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Scott Denning, Colorado State University
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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.
Is it possible to heal the damage we have already done to the Earth? – Anthony, age 13
Sometimes it may seem that humans have altered the Earth beyond repair. But our planet is an incredible system in which energy, water, carbon and so much else flows and nurtures life. It is about 4.5 billion years old and has been through enormous changes.
At some points in Earth’s history, fires burned over large areas. At others, much of it was covered with ice. There also have been mass extinctions that wiped out nearly every living thing on its surface.
Our living planet is incredibly resilient and can heal itself over time. The problem is that its self-healing systems are very, very slow. The Earth will be fine, but humans’ problems are more immediate.
People have damaged the systems that sustain us in many ways. We have polluted air and water, strewn plastic and other trash on land and in oceans and rivers, and destroyed habitats for plants and animals.
But we know how to help natural processes clean up many of these messes. And there has been a lot of progress since people started waking up to these problems 50 years ago.
There still are problems to solve. Some pollutants, like plastic, last for thousands of years, so it’s much better to stop releasing them than to try to collect them later. And extinction is permanent, so the only effective way to reduce it is to be more careful about protecting animals, plants and other species.
Reversing climate change
The most serious damage humans are doing to the Earth comes mainly from burning coal, oil and gas, which is dramatically warming its climate. Burning these carbon-based fuels is changing the fundamental chemistry and physics of the air and oceans.
Every lump of coal or gallon of gasoline that’s burned releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. There it heats the Earth’s surface, causing floods, fires and droughts. Some of this added carbon dioxide dissolves into the oceans and makes them more acidic, which threatens ocean food webs.
Climate change is a problem that will get worse until humans stop making it worse – and then it will take many centuries for the climate to return to what it was like before the Industrial Revolution, when human actions started altering it on a large scale.
The only way to avoid making things worse is to stop setting carbon on fire. That means societies need to work hard to build an energy system that can help everyone live well without the need to burn carbon.
The good news is that we know how to make energy without releasing carbon dioxide and other pollution. Electricity made from solar, wind and geothermal power is now the cheapest energy in history. Cleaning up the global electricity supply and then electrifying everything can very quickly stop carbon pollution from getting worse.
This will require electric cars and trains, electric heating and cooking, and electric factories. We’ll also need new kinds of transmission and storage systems to get all that clean electricity from where it’s made to where it’s used.
The rest of the carbon mess can be cleaned up through better farm and forest management that stores carbon in land and plants instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. This is also a problem that scientists know how to solve.
The Earth will certainly heal, but it may take a very long time. The best way to start is with everyone doing their part to avoid making the damage any worse.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man has again been convicted of carrying out the fatal shooting of another man outside a central Kansas City gas station.
A judge on Friday found Timothy Fernandez, 45, guilty of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the February 2019 death of 40-year-old Michael Bryan in the city’s Crossroads District, television station WDAF reported.
Police have said surveillance video showed the two men briefly speaking before Bryan walked away. The video then shows Fernandez shooting Bryan in the back, police said. Investigators used DNA gathered from a tissue discarded by the shooter to link Fernandez to the killing, and police said a backpack found nearby contained an item with Fernandez's fingerprints and ammunition that matched a bullet that hit Bryan.
In 2020, Fernandez was found guilty of the same counts in Bryan's shooting, but was granted a motion for a new trial. Fernandez will be sentenced at a later date. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Man-again-convicted-of-Kansas-City-gas-station-17087805.php | 2022-04-18T14:05:50 | en | 0.96041 |
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LONDON (AP) — British police say a 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he confronted military police in central London with a knife.
The Metropolitan Police force says no one was injured in the Monday morning incident, which is not being treated as terrorism.
Police say a man armed with a knife confronted two Ministry of Defense Police officers at Horse Guards Parade, a military parade ground surrounded by government buildings that is close to Parliament and the prime minister’s official residence.
Police officers used a Taser and restrained the suspect, the force said. He was being held at a London police station on suspicion of attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Man-with-knife-confronts-London-police-is-17087800.php | 2022-04-18T14:05:56 | en | 0.978786 |
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GRANTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Three people were injured when a small airplane crashed in a wooded area of Maryland on Saturday, police said.
The Baltimore Sun reports that a 62-year-old man, a 50-year-old woman and 15-year-old girl were taken to a hospital to be treated for their injuries after the 1966 Piper single-engine, fixed-wing plane crashed in Garrett County just after 8 p.m.
The injured man, who was the pilot, told investigators that the plane iced over and caused him to lose control of the aircraft while he was flying at about 11,000 feet.
The plane had departed Wabash, Indiana, and was planning to land at Martin State Airport in Baltimore County. The pilot is a Baltimore resident.
Maryland State Police troopers responded to the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Police-3-injured-in-small-plane-crash-in-17087700.php | 2022-04-18T14:06:02 | en | 0.982178 |
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The main runway at Portland International Jetport closed Monday for a $13.7 million project that involves repaving and installation of new LED lighting.
The 56-day closure required flight operations to shift to a secondary runway on Monday, causing a change in air traffic patterns over Portland, South Portland, Scarborough and Westbrook, officials said.
The airport’s instrument landing system will be down, which could lead to flight delays or cancellations in times of low visibility, officials said.
The period when the intersection between the two runways is repaved from May 16 to June 13 will result in reduced hours of operation, with no flights after 10:30 p.m. and 5:45 a.m.
Workers have begun the process of removing electrical components and removing runway asphalt. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Portland-airport-s-main-runway-shut-down-for-17087806.php | 2022-04-18T14:06:08 | en | 0.947464 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Easter Egg Roll is back for the first time since before the coronavirus pandemic.
Under rainy skies Monday, President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, were hosting some 30,000 kids and adults for an event the first lady has dubbed the “egg-ucation roll.”
Jill Biden tweeted that Monday would be a “magical, EGGucation-filled day.”
The COVID-19 pandemic led the White House to cancel the egg roll in 2020 and 2021. But the egg roll is back this year, as the outbreak of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths has eased.
And the first lady, who is a community college professor, has turned the South Lawn into a school community with a variety of educational stations.
Besides the egg roll and an egg hunt, the all-day event includes a schoolhouse activity area, a reading nook, a talent show, a place to teach about farming, a photo-taking station, a physical “egg-ucation” zone with an obstacle course, and a “cafetorium” where children will learn to make treats.
“Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon, singer Ciara and actor-singer Kristin Chenoweth will add a dash of celebrity splash to the “egg-stravaganza.”
More than two dozen costumed characters will also be on hand, including Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat, the Racing Presidents mascots for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball, Rosita and Cookie Monster from “Sesame Street” and Snoopy and Charlie Brown, among others.
The event kicked off at around 7 a.m., with the first of five waves of people, including kids wearing their Easter best, streaming through the White House gates.
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Michael A. Allen, Boise State University and Matthew DiGiuseppe, Leiden University
(THE CONVERSATION) Russia may be on the cusp of its first default on its foreign debt since the Bolsheviks ousted Czar Nicholas II a century ago.
On April 14, 2022, Moody’s Investors Service warned the country’s decision to make payments on dollar-issued debt in rubles would constitute a default because it violates the terms of the contract. A 30-day grace period allows Russia until May 4 to convert the payments to dollars to avoid default.
A default is one of the clearest signals that the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and other countries are having their intended effect on the Russian economy. But will it have any impact on Russia’s ability to wage war in Ukraine?
We asked Michael Allen and Matthew DiGiuseppe, both experts on political economy and conflict, to explain the consequences of default and what it would mean for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war.
Why did Russia default on its debt?
The Russian government has a total of US$40 billion worth of debt in dollars and euros, half of which is owned by foreign investors. Russia had an April 4 deadline to pay about $650 million in interest and principle to the holders of two bonds issued in dollars.
Russia has plenty of cash – it collects the equivalent of over $1 billion a day from its oil and gas deliveries alone – but has limited access to dollars because of sanctions imposed by the U.S. The Biden administration had been allowing Russia to use some of the foreign reserves it had previously frozen to make debt payments. The U.S. changed course on April 5, when it blocked Russia from using dollar reserves held at American banks to make the debt payments.
That gave Russia little choice but to try to make the payments in rubles, whose value has been very volatile since the invasion. If Russia doesn’t switch the payments to dollars by May 4, the government will be in default on its foreign obligations for the first time since 1918, when the Bolshevik revolutionaries took over Russia and refused to pay the country’s international creditors. Russia also defaulted in 1998 but only on its domestic debt.
What are the consequences of default?
When a country defaults on a foreign loan, international investors typically become unwilling or unable to lend more money to it. Or they demand much higher interest rates.
Whether because of higher interest costs or an inability to borrow, this forces a country to cut spending. Less government spending reduces economic activity, increases unemployment and slows growth. While some of these effects, like weaker economic growth, are often short-lived, other consequences can haunt a country for years. Trade with other countries remains below normal for an average of 15 years after a default, while full exclusion from capital markets typically lasts just over eight years.
For example, when Argentina defaulted in 2001, the peso plunged, the economy shrank and inflation soared. Riots over food broke out all over the country, leading to the president’s resignation. Although Argentina’s economy had recovered by 2007, the country remained unable to borrow from foreign investors, which led to default again in 2014.
What does this mean for Russia? The country was already locked out of international borrowing markets because of sanctions. A government official recently said Russia would also avoid borrowing domestically, because a default would lead to “cosmic” interest rates.
But its significant revenue from sometimes-discounted sales of oil and gas may help offset the need for borrowing in the short term, especially if it can continue to find willing buyers like India and China. On April 14, 2022, Putin acknowledged sanctions were disrupting exports and raising costs.
Does Russia care if it defaults?
The Russian government has been trying hard to avoid default.
Until April 5, it was using its precious dollars to stay current on its bond payments. And before its invasion it had built up a significant reserve of foreign currency, in large part to allow it to continue to pay back debt borrowed in dollars and euros even amid sanctions. Russia has even threatened to take legal action if sanctions force it into default.
As it odd as it may sound, Russia is likely worried about its reputation – at least among bond investors.
A default by a sovereign borrower establishes a bad reputation that can take years to rehabilitate, as Argentina’s experience shows.
And the long-term impact could be worse for Russia. The reason Russia is in this bind is because it chose to invade Ukraine, despite repeated warnings that doing so would result in severe economic and financial sanctions.
So creditors might wonder if Russia will always prioritize its foreign policy interests over the interests of creditors and raise borrowing costs permanently. If so, they may find it difficult to borrow for years to come.
Another risk is that a default may enable creditors to seize Russia’s overseas assets as a form of repayment. International sanctions have already enabled countries to seize or freeze Russian assets, which could be used to pay off outstanding debts.
One count suggests that 50% of creditors in recent sovereign debt cases have attempted to seize assets as an alternative to payment.
What does this mean for Russia’s war in Ukraine?
As long as there has been debt, governments have waged wars with other people’s money. In fact, debt has become so vital as a source of power that countries rarely fight without it.
