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THE ‘CHHATH Maha Puja’ was celebrated in the industrial city of Pimpri-Chinchwad on Sunday. Amid an atmosphere of faith, worship and devotion, Chhath Puja was celebrated at a total of 17 ghats in the city.
A ‘Maha Kumbh’ concluded at Indrayani river ghat in Moshi on the occasion of the Chhath Puja festival.
An ocean of devotees flocked to witness the spectacle of the Kashi Ganga Aarti. On this occasion, 1008 Mahamandaleshwar Swami Pranavananda Saraswati Maharaj, Suresh Chavanke, founder of Rashtra Nirman Sansthan, head of Sudarshan TV, Shyamji Maharaj, and Rajesh Pandey, member of Pune University, were present on the special invitation of Dr Lalbabu Gupta, national president of Vishwa Shri Ram Sena.
A total of 100 ‘Chhath Mata’ altars were made on this ghat. Life guards, ambulances, three boats and police security were deployed at every corner, monitored by drone cameras.
Pandurang Shivale, president of Warkari Seva Foundation, secretary Sanyaram Hivarale, treasurer Balavadhoot, Yogi Ganesh and others were present from Alandi.
Chavanke said the people of Bihar carry their culture with them wherever they go, whether in the country or abroad. “Saving the environment means saving humanity,” he said. Dr Rajesh Pandey appreciated Lalbabu Gupta’s work and assured him of full cooperation from the Maharashtra administration.
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Ashley Tellis on framing China as part of Southern Asia, why India could feel the need to retest its thermonuclear weapons, the India-US nuclear deal, and Russia’s nuclear blackmail. This session was moderated by Shubhajit Roy, Deputy Chief of National Bureau.
I’d written a book on the Indian nuclear weapons programme soon after the 1998 tests. I wanted to follow up with a comparative study of India, China and Pakistan but, between my joining the Bush administration and working on the US-India civil nuclear agreement, the opportunities for writing a serious book quickly disappeared. The Covid pandemic, however, produced enforced isolation and the opportunity to return to a subject where dramatic changes were afoot.
When I finally put pen to paper, I was struck by a few things. First, the importance of treating ‘Southern Asia’ as a unit of analysis because China had become an integral nuclear player in the Indian subcontinent. Second, the impact that external developments have had on the patterns of nuclearisation in the region, especially, the rise of US-China competition and the disappearance of Sino-Russian rivalry, both of which have shaped China’s evolving nuclear programme. Third, the striking transformations in the nuclear weapons programs themselves in China, India, and Pakistan since 1998.
Documenting these transformations constitutes the core of the book. In 1998, all three countries sought small nuclear arsenals; today, the arsenals are large, albeit with considerable variation, and growing. In 1998, all three countries pursued simple nuclear strategies centered largely on existential deterrence; today, the nuclear strategies are more complex and range from graduated escalation to, in the Chinese case, a growing capacity for counterforce strikes. In 1998, all three countries seemed satisfied with maintaining a placid nuclear posture; today, the shift toward executing speedy nuclear responses has become the norm. Despite these transitions, however, the three countries are also pulling in very different directions. These “asymmetries” have major consequences, including for the safety, security, and effectiveness of the respective deterrents, which the book examines at length.
In the ’80s and ’90s, the United States aggressively pursued non-proliferation policies toward South Asia—aimed solely at India and Pakistan. At the time, India and Pakistan were viewed as the two main problem states for nuclear non-proliferation. The central objective of the United States then was to cap and ultimately roll back the Indian and Pakistani nuclear programmes. Washington’s field of vision was limited to ‘South Asia,’ and that meant India and Pakistan. New Delhi would persistently make the point that looking at just India and Pakistan misses an important part of the non-proliferation problem, which is China.
A non-proliferation policy that overlooked China was bound to fail because China was an integral part of the security competition in ‘South Asia.’ China, of course, hated the idea of ‘Southern Asia’ because Beijing wanted to maintain the fiction that it had no role to play in the proliferation problems of the region. There were many in the United States who unfortunately bought into that argument. My book’s use of the term, ‘Southern Asia’ emphasises the fact that there are three intertwined nuclear actors—China, India, and Pakistan—who each in their own way are responding to wider strategic developments that transcend the region.
India can resist both Pakistani and Chinese aggression adequately with its conventional capabilities… India really does not require nuclear weapons except to prevent attacks and fend off nuclear blackmail
There is a temptation to rank-order nuclear capabilities in a way that we do with conventional military forces. But one must be careful about what can be inferred from such a rank ordering because there is a big difference between nuclear and conventional weapons. As Bernard Brody famously phrased it, nuclear weapons are ‘absolute’ weapons. Even the least capable nuclear state can inflict horrendous damage on the most capable nuclear state. That is important to keep in mind when thinking about relative capabilities.
Yet, relative capabilities do matter, especially in a crisis. So, if I was forced to rank order the three states, the most powerful would obviously be China. The reasons for China’s preeminence are both historical and power political. Historically, China started its nuclear weapons program first and thus enjoyed a longer lead time over India and Pakistan. Furthermore, China today is challenging the United States, which makes Beijing’s imperative for possessing front-rank nuclear capabilities all the more important.
Pakistan comes next. Pakistan sees itself as a beleaguered state and one whose security is constantly at risk from India, a much more powerful country. Pakistan is thus driven both by its fears, on one hand, and its ambitions on another, to build up the largest and most sophisticated nuclear arsenal possible.
India is last in this game for many reasons. There is still residual discomfort with nuclear weapons in New Delhi. But, more importantly, India is fundamentally secure because it is large and capable country. It can resist both Pakistani and Chinese aggression adequately with its conventional capabilities and, therefore, it has not invested inordinately in nuclear weapons. India really does not require nuclear weapons except to prevent nuclear attacks on itself and fend off nuclear blackmail. Except for the fact that its adversaries possess them, India does not need nuclear weapons. So, it is not surprising to me that India trails its competitors on this count.
If the Russians can successfully get away with such coercion, could the Chinese follow in their footsteps in the future? That is an unsettling thought. And it impacts India directly
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We talked earlier about the absolute weapon. But even ‘absolute’ weapons are accompanied by an asterisk because there is a fundamental distinction between atomic weapons and thermonuclear weapons. Crudely speaking, atomic weapons produce smaller yields, usually in the few tens of kilotons. Thermonuclear weapons, in contrast, can produce yields in the hundreds of kilotons and beyond into the megaton range. Hiroshima and Nagasaki admittedly were destroyed by 15-20 kiloton atomic weapons. But Hiroshima and Nagasaki were small towns. They were nothing in size compared to the megacities of Southern Asia — Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, Bombay, and Karachi.
Early in the nuclear era, it was concluded that high-yield weapons, which bestow ‘one city, one bomb’ destructive capabilities, made the most effective deterrents. Thermonuclear weapons are thus unique because their enormous destructive capabilities can produce successful deterrence despite small numbers. During the Cold War, for example, China had probably fewer than 200 nuclear weapons, but these were largely thermonuclear devices and hence were deemed sufficient for deterrence.
India attempted to acquire similar capabilities in 1998. I think that test failed. In the normal course of things, if a stable relationship exists with adversaries such as Pakistan and China, India may not, at the end of the day, need thermonuclear weapons. There are very few Pakistani cities that require high-yield weapons for extensive destruction. China, however, is a different matter. It has a huge landmass, very large cities, and significant nuclear advantages.
I conclude, therefore, that, depending on where Sino-Indian relations go in the future, India could feel the need to retest its thermonuclear weapons in order to deploy a powerful deterrent. When that happens, there will be consequences for US-India relations, because the entire US-India civil nuclear deal and India’s integration into the global nuclear order, particularly with respect to the Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) waiver, were both premised on the assumption that India would not test nuclear weapons again.
Yes, that is correct. There was widespread international consensus after the 1998 tests, including within the US government, that India’s thermonuclear test had fizzled, that is, it had failed to produce its declared yield. Several Indian nuclear scientists who had intimate knowledge of India’s thermonuclear design, such as P. K. Iyengar and K. Santhanam, subsequently admitted to this failure. Today, the main divide is between those who know that the 1998 thermonuclear test really failed and those who feel compelled to pretend otherwise because of understandable bureaucratic or political necessity.
None of this would matter if China was not engaged in a major nuclear expansion of its own and if Sino-Indian relations had remained amicable. Because both these problems will intensify, I think India may be compelled one day to test again. And when that happens, I believe it is in US interests to avoid penalising India in any way. In fact, I would go further: it is in US interests now to help India to build a survivable nuclear deterrent. And the best avenue for doing that is foreign assistance to India’s nuclear submarine program. And the best candidate to offer that cooperation is France—with US support.
Nuclear weapons hopefully deter nuclear conflicts, but even as they can deter such threats, they stimulate other kinds of conflicts. What the Russians have now reminded us of is what the Pakistanis actually first taught us in the 1980s: while nuclear weapons can prevent full-scale attacks on a nuclear-armed defender, they do not guarantee the eradication of dangerous revanchist impulses. The Russians, in effect, are pursuing a revanchist conventional war against Ukraine while brandishing their nuclear weapons to prevent other countries from supporting Kyiv’s defence. This is unadulterated nuclear blackmail.
If the Russians can successfully get away with such coercion, could the Chinese follow in their footsteps? That is an unsettling thought. And it impacts India directly. As long as Sino-Indian relations remain stable, India does not have to worry too much about the character of the relative nuclear balance. And as long as there is no US-China competition, there will be few knock-on effects on India’s nuclear deterrent. But both these elements appear to be changing fundamentally, and that leads me to the conclusion that India needs to think seriously about both the character of its nuclear capabilities and how they stack up against the Chinese threat. These realities take me in the direction of saying that India has to think about nuclear deterrence in a more sophisticated way.
