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WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
1252 AM CST Wed Dec 14 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST EARLY THIS
MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN JASPER, NORTHWESTERN NEWTON AND TYLER
COUNTIES...
At 1252 AM CST, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 5 inches of rain
have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 0.5 to 2 inches in 1
hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are possible in
the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor
drainage and low-lying areas.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Jasper, Woodville, Colmesneil, Town Bluff, Ebenezer, Warren,
Browndell, Spurger, Harrisburg, Jamestown, Farrsville, Mayflower,
Ivanhoe, Sam Rayburn Dam, Hillister and Wiergate.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, December 16, 2022
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AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
1019 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST
FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Poor air quality expected.
* WHERE...Yakima Valley.
* WHEN...Until 3 PM PST Friday.
* IMPACTS...Poor air quality may cause issues for people with
respiratory problems.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Light surface and transport winds are
forecast through at least Friday with more uncertainty in
stagnant conditions heading into the weekend.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People with respiratory illness should follow their physician's
advice for dealing with high levels of air pollution during
periods of stagnant air.
State air quality agencies highly recommend that no outdoor
burning occur and that residential wood burning devices be
limited as much as possible. According to state air quality
agencies, prolonged periods of stagnant air can hold pollutants
close to the ground where people live and breathe. Check with
your local burn agency for any current restrictions in your area.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mostly higher Wednesday in Asia after a rally on Wall Street spurred by news that inflation in the U.S. cooled more than expected last month.
The 7.1% consumer price index reading for November raised hopes Tuesday for easing pressure on the economy ahead of an interest rate policy update from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
The Fed is widely expected to raise its benchmark rate a half-point Wednesday, smaller than the past four hikes of three-quarters of a point.
Also Wednesday, the Bank of Japan’s quarterly “tankan” survey showed a deterioration in business conditions for major Japanese manufacturers, reflecting higher costs for industrial inputs and energy and weaker demand as the Fed and other central banks raise interest rates to tame inflation.
The headline index for large manufacturers was 7, down from 8 in the previous quarter and the fourth straight quarter of declines. The tankan measures corporate sentiment by subtracting the number of companies saying business conditions are negative from those responding they are positive.
Conditions for nonmanufacturers, such as service industries, rose to 19 from 14, as Japan lifted pandemic precautions and reopened to foreign tourists.
“Today’s Tankan survey suggests that while the services sector is going from strength to strength, the outlook for the manufacturing sector continues to worsen," Darren Tay of Capital Economics said in a commentary. He noted that capital spending projections also weakened slightly.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 advanced 0.7% to 28,156.21 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.6% to 19,722.16. South Korea's Kospi was up 1.1% to 2,399.25.
The Shanghai Composite index edged 0.1% lower to 3,172.33.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.7% to 7,251.30. India's Sensex gained 0.7% while the SET in Bangkok added 0.6%.
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 0.7% to 4,019.65 and the Nasdaq composite gained 1% to 11,256.81. The Dow Jones Industrial Average picked up 0.3% to 34,108.64.
Small company stocks also gained ground. The Russell 2000 index rose 0.8% to 1,832.36.
Stocks pared back gains as analysts cautioned investors not to get carried away by hopes for an easier Fed, as they have in the past.
The detail of the inflation data “under the hood being less encouraging than it is on the surface," Mizuho Bank economists said in a report. They noted that core services prices were up 0.4% from a month earlier, distorting inflation risks.
“To be precise , the headline understates underlying inflation risks that concern the Fed," the report said.
Tuesday’s report offered hope that the worst of inflation really did pass during the summer, though inflation remains painfully high and shoppers are paying prices well above levels from a year earlier.
A Fed rate hike of 0.50 percentage points would usually be a big deal because it's double the typical move. But with inflation coming off its worst level in generations, it would be a step down from the four hikes of 0.75 percentage points the Fed has approved since the summer.
Some of Wall Street's wildest action Tuesday was in the bond market, where yields fell sharply immediately after the inflation report's release.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, fell to 3.48% from 3.62% late Monday. The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, dropped to 4.22% from 4.39%.