Around 88% of wars from 1823 through 2003 have been at least partly financed with funds borrowed from banks and other investors. This reality even bleeds into fantasy worlds, like “Game of Thrones,” in which financing from the Iron Bank of Braavos is vital to financing the wars of Westeros.
Our own research has shown that countries that have defaulted on their debts or have poor credit ratings find it difficult to build military capacity and, consequently, are more reluctant to take up arms against other nations. Related work has found that countries with lower borrowing costs tend to win wars – though this effect is stronger for democracies.
One reason is that borrowing allows countries to overcome the guns-versus-butter trade-off: More money spent on the military means less for its citizens’ welfare, which can hurt a government’s ability to stay in power. Foreign loans can help overcome this problem, but losing access to credit forces a government to choose. In the short term, however, a default is not likely to alter the outcome of Russia’s war – or force Putin to make any unpopular trade-offs – especially if Russia is able to achieve its new and more limited military objectives in the eastern Donbas region quickly.
This will change the longer the war goes on. The war was expected to last only a few days, but a stronger-than-expected Ukrainian defense has pushed the conflict into its eighth week. Early estimates found that a prolonged war could end up costing Russia over $20 billion a day, including both direct and indirect expenses, like loss of economic output.
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If Ukraine becomes a lengthy war of attrition, as some analysts expect, then Russia’s inability to borrow money will weaken its ability to sustain, supply and reinforce its position in Ukraine – especially if oil prices fall or the European Union boycotts or reduces its dependence on Russian fuel.
Roman statesman Cicero wrote: “Nervos belli, infinitam pecuniam,” which loosely translates as “Successful war-waging capacity requires unlimited cash.”
And that means borrowed money. Wars usually end quickly without it.
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BATH, Maine (AP) — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is making her first public appearance since contracting COVID-19 earlier this month.
The Maine Republican is visiting Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works with the the Navy's top officer on Monday.
She and Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, are touring the future USS Carl M. Levin and visiting crew members.
Collins was the third member of Maine's congressional delegation to test positive for COVID-19 during the pandemic. Her office announced April 7 that she was working remotely after receiving a positive test.
The shipyard visit comes little more than a week after shipyard President Dirk Lesko abruptly resigned. No reason was given for his departure. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Sen-Collins-making-1st-public-appearance-after-17087674.php | 2022-04-18T14:06:24 | en | 0.979355 |
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MADRID (AP) — The phones of dozens of pro-independence supporters in Spain's northeastern Catalonia, including the regional chief and other elected officials, were hacked with controversial spyware available only to governments, a cybersecurity rights nonprofit said Monday.
Citizens Lab, a research group affiliated with the University of Toronto, said that a large-scale investigation it had conducted in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups found that at least 65 individuals were targeted or infected with what it calls “mercenary spyware” sold by two Israeli companies, NSO Group and Candiru.
Catalonia’s efforts to separate from Spain have long been a thorn in the side of Spanish governments.
NSO’s Pegasus has been used around the world to break into the phones and computers of human rights activists, journalists, and even members of the Catholic clergy. The firm has been subject to export limits by the U.S. federal government, which has accused NSO of conducting “transnational repression." NSO has also been brought to court by major technology companies.
Citizens Lab said its investigations into the use in Spain of Pegasus and spyware developed by Candiru — another Israeli firm founded by former NSO employees — started in mid-2020 after a handful of cases also targeting high-profile Catalan pro-independence individuals were revealed.
The group said that it could not find conclusive evidence to attribute the hacking to a specific entity.
"However, a range of circumstantial evidence points to a strong nexus with one or more entities within Spanish government,” Citizens Lab said on its website.
Spain's Interior Ministry said that no ministry department, nor the National Police or the Civil Guard law enforcement bodies “have ever had any relation with NSO and have therefore never contracted any of its services.”
The ministry's statement said that in Spain, “All intervention of communications are conducted under judicial order and in full respect of legality.”
Pegasus infiltrates phones to vacuum up personal and location data and surreptitiously controls the smartphone’s microphones and cameras. Researchers have found several examples of NSO Group tools using so-called “zero-click” exploits that infect targeted mobile phones without any user interaction.
Citizens Lab said that signs of a “zero-click” exploit not previously identified were found in infected devices of Catalans running on an older operating system at the end of 2019 and early 2020.
Among the targeted individuals were at least three European lawmakers representing Catalan separatist parties, members of two prominent pro-independence civil society groups, their lawyers and elected officials at various levels, including three former regional presidents, including Quim Torra while he was holding office.
Current Catalan President Pere Aragonès, whose phone was also infected according to Citizens Lab while he served as deputy of Torra in the 2018-2020 administration, said that “the operation of massive espionage against Catalan independentism is an unjustifiable shame, an attack on fundamental rights and democracy."
Aragonès said in a series of tweets that because the software can only be acquired by state entities, the Spanish government must offer explanations.
“No excuses are valid,” he wrote. “To spy on representatives of citizens, lawyers or activists of civil rights is a red line."
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Colby McCormick hit over .370 as the table-setter at the top of the Somers High baseball team’s lineup during his sophomore season in 2021. But he wasn’t satisfied. He knew he was capable of more.
So McCormick decided to retool his swing in the offseason. His high school teammate, Kaede Wood, introduced him to Danny Kennedy, an East Catholic alum and Team Connecticut Baseball hitting instructor, and the two got to work in the batting cage.
“Kaede really likes (Kennedy), so he took me to him,” McCormick said. “He pointed out that I was rolling my wrist a lot, which caused me to ground out. So I tried to stay back and keep my weight back and that helped. And he pointed out I had too big of a load, so I worked on cutting my load to a minimal and keeping my hands back, because I was always early.”
McCormick’s swing changes have paid off, as the junior center fielder is hitting over .380 through five games for the unbeaten Spartans.
“He's loves the sport, so he works hard at it and always wants to get better,” Somers coach Jim Coleman said. “He definitely puts the time and effort in. Every year, I think he's progressed. He's going to drive the ball, run hard, and he's a very good leader.”
McCormick was introduced to baseball at an early age in the backyard of his family’s home, where he and his older sister, Taylor, would play daily wiffle ball games with their cousins Aidan and Jonathan Nolan, who lived next door.
McCormick began playing at the AAU level when he was nine and continued to compete on the circuit until he was 14. He then joined the Somers/Ellington American Legion program.
“AAU is a different ballgame,” McCormick said. “The pitching, you see a significant increase in how good they are and how hard they throw.”
McCormick was eager to compete for a spot on the Somers High varsity team as a freshman but never got the opportunity, as the season was canceled before it began due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He earned the starting job in center field as a sophomore and thrived as the team’s leadoff hitter, batting .375 with seven RBIs and 28 runs scored to lead the Spartans to a 14-8 record and a spot in the Class S state tournament.
The 14th-seeded Spartans hammered No. 19 East Hampton 11-4 in the first round before falling to third-seeded Coginchaug 6-0 the next day.
McCormick is hitting .388 with three RBIs this season for the Spartans, who have jumped out to a 5-0 record overall and a 4-0 mark in NCCC p lay. They sit in fourth in the CIAC Class S playoff rankings.
He went 2-for-4 with a triple and three RBIs in the Spartans’ 7-6 victory over conference rival Ellington Thursday.
“Colby is a spark plug,” Coleman said. “He leads us off and tracks everything in center field. When he gets on base, he makes things happen, whether it's being aggressive and taking the extra base, stealing a base, driving the ball hard. Having him to set the table for us every inning is huge. He's strong and he's so fast. He knows the game well, and his confidence is way up.”
McCormick is not yet sure what the future holds for him after high school. He is weighing whether to join the military or find a college where he could play baseball and prepare for a career in the armed forces.
In November, he took a tour of Norwich University, a military academy in Northfield, Vermont, and met with baseball coach Frank Pecora, who asked him to stay in touch so the staff could track his progress over the next two seasons.
“I'm stuck in the middle right now,” McCormick said. “If I went to Norwich, I could join the ROTC program, which would allow me to join the military after college. So that’s a good option for me. My main focus is the military, but I love baseball, I love the game, so if I get the opportunity to go in the military and play baseball in college, that would be awesome.” | https://www.journalinquirer.com/sports/somers-mccormick-bearing-down-at-the-plate-in-junior-season/article_9c04d090-bf05-11ec-977b-ff2dec2da29e.html | 2022-04-18T14:06:32 | en | 0.985712 |
HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish police said Monday they consider the violent riots that have shaken several cities and towns in the Nordic country extremely serious crimes against society and suspect some protesters are linked to criminal gangs that intentionally target police.
Sweden, a nation of 10 million, has seen unrest, scuffles, arson and violence since Thursday that has left some police officers and protesters injured. It was triggered by Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings across the country.
“We suspect that those involved (in the riots) have links to criminal gangs,” National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg told a news conference on Monday, adding some of those “criminal individuals” are known to police. “I have been in touch with the public prosecutor to prosecute these individuals.”
Sweden’s National Police Commander Jonas Hysing said Monday that 26 police and 14 individuals - protesters or other people - have been injured in the riots and 20 police vehicles destroyed or damaged.
The latest riots broke out Sunday night in Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city, as an angry crowd of mainly young people set fire to car tires, debris and garbage cans in the Rosengard district. Protesters threw stones and police responded by firing tear gas into the crowd. A school and several cars were set on fire but the situation calmed down early Monday.
A total of 11 people were detained and three people arrested in Malmo, a city with many residents from other countries. No serious injuries were reported.
Since Thursday, in addition to Malmo, riots, unrest and violent clashes have been reported in Stockholm, the central city of Orebro, the eastern cities of Linkoping and Norrkoping and southern town of Landskrona.
Police have been forced to use weapons in self-defense, Hysing said. Three people were hurt in Norrkoping on Sunday as they were hit by ricochets as police fired warning shots into a crowd of protesters.
“There is a lot to suggest that the police were targeted,” Hysing said, adding that some protesters are suspected of attempted murder, aggravated assault and violence against an official.
Both Thornberg and Hysing stressed that the main target for the rioters was Swedish police and society, not Paludan — seen by many Swedes merely as an agent provocatur — and his Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, which runs on an anti-immigrant, anti-Islam agenda.
Thornberg, Sweden’s supreme police chief, said “criminal individuals” who took advantage of the situation with Paludan’s Swedish Easter tour and joined the riots, are main suspects for flaming up violence. The unrest escalated quickly after Paludan’s first demonstrations, which were met by counterprotesters in many places last week.
“We must put an end to this early. What we see here is very serious crime,” Thornberg said, referring to the riots.
Justice Minister Morgan Johansson said Monday that he continues to have great confidence in the Swedish police despite the unrest over the weekend and pledged more resources to law enforcement.
“When you end up in these critical and aggressive situations, there’s nothing else police officers can do but to put up a hard fight,” Johannsson told Swedish news outlets. “We cannot accept that perpetrators commit this type of violence.”