I would disagree with that conclusion substantially for several reasons. It was, of course, symbolic because it was meant to signal to the international community that India was different, and that the United States was prepared to treat India differently. But the US-India nuclear deal was far more important than that: it created the preconditions for the NSG waiver, which allowed the international community to resume nuclear trade with India. The biggest benefit of the nuclear deal actually has been that it has allowed India’s Department of Atomic Energy to buy nuclear fuel abroad to run its domestic reactors and to participate once again in international nuclear R&D cooperation. The US-India nuclear deal thus gave India’s civilian nuclear energy program a new lease on life—not to mention all the other strategic transformations that came in its wake.
I think that Pakistan will continue to complain about the changes that India made to Article 370 but it is really not Islamabad’s prerogative, because these changes pertain mainly to the relationship between the Indian union and the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan is involved only to the degree that it claims ownership of the state. But I think Islamabad is also realistic enough to know that this is a done deal—and that Pakistan has to live with it.
There was a Sino-Indian crisis in the making long before the changes to Article 370. That crisis was brewing because of China’s monadic vision of itself in Asia and the world, China’s growing confidence stemming from the widening power gap with India, China’s unrequited expectations of deference from India, and China’s increasing anxiety about India’s deepening ties with the United States. These factors created the preconditions for a crisis. The events surrounding Article 370 merely provided the trigger. The Chinese government misread this decision completely, thinking not about the domestic exigencies that provoked it but rather viewing it as the leading edge of New Delhi’s evolving challenge to China’s control over Tibet, a neuralgic subject in Beijing.
When bilateral protests cut no ice, China upped the ante by working with Pakistan to force a discussion and a resolution in the UNSC that would condemn India. This effort was jointly defeated by the United States and India in partnership with other friends, which produced a humiliation for Beijing. China wanted to use the UNSC to embarrass India, but it failed spectacularly. And publicly. These things didn’t go down very well in Beijing and, as they say, the rest is history.
There is no doubt about that. For the first time in a long while, the West is deeply at odds with Russia at exactly the time when New Delhi is attempting to protect its longstanding relationship with Moscow. It is clearly a stress test, and we cannot pretend otherwise. And as Russian-Indian relations persist, even if they do so only in narrow areas like energy and defense, the anxieties in Western capitals will increase, especially as Putin doubles down on egregious behavior like issuing nuclear threats.
Western policymakers are sophisticated enough to know that they cannot pursue a singular agenda with an important country such as India. So, they will balance their discomfort with India’s relations with Russia against the benefits that India brings to the concurrent competition with China. That is the tightrope that different Western capitals are trying to walk currently, but it could be severely buffeted again depending on the character of future Russian escalations in Ukraine and India’s response to them.
I think it would be how fast the relationship has evolved. I always imagined that we would get to where we are today someday, but I thought it would take much longer. We had always envisaged such a relationship when we first began thinking about its transformation in 2001-2004. But I never thought we’d be able to pull this off in 20 years.
In retrospect, I think we’ve been lucky on two counts. First, both in India and in the United States, we’ve lucked out with having broad bipartisan support for this objective. Congress and BJP governments essentially pursued the same policy in Delhi, and Republican and Democratic governments pursued the same policy in Washington, which is really surprising given the differences that otherwise mark the two sides in each country. Second, the transformation of the global system has occurred much faster than I expected: China’s intensifying rivalry with the United States and its Asian neighbors has produced the glue that has bound New Delhi and Washington ever more deeply and so, I guess, we have to be grateful to Xi Jinping after all.
We have not moved as quickly on the economic front as we should have. I would also like to see a broader set of constituencies that have a stake in a strong US-India relationship on both sides. For all the new entrants, it is still driven primarily by strategists. And, finally, there are still unresolved differences about global order—I wished we had made more progress in bridging those divides.
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With UTSA enjoying an open week, coach Jeff Traylor used the opportunity to roam some of San Antonio’s other sidelines, visiting Brandeis’ 35-28 win against Clark on Thursday and Steele’s 38-36 triple-overtime win over Judson on Friday.
Before reaching out to any future Roadrunners, Traylor is briefed by his staff with a packet of about a half-dozen pages relaying the prospect’s basic information, hobbies and interests, other schools he’s talking to and even insight on his family, living and financial situations.
That identification process kicks off a recruiting cycle that Traylor said is best broken down in three parts: evaluation, recruiting and development.
Q: How much prep work do you or the staff do before you talk to a recruit for the first time?
A: Here’s a good example. This packet is just to get me prepared for one phone call. The biggest deal is, ‘Who is the one?’ This is the first question I always ask. If you’re going to come play for me, who is the one person who is going to have the biggest influence on your decision? It could be grandmother, it could be a coach. You want to know who the influencer is. That’s the person you have to get. Once they give you that information, you’re not only recruiting him, you’re recruiting the influencer.
Q: Do you work from the player out to the influencer, or do you reach the influencer first and then move back in to the player?
A: Both, they’re both equally important. What’s sad is all this money that’s getting passed around right now, you have a lot of people trying to be influencers who are not good people.
Q: Is it harder to find diamonds in the rough now, because the access to information is so high?
A: Yeah, but the diamonds in the rough, they’re still there. Like Kevorian Barnes (freshman running back from San Augustine), he’s going to be a really good player before he gets out of here. Chris Carpenter (sophomore wide receiver from Jacksonville), he’s not a diamond in the rough because he went to Colorado first and came back. But you don’t see a lot of those.
Q: Does the uptick in transfers change the high school evaluation at all, because you need fewer guys from that level to fill out a class?
A: I think that’s where the diamonds are, though, because there are guys who are getting left out. Everybody is doing the same thing you said, so you can really find some really good high school players. We really struck gold, and you haven’t even seen them yet.
If you can hit on six difference-makers per class, that means you’re going to have 18 difference-makers on the field when they’re sophomores, and you did something. But you’re going to miss half the time, unfortunately. People don’t want to hear that.
Here’s recruiting: Evaluation is one piece, right? Just to evaluate them. How do you do that? The best way to evaluate is to have them in camp, coach them yourself, and watch them play the game in person. That’s the best way to evaluate.
Then the next piece is recruiting. Now you’ve evaluated them, and you have to recruit them. How are you going to do that? You have to figure out what is the way to get that kid to come to your school? Who is the person who is helping most with the decision, and make sure they know who we are. I believe like-minded people surround themselves with like-minded people. I want people who are attracted to us. I don’t really beg kids to come play for us. We recruit them, love them, tell them what we’re about. We don’t get into mind games. We don’t negative recruit. We don’t say anything bad about the other people. We have enough good stuff here. We just believe that attracts them to us. That’s why I think our locker room gets along so well. That’s why I think our team gets along so well.
You have the evaluation piece, you have the recruiting piece, but the piece people don’t talk about enough is the development piece. It’s developing them. Nutrition. Academics. Strength. Scheme. What can the guy do? What does he do well? Let’s make sure what he does well, we put him in that position, and what he doesn’t do well, we minimize.
That’s it. That’s evaluation, recruiting, development. Everybody always talks about the recruiting the most, and they leave out the evaluation and the development part, which is probably more important than recruiting, because recruiting is a yucky word. It’s like, ‘Who is the best salesman,’ almost. Well, if you identified a bad player, or you identified a good one and didn’t develop him, it doesn’t matter if you’re a great recruiter.
Q: What would you tell a young or aspiring coach about the biggest key to developing strong relationships that lead guys to want to come play for you?
A: Be true to who you are. Know who you are as a human, and be true to yourself. Fake people are attracted to fake people. Real people are attracted to real people. Like-minded people surround themselves with like-minded people. You show me their five friends, and I’ll show you who they’re going to be one day. Hang around dogs, you get fleas. And we’re pretty honest about that with them.
I’m an imperfect coach, coaching imperfect people. I’d not dare be righteous, but we want to be real and authentic. Our Triangle of Toughness culture, that’s all we talk about with those kids. That 210 brand, that’s it. That’s the very first thing. If you can’t be a person of integrity, we don’t want you here. We don’t need situational integrity. I want people with juice. You’re either breathing life into people or sucking it out of them. I don’t want to be around those kind of people. If you don’t like the Energizer Bunny every day, like me, then you don’t need to come here. Because I’m like this every day. So that’s where we start, and that’s where we finish. Some guys are very attracted to that, and some guys are not. Most of them regret it. Most of them are going to call us and go, ‘Coach, I should’ve listened. I’m regretful.’ Some don’t, but most do.
Q: Do you spend any time at all looking outside of Texas for high school prospects?
A: It would have to be a connection. We have a lot of contacts in New Orleans. (Cornerbacks coach) Nick Graham, he knows everybody in that area. (Defensive coordinator Jess) Loepp is from Oklahoma, so he gets a lot of calls from Oklahoma. So far, we’ve been 100 percent, with 29 Texas high school kids. You don’t need to leave the state, but if we have a connection, we will.
That’s how people negative recruit against us. If you’re not from Texas, you’re not going to play. Really? That’s crazy. Antonio Parks is not from Texas. I can go through a list of guys. Lucas (Dean) is from Australia. Martavius French is from Memphis. Venly (Tatafu) and Ahofitu Maka are from the (Pacific) Islands. So, we have taken kids, but that’s the negative recruiting we get. We don’t care where they’re from. But we start in Texas. You don’t really need to get outside of Texas.
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When UTSA running back Brenden Brady was playing at Steele, his father used to set him up with cryotherapy appointments after each game.
Reading up on the benefits of the treatment, Brady could see and feel how the exposure to frigid temperatures created an increased blood flow to help address joint and muscle issues.