Other central banks around the world, including the European Central Bank, are also likely to raise their own rates by half a percentage point this week.
Even if inflation is finally abating, the global economy still is threatened by rate increases already pushed through. The housing industry and other businesses that rely on low interest rates have shown particular weakness, and worries are rising about the strength of corporate profits broadly.
In other trading, U.S. benchmark crude lost 30 cents to $75.09 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It jumped $2.22 on Tuesday to $75.39 per barrel.
Brent crude, the pricing basis for international trading, shed 34 cents to $80.34 per barrel.
The dollar slipped to 135.43 Japanese yen from 135.59 yen. The euro rose to $1.0638 from $1.0633. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Asian-shares-track-Wall-St-gains-on-cooler-17652858.php | 2022-12-14T07:30:47 | en | 0.959854 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s committee to study reparations for African Americans will meet in Oakland Wednesday to discuss what form reparations could take and eligibility requirements to receive possible payments.
The first-in-the-nation task force previously voted to limit reparations to Black California residents whose ancestors were living in the United States in the 19th century. This week, the group will talk about whether there could be additional eligibility requirements and what time frame reparations could hinge on.
The group will also discuss how the state may address its impact on Black families whose property was seized through eminent domain, a topic that garnered renewed attention after lawmakers last year voted to allow the return of a beachfront property known as Bruce's Beach to descendants of Black residents from whom it was taken in the 20th century.
Kamilah Moore, the task force’s chair, doesn’t expect the group to come to any final decisions at this week’s two-day meeting.
“We’re still in the exploratory phase,” she said.
The task force has a July 1 deadline to complete its final report for the Legislature listing recommendations for how the state can address its legacy of discriminatory policies against Black Californians. The group's work contrasts from similar efforts that have stalled in Congress.
Lawmakers in other parts of the country have pushed their states and cities to study reparations without much progress. But Evanston, Illinois became the first U.S. city last year to make reparations available for Black residents, and public officials in New York will try anew to create a reparations commission in the state.
Officials from Oakland, Sacramento, Los Angeles and other California cities will talk about local reparations efforts during a panel Wednesday.
That will include Khansa T. Jones-Muhammad, vice-chair of Los Angeles’ Reparations Advisory Commission, who said the commission — created last year under then-Mayor Eric Garcetti — doesn't have a date set in stone to complete its work.
The goal of the commission is to advise the city on a pilot program for distributing reparations to a group of Black residents.
“A lot of our first year has really just been laying the groundwork to have a strong commission,” she said.
In September, economists started listing preliminary estimates for what could be owed by the state as a result of discriminatory policies. But they said they need more data to come up with more complete figures.
Moore said the task force has not decided on any dollar amounts or what form reparations could take, but the public's interest in those estimates shows optimism about the group's work. The group hasn't discussed where money for reparations could potentially come from.
About 30 people gathered Saturday at a Black-owned coffee shop in Sacramento for a reparations information session led by the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, said Chris Lodgson, an organizer for the group.
The coalition is focused on advocating for reparations for Black residents. It has been supportive of reparations largely targeted at the descendants of enslaved African Americans.
“Generally speaking, Black folks can support other Black folks in the things that they want and need even if not everybody is benefitting equally from it or directly from it," Lodgson said.
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former assemblywoman, authored the bill that created the state's task force, and the group began its work last year. The bill was signed into law in September 2020 after a summer of nationwide protests against racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minnesota.
In June, the task force released a 500-page report describing discriminatory policies that drove housing segregation, criminal justice disparities and other realities that harmed Black Californians in the decades since the abolition of slavery.
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By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
Star shortstop Carlos Correa and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $350 million, 13-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday night because the agreement was subject to a successful physical.
Correa also was a free agent one year ago after leaving the Houston Astros, and he reached a $105.3 million deal with the Minnesota Twins. That agreement gave him the right to opt out after one year and $35.1 million to hit the market again.
And the 28-year-old Correa indeed moved again, this time to a Giants team that recently missed out in its bid to sign free agent Aaron Judge.
Correa was one of the headliners in a stellar group of free agent shortstops that also included Trea Turner, Xander Bogaerts and Dansby Swanson — Swanson is the only one in that group still available.