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Brooke Tracy allowed one run over five strong innings Saturday to lead the Glastonbury High softball team to a 14-run victory over Stamford.
But the senior’s performance in the circle paled in comparison to her display at the plate.
Tracy went 4-for-4 with two home runs, nine RBIs and two runs scored as host Glastonbury cruised to a 15-1 victory in five innings in nonconference play.
Tracy homered in the first inning, singled in the third, doubled in the fourth, and homered in the fifth. She allowed three hits, struck out 14 and didn’t walk a batter en route to the victory in the circle.
Sadie Scurto provided three hits and two RBIs for the Guardians (4-1), who scored five runs in the fourth and six in the fifth to close out the game. Rayah Snyder added two hits and two RBIs. Molly Edgington hit a solo homer in the fifth.
Stamford, which has lost three consecutive games, is 2-4. | https://www.journalinquirer.com/sports/tracy-leads-glastonbury-over-stamford-in-softball/article_d1bc991c-bf04-11ec-88e6-c727215fe1a7.html | 2022-04-18T14:06:38 | en | 0.94604 |
Browse any medical dictionary, and before hitting appendectomy and anesthesia, you’ll find abortion.
The first two procedures are part of standard physician education. But for many U.S. medical school students and residents who want to learn about abortions, options are scarce.
And new restrictions are piling up: Within the past year, bills or laws seeking to limit abortion education have been proposed or enacted in at least eight states. The changes are coming from abortion opponents emboldened by new limits on the procedure itself, as well as a pending Supreme Court decision that could upend the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
“It’s quite terrifying what’s going on,” said Ian Peake, a third-year medical student in Oklahoma, where the governor on April 12 signed a measure outlawing most abortions.
Abortion training is not offered at Oklahoma’s two medical schools and education on the topic is limited. Aspiring doctors who want to learn about it typically seek out doctors providing abortions outside the traditional medical education system.
Peake, 32, said if he wanted to learn to do colonoscopies, for example, he could work with school staff to shadow a doctor doing research or working in a clinic.
“That would be easy,” he said. “To do the same for abortion, that’s almost impossible.” He said it took him six months to find a provider willing to teach him.
Nevada medical student Natasha McGlaun got outside training and created a workshop on how to perform a standard medical procedure used in abortions. She offers it at night, in her own free time.
The 27-year-old is the daughter of “pro-feminist” parents and the mother of two young girls whose right to reproductive choice she wants to protect.
“It was kind of a joke in my family: If people tell me I can’t do something, I’m going to do it twice as hard,” she said. “I kind of feel this moral, righteous drive to go for it.”
‘GLARINGLY ABSENT’ LESSONS
U.S. physician education typically includes four years of medical school, where students learn the basics of general medicine and hands-on patient care. They graduate with a medical degree that officially makes them doctors. Most then spend at least three years in residency programs where they receive intense on-the-job training and specialty skills.
U.S. medical schools require students to complete a clerkship in obstetrics and gynecology, but there is no mandate that it include abortion education. At the post-graduate level, OB-GYN residency programs are required by an accrediting group to provide access to abortion training, though residents who object can opt out of performing abortions.
OB-GYNs perform most U.S. abortions, followed by family medicine specialists. But these aren’t always the first doctors that women encounter when they learn of an unintended pregnancy. Abortion rights supporters argue all physicians should know enough about the procedure to inform and counsel patients, and that such education should start in medical school.
In 2020, Stanford University researchers said they found that half of medical schools included no formal abortion training or only a single lecture.
“Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures,” they wrote. “Yet abortion-related topics are glaringly absent from medical school curricula.”
McGlaun helped sponsor a measure last year that asked the American Medical Association to support mandated abortion education in medical schools, with an opt-out provision. The influential group has long opposed curriculum mandates and turned down the proposal, but it said it supports giving medical students and residents the chance to learn about abortion and opposes efforts to interfere with such training.
FURTHER RESTRICTIONS
Legislative efforts to curb abortion target all levels of medical education.
An Idaho law enacted last year exemplifies the trend. It bars using tuition and fees for abortion and related activities in school-based clinics at institutions that receive state funds.
Other efforts include a Wisconsin bill that would bar employees of the University of Wisconsin and its hospitals from participating in abortions, including training. It failed to advance in March but its sponsor plans to reintroduce the measure. Similar proposals target public universities in Missouri and Ohio.
Divya Jain’s introduction to abortion came not at her Missouri medical school — where she said the procedure is rarely discussed — but at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas. She was a clinic volunteer and saw the hurdles out-of-state women faced in obtaining the procedure. Some mistakenly ended up at a crisis pregnancy center across the street that tried to change their minds, Jain said.
Jain, 23, said her first experience observing an abortion was “anti-climactic,” far from the scary image she’d heard opponents describe.
“It’s just a normal in-house procedure,” she said. “It’s just patients seeking medical treatment.”
At that moment, she knew she wanted to provide abortions. “It was like a snap of finger. That kind of changed it for me,” said Jain, who is studying public policy at Harvard while on leave from medical school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The daughter of open-minded but traditional parents who immigrated to Kansas from India, Jain recalls growing up feeling trapped by her family’s traditional culture and a conservative white community where abortion was never discussed.
“I liked to stir the pot” and push boundaries, she said.
Jain knows the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on whether to uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy could drastically change the U.S. abortion landscape. Regardless of the decision — expected by summer — Jain said her goal is set: to perform abortions in “hostile” states where providers are scarce.
“It’s really hard for patients to get the care that patients deserve and need, and I just think it’s wrong,” Jain said.
EXPANDING TRAINING
Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle, 33, associate director of the OB-GYN residency program at Wright State University’s medical school in Dayton, Ohio, said his aim to boost abortion training “has been an uphill battle” because of legislative obstacles.
When he arrived at the school almost two years ago, he said, “there was zero formal abortion education available.” He created and implemented abortion coursework for medical students and residents, with support from his university, and offers training at a nearby clinic where he also performs abortions.
The physician said a state legislator has lobbied university administrators to fire him. And in December, Ohio’s governor signed into law a measure that limits doctors who work at state institutions from working as backup doctors at abortion clinics when rare complications occur. The clinic where Reisinger-Kindle works is suing to block the law.
“There are days that are certainly challenging,” Reisinger-Kindle said. Young doctors eager to learn help keep him going. The program currently has 24 residents. They can opt out of abortion training, but he said nearly all have chosen to participate “in at least some capacity.”
He fears more abortion restrictions are coming, but adds: “In the long-term, I believe we will get this right. I just hope that my students don’t have to suffer.”
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The UConn baseball team had to stave off a furious ninth-inning rally from Seton Hall to sweat out a 3-2 victory in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday in Big East Conference play in South Orange, New Jersey.
The Huskies returned to the field for the nightcap and barely broke a sweat, scoring six runs in the fifth inning and adding five in the sixth to cruise to a 14-2 victory and sweep the three-game set against the Pirates.
UConn (18-7, 6-0 Big East) has won eight straight games against Seton Hall.
Graduate transfer Casey Dana lined a two-run double to left to give the Huskies a 2-0 lead in the third inning of game one. Christian Fedko added a sacrifice fly in the seventh to make it 3-0.
Ian Cooke tossed 2Ï innings out of the Huskies bullpen before being relieved by Brendan O'Donnell with runners on second and third and one out in the ninth.
O'Donnell struck out Callan Moss but Devin Hack followed with a two-run double to left to pull the Pirates within one.
Justin Willis then came on and got a strikeout to strand the tying run at second and earn his eighth save of the season.
Starting pitcher Pat Gallagher threw six shutout innings to earn his sixth win of the season. The sophomore right hander allowed four hits while striking out five and walking three.
The Huskies scored first in game two in the third inning. Christian Fedko hit a one-out double to left and scored from second on a T.C. Simmons infield single to give the Huskies a 1-0 lead.
Zach Bushling lined a RBI single to right center in the fourth to double the Huskies’ lead.
Dana hit a bases-clearing double to left in the fifth to extend the Huskies’ lead to 7-0. UConn delivered the knockout blow in the sixth with a five-run inning that featured a three-run homer from Bryan Padilla.
Enzo Stefanoni earned his fifth win of the season for the Huskies. The graduate student right hander allowed two runs (one earned) on five hits in eight innings of work. He struck out four and walked four.
CCSU: Hunter Pasqualini (South Windsor) went 2-for-5 and scored four runs in Central Connecticut’s 14-6 victory over Sacred Heart in Northeast Conference play at Dunkin' Donuts Park in Hartford.
Anthony Mozzicato (East Catholic) earned the victory for the Blue Devils (15-11, 7-5 NEC). The sophomore left hander from Ellington allowed four runs on ten hits in five innings. He struck out three and walked two.
SOFTBALL
Endicott: Maria Hanchuk (South Windsor) allowed one run over seven innings to lead Endicott to a 2-1 victory over Western New England in game one of the teams’ CCC double header in Beverly, Massachusetts.
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* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects and
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, April 18, 2022
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Man charged as accomplice in the death of Pea Ridge Officer Apple expected in court Monday
Updated: 8:50 AM CDT Apr 18, 2022
The man charged as an accomplice in the death of Pea Ridge police officer Kevin Apple is expected to appear in court today. Elijah Andazola is charged as an accomplice in the death of Officer Apple.Andazola’s hearing is scheduled to take place in Judge Robin Green’s court room at 8 a.m. Monday. According to police, Andazola was the passenger in the car that hit and killed Officer Apple in June of 2021. Police said the driver was Shawna Cash.Officer Apple was initially trying to make contact with Cash and Andazola because Rogers police were searching for them in connection with a property crime.In January, Andazola appeared over Zoom for a court hearing. During that hearing, the state agreed to wave the death penalty. As for Shawna Cash, her pre-trial hearing has since been rescheduled from this month to July 5. According to the Benton Bounty online jail roster, no bond has been set for either Cash or Andazola.
PEA RIDGE, Ark. — The man charged as an accomplice in the death of Pea Ridge police officer Kevin Apple is expected to appear in court today.
Elijah Andazola is charged as an accomplice in the death of Officer Apple.
Andazola’s hearing is scheduled to take place in Judge Robin Green’s court room at 8 a.m. Monday.
According to police, Andazola was the passenger in the car that hit and killed Officer Apple in June of 2021. Police said the driver was Shawna Cash.
Officer Apple was initially trying to make contact with Cash and Andazola because Rogers police were searching for them in connection with a property crime.
In January, Andazola appeared over Zoom for a court hearing. During that hearing, the state agreed to wave the death penalty.
As for Shawna Cash, her pre-trial hearing has since been rescheduled from this month to July 5.
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In an interview with Famitsu, translated by means of Video Video games Chronicle, Kingdom Hearts IV director Tetsuya Nomura has commented that the room by which the protagonist, Sora, wakes upit’s going to be “the bottom of the primary a part of the sport“.