That type of treatment has been much rarer in Brady’s time at UTSA, as coach Jeff Traylor said making the method available to the Roadrunners is “a pretty expensive deal.”
But as UTSA uses this weekend’s open date as a chance to heal a banged-up roster, Traylor and the Roadrunners are trying cryotherapy as well as yoga, hoping to enter the final stretch of the season fresh.
“We’ve never been this injured. We’ve never been this beat up,” Traylor said. “Drastic times require drastic measures.”
The Roadrunners already know they will be without four key cogs for the rest of the season: preseason Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year Rashad Wisdom at safety, all-conference right tackle Makai Hart, the team’s top defensive lineman in Brandon Matterson, and a potential starter at offensive tackle in Demetris Allen.
But Traylor said all four are projected to return to UTSA next season, and no other Roadrunners are saddled with long-term injuries.
Offensive tackles Ernesto Almaraz, Venly Tatafu and Payne He’Bert will have a chance to move closer to full health after battling injuries through the year, while Brady and fellow running back Trelon Smith can return to form after playing at less than 100 percent in recent weeks.
“This is definitely important for us, just to get our bodies back right,” quarterback Frank Harris said. “Get away from football for a little bit, and then keep growing and keep learning.”
The Roadrunners’ practice last week was on “a pretty different schedule just to accommodate the number of injuries,” Traylor said, with UTSA taking a load off many top players.
Traylor said he and his staff looked at potential causes for the rash of injuries, including the change this year to allow more on-field training during the summer. The Roadrunners took a particularly close look at offensive tackle — a position that has been without as many as five top options at points of the season.
“By allowing football in the summers, did we do enough flexibility?” Traylor said. “Did we do enough conditioning? Did we do enough strength training? Did we play too much football? You’re always during the bye week taking a big, hard, long look at it.”
After missing the previous four games, Almaraz returned at right tackle for UTSA last week against North Texas and played every snap, looking like he “hadn’t missed a play,” Harris said.
Tatafu was back at left tackle last week after missing the previous game, and Traylor said next week’s matchup against UAB was the “target date” for He’Bert to return from an injury that has kept him out since early in fall camp, though his availability is “still to be decided.”
At running back, Smith has been “frustrated” and “just not healthy” because of a nagging ankle injury that has limited him to 181 yards and a pair of touchdowns in six games this year, Traylor said.
“We’re trying to get him as much time as he needs,” Traylor said. “We have some time, we think, to get Tre healthy. We have to do that. I feel terrible for the young man.”
Brady has racked up 517 yards with seven touchdowns this season, but he, too, is ailing, rushing just seven times two weeks ago against Florida International.
Though Brady said playing “a little banged-up” is part of the game, he hoped the open week would help him get his legs back after the grind of eight consecutive games.
“This week is big, just because I haven’t been playing 100 percent fresh,” Brady said. “I’m just getting as healthy as I can, and I think I can offer a lot in the later part of the season.”
The timing of the open week also gives UTSA a larger window to prepare for a trip to face UAB — the only team aside from the Roadrunners to earn first-place votes in the Conference USA preseason poll.
Though the Blazers dropped two of their first four league games while the Roadrunners charged out to an unbeaten 4-0 start, Traylor said he stills sees a “beautiful, long, athletic” team on both sides of the ball, qualities that led him to declare during the summer that UAB should be the league favorite.
“That’s the most talented team, that plays the hardest, that has a winning tradition,” Traylor said. “And we have to go on the road to do it.”
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-2-9
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-2-1-1
(seven, two, one, one)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-2-1-1
(seven, two, one, one) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17616093.php | 2022-11-28T19:40:41 | en | 0.923573 |
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Monday condemned former President Donald Trump’s meeting with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
Cassidy is notable in that his statement directly called out Trump by name, unlike some other prominent Republicans, who offered mealy-mouthed condemnations. The senator also chose to weigh in hours before the Senate returned to Washington, where lawmakers are sure to be asked about the controversial meeting by reporters on Capitol Hill.
Cassidy was one of the seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump for inciting the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The senator doesn’t face reelection until 2026, giving him more freedom to speak out than other elected GOP officers.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) also denounced the dinner on Monday. Trump “never should have had a meal or even a meeting with” Fuentes, she told NBC News.
Most Republicans were silent following the dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday. The few GOP officials who did speak out have criticized Trump in the past. Republican congressional leaders have yet to weigh in.
Fuentes, a right-wing political extremist, proudly espouses racist and antisemitic views. He has denied the Holocaust and he attended the “Unite the Right” neo-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. Ye made a number of antisemitic comments earlier this year, earning him suspensions on social media platforms.
Over the weekend, Trump confirmed the dinner took place but claimed he had no idea who Fuentes was. He also claimed that Ye said nothing antisemitic as the men dined.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-9-3-9
(seven, nine, three, nine)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-9-3-9
(seven, nine, three, nine) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17616115.php | 2022-11-28T19:40:47 | en | 0.905816 |
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
8-9-1-6, Fireball: 3
(eight, nine, one, six; Fireball: three)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
8-9-1-6, Fireball: 3
(eight, nine, one, six; Fireball: three) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Four-Midday-game-17616118.php | 2022-11-28T19:40:49 | en | 0.838482 |
One of the people who helped subdue the Club Q shooter in Colorado Springs last weekend says he “simply wanted to save the family I found.”
Thomas James, a U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class, helped disarm the shooter while another man, a decorated U.S. Army veteran named Richard Fierro, overpowered and detained the assailant with their own handgun.
A third person also stepped in to help, reportedly stomping the shooter’s face with her high heels.
Five people were killed and at least 17 others were injured, including James, who released his first public statement Sunday through Centura Penrose Hospital, where he’s recovering from undisclosed injuries.
“If I had my way, I would shield everyone I could from the nonsensical acts of hate in the world, but I am only one person,” James said in the statement. “Thankfully, we are family, and family looks after one another. We came a long way from Stonewall. Bullies aren’t invincible.”
He closed with a defiant message of hope for young people.
“To the youth I say be brave,” he said. “Your family is out there. You are loved and valued. So when you come out of the closet, come out swinging.”
Here’s James’ statement in full:
I simply wanted to save the family I found. If I had my way, I would shield everyone I could from the nonsensical acts of hate in the world, but I am only one person.
Thankfully, we are family, and family looks after one another. We came a long way from Stonewall. Bullies aren’t invincible.
I want to support everyone who has known the pain and loss that have been all too common these past few years. My thoughts are with those we lost on Nov. 19, and those who are still recovering from their injuries.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
2-0-4, Fireball:
(two, zero, four; Fireball: zero)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
2-0-4, Fireball:
(two, zero, four; Fireball: zero) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Midday-game-17616117.php | 2022-11-28T19:40:55 | en | 0.810138 |
Joy Behar rang in a new week on “The View” Monday, but not in the way she intended.
During the opening minutes of the show, Behar’s phone suddenly started playing music, and she couldn’t get it to stop.
And, of course, it all played out for the viewers at home.
“Oh my God, turn it off,” Behar said, slapping the screen of the phone. “Stop it! And why does Siri talk to me in the middle of nowhere? ‘I don’t understand what you’re saying.’ It’s like, who’s talking to you? I’m not talking to you.”
At one point it seemed as if Behar managed to turn off the phone, only to have it start ringing again when she was trying to talk with her fellow host Ana Navarro about Navarro’s recent bout with the coronavirus.
Although co-host Sarah Haines tried to help Behar, the smartphone snafu only ended after Sunny Hostin, another of the show’s hosts, grabbed the phone and took it backstage.
Behar then apologized on-air to her producer, Brian Testa.
“I’m sorry, I have no control over technology,” Behar said.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
6-1-4, WB: 1
(six, one, four; WB: one)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
6-1-4, WB: 1
(six, one, four; WB: one) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play3-Day-game-17616155.php | 2022-11-28T19:41:01 | en | 0.884642 |
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began spewing ash and debris from its summit, prompting civil defense officials to warn residents on Monday to prepare in case the eruption causes lava to flow toward communities.
The eruption began late Sunday night in the summit caldera of the volcano on the Big Island following a series of closely spaced, fairly large earthquakes, Ken Hon, the scientist-in-charge at the Hawaiian Volcanos Observatory, said at an early morning news conference. Magma moved to the surface, although lava flows were contained within the summit area and weren’t threatening nearby communities.
A time-lapse video of the eruption from overnight shows molten lava lighting up the caldera, moving across it like waves on the ocean.
There have been some photos provided to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory that suggest that the south end of the caldera has overflowed, causing some lava flows a few kilometers (miles) out of the caldera, Hon said.
In some previous eruptions, lava has overflowed the caldera but never made it close to populated areas.
“Right now we are looking at indications, trying to figure out if this is going to be an eruption that remains within the summit of Mauna Loa or moves down one of the rift zones either to the southwest and to the northeast,” Hon said.
“We don’t want to try and second guess the volcano,” Hon said. “We have to let it actually show us what it’s going to do and then we inform people of what is happening ASAP.”
There is currently no indication of any migration of the eruption into a rift zone, officials said. A rift zone is where the mountain is splitting apart and the rock is cracked and relatively weak - making it easier for magma to emerge.
“At this time, it’s not a time to be alarmed,” Big Island Mayor Mitch Roth said.
There are no evacuation orders.
Even though it noted there is no indication of lava moving into a rift one, Hawaii County Civil Defense announced it has opened shelters in Kailua-Kona and Pahala because it has reports of people self-evacuating along the South Kona coast.
Scientists will have to wait to see if this remains a summit-only eruption or a rift zone eruption. The average Mauna Loa eruption is not typically prolonged, lasting a couple of weeks, Hon said.
