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MUMBAI: Tellychakkar is back with yet another exciting update from the Tellyworld.
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A lot of new shows are being rolled out and new shows are taking their place.
Colors TV too is coming up with a new show soon. Saurabh Tewary is bringing a new show on the channel and we are sure the audience is very excited to hear this.
Sai Ballal is said to join this new show. Sai Ballal has been famous for his stint in Udaan and also for being a part of the film, Gabbar is back. Details about his character are not known yet.
We also brought to you that Surbhi Chandna will be playing the lead role in this show. Surbhi was away from the small screen for a long time and we are sure her fans are excited to see her back.
What do you think this show will add to television?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Majorities of U.S. adults think mass shootings would occur less often if guns were harder to get, and that schools and other public places have become less safe than they were two decades ago, polling shows.
Still, public attitudes on guns and gun policy are complicated, and the issue has seen little by way of federal legislative changes in more than a decade. In the wake of Tuesday’s massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Democratic governors and lawmakers are pleading for gun restrictions. Reforms will meet Republican resistance both in Congress and state legislatures and are unlikely to advance.
While it’s not unusual for polling to show higher support for restrictions among the general public after a mass shooting, attitudes on gun regulation are overall rather stable over time, said John Roman, senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago.
In 2020, about half of voters in the presidential election said U.S. gun laws should be made stricter, according to AP VoteCast, compared with about a third saying they should be left as they are and only about 1 in 10 saying they should be made less strict.
WHAT ELSE DO AMERICANS THINK ABOUT GUN LAWS?
In March 2019, an AP-NORC poll showed a majority of U.S. adults — 58% — saying they thought there would be fewer mass shootings in the U.S. if it were harder for people to legally obtain guns. Many specific measures that would curb access to guns or ammunition also get majority support, according to polls.
There is widespread agreement on one measure in particular: making private gun sales subject to background checks.
Attitudes on other gun policies vary starkly by partisanship. For example, new data from an AP-NORC poll conducted earlier in May shows 51% of U.S. adults favor a nationwide ban on the sale of AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons, while 32% are opposed. An additional 18% say they hold neither opinion. Seventy-five percent of Democrats but just 27% of Republicans were in favor.
Erica Martinez, a 37-year-old in Lincoln, Nebraska, said she was “horrified” and “irate” after Tuesday's massacre and that there's obviously a gun problem in this country. Laws need to be stricter, she said, and it should be harder for someone to get a gun.
“These school shootings are becoming more prevalent now, and there’s just too many innocent little lives that are lost because this 18-year-old kid was able to just go and buy a gun," Martinez said. “I honestly and truly think that it could have been prevented.”
GUN OWNERSHIP IN THE U.S.
In April 2021, a Pew Research Center survey showed gun owners much more likely than those without guns to support expanding concealed carry and shortening waiting periods for legal gun purchases. Gun owners were much less likely to back bans on high-capacity ammunition magazines and assault-type weapons.
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults report living in a household with a gun, according to a March poll from NORC at the University of Chicago. Five percent said they purchased a gun for the first time during the pandemic, and those first time gun owners tend to share policy preferences with long term gun owners, NORC's Roman said.
Federal data also shows gun sales rose significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The number one reason why somebody buys a firearm is they feel like it puts them at less risk,” said Roman. “When you have an event like COVID, where people feel like the world is very unsafe in general, you see big spikes in people buying one.”
Mike Miller, a 68-year-old conservative in Woodland Park, Colorado, said he owns guns for home defense, along with hunting.
“I think it’s in our constitution, and I think we have the right to have our weapons," he said. "I don’t think that’s a problem with like the shooting that just happened. I think it’s bigger issues.”
WHO IS MORE MOTIVATED ON THE ISSUE?
Efforts to pass gun restrictions — even background checks — have been futile in Washington, met with opposition from Republican lawmakers.
Roman suggests people who own guns and oppose gun control have a louder voice in the political process because of their personal stake on the issue. Those who want stricter laws have strong opinions about the impact of guns on society, he said, but they often lack that personal connection.
“Your own costs and benefits are always more motivating, galvanizing, they create stronger preferences than the sort of conceptual, theoretical preferences,” he said.
The voices of those looking for restrictions tend to get louder after a mass shooting, Roman said, creating a window of opportunity for gun control policy before they recede again.
An AP-NORC poll conducted just after a shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan showed 24% of Americans — including 41% of Democrats — named gun laws in an open-ended question as a priority for the government for 2022, a sharp increase from just 5% for 2021 and 12% for 2020.
“Either there’s going to be a quick movement towards some gun regulation and new gun laws or this moment will pass and next year, we’ll be talking about something else,” he said.
MENTAL HEALTH
Many Republican lawmakers have focused on mental health as a key factor in preventing mass shootings at schools.
The 2019 AP-NORC poll showed bullying, along with the availability of guns, were considered most responsible for shootings in schools. About half of Americans said these were both “a great deal” to blame. In the poll, there was bipartisan agreement on bullying, but Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to blame the availability of guns.
Derek Lavarnway, a 44-year-old political independent in Chaumont, New York, said his main concern is mental health.
“I think there’s a balance between gun control and, you know, figuring out ways to get people feeling better about themselves and their lives," he said. “We desperately need to somehow find a way for a society that creates individuals that don’t do these sorts of things.” | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Many-back-strict-gun-laws-but-opposition-tends-17203575.php | 2022-05-27T18:28:03 | en | 0.979551 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is making clear that he will defy a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, escalating a standoff with the panel over his and other GOP lawmakers’ testimony.
“For House Republican leaders to agree to participate in this political stunt would change the House forever,” the California lawmaker wrote Thursday in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal with GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.
The House panel believes testimony from the Republican lawmakers are crucial to their investigation as each of the men was in contact with then-President Donald Trump and his allies in the weeks and days leading up to the Capitol insurrection. Some participated in meetings and urged the White House to try and overturn the 2020 presidential results.
McCarthy has acknowledged he spoke with Trump on Jan. 6 as Trump’s supporters were beating police outside the Capitol and forcing their way into the building. But he has not shared many details. The committee requested information about his conversations with Trump “before, during and after” the riot.
His defiance presents a new challenge for the committee after lawmakers decided to take the extraordinary and politically risky step of subpoenaing their own colleagues. The committee now must decide whether to enforce the subpoenas even as it looks to wrap up the investigation and prepare for a series of public hearings in early June. It could refer the lawmakers to the House ethics committee or take steps to hold them in contempt.
The subpoenas were issued to McCarthy, R-Calif., Jordan, and Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama in mid-May. The panel has already interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and collected more than 100,000 documents as it investigates the worst attack on the Capitol in two centuries.
“I have no relevant information that would advance any legitimate legislative purpose,” Jordan said in a letter detailing his reasons for not cooperating. The others indicated after the subpoenas were issued that they too would not cooperate. A request for comment from Biggs, Brooks and Perry was not immediately returned.
The panel had previously asked for voluntary cooperation from the five lawmakers, along with a handful of other GOP members, but all refused to speak with the panel, which debated for months whether to issue the subpoenas.
McCarthy and the others were summoned to testify in front of investigators this week and next week. McCarthy, who aspires to be House speaker if Republicans take over the majority next year, indicated that the committee’s decision will have a lasting impact.
“Every representative in the minority would be subject to compelled interrogations by the majority, under oath, without any foundation of fairness, and at the expense of taxpayers,” he wrote in the op-ed.
In a separate move, McCarthy and the No. 2 House Republican, Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, filed a court brief in support of Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon, who is facing criminal contempt charges for defying a subpoena from the committee. In the brief, lawyers for the two write that the committee does not have the authority to issue subpoenas, an argument that has been dismissed in other court proceedings.
The lawyers also wrote that McCarthy and Scalise filed the brief “out of concern for the potential damage to House institutional," rules and order.
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MUMBAI: There is no doubt that Akshay Kumar and Kapil Sharma share a great rapport.
Taking to social media, the actor shared a new video with the comedian. In it the two are seen spending time together at the gym, in the early hours of morning. Taking to Instagram, Akshay posted the clip, which started with Kapil Sharma looking over his balcony late at night, dressed in a dress robe. Later, after being forced to exercise, he tells Akshay nobody ‘wakes up at 4 a.m.’
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At the beginning of the clip, as he looked around him, Kapil thought to himself, "Everyone is sleeping. Does Akshay Kumar really wake up at 4 a.m.? It's 2.20 a.m. now, I have to reach by 4 a.m. If I fall asleep and get late, he will insult me my whole life. Let me go get ready." As he brushed his teeth in the bathroom, his wife Ginni Chatrath asked if he has a shoot with Akshay. Snapping at her, Kapil replied, "Who else will call me so early? Angelina Jolie?" As Ginni's voice asked why he was angry at her, Kapil said, "Why don't you go and sleep? He hasn't asked you to be there." The video next showed Kapil's watchman snoring as he called him to open the gate, so his car could leave. On his way to meet Akshay, Kapil looked at the camera and complained that everyone is asleep, except for his team and him.
Then Kapil is seen arriving at the gym and the two greet each other. Akshay asked the comedian how everything was going. Kapil replied, "I came back from Punjab at night itself. There at 4 a.m. people remember God; that also I think they do at 5 am." Teasing Akshay he added, "Nobody wakes up at 4 a.m." Sharing the video, Akshay wrote, "Banter before breakfast or after dinner. Watch @kapilsharma and I working out at 4 AM! Samrat #Prithviraj Chauhan releasing in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Celebrate it only at a theatre near you on 3rd June!"
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's top schools administrator was cited for illegally passing a school bus while it was stopped to pick up students in a residential subdivision last week, even though a video of the incident reportedly “does not show the license plate of the vehicle involved,” her office said Friday.
Helena Police Lt. Jayson Zander said Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen was cited Thursday after speaking with an officer.
According to the police report, an East Helena bus driver said a vehicle driven by Arntzen passed his bus while it was stopped to pick up children just after 7:30 a.m. on May 19 in the Mountain View Meadows subdivision.
The bus driver recognized Arntzen and recorded the license plate number on the red pickup truck.
“Superintendent Arntzen does not recall the alleged incident," Brian O'Leary, spokesman for the Office of Public Instruction, said in a statement Thursday. “She does acknowledge she drives a red pickup and lives in the area.”
On Friday, Arntzen's office sent out a statement saying she would be cited, and thanking the bus driver for his vigilance.
Arntzen testified in favor of a bill passed by the 2021 Legislature to improve bus safety, including doubling the fine for illegally passing a school bus to a maximum of $1,000. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Montana-school-administrator-cited-for-illegally-17203607.php | 2022-05-27T18:28:15 | en | 0.972847 |
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MUMBAI: Khatron Ke Khiladi is one of the most loved reality shows on television and has had a successful run of eleven seasons.
The contestants are various celebrities from the world of television, Bollywood, and OTT, who come together and face their fears.
Initially, the show was hosted by Akshay Kumar. Then, ace director Rohit Shetty took over as the host and made it a brand.
The last season was very successful and did wonders when it came to TRPs as the contestants were very good. They performed all the tasks well and didn’t give Rohit a chance to get angry.
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The makers are coming up with the new season, and the pre-production of the show has begun.
The almost confirmed contestants of the show are Munawar Faruqui, Sriti Jha, Rubina Dilaik, Pratik Sehajpal, Shivangi Joshi, Nishant Bhat, Chetna Pande, Rajiv Adatia, Tushar Kalia, Mr. Faisu aka Faisal Shaikh, and Aneri Vajani.
Erika Packard is one of the contestants for this season. TellyChakkar got in touch with the model and asked her what made her say yes to the show and what myth would she break.
What made you say “yes” to the show?
I am outgoing and adventurous. I love doing something new and different. This show has everything in it, and there was no reason to refuse. It's an amazing opportunity.
Any Khatron Ke Khiladi stunt you have tried in your real life?
No, I haven't got a chance to do any such stunts. I have not encountered any dangerous stunts in my life, and this is the first time I have taken up such a show.
Any myth that you are going to break while doing the show that will surprise your fans?
The fact that I am doing a reality show and would be among so many contestants from TV and the reality world is the biggest switch in me. Fans fear that if I will lose my cool, but that is not true. I met everyone and they all seemed to be nice.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pilot disorientation is listed as a probable cause of the 2019 small plane crash that killed five people in south Louisiana.
The Advocate reports that the National Transportation Safety Board report on the crash said the pilot likely experienced “spatial disorientation” as he took off from the Lafayette airport in cloudy, low-visibility conditions.
“These weather conditions were conducive to the development of spatial disorientation,” the NTSB wrote.
The Dec. 28, 2019, crash killed five people. Victims included the pilot, 51-year-old Ian Biggs, 51, and 30-year-old Carley McCord, a sports broadcaster who was the daughter-in-law of former LSU football offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger Sr.
Other passengers killed in the crash were Robert Vaughn Crisp II, 59; Gretchen Vincent, 51; and her son, Michael Walker Vincent, 15.
Those aboard were headed to the Peach Bowl in Atlanta.
The Piper Cheyenne twin-engine turboprop plane was owned by Global Data Systems and Southern Lifestyle Development.
A surviving passenger told investigators the plane had “‘pitched up like the pilot was trying to get above or over the clouds’” and that a “'harder than normal pitching movement’” had occurred.
“Thus, the pilot had likely become spatially disoriented at this point in the initial climb due to the lack of visual references and the airplane’s increasing pitch attitude,” the report states. “Another indication that the pilot had become spatially disoriented was the airplane’s continuing and tightening turn to the left away from the intended course.”
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The new president of the Italian Conference of Bishops on Friday said he would launch an independent inquiry on sex abuse by Catholic clergy in Italy, but the announcement disappointed victims advocates because it will only go back 20 years.
The Italian church is coming under mountain pressure to confront its legacy of clerical sexual abuse. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who was appointed this week by Pope Francis, said the investigation will limit its scope to two decades in order to be “more accurate and accountable.”
Zuppi promised a report would be delivered by Nov. 18 by a panel of independent experts selected among university professors.
“We are starting from them (the victims),’’ Zuppi told a news conference. “It is clear that their suffering drives us, and it should stimulate us to give responses that are trustworthy and serious.”
Victims’ advocates say the initiative does not go far enough. They want investigations to span 50 years, and they want to be directly involved in drafting the report.
Francesco Zanardi, founder of Rete L’Abuso (Abuse Network), one of Italy’s main victims’ advocacy groups, said most of the victims report the abuse only after decades have passed.
“The maturation of a trauma takes between 30, 35 or 40 years, when it goes well,’’ Zanardi told reporters in Rome. “I, for example, spoke about my trauma (when I was) 40 years old ... more than 30 years went by ... this says that 20 years is not enough."