Quadratum, the arena paying homage to Tokyo that used to be proven within the creation trailer, it is not in fact the true international. Es “very similar to an underworldNomura stated, nevertheless it options real-world places like Shibuya, and to Sora it is an underworld. Alternatively, it is very genuine to the citizens of Quadratum, and in step with Kingdom Hearts III (the place it used to be presented) it is not an international of sunshine. or darkness, however an international of fiction that exists “at the different facet“.
Those other views are intentional, in step with Nomura, who stated: “I believe the theme of this venture would be the distinction between those that are in such other positions“.
Sora’s life like glance may be a results of this genuine however no longer genuine international, Nomura stated, and will go back to its cool animated film origins later within the sport.
“Donald and Goofy are on the lookout for clues about Sora within the unique international.“, he defined. “All of the genuine worlds earlier than the name display [en el tráiler] they’re all Quadratum segments and Sora will glance life like but when he can return to the unique international he’s going to appear to be Donald and Goofy with shaders like Donald and Goofy“.
Kingdom Hearts IV used to be not too long ago presented on the Kingdom Hearts twentieth Anniversary tournament. Sq. Enix additionally showed that the sport used to be nonetheless in “early degree of constructionAnd you have got to take into account that the manufacturing of Kingdom Hearts 3 lasted 13 years.
Even supposing the gameplay proven appeared rather entire, it used to be a demo evolved in Unreal Engine 4. The general sport is being evolved with Unreal Engine 5, because of this that its visible look will range, to start with for the easier.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, April 18, 2022
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Music star Darius Rucker to play at the Walmart AMP
Updated: 9:00 AM CDT Apr 18, 2022
Music star Darius Rucker announced Monday he will play a concert at the Walmart AMP in Rogers, Arkansas.The AMP will host Rucker on Saturday, July 16, 2022, at 7 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 22, 2022.Related video above -> Rogers building two overpasses over I-49 near the Walmart AMPRucker's concert will include his country and pop hits, including songs from his time with Hootie & the Blowfish, according to his website.The singer has won three Grammy Awards and won an Academy of Country Music Award in 2018.Country singers Ryan Hurd and Elvie Shane will join Rucker at the AMP. Hurd has written singles for Blake Shelton, Lady A, and Luke Bryan. Shane is most famous for his 2020 single "My Boy."Walmart AMPThis isn't the first time Rucker has played at the AMP. He performed there in 2016 as part of the Bentonville Film Festival.The AMP has hosted concerts in Northwest Arkansas since 2005. It moved to its current location in 2014. It seats more than 9,500 people and includes 3,200 covered seats, according to its website.
ROGERS, Ark. — Music star Darius Rucker announced Monday he will play a concert at the Walmart AMP in Rogers, Arkansas.
The AMP will host Rucker on Saturday, July 16, 2022, at 7 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 22, 2022.
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Rucker's concert will include his country and pop hits, including songs from his time with Hootie & the Blowfish, according to his website.
The singer has won three Grammy Awards and won an Academy of Country Music Award in 2018.
Country singers Ryan Hurd and Elvie Shane will join Rucker at the AMP. Hurd has written singles for Blake Shelton, Lady A, and Luke Bryan. Shane is most famous for his 2020 single "My Boy."
Walmart AMP
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These states moved to restrict abortion access last week
Four states moved to curtail abortion access last week, with two of them advancing their own versions of a ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy -- similar to the controversial Mississippi law before the U.S .Supreme Court that's set up a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.
Here's what you need to know.
Kentucky abortion providers suing to block restrictive new law
The only two clinics in Kentucky in which abortions are performed, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women's Surgical Center, are separately suing to block a new state abortion law, saying it amounts to a de facto ban on abortions in Kentucky. The law bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, restricts access to medication abortion and enforces more requirements for minors to obtain abortions in the state.
The plaintiffs argue they can't comply with the new law, claiming Kentucky hasn't yet set up a system to meet its reporting requirements.
"It is arbitrary and unconstitutional to enforce penalties for noncompliance while failing to provide a means of immediate compliance. Plaintiff, in fairness, must be granted time to comply with these sweeping changes to the provision of abortion care," said the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky, on behalf of the EMW Women's Surgical Center, in its lawsuit, adding that patients will now be unable to obtain abortions in Kentucky or forced to seek them out of the state, unless the court intervenes.
The measure went into effect this week after Kentucky's Republican-controlled legislature on Wednesday overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's veto of the bill.
The governor had said the bill was "likely unconstitutional," noting its lack of exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape and incest and arguing it would cost the state an estimated near $1 million to enforce.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican, said in a statement: "We are prepared to earnestly defend this new law against the legal challenge from Planned Parenthood and the ACLU."
Florida governor signs 15-week abortion ban into law
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure into law on Thursday that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy without exemptions for rape, incest or human trafficking.
The bill allows exemptions in cases where pregnancy poses "serious" health risks or fatal fetal abnormalities are detected if two physicians confirm the diagnoses in writing.
It goes into effect on July 1.
Oklahoma governor signs near-total ban
Oklahoma GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday signed a bill into law that makes performing an abortion illegal in the state, with an exception only in the case of a medical emergency.
The law will take effect this summer, barring any legal challenge.
Senate Bill 612, which cleared the state Senate last year and the House earlier this month, makes performing an abortion or attempting to perform one a felony punishable by a maximum fine of $100,000 or a maximum of 10 years in state prison, or both.
Tennessee House passes bill that would restrict medication abortion
The Tennessee Republican-led House passed a bill on Thursday that would allow only physicians to provide drugs used in medication abortions and bar the drugs from being sent via mail.
The legislation, House Bill 2416, would establish criminal penalties and civil liability for offenders that would not apply to the patient who was provided the abortion drugs.
It would also require physicians to examine patients in person before providing the abortion drugs and to schedule follow-up visits for the patients.
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US rocked by 3 mass shootings during Easter weekend
Authorities in South Carolina are investigating a shooting at a nightclub early Sunday that wounded at least nine people. It was the second mass shooting in the state and the third in the nation during the Easter holiday weekend.
The shootings in South Carolina and one in Pittsburgh, in which two minors were killed early Sunday, also left at least 31 people wounded.
No one was reported killed in the violence at Cara’s Lounge in Hampton County, roughly 80 miles (130 kilometers) west of Charleston, according to an email from South Carolina's State Law Enforcement Division, which is investigating the shooting. A phone call to the nightclub was not answered.
In Pittsburgh, two male youths were killed and at least eight people wounded when shots were fired during a party at a short-term rental property. The “vast majority” of the hundreds of people at the party were underage, the city's Police Chief Scott Schubert told reporters. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the two victims as Jaiden Brown and Mathew Steffy-Ross, both 17.
Investigators believe there were multiple shooters, and Schubert said police were processing evidence at as many as eight separate crime scenes spanning a few blocks around the rental home.
The two shootings come just a day after gunfire erupted at a busy mall in the South Carolina state capital of Columbia, about 90 miles north of Sunday's nightclub shooting. Nine people were shot, and five people sustained other kinds of injuries while trying to flee the scene at the Columbiana Centre, Columbia Police Chief W.H. “Skip” Holbrook said Saturday. The victims ranged in age from 15 to 73. None faced life-threatening injuries.
“We don’t believe this was random,” Holbrook said. “We believe they knew each other and something led to the gunfire.”
The only person arrested in the mall shooting so far is Jewayne M. Price, 22, one of three people initially detained by law enforcement as a person of interest. Price's attorney, Todd Rutherford, told news outlets Sunday that his client fired a gun at the mall, but in self-defense. Rutherford said Price faces a charge of unlawfully carrying a pistol because he legally owned his gun but did not have a permit to carry a weapon.
Columbia police said on Twitter that a judge agreed Sunday to let Price leave jail on a $25,000 surety bond. He was to be on house arrest with an ankle monitor, police said.
“It was unprovoked by him. He called the police, turned himself in, turned over the firearm that was used in this, and gave a statement to the Columbia Police Department,” Rutherford said, according to WMBF-TV. “That is why he got a $25,000 bond.”
Police said the judge will allow Price to travel from home to work during certain hours each day. Price is forbidden from contacting the victims and anyone else involved in the shooting.
South Carolina residents age 21 or older can get a weapons permit, which as of last year allows them to carry weapons openly or concealed. They must have eight hours of gun training and pass a background check that includes fingerprinting.
The three Easter weekend mass shootings are in addition to other gun violence in recent days. Last week, a gunman opened fire in a New York subway car, wounding 10 people. A suspect was arrested the next day. Earlier this month, six people were killed and 12 others wounded in Sacramento, California, during a gunfight between rival gangs as bars closed in a busy downtown area just blocks from the state Capitol.
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A military judge will decide the court-martial for former AFRL commander Maj. Gen. William Cooley this week instead of a jury of his peers.
Cooley requested the judge before his attorney and the prosecution team questioned two- and three-star generals on the first day of his court-martial that opened today at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Cooley, former boss of the Air Force Research Laboratory, is accused of making sexual advances toward a civilian woman, kissing and groping her through her clothes while off-duty in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in August 2018.
The military trial was set to begin Jan. 10 at Wright-Patterson, where Cooley today works with the commander of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). The trial was continued until today, and it’s expected to last up to two weeks, an Air Force spokesman has said.
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Browse any medical dictionary, and before hitting appendectomy and anesthesia, you’ll find abortion.
The first two procedures are part of standard physician education. But for many U.S. medical school students and residents who want to learn about abortions, options are scarce.
And new restrictions are piling up: Within the past year, bills or laws seeking to limit abortion education have been proposed or enacted in at least eight states. The changes are coming from abortion opponents emboldened by new limits on the procedure itself, as well as a pending Supreme Court decision that could upend the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
“It’s quite terrifying what’s going on,” said Ian Peake, a third-year medical student in Oklahoma, where the governor on April 12 signed a measure outlawing most abortions.
Abortion training is not offered at Oklahoma’s two medical schools and education on the topic is limited. Aspiring doctors who want to learn about it typically seek out doctors providing abortions outside the traditional medical education system.
Peake, 32, said if he wanted to learn to do colonoscopies, for example, he could work with school staff to shadow a doctor doing research or working in a clinic.
“That would be easy,” he said. “To do the same for abortion, that’s almost impossible.” He said it took him six months to find a provider willing to teach him.
Nevada medical student Natasha McGlaun got outside training and created a workshop on how to perform a standard medical procedure used in abortions. She offers it at night, in her own free time.
The 27-year-old is the daughter of “pro-feminist” parents and the mother of two young girls whose right to reproductive choice she wants to protect.
“It was kind of a joke in my family: If people tell me I can’t do something, I’m going to do it twice as hard,” she said. “I kind of feel this moral, righteous drive to go for it.”
‘GLARINGLY ABSENT’ LESSONS
U.S. physician education typically includes four years of medical school, where students learn the basics of general medicine and hands-on patient care. They graduate with a medical degree that officially makes them doctors. Most then spend at least three years in residency programs where they receive intense on-the-job training and specialty skills.