Correa got the latest big-money deal in a spending spree during the first offseason of baseball’s new labor contract.
Philadelphia signed Turner for $300 million over 11 years, San Diego got Bogaerts for $280 million over 11 years, Texas signed pitcher Jacob deGrom for $185 million over five years and the New York Mets retained outfielder Brandon Nimmo for $162 million for eight years.
Judge, who won the MVP after hitting an AL-record 62 home runs, is staying with the New York Yankees. He has a $360 million, nine-year deal pending a physical.
Correa hit .291 with 22 home runs and 64 RBIs in his one season with Minnesota.
Brandon Crawford, a three-time All-Star, has been the Giants’ shortstop since 2011. Crawford, who turns 36 next month, slumped to a .231 average with nine homers and 52 RBIs last season, down from a .298 average with 24 homers and 90 RBIs in 2021.
Crawford has a $16 million salary in 2023, then can become a free agent. He has dealt with injuries in recent seasons and might consider retirement at the conclusion of his deal, so the Giants were searching for a shortstop of the future.
The Giants went 81-81 last season, a year after posting a franchise-record 107 wins.
Correa was selected by Houston with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 amateur draft, and he played a key role in the Astros’ rise from the bottom of the AL West to the franchise’s first World Series title in 2017.
He hit a career-best 26 homers in 2021 in his last year with Houston, also finishing with a .279 batting average and 92 RBIs. He earned his second All-Star selection and first Gold Glove.
Correa, the 2015 AL Rookie of the Year, has a .279 career average with 155 homers and 553 RBIs in eight big league seasons. He also has been a stellar postseason performer with 18 homers and 59 RBIs in 79 games.
The Astros’ 2017 championship was tainted by a sign-stealing scheme, and Correa has been lustily booed in some cities since the scandal surfaced.
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AP Baseball Writers Jay Cohen and Janie McCauley contributed to this report.
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All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Saturday's results
Regina 5 Calgary 2
Saskatoon 9 Prince Albert 0
Portland 4 Seattle 3 (SO)
Brandon 2 Spokane 1
Lethbridge 4 Swift Current 3 (SO)
Medicine Hat 6 Moose Jaw 3
Red Deer 5 Edmonton 2
Tri-City 4 Prince George 3
Kamloops 6 Victoria 1
Vancouver 3 Kelowna 2 (OT)
Sunday's results
Calgary 5 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 6 Regina 1
Portland 4 Everett 2
Seattle 5 Vancouver 2
Tuesday's results
Spokane 5 Moose Jaw 2
Saskatoon 8 Medicine Hat 3
Seattle 8 Prince George 1
Wednesday's results
Kelowna at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Vancouver at Portland, 6 p.m.
Kelowna at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
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By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball
Star shortstop Carlos Correa and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $350 million, 13-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday night because the agreement was subject to a successful physical.
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WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Saturday's results
Regina 5 Calgary 2
Saskatoon 9 Prince Albert 0
Portland 4 Seattle 3 (SO)
Brandon 2 Spokane 1
Lethbridge 4 Swift Current 3 (SO)
Medicine Hat 6 Moose Jaw 3
Red Deer 5 Edmonton 2
Tri-City 4 Prince George 3
Kamloops 6 Victoria 1
Vancouver 3 Kelowna 2 (OT)
Sunday's results
Calgary 5 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 6 Regina 1
Portland 4 Everett 2
Seattle 5 Vancouver 2
Tuesday's results
Spokane 5 Moose Jaw 2
Saskatoon 8 Medicine Hat 3
Seattle 8 Prince George 1
Wednesday's results
Kelowna at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Vancouver at Portland, 6 p.m.
Kelowna at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Edmonton at Calgary, 2 p.m. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17652847.php | 2022-12-14T07:31:11 | en | 0.849156 |
By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
Star shortstop Carlos Correa and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $350 million, 13-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday night because the agreement was subject to a successful physical.
Correa also was a free agent one year ago after leaving the Houston Astros, and he reached a $105.3 million deal with the Minnesota Twins. That agreement gave him the right to opt out after one year and $35.1 million to hit the market again.