“Typically, Mauna Loa eruptions start off with the heaviest volume first,” Hon said. “After a few days, it starts to calm down a little bit.”
The USGS warned residents at risk from Mauna Loa lava flows should review their eruption preparations. Scientists had been on alert because of a recent spike in earthquakes at the summit of the volcano, which last erupted in 1984.
Portions of the Big Island were under an ashfall advisory issued by the National Weather Service in Honolulu, which said up to a quarter-inch (0.6 centimeters) of ash could accumulate in some areas.
Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that together make up the Big Island of Hawaii, which is the southernmost island in the Hawaiian archipelago.
Mauna Loa, rising 13,679 feet (4,169 meters) above sea level, is the much larger neighbor to Kilauea volcano, which erupted in a residential neighborhood and destroyed 700 homes in 2018. Some of its slopes are much steeper than Kilauea’s - so when it erupts, lava can flow much faster.
During a 1950 eruption, the mountain’s lava traveled 15 miles (24 kilometers) to the ocean in less than three hours.
Tourism is the economic engine for Hawaii, but Roth predicted few problems for those on vacation during the eruption.
“If it does go into one of the rift zones, it’s going to impact a very small area of the island,” he said. “It will be spectacular where it is, but the chances of it really interrupting the visitor industry — very, very slim.”
For some, the eruption might cut down on some travel time, even if there is more vog, or volcanic smog caused by higher sulfur dioxide emissions.
“But the good thing is you don’t have to drive from Kona over to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to see an eruption anymore,” Roth said. “You can just look out your window at night and you’ll be able to see Mauna Loa erupting.”
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
8-4-2-3, WB: 1
(eight, four, two, three; WB: one)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
8-4-2-3, WB: 1
(eight, four, two, three; WB: one) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17616154.php | 2022-11-28T19:41:07 | en | 0.882331 |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Midday" game were:
03-17-18-22-26-29-38-40-42-46-48-58-60-62-64-69-71-73-78-80, BE: 42
(three, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-two, twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty-eight, forty, forty-two, forty-six, forty-eight, fifty-eight, sixty, sixty-two, sixty-four, sixty-nine, seventy-one, seventy-three, seventy-eight, eighty; BE: forty-two) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Quick-Draw-Midday-game-17616017.php | 2022-11-28T19:41:09 | en | 0.794025 |
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Five Connecticut police officers were charged with misdemeanors Monday over their treatment of a Black man after he was paralyzed from the chest down in the back of a police van.
Randy Cox, 36, was being driven to a New Haven police station June 19 for processing on a weapons charge when the driver braked hard, apparently to avoid a collision, causing Cox to fly headfirst into the wall of the van, police said.
The five New Haven police officers were arrested on charges of second-degree reckless endangerment and cruelty to persons.
The officers each posted a $25,000 bond and are due back in court Dec. 8, according to a news release from state police. Messages seeking comment were sent to attorneys for the officers.
The case has drawn outrage from civil rights advocates like the NAACP, along with comparisons to the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore. Gray, who was also Black, died in 2015 after he suffered a spinal injury while handcuffed and shackled in a city police van.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Five Connecticut police officers were charged with misdemeanors Monday over their treatment of a Black man after he was paralyzed from the chest down in the back of a police van.
Randy Cox, 36, was being driven to a New Haven police station June 19 for processing on a weapons charge when the driver braked hard, apparently to avoid a collision, causing Cox to fly headfirst into the wall of the van, police said.
As Cox pleaded for help, saying he couldn’t move, some of the officers mocked him and accused him of being drunk and faking his injuries. Then, the officers dragged him by his feet from the van and placed him in a holding cell prior to his eventual transfer to a hospital.
The five New Haven police officers were charged with second-degree reckless endangerment and cruelty to persons.
The officers turned themselves in at a state police barracks Monday. Each was processed, posted a $25,000 bond and are due back in court Dec. 8, according to a news release from state police. Messages seeking comment were sent to attorneys for the officers.
The case has drawn outrage from civil rights advocates like the NAACP, along with comparisons to the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore. Gray, who was also Black, died in 2015 after he suffered a spinal injury while handcuffed and shackled in a city police van.
Five officers were placed on administrative leave in Cox’s case. The state later dropped all charges against Cox that led to him being put in the van. They included illegal possession of a firearm and threatening.
New Haven officials announced a series of police reforms this summer stemming from the case, including eliminating the use of police vans for most prisoner transports and using marked police vehicles instead. They also require officers to immediately call for an ambulance to respond to their location if the prisoner requests or appears to need medical aid. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/5-officers-charged-after-Black-man-paralyzed-in-17616113.php | 2022-11-28T19:41:15 | en | 0.983806 |
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Nearly 9,000 laying hens in Webster County were killed after federal officials confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the flock, state agriculture officials said.
It is the 11th case of the highly contagious avian influenza in Missouri this year, involving nearly 435,000 birds on six commercial farms and four backyard flocks, the Missouri Department of Agriculture said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says more than 52.3 million birds — mostly chickens and turkeys on domestic farms — have been killed in 46 states as part of this year’s outbreak.
On Saturday, Nebraska agriculture officials announced another 1.8 million chickens were to be slaughtered on a farm in northeast Nebraska. About 6.8 million birds have been killed in the state this year after the disease was found on 13 farms. That's second only to Iowa’s 15.5 million birds killed.
Federal health officials say the disease does not present a food safety risk to humans.
The farm in Webster County was quarantined and the birds were euthanized on the property, Missouri agriculture officials said. State and federal agriculture officials are conducting additional surveillance and testing in the areas around the affected flock. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/9-000-hens-killed-after-latest-Missouri-case-of-17615908.php | 2022-11-28T19:41:21 | en | 0.971744 |
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Five officers charged with misdemeanors after Black man Randy Cox was paralyzed in a police van that braked suddenly.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Business groups are increasing the pressure on lawmakers to intervene and block a railroad strike before next month’s deadline in the stalled contract talks.
A coalition of more than 400 business groups sent a letter to Congressional leaders Monday urging them to step into the stalled talks because of fears about the devastating potential impact of a strike that could force many businesses to shut down if they can't get the rail deliveries they need. Commuter railroads and Amtrak would also be affected in a strike because many of them use tracks owned by the freight railroads.
The business groups led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers and National Retail Federation said even a short-term strike would have a tremendous impact and the economic pain would start to be felt even before the Dec. 9 strike deadline because the railroads would stop hauling hazardous chemicals, fertilizers and perishable goods up to a week beforehand to keep those products from being stranded somewhere along the tracks.
“A potential rail strike only adds to the headwinds facing the U.S. economy,” the businesses wrote. “A rail stoppage would immediately lead to supply shortages and higher prices. The cessation of Amtrak and commuter rail services would disrupt up to 7 million travelers a day. Many businesses would see their sales disrupted right in the middle of the critical holiday shopping season.”
A similar group of businesses sent another letter to President Joe Biden last month urging him to play a more active role in resolving the contract dispute.
Congressional leaders and the White House have said they are monitoring the contract talks closely but haven't indicated when they might act or what they will do. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said leaders are aware of the situation with the rail negotiations and will monitor the talks in the coming days.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., said on Fox News Sunday that Congressional intervention is a last resort, but lawmakers will have to be ready to act.
“Congress will not let this strike happen. That’s for sure,” said Fitzpatrick who helps lead a bipartisan group of 58 lawmakers. “It would be devastating to our economy. So, we’ll get to a resolution one way or another.”
A White House spokeswoman has said that a rail strike would be “unacceptable.”
Congress has the power to impose contract terms on the workers, but it's not clear what they might include if they do that. They could also force the negotiations to continue into the new year.
Both the unions and railroads have been lobbying Congress while contract talks continue. Four rail unions that represent more than half of the 115,000 workers in the industry have rejected the deals that President Joe Biden helped broker before the original strike deadline in September and are back at the table trying to work out new agreements. Eight other unions have approved their five-year deals with the railroads and are in the process of getting back pay for their workers for the 24% raises that are retroactive to 2020.
“It certainly could end up in Congress’ lap, which is why we are headed to D.C. this week to meet with lawmakers on The Hill from both parties,” said Clark Ballew, a spokesman for the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union that represents track maintenance workers. “We have instructed our members to contact their federal lawmakers in the House and Senate for several weeks now.”
The unions have asked the railroads to consider adding paid sick time to what they already offered to address some of workers' quality of life concerns. But so far, the railroads, which include Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, CSX and Kansas City Southern, have refused to consider that.
The railroads want any deal to closely follow the recommendations a special board of arbitrators that Biden appointed made this summer that called for the 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses but didn't resolve workers' concerns about demanding schedules that make it hard to take a day off and other working conditions. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Business-groups-urge-Congress-to-block-potential-17615900.php | 2022-11-28T19:41:35 | en | 0.974841 |
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the European Central Bank said Monday she does not believe inflation has peaked after reaching the highest levels on record.
ECB President Christine Lagarde also told European lawmakers that the bank isn't through raising interest rates to combat those price spikes.
There is too much uncertainty to know whether inflation, which hit 10.6% in October, would come down soon in the 19 countries that use the euro currency, Lagarde said.
When looking at what is driving inflation, “whether it is food and commodities at large, or whether it is energy, we do not see the components or the direction that would lead me to believe that we have reached peak inflation and that it is going to decline in short order," she said.
That means the central bank will “continue to tame inflation with all the tools that we have," primarily interest rate hikes, Lagarde told the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Following the bank's third major rate hike in October, marking its fastest pace of increases ever, the ECB expects "to raise rates further to the levels needed to ensure that inflation returns to our 2% medium-term target in a timely manner," she said.