The Italian Catholic Church is one of the few in Western Europe that has not opened its archives to independent researchers to establish the scope of abuse and cover-up in recent decades.
Whether by government mandate, parliamentary investigation or church initiation, such reports in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and France have shown systematic problems that allowed thousands of children to be abused by Catholic priests. The churches in Spain and Portugal have recently agreed to launch similar investigations.
By Zanardi’s count, 164 priests are under investigation for abuse in Italy and another 162 have been convicted. His group has gathered information another 161 new cases that have come to light this year. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/New-head-of-Italian-bishops-launches-sex-abuse-17203550.php | 2022-05-27T18:28:28 | en | 0.971563 |
MUMBAI: TellyChakkar is back with yet another update from the telly world. Anupamaa has been one of the most adored shows on television; its gripping storyline and contemporary themes educate the audiences about different issues, from domestic violence and live-in relationships to familial bonds.
As we have seen, Maan will be enjoying their honeymoon phase. Anuj has gifted her an amazing outfit. Though Anupmaa feels uneasy wearing the outfit, she still wears it and our dear Anuj, simply can't take eyes off her.! Take a look at this video.
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Meanwhile, in the show, we see that Anupamaa knows the value of money and she wants to get the Shah family out of trouble. On the other hand, Barkha has not seen hardship and hence she wants Anupamaa to change and live life like a Kapadia.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani women’s rights activist was granted preemptive bail Friday in a move that protects her from arrest after the army accused her of slandering the country’s military chief, a lawyer said.
The order by the Islamabad High Court came a day after the military made an official complaint with the police against Imaan Mazari, accusing her of using derogatory and hateful remarks against Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa.
According to her lawyer Zainab Janjua, she is accused of inciting against the armed forces and defaming Bajwa. Under Pakistan’s legal system, a person can seek a court order, or preemptive bail, protecting them from arrest by police.
Mazari's family was worried after she publicly lashed out at Bajwa, accusing him of being behind her mother Shireen Mazari's arrest last Saturday. Imaan did not offer support for her allegations against Bajwa. The video of her outburst went viral on social media.
Her mother, who served as a human rights minister in the Cabinet of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, was detained over a land-grabbing allegation from decades ago. She was released hours later, after a court decided she was arrested in violation of a law stipulating that no lawmaker can be detained without permission from the parliament speaker. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Pakistan-rights-activist-gets-bail-in-army-17203734.php | 2022-05-27T18:28:34 | en | 0.981832 |
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A man died and another, his friend, was left injured after a speeding container ran them over at Kunjirwadi on the Pune-Solapur highway on Friday.
Police have identified the deceased as Mohit Madhukar Gholap (26), resident of Vidya Vihar Colony in Hadapsar. His injured fried has been identified as Ajinkya Mohan Sangle (26) of Sinhagad Road.
Dhiraj Kale, a third friend, lodged the FIR in the case at the Loni Kalbhor police station.
Police said that Gholap along with Sangle, Kale and Ashish Ubale had gone to a marriage hall in Kunjirwadi to attend the wedding of their friend on Friday afternoon.
Around 2 pm, they left the marriage hall to have cold drink. But while walking back to the wedding venue, a speeding container knocked Gholap and Sangle down. Offence of negligent driving has been lodged against the unidentified container driver.
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Police said Gholap died in the incident and Sangle was admitted to a hospital for treatment. Police said Gholap was a dental graduate and wanted to prepare for competitive examinations to become a government officer.
Meanwhile, in another incident, a speeding water tanker collided with a motorcycle near the textile market on the Hadapsar Saswad road, causing the death of a teenager on Friday morning.
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Police have identified the deceased as Pranav Sunil Patule (19), resident of Fursungi area. His friend Chaitanya Sutar (19) lodged the FIR in this case at the Loni Kalbhor police station.
Police said Patule and Sutar were going towards Saswad on a motorcycle, when a speeding water tanker coming from opposite side dashed them head on, around 9.45 am. Police have booked the unidentified tanker driver under sections 279, 304 (a) and 337 of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Motor Vehicle Act.
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Carole B. Balin, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
(THE CONVERSATION) Fifty years ago, on June 3, 1972, as Sally J. Priesand became the first woman ordained a rabbi by a Jewish seminary, her 35 male classmates spontaneously rose to their feet to acknowledge her historic feat.
For nearly 2,000 years, the position of rabbi – which literally means “my master” or “my teacher” - was limited to men. The only exception during all those years had been Rabbi Regina Jonas, who was ordained in a private ceremony in Germany in 1935. Jonas perished at Auschwitz in 1944, and the details of her life were discovered in archives after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Thirty-seven years after Jonas’ pioneering first, Rabbi Priesand’s ordination by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the seminary of Reform Judaism, the largest denomination of religious affiliation among American Jews, opened the door to hundreds of women becoming rabbis.
As a rabbi and historianof Jewish women in the modern era, I know that while the advent of women as ordained religious leaders has changed the face of the rabbinate, the values of equity and justice codified in the Hebrew Bible have not yet been fully realized when it comes to gender.
Making a difference
The rise and integration of women into the rabbinate over the past five decades has transformed many aspects of Jewish life, especially in North America, where they primarily serve. A smaller number are employed in Israel, Europe and Australia.
An estimated 1,500 women have become rabbis across every major Jewish denomination. After Rabbi Priesand in 1972, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso was the first in the Reconstructionist movement in 1974, Rabbi Amy Eilberg in the Conservative movement in 1985 and Rabba Sara Hurwitz in Modern Orthodoxy in 2009.
The use of the professional title “rabbi” for an ordained woman remains controversial among Orthodox Jews as it derives from the masculine Hebrew word “rav,” the title given to men at ordination. As a result, some use “rabba,” the feminine rendering of “rav” in Hebrew, while others use “maharat,” a Hebrew acronym for a female leader of Jewish law, spirituality and Torah.
Classes at liberal Jewish seminaries today often consist of at least equal numbers of male- and female-identifying rabbinical candidates. Maharat in New York City was founded in 2009 as the first institute to ordain women to serve as Orthodox clergy. Over 50 women have been ordained since then.
Along with female academics, female rabbis have expanded the canon of Jewish study and stretched the parameters of Jewish practice to include women and their perspectives.
New commentary based on the Torah – which means Jewish learning in general but refers literally to the first five books of the Bible contained in the scroll regularly read in synagogue – has recovered the stories of biblical women and treated them with the academic rigor usually reserved for biblical men. Women, alongside men, are studying classical legal texts and responding knowledgeably to questions that inform practice.
Feminist Jewish theologians have questioned the ways in which God is described and understood, challenging the centrality of both male imagery and hierarchy in Jewish religious thinking and leading to the production of prayer books with gender-inclusive language.
Moreover, female rabbis have been instrumental in creating rituals to acknowledge milestones relating to women’s experiences. So, for instance, baby namings welcoming girls into the covenant now coexist alongside those for boys, and new religious ceremonies marking the first menstrual period and menopause have emerged.
By dint of their presence as religious authorities, female rabbis are toppling the traditional gendered differentiation of roles between Jewish women and men and democratizing Jewish communities. In Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism, for instance, women are no longer relegated to lighting candles and men alone privileged with reciting Kiddush, the blessing over the wine, on the Jewish Sabbath. Female scholar-rabbis now teach and, in some cases, lead seminaries, like Boston’s Hebrew College and New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary.
They are also challenging conventional definitions of professional success by raising questions about work-life balance pertinent to all rabbis, regardless of gender.
Fighting for equality
While their impact on Jewish life has been significant, female rabbis continue to face considerable challenges.
Teams deployed to Reform synagogues in the early 1980s to interview Jews about their qualms regarding female rabbis’ initial entry into the workplace yielded comments such as “the rigors of the rabbinate are too great and women too weak for the demanding routine,” “women do not know how to, nor care to, wield power or authority” and “women who succeed will reflect poorly on their [male] colleagues.” These have given way to far more egregious claims of gender discrimination and sexual misconduct at seminaries and synagogues in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
Equity in the Jewish workplace has yet to materialize. There is, for instance, an 18% gender-based wage gap among Reform rabbis in congregations. The acceptance of female rabbis in Orthodox Judaism remains highly contested. The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America continues to reiterate its opposition to ordaining women. For sectors further to the right, like the ultra-Orthodox Hasidim, affirmations of male and female difference make the question of women rabbis moot.
Organizations like the Women’s Rabbinic Network and the three-year-old grassroots Facebook group known as Year of the Jewish Woman are seeking to root out inequities. Plans to thoroughly revise the ethics code of Reform rabbis have been set in motion, and the Women’s Rabbinic Network continues to advocate for passage of a uniform family and medical leave policy.
‘Little girls can grow up knowing they can be rabbis’
The truth is that the days of a rabbi envisioned as a white man with a beard in a dark suit are coming to a close.
In more recent years, the diversity engendered by women in the rabbinate has expanded to include rabbis of color, rabbis with disabilities, openly gay rabbis and transgender rabbis. In May 2022, the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion issued a certificate of ordination to a nonbinary candidate for the first time in its 147-year history.
When Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh appeared on the long-running medical television drama “Grey’s Anatomy” in 2005 (as herself), and Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, who is the first Chinese American rabbi, addressed the Democratic National Convention’s Jewish American Community Meeting in 2020, they were smashing the so-called stained-glass ceiling and enabling all Jews to consider the rabbinate as a calling.
As Priesand told me during an interview in May 2021, “One of the things I’ve always been proudest of is that little girls can grow up knowing they could be rabbis if they want to. And I’ve worked really hard not just to open the door but to hold it open for others to follow in my footsteps.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign hid his partisan interests from the FBI as he pushed “pure opposition research” related to Donald Trump and Russia in the weeks before the election, a prosecutor asserted Friday during closing arguments of the attorney's trial.
But Michael Sussmann's legal team denied prosecutors’ claims that he lied. And even if jurors believed Sussmann did lie, the defense said the alleged false statement did not matter because he was presenting national security information that the FBI would have looked into no matter the source. At the time of Sussmann's meeting in September 2016, the bureau was already investigating whether Russia and the Trump campaign were colluding to sway the election won by Trump that November.
“They wouldn’t have done anything different. And it makes sense: They were given actual data that had national security implications," Sussmann lawyer Sean Berkowitz said.
The case is the first courtroom test of special counsel John Durham's work since his appointment three years ago to search for government misconduct during the investigation into potential ties between Russia and Trump’s campaign.
A guilty verdict would be cheered by Trump and his supporters, who have looked to the Durham investigation to undercut the original Trump-Russia probe that have long seen as politically motivated. But the case against Sussmann is narrow in nature, involves a peripheral aspect of that probe and alleges misconduct by a tipster to the government rather than by anyone at the FBI.
Nonetheless, the two weeks of testimony in federal court in Washington have exposed the extent to which Democratic interests, opposition research, the media and law enforcement all came to be entangled in the run-up to the presidential election.
“It wasn’t about national security,” Jonathan Algor, a prosecutor on Durham’s team, said of Sussmann's concerns. “It was about promoting opposition research against the opposition candidate, Donald Trump.”
Sussmann is charged with a single count of making a false statement. That charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence, though if convicted, Sussmann is likely to get far less — if any — prison time. He did not take the stand during the trial.
The criminal case turns on a Sept. 19, 2016 meeting in which Sussmann presented the FBI's top lawyer, James Baker, with computer data that Sussmann said suggested a secret communications back channel between a Russia-based bank and the Trump Organization, the candidate's company.
Such a back channel, if it existed, would have been explosive information at a time when the FBI was examining links between Trump and Russia. But after assessing the data, the FBI quickly determined that there was no suspicious contact at all.
Prosecutors say Sussmann lied to Baker by saying he was not participating in the meeting on behalf of a particular client. They say he was actually there on behalf of the Clinton campaign and another client, a technology executive whom the Durham team says tasked researchers with looking for internet traffic involving Trump aides and Russia.
Sussmann lied about his clients, prosecutors allege, to give the material extra credibility and because he figured that the information would not be investigated if the FBI thought it was being pushed by the Clinton campaign.
“The defendant knew he had to hide his clients if there was any chance of getting his allegations into the FBI — and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the defendant lied,” Algor said.
Algor said the fact that Sussmann repeatedly billed the Clinton campaign for his work on the Alfa Bank matters is proof that he was acting on the campaign's behalf when he met with the FBI. But Berkowitz noted that Sussmann billed his taxi ride to FBI headquarters for the meeting to his law firm, rather than the campaign.
Berkowitz also tried to cast doubt on what exactly was said in the meeting. Prosecutors showed jurors a text message Sussmann sent Baker the night before the meeting in which he requested a sit-down on a sensitive matter and said he would be coming by himself and not on behalf of a client.
But Berkowitz reminded jurors that the only false statement that was charged took place during the following day's meeting and that no one can be sure exactly what was said because Baker and Sussmann were the only participants and neither took notes.
Berkowitz also suggested that it was technically accurate if Sussmann suggested he was not acting on behalf of a client because he never asked the FBI do anything with the information he was providing.
“When you go somewhere on behalf of a client, you’re advocating for a client, you’re asking for something,” Berkowitz said. “Mr. Sussmann didn't ask Jim Baker for anything.”
Though Baker testified under questioning from a prosecutor that he was “100% confident” that Sussmann had told him that he was not acting on behalf of a client, Berkowitz cited 116 instances in which Baker suggested that he could not recall or remember the answer.
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DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic drew laughter from reporters by saying he would take about a week off after Dallas lost to Golden State in the Western Conference finals, ending the longest season of the young superstar's career.
The question won't be a joke when Doncic is asked how much he weighs when training camp opens in about four months.
The 23-year-old's conditioning and how the roster fits around him will be the hottest offseason topics as the Mavericks try to build on their first trip beyond the first round of the playoffs since their only championship 11 years ago.
“Basically I didn’t stop playing basketball since the start of last season NBA,” Doncic said after a 120-110 loss to the Warriors in Game 5. “I’m going to take probably one week off basketball and then back to it. The healthiness is the most important thing in basketball. If you’re not healthy, you’re not going to play.”
Or in his case, if you're not in shape, you're not going to play well.
Doncic was criticized early in the season for that — and acknowledged it was an issue — as he struggled by his lofty standards and the Mavericks started slowly under first-year coach Jason Kidd, the point guard on Dallas' title team.
Doncic didn’t get much of a break in the last offseason after Dallas’ first-round loss because the season started late. The All-Star then carried Slovenia to its first Olympic berth, then the semifinals in Tokyo before two losses kept his home country from a medal.
A COVID-19 absence during the season was extended to give Doncic time to work on his conditioning and recover from an ankle injury. He returned about the time Dallas started its surge from 16-18 to the fourth seed in the West at 52-30.