And the 28-year-old Correa indeed moved again, this time to a Giants team that recently missed out in its bid to sign free agent Aaron Judge.
Correa was one of the headliners in a stellar group of free agent shortstops that also included Trea Turner, Xander Bogaerts and Dansby Swanson — Swanson is the only one in that group still available.
Correa got the latest big-money deal in a spending spree during the first offseason of baseball’s new labor contract.
Philadelphia signed Turner for $300 million over 11 years, San Diego got Bogaerts for $280 million over 11 years, Texas signed pitcher Jacob deGrom for $185 million over five years and the New York Mets retained outfielder Brandon Nimmo for $162 million for eight years.
Judge, who won the MVP after hitting an AL-record 62 home runs, is staying with the New York Yankees. He has a $360 million, nine-year deal pending a physical.
Correa hit .291 with 22 home runs and 64 RBIs in his one season with Minnesota.
Brandon Crawford, a three-time All-Star, has been the Giants’ shortstop since 2011. Crawford, who turns 36 next month, slumped to a .231 average with nine homers and 52 RBIs last season, down from a .298 average with 24 homers and 90 RBIs in 2021.
Crawford has a $16 million salary in 2023, then can become a free agent. He has dealt with injuries in recent seasons and might consider retirement at the conclusion of his deal, so the Giants were searching for a shortstop of the future.
The Giants went 81-81 last season, a year after posting a franchise-record 107 wins.
Correa was selected by Houston with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 amateur draft, and he played a key role in the Astros’ rise from the bottom of the AL West to the franchise’s first World Series title in 2017.
He hit a career-best 26 homers in 2021 in his last year with Houston, also finishing with a .279 batting average and 92 RBIs. He earned his second All-Star selection and first Gold Glove.
Correa, the 2015 AL Rookie of the Year, has a .279 career average with 155 homers and 553 RBIs in eight big league seasons. He also has been a stellar postseason performer with 18 homers and 59 RBIs in 79 games.
The Astros’ 2017 championship was tainted by a sign-stealing scheme, and Correa has been lustily booed in some cities since the scandal surfaced.
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AP Baseball Writers Jay Cohen and Janie McCauley contributed to this report.
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WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Saturday's results
Regina 5 Calgary 2
Saskatoon 9 Prince Albert 0
Portland 4 Seattle 3 (SO)
Brandon 2 Spokane 1
Lethbridge 4 Swift Current 3 (SO)
Medicine Hat 6 Moose Jaw 3
Red Deer 5 Edmonton 2
Tri-City 4 Prince George 3
Kamloops 6 Victoria 1
Vancouver 3 Kelowna 2 (OT)
Sunday's results
Calgary 5 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 6 Regina 1
Portland 4 Everett 2
Seattle 5 Vancouver 2
Tuesday's results
Spokane 5 Moose Jaw 2
Saskatoon 8 Medicine Hat 3
Seattle 8 Prince George 1
Wednesday's results
Kelowna at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Vancouver at Portland, 6 p.m.
Kelowna at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who pleaded guilty to raping and killing a 16-year-old girl is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday evening. He would become the second inmate executed in Mississippi in 10 years.
Thomas Edwin Loden Jr., 58, is set to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman at 6 p.m. He has been on death row since 2001, when he pleaded guilty to capital murder, rape and four counts of sexual battery against Leesa Marie Gray.
In a late-night ruling on Dec. 7, a federal judge declined to block Mississippi from carrying out the execution amid a pending lawsuit from Loden and four Mississippi death row inmates over the state’s lethal injection protocol. Mississippi’s most recent execution was in November 2021.
During the summer ahead of what should have been Gray's senior year of high school, she had worked as a waitress at her uncle’s restaurant in northeast Mississippi. On June 22, 2000, she left work after dark and became stranded with a flat tire on a rural road.
Loden, a Marine Corps recruiter with relatives in the area, encountered Gray on the road around 10:45 p.m. He stopped and began speaking with the teenager about the flat tire. “Don’t worry. I’m a Marine. We do this kind of stuff,” he said.