The ECB has joined the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world in rapidly raising rates to combat inflation that spiked as the global economy recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, then got worse after Russia invaded Ukraine. Central banks risk tipping economies into recession as the world copes with an energy crisis, higher food costs and currencies weakening against the U.S. dollar.
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicted the international economy would expand only 2.2% next year. Most economists expect a recession in places like Europe, the U.S. and the United Kingdom next year, with ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos saying this month that risk “has become more likely" in the eurozone.
Russia's war hit Europe particularly hard, “given our proximity to the conflict and our dependence on energy imports" from Russia, Lagarde said Monday.
After Russia cut back most natural gas to Europe, sending energy prices soaring, governments have provided aid to help households and businesses with their bills.
Lagarde warned officials not to worsen inflation by ensuring support is “targeted, tailored and temporary" to those most at need and avoids weakening the push to cut energy use. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Europe-s-inflation-likely-hasn-t-peaked-ECB-s-17615919.php | 2022-11-28T19:41:49 | en | 0.963075 |
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PARIS (AP) — A court in the Indian Ocean island of Comoros sentenced former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi on Monday to life in prison for illegally selling the country's passports, according to local media reports.
The Court for State Security in the capital Moroni also ordered the confiscation of Sambi’s assets. It handed down sentences of up to 20 years in prison for other officials convicted in the scheme.
According to video of the verdict on local news website Habariza Comores, the presiding judge said Sambi “abused his presidential prerogatives to allow the installation of a mafia-like system for the illegal sale of Comoros passports.”
Sambi was president of the archipelago of less than 1 million people from 2006-2011.
Local media said the passports were sold to stateless people in Gulf countries.
According to Radio France Internationale, prosecutors accused Sambi of embezzling 1.8 billion euros ($1.87 billion) as part of the scheme — more than the country's annual GDP.
RFI quoted defense lawyer Mahamadou Ahamada as saying there was no proof of embezzlement, saying the trial was politically driven.
Sambi is a political rival of President Azali Assoumani.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fidelity Charitable is getting into NFTs, the digital images that are registered on the blockchain, despite a torrent of bad news from the adjacent world of cryptocurrencies.
The nation's largest grantmaker is sponsoring a raffle that ends Tuesday, where participants can claim one of the NFTs, which stands for nonfungible token, and 50 will win $1,000 to donate through a donor advised fund at Fidelity.
“The reason we’re doing this is we really believe there’s a whole new generation of givers and philanthropists out there,” said Amy Pirozzolo, head of donor engagement for Fidelity Charitable. “We want to be where they are and the channels they use and the formats they use and further encourage their generosity.”
Around 16% of Americans say they invested in cryptocurrencies, according to a poll from Pew Research Center last year. The demographic most likely to invest were men between the ages of 18 and 29, with 43% reporting that they had invested.
The blockchain is the technology that underlies the trading of cryptocurrencies, but it can also record the ownership of digital items like images, videos or Tweets. Fidelity said that 50,000 different wallets, potentially representing that many individuals, have already registered to create an NFT and potentially win the money to donate.
Contributions in cryptocurrency to donor advised funds at Fidelity exploded last year, growing from the equivalent of $28 million in 2020 to $331 million in 2021, Fidelity has said.
Speaking of the NFT project, Jacob Pruitt, president of Fidelity Charitable, said, “I think it’ll be a unique way to engage with next gen investors. It’s another way that I think Fidelity is innovating and leaning into a new space.”
Donor advised funds allow donors to claim a tax credit for charitable donations, but do not require them to give those funds away within any specific timeframe. Organizations that host DAFs, like Fidelity Charitable, also handle more complex donations, which includes exchanging the assets for cash and producing receipts for donors for tax purposes.
“Many of the nonprofits either can’t take on these assets or they have to hire outside counsel or people to staff to do it,” Pirozzolo said.
One reason for the jump in cryptocurrency donations is that until recently, their value had appreciated significantly. The cryptocurrency market saw a huge boom in 2021 with the price of Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, rising to an all time high of around $68,000 in November last year.
But the meltdown of Terra — a stablecoin, or a type of cryptocurrency that tries to peg its value to an asset like the U.S. dollar — in May brought down a series of major cryptocurrency businesses. Then, earlier this month, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX and related entities, suddenly filed for bankruptcy leaving both American and international users unable to access assets they held on the exchange.
James Lawrence, co-founder and CEO of Engiven, which facilitates cryptocurrency to nonprofits, including Christian ministries, observed that many people giving cryptocurrencies are making major gifts and that often those happen in the last quarter of the year. That means it's too early to say how the cryptocurrency market's fluctuations may impact donations this year. He said he doesn't see people donating cryptocurrencies as that different from other donors.
“They just have a different asset to give and they’re going to give the most appreciated asset they can,” Lawrence said.
Of the more than 1.5 million nonprofits registered with the Internal Revenue Service in the U.S., Lawrence estimated that only four or five thousand could receive cryptocurrency donations directly.
“That’s a huge market that still doesn’t,” he said. He also has observed that many giving large donations in cryptocurrency (they facilitated one donation of $10 million in cryptocurrency assets) are the same types of people who give large donations in general, and not necessarily the younger demographics that are more likely to invest in cryptocurrency.
“Many of the largest gifts we’ve processed have been from an older demographic who have a tradition of giving large gifts in multiple asset classes,” he said.
Pirozzolo argued that the Fidelity Charitable promotion using NFTs is separate from the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
“This is really about the blockchain and having a fun way to celebrate with digital art the generosity of giving,” she said.
The company is paying for the cost of creating the NFTs, which includes a “gas” fee that pays for the creation and registration of the item, and also said that it has compensated the artists who made the images.
People who claim the NFTs will need to sign up for a cryptocurrency wallet that has access to the Polygon blockchain. The Fidelity Charitable NFTs will be hosted on the platform OpenSea.
Participants will see the NFT in their wallet when they sign up, but the art itself and the winners of the $1,000 tickets won't be revealed until Giving Tuesday, Nov, 29.
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ATLANTA (AP) — In-person early voting for the last U.S. Senate seat is underway statewide in Georgia's runoff, with Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock working to get the jump on Republican challenger Hershel Walker who is putting less emphasis on advance balloting.
After winning a state lawsuit to allow Saturday voting after Thanksgiving, Warnock spent the weekend urging his supporters not to wait until the Dec. 6 runoff. Trying to leverage his role as pastor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s church and Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator, Warnock concentrated his efforts Sunday among Black communities in metro Atlanta.
“What we are doing right now is soul work,” Warnock said at Liberty International Church southwest of downtown, where he rallied supporters before leading a march to a nearby early voting site where he cast his ballot. “We are engaged in a political exercise,” Warnock continued, “but this is moral and spiritual work, and for us that has always been based on the foundation of the church.”
Walker, in contrast, did not hold public events over the long Thanksgiving weekend, and he has not emphasized early voting in his runoff campaign appearances, even as the Republican Party and its aligned PACs attempt to drive voter turnout after Walker underperformed other Georgia Republicans in the general election. Walker finished the first round with about 200,000 fewer votes than Gov. Brian Kemp, who easily won a second term. Walker resumes his campaign Monday with stops in small-town Toccoa and suburban Cumming.
Early in-person voting continues through Friday. Runoff Election Day is Tuesday of next week.
Warnock led Walker by about 37,000 votes out of about 4 million cast in the general election but fell short of the majority required under Georgia law, triggering a four-week runoff blitz. Warnock first won the seat as part of concurrent Senate runoffs on Jan. 5, 2021, when he and Sen. Jon Ossoff prevailed over Republican incumbents to give Democrats narrow control of the Senate for the start of President Joe Biden’s tenure. Warnock won a special election and now is seeking a full six-year term.
This time, Senate control is not in play, with Democrats already having secured 50 seats to go with Vice President Kamala Harris’s tiebreaking vote. That puts pressure on both Warnock and Walker to convince Georgia voters that it’s worth their time to cast a second ballot, even if the national stakes aren’t as high.
As of late Sunday, almost 200,000 ballots had been cast in the relative handful of counties that opted to have weekend voting. That total was built on long lines in several heavily Democratic counties of metro Atlanta, enough to give Democrats confidence that their core supporters remain excited to vote for Warnock. But the total remains a small fraction of the nearly 2.3 million early in-person voters ahead of the Nov. 8 general election.
And Democrats remain cautious given that the early voting window is much shorter than two years ago, when the second round spanned two months between the general election and runoff. Voting on Saturday was allowed only because Warnock and Democrats sued amid a dispute with the Republican secretary of state over whether Saturday voting could occur on a holiday weekend.
The senator followed up with a parade of Black leaders for weekend rallies and a march reminiscent of voting rights demonstrations during the civil rights movement.
“We have one vote here that can change the world,” Andrew Young, a former Atlanta mayor and onetime aide to King, implored Black voters on Sunday. Rising from his wheelchair to speak, the 90-year-old former congressman and U.N. ambassador reminded the assembly of the congressional compromise that ended post-Civil War Reconstruction and paved the way for Jim Crow segregation across the South.
“One vote at the end of the Civil War pulled all of the Union troops out of the South and lost us the rights we had fought for in the war and that people had fought for us,” he said, starting “a struggle that we have been in ever since.”
Warnock was shifting to a suburban focus late Monday with an evening concert headlined by the Dave Matthews Band.
Walker, for his part, has drawn enthusiastic crowds in the early weeks of the runoff, as well, and his campaign aides remain confident that he has no problem among core Republicans. His challenge comes with the middle of the Georgia electorate, a gap highlighted by his shortfall compared to Kemp.