U.S. medical schools require students to complete a clerkship in obstetrics and gynecology, but there is no mandate that it include abortion education. At the post-graduate level, OB-GYN residency programs are required by an accrediting group to provide access to abortion training, though residents who object can opt out of performing abortions.
OB-GYNs perform most U.S. abortions, followed by family medicine specialists. But these aren’t always the first doctors that women encounter when they learn of an unintended pregnancy. Abortion rights supporters argue all physicians should know enough about the procedure to inform and counsel patients, and that such education should start in medical school.
In 2020, Stanford University researchers said they found that half of medical schools included no formal abortion training or only a single lecture.
“Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures,” they wrote. “Yet abortion-related topics are glaringly absent from medical school curricula.”
McGlaun helped sponsor a measure last year that asked the American Medical Association to support mandated abortion education in medical schools, with an opt-out provision. The influential group has long opposed curriculum mandates and turned down the proposal, but it said it supports giving medical students and residents the chance to learn about abortion and opposes efforts to interfere with such training.
FURTHER RESTRICTIONS
Legislative efforts to curb abortion target all levels of medical education.
An Idaho law enacted last year exemplifies the trend. It bars using tuition and fees for abortion and related activities in school-based clinics at institutions that receive state funds.
Other efforts include a Wisconsin bill that would bar employees of the University of Wisconsin and its hospitals from participating in abortions, including training. It failed to advance in March but its sponsor plans to reintroduce the measure. Similar proposals target public universities in Missouri and Ohio.
Divya Jain’s introduction to abortion came not at her Missouri medical school — where she said the procedure is rarely discussed — but at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas. She was a clinic volunteer and saw the hurdles out-of-state women faced in obtaining the procedure. Some mistakenly ended up at a crisis pregnancy center across the street that tried to change their minds, Jain said.
Jain, 23, said her first experience observing an abortion was “anti-climactic,” far from the scary image she’d heard opponents describe.
“It’s just a normal in-house procedure,” she said. “It’s just patients seeking medical treatment.”
At that moment, she knew she wanted to provide abortions. “It was like a snap of finger. That kind of changed it for me,” said Jain, who is studying public policy at Harvard while on leave from medical school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The daughter of open-minded but traditional parents who immigrated to Kansas from India, Jain recalls growing up feeling trapped by her family’s traditional culture and a conservative white community where abortion was never discussed.
“I liked to stir the pot” and push boundaries, she said.
Jain knows the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on whether to uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy could drastically change the U.S. abortion landscape. Regardless of the decision — expected by summer — Jain said her goal is set: to perform abortions in “hostile” states where providers are scarce.
“It’s really hard for patients to get the care that patients deserve and need, and I just think it’s wrong,” Jain said.
EXPANDING TRAINING
Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle, 33, associate director of the OB-GYN residency program at Wright State University’s medical school in Dayton, Ohio, said his aim to boost abortion training “has been an uphill battle” because of legislative obstacles.
When he arrived at the school almost two years ago, he said, “there was zero formal abortion education available.” He created and implemented abortion coursework for medical students and residents, with support from his university, and offers training at a nearby clinic where he also performs abortions.
The physician said a state legislator has lobbied university administrators to fire him. And in December, Ohio’s governor signed into law a measure that limits doctors who work at state institutions from working as backup doctors at abortion clinics when rare complications occur. The clinic where Reisinger-Kindle works is suing to block the law.
“There are days that are certainly challenging,” Reisinger-Kindle said. Young doctors eager to learn help keep him going. The program currently has 24 residents. They can opt out of abortion training, but he said nearly all have chosen to participate “in at least some capacity.”
He fears more abortion restrictions are coming, but adds: “In the long-term, I believe we will get this right. I just hope that my students don’t have to suffer.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a lawsuit filed by four New York City public school employees over a policy that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Lower courts had previously allowed the policy to go into effect while litigation continued, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor had also rejected an emergency request that the policy be put on hold. The justices said Monday they wouldn't get involved in the dispute. As is typical the justices did not say anything in rejecting the case, and it was one of more than 100 the court turned away.
New York City began requiring public school employees to be vaccinated in the fall of 2021. Courts had declined to bar the city from enforcing their policy, which applies to some 150,000 employees and has religious and medical exemptions.
Three of the teachers involved in the case have been fired and a fourth has taken extended leave.
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I thought I knew all about the information that consumer reporting agencies were collecting on me. Then I discovered The Work Number — a database that reports every paycheck I’ve received from my company, with net and gross amounts, going back to my hire date six years ago.
Another consumer reporting agency shows the results of a 2016 echocardiogram. (It was normal.) Yet another tracks insurance claims on my home and car. If I’d made too many returns at retail stores or bounced a check at a casino, that could show up in a database as well.
“Any data point that someone can track, there’s going to be a bureau or someone gathering information and selling that information,” says Matthew Loker, a consumer protection attorney in Arroyo Grande, California.
Unfortunately, not all the information being reported is accurate — and mistakes can have serious consequences. Loker says one of his clients lost a lucrative job offer because an employment screening company confused her with a drug smuggler. By the time the error was fixed, the position was filled. Other people have been denied insurance, apartments, bank accounts and government benefits because of database errors.
But discovering and correcting mistakes is no small task.
DOZENS OF COMPANIES ARE TRACKING US
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau maintains a list of consumer reporting agencies that's currently 38 pages long. In addition to the big three credit bureaus — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — the list includes 22 employment screeners, 10 tenant screeners, six check and bank screeners, four insurance reporting agencies and two medical information companies, among others.
Checking all those reports would be a monumental task, says consumer advocate Chi Chi Wu , a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center. Even narrowing down the options to the agency most likely to have relevant information can be tough, Wu says.
“Let’s say you’re applying for an apartment,” Wu says. “There are all these companies and you don’t know which one your landlord is going to use.”
You can ask the prospective landlord, of course, but by the time you spot and fix an error in the report, that apartment may be long since rented.
PICK YOUR TARGETS
Privacy advocate Evan Hendricks recommends you start by targeting some of the larger databases. For tenant screening, that could include RealPage or TransUnion SmartMove.
One of the largest consumer data aggregators is LexisNexis , which provides various types of background screening . The report you get back could be hundreds of pages long, detailing everything from traffic tickets and concealed weapons permits to the amount of every mortgage you've ever had, bankruptcies, tax liens, evictions and criminal records. LexisNexis also operates the Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange , or C.L.U.E., which collects and reports auto and personal property claims. You can request your comprehensive report at https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/consumer.
If you’re employed, check The Work Number, which is owned by Equifax and has current payroll data for more than 136 million jobs. If your salary information is there — and it probably is — you’ll also see which companies and government agencies have checked it recently.
Government agencies also consult The Work Number files to fight unemployment fraud and determine eligibility for public benefits, among other uses. That alone is a good reason to check your file for errors, Wu says.
“People have been kicked off or risked being kicked off of benefits or accused of an overpayment because of The Work Number,” Wu says.
Request your ChexSystems report if you plan to open a new bank account or had problems with a previous account, such as not paying an overdraft fee or bouncing a check.
If you plan to apply for individual life, health, long-term care or disability insurance, request your files from MIB and Milliman IntelliScript . MIB collects information about medical conditions, while Milliman IntelliScript collects prescription drug purchase history.
WHAT TO DO ONCE YOU HAVE YOUR REPORTS
You typically don’t have to pay to request your data, but you may have to wait to get it. Some companies allow you to see your files online, but many require you to submit a form or call a toll-free number to request a report. A company has 15 days to respond once it receives your request, the CFPB says.
If you find any errors, follow the company’s dispute process. If you can’t get the problem resolved, you can file a complaint with the CFPB.
A few companies – including the credit bureaus, RealPage, LexisNexis, ChexSystems and The Work Number – give you the option to freeze your reports. That generally prevents companies from accessing your data without your permission. Freezes can involve some hassle since you’ll have to keep track of a password or PIN, and a freeze could slow down credit or other applications. The trade-off is more privacy.
Speaking of credit bureaus: You’re currently allowed free weekly access to your credit reports through the end of the year. But many other consumer reporting agencies limit your free reports to one every 12 months. So mark your calendar, since checking your data for errors is likely to be a never-ending task.
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This column was provided to The Associated Press by the personal finance website NerdWallet. Liz Weston is a columnist at NerdWallet, a certified financial planner and author of “Your Credit Score.” Email: lweston@nerdwallet.com. Twitter: @lizweston.
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LONDON (AP) — British police say a 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he confronted military police in central London with a knife.
The Metropolitan Police force says no one was injured in the Monday morning incident, which is not being treated as terrorism.
Police say a man armed with a knife confronted two Ministry of Defense Police officers at Horse Guards Parade, a military parade ground surrounded by government buildings that is close to Parliament and the prime minister’s official residence.
Police officers used a Taser and restrained the suspect, the force said. He was being held at a London police station on suspicion of attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador failed to find enough votes late Sunday to pass a constitutional reform limiting private and foreign firms in the electrical power industry.
The reforms would have undone much of the market opening in power generation carried out by his predecessor in 2013, but also raised concerns among U.S. officials and companies.
On Monday, López Obrador called the opposition members of congress who voted against the reform traitors, claiming foreign firms “bought the legislators.”
The lower house of Congress voted 275 to 223 in favor of the measure, but that was well short of the 333 votes needed for constitutional changes.
The vote marked one of the few legislative setbacks López Obrador has suffered since taking office in late 2018.
“Yesterday a group of legislators committed an act of treason,” López Obrador said. “Instead of defending the interests of the nation, of the people, they openly defended foreign firms that rob and prey.”
Alejandro Moreno, the leader of the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, shot back “they are the traitors, and they haven't solved the crime problem and have left women abandoned,” referring to increasing homicides against women in Mexico.
But López Obrador has vowed to submit separately a bill that would nationalize the mining of lithium, which was part of the reform bill that failed Sunday.
The bill submitted for debate Monday would create a state-owned company for lithium mining, something López Obrador said would “nationalize lithium.”
Only one lithium mine in Mexico, operated by a Chinese firm, is anywhere near close to starting production. That would presumably be taken over by the government if the bill passes on a simple majority.
The electricity reform sought to limit foreign-built renewable energy plants and guarantee at least 54% of electricity would be bought from government-owned generating plants, which are dirtier. Private and foreign companies, which have built wind and gas-fired generating plants, would have been allowed to keep up to 46% of the market.
The debate Sunday began with nearly all 500 deputies present. The ruling party and its allies needed a two-thirds majority to pass the constitutional reform.
Some pro-government legislators chanted ’’Traitors″ at the opposition, which objects to the reform. Opposition lawmakers shouted: ’’It won’t happen.″
Given the atmosphere, López Obrador's Morena party failed to win over any significant number of opposition legislators.
Critics said the reform would hurt investors and their confidence in Mexico. The companies could have sought court injunctions, and the U.S. government could have complained under a free trade agreement and then put compensatory tariffs on Mexican products.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Easter Egg Roll is back for the first time since before the coronavirus pandemic.