Loden told investigators he became angry after Gray allegedly said she would never want to be a Marine, and that he ordered her into his van. He spent four hours sexually assaulting her before strangling and suffocating her, according to an interview he gave investigators.
Court records show that on the afternoon of June 23, 2000, “Loden was discovered lying by the side of a road with the words ‘I’m sorry’ carved into his chest and apparent self-inflicted lacerations on his wrists.”
After pleading guilty in September 2001, Loden told Gray’s friends and family during his sentencing: “I hope you may have some sense of justice when you leave here today.”
Wanda Farris, Gray's mother, described her daughter as a “happy-go-lucky, always smiling” teenager who aspired to become an elementary school teacher.
“She wasn’t perfect, now, mind you,” Farris said. “But she strived to do right.”
Farris plans on attending the execution Wednesday.
In 2015, attorneys for the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center sued the Mississippi prison system on behalf of two death row inmates, saying the state’s lethal injection protocol is inhumane. Loden and two other Mississippi death row inmates later joined as plaintiffs.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections revealed in court papers in July 2021 that it had acquired three drugs for its lethal injection protocol: midazolam, which is a sedative; vecuronium bromide, which paralyzes the muscles; and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
Jim Craig, a MacArthur Center attorney, said at a November court hearing that since 2019, only Alabama, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Tennessee have conducted executions using a three-drug protocol.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 27 states have the death penalty. Craig said a majority of death-penalty states and the federal government used a three-drug protocol in 2008, but the federal government and most of those states have since started using one drug.
In November, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state’s capital punishment system after a series of failed lethal injections.
A week before Loden’s scheduled execution, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate handed down a ruling saying the execution could happen even while the lawsuit is pending. He wrote that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld a three-drug lethal injection protocol as recently as seven years ago in a case from Oklahoma.
Loden’s attorneys did respond to requests for comment.
There are 36 inmates on death row in Mississippi. Death Penalty Action, a group opposed to capital punishment, convened a news conference Tuesday in front of the state capitol in Jackson to voice their opposition to Loden's execution.
“Clearly, something in him snapped for him to commit such a horrific crime,” said Mitzi Magleby, a spokesperson for the Mississippi chapter of Ignite Justice, an organization that advocates for criminal justice reform. “Mr. Loden was immediately remorseful. Shouldn’t there be room for grace and mercy in such a situation?”
Farris told The Associated Press on Friday that she forgave Loden years ago, but she did not believe his apology.
“I don’t particularly want to see somebody die,” Farris said. “But I do believe in the death penalty. ... I do believe in justice.”
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DALLAS (AP) — A destructive winter storm marched across the United States on Wednesday, delivering blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains hours after tornadoes touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
Five tornadoes were confirmed across north Texas as of Tuesday afternoon based on video and eyewitness reports, but potentially a dozen may have occurred, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, Texas, reported.
Dozens of homes and businesses were damaged by the line of thunderstorms, and several people were injured in the suburbs and counties stretching north of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. More than 1,000 flights into and out of area airports were delayed, and over 100 were canceled, according to the tracking service FlightAware.
Two people were missing and homes were destroyed Tuesday when a tornado hit Four Forts, Louisiana, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Shreveport, said Sgt. Casey Jones of the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office.
“I’m hoping they’re with family somewhere,” Jones said. There were no immediate reports of deaths.
The severe weather threat continued into Wednesday for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
Blizzard warnings stretched from Montana into western Nebraska and Colorado, and the National Weather Service said as much as 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow was possible in some areas of western South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska. Winds of more than 50 mph (80 kph) at times will make it impossible to see outdoors in Nebraska, officials said.
“There’s essentially no one traveling right now,” said Justin McCallum, a manager at the Flying J truck stop at Ogallala, Nebraska.
Forecasters expect the storm system to hobble the upper Midwest with ice, rain and snow for days, as well as move into the Northeast and central Appalachians. Residents from West Virginia to Vermont were told to watch out for a possible significant mix of snow, ice and sleet, and the National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch from Wednesday night through Friday afternoon, depending on the timing of the storm.
In the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, police spokesperson Amanda McNew reported five confirmed injuries Tuesday.