Kidd said he would visit Doncic this summer on his “home turf,” and hinted that conditioning will be part of the conversation.
“I think the next step is just understanding how long the season really is if you want to win a championship,” Kidd said. “And I think this is a good start for them.”
LUKA'S SIDEKICKS
The Mavericks gave up on pairing Doncic with Kristaps Porzingis, trading the 7-foot-3 Latvian to Washington and changing the mix around their star. It was the first big move for new general manager Nico Harrison.
Now they will again face the question of whether Doncic needs a co-star, starting with whether to re-sign Jalen Brunson. A second-round pick the same year Doncic was drafted third overall, Brunson boosted his value by averaging 21.6 points in the playoffs.
Dallas owner Mark Cuban sounded confident in keeping Brunson after the Game 5 loss. The Mavericks also know they need help at center after Kevon Looney played a huge role in Golden State's victory.
“We're going to get together and really focus on the type of J-Kidd player,” Cuban told Bally Sports Southwest after the game. “Guys who can guard multiple positions that are tough, that know their role, that are physical, that have a motor.”
WINGING IT
Spencer Dinwiddie was the key piece coming from Washington in the Porzingis deal. He will have more help at shooting guard in Tim Hardaway Jr., who didn't play again after breaking his foot in January.
Reggie Bullock and Dorian Finney-Smith have important roles as defenders and 3-point specialists. The Mavericks thrived in the playoffs when either one of them had a good shooting night.
“This isn’t an old group at all,” Dinwiddie said. “Most of the talent is under 30. Our superstar is 23. There’s no reason we can’t get better. It all depends on the mentality and the approach in the offseason.”
ROUGH FINISH
Doncic had perhaps the worst half of his playoff career when the Warriors built a 17-point halftime lead in the clincher. It was hard to blame him after such a stellar start to his postseason career, including a 35-point average in elimination games. Kidd said as much while hinting at the mindset on building the roster around Doncic.
“So just understanding that we need Luka to go big a lot of nights just to give us a chance, and unfortunately the ball just didn't go for him tonight,” Kidd said. “I think he carries the load as well as anyone, and I think for us as an organization, we’ll help lighten that load as we go forward.”
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* WHERE...Cascade mountains of Pierce and Lewis Counties,
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* WHEN...From 1 PM Saturday to 5 PM PDT Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
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Some welcome news for shoppers getting squeezed by inflation: promotions on televisions, furniture, clothing, sporting goods and other big-ticket purchases are ramping up.
Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Urban Outfitters and other top retailers have said in recent weeks that they are sitting on too much inventory for some of their products. As a result, they plan to mark down prices and step up sales on those items to clear the glut.
It marks a major reversal from much of 2021, when discounts on big-ticket items were scarce for consumers.
Last year, big chains dialed back on promotions because products were in tight supply due to production bottlenecks and slowdowns at key global ports.
Stores and brands were able to sell merchandise at full price to consumers who had built up savings while staying home during the pandemic and were eager to spend big on their homes and wardrobes.
Conditions have changed in recent months. Some stores are sitting on an excess inventory of goods they ordered from manufacturers months ago with the expectation that consumer spending would be red hot. But demand has softened as consumers feel the pressure from the highest annual jump in inflation since the 1980s.
"Companies chased as much merchandise as possible to support demand, which has now slowed," Dana Telsey, CEO and chief research officer at Telsey Advisory Group, said in a note to clients Monday. Markdowns and promotions are starting to pick up, she said.
"There is a surplus of inventory ... across the board at retail right now," Urban Outfitters' CEO Richard Hayne said Tuesday.
Urban Outfitters will increase promotions for the remainder of the year and into the winter holiday shopping season, he said.
Target said it was carrying too many big, bulky products such as furniture, televisions and kitchen appliances last quarter and misjudged how extensive the consumer shift to luggage, toy and home decor purchases would be.
"We didn't anticipate the magnitude of that shift," Target CEO Brian Cornell said last week.
Target has been marking down some of those bigger items to make room for products that are in higher demand.
And Best Buy said it, too, has seen an increase in promotions for TVs and computers.
"Some products were even more promotional than we expected coming into the quarter and were similar to pre-pandemic levels," CEO Corie Barry said Tuesday.
Shoppers may also be able to find more bargains at closeout retailers such as TJX and Burlington, which capitalize on an inventory glut.
These companies buy up high-end goods for cheap and then turn around and sell them to shoppers at a discount from their original prices.
"The buying environment now is better than it has been for years," Burlington CEO Michael O'Sullivan said Thursday. "We're seeing brands that we haven't seen for a couple of years."
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SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) -- Some 90,0000 people in the United States are awaiting a kidney donation. One Sacramento mother took it into her own hands to try and get a donor, and you've probably already seen her plea for help.
Along northbound Interstate 5 by the Sacramento International Airport stands a billboard.
"I need a kidney transplant," said Cynthia Hall.
Hall hopes that with her billboard she will reach the right person.
"Six years ago, I got a call from my doctor that my kidneys are severely damaged," Hall said.
Her husband Art said they knew they would reach the point where they needed to expand their outreach one day.
"We have been doing a homegrown campaign, if you will," Art said. "Making flyers, putting them up at businesses. We have done social media campaigns. I thought I need to take this to the next level to see what's possible to do and that's where I thought I would try a billboard."
That's when Marquee Media received a call from a friend who heard about the Hall family.
"When we formed our company, we wanted to have business with purpose. This is the highest purpose we can probably do," said Jeff Joaquin with Marquee Media.
There are 11 billboards across the Sacramento region, reaching about 2 million people every week. There are also dozens of billboards across the country.
"We help companies and brands sell products, help their businesses along, but we can have a higher calling to help somebody get a kidney and save a life, it's just something immeasurable," Joaquin said.
The Hall family hopes it raises more awareness about kidney diseases.
"There are millions of people out there with this disease and they do not know they have it," Cynthia said.
"If anything comes of all this, besides her getting a kidney donor, is raising the awareness of kidney disease out there," Art said.
The hope is that on their four-year wedding anniversary, they will get the call that will give Cynthia a second chance at life.
"It means the world to us and my son, he's 14. I want to see him go to college, I want to see him get married, I want to be with him and this will give me a chance to live my life to the fullest," Cynthia said.
If you would like to help you can reach the Hall family at akidneyforcynthia@gmail.com or at 916-276-7603.
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MIDLAND, Mich. (WJRT) - Two boaters made it to shore safely after they tumbled over Dow Dam in Midland around dusk on Thursday.
The Midland Fire Department says the men were heading down the Tittabawassee River around 9:30 p.m. A witness called 911 and summoned rescuers.
One of the boaters went underwater for a significant period of time before he resurfaced. Both boaters swam to shore before firefighters and rescue crews arrived.
Dow Emergency Services found the men sitting on shore near a utility bridge between Midland's industrial park and the Midland Cogeneration Venture.
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An 11-year-old survivor of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, feared the gunman would come back for her so she smeared herself in her friend's blood and played dead.
Miah Cerrillo spoke exclusively to CNN about her horrific experience that day inside the classroom where the mass shooting took place that killed 19 of her classmates and two of her teachers.
Miah said she and her classmates were watching the movie "Lilo and Stitch" in a classroom shared by two teachers, Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia. The students were finished with their lessons when the teachers got word there was a shooter in the building, she told CNN's "New Day."
One teacher went to lock the door, but Miah says the shooter was already right there — and shot out the window in the door.
She described it all happening so fast — her teacher backed into the classroom and the gunman followed. She told CNN he made eye contact with one of the teachers, said, "Goodnight," and then shot her.
He opened fire, shooting the other teacher and many of Miah's friends. She said bullets flew by her, and fragments hit her shoulders and head. The girl was later treated at the hospital and released with fragment wounds; she described to CNN that clumps of her hair were falling out now.
Miah said after shooting students in her class, the gunman went through a door into an adjoining classroom. She heard screams, and the sound of shots in that classroom. After the shots stopped, though, she says the shooter started playing loud music -- sad music, she said.
The girl and a friend managed to get her dead teacher's phone and call 911 for help. She said she told a dispatcher, "Please come ... we're in trouble."
Miah said she was scared the gunman would return to her classroom to kill her and a few other surviving friends. So, she dipped her hands in the blood of a classmate -- who lay next to her, already dead -- and then smeared the blood all over herself to play dead.
Miah said it felt like three hours that she lay there, covered in her classmate's blood, with her friends.
She told CNN she assumed at that point the police hadn't arrived on the scene yet.
She said afterward, she overheard talk of police waiting outside the school. As she recounted this part of the story to CNN, she started crying, saying she just didn't understand why they didn't come inside and rescue them.
Miah's mother said her daughter is traumatized and can't sleep. The child's parents have started a GoFundMe specifically to pay for her therapy.
In an effort to keep herself covered, Miah sat for the interview wrapped in a blanket, despite the warm temperatures.
A cellphone alarm accidentally went off during the interview, and Miah was visibly unnerved by the noise. Her mother said that's been happening a lot, and described an earlier incident where they were at a car wash and the sound of the vacuum cleaner "completely set her off."
Miah was too scared to speak on camera, or to a man, because of what she experienced, but she told CNN she wanted to share her story so people can know what it's like to live through a school shooting. She says hopefully it can help prevent a tragedy like this from happening to other children.
Already a "miracle baby"
Miah's mother said she was born with a tumor in her abdomen and wasn't expected to live much past her birth. She underwent extensive surgery to remove the tumor at age 3; her mother already called her a "miracle baby" and said that's even truer now.
Her mother also told CNN that the morning of the shooting, Miah had an earache and she took her out of school to go to the doctor. On the way back, they stopped at Starbucks for a treat and her mother offered to let Miah skip school the rest of the day since it was one of the last days of classes before summer break and they were just watching movies.
But Miah insisted that she wanted to return to school to see her friends, so her mother dropped her back off at school -- about an hour before the shooting.
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While a gunman was inside adjoining classrooms with children at a Texas elementary school, a group of 19 law enforcement officers stood in a hallway outside and took no action as they waited for room keys and tactical equipment, a state official said Friday.
"The on-scene commander at that time believed that it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject," Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Col. Steven McCraw said.
"From the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. There's no excuse for that," he said.
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While officers waited outside adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, children inside the room repeatedly called 911 and pleaded for help, he said.
"The belief was there isn't anybody living anymore and that the subject is now trying to keep law enforcement at bay or entice them to come in" and shoot them, he said.
The damning revelation explains the lengthy wait between when officers first arrived to the school at 11:44 a.m. and when a tactical team finally entered the room and killed the gunman at 12:50 p.m. The tactical team was able to enter using keys from a janitor, McCraw said.
Nineteen students and two teachers were killed Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde before the team killed the gunman, ending the deadliest U.S. school shooting in almost a decade.
Officials initially praised the law enforcement response and noted that the carnage could have been worse. But revelations from McCraw and from DPS regional chief Victor Escalon a day earlier revealed major flaws in the response and contradictory information.
Emergency protocol established since the Columbine school shooting of 1999 is to end the threat as quickly as possible because fatalities occur in seconds to minutes.
"The levels of failure are just incredible, beyond belief," said Anthony Barksdale, the former acting Baltimore police commissioner.
The shooting in Uvalde is the deadliest school shooting since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre and at least the 30th shooting at a K-12 school in 2022. The attack came less than two weeks after a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, and has left Americans grieving yet again and many renewing calls for gun law reform.
Surviving children describe what happened inside
Children who survived the shooting described what happened inside the school during the mayhem.
To survive the nightmare, Miah Cerrillo, 11, smeared her friend's blood all over herself and played dead, she told CNN.
Miah and her classmates were watching the movie "Lilo and Stitch" when teachers Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia got word of a shooter in the building. One teacher went to lock the door, but the shooter was right there -- and shot out the door's window, Miah said.
As her teacher backed into the classroom, the gunman followed. He then looked a teacher in the eye, said "Goodnight," and shot her, the girl recalled.
And then he opened fire, shooting the other teacher and many of Miah's friends. Bullets flew by her, Miah said, and fragments hit her shoulders and head.
The gunman next went through a door into an adjoining classroom. Miah heard screams and more gunshots. When the firing stopped, the shooter started playing music that was "sad, like you want people to die," the girl said.
Scared he would come back to kill her and her few surviving friends, Miah put her hands into the blood of a slain friend lying next to her and smeared herself with it, she said.
The girl and a friend managed to grab a dead teacher's phone and call 911 for help, she said. She told a dispatcher, "Please send help because we're in trouble."
The pair then lay down and played dead.
Another student in a different classroom, 10-year-old Jayden Perez, said when he and his classmates heard gunfire, his teacher locked the door and told them to "hide and be quiet."
Jayden said he was hiding near the storage area for backpacks during the shooting. Others in his class were under a table. The entire time, he wondered what was going to happen to them.
"It was very terrifying because I never thought that was going to happen," he told CNN. "(I'm) still sad about some of my friends that died."
He does not want to go back to school again.
"No, because after what happened. I don't want to. I don't want anything to do with another shooting or me in the school," he said. "And I know it might happen again, probably."
Gunman entered school unobstructed, officials says
Investigators are still piecing together a timeline of the carnage, Escalon, DPS' South Texas regional director, said during a news conference.
"With all the different agencies that are involved, we're working every angle that's available," Escalon said. "We won't stop until we get all the answers that we possibly can."
After shooting his grandmother in her home, Ramos drove to Robb Elementary, where he crashed his truck in a nearby ditch, DPS Sgt. Erick Estrada said. It's unclear why he crashed.
The shooter then fired at two witnesses across the street before climbing a fence, moving toward the school and shooting at the building, according to Escalon.
There were no officers outside the school to stop Ramos, who "walked in unobstructed initially," Escalon said Thursday. Earlier information about a school resource officer engaging the gunman was "not accurate," he said.
Ramos got into the building through an apparently unlocked door at 11:40 a.m., Escalon said. That door is normally locked, "unless you are leaving to go home on the school bus," former principal Ross McGlothlin told CNN.
Inside the school, the shooter barricaded himself inside two adjoining classrooms and fired more than 25 times, Escalon said.
At 11:44 a.m., law enforcement arrived and entered the school.
What law enforcement did inside and outside the school
What happened in the hour between their arrival and the gunman's death remains murky.
At least seven officers rushed into Robb Elementary within four minutes of the shooter's arrival, DPS spokesperson Chris Olivarez told CNN. Three officers went in the same door the shooter used and four used a different entrance, Olivarez told CNN.
When they confronted the shooter, he fired at them and they took cover. Two responding officers were shot; their injuries were not life threatening, said Uvalde Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez.
"It is important for our community to know that our officers responded within minutes" alongside school resource officers, he said.
Officers then called for more tactical teams and resources, such as body armor, while they worked to evacuate teachers and students, Escalon said. About an hour later, a US Border Patrol tactical team entered and killed Ramos, he said.
