing of subsidies by the government. Also, teachers gathered for weeks, demanding better pay and working condition.
Memories are also fresh of Iran´s fuel price hike in November 2019, when widespread protests - the most violent since the creation of the Islamic Republic in 1979 - rocked the country.
Iran has also detained a number of Europeans in recent months, including two French citizens and a Swedish tourist, as it seeks to gain leverage in the nuclear negotiations.
Dual nationals and those with Western ties have also been arrested, often on widely criticized espionage charges, to be used as bargaining chips in the negotiations. Tehran denies using detainees to further its political aims.
Talks to revive Tehran´s tattered nuclear deal with world powers have stalled for months. A recent effort to break the deadlock between U.S. and Iranian negotiators ended without making progress in Qatar. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10998179/Iran-arrests-activist-state-security-charges.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-09T18:10:23Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10998179/Iran-arrests-activist-state-security-charges.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man has been indicted on a murder charge a year after a former Mississippi lawmaker was shot to death while she was doing yard work in a rural area where her sister-in-law had died.
Republican former state Rep. Ashley Henley, 40, was killed in June 2021 outside the burned-out mobile home where her sister-in-law, Kristina Michelle Jones, was found dead in December 2020.
Henley and other relatives contended Yalobusha County authorities were doing too little to examine possible criminal charges in Jones’ death. Relatives erected a homemade sign at the site with photos of Jones under the phrase, “I was murdered.”
Yalobusha County coroner Ronnie Stark said Henley had been mowing grass at the home site before she was killed.
A man who had lived near Jones, Billy Lamar Brooks, was indicted in February on a charge of maliciously setting fire to the home of Jones and Terry Henley. Court records show that on June 30, a grand jury filed a new indictment against Brooks to add a murder charge in the death of Ashley Henley.
The Associated Press reached Brooks’ attorney, Bradley Peeples, by phone Saturday and he declined to comment on the case.
Court records show Brooks made a court appearance Thursday, and Circuit Judge Smith Murphey set his bond at $250,000. Brooks remained in the Yalobusha County jail on Saturday, according to the jail docket. His age and current address were not available.
After Ashley Henley was killed, investigators said her body had been found on June 13, 2021. The indictment of Brooks accuses him of killing her on or about June 14, 2021.
Ashley Henley served in the Mississippi House from 2016 to 2020 in a district in DeSoto County, about 70 miles (115 kilometers) north of where she was killed.
Henley was a teacher before she was elected to office, and she often took her young son to the state Capitol during legislative sessions.
Henley sought a second term in November 2019 and lost by 14 votes to a Democrat. She challenged the election results, saying she believed she had found some voting irregularities. A bipartisan House committee held a public hearing on her challenge and unanimously dismissed her request for a new election. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-indicted-in-shooting-death-of-ex-Mississippi-17294561.php | 2022-07-09T18:10:46Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-indicted-in-shooting-death-of-ex-Mississippi-17294561.php | false |
ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — An armed robber took more than food from a Wendy’s in Florida after climbing through the drive-thru window, according to police.
The Orlando Police Department posted surveillance video online showing the events of the robbery on June 18.
Police said the incident occurred around 7:50 a.m. that morning, after the suspect pulled up to the drive-thru of the Orlando Wendy’s in a black Nissan Altima.
After getting to the window, the man driving the car threatened an employee with a gun. The video shows the employee try to close the window and walk away, but the man climbs through the window and takes the entire cash drawer before driving away.
The suspect had still not been apprehended as of this week, Orlando police said on Facebook.
The man was said to be wearing a straw hat, a gray SPF mask, a hooded shirt, shorts, and water shoes at the time of the robbery.
Anyone with information on the crime is urged to call 800-423-TIPS. Tipsters may also be eligible for a $1,000 reward, police said. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/video-gunman-in-straw-hat-climbs-through-wendys-drive-thru-window-steals-cash-drawer/ | 2022-07-09T18:11:43Z | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/video-gunman-in-straw-hat-climbs-through-wendys-drive-thru-window-steals-cash-drawer/ | true |
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. — The boat of a North Carolina man missing for seven months has washed ashore in the Azores Islands, thousands of miles from the marina where it was last seen, officials announced Monday.
Joseph Matthew Johnson has not been found, but Carolina Beach police said that authorities in the Azores said a boat registered to his name washed up last week on the small island of São Jorge, some 2,700 miles across the ocean.
Johnson was last seen leaving Federal Point Yacht Club marina on Nov. 22 on his boat, police said. The 44-year-old Carolina Beach resident was reported missing five days later by a friend who arrived in town for a previously arranged fishing trip, police said.
Video surveillance from Nov. 22 shows the boat leaving the marina where he lived and the last ping from Johnson’s cellphone was from off the coast of Bald Head Island at 5:17 p.m. that same day, Sgt. Colby Edens said by telephone Monday.