A possible tornado blew the roof off the city’s service center — a municipal facility — and left pieces of the roof hanging from powerlines, said Trent Kelley, deputy director of Grapevine Parks and Recreation.
It was also trash day, so the storm picked up and scattered garbage all over, he said.
Photos sent by the city showed downed power lines on rain-soaked streets, as well as toppled trees, damaged buildings and a semitrailer that appeared to have been tossed around a parking lot.
In Colorado, all roads were closed in the northeast quadrant of the state. The severe weather in the ranching region could also threaten livestock. Extreme winds can push livestock through fences as they follow the gale’s direction, said Jim Santomaso, a northeast representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association.
“If this keeps up,” said Santomaso, “cattle could drift miles.”
A blizzard warning has been issued on Minnesota’s north shore, as some areas are expecting up to 24 inches of snow and wind gusts up to 40 mph. And in the south of the state, winds gusting up to 50 mph (80 kph) had reduced visibility.
National Weather Service meteorologist Melissa Dye in the Twin Cities said this is a “long duration event” with snow, ice and rain through Friday night. Minnesota was expecting a lull Wednesday, followed by a second round of snow.
The same weather system dumped heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada and western U.S. in recent days.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Nick Bonino scored for the fourth straight game, James Reimer won in his return from injury and the San Jose Sharks beat the Arizona Coyotes 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Tomas Hertl and Bonino scored in a span of 1:02 early in the first period to set the tone and help the Sharks win for only the third time in 10 games.
“I think we’ve deserved more than we’ve had this year," Bonino said. "They hung on a little bit at the end and they kept coming and coming. But it’s nice to get the win and it’s nice to contribute.”
Nico Sturm added a goal in the second period as San Jose earned just its third victory in 15 games at the Shark Tank this season.
Reimer returned from a lower-body injury that had sidelined him since Nov. 25 and made 19 saves.
“It felt good,” Reimer said. “Obviously when you haven’t played in a while, sometimes the game feels fast. Sometimes you’re trying to break in a bit. But I felt pretty good.”
Lawson Crouse and Nick Bjugstad scored for the Coyotes, who were trying to match a season-high three-game winning streak. Karel Vejmelka stopped 30 shots.
“We find ourselves in a lot of these games,” Bjugstad said. “Unfortunately, we didn’t start off the way we wanted to do. We had some spurts there where we weren’t on the same page. I thought we were a little lackadaisical as an entire unit. It’s tough when you start off like that.”
The Sharks got off to a fast start, scoring twice in 62 seconds early in the first period.
Hertl started it when he deflected a point shot from Radim Simek past Vejmelka. Bonino made it 2-0 when he took a pass from Erik Karlsson in front and scored in his fourth consecutive game after going without a goal in his first 24 games this season.
The Coyotes cut it to 2-1 late in the period when Crouse scored on a two-man advantage.
Sturm scored his eighth of the season on a rebound midway through the second before Bjugstad cut it to 3-2 early in the third.
Arizona put heavy pressure on Reimer late but couldn't get the equalizer.
“The first two periods we played in front of them all the time,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny said. “We need to get it deep and create more chances and get pucks to the net and create traffic in front of the net. We didn’t do it for 40 minutes. It’s tough to win in that league, even if you have a great push.”
MILESTONE NIGHT
Sharks television play-by-play broadcaster Randy Hahn called his 2,000th regular-season game for the team. Hahn helped form the group Pro Hockey San Jose in the 1980s that helped bring an expansion team to the city in 1991. He started as a fill-in announcer that first year before taking over as the full-time voice of the team in 1993.
INJURY REPORT
While Reimer made his return for the Sharks, forward Alexander Barabanov missed the game with a lower-body injury. Noah Gregor went into the lineup in his place. ... Sharks F Luke Kunin left in the first period with an undisclosed injury and didn't return.
UP NEXT
Coyotes: Host the New York Islanders.
Sharks: Visit the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 44 points, Jaylen Brown added five of his 25 in overtime, and the Boston Celtics blew a 20-point lead in the second half before rallying from a late 13-point deficit for a thrilling 122-118 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.