“I feel Herschel Walker benefited by having Brian Kemp in the original election on Nov. 8, and I think Kemp not being there will hurt the Republicans a little bit,” said Alpharetta resident Marcelo Salvatierra, who voted for Republican Kemp and Democrat Warnock and still supports the senator in the runoff.
Salvatierra said he backed Kemp’s re-election “because it seems to me Georgia has done well.” But Republicans at the federal level, he said, never offered a serious counter to Democratic control of Washington, while Walker also comes with considerable personal baggage.
“Character matters and I sense he doesn’t have character,” Salvatierra said.
Warnock has encouraged that sentiment among core Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans. For months, he’s said Walker, a former football star making his first bid for public office, was “not ready” for the Senate. In recent weeks, he’s ratcheted up the attack to say Walker is “not fit,” highlighting the challenger’s falsehoods about his accomplishments in the private sector, along with allegations of violence against women and accusations by two women that Walker encouraged and paid for their abortions. Walker, who backs a national ban on abortions without exceptions, denies that he ever paid for any abortions.
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BERLIN (AP) — Scores of environmental groups issued a joint appeal Monday for the European Union to drop carbon removal methods from its climate plans, arguing that some of them rely on untested technology while others may not absorb as many greenhouse gas emissions as claimed.
The EU's executive Commission has proposed creating a system for certifying so-called offsets — carbon absorbed through nature or with technological means — which could then be bought by polluters to reduce their emissions balance.
But some 170 groups including Friends of the Earth, Corporate Accountability and the Center for International Environmental Law argue that plans to use fields, forests or machines for future large-scale removal of carbon from the atmosphere are a “ greenwashing fantasy.”
They have instead called for the Commission to commit to real, or gross, cuts in emissions, instead of net cuts that many countries and companies are currently touting in their climate plans. The 27-nation EU aims to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050.
Scientists say emissions of planet-heating gases caused by human activity, such as burning fossil fuels, need to be halved by 2030 and end completely by mid-century to keep alive the Paris climate accord's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).
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NEW YORK (AP) — There was talk of impeachment Monday at the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial — not former President Donald Trump's, which happened twice — but whether lawyers for his company were angling to impeach their own witness, longtime Trump accountant Donald Bender.
Defense lawyer Susan Necheles said Bender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years overseeing tax returns for Trump’s hundreds of entities, “surprised” her when he testified that he didn’t actually do much work on the company’s tax returns.
Bender indicated he delegated some work to other firm employees.
“That answer surprised me because it’s just not true,” Necheles said during a court conference held after Bender and the jury left the courtroom for a lunch break.
Necheles was seeking permission to confront Bender with records showing he spent more time working on tax returns for the Trump Corporation, the company’s main subsidiary, than he led on. But the defense lawyer stopped short of saying she wanted to undermine his credibility in front of jurors.
“I don’t want to impeach the witness. I don’t want to call him a liar,” Necheles said. “That’s impeaching the witness.”
Judge Juan Manuel Merchan, already annoyed with the defense because it filed a court motion late Sunday night, appeared reluctant to grant Necheles’ request, instructing her to refine her argument over lunch.
“I believe I’ve bent over backward to allow both defendants to prepare a defense,” Merchan said, referring to the Trump Corporation and the other charged subsidiary, Trump Corp. and Trump Payroll Corp. As a gatekeeper, Merchan said, “I don’t believe that means I have to let you to throw everything at the jury and see what sticks.”
The Trump Organization, the holding company for Trump’s buildings, golf courses and other assets, is charged with helping some top executives avoid income taxes on compensation they got in addition to their salaries, including rent-free apartments and luxury cars. If convicted, the company could be fined more than $1 million.
Trump has blamed Bender for not catching the scheme, writing on his Truth Social platform: “The highly paid accounting firm should have routinely picked these things up — we relied on them. VERY UNFAIR!”
Bender also prepared personal income tax returns for Trump and his wife, former first lady Melania Trump, his children and some company executives.
The Trump Organization’s former finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, testified earlier in the trial that he came up with the scheme on his own, without Trump or the Trump family knowing. Weisselberg, who testified in a plea deal in exchange for a five-month jail sentence, said the company benefited because it didn’t have to pay him as much in salary.
Mazars USA LLP has since dropped Trump as a client. In February, the firm said annual financial statements it prepared for him “should no longer be relied upon” after New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office said the statements regularly misstated the value of assets.
James is suing Trump and his company over those allegations. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Impeachment-talk-at-Trump-Org-trial-Did-witness-17616153.php | 2022-11-28T19:42:28 | en | 0.970794 |
BOSTON (AP) — About 50 correctional officers at a Massachusetts prison are participating in a pilot program to evaluate the use of body cams in improving safety and transparency in state Department of Correction facilities, officials announced Monday.
The program is taking place at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, a maximum security facility and the reception and diagnostic center for all newly incarcerated men, the department said in a statement.
Three different products are being evaluated during the program that started last month. The guards are wearing the cameras as they perform their normal duties and they augment the facility's network of stationary cameras.
“The use of this advanced technology in correctional settings has been shown to improve safety, provide valuable documentation for evidentiary purposes, resolve officer-involved incidents, and offer a useful training tool for the department and its officers,” prisons Commissioner Carol Mici said in a statement.
The Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, which oversees the Department of Correction, began exploring the use of body cams in 2021.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats in the Georgia Senate and House will keep the same leaders as the new two-year term begins in January.
Senate Democrats met Monday and reelected Sen. Gloria Butler of Stone Mountain as minority leader. Democrats will have 23 of 56 senators.
Also reelected Monday were Elena Parent of Atlanta as Senate Democratic caucus chair, Harold Jones II of Augusta as whip and Nan Orrock of Atlanta as secretary. Democrats chose Sonya Halpern of Atlanta as caucus vice chair and David Lucas of Macon as vice chair of fundraising and campaigns.
Republican Burt Jones was elected lieutenant governor and the GOP majority nominated John Kennedy of Macon as Senate president pro tem, the second-ranking Senate position.
Last week, House Democrats largely reelected their existing leadership to another term.
Minority Leader James Beverly of Macon turned back a challenge from Carolyn Hugley of Columbus to remain the chief Democrat. The party is likely to hold 79 of 180 House seats once vacancies are filled.
Democrats reelected Billy Mitchell of Stone Mountain as minority caucus chairman, Karen Bennett of Stone Mountain as minority caucus vice chairman, Sandra Scott of Rex as chief deputy whip, Park Cannon of Atlanta as secretary and Shea Roberts of Atlanta as treasurer.
Sam Park of Lawrenceville was elected whip, replacing David Wilkerson of Powder Springs.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday denied a challenge to a voter-approved measure overhauling a powerful commission that oversees public utilities and determines how much customers can be charged to heat and cool their homes.
The court announced its decision after hearing oral arguments in a case that centered on whether voters understood they would be giving up their right to elect members to the Public Regulation Commission when they approved the constitutional amendment in 2020.
The amendment turns the commission into a three-person panel appointed by the governor with the consent of the state Senate. An independent nominating committee is supposed to vet candidates before the governor picks appointees.
The petition was filed earlier this year on behalf of Indigenous Lifeways, New Mexico Social Justice & Equity Institute and the Three Sisters Collective. The nonprofit groups work on environmental restoration projects on Native American lands in northwestern New Mexico.
Sarah Shore, an Albuquerque attorney who represents the groups, told the court that the question deserved special scrutiny since the amendment repealed the right of New Mexicans to elect representation to the commission.
“This case presents a unique circumstance where there's a real risk of abuse of power,” she said. “There's a transfer away from the people who in their own constitution reserve rights to themselves to the political branches. This is not a circumstance where the Legislature is proposing to change rights that the people already delegated.”
Attorneys for the state and the governor's office argued that the groups waited too long to raise their concerns and that the time to bring such a challenge would have been when the measure was debated and as the ballot language was crafted.
Shore argued that the amendment should be struck from the state constitution because it illegally rolled several reforms into one ballot question for voters to decide. She said most voters are neither lawyers nor lawmakers and were misled since the ballot measure did not reference the effect on the public's right to elect commission members.
The justices said they did not believe the measure amounted to logrolling and would outline the grounds for their decision in an upcoming written opinion.
The measure was approved by 56% of voters in 2020, with supporters arguing that establishing an independent nominating committee would boost the professionalism of the regulatory panel and remove membership from the political process.
However, opponents have said politics would still be at play given that commissioners would serve at the pleasure of the governor. Currently, Democrats hold the governor's office, control the state Supreme Court and make up the majority of the Legislature.
In recent years, the New Mexico Supreme Court has overruled PRC decisions related to the state's energy transition law and a proposed merger involving the largest electric provider in New Mexico.
Legislative analysts in outlining arguments for and against the ballot measure had previously noted that the amendment would not change how the commission actually functioned and there was no guarantee lawmakers would appropriately fund the agency.
There have been concerns over the years about a lack of money to attract and retain a professional staff of engineers, accountants, lawyers and others to draft rules and advise commissioners on complicated cases that range from customer rates to the future of renewable energy development in the state. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/New-Mexico-court-denies-challenge-of-regulatory-17616162.php | 2022-11-28T19:42:42 | en | 0.973874 |
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban on Monday ended a monthslong cease-fire with the government in Islamabad, ordering its fighters to resume attacks across the country, where scores of deadly attacks have been blamed on the insurgent group.
In a statement, the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan said it decided to end the 5-month-old cease-fire after Pakistan's army stepped up operations against them in former northwestern tribal areas and elsewhere in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan.
Pakistan and the TTP had agreed to an indefinite cease-fire in May after talks in Afghanistan's capital.
There was no immediate comment from the government or the military.