Under rainy skies Monday, President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, were hosting some 30,000 kids and adults for an event the first lady has dubbed the “egg-ucation roll.”
Jill Biden tweeted that Monday would be a “magical, EGGucation-filled day.”
The COVID-19 pandemic led the White House to cancel the egg roll in 2020 and 2021. But the egg roll is back this year, as the outbreak of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths has eased.
And the first lady, who is a community college professor, has turned the South Lawn into a school community with a variety of educational stations.
Besides the egg roll and an egg hunt, the all-day event includes a schoolhouse activity area, a reading nook, a talent show, a place to teach about farming, a photo-taking station, a physical “egg-ucation” zone with an obstacle course, and a “cafetorium” where children will learn to make treats.
“Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon, singer Ciara and actor-singer Kristin Chenoweth will add a dash of celebrity splash to the “egg-stravaganza.”
More than two dozen costumed characters will also be on hand, including Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat, the Racing Presidents mascots for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball, Rosita and Cookie Monster from “Sesame Street” and Snoopy and Charlie Brown, among others.
The event kicked off at around 7 a.m., with the first of five waves of people, including kids wearing their Easter best, streaming through the White House gates.
The White House Easter Egg Roll dates to 1878.
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MADRID (AP) — The phones of dozens of pro-independence supporters in Spain's northeastern Catalonia, including the regional chief and other elected officials, were hacked with controversial spyware available only to governments, a cybersecurity rights nonprofit said Monday.
Citizens Lab, a research group affiliated with the University of Toronto, said that a large-scale investigation it had conducted in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups found that at least 65 individuals were targeted or infected with what it calls “mercenary spyware” sold by two Israeli companies, NSO Group and Candiru.
Catalonia’s efforts to separate from Spain have long been a thorn in the side of Spanish governments.
NSO’s Pegasus has been used around the world to break into the phones and computers of human rights activists, journalists, and even members of the Catholic clergy. The firm has been subject to export limits by the U.S. federal government, which has accused NSO of conducting “transnational repression." NSO has also been brought to court by major technology companies.
Citizens Lab said its investigations into the use in Spain of Pegasus and spyware developed by Candiru — another Israeli firm founded by former NSO employees — started in mid-2020 after a handful of cases also targeting high-profile Catalan pro-independence individuals were revealed.
The group said that it could not find conclusive evidence to attribute the hacking to a specific entity.
"However, a range of circumstantial evidence points to a strong nexus with one or more entities within Spanish government,” Citizens Lab said on its website.
Spain's Interior Ministry said that no ministry department, nor the National Police or the Civil Guard law enforcement bodies “have ever had any relation with NSO and have therefore never contracted any of its services.”
The ministry's statement said that in Spain, “All intervention of communications are conducted under judicial order and in full respect of legality.”
Pegasus infiltrates phones to vacuum up personal and location data and surreptitiously controls the smartphone’s microphones and cameras. Researchers have found several examples of NSO Group tools using so-called “zero-click” exploits that infect targeted mobile phones without any user interaction.
Citizens Lab said that signs of a “zero-click” exploit not previously identified were found in infected devices of Catalans running on an older operating system at the end of 2019 and early 2020.
Among the targeted individuals were at least three European lawmakers representing Catalan separatist parties, members of two prominent pro-independence civil society groups, their lawyers and elected officials at various levels, including three former regional presidents, including Quim Torra while he was holding office.
Current Catalan President Pere Aragonès, whose phone was also infected according to Citizens Lab while he served as deputy of Torra in the 2018-2020 administration, said that “the operation of massive espionage against Catalan independentism is an unjustifiable shame, an attack on fundamental rights and democracy."
Aragonès said in a series of tweets that because the software can only be acquired by state entities, the Spanish government must offer explanations.
“No excuses are valid,” he wrote. “To spy on representatives of citizens, lawyers or activists of civil rights is a red line."
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A total of 11 people were detained and three people arrested in Malmo, a city with many residents from other countries. No serious injuries were reported.
Since Thursday, in addition to Malmo, riots, unrest and violent clashes have been reported in Stockholm, the central city of Orebro, the eastern cities of Linkoping and Norrkoping and southern town of Landskrona.
Police have been forced to use weapons in self-defense, Hysing said. Three people were hurt in Norrkoping on Sunday as they were hit by ricochets as police fired warning shots into a crowd of protesters.
“There is a lot to suggest that the police were targeted,” Hysing said, adding that some protesters are suspected of attempted murder, aggravated assault and violence against an official.
Both Thornberg and Hysing stressed that the main target for the rioters was Swedish police and society, not Paludan — seen by many Swedes merely as an agent provocatur — and his Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, which runs on an anti-immigrant, anti-Islam agenda.
Thornberg, Sweden’s supreme police chief, said “criminal individuals” who took advantage of the situation with Paludan’s Swedish Easter tour and joined the riots, are main suspects for flaming up violence. The unrest escalated quickly after Paludan’s first demonstrations, which were met by counterprotesters in many places last week.
“We must put an end to this early. What we see here is very serious crime,” Thornberg said, referring to the riots.
Justice Minister Morgan Johansson said Monday that he continues to have great confidence in the Swedish police despite the unrest over the weekend and pledged more resources to law enforcement.
“When you end up in these critical and aggressive situations, there’s nothing else police officers can do but to put up a hard fight,” Johannsson told Swedish news outlets. “We cannot accept that perpetrators commit this type of violence.”
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry was reported on Sunday to have summoned Sweden’s charge d’affaires over Paludan’s planned Quran burnings, saying such activity could seriously endanger Sweden’s relations with the Muslim world.
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Police on buses try to break up the crowd as a city bus burns on a street in Malmo, Sweden, Saturday, April 16, 2022. Unrest broke out in southern Sweden late Saturday despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Police on buses try to break up the crowd as a city bus burns on a street in Malmo, Sweden, Saturday, April 16, 2022. Unrest broke out in southern Sweden late Saturday despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Protesters set fire to a police bus in the park Sveaparken in Orebro, Sweden, Friday, April 15, 2022. Police in Sweden say they are preparing for new violent clashes following riots that erupted between demonstrators and counter-protesters in the central city of Orebro on Friday ahead of an anti-Islam far-right group’s plan to burn a Quran there. (Kicki Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Protesters set fire to a police bus in the park Sveaparken in Orebro, Sweden, Friday, April 15, 2022. Police in Sweden say they are preparing for new violent clashes following riots that erupted between demonstrators and counter-protesters in the central city of Orebro on Friday ahead of an anti-Islam far-right group’s plan to burn a Quran there. (Kicki Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Police vans gather at the scene where unrest broke out in Rosengard in Malmo, Sweden, early Monday, April 17, 2022. The riots broke out following Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings in various Swedish cities and towns since Thursday. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Police vans gather at the scene where unrest broke out in Rosengard in Malmo, Sweden, early Monday, April 17, 2022. The riots broke out following Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings in various Swedish cities and towns since Thursday. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Cars are engulfed by flames after protests broke out at Rosengard in Malmo, Sweden, early Monday, April 17, 2022. The riots broke out following Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings in various Swedish cities and towns since Thursday. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Cars are engulfed by flames after protests broke out at Rosengard in Malmo, Sweden, early Monday, April 17, 2022. The riots broke out following Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings in various Swedish cities and towns since Thursday. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Cars are engulfed by flames after protests broke out at Rosengard in Malmo, Sweden, early Monday, April 17, 2022. The riots broke out following Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings in various Swedish cities and towns since Thursday. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Cars are engulfed by flames after protests broke out at Rosengard in Malmo, Sweden, early Monday, April 17, 2022. The riots broke out following Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings in various Swedish cities and towns since Thursday. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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A man looks at burning cars after protests broke out at Rosengard in Malmo, Sweden, early Monday, April 17, 2022. The riots broke out following Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings in various Swedish cities and towns since Thursday. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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A man looks at burning cars after protests broke out at Rosengard in Malmo, Sweden, early Monday, April 17, 2022. The riots broke out following Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings in various Swedish cities and towns since Thursday. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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People are silhouetted by smoke after protests broke out at Rosengard in Malmo, Sweden, early Monday, April 17, 2022. The riots broke out following Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings in various Swedish cities and towns since Thursday. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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People are silhouetted by smoke after protests broke out at Rosengard in Malmo, Sweden, early Monday, April 17, 2022. The riots broke out following Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings in various Swedish cities and towns since Thursday. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Riot police arrest a person during a riot in Norrkoping, Sweden, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Unrest has broken out in southern Sweden despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. (Stefan Jerrevang/TT News Agency via AP)
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Riot police arrest a person during a riot in Norrkoping, Sweden, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Unrest has broken out in southern Sweden despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. (Stefan Jerrevang/TT News Agency via AP)
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Police officers arrest a person, on the ground, who drove a car into roadblocks in Malmo, Sweden, Saturday, April 16, 2022. Unrest broke out in southern Sweden late Saturday despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Police officers arrest a person, on the ground, who drove a car into roadblocks in Malmo, Sweden, Saturday, April 16, 2022. Unrest broke out in southern Sweden late Saturday despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Two cars are burn in a parking lot during a riot in Norrkoping, Sweden, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Unrest has broken out in southern Sweden despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. (Stefan Jerrevang/TT News Agency via AP)
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Two cars are burn in a parking lot during a riot in Norrkoping, Sweden, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Unrest has broken out in southern Sweden despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. (Stefan Jerrevang/TT News Agency via AP)
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People burn branches to block a road during a riot in Norrkoping, Sweden, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Unrest has broken out in southern Sweden despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. (Stefan Jerrevang/TT News Agency via AP)
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People burn branches to block a road during a riot in Norrkoping, Sweden, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Unrest has broken out in southern Sweden despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. (Stefan Jerrevang/TT News Agency via AP)
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Protesters set fire to a police bus in the park Sveaparken in Orebro, Sweden, Friday, April 15, 2022. Police in Sweden say they are preparing for new violent clashes following riots that erupted between demonstrators and counter-protesters in the central city of Orebro on Friday ahead of an anti-Islam far-right group’s plan to burn a Quran there. (Kicki Nilsson/TT via AP)
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Today is Tax Day — the federal deadline for individual tax filing and payments — and the IRS expects to receive tens of millions of last-minute filings electronically and through paper forms.
As of April 8, the IRS had received more than 103 million returns for this tax season, and it had issued more than 63 million refunds worth more than $204 billion.
For comparison, last year more than 169 million people completed an income tax return by the end of the year. That probably leaves nearly 40% of this year's taxpayers still unaccounted for, with many scrambling to submit their documents by Monday.
Nina Tross, executive director of the National Society of Tax Professionals, said that if people haven’t filed their taxes by now, “they're better off filing an extension.”
But, she added, "People don't realize that filing an extension has zero effect” as long as they have paid their income taxes by Tax Day.