When asked for more details at a news conference about what exactly responding officers were doing in the hour-long period, Escalon declined to provide further information.
Outside the school, chaos and confusion reigned as distraught parents showed up and implored law enforcement to force their way in and kill the gunman. One father even asked officers to give him their gear, he said.
"I told one of the officers myself, if they didn't want to go in there, let me borrow his gun and a vest and I'll go in there myself to handle it. And they told me no," Victor Luna told CNN. His son survived.
Instead, officers held parents behind yellow police tape, refusing to let them enter as crying and screaming echoed around them, several videos show. After about an hour, a US Border Patrol tactical team forced its way into the classroom and fatally shot the gunman, Escalon said.
Members of the US Marshals Service can be seen in video holding back parents who pleaded to enter the school. U.S. Marshals said in a statement they were called to the school at 11:30 a.m. and arrived about 40 minutes later from Del Rio, about 70 miles away.
The first deputy U.S. Marshals to arrive entered the school to assist the Border Patrol tactical team already engaging with the shooter. The deputies also rendered aid to victims. Other deputies were asked to secure the perimeter around the school, but never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs, the agency said.
"Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering around the school," the agency said.
Grieving community reckons with aftermath
Days after the massacre, the residents of Uvalde are still saturated in grief. The final victims' remains were returned Thursday night to families. Six people were still hospitalized Thursday, including the shooter's grandmother, who was shot in the face.
And the devastating news continued to pour in Thursday as word spread that the husband of a slain teacher died of a heart attack brought on, his family said, by a broken heart.
Joe Garcia's death was confirmed by the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Irma Garcia was a fourth-grade teacher and had been married to Joe for over 25 years, according to a GoFundMe campaign posted by her cousin.
For survivors, trauma is sinking in. Edward Timothy Silva, a second grader who hid behind desks in the dark at the school as he heard loud noises in the distance now wonders: "Does he have to go to school next year," his mother Amberlynn Diaz said.
"And I just don't want him to be afraid of school," she said. "I want him to continue learning and not be scared of going back to school. I want him to have a normal life again."
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SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - Some drivers in Shiawassee County will have a slower commute when a three-month resurfacing project begins on M-21 after Memorial Day.
Contractors for the Michigan Department of Transportation plan to start a $6.2 million project on Tuesday to repave 9.5 miles of M-21 between State Road in Corunna and M-13 or Sheridan Road at the Genesee County line.
The project is scheduled to last until Aug. 31 with repaving the road, replacing some concrete curb and replacing a culvert at Durand Road, which allows Rush Creek to flow underneath.
A single lane of travel will be open at a time for most of the repaving work. Traffic regulators will allow vehicles to pass through the work zone in one direction at a time.
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SAN ANTONIO — A local business owner used his passion from his boxing background to get him right in the tank...how did the sharks respond? Our Photojournalist Derick Moreno spoke with him.
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The southwest monsoon is expected to reach Kerala during the next two to three days, marking a sluggish start to the seasonal rains that are the lifeline of India's agri-based economy.
Earlier, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had forecast the onset over Kerala on Friday (May 27) with help from the remnants of Cyclone Asani, which struck the Bay of Bengal a fortnight ago. The forecast had a model error of four days.
However, the influence of the remnant weather systems, that lingered over the southern peninsula, petered out, dashing the forecast of early-onset over Kerala and swift progress towards the north, the IMD said.
"As per the latest meteorological indications, westerly winds have strengthened in the lower levels over the south Arabian Sea and deepened. As per satellite imagery, there is an increase in cloudiness over the Kerala coast and adjoining the southeast Arabian Sea. Hence, conditions are becoming favourable for monsoon onset over Kerala during the next 2-3 days," the IMD said.
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The weather office declares the onset of monsoon over Kerala if 60 percent of 14 weather stations in Kerala and Lakshadweep receive 2.5 mm or more rainfall for two consecutive days, aided by favourable Windfield and outgoing longwave radiation.
The IMD had declared the onset of monsoon over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on May 16.
"The monsoon has now reached the latitude of Kerala. However, the distribution of rainfall in the state is still not proper for the declaration of the onset," Akshay Deoras, a monsoon researcher with the Britain-based University of Reading, said on Twitter.
"Forecasts continue to suggest that the onset could happen sometime between 30 May and 2 June, and it will not be robust," he said.
The IMD has forecast widespread light/moderate rainfall with thunderstorms/lightning over Kerala and Lakshadweep and isolated to scattered rainfall over Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikal during the next five days under the influence of westerly winds blowing from the Arabian Sea.
The weather office has forecast scattered light/moderate rainfall with isolated thunderstorms over Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh during the next four days.
It also said isolated rainfall over Uttarakhand, north Punjab, north Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and East Rajasthan was likely during the next two to three days.
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SAN ANTONIO — A local barber who unexpectedly found her passion--decided the only way she could change the barber shop stereotype--was by opening her own. Clarke Finney had the chance to meet her and her crew.
A look inside San Antonio's first all female barber shop | Great Day SA
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Hours after the Narcotics Control Bureau gave a clean chit to Aryan Khan, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday asked who will bear the responsibility for the young man's trauma and said in many cases, the arrest comes first and investigation follows which was a "perversion" of the procedure established by law.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday gave a clean chit to Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in last year's drug case in which he was arrested and spent 22 days in jail.
NCB officials said Aryan Khan and five others were not named in the agency's charge sheet due to a "lack of sufficient evidence".
Reacting to the development, Chidambaram said it is now admitted that there was no evidence against Aryan Khan.
"Who will bear responsibility for the trauma of the young man?" the former home minister said. "Investigation must lead to arrest. Sadly, in many cases, the arrest comes first and investigation follows," he said.
This is a "perversion" of the procedure established by law, Chidambaram added.
Art of News plants by Govt Agencies,
Fallacious nature of News debates,
Ruining of reputation without proof,
Holding people guilty without trial,
This is - New India!
Do think, if all this was done not to a celebrity child but to a loved one?
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Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala tweeted, "Art of News plants by Govt Agencies, Fallacious nature of News debates, Ruining of reputation without proof, Holding people guilty without trial, This is - New India!"
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SAN ANTONIO — Canines for Christ, a Christian based animal assisted therapy ministry, uses community members and their dogs to help people in need. Clarke Finney went to Uvalde yesterday and spoke with a handler during her visit to Robb Elementary School.
Certified therapy dogs help comfort first responders in Uvalde | Great Day SA
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SAN ANTONIO — The Ecumenical Center for education, counseling, and health offers resources for those dealing with grief and trauma. Mary Beth-Fisk the CEO and Executive Director, shares more on what they offer.
Counseling for families and first responders dealing with grief and trauma | Great Day SA
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SAN ANTONIO — For more information on upcoming blood drives visit SouthTexasBlood.org
Donating blood can help save lives, here's how and where to do it | Great Day SA
South Texas Blood and Tissue shares the importance of donating blood
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SAN ANTONIO — Crest Side Medical Clinic offers long lasting solution for E.D.
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SAN ANTONIO — For more information or to make a donation contact Jimmy@urgeartists.com
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Local resources available to help support Uvalde, Texas
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SAN ANTONIO — Many local businesses and restaurants are coming together to help community members in Uvalde. Now there's an effort to get stuffed plushies into the hands of grieving children.
Plushies for Uvalde will go into the hands of children from Robb Elementary School | Great Day SA
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SAN ANTONIO — Gamez Law offers legal services for those involved in car accidents that have happened under the influence.
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SAN ANTONIO — For more information on P3 Training and Consulting visit P3TCus.com
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SAN ANTONIO — Doctors at University Health are offering resources and testing to help prevent and treat Hepatitis c, Clarke spoke with one of their pharmacists to learn more.
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UVALDE, Texas — Three days after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at a Uvalde elementary school, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety said Friday that the incident commander in charge of the initial response made the 'wrong decision' not to breach the classroom sooner.
Col. Steven McCraw made the comments during a press conference where he gave an updated timeline of what occurred.
“From the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision," McCraw said. "It was a wrong decision. There's no excuse for that. But again, I wasn't there, but I'm just telling you from what we know. We believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. When there's an active shooter, the rules change."
The on-site commander initially believed the gunman was barricaded in a classroom during Tuesday's attack and that the children were not at risk, McCraw said.
Authorities say children repeatedly called 911 from inside Robb Elementary School, including a girl who told the dispatcher “Please send the police now."
Nearly 20 officers were in a hallway outside the classrooms for more than 45 minutes before Border Patrol agents used a master key to open a door and confront a gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, McCraw said.
McCraw became emotional during a flurry of questions from reporters as he outlined what investigators said happened before and during the deadly rampage inside Robb Elementary School.
"Forget about me or the officers and stuff like that," McCraw said. "We take an oath to uphold the law and protect people and anytime something tragic like this, we want to know why it happened, and if we can do better next time. There's a bottom line and call it like it is. It is tragic."
Ramos was killed at about 12:58 p.m. Tuesday according to law enforcement radio chatter, ending a reign of terror that began with the shooting of his grandmother in her home.
What follows is a timeline of events that began as Ramos arrived outside of the school.
11:27 a.m. - Exterior door at Robb Elementary School propped open by teacher
11:28 a.m. - Ramos crashes into a ditch near the school. A teacher runs to a classroom to retrieve their phone. The exterior door remains propped open. Two people from a nearby funeral home approach Ramos' crashed truck to try and help, but they see him with a gun and backpack. The two people run back to the funeral home as Ramos began shooting at them. They were not hit.
11:30 a.m. - The first 911 call is received reporting a crash and a man with a gun.
11:31 a.m. - Gunman starts shooting at Robb Elementary School while police officers arrive at the funeral home. A Uvalde CISD patrol officer arrived at the school and drove past the shooter, who was hiding behind a car.
11:32 a.m. - Multiple shots fired at school
11:33 a.m. - Gunman enters school through the propped open door and enters either room 111 or 112 and starts shooting. He fired more than 100 rounds at that time.
11:35 a.m. - Three Uvalde Police officers enter the same door the gunman entered. They were later followed by three more officers and a sheriff's deputy. Two of the first officers through the door received grazing bullet wounds from bullets fired through the closed door.
11:37 a.m. - More gunfire
11:38 a.m. - More gunfire
11:40 a.m. - More gunfire
11:44 a.m. - More gunfire
11:51 a.m. - Police sergeant and U.S. Border Patrol agents start to arrive.
12:03 p.m. - Agents continue to arrive. As many as 19 law enforcement officers are now in the school hallway.
12:15 p.m. - Border Patrol Tactical Units (BORTAC) arrive along with tactical shields
12:21 p.m. - Gunman fires again and is believed to be at the door. Law enforcement moved down the hallway.
12:50 p.m. - Law enforcement officers breached the door using keys they were able to get from a janitor because both rooms 111 and 112 were locked.
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WASHINGTON — Mattel is celebrating Emmy-winner Laverne Cox with her own Barbie doll.
The actress and LGBTQ activist is the first transgender person to have a Barbie doll designed in her likeness.
The Laverne Cox doll is part of Barbie's "Tribute Collection," which has also honored Lucille Ball and designer Vera Wang. Queen Elizabeth II also recently got her own Barbie, to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
"As a four-time Emmy-nominated actress, Emmy-winning producer, and the first transgender woman of color to have a leading role on a scripted TV show, Laverne Cox uses her voice to amplify the message of moving beyond societal expectations to live more authentically," the product description on Mattel's website explains.
Cox's acting breakthrough came on the hit Netflix series "Orange is the New Black."
In an interview released by Mattel, Cox described how she wasn't allowed to have a Barbie when she was a child so to have one designed in her likeness now is "incredibly meaningful."
"I hope that kids of all gender identities can look at this Barbie and dream, because I think that, like, the space of dreaming and manifesting is - when you lose that, it is so deeply painful, she said. "What I've been so grateful for throughout my life is that I still dream. There's a kid that is still living inside me who's very alive and well who still dreams and who dreams big, who imagines a world that is different and better."
She told PEOPLE that in a time where hundreds of pieces of anti-trans legislation have been introduced in state legislatures across the U.S., that this honor can be "a celebration of transness" and a reminder for transgender kids that "there's hope and possibility for them to be themselves."
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's administration has not made a final decision on student loan forgiveness, a spokesperson said Friday, after a report that the latest plan would be to forgive $10,000 in student debt per borrower.
The Washington Post cited three "people with knowledge of the matter" who said the president had hoped to announce the administration's long-awaited plan on Saturday at the University of Delaware commencement. But the Post's sources said the timing changed because of the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
“No decisions have been made yet — but as a reminder no one has been required to pay a single dime of student loans since the President took office,” a White House spokesman told Reuters and CNBC. CNN reported Friday White House aides have drafted the order for canceling some debt, but were waiting on a final decision.
On April 28, Biden said he planned to make a decision on canceling additional federal student loan debt within a month.
Multiple outlets have reported over the past few weeks that the plan would be to cancel at least $10,000 in student debt per person, though there may be income limits for who would be eligible.
The Washington Post's report on Friday stated the latest plan would include only those who earned less than $150,000 in the previous year, or less than $300,000 for couples filing jointly.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and other leading Democrats, have called for $50,000 in debt to be canceled and some activists want all debt wiped out without exception.
Those hoping for a higher amount were not pleased by the $10,000 report.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson framed it as "like pouring a bucket of ice water on a forest fire."
"In other words, it won't do anything, especially for the Black community. Right now, Black Americans are the only people who have more student debt left to repay than the sum of their median annual income. $10,000 in cancelation would not even place their student debt total lower than their annual income," Johnson said in a statement.
During his campaign, Biden said he wanted to “immediately cancel” at least $10,000 in student debt per person. So far he’s repeatedly extended a pause on requiring borrowers to repay their loans, a moratorium that was put in place under then-President Donald Trump near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
About 43 million Americans owe $1.6 trillion on their student loans, more than either credit cards or car payments.
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Tom Stephenson wears many hats: husband, father, son, teacher, farmer, caretaker and coach. He even dons a beekeeper’s cover to his head in producing two quarts of honey each year on his property in New Kent.
“It’s excellent, better than the store-bought,” he says.
But, as his responsibilities caring for his aging dad increase, something had to give. So, after 25 seasons as an area high school volleyball coach, the past 17 at Jamestown, Stephenson will step aside from that role.
His 438 victories at Jamestown and Middlesex place him fifth on the all-time Virginia High School League list. His 356 just at Jamestown, where he won 82% of his games, would place him in the top 10.
“Jamestown has always had a lot of success in athletics and a high academic reputation,” Stephenson said. “I’ve been excited to be a part of that.”