The Pakistani Taliban are a separate group but are allies of the Afghanistan Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan more than a year ago as the U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their pullout. The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan emboldened TTP, whose top leaders and fighters are hiding in Afghanistan.
Monday's announcement was a setback to efforts made by the Afghan Taliban since earlier this year to facilitate a peace agreement aimed at ending the violence. The latest development comes months after the Afghan Taliban started hosting negotiations in the capital Kabul between the TTP and representatives from the Pakistan government and security forces.
It also comes a day before Pakistan's outgoing army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa — who had approved the controversial cease-fire with TTP in May — is to retire after completing his six-year extended term.
Bajwa will hand over command of the military to the newly appointed army chief Gen. Asim Munir at a ceremony in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Tuesday amid tight security because of fears of violence.
Gen. Bajwa during his tenure carried out a series of military operations against TTP before agreeing to the peace talks with the militant, who have waged an insurgency in Pakistan for 14 years. The TTP has been fighting for stricter enforcement of Islamic laws in the country, the release of their members who are in government custody, and a reduction of Pakistan's military presence in the country’s former tribal regions.
During the talks, Pakistan had asked TTP to disband.
Pakistan also wanted the insurgents to accept its constitution and sever all ties with the Islamic State group, another Sunni militant group with a regional affiliate that is active in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
However, both sides apparently stuck to their positions since the peace talks began.
In a separate statement, the TTP claimed that it targeted a vehicle carrying Pakistani troops in the district of North Waziristan near the Afghan border, causing casualties. There was no confirmation of the attack from the military and the statement did not provide details.
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WILSON, N.C. (AP) — A memorial service will be held this weekend for Betty Ray McCain, a longtime North Carolina Democratic Party activist and counselor to former four-time Gov. Jim Hunt.
McCain, a Hunt Cabinet secretary who was the first woman to chair the state Democratic Party, died Nov. 23 at her Wilson home, according to Joyner's Funeral Home & Crematory. She was 91.
A Duplin County native who with her husband moved to Wilson in the 1950s, McCain worked on Terry Sanford's 1960 gubernatorial campaign. Hunt, who also lives in Wilson County, met McCain through Democratic Party activities, leading them to work on projects and campaigns for decades, according to The Wilson Times.
Her political career included heading the Democratic Women of North Carolina and serving as state party chairwoman from 1976 to 1979. McCain was named by Hunt as secretary of the Department of Cultural Resources in 1993, remaining in the role through his third and fourth terms as governor.
McCain's time as secretary included the opening of the standalone North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh and the discovery in Beaufort Inlet of the wreckage of Blackbeard's flagship the Queen Anne’s Revenge. She also served multiple terms on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and on many boards and commissions.
“Betty McCain was the most influential person in advocating for public schools and the University of North Carolina in recent history,” Hunt told the Wilson newspaper last week. “She was my ‘right hand’ during my four terms as governor, and I consider her one of our state’s greatest leaders ever.”
In a tweet, current Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper called McCain a “trailblazer for women and a powerful force for good in the arts, education and public service in NC."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The last conversation Sandra Torres had with her 10-year-old daughter was about her nervous excitement over whether she’d make the all-star softball team. Hours later, Eliahna Torres was one of 19 children and two teachers massacred at their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
With little closure and few answers about law enforcement’s 77-minute wait on May 24 in the school hallway rather than confronting the gunman, Sandra Torres filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against police, the school district and the maker of the gun the shooter used.
“My baby never made it out of the school,” she said. “There’s no accountability or transparency. There’s nothing being done.”
The lawsuit accuses the city, the school district and several police departments of a “complete failure” to follow active shooter protocols and violations of the victims’ constitutional rights by “barricading them” inside two classrooms with the killer for more than an hour. The city, school district and police did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
Torres is being helped by the legal arm of the group Everytown for Gun Safety. Her suit also names the manufacturer of the AR-style semiautomatic rifle that Salvador Ramos used to fire more than 100 rounds in the horrific mass shooting.
The claim is part of a new and expanding legal front in the nationwide court battle over firearms. While gunmakers are typically immune under federal law from lawsuits over crimes committed with their products, families of victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, secured a $73 million settlement with Remington, the maker of the weapon used in that shooting a decade ago.
The settlement came after the victims successfully argued that suing over marketing under state law was an exception to the federal immunity measure.
The new Uvalde suit alleges that marketing tactics by Daniel Defense violated the Federal Trade Commission Act by negligently using militaristic imagery, product placement in combat video games and social media to target “vulnerable and violent young men,” said Eric Tirschwell, executive director at Everytown Law.
“It wasn’t by accident that he went from never firing a gun to wielding a Daniel Defense AR-15,” Tirschwell said, citing the findings of a report written by an investigative committee from the Texas House of Representatives. “We intend to prove Daniel Defense marketing was a significant factor in the choices that Ramos made.”
The company, based in Black Creek, Georgia, did not immediately return a message seeking comment, but in a congressional hearing over the summer CEO Marty Daniels called the Uvalde shooting and others like it “pure evil” and “deeply disturbing.” Still, he separated the weapons themselves from the violence, saying mass shootings in America are local problems to be solved locally.
Everytown is also part of a similar lawsuit after a shooting attack on parade-goers in Highland Park, Illinois, based on a state law. If arguments based on federal law are successful, it could open up gunmakers to costly civil lawsuits as the nation grapples with rising gun violence and a brutal string of mass shootings.
“It would be an important step forward to holding gun manufacturers to account if their marketing crosses a line,” Tirschwell said.
The case also names the gun shop where Ramos bought the weapon used in the shooting, along with another AR-15 and ammunition, purchases that totaled thousands of dollars, though only one weapon was used in the shooting. One patron later told the FBI he “looked like ... a school shooter,” according to the report from the Texas House of Representatives.
The July report found that nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to the mass shooting, but “egregiously poor decision-making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman was finally confronted and killed. It criticized state and federal law enforcement as well as local authorities for failing to follow active shooter training and prioritizing their own safety over the victims’ lives.
Another parent whose child was wounded in the shooting and two parents whose children were on campus at the time filed the first suit related to the Uvalde shooting in late September.
For Sandra Torres, the case is also another way to seek answers about the botched police response.
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NEW YORK (AP) — POLL ALERT: South Carolina, Stanford, UConn top women's AP Top 25; Louisville out of top 10 for first time in five years.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — With Wales on the verge of World Cup elimination, Gareth Bale was dismissive when asked if Tuesday’s game against England could be the last for his country.
“Nope,” was his one-word answer. He chose not to elaborate.
While questions hang over Bale’s long-term future, Wales’ concerns are more immediate.
If Wales fails to beat England in its final Group B game it is out of the World Cup. But even a win might not be enough to secure qualification to the knockout stages.
“We’re disappointed in the results and the performances,” Bale said Monday. “But that’s football, it’s not easy, it’s a World Cup. We don’t need to get anyone going — we just need to keep working hard and hopefully things will turn around for us.”
The 1-1 draw with the United States in Wales’ opening game, when Bale scored a penalty to tie, was a solid enough start.
But a 2-0 loss to Iran has put Wales in jeopardy of World Cup elimination.
So it is understandable that Bale had little interest in engaging in discussion about his storied career and what remains for his playing days.
He was asked how a win against England and moving into the round of 16 would rank against his five Champions League trophies with Real Madrid.
“I’ll let you know if it happens,” he said curtly.
At 33, Bale doesn’t need to be told occasions like this might be over for him once Wales’ World Cup adventure ends.
After leading his country to the semifinals of Euro 2016 and through to the knockout stages of Euro 2020, he ended Wales' 64-year wait to qualify for a World Cup. But his influence is declining, as has been evident in Wales’ opening two games.
Meanwhile, other key players in Aaron Ramsey and Joe Allen are also past their peak. With a lack of obvious replacements coming through, qualification for another major tournament may not be on the horizon any time soon.
Bale has also said goodbye to elite European football – joining MLS team Los Angeles FC in the summer.
In short, his opportunities to play in front of a global audience could be scarce beyond Qatar.
But it would be unwise to write off a player who has made a career of producing game-changing moments on the biggest occasions.
That's a fact England coach Gareth Southgate noted when was asked to pay tribute to one of British soccer’s greats. In his mind, Bale represents a very live threat.
“He’s had a fantastic — or is having a fantastic career,” he said. “Clearly his club career and what he won with Real Madrid is phenomenal. We know that he’s capable of those individual moments of brilliance in the penalty area and from distance as well. Free kicks, of course, are a great strength.”
Perhaps no team at the World Cup is more reliant on one player as Wales is with Bale.
Not Portugal with Cristiano Ronaldo – or Argentina with Lionel Messi.
“I do the same as I always do. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,” said Bale. “Sometimes I have a good game, sometimes I don’t. It’s football, it’s difficult to always play well.
“I will give everything, like I always do for my country. I will just try to lead by example and hopefully that’s enough on the day. That is all I can do.”
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Early voting in Georgia’s runoff election between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and GOP hopeful Herschel Walker kicked off over the weekend, marking the final stretch in a race that will determine whether Democrats expand their majority in the upper chamber or Republicans maintain a 50-50 split.
The runoff, which started bitter and has grown only more contentious, has the two candidates within a close margin. Warnock led Walker by only 37,000 votes on election night.
Now, as all eyes once again turn to Georgia, both candidates have ramped up advertisements and their fundraising ahead of the Dec. 6 runoff.
Here are five things to watch as early voting kicks off in the Peach State.
Turnout
After a Georgia Supreme Court ruling allowed early voting to begin on Saturday, turnout is already soaring.