“An extension is merely filing a return at a later date," Tross said. “If you rush through a return to get it out the door, and you have to amend it later, you're more likely to get a double look from the IRS."
“You're much better off extending than amending,” she said.
The IRS this year is facing its biggest backlog in history. At the end of the 2021 filing season, the agency had 35.3 million returns waiting for processing. One reason is that every paper document that goes into the IRS is processed by a human, according to the IRS.
Another is that the agency has administered massive coronavirus pandemic-related relief programs over the last several years — like the advanced Child Tax Credit.
And some forms are reviewed by IRS employees and treated as if submitted on paper even if they are e-filed.
This year will be one of the most challenging for the agency, with its record low staffing numbers. The IRS workforce is the same size it was in 1970, though the U.S. population has grown exponentially and tax laws have become increasingly complicated.
Lisa Greene-Lewis, a certified public accountant and a spokesperson at TurboTax, said that if people still intend to file a return by Tax Day, “I would gather all your documents in one place so you don’t leave anything out, like W-2s and 1099s.”
Important papers such as the “Letter 6419” that outlines the Child Tax Credit payments a taxpayer should have received this year and the “Letter 6475” for stimulus payments should also be on hand.
Greene-Lewis, who has been doing taxes for more than 20 years, said “you want to report the correct amount you received so you don’t have to have to make adjustments to your refund.”
Though the agency announced plans in March to hire at least 10,000 more workers to help process returns, administration officials say the IRS is in desperate need of more funding, as its budget has fallen over the last decade.
On a call with reporters, a senior Treasury official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the IRS backlog could be remedied with higher funding levels, as the IRS' budget has decreased by more than 15% in real terms.
The IRS has put out some information and helpful links for last-minute filers — stressing that "taxpayers should be careful to file a complete and accurate tax return. If a return includes errors or is incomplete, it may require further review.
Keith Kahn, director/chair of the Delaware Society of CPAs, said he encourages everyone to file an electronic return.
When asked whether CPAs will accept clients on Tax Day, Kahn said it’s common for people to be turned away. But for those who can get an appointment, “make sure you have everything you could possibly provide to your CPA — there’s not a lot of time to hammer out strategy or to ask questions.”
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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched missile attacks on the western city of Lviv and pounded other targets across Ukraine on Monday in an intensified bid to wear down the country’s defenses ahead of an all-out assault on the east.
At least seven people were reported killed in Lviv, where plumes of thick black smoke rose over a city that had become a relative haven for people fleeing intense fighting farther east during almost two months of war.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, meanwhile, vowed to "fight absolutely to the end" in strategically vital Mariupol, where the last known pocket of resistance in the seven-week siege consisted of Ukrainian fighters holed up in a sprawling steel plant laced with tunnels. The holdouts ignored a surrender-or-die ultimatum from the Russians on Sunday.
The governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytskyy, said the Russian missile strikes hit three military infrastructure facilities and an auto mechanic shop. He said the wounded included a child, and emergency teams battled fires caused by the attack.
A hotel sheltering Ukrainians who had fled fighting in other parts of the country was among the buildings badly damaged, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.
“The nightmare of war has caught up with us even in Lviv," said Lyudmila Turchak, 47, who fled with two children from the eastern city of Kharkiv. "There is no longer anywhere in Ukraine where we can feel safe.”
A powerful explosion also rocked Vasylkiv, a town south of the capital of Kyiv that is home to a military airbase, according to residents. It was not immediately clear what was hit.
Military analysts say Russia is increasing its strikes on weapons factories, railways and other infrastructure targets across Ukraine to wear down the country’s ability to resist a major ground offensive in the Donbas, Ukraine’s mostly Russian-speaking eastern industrial heartland.
The Russian military said its missiles struck more than 20 military targets in eastern and central Ukraine in the past day — including ammunition depots, command headquarters and groups of troops and vehicles. It claimed artillery hit an additional 315 Ukrainian targets, and warplanes conducted 108 strikes on Ukrainian troops and military equipment. The claims could not be independently verified.
Gen. Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British Army, told Sky News the strikes were part of a “softening-up” campaign by Russia ahead of a planned ground offensive in the Donbas.
Ukraine’s government halted civilian evacuations for a second day on Monday, saying Russian forces were shelling and blocking the humanitarian corridors.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Ukraine had been negotiating passage from cities and towns in eastern and southeastern Ukraine, including Mariupol and other areas in the Donbas. The government of the Luhansk region in the Donbas said four civilians trying to flee were shot and killed by Russian forces.
Vereshchuk said Russia could be prosecuted for war crimes over its refusal to allow civilians to leave Mariupol.
“Your refusal to open these humanitarian corridors will in the future be a reason to prosecute all involved for war crimes,” she wrote on social media.
The Russians, in turn, accused “neo-Nazi nationalists” in Mariupol of hampering the evacuation.
Russia is bent on capturing the Donbas, where Moscow-backed separatists already control some territory, after its attempt to take the capital failed.
“We are doing everything to ensure the defense” of eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address to the nation on Sunday.
The looming offensive in the east, if successful, would give Russian President Vladimir Putin a badly needed victory to point to amid the war’s mounting casualties and the economic hardship caused by Western sanctions.
The capture of Mariupol is seen as a key step in preparations for any eastern assault since it would free Russian troops up for that new campaign. The fall of the city on the Sea of Azov would also hand Russia its biggest military victory of the war, giving it full control of a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized in 2014, and depriving Ukraine of a major port and prized industrial assets.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar has described Mariupol as a “shield defending Ukraine."
The city has been reduced to rubble in the siege, but a few thousand fighters, by Russia's estimate, are holding on to the giant, 11-square-kilometer (4-square-mile) Azovstal steel mill.
The relentless bombardment of Mariupol — including at a maternity hospital and a theater where civilians were sheltering — along with street fighting have killed at least 21,000 people, by Ukrainian estimates. An estimated 100,000 people remain in the city out of a prewar population of 450,000, trapped without food, water, heat or electricity.
A pro-Russian Ukrainian politician who was arrested last week on a treason charge appeared in a video offering himself in exchange for the evacuation of Mariupol’s trapped civilians. Ukraine’s state security services posted the video of Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party with personal ties to Putin.
It was not clear whether Medvedchuk was speaking under duress.
The eastern city of Kharkiv was hit by shelling on Monday that killed at least three people and wounded three others, according to AP journalists on the scene. One of the dead was a woman who appeared to be going out to collect water in the rain. She was found lying with a water canister and umbrella by her side.
Putin repeated his insistence that the Western sanctions “blitz” against Russia had failed.
The Russian leader said the West had not managed to “provoke panic in the markets, the collapse of the banking system and shortages in stores,” though he acknowledged a sharp increase in consumer prices in Russia, saying they rose by 17.5%.
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This story has been updated to correct the attribution on the first partial quote about fighting to the end to Ukraine’s prime minister, not president. It has also been updated to correct the wounded toll to 11 people, not 12.
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Associated Press journalists Nico Maounis and Philip Crowther in Lviv, Ukraine, and Adam Schreck in Vasylkiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report, as did other AP staff members around the world.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are mixed in the early going on Wall Street Monday as traders get back to work after a holiday weekend. The S&P 500 was up 0.2%. The benchmark index is coming off its second weekly loss in a row. Banks and other financial companies were in focus as more of them reported their latest quarterly reports. Bank of America rose 2% after turning in results that beat forecasts and were better than its competitors, while Schwab sank 9% after turning in a weaker-than-expected quarterly report. Twitter headed lower after the company adopted a takeover defense against Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. markets were pointing toward losses before the open on Monday, following Asian markets lower after China reported that its economy expanded at a 4.8% annual pace in January-March.
Futures for the S&P 500 lost 0.3% and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%.
Benchmarks fell in Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei and Shanghai. Seoul edged higher. Markets in Europe and in Hong Kong and Sydney were closed for holidays.
Wall Street benchmarks declined last week before closing for the Easter holiday.
China’s growth has fallen well below the official target of 5.5% for 2022. In quarterly terms the economy grew 1.3% in the first quarter, compared with 1.4% in the last quarter of 2021.
Authorities have ordered shutdowns in some major cities including Shanghai to battle the country's worst outbreaks of coronavirus since it flared into a pandemic in March 2020. But the biggest impact of the shutdowns will likely be seen in the current quarter.
“Overall, the data suggest that China started the year well, but as the quarter has moved on the headwinds have gotten stronger," Jeffrey Halley of Oanda said in a report.
The Shanghai Composite index fell 0.5% to 3,195.52. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index lost 1.1% to 26,799.71 while the Kospi in Seoul edged 0.1% lower, to 2,693.21. India's Sensex dropped 2.2%.
As trading resumed Monday in some world markets, attention was focused on Ukraine, where Ukrainian fighters were holding out against a capture of their shattered city of Mariupol after a 7-week siege, ignoring a surrender-or-die ultimatum from Russia.
The fall of Mariupol would be Moscow’s biggest victory of the war and free up troops to take part in a potentially climactic battle for control of Ukraine’s industrial east.
Ukraine was sending top officials to Washington for this week's spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank amid dire warnings about the impact of the Russian invasion on the global economy.
A World Bank official said Friday that Ukraine's prime minister, finance minister and central bank governor are coming. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the visit had not been officially announced.
The conflict has pushed prices for oil and other commodities sharply higher, compounding difficulties for policy makers trying to nurse along recoveries from the pandemic while also tamping down inflation that is at 40-year highs in many countries.
Central banks are raising interest rates that had stayed at record low levels to counter the devastation of the pandemic to help rein in price increases. But that can also discourage a revival in spending and investment needed to drive recoveries.
U.S. benchmark crude oil lost most of its early gains Monday, edging up 2 cents to $106.97 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It rose $2.70 to $106.95 per barrel on Thursday, before closing for Good Friday.
Brent crude, the basis for pricing international oils, climbed 26 cents to $111.96 per barrel.
In currency trading, the dollar rose to 126.59 Japanese yen from 126.44 yen late Friday. The euro rose slightly to $1.0808 from $1.0807.
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There could soon be a time when a local Kroger customer who purchases a beverage in a glass bottle, hand soap in a plastic bottle or a stainless steel container of disinfectant wipes gets one in packaging that was in use before.
Those are just some of the products that may come in “circular reuse” packaging. Kroger is working with a firm called Loop to expand sustainability to its private label brands, the company said in a news release.
Loop recovers and sanitizes reusable packaging for recirculation with new products.
It was announced in February that Kroger and Loop launched the partnership through a program at dozens of Fred Meyers stores in Portland, OR.
Goods that qualify for the circular reuse program are identified in stores with branded displays, Kroger says. Consumers may refill the containers or they may return the empty containers to Loop collection bins in stores.
Customers who return containers are charged a small deposit at the point of purchase, and the cost depends on the item. For example, it may cost 15 cents to recycle a bottle through Loop and it may be $10 for a stainless steel container of disinfecting wipes.
They are refunded upon returning containers.