Stephenson’s Jamestown teams won 10 Bay Rivers District titles, seven regional crowns and reached the state tournament championship match four times. While they did not beat Loudoun County in any of those finals, the Eagles gave the 12-time defending champions three of their toughest contests during their streak.
“The atmosphere of playing in the state tournament at the (Virginia Commonwealth University) Siegel Center is one of my best memories,” Stephenson said.
Kelly (Esch) Brown, a hitter who went on to play for LSU and Virginia Tech, said the routinely large fan sections at home games, and the busloads that followed them to the state tournament games in Richmond, are lasting memories.
“That was pretty incredible, especially for a public school, just to have that kind of overwhelming support from the students,” said Brown, a 2018 Virginia Tech graduate who works now for a company that contracts with the Department of Homeland Security.
Stephenson described Jamestown as a “dream job.” He began his coaching career 27 years ago with the Williamsburg Volleyball Club, one of the first in the state to provide high-quality year-round opportunities for prep players.
“Volleyball, and I think all sports have gotten to the point where, if you want to be competitive, you’ve got to play year-round,” said Stephenson, who will remain in the sport as a coach for the WVC. “That’s been a big part of the success at Jamestown, having a lot of kids involved in club.
“It gave us an edge over the teams we played.”
Shortly after starting at the WVC, he became the coach at Middlesex and guided the Chargers to a state tournament. But he most wanted to be at Jamestown, where his wife Barbara taught art, and applied in 2005 when the position opened..
Tom Dolan, then Jamestown’s athletic director, was impressed with Stephenson’s success at Middlesex.
“He had a limited number of students to choose from and he always had quality programs there,” said Dolan, who will retire next month after a long tenure as VHSL assistant director. “You knew it was more than the fact that he was getting a lot of talent, because at that level you have to build it yourself.
“He was a very driven coach who wanted perfection, and a hard coach but a good coach. He had high expectations, but that’s what good coaches do.
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“Good coaches have higher expectations in players than sometimes they have in themselves.”
Two of Stephenson’s players, Emma Schriner and Ellie Popelka, were named state players of the year. Two others, Monique St. Cyr (assists in a season and career service points) and Krista Hughes (45 assists in one game) still hold state records.
Stephenson, who has taught grammar and vocabulary at Mt. Carmel Elementary in Newport News in the 16 years since he retired as a banker, said he will miss “teaching” and mentoring his players. He is proud that more than 50 have gone on to play at the collegiate level.
Many, like Kelly Esch Brown, whose sisters Maria Esch and Natalie Esch were also Jamestown volleyball standouts, have become lifelong friends.
“While he was a coach for sure, a tough coach but a fair coach, I learned so many things from him,” she said. “He cared deeply for us off the court and outside of volleyball.
“He’s still a dear friend to my parents and to my family, and I still reach out to him. His dedication to the sport and to his athletes really stood out.
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SAN ANTONIO — City of San Antonio Police Chief William McManus spoke with KENS 5 Friday morning about the city’s protocol for a school shooting in the city. The questions come after more details emerged about the police response for the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde on Tuesday.
Each police department will have different procedures for school shootings, and the KENS 5 team wanted to know how San Antonio police officers have been trained to deal with those situations.
“There’s a requirement that officers immediately neutralize a threat. There’s discretion on how to do that, but we would go in,” McManus said.
Texas DPS has confirmed that two officers were on the scene at Robb Elementary minutes after the shooting started, but waited for support from Border Patrol before going in. McManus confirmed that SAPD officers would enter a school even if they are alone.
"It comes down to training, it comes down to policy. You know, I don't know, I can't speak to the training that other police departments have in parts of this country, but our training is ongoing. It's the latest training that is available out there. All of our officers have been put through it," McManus said.
McManus also confirmed that SAPD would have a quick response time to a school shooting situation, but didn't provide context on how it would be different from the Uvalde Police response.
"We would have a quick response time. That type of call is an immediate priority. Yeah and I can only say that our response time will be very quick," McManus said.
"I want to make it very clear to everyone that, you know, I'm not going to point fingers at anything that may or may not have happened down in Uvalde. I don't know what happened other than what I hear offline. I'm not in a position to judge if they are right, wrong, or indifferent in Uvalde."
DPS clarified on Friday that the on-site commander initially believed the gunman was barricaded in a classroom during Tuesday's attack and that the children were not at risk
McManus finished by explain that the shooting in Uvalde has not called into question the training SAPD officer undergo when asked if there would be any changes to the current school shooting response training.
"No, the Uvalde shooting has nothing to do with our training. Again, we have policies in place, we have the proper training in place. The training is consistent, its frequent," McManus said. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/special-reports/uvalde-school-shooting/police-chief-william-mcmanus-explains-sapd-school-shooting-training/273-1d62689b-9e2b-4632-acc3-a3fa14d240db | 2022-05-27T18:33:41 | en | 0.98732 |
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An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier, the first slowdown since November 2020 and a sign that high prices may finally be moderating, at least for now.
The inflation figure that the Commerce Department reported Friday was below the four-decade high of 6.6% that was set in March. While high inflation is still causing hardships for millions of households, any slowing of price increases, if it can be sustained, will provide some modest relief.
The report also showed that consumer spending rose by a healthy 0.9% from March to April, outpacing the month-to-month inflation rate for a fourth straight time. The ongoing willingness of the nation’s consumers to keep spending freely despite inflated prices is helping sustain the economy. Yet all that spending is helping keep prices high and could make the Fed’s goal of taming inflation even harder.
Consumers’ resilience in the face of sharply higher prices suggests that economic growth is rebounding in the current April-June quarter. The economy shrank at a 1.5% annual rate in the first quarter, mostly because of an increase in the trade deficit. But analysts now project that, on an annual basis, it’s growing as much as 3% to 4% in the current quarter.
High inflation appears to be forcing consumers, on average, to save less. The savings rate fell to 4.4% last month, the lowest level since 2008. But overall, Americans built up an additional $2.5 trillion in savings since the pandemic, and economists calculate that that pile is eroding only slowly. As a result, healthy spending could continue for months.
Friday’s government report showed that on a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.2% from March to April, down from the 0.9% increase from February to March. The April increase was the smallest since November 2020.
Gas prices fell in April, holding down inflation, though they have since surged again. The costs of clothing, appliances, and used cars also dropped from March to April.
Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, so-called core prices rose 0.3% from March to April, matching the previous month’s rise. Core prices climbed 4.9% in April from a year earlier, the first such drop since October 2020.
Still, inflation remains painfully high, and it’s inflicting a heavy burden in particular on lower-income households, many of them Black or Hispanic. Surging demand for furniture, appliances and other goods, combined with supply chain snarls, began sending prices surging about a year ago.
Consumers have shifted some of their spending from goods to services, like airline fares and entertainment tickets. That trend could help cool inflation in the months ahead, though it’s unclear by how much. The cost of such services as restaurant meals, plane tickets and hotel rooms is also rising. Indeed, goods prices, which drove inflation sharply higher last year, fell 0.2% from March to April after jumping in the previous month, while the cost of services rose 0.5%.
Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to keep ratcheting up the Fed’s key short-term interest rate until inflation is “coming down in a clear and convincing way.” Those rate hikes have spurred fears that the Fed, in its drive to slow borrowing and spending, may push the economy into a recession. That concern has caused sharp drops in stock prices in the past two months, though markets have rallied this week.
Powell has said the Fed is aiming for a “soft or soft-ish” landing, in which wages, consumer spending and growth slow, but the economy avoids a downturn. Most economists say that while such an outcome is plausible, they doubt it can be achieved.
A better-known inflation gauge, the consumer price index, earlier this month also reported a slowing in price gains. The CPI jumped 8.3% in April from a year earlier, down from a 40-year high in March of 8.5%.
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Yet rising prices of gas and food, worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, will keep measures of inflation painfully high at least into the summer. The national average price of a gallon of gas has reached $4.60, according to AAA. A year ago, it was $3.04.
Other trends, however, suggest that core inflation may continue to slow in the coming months. Retailers have reported rising stockpiles of televisions, patio furniture and other goods for the home as consumers have shifted their spending more toward travel and services-related goods like luggage and restaurant gift cards.
Those stores will likely have to offer discounts to clear inventory in the coming months. And auto manufacturers have been ramping up production as some supply chain snarls untangle and as they have managed to hire more workers. Both trends could help lower the prices of goods.
At the same time, higher pay for many workers, particularly at restaurants, hotels, and warehouses, will keep forcing up prices for services, which could at least partly offset the benefit of less-expensive goods.
And most economists forecast that inflation, as measured by the Fed’s preferred gauge, will still be at about 4% or higher by the end of this year. Price increases at that level would likely mean that the Fed will still raise interest rates to lower inflation to its 2% target.
The inflation measure reported Friday, called the personal consumption expenditures price index, differs in some ways from the consumer price index that help explain why it shows a lower inflation level than the CPI does. Rents, which are steadily rising, are given less weight in the PCE than in the CPI.
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TEXAS, USA — While these mass shootings continue to affect us in the U.S. and especially in Texas. It's important to know what our elected officials have done or not done to try to stop these situations from happening.
The state of Texas has had eight mass shootings in the past 13 years, with Uvalde being the deadliest school shooting ever in the lone star state.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said, "Evil swept across Uvalde yesterday. Abbott also said, "Anyone who shoots his grandmother in the face has to have evil in his heart. But it is far more evil for someone to gunned down little kids."
In the last two legislative sessions, Texas legislators have loosened gun laws, most notably by passing permit less carry last year, which allows anyone 21 years or older to carry a handgun in public without the need for a permit or training. All 6 of the legislators in the Brazos Valley for both the Texas house and senate voted yes on the bill.
Texas Democratic candidate for governor Beto O'Rourke said "You want a solution, have universal background checks. We don't have them, You want a solution, red flag laws, or extreme risk protection orders which stop a shooting before it happens. You want a solution, safe storage laws. Those are four solutions that have been brought up by the people of Texas. Each one of those has broad bipartisan support if we had a Governor who cared more about the people of Texas than he does his own political career or NRA."
While some Democrats like O'Rourke are asking for more restrictive gun laws. Local Congressman Pete Sessions believe we as a community need to do more to stop these types of tragedies.
Sessions said, "It is up to us as parents, educators, and adults to focus our activities on our children and try to lower their level of anxiety and to work for a safer environment."
On the federal level, some potential gun laws wouldn't be able to be enforced because Texas is considered a 'Second amendment sanctuary state'. This Means Texans have signed into law with help from all 6 of the legislators here in the Brazos Valley to protect Texans from new federal gun control regulations.
Sessions said ,"I see nothing as a member of Congress that I have seen the Texas Legislature do that would place our community and people in harm.Matter of fact I see the reverse."
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Airlines and tourist destinations are expecting monster crowds this summer as travel restrictions ease and pandemic fatigue overcomes lingering fear of contracting COVID-19 during travel.
Many forecasters believe the number of travelers will match or even exceed levels in the good-old, pre-pandemic days. However, airlines have thousands fewer employees than they did in 2019, and that has at times contributed to widespread flight cancellations.
People who are only now booking travel for the summer are experiencing the sticker shock.
Domestic airline fares for summer are averaging more than $400 a round trip, 24% higher than this time in 2019, before the pandemic, and a whopping 45% higher than a year ago, according to travel-data firm Hopper.
“The time to have gotten cheap summer flights was probably three or four months ago,” says Scott Keyes, who runs the Scott’s Cheap Flights site.
Internationally, fares are also up from 2019, but only 10%. Prices to Europe are about 5% cheaper than before the pandemic — $868 for the average round trip, according to Hopper. Keyes said Europe is the best travel bargain out there.
Steve Nelson of Mansfield, Texas, was standing in line this week at a security checkpoint in Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, ready to board a flight to Nice, France, with plans to attend a Formula One race in Monaco.
“I decided it’s time to work on my bucket list,” Nelson said. “I hadn’t even considered Monaco until this year.”
Although many countries have eased rules for travel, there are still restrictions in place that add to the hassle factor. Notably, the United States still requires a negative COVID-19 test within a day of flying to the country.
“We only realized that a couple days before coming here. We kind of panicked to find a place to get tested,” said Jonny Dawe, a software engineer from Bath, England, who was in Dallas for a conference — his first major trip since the pandemic started. “You have to check all the testing requirements for the countries you are visiting, and you have to worry about contracting the virus.”
Online spending on U.S. flights eased in April after a torrid March, but it’s still up 23% from spring 2019 mostly because of higher prices, according to Adobe Analytics.
Airlines blame the steeper fares on jet fuel roughly doubling in price over 2019. It’s more than that, however. The number of flights has not returned to pre-pandemic levels even though demand for travel is surging.
“We have more travelers looking to book fewer seats, and each of those seats is going to be more expensive for airlines to fly this summer because of jet fuel,” says Hopper economist Hayley Berg.
When travelers reach their destination, they will be greeted with hotel rates that are up about one-third from last year. Hotels are filling up faster, too. Hotel companies blame the higher prices on increasing cost for supplies as well as workers in a tight labor market.
Rental cars were hard to find and very expensive last summer, but that seems to have eased as the rental companies rebuild their fleets. The nationwide average price is currently around $70 a day, according to Hopper.
Jonathan Weinberg, founder of a rental car shopping site called AutoSlash, said prices and availability of vehicles will be very uneven. It won’t be as bad as last summer, but prices for vehicles will still be “way above average, if you can even find one,” in Hawaii, Alaska and near destinations such as national parks.
Even if you drive your own car, it’ll still be pricey. The national average for regular gasoline hit $4.60 a gallon on Thursday — more than $6 in California. Those prices have some people considering staying home.
“You don’t really get used to $6 gas,” said Juliet Ripley of San Diego as she paid $46.38 to put 7.1 gallons in her Honda Civic. The single mom of two has no summer vacation plans other than an occasional trip to a nearby beach.
For those determined to travel, however, it is an open question whether airlines, airports, hotels and other travel businesses will be able to handle them.
More than 2.1 million people a day on average are boarding planes in the United States, about 90% of 2019 levels and a number that is sure to grow by several hundred thousand a day by July.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has tapped nearly 1,000 checkpoint screeners who can move from one airport to another, depending on where they are needed most.
“We are as ready as we possibly can be,” says TSA chief David Pekoske.
Airlines that paid employees to quit when travel collapsed in 2020 are now scrambling to hire enough pilots, flight attendants and other workers. The largest four U.S. airlines — American, Delta, United and Southwest — together had roughly 36,000 fewer employees at the start of 2022 than before the pandemic, a drop of nearly 10%, despite aggressive hiring that started last year.
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Pilots are in particularly short supply at smaller regional airlines that operate nearly half of all U.S. flights under names like American Eagle, Delta Connection and United Express.