Marcus Smart hit four 3-pointers and scored 18 points for the NBA-leading Celtics, who wrapped up their six-game trip by avoiding their first three-game losing streak of the season.
The old rivals played a wild second half in which the Lakers rallied from an 81-61 deficit midway through the third quarter with a 45-12 surge. Boston then erased Los Angeles’ 106-93 lead in the final 3:40 with a 17-4 run capped by Tatum’s tying jumper with 17.8 seconds left.
“That game just says a lot about our experience and mental toughness,” said Brown, who also had 15 rebounds. “That's a tough and perfect way to close out our road trip.”
Anthony Davis had 37 points and 12 rebounds, but he also missed two free throws with 28 seconds left, creating an opportunity for Tatum to send it to overtime.
LeBron James scored 33 points in a memorable chapter of the famed rivalry between the 17-time champion teams dubbed “the two pillars of our league” by new Lakers coach Darvin Ham.
“Everybody can talk about free throws, this and that, but the thing we can’t do is spot teams 15-, 17-, 20-point leads, give up 30-plus points per quarter in the first half,” Ham said. “We have to do a better job of coming out from the tipoff and pressing our will on our opponent.”
Russell Westbrook had 20 points and a season-high 14 rebounds for Los Angeles, but he also missed three open jumpers in overtime while the Celtics pulled away with 12 consecutive points.
“Games aren't won or lost in the fourth quarter or overtime,” Boston coach Joe Mazzulla said. “We have to be elite at managing the end of the third, beginning of the fourth quarter. That is where NBA games are won and lost, and we didn't do a good job managing that part of the game. So we'll take the positives of how we worked to get back in the game and then managed a run to end it, but we'll also focus on that stretch.”
In their first game back from a six-game trip, the Lakers lost for the fourth time in five games after an 8-2 stretch that breathed life into their slow-starting season.
James scored 22 points after halftime for Los Angeles, but Smart hit his fourth 3-pointer with 45.8 seconds left to trim the Lakers' lead to 110-108.
A weary Davis then bricked two free throws, echoing his miss on a potential winning free throw with 3.7 seconds left in regulation of what became an overtime loss for the Lakers at Philadelphia last Friday.
“I haven’t thought about the rest of the game,” Davis said. “To me, the rest doesn’t matter. Had a chance to ice the game, and missed both.”
Tatum coolly tied it with his 14-footer near the baseline, and James missed a 3-pointer at the regulation buzzer.
TIP-INS
Celtics: Al Horford missed his fifth straight game. He is expected back this weekend. ... Robert Williams remained out recovering from preseason knee surgery, but he is expected to make his season debut soon.
Lakers: James had the 516th 30-point game of his career, passing Wilt Chamberlain for second-most in NBA history. ... Dennis Schröder had two points and one assist against his former team. ... Wenyen Gabriel missed his fifth straight game with a left shoulder sprain.
UP NEXT
Celtics: Host Orlando on Friday.
Lakers: Host Denver on Friday.
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH
AP Business Writer
BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks rose Wednesday in Asia after a rally on Wall Street spurred by news that inflation in the U.S. cooled more than expected last month.
The 7.1% consumer price index reading for November raised hopes Tuesday for easing pressure on the economy ahead of an interest rate policy update from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
The Fed is widely expected to raise its benchmark rate a half-point Wednesday, smaller than the past four hikes of three-quarters of a point.
Also Wednesday, the Bank of Japan’s quarterly “tankan” survey showed a deterioration in business conditions for major Japanese manufacturers, reflecting higher costs for industrial inputs and energy and weaker demand as the Fed and other central banks raise interest rates to tame inflation.
The headline index for large manufacturers was 7, down from 8 in the previous quarter and the fourth straight quarter of declines. The tankan measures corporate sentiment by subtracting the number of companies saying business conditions are negative from those responding they are positive.
Conditions for nonmanufacturers, such as service industries, rose to 19 from 14, as Japan lifted pandemic precautions and reopened to foreign tourists.