Loop picks up the containers from the collection sites, processes them by cleaning and refilling them, and then gets them to stores for purchase once again.
It is adding more brands throughout this year, but some of the brands currently participating include Arbor Teas, Cascade, Clorox, Gerber, Nature’s Heart, Nature’s Path, Pantene, Seventh Generation, Stubb’s and Simple Truth by Kroger.
Non-consumer store items also qualify for circular reuse programs, including pallets and drums often used for shipping and loading.
In the U.S., Tim Horton’s, Burger King and Walgreens also have circular reuse partnerships with Loop.
Kroger has not said when the Loop program might roll out nationally.
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The question Cincinnati Reds President Phil Castellini posed to Reds fans last week was, “Where are you going to go?”
If the question had been posed that day to the Reds themselves, the answer would have been, “Straight to the bottom of the standings.” That’s where they were Sunday after their sixth straight loss. Their 2-8 record was not only the worst in the National League Central Division but the worst in all of baseball.
This is the second time in manager David Bell’s four seasons the Reds have won twice in their first 10 games. One more loss would make it their worst start since 2018 when they opened with a 2-14 record.
The Cleveland Guardians (4-5) swept the Reds in two games at Great American Ball Park after Castellini stole the headlines on Opening Day in Cincinnati with his comments about the frustration of the fans. Then the Reds traveled west to be swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers (7-2) in four games. The Reds will start a three-game series on the road against the San Diego Padres (6-5) on Monday.
Here are six takeaways from the six-game losing streak:
1. The Reds have not held a lead in the six games: The Reds have lost the games by a combined margin of 43-15. They have faced deficits of 4-0, 6-0, 3-0, 3-0, 5-0 and 7-0 and have been outscored by 2.4 runs per game, the worst number in baseball.
2. The offense hasn’t produced: The Reds rank second-to-last in baseball with a .180 batting average. Only the Arizona Diamondbacks (.152) are worst. The Reds have the worst on-base percentage (.254).
Since collecting 10 hits in a 6-3 victory against the Atlanta Braves in the season opener, the Reds do not have more than seven hits in a game. They have not homered in their last three games and struck out a total of 27 times Saturday and Sunday.
Bell remains confident the offense will turn it around.
“These guys all have done it before,” Bell said Sunday, “and they all have track records.”
3. The pitching hasn’t been any better: The Reds rank last in the National League with a 5.57 ERA. The starters share most of the blame. They have the worst ERA (7.72) in baseball. The Pittsburgh Pirates (6.63) and Texas Rangers (6.96) are the only other teams whose starters have ERAs worst than 6.00.
Hunter Greene has been a bright spot for the rotation. He has 4.35 ERA in two starts with 13 strikeouts. Tyler Mahle allowed one earned run in nine innings in his first two starts but then gave up seven earned runs in the fourth inning Sunday in a 9-1 loss to the Dodgers. His ERA climbed to 5.68.
4. Pitching help may be on the way: Luis Castillo threw 20 pitches in a bullpen session Friday and will throw another bullpen session Tuesday in San Diego as he works his way back from a right shoulder strain.
5. Kyle Farmer is the only batter off to a good start: The shortstop is hitting .333 (10 for 33) with five RBIs. He has three multi-hit games. He and first baseman Joey Votto, who’s hitting .118 (4 for 34) are the only players who have started all 10 games.
6. Nick Senzel’s absence has hurt: Senzel started the first five games but has not played since. The Reds placed him on the injured list Saturday because he was sick. Manager David Bell told reporters in Los Angeles Senzel had tested negative for COVID-19.
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Eastleigh are the visitors to Plainmoor this afternoon for the second part of a Bank Holiday double-header which has already seen Gary Johnson's Torquay United side extend their excellent run of form. A 1-0 win at Woking on Good Friday cemented United's top 10 position thanks to a first half goal from top scorer Armani Little.
The Gulls have lost just once in their last 12 matches, a run which goes back to the end of January. In that time they have recorded seven wins, and are unbeaten in their last seven appearances at Plainmoor.
Eastleigh, meanwhile, lie 19th in the table and have won just twice in 2022. They lost 2-0 at home to Bromley on Good Friday.
Injuries forced Gary Johnson to make changes in his side for the game at Woking, with midfielders Tom Lapslie and Stephen Wearne both missing out, and reserve keeper Mark Halstead also absent. Club skipper Asa Hall made a return to the side after injury, and there was also a recall for Dan Martin.
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Hollands
Volley from Hollands inside the Torquay box. Martin blocks. Danny Wright clears the corner
Asa Hall
Asa Hall shoots from 25 yards but it's an easy gather for Joe McDonnell in the Spitfires goal
Speed
Torquay break at speed. O'Connell strides on to the ball and shapes to shoot, only for Michael Kelly to deny him with a superb sliding tackle
Eastleigh change
There's a change to the published team for the visitors. Sam Smart starts and Cavaghn Miley is on the bench
Possession
Torquay lose possession in midfield and Eastleigh create a chance, but Danny Whitehall drags his shot wide of the goal
Teams
Here come the teams, with Torquay in yellow shirts, blue shorts and blue socks as ever. Eastleigh are in orange and black shirts, black shorts and orange socks
Danny Hollands
The Eastleigh skipper was the captain of Chelsea Reserves when he came here on loan in May 2006 - a barely-believable 16 years ago! He's been great for Eastleigh and is 36 years old now
Community Day
It's another Community Day here today. Local sports clubs have been invited to apply for free tickets, and there will be plenty of Community Day guests behind the Babbacombe End goal.
Pop Side
There's an area of the Pop Side taped off and closed to spectators. It's the back of the stand next to the entrance tunnel, where the Yellow Army congregates. No official word on why, but there's a post on Facebook which suggests there might have been some damage to the wall back there
Stephen Wearne
Stephen Wearne is out for the rest of the season, we hear. He has ligament damage and has returned to parent club Sunderland for treatment. That's a blow for Torquay. He had ben playing really well on loan
Hollands and Pitman
Ex-Gull Danny Hollands is the Eastleigh skipper. On their bench is Brett Pitman, who has seen service with Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Bristol Rovers and others. He's 34, and scored a few for the Gas in League Two earlier this season.
Referee
Referee today is Tom Bishop. In 13 games this season he has shown 59 yellow cards and two reds. His record is eight yellows in one game. He showed seven at Maidenhead in September when Torquay won 4-3 up there
Eastleigh team news
The visitors are McDonnell, Camp, Kelly, Miley, Broadbent, Boyce, Pritchard, Whitehall, Hollands, Silva, Harper. On the bench are Smart, Smith, Barnett, Pitman and Bragg
Torquay team news
Torquay are MacDonald; Wynter, Lewis, Moxey, Martin; Duke-McKenna, Little, Hall, O'Connell; Lemonheigh-Evans, Wright. On the bench are Omar, Edwards, Lolos, Felix and young goalkeeper Matt Wonnacott.
Keepers
Keepers from both sides are warming up. There's no Mark Halstead for Torquay, so we imagine the Gulls reserve keeper is still injured.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a man who jumped overboard from a cruise ship as it approached Florida. The Coast Guard and Carnival said the man jumped from the Carnival Cruise Lines ship Mardi Gras just after midnight about 55 miles (89 kilometers) east of Port Canaveral.
The Coast Guard responded with two cutters and an airplane to search for the 43-year-old man. Coast Guard spokesman David Micallef said the Mardi Gras and the Carnival cruise ship Elation also participated in the search. Carnival spokesman Matt Lupoli said the cruise line's care team is offering support for the man's family. Lupoli said the Coast Guard released the ship from the search efforts and it continued to Port Canaveral. It will continue sailing as scheduled. | https://www.wtxl.com/media/v/content/babbb58172d94e94d9786eb073385d2b | 2022-04-18T14:14:21 | en | 0.956375 |
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VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — Infowars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the website’s founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones faces a defamation lawsuit over his comments that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
The bankruptcy filing Sunday in Texas puts civil litigation on hold while the business reorganizes its finances.
In its court filing, Infowars said it had estimated assets of $50,000 or less and estimated liabilities of $1 million to $10 million.
Creditors listed in the bankruptcy filing include relatives of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 school massacre in Connecticut.
Earlier this month, Jones traveled to Connecticut to appear at a deposition for the lawsuit.
A judge found Jones liable for damages and a trial on how much he should pay the families is set for August.
Jones had offered to pay $120,000 per plaintiff to resolve a lawsuit. The families rejected the offer. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/alex-jones-infowars-files-for-bankruptcy-protection | 2022-04-18T14:14:27 | en | 0.970904 |
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Nearly 18 months after removing it from the menu, Taco Bell said the Mexican Pizza will return to the menu.
Taco Bell said the item will be available May 19.
“Our menu is full of fan-favorites, but the Mexican Pizza is at the top of that list,” said Mark King, CEO of Taco Bell. “From its flashy introduction to menus in 1985 as ‘Pizzazz Pizza’ to its inspiration behind the creation of infamous jingles, Mexican Pizza has a long history with the brand and I’m glad we could give fans what they crave and bring our classic Mexican Pizza back home where it belongs.”
Taco Bell noted a Change.org petition had more than 171,000 online signatures.
“Like many Indian-Americans who grew up vegetarian, we had limited access to the ‘fun’ fast food, so Taco Bell became a bridge to belonging in American culture for many kids like me who grew up in immigrant households,” said Krish Jagirdar, superfan and organizer of the Change.org petition. “That’s what made it especially devastating when the Mexican Pizza was pulled from menus in 2020, but fast forward two years later and I found myself on a conference call with the Taco Bell team as they shared news of the return of the Mexican Pizza, showing that listening to their fans is clearly embedded in their DNA.”
Taco Bell said loyalty members can get early dibs on the Mexican Pizza May 17. Taco Bell Rewards Members can claim a free Mexican Pizza on the Taco Bell app May 19.
Taco Bell removed the Mexican Pizza in November 2020 along with shredded chicken items.
Taco Bell said at the time the changes to the menu helped in “creating a faster and more seamless restaurant experience.” | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/taco-bell-returns-a-top-item-to-the-menu | 2022-04-18T14:14:33 | en | 0.967583 |
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Today is Tax Day, the federal deadline for individual tax filings and payments. Tax Day is typically on April 15 but it was moved this year because it conflicted with a local holiday in D.C.
The IRS expects to receive tens of millions of last-minute filings electronically and through paper forms.
The executive director of the National Society of Tax Professionals, Nina Tross, says if people haven’t filed their taxes by now they’re better off filing an extension.
Tross adds that filing an extension has “zero effect” as long as filers have paid their income taxes by Tax Day.
Tross warns that rushing a return to meet the deadline only to have to amend it later is likely to draw a second look by the IRS.
The IRS reports that it has already received more than 100 million returns this tax filing season. The average refund this year is $3,175, according to the IRS. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/tax-day-2022-has-arrived | 2022-04-18T14:14:39 | en | 0.978418 |
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