Airlines are trimming summer schedules to avoid overloading their staffs and canceling flights at the last minute. This week, Delta cut about 100 flights a day, or 2%, from its July schedule, and more than 150 flights a day on average, or 3%, in August. Southwest, Alaska and JetBlue previously reduced summer flights.
Cancellations aren’t limited to the U.S. In the United Kingdom, easyJet and British Airways scrubbed many flights this spring because of staffing shortages.
Air travel within Europe is expected to recover to pre-pandemic levels this summer, although visitors from outside the region will likely be down 30% from 2019, according to a new report from the European Travel Commission. The group doesn’t expect international travel to return to normal until 2025.
Russia’s war in Ukraine does not appear to be hurting bookings to most of Europe, according to travel experts, but it will reduce the number of Russian and Ukrainian travelers, whose favorite destinations include Cyprus, Montenegro, Latvia, Finland, Estonia and Lithuania, the commission said. Russian tourists tend to be big spenders, so their absence will hurt tourism economies in those destinations.
Also largely missing: Chinese tourists, the world’s largest travel spenders, who remain largely restricted by their government’s “zero-COVID” strategy. Some European destinations report that the number of Chinese tourists is down by more than 90% from 2019.
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UVALDE, Texas — The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety on Friday said police officers made the "wrong decision, period" to not enter the Uvalde classroom sooner, as they waited in the hallway and children called 911, asking for police to help.
Texas DPS executive director Steven McCraw, in a news conference Friday morning, said there were 19 police officers inside the school but they did not breach the door for about an hour.
As they waited, one child who had called 911 asked dispatch to "please send the police now."
McCraw said the commanding officer at the scene viewed the situation as a barricaded suspect and that they were waiting for more equipment to arrive to breach the classroom door.
But McCraw said, in hindsight, that was the wrong decision.
"When there's an active shooter, the rules change," McCraw said. "It's no longer a barricaded subject. You don't have time.
McCraw's acknowledgment that police at the scene made a wrong decision comes as authorities have faced intense scrutiny and criticism over how they responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary School, where 19 students and two staffers were killed.
McCraw was pressed several times by reporters on why officers did not enter the classroom sooner, despite responding to the school within minutes of the first shots being fired.
"There's no excuse for that," McCraw said. "I wasn't there, but from what we know, we believe this should have been an entry as soon as possible."
McCraw on Friday also gave a more detailed timeline of how the shooting unfolded -- from when the shooter shot his grandmother at her home to when he was killed inside the classroom by Border Patrol agents -- and he read details from 911 calls placed inside the school.
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Watch McCraw explain the timeline that led up to the shooting and when it began:
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McCraw gave a similar timeline Friday to the one given by Victor Escalon, a regional director of Texas DPS, on Thursday, but with more details.
In new information revealed by McCraw, the door the shooter, Salvador Ramos, entered at Robb Elementary had been propped open by a teacher just one minute before Ramos crashed a pickup truck near the school.
The door was propped open at 11:27 a.m.; Ramos crashed at 11:28 a.m.
The same teacher then ran to a classroom to get a phone and then went back to the open door.
Shortly after Ramos crashed, he shot at two men who were near a funeral home across from the school. As the shooting happened, the teacher who was at the open school door went back inside and began calling 911, McCraw said.
The 911 call was placed at 11:30 a.m., reporting there was a crash and a man with a gun.
One minute later, Ramos arrived outside the school and began shooting toward classrooms, firing up to 100 rounds.
As he shot at the school, responding officers went to the nearby funeral home, near where Ramos crashed and shot at the two men.
One of the responding officers from the school district drove past Ramos, who was hunkered down behind a vehicle, McCraw said.
At 11:33 a.m., Ramos entered the school through the door that was propped open. He began shooting into a classroom, firing more than 100 rounds, according to audio evidence, McCraw said.
At 11:35 a.m., three Uvalde police officers entered the building, McCraw said. They were joined by four other officers.
The three initial officers who arrived went to the closed classroom door and were grazed by gunfire.
More gunfire was heard from inside the classroom at 11:37 a.m., 11:38 a.m., 11:40 a.m. and 11:44 a.m., McCraw said.
At 11:51 a.m., more police and federal agent started to arrive. Shortly after noon, there were at least 19 officers inside the hallway outside of the classroom, McCraw said.
At 12:15 p.m., tactical officers arrived, and the suspect fired again. About six minutes later, officers began moving down the hallway toward the classroom.
At 12:50 p.m., officers entered the classroom through the door after using keys they got from the janitor, and they shot and killed Ramos, McCraw said.
Details from 911 calls inside the classroom
McCraw detailed several 911 calls that were placed from inside the classrooms, including one placed by someone from inside Room 112 at 12:03 p.m.
The call last one minute and 23 seconds. The caller whispered her location.
At 12:10 p.m., she called 911 again and told dispatch that multiple people were dead, McCraw said.
She called yet again at 12:13 p.m. and again at 12:16 p.m., informing dispatch there were 8-9 students alive.
At 12:19 p.m., another 911 call was made, this time from Room 111. But the caller hung up when another student told her to, McCraw said.
Two minutes later, at 12:21, three shots could be heard over a 911 call.
At 12:36 p.m., a student called 911 again and was told to stay on the line and be very quiet, McCraw said.
The student told 911, "He shot the door."
At 12:43 and 12:47, she asked 911 to "Please send the police now." She also told 911 that she could hear the police next door.
At 12:50, more shots could be heard again on the 911 call, presumably from when police entered the room, McCraw said.
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SAN ANTONIO — On this episode of Locked On Spurs, host Jeff Garcia welcomes San Antonio Sports Star's Michael Jimenez to ask if Spurs' Dejounte Murray is trending towards becoming an "untouchable" player when it comes to the team making possible trades?
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BALTIMORE — Chris Hardy remembers the moment he realized that dogs could change lives. But he has to take a deep breath and work to hold back tears to tell the story.
Hardy, a dog trainer for the U.S. Defense Department in Afghanistan in 2006, was making a routine trip to a field hospital to pick up supplies, along with his dog, Dirk.
A nurse was holding a badly injured baby; the infant was burned on her face, neck and body. She suddenly reached out to pet Dirk, her face lighting up with a smile. Hardy was told later that until that moment, the child had stoically endured treatment, never showing emotion.
Her interaction with Dirk in that brief moment prompted a new connection in her life — and in Hardy’s. He and Dirk returned several times and were asked by hospital personnel if they could start visiting some of their military patients.
The experiences “really got me,” he said. Hardy, an Eastern Shore native who served 11 years in the 82nd Airborne Division, returned home from that and several other deployments with powerful memories and, unfortunately, post-traumatic stress disorder.
Remembering the healing power of Dirk, he decided to help fellow injured vets by training service dogs for them.
Now the executive director at U.S. Kennels Inc. in Salisbury, Hardy will take part Monday in the 55th annual Memorial Day ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium, where he will be honored with a plaque and a donation to his organization.
“It is our tradition to recognize Maryland organizations and institutions that support our veterans and underscore the true meaning of Memorial Day,” Jack Mitchell, president of Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, said in a statement.
In 2017, Hardy and his wife, Mirela, started the nonprofit U.S. Kennels. They rescue dogs from shelters and match them with veterans who need help from a devoted companion.
They provide a year of training for veterans and their dogs at their facility, along with food, veterinary care and all the supplies they need, at no charge to the veterans. The organization has matched around 50 veterans with canine companions, and they have a waiting list for more.
Sam Landis of Greenwood, Delaware, an Army veteran who has PTSD, has trained since August at U.S. Kennels with her mixed-breed dog, Bodhi, who she jokes was a “streetwalker” that ended up at the Wicomico County Humane Society shelter.
The dog keeps a protective bubble around her, she says, and “gets me to a better space.” He can predict her panic attacks and places his paws on her lap for gentle compression if she doesn’t feel well.
Like a guardian angel, he never leaves her side.
With help from Bodhi, Landis said, her world is expanding and becoming a less frightening place.
Danray Atkinson, a volunteer and lead trainer for U.S. Kennels, was one of its first graduates. He retired from the Army in 2014 after 25 years and five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. His dog, Gus, is trained to provide comfort and stability during the panic attacks and seizures that Atkinson has as a result of PTSD.
Relying on Gus is “like having a battle buddy with you all the time; he’s always got your back. This program has literally saved my life,” Atkinson says.
In return, helping someone in need is the way he gets paid, he said. “That’s all I need.”
Monday’s ceremony at Dulaney Valley will honor service members with ties to Maryland who have died during the past year, as well as all members of the military killed in the line of duty and people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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Those who will be specifically recognized include U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Sarah F. Burns of Severna Park, U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Dewayne A. Stevens of Chester in Queen Anne’s County, and Navy Lt. j.g. Aaron P. Fowler of Oklahoma, a 2018 graduate of the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Burns was among five crew members killed in August in a helicopter crash during a training mission off San Diego.
Stevens died in March at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, while Fowler died in April during training at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
Hardy’s faithful companion, a 3-year-old Newfoundland named Brody, will accompany him to Monday’s event.
“There’s no medicine like a dog. They save lives like you wouldn’t believe,” he said.
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HOUSTON — The National Rifle Association began its annual convention in Houston on Friday, three days after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school on the other side of the state, renewing the national debate over gun violence.
Former President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders were scheduled to speak at the event. Leaders of the gun rights lobbying group planned to “reflect on” — and deflect any blame for — the school shooting in Uvalde. Protesters angry about gun violence demonstrated outside, including some holding crosses with photos of the Uvalde shooting victims.
Some scheduled speakers and performers backed out of the event, including several Texas lawmakers and “American Pie” singer Don McLean, who said “it would be disrespectful” to go ahead with his act after the country’s latest mass shooting. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Friday morning that he had decided not to speak at an event breakfast after “prayerful consideration and discussion with NRA officials.”
“While a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and an NRA member, I would not want my appearance today to bring any additional pain or grief to the families and all those suffering in Uvalde,” he said in a statement. “This is a time to focus on the families, first and foremost.”
The NRA said in an online statement that people attending the gun show would “reflect on” the Uvalde school shooting, “pray for the victims, recognize our patriotic members and pledge to redouble our commitment to making our schools secure.”
The meeting is the first for the troubled organization since 2019, following a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic. The organization has been trying to regroup following a period of serious legal and financial turmoil that included a failed bankruptcy effort, a class action lawsuit and a fraud investigation by New York’s attorney general. Once among the most powerful political organizations in the country, the NRA has seen its influence wane following a significant drop in political spending.
While President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have renewed calls for stricter gun laws in the wake of the Uvalde shooting, NRA board members and others attending the conference dismissed talk of banning or limiting access to firearms.
Larry Miller, 56, from Huntington Beach, California, said he had no problem with the NRA meeting taking place so soon after the Uvalde shooting. He called the shooting “very sad and unfortunate” and said the gunman didn’t “have any respect for the people’s freedoms that we have here in this country.”
“We all share these rights, so to be respectful of other people’s rights is to respect other people’s lives, and I think with that kind of mentality, we should be here,” he said.
Samuel Thornburg, 43, a maintenance worker for Southwest Airlines who was attending the NRA meeting, said he wanted to hear from speakers that “there will be more guns” but also more safety for schools.
“Guns are not evil. It’s the people that are committing the crime that are evil. Our schools need to be more locked. There need to be more guards,” he said.
Inside the convention hall Friday, thousands of people walked around, stopping at booths that featured displays of handguns, rifles, AR-style firearms, knives, clothing and gun racks. Outside, police set up metal barriers at a large park where protesters and counterprotesters were expected to gather in front of the downtown convention center.
At a news conference in the protest area before the main speaking event, singer Little Joe, who is with the popular Tejano band Little Joe y La Familia, said in the more than 60 years he’s spent touring the world, no other country he’s been to has faced as many mass shootings as the U.S.
“Just across the street we have these people with blood on their hands,” he said, crying as he spoke. “Of course, this is the best country in the world. But what good does it do us if we can’t protect lives, especially of our children?”
Texas has experienced a series of mass shootings in recent years. During that time, the Republican-led Legislature and governor have relaxed gun laws.
There is precedent for the NRA to gather amid local mourning and controversy. The organization went ahead with a shortened version of its 1999 meeting in Denver roughly a week after the deadly shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. Actor Charlton Heston, the NRA president at that time, told attendees that “horrible acts” shouldn’t become opportunities to limit constitutional rights and he denounced critics for casting NRA members as “villains.”
Country music singer Larry Gatlin, who pulled out of a planned appearance at the convention, said he hoped “the NRA will rethink some of its outdated and ill-thought-out positions.”
“While I agree with most of the positions held by the NRA, I have come to believe that, while background checks would not stop every madman with a gun, it is at the very least a step in the right direction,” Gatlin said.
Country singers Lee Greenwood and Larry Stewart also withdrew, Variety reported.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that the NRA’s leaders “are contributing to the problem of gun violence and not trying to solve it.” She accused them of representing the interests of gun manufacturers, “who are marketing weapons of war to young adults.”
In addition to Patrick, two Texas congressmen who had been scheduled speak Friday — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw — were no longer attending due to what their staffs said were changes in their schedules. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who was to attend, was to address the convention by prerecorded video instead.
But others were going forward with their appearances, including Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, and Trump, who said Wednesday that he would deliver “an important address to America.
“America needs real solutions and real leadership in this moment, not politicians and partisanship,” he wrote on his social media platform.
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In an interview Thursday on Salem radio network, Trump reiterated his support for gun rights.
“It’s you, know, interesting time to be making such a speech, frankly,” he said. “You have to protect your Second Amendment. You have to give that Second Amendment great protection because, without it, we would be a very dangerous country, frankly. More dangerous.”
Though personal firearms are allowed at the convention, the NRA said guns would not be permitted during the session featuring Trump because of Secret Service security protocols.
Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is challenging Abbott in the 2022 Texas governor’s race, said he would be attending the protest outside.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, said the city was obligated to host the NRA event, which has been under contract for more than two years. But he urged politicians to skip it.
“You can’t pray and send condolences on one day and then be going and championing guns on the next. That’s wrong,” Turner said.
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LONDON (AP) — “ABBA Voyage” is certainly a trip.
Four decades after the Swedish pop supergroup last performed live, audiences can once again see ABBA onstage in an innovative digital concert where past and future collide.
The show opens to the public in London on Friday, the day after a red-carpet premiere attended by superfans, celebrities and Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. The guests of honor were pop royalty — the four members of ABBA, appearing in public together for the first time in years.
They were in the audience, though. Onstage at the specially built 3,000-seat ABBA Arena next to east London’s Olympic Park were a 10-piece live backing band and a digital ABBA, created using motion capture and other technology by Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects firm founded by “Star Wars” director George Lucas.