The U.S. Coast Guard’s search for Johnson in November covered nearly 7,500 square miles, but it was suspended when no new information was found, news outlets reported.
When the boat was found June 21, it had a heavy buildup of barnacles and algae, indicating that it had been capsized at sea for quite some time, Edens said.
Portuguese authorities are helping the Carolina Beach police department as they gather evidence and continue their search for Johnson.
Johnson’s mother, Mary Kay Anderson, said his family is confident he will be found alive, The StarNews reported. The retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier served for 24 years with tours in Afghanistan and South America, so Anderson believes he has skills to survive in dangerous conditions and elements.
“It’s not just hope,” Anderson said. “We know he’s alive and are praying for his miraculous rescue.” | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/28/missing-north-carolina-mans-boat-found-in-azores/ | 2022-07-09T18:14:27Z | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/28/missing-north-carolina-mans-boat-found-in-azores/ | false |
LONDON (AP) — A British Cabinet minister tipped to be a frontrunner in the Conservative Party’s leadership race ruled himself out of the contest Saturday.
Defense Minister Ben Wallace said after “careful consideration” and discussion with colleagues and family, he will not be running to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and the country’s next prime minister.
Wallace was seen by some as the favorite choice among Conservative party members in what’s set to be a wide open leadership race following Johnson’s resignation announcement on Thursday.
Johnson quit as party leader after months of insisting he would stay in the job despite mounting ethics scandals. He said he would stay on as prime minister until the party chooses his successor.
Former chancellor Rishi Sunak, the best-known of the leadership contenders and regarded as the bookmakers’ favorite to win, launched his bid on Friday. Sunak resigned on Tuesday, kicking off a mass exodus of government officials that toppled Johnson.
Attorney General Suella Braverman, lawmaker Tom Tugendhat and former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch have also thrown their hat into the ring, and more announcements are expected over the coming days.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi and trade minister Penny Mordaunt are widely expected to run, as are former health secretaries Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt.
Wallace said his decision wasn’t “an easy choice to make, but my focus is on my current job and keeping this great country safe.”
Conservative party officials on Monday are expected to set out the timetable for a leadership contest, with the aim of having a winner by the end of the summer. The two-step process involves Tory lawmakers voting to reduce the field of candidates to two, who will go to a ballot of all party members.
Johnson’s resignation marked the end of three tumultuous years that saw the divisive leader fend off numerous scandals and a Conservative leadership challenge. For months, he managed to cling on to power despite allegations that he protected supporters from bullying and corruption allegations, and that he misled Parliament about government office parties that broke COVID-19 lockdown rules.
But his handling of allegations about a senior politician who had been accused of sexual misconduct proved the last straw for many Conservatives, who this week openly revolted and forced him out of office.
Johnson remains in office to head a caretaker administration, but many Conservatives don’t want a lame-duck leader — especially amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis triggered by soaring food and energy prices.
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(KTLA) – Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, is set to debut its much-anticipated — and record-breaking — Wonder Woman roller coaster next week.
The ride, called Wonder Woman Flight of Courage, is scheduled to open Saturday, July 16.
Before boarding, those waiting in the Greek-inspired ride queue will be treated to immersive storytelling and a deep dive of the comic book heroine’s history and greatest accomplishments.
Riders on Flight of Courage will be treated to an immersive experience upon stepping into the ride queue, which was “influenced by Greek architecture,” according to Six Flags. Once on the ride, guests can expect steep climbs, an intense 87-degree drop and three inversions while reaching speeds of up to 58 mph along the coaster’s 3,300-foot track.
The coaster will propel riders as high as 131 feet in the air, but it will also launch Magic Mountain into uncharted territory: Flight of Courage will become the tallest and longest single-rail coaster on the planet upon its debut, park officials said.
The coaster is located in Magic Mountain’s six-acre DC Universe area, already the site of Batman: The Ride and several other DC Comics-themed attractions. Upon its debut, Wonder Woman Flight of Courage will become Magic Mountain’s 20th roller coaster — the most of any single theme park in the world.
The opening of Wonder Woman Flight of Courage comes only one month after Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey debuted its Jersey Devil Coaster, which was also billed as the longest and tallest single-rail coaster in the world. The new Wonder Woman ride, however, is one foot taller and features 300 more feet of track.
In addition to opening up Flight of Courage, DC Universe at Magic Mountain is currently undergoing expansion and remodeling to add new immersive elements, retail spaces and an “innovative restaurant and bar experience,” Six Flags said. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/six-flags-in-california-to-debut-record-breaking-wonder-woman-coaster/ | 2022-07-09T18:30:40Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/six-flags-in-california-to-debut-record-breaking-wonder-woman-coaster/ | false |
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