As of Monday morning, data from the Georgia secretary of state’s website showed more than 181,000 Georgians had already cast their ballots — and a majority of those voters were Black, a key Democratic voting bloc.
On Sunday, Warnock’s campaign director Quentin Fulks said Georgians had voted more than on any Sunday in the 2022 general election, the 2021 runoff — where Warnock first won — and both the 2020 and 2018 general elections.
The record turnout follows a midterm pattern, where Georgia saw more than 230,000 votes cast on the first day of early voting for the general election.
Warnock has encouraged his supporters to hit the polls early, tweeting on Sunday to “show up on or before Dec. 6th.” His team also set out Sunday for a “Souls to the Polls” event to mobilize Black and brown voters.
Donald Trump
Former President Trump threw his support behind Walker back in September and again in October after several controversies around the former football player came to light.
In Trump’s speech announcing his 2024 presidential run, he called Walker “a fabulous human being who loves our country.”
“He was an incredible athlete. He’ll be an even better senator,” Trump said. “Get out and vote for Herschel Walker.”
But Trump has also proven to be a hindrance to the GOP in the Peach State. He has been outspoken against early voting since his initial run in 2016 and has falsely conflated early voting with fraudulent voting — a factor that Republicans pointed to when both GOP candidates lost in the state’s 2021 Senate special election runoffs. At his 2024 campaign announcement, Trump called for a ban on early voting practices and demanded that the U.S. adopt “same-day voting” and mandatory paper ballots.
Meanwhile, after a lackluster general election in which all of Trump’s endorsed candidates lost, some Republicans are likely concerned about the prospect of the former president wading into the race.
According to CNN exit polls, only 39 percent of midterm voters view Trump favorably, while 58 percent have an unfavorable view of him. Twenty-eight percent said their vote in the U.S. House elections were to show opposition to Trump.
Still, Trump’s ability to motivate the GOP base could work in Walker’s favor, though Democrats are hoping it will also mobilize those who oppose the former president.
Since Trump announced his candidacy for 2024, Warnock’s team has already released a new ad warning voters to “Stop Donald Trump. Stop Herschel Walker.”
Independent and split-ticket voters
During the general election, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) won 2.1 million votes while Walker won only slightly more than 1.9 million votes, indicating that not all Republican voters cast their ballots based on party alliance.
Kemp, who easily won his primary election in May and handily defeated his Democratic opponent, Stacey Abrams, on Nov. 8, is now using his political cache with moderates and independents to motivate them to back Walker, even though Kemp is on bad terms with Trump for refusing to overturn the presidential election results in Georgia in 2020.
Kemp recently cut an ad for Walker, appeared beside him for the first time ever at a campaign rally and has formed a partnership with a super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to boost the Republican.
“I know that Herschel Walker will fight for us,” Kemp said at the event in Cobb County. “He will go and fight for those values that we believe in here in our state.”
Kemp lost to Abrams in Cobb County by 5 points, while Walker lost to Warnock by 17 points.
Abortion
After the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer, abortion played a defining role in this year’s midterms.
While inflation and the economy have been top-of-mind issues in many polls, abortion has also been a priority. An early November poll by 11Alive showed 57 percent of voters said a candidate’s stance on abortion would be a major factor when they cast their ballots.
Nearly 86 percent of Black voters in Georgia oppose the state’s current law, according to a University of Georgia survey commissioned by the Georgia News Collaborative.
Abortion became a pivotal topic in the Senate race this year as controversies surrounding Walker’s campaign made headlines.
Before Nov. 8, multiple women alleged Walker, a staunch proponent of anti-abortion policies, had previously encouraged and paid for them to seek an abortion after he got them pregnant.
In August, Walker said that he opposes any exceptions to a ban on abortion, though he walked that statement back at a debate in October to say he supports Georgia’s current ban on abortions after six weeks with exceptions for cases of rape or incest and if the pregnant person’s health is at risk.
Warnock’s campaign has seized on these comments to release ads for the incumbent’s support for pro-abortion rights legislation. Warnock has mostly avoided speaking directly on the topic of accusations that Walker paid for abortions except to say Walker “has trouble with the truth.”
The Obama effect
Former President Obama announced before Thanksgiving he would campaign with Warnock on Dec. 1.
It will be Obama’s second time campaigning in the Peach State for Warnock — he rallied for the senator in October before a crowd of more than 7,000 people.
Obama remains a popular Democratic figure and he hasn’t pulled punches when it comes to speaking out against Republicans.
At his last visit in Georgia before the general election, he emphasized the importance of the election as a way to save democracy.
An Obama visit could mobilize not only Black voters, but others as well — when campaigning for president, he has built a coalition that was diverse in race, location and party lines.
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Vice President Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron will visit NASA headquarters together on Wednesday, a White House official said Monday.
Macron will be in Washington for an official visit with President Biden and Harris, and the trip to NASA is intended to showcase the United States and France’s “deepening collaboration on space in support of Earth, climate, and space science and space exploration,” according to the official.
The visit will involve celebrating existing cooperation in space science, space exploration and using data collected from space to fight climate change, and it comes on the heels of the U.S.-France Comprehensive Space Dialogue, which was held in Paris in October.
When Harris was in Paris last year, she and Macron committed to a whole-of-government space dialogue.
The trip to NASA will be Macron’s first stop in Washington after arriving on Tuesday evening, according to the French Embassy. Later on Wednesday, Macron is set to attend a working lunch at NASA on climate and biodiversity issues with members of Congress and key stakeholders on climate.
A French official told reporters on Monday that space is one of the priority “strategic domains” of the bilateral relationship between France and the U.S., citing Harris’s 2021 visit to Paris as a significant symbol of the importance of laying the groundwork for cooperation between France and the U.S. on space policy.
“The U.S. has chosen France, after Japan, as a second partner to have horizontal, global, space dialogue covering all aspects of space policies, in particular the observation of earth and the observation of the atmosphere, directly linked to the fight against climate change,” the official said.
Macron on Thursday will participate in a bilateral meeting with Biden, which will be followed by a joint press conference. He will then join the president for a state dinner alongside first lady Jill Biden, French first lady Brigitte Macron, Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff.
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Former Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway met Monday with investigators from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to multiple reports.
Conway was seen entering the O’Neill House Office Building, where the panel conducts its depositions and interviews.
Conway was not publicly subpoenaed by the committee and, according to NBC News, told reporters that “I’m here voluntarily” when leaving the room during a break.
She was not in the Trump administration on Jan. 6, but, according to reporting from The Washington Post, Conway called an aide to the former president and urged him to call off his supporters who were storming the Capitol and noted that she had received a call from the Washington, D.C., mayor’s office seeking help in securing assistance from the National Guard.
Conway’s attorney and the Jan. 6 committee did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The interview was conducted as the panel races to complete its final report in December before the committee sunsets at the end of this Congress.
Conway, often one of Trump’s staunchest defenders, wrote that he lost his 2020 reelection bid in her recent memoir.
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AUSTIN (Nexstar) — As the LGBTQ+ community reels from the Saturday attack on their own in Colorado Springs, Texas advocates say a slew of “anti-LGBTQ” bills already filed for the upcoming legislative session are further harming their community.
Ricardo Martinez, CEO of Equality Texas, said 21 bills directed toward the LGBTQ community have been filed since state legislators were able to start filing bills for the upcoming session on Nov. 14.
“There doesn’t seem to be a story horrific enough, a statistic awful enough or personal story that’s moving or touching enough for them to react and see our humanity,” he said. “It really will take every single one of us taking tangible action to push back against this.”
Texas has often been at the forefront of the national conversation around transgender rights. In late February, Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton called gender-transitioning or affirming procedures “child abuse,” calling on the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents who allow their children to transition.
While that effort has been blocked in court, state Republicans have already filed bills seeking to codify this effort. House Bill 42 by Rep. Bryan Slaton, R-Royse City, would change Texas law to define administering, supplying, consenting to or assisting in the administration of gender-affirming care as “child abuse,” which could put parents and physicians behind bars.
Another bill would ban public schools from teaching any topics on gender identity or sexual orientation from kindergarten through fifth grade, or “in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” Similar legislation, called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by opponents, passed in Florida. Republican lawmakers said it gives parents control over what their children are taught and when.
Rep. Jared Patterson, R-Frisco, authored a bill that would define puberty-blocking drugs or gender reassignment as “child abuse.”
Patterson was unable to meet our interview request Wednesday due to travel, but sent us written statements.
“Let’s be clear: the far left is no longer interested in acceptance, but forced participation. Adults have the freedom to do as the please but when our children become the target I feel the State of Texas has an obligation to respond where common sense fails,” he said.
Another one of Patterson’s introduced bills would legally define establishments that offer drag shows as a “sexually oriented business,” therefore banning minors from entering the premises.
“My constituents have a hard time believing anyone would allow this to happen to children even though it takes place in our communities. Whether it’s the sexually explicit books we’re fighting in schools, child gender modification, or obscene drag shows labeled as family-friendly, it’s almost unbelievable that some in society have moved in this direction,” Patterson said.
Martinez said he would be “naive” not to wonder whether something like what happened in Colorado Springs could happen in Texas. The motive in the Colorado shooting is still under investigation, but authorities said the gunman faces possible murder and hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at the gay nightclub, “Club Q.”
“There’s a danger and fear mongering about the lives of LGBTQ people dehumanizing folks. And expecting there to be no effect, I think is careless,” he said. “They all contribute to this hostile landscape that has been developed here, and keeping us less safe.”
Nexstar asked Patterson to respond to criticism from advocacy groups that his legislation “harbors hatred and violence toward their community.”
“I have no comment on the evil events in CO other than to offer my condolences to the victims and their families because it is completely unrelated to our work in Texas,” he said in a written statement.
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