The voices and movements are the real Agnetha Faltskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad — choreographed by Britain’s Wayne McGregor — but the performers onstage are digital avatars, inevitably dubbed “ABBA-tars.” In unsettlingly realistic detail, they depict the band members as they looked in their 1970s heyday — beards on the men, flowing locks on the women, velour pantsuits all around.
The result is both high tech and high camp, a glittery supernova of stupefying technology, 1970s nostalgia and pop music genius.
For many in the audience, it was almost like being taken back in time to watch ABBA perform classics including “Mamma Mia,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “SOS” and “Dancing Queen.” The peppy 90-minute set also includes tracks from “Voyage,” the reunion album the band released last year.
It’s a fusion of tribute act and 3D concert movie that transcends that description. At times it was possible to forget this wasn’t a live performance, though when the backing singers stepped forward to belt out “Does Your Mother Know,” a surge of live-music energy shot through the arena.
The four band members — two married couples during ABBA’s heyday, though now long divorced — got a rapturous ovation when they took a bow at the end of Thursday’s show, 50 years after they formed ABBA, and 40 years after they stopped performing live.
Watching one’s younger self perform must be a strange sensation, but the band members, now in their 70s, said they were delighted by the show.
“I never knew I had such amazing moves,” Ulvaeus said.
Lyngstad agreed: “I thought I was quite good, but I’m even better.”
Ulvaeus said the audience reaction was the most gratifying part of the experience.
“There’s an emotional connection between the avatars and the audience,” he said. “That’s the fantastic thing.”
Producers bill the show as “revolutionary.” Time will tell. Like the first audiences to watch a talking motion picture a century ago, attendees may leave wondering whether they are watching a gimmick, or the future.
The Times of London reviewer Will Hodgkinson judged the show “essentially an ABBA singalong with added sound and light show,” though he called the effect “captivating.” Writing in The Guardian, Alexis Petridis called the concert “jaw-dropping” and said “it’s so successful that it’s hard not to imagine other artists following suit.”
Gimmick or genius, “ABBA Voyage” is booking in London until May 2023, with a world tour planned after that.
The fans who attended Thursday’s show are just delighted ABBA is back.
“I’m so excited,” said Kristina Hagman, a Swede who has been a fan since the 1970s.
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In West Virginia, the state treasurer has pulled money from BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, because the Wall Street firm has flagged climate change as an economic risk.
In Texas, a new law bars the state’s retirement and investment funds from doing business with companies that the state comptroller says are boycotting fossil fuels. Conservative lawmakers in 15 other states are promoting similar legislation.
Officials in Utah and Idaho have assailed a major ratings agency for considering environmental risks and other factors, in addition to the balance sheet, when assessing states’ creditworthiness.
Across the country, Republican lawmakers and their allies have launched a campaign to try to rein in what they see as activist companies trying to reduce the greenhouse gases that are dangerously heating the planet.
“We’re an energy state, and energy accounts for hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue for us,” said Riley Moore, the West Virginia state treasurer. “All of our jobs come from coal and gas. I mean, this is who we are. This is part of our way of life here in the state. And they’re telling us that these industries are bad.”
“We have an existential threat here,” Moore said. “We have to fight back.”
In doing so, Moore and others have pushed climate change from the scientific realm into the political battles over topics like voting rights, abortion and LGBTQ issues. In recent months, conservatives have moved beyond tough words and used legislative and financial leverage to press the private sector to drop climate action and any other causes they label “woke.”
“There is a coordinated effort to chill corporate engagement on these issues,” said Daniella Ballou-Aares, CEO of the Leadership Now Project, a nonprofit organization that wants corporations to address threats to democracy. “And it is an effective campaign. Companies are starting to go into hiding.”
The pushback has been spearheaded by a group of Republican state officials that has reached out to financial organizations, facilitated media appearances and threatened to punish companies that, among other things, divest from fossil fuels.
They have worked alongside a nonprofit organization that has run television ads, dispatched roaming billboard trucks and rented out a Times Square billboard criticizing BlackRock for championing what they call woke causes, including environmentalism.
These efforts come after years during which many in the financial sector boasted that they were prioritizing environmental, social and governance issues, also known as ESG, rather than pure profits.
That activism has often put companies at odds with the Republican Party, traditionally the ally of big business. In 2015, Salesforce and other big employers threatened to leave Indiana after the state passed, and then quickly rolled back, a law that would have allowed businesses to refuse service to gay customers. Nike faced a fierce backlash for its 2018 ad featuring Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL quarterback who knelt during the national anthem to protest racism and police brutality.
As the signs of a warming planet have grown more apparent over the past five years — in the form of more destructive storms and fires, record heat and drought — and as pressure has grown from consumers and liberal groups to take action, corporations have warmed to the notion of using capital and markets to create a cleaner economy. Faith-based groups, universities and foundations have divested from oil, gas and coal. New York state’s pension fund plans to start shedding its fossil fuels holdings, and Maine became the first state last year to require both its Treasury and its public employee pension fund to divest from fossil fuels.
When President Donald Trump declared in 2017 that he would pull the United States from the Paris climate accord, more than 2,000 businesses and investors — including Apple, Amazon and Mars — signed a pledge to continue to work toward climate goals.
Then, in 2019, a group of senior business leaders promised to redefine “the purpose of a corporation” and prioritize the environment, workers and communities.
And a record number of banks, investors and companies at the United Nations climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, last year committed to reaching net zero (the point where their activities no longer add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere) by 2050. Several said they saw opportunity in investing in new kinds of technology needed to power an economy that is not based on oil, gas or coal.
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, has been among the most outspoken executives, using his annual letter to corporate leaders to implore them to look beyond the bottom line and make a positive contribution to society.
In his most recent letter, issued in January, Fink made the case for what he calls “stakeholder capitalism,” saying there is a sound business rationale for taking up the fight against climate change and imploring other companies to act.
“Every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to a net-zero world,” Fink wrote. “The question is, will you lead, or will you be led?”
Other executives also say they are unbowed by the brewing conservative backlash.
“It’s not going to stop me,” said Marc Benioff, the co-founder and co-CEO of Salesforce and one of the most outspoken business leaders on social and political issues. “It’s pretty hard to restrict or control how a CEO creates the culture of his company.”
Benioff dismissed many of the actions of conservatives as theatrics. “Politicians have to do what politicians do, which is try to get elected,” Benioff said. “It’s a lot of posturing for the base.”
Republican lawmakers, however, are becoming more organized in their efforts to slow corporate progress on climate issues.
Moore, the West Virginia state treasurer, coordinated a letter in November from 16 state treasurers and comptrollers to banks across the country, threatening “collective action in response to the ongoing and growing economic boycott of traditional energy production industries by U.S. financial institutions.”
“It is our sincere hope that no financial institution will be rendered ineligible to provide banking services to our states,” the letter said.
And in January, Moore pulled about $20 million out of a fund managed by BlackRock because the firm has encouraged other companies to reduce emissions. BlackRock still manages several billion for West Virginia’s state retirement system. “We’re divesting from BlackRock because they’re divesting from us,” Moore said.
In private, elected officials in conservative states have been even more blunt.
“These big banks are virtue signaling because they are woke,” Gary Howell, a West Virginia state representative who sponsored a bill that would blacklist companies that have divested from fossil fuels, wrote in a Feb. 8 email to Moore. The message was obtained by Documented, a corporate watchdog group, under a Freedom of Information Act request. “They either shut up or get on the list, that is my goal,” he wrote.
Howell did not respond to a request for comment.
Idaho’s top elected officials, including the governor and the entire congressional delegation, sent a letter last week to the CEO of S&P Global, the ratings agency, objecting to the company’s use of ESG metrics in its rankings of states. “It is impossible for the State of Idaho not to conclude that S&P has adopted a politicized ratings system,” the Republicans wrote. Officials in other states, including Utah, have sent similar letters.
Curtis Loftis, the South Carolina state treasurer, emailed senior executives at JPMorgan on Sept. 1 and warned banks “to stay out of political culture wars and particularly abstain from the petty, ‘woke’ cancel culture.”
Fink of BlackRock has emerged as a main target of conservatives. In June, BlackRock joined with Vanguard and State Street to help an activist hedge fund, Engine No.1, win three seats on the board of Exxon with the goal of pushing the energy giant to reduce its carbon footprint.
Months later, a nonprofit group called Consumers’ Research received an influx of funding from undisclosed donors and began running ads attacking Fink.
Will Hild, executive director of Consumers’ Research, told CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, in February that Fink and BlackRock had “helped vote on three radical environmentalists to the board of directors of Exxon whose stated goal is to get that company not focused on serving American consumers affordable gas but on Larry Fink’s personal politics.”
People familiar with BlackRock said the pressure was not changing the firm’s investment strategy. But the company has scrambled to limit the fallout in states like Texas, stressing that it is following the wishes of its clients and investing broadly.
“We are perhaps the world’s largest investor in fossil fuel companies, and, as a long-term investor in these companies, we want to see these companies succeed and prosper,” BlackRock’s head of external affairs, Dalia Blass, wrote in a letter to Texas regulators in January.
BlackRock, on behalf of its clients, had $259 billion in assets invested in fossil fuel companies around the world, with $91 billion invested in Texas fossil fuel companies alone, Blass stressed, listing BlackRock’s sizable holdings in Texas energy companies, including Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips and Kinder Morgan.
BlackRock said this month that it would support fewer shareholder proposals calling for climate action because “we do not consider them to be consistent with our clients’ long-term financial interests.”
In a statement, BlackRock said it was “committed to engaging with all stakeholders to ensure they understand our investment decisions are driven by just one thing: our fiduciary duty to our clients.”
Casey Harrell, a senior strategist at The Sunrise Project, a climate advocacy group, said, “BlackRock is trying to have it all ways, acting like it is trying to please everyone.”
The efforts appear to be having an impact beyond BlackRock. At the annual meetings of big banks and oil companies — including BP, ConocoPhillips and Citi — shareholders voted down climate proposals that would have slowed investments in fossil fuel projects.
As the stock markets sink and concerns about inflation grow, the pushback against environmental, social and governance concerns is spreading.
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Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, waded into the debate. “ESG is a scam,” he said on Twitter this month. “It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.” Shortly after that, he shared a meme that declared an ESG score “determines how compliant your business is with the leftist agenda.”
And last week, the global head of responsible investments for HSBC Asset Management, Stuart Kirk, made a provocative presentation titled “Why investors need not worry about climate risk” at a Financial Times event in London.
Describing climate risk as a problem in the far-off future, Kirk said, “Climate change is not a financial risk that we need to worry about,” adding, “Who cares if Miami is 6 meters underwater in 100 years?”
That view is at odds with the findings of the world’s leading climate scientists. A major United Nations report warned last month that the world could reach a threshold by the end of this decade beyond which the dangers of global warming — including worsening floods, droughts and wildfires — would grow considerably. In 2021, there were 20 weather or climate-related disasters in the United States that each cost more than $1 billion in losses, according to the federal government.
On social media, Kirk was celebrated by some and derided by others. Top executives at the bank said his words did not reflect HSBC’s position. The Financial Times reported that Kirk had been suspended, pending an internal investigation, something HSBC would not confirm. In a LinkedIn post, Noel Quinn, HSBC’s group CEO, repeated the bank’s commitment to combating climate change.
“Our ambition is to be the leading bank supporting the global economy in the transition to net zero,” he said.
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Chicago Cubs shortstop Andrelton Simmons apparently set a Major League Baseball record on Thursday ― but he probably won’t include it in his career highlights. (Watch the video below.)
Simmons filled in at pitcher during a 20-5 loss to the Cincinnati Reds and served up lollipops. One of them ― a 44.9 mph lob ― actually made Kyle Farmer swing and miss.
The toss was the “slowest pitch on record to get a whiff in MLB history!” analytics firm Codify wrote on Twitter.
Farmer eventually hit a single off Simmons and the Reds notched five runs off the emergency reliever, USA Today’s For the Win noted. His velocity dipped to as low as 39 mph.
Simmons’ mound appearance follows a recent mop-up job by probable Hall of Fame slugger Albert Pujols, who surrendered two home runs to the San Francisco Giants on May 15 but still managed to get the last three outs for the St. Louis Cardinals in a 15-6 victory.
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UVALDE, Texas — Nearly 20 officers stood for about 45 minutes in the hallway outside the adjoining Texas classrooms where the gunman killed students and teachers this week before U.S. Border Patrol agents unlocked the door to confront and kill him, authorities said Friday.
At least some of the 911 calls made during the Tuesday attack on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde came from inside the connected classrooms where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was holed up, Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said during a contentious news conference.
The commander at the scene believed Ramos was barricaded inside and that the children were not at risk, McCraw said.
“It was the wrong decision,” he said.
McCraw released new details about the attack in which Ramos killed 19 children teachers, though his motive remains unclear.
The Border Patrol agents eventually used a master key to open the locked door of the classroom where they confronted and killed Ramos, he said.
There was a barrage of gunfire shortly after Ramos entered the classroom where officers eventually killed him, but that shots were “sporadic” for much of the 48 minutes when officers waited in the hallway, McCraw said. He said investigators do not know if or how many children died during that time.
Throughout the attack, teachers and children repeatedly called 911 asking for help, including a girl who pleaded: “Please send the police now,” McCraw said.
Questions have mounted over the amount of time it took officers to enter the school to confront the gunman.
It was 11:28 a.m. Tuesday when Ramos’ Ford pickup slammed into a ditch behind the low-slung Texas school and the driver jumped out carrying an AR-15-style rifle.
Twelve minutes after that, authorities say, Ramos entered the school and found his way to the fourth-grade classroom where he killed the 21 victims.
But it wasn’t until 12:58 p.m. that law enforcement radio chatter said Ramos had been killed and the siege was over.
What happened in those 90 minutes, in a working-class neighborhood near the edge of the town of Uvalde, has fueled mounting public anger and scrutiny over law enforcement’s response to Tuesday’s rampage.
“They say they rushed in,” said Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, and who raced to the school as the massacre unfolded. “We didn’t see that.”
Friday’s briefing came only after authorities spent three days providing often conflicting and incomplete information.
According to the new timeline provided by McCraw, After crashing his truck, Ramos fired on two people coming out of a nearby funeral home, officials said.
Contrary to earlier statements by officials, a school district police officer was not inside the school when Ramos arrived. When that officer did respond, he unknowingly drove past Ramos, who was crouched behind a car parked outside and firing at the building, McCraw said.
At 11:33 p.m., Ramos entered the school through a rear door that had been propped open and fired more than 100 rounds into a pair of classrooms, McCraw said.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Travis Considine said investigators haven’t yet determined why the door was propped open.
Two minutes later, three local police officers arrived and entered the building through the same door, followed soon after by four others, McCraw said. Within 15 minutes, as many as 19 officers from different agencies had assembled in the hallway, taking sporadic fire from Ramos, who was holed up in a classroom.
Ramos was still inside at 12:10 p.m. when the first U.S. Marshals Service deputies arrived. They had raced to the school from nearly 70 miles away in the border town of Del Rio, the agency said in a tweet Friday.
But the police commander inside the building decided the group should wait to confront the gunman, on the belief that the scene was no longer an active attack, McCraw said.
The crisis came to an end after a group of Border Patrol tactical officers entered the school at 12:45 p.m., said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine. They engaged in a shootout with the gunman, who was holed up in the fourth-grade classroom. Moments before 1 p.m., he was dead.
Ken Trump, president of the consulting firm National School Safety and Security Services, said the length of the timeline raised questions.
“Based on best practices, it’s very difficult to understand why there were any types of delays, particularly when you get into reports of 40 minutes and up of going in to neutralize that shooter,” he said.
The motive for the massacre — the nation’s deadliest school shooting since Newtown, Connecticut, almost a decade ago — remained under investigation, with authorities saying Ramos had no known criminal or mental health history.
During the siege, frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the school, according to witnesses.
“Go in there! Go in there!” women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who watched the scene from outside a house across the street.
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Carranza said the officers should have entered the school sooner: “There were more of them. There was just one of him.”
Cazares said that when he arrived, he saw two officers outside the school and about five others escorting students out of the building. But 15 or 20 minutes passed before the arrival of officers with shields, equipped to confront the gunman, he said.
As more parents flocked to the school, he and others pressed police to act, Cazares said. He heard about four gunshots before he and the others were ordered back to a parking lot.
“A lot of us were arguing with the police, ‘You all need to go in there. You all need to do your jobs.’ Their response was, ‘We can’t do our jobs because you guys are interfering,’” Cazares said.
Michael Dorn, executive director of Safe Havens International, which works to make schools safer, cautioned that it’s hard to get a clear understanding of the facts soon after a shooting.
“The information we have a couple of weeks after an event is usually quite different than what we get in the first day or two. And even that is usually quite inaccurate,” Dorn said. For catastrophic events, “you’re usually eight to 12 months out before you really have a decent picture.”
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Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways. So each week, we round up the most hilarious quips from parents on Twitter to spread the joy.
Scroll down to read the latest batch, and follow @HuffPostParents on Twitter for more!
My 10-year-old gets to bring 1 stuffed animal to school. So far she’s narrowed it down to 947 candidates.
— Jessie (@mommajessiec) May 23, 2022
Being a mom in your 40s is putting a timer in your phone to remind yourself to be the tooth fairy.
— @love.you.memeit (@LMemeit) May 26, 2022
It dawned on me today that when my son wants to talk about Pokémon, he doesn't *really* want to talk about Pokémon. What he wants is to share his excitement and knowledge. What he wants is to bond with his dad. What he wants is quality time together. Still, it's a hard no.
— Henpecked Hal (@HenpeckedHal) May 25, 2022
Why are they called butterflies if they aren't flies covered in butter?
— A Bearer Of Dad News (@HomeWithPeanut) May 27, 2022
-My 6-year-old, starting off his summer vacation with the tough questions
Nothing like seeing your teenager improperly dressed for the weather so you shout out, "It's going to rain hard today" expecting they'd be appreciative of your loving concern and immediately run back inside to grab a jacket... only to witness them give you a perplexed thumbs up.
— Jacana Mommy (@jacanamommy) May 26, 2022
Already 74 questions from my 5yo and we're only at the opening credits.
— Molly (@HappyHijabbi) May 23, 2022
Watched a nature documentary with my daughter and as the hungry polar bear approached the abandoned seal pup she said, “Oh, good, the polar bear is going to help her!” and sometimes I really wish I saw the world like a 12 y/o.
— NicholasG (@Dad_At_Law) May 25, 2022
Wrote a short piece of fiction today
— meghan (@deloisivete) May 23, 2022
title: child’s favorite foods
medium: preschool registration forms
7: Mom, how many more kids can you have? I need at least 2 more for my dance team.
— AparnaRC (@Wordesse) May 24, 2022
I hope everyone had a great weekend, except the random lady who assumed my 4yr old is my grandchild, I hope her weekend sucked
— Not Another Pinterest Mom (@xennial_mom) May 23, 2022
my kids are at that sweet age where they wake up early but they don’t bother me…sure they are screaming and being loud and probably destroying the house but at least i can lie in bed listening to it all
— That Mom Tho (@mom_tho) May 21, 2022
New parents get to experience the utter joy a kid has going through a car wash for the first time. Experienced parents get the same but they also know to put the window lock on.
— mom mom mom mom mom (@notmythirdrodeo) May 24, 2022
Upset because my wife didn’t remind me that 7YOs science project is due, which I had promised her I’ll definitely take care of
— Vinod Chhaproo (@Chhapiness) May 27, 2022
Ever gone to the bathroom and thought, you know what this experience is missing?
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Parenthood makes it possible.
My 5yo is demanding I tell him where he lived when mommy and daddy were kids
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Wear mascara once a month so your kid can freak out over your “creepy spider eyes” and refuse to look at you
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Have kids so you always have someone to tell you that your nose hairs need trimming while standing in checkout lines.
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My son just informed me that nipples are red because they are for emergencies only and I’m really starting to think Catholic school is paying off
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My son told me that it doesn't matter what way the towels face when he puts them away and it's almost like he wants to see my eye do that twitchy thing.
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I overheard my 5yo twins discussing when they’d marry each other and they decided either 6 or twenteen and I’m hoping it’s twenteen otherwise I have a lot to organise in the next 5 months
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Child: hey mom is that spicy?
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Me, looking at my chocolate: yup, really spicy.
Child: aww that’s too bad
Me:….yeah, too bad | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/funniest-parenting-tweets_l_6290f361e4b0933e73730c00 | 2022-05-27T18:34:25 | en | 0.948511 |
A jury on Friday found a Virginia Beach man guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend in July 2018 during a violent argument over money that was witnessed by the couple’s young twins.
The 10-man, two-woman jury deliberated for about 1½ hours before finding Lamont Johnson guilty of the second-degree murder in the death of Bellamy Gamboa. They also convicted Johnson of two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for leaving the couple’s 20-month-old toddlers home alone while he disposed of their mother’s body.
Whether Johnson, 45, killed Gamboa was never in question. He admitted to it during a lengthy videotaped interview with Virginia Beach police about a month after Gamboa disappeared.
The question for jurors was whether he acted with malice when he strangled the 39-year-old mother of four after shoving her down the stairs of their townhouse.
Defense attorney Sarah Murphy argued that Johnson “had simply snapped” and killed Gamboa in a “heat of passion” moment. Deputy District Attorney Janee Joslin scoffed at the notion.
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“I don’t think I’ve ever heard more malicious facts,” Joslin said. “They hadn’t even known each other two years and this is the hatred that he’d developed toward her. All over the almighty dollar.”
Johnson and Gamboa had only been dating a few months when she became pregnant. She moved into Johnson’s townhouse afterward, and her two teenage children from a previous relationship also spent weekends there.
In the videotaped confession, Johnson told detectives they’d broken up but were still living together at the time he killed Gamboa. He said they were arguing about the rent payment on the night of July 1, 2018 when Gamboa walked away to go bathe their son. Johnson said he followed her upstairs, told her he’d give the boy a bath, then shoved Gamboa after she handed over the toddler.
Gamboa fell down the stairs, and Johnson ended up falling behind her, with their son in his arms. After they got to the floor, Gamboa told Johnson he was “going to jail” and went to get her phone. Johnson said he knocked the phone out of her hands, threw her to the floor and choked her until she stopped moving.
Afterward, he wrapped her body in a comforter and trash bags, and dropped it in a dumpster in Chesapeake. The body was never found.
The jury will resume deliberations Friday afternoon to determine what sentence Johnson should receive. The murder charge carries a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison, while the child delinquency charges are punishable by up to one year.
Jane Harper, jane.harper@pilotonline.com | https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/vp-nw-lamont-johnson-trial-ending-20220527-blahqarq5jevrjq472mzmcnkqi-story.html | 2022-05-27T18:34:31 | en | 0.977014 |
Laverne Cox received a very special birthday gift this year in the form of her very own Barbie.
Mattel this week unveiled a new doll in Cox’s likeness as part of its Tribute Collection series. The company has created Barbies modeled after real-life people in the past, including ballet dancer Misty Copeland, director Ava DuVernay and astronaut Sally Ride.
Cox, however, is the first transgender person to have a Barbie designed after her.
In a statement, Mattel’s Lisa McKnight said the company was “proud to highlight the importance of inclusion and acceptance at every age” with the doll, which is being sold for $40 and is available at Target, Wal-Mart and Amazon.
Cox happily posed with the doll at her 50th birthday party in New York Thursday. The actor, author and LGBTQ rights advocate attended the fête in a red gown with a floor-length tulle skirt, identical to the one worn by her toy counterpart.
In an interview with “Today” that aired this week, Cox said she was hopeful her Barbie would be especially impactful given America’s political climate, which includes a startling pushback against transgender rights in many conservative states.
“I hope all the kids who are feeling stigmatized when their healthcare is being jeopardized, or their ability in play in sports ... I hope they can see this Barbie and have a sense of hope and possibility,” she said. “If they don’t see themselves in this Barbie, I hope they know that they can create spaces where do they see themselves where they are represented, because representation matters.”
In 2013, Cox became the first transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy for her performance on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black.” Her acting career is once again in high gear thanks to acclaimed performances in “Promising Young Woman” and Netflix’s “Inventing Anna.” | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/laverne-cox-first-transgender-barbie-doll_n_6290fa1fe4b0415d4d84fe62 | 2022-05-27T18:34:31 | en | 0.973829 |
Updated May 26, 2022 at 12:11 PM ET
Every mass shooting in the U.S. raises calls for better policies to prevent such tragedies. There's evidence suggesting that certain kinds of laws may reduce deaths from mass shootings, say scientists who study the field — but those policy options are not the ones usually discussed in the wake of these events.
The body of research scientists have to draw from is limited, notes Michael Anestis, executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers University. "Mass shooting research is a very small portion of gun violence research," he says.
That's because mass shootings account for less than 1% of the roughly 40,000 people killed by guns each year in this country, Anestis explains. "They're horrific, they are all too common, and yet, it's just the very tip of the iceberg, right?"
Those researchers who do study gun violence tend to focus on the kinds of violence, like suicide, associated with the most deaths, he says. But, he adds, the entire field of gun violence research has long been neglected and hardly funded.
"There is money out there, but it is really far below where it should be given the amount of injury and death and economic costs associated with gun violence," says Anestis. "It's just disproportionally underfunded."
Two approaches worked better than others
Still, some studies have findings about what might prevent mass shootings.
One such study took advantage of the fact that in the U.S., gun laws vary from state to state. "That is, honestly, less than ideal from a public safety standpoint, but it does provide researchers with opportunities," says Daniel Webster, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
He and some colleagues recently analyzed more than 30 years of data on shootings in the U.S. that involved four or more victims. They compared states to try to tease out the effect of various gun laws. "I have to acknowledge that this is a really hard and, frankly, inexact science," says Webster.
Despite those limitations, he says, "We did find two policies that had significant protective effects in lowering rates of fatal mass shootings."
One was a requirement that a gun purchaser go through a licensing process. "A licensing process requires someone to, you know, directly apply and engage with law enforcement, sometimes there's safety training and other requirements," says Webster.
Another approach that seemed to reduce deaths from mass shootings was state bans on buying large-capacity magazines or ammunition-feeding devices for semiautomatic weapons.
That makes intuitive sense, says Webster, because these items allow a shooter to fire many bullets in a short amount of time without interruption. If a shooter has to stop and reload, victims could escape or fight back.
There's another study of mass shootings showing that this kind of law seemed to have a protective effect. David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, worked with colleagues to examine the effect of banning large-capacity magazines on almost three decades of mass shootings in different states.
"The states which had bans did much better in terms of having fewer mass shootings, and the mass shootings that occurred were much less lethal in terms of the number of people dying," says Hemenway.
What about background checks or having police at schools?
In the wake of a mass shooting, people often argue for the need for comprehensive background checks, says Webster. He supports that policy but says his research doesn't show that it's linked to a reduction in this particular kind of deadly event.
An additional common refrain after a mass shooting, he says, is a call for policies that make it easier for people to carry guns so they can defend themselves. "Well, guess what, the data do not bear that out at all," says Webster. "If anything, it shows higher rates of fatal mass shootings in response to weaker regulations for concealed carry by civilians."
And while school systems might try to respond to the threat of mass shootings by having police officers on site or having students go through drills, "as far as I know, there's not strong research about any of those things," says Hemenway.
Keeping guns away from young people, whether through safe storage of firearms in a home or age restrictions on purchasing, would be expected to have a protective effect, says Webster, based on data showing that "the peak ages for violent offending with firearms is roughly 18 to 21."
The public health risks associated with young people drinking alcohol inspired a ban on drinking under the age of 21, he says. But the shooter in Uvalde was able to legally buy semiautomatic rifles just after his 18th birthday.
It seems plausible that age restrictions might make it harder for young adults to access weapons capable of creating a mass shooting, says Anestis, but "do we have large data-based resources to evaluate those policies? No, we don't."
One emerging policy option that has some preliminary evidence behind it is allowing police officers to temporarily take guns away from people who seem to pose an imminent danger. A study in California that looked at how this process got used over a two-year period in that state found 21 occasions when it was done in response to threats of a mass shooting — several of which involved schools.
It's not possible to know if taking away those guns actually prevented mass shootings, but researchers say it's still important data given the general dearth of information and limited funding for research. One study in 2017 found that guns killed about as many people each year as sepsis, a life-threatening response to infection, but funding for gun violence research was about 0.7% of that for sepsis.
"There's so many things to study in the gun area, and we've had not nearly enough studies for 25 years," says Hemenway. "Once you scratch the surface right now about what is known, we know so little."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.vpr.org/npr-news/2022-05-26/research-shows-policies-that-may-help-prevent-mass-shootings-and-some-that-dont | 2022-05-27T18:34:31 | en | 0.978475 |
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Marek Janowski, conductor
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Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C Jupiter
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Listen Saturday May 28 at 8 p.m. | https://www.vpr.org/show/chicago-symphony-orchestra/2022-05-27/mendelssohn-bruch-mozart | 2022-05-27T18:34:33 | en | 0.650403 |
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Kernis: Musica Celestis
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Listen Friday May 27 at 8 p.m. | https://www.vpr.org/show/symphonycast/2022-05-27/tania-miller-conducts-kbs-symphony | 2022-05-27T18:34:33 | en | 0.716464 |
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