“Today’s Tankan survey suggests that while the services sector is going from strength to strength, the outlook for the manufacturing sector continues to worsen,” Darren Tay of Capital Economics said in a commentary. He noted that capital spending projections also weakened slightly.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 advanced 0.8% to 28,178.55 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.7% to 19,730.48. South Korea’s Kospi was up 0.8% to 2,392.11.
The Shanghai Composite index edged 0.1% higher to 3,180.59.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.6% to 7,243.40.
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 0.7% to 4,019.65 and the Nasdaq composite gained 1% to 11,256.81. The Dow Jones Industrial Average picked up 0.3% to 34,108.64.
Small company stocks also gained ground. The Russell 2000 index rose 0.8% to 1,832.36.
Stocks pared back gains as analysts cautioned investors not to get carried away by hopes for an easier Fed, as they have in the past.
The detail of the inflation data “under the hood being less encouraging than it is on the surface,” Mizuho Bank economists said in a report. They noted that core services prices were up 0.4% from a month earlier, distorting inflation risks.
“To be precise , the headline understates underlying inflation risks that concern the Fed,” the report said.
Tuesday’s report offered hope that the worst of inflation really did pass during the summer, though inflation remains painfully high and shoppers are paying prices well above levels from a year earlier.
A Fed rate hike of 0.50 percentage points would usually be a big deal because it’s double the typical move. But with inflation coming off its worst level in generations, it would be a step down from the four hikes of 0.75 percentage points the Fed has approved since the summer.
Some of Wall Street’s wildest action Tuesday was in the bond market, where yields fell sharply immediately after the inflation report’s release.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, fell to 3.50% from 3.62% late Monday. The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, dropped to 4.22% from 4.39%.
Other central banks around the world, including the European Central Bank, are also likely to raise their own rates by half a percentage point this week.
Even if inflation is finally abating, the global economy still is threatened by rate increases already pushed through. The housing industry and other businesses that rely on low interest rates have shown particular weakness, and worries are rising about the strength of corporate profits broadly.
In other trading, U.S. benchmark crude lost 19 cents to $75.20 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It jumped $2.22 on Tuesday to $75.39 per barrel.
Brent crude, the pricing basis for international trading, shed 23 cents to $80.45 per barrel.
The dollar slipped to 135.52 Japanese yen from 135.59 yen. The euro fell to $1.0624 from $1.0633.
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian police are investigating the extremist views of three people who shot and killed two officers and a neighbor at a rural property before they were killed hours later by police in a gunfight.
Investigators will look at the possible extremist links of the killers after a series of posts under the name of Gareth Train, one of the killers identified in the wake of Monday’s deadly shootout, were found on conspiracy theory forums, Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said late Tuesday. The posts include references to anti-vaccine sentiments and claims that other high-profile shootings were hoaxes or false-flag operations.
“It’s very difficult at the moment for us to reason with what has happened, there are no obvious reasons,” Carroll told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. But she added she had no doubt that over the coming days and weeks, police would come back with some insight into the tragic events that unfolded.
Research and surveys show belief in conspiracy theories is common and widespread. Believers are more likely to to get their information from social media than professional news organizations. The rise and fall of particular conspiracy theories are often linked to real-world events and social, economic or technological change.
Carroll said every possible motive for the killings was being examined, including whether it was a premeditated attack on the officers.
“Some of the stuff that’s online from these people, we will investigate what they have been doing not only in recent weeks but in recent years, who they’ve been interacting with,” she said.
Four officers arrived at the property in the town of Wieambilla, in Queensland state, to investigate reports of a missing person. They walked into a hail of gunfire, Carroll said, and it was a miracle that two officers managed to escape and raise the alarm.
Those killed were Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, along with 58-year-old neighbor Alan Dare.
One of the officers that escaped, Constable Randall Kirk, 28, was recovering at a hospital Wednesday from shrapnel wounds. He said he and his wife wanted to thank everybody “from the Prime Minister down” for their messages of support.
“I’m feeling fine, just a little sore. My main thoughts are with the other police families at this awful time,” Kirk said in a statement released by the police union. “It means a lot to know the community cares for us all.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier told reporters in Sydney that the country mourned with those affected.
“This is, indeed, a devastating day for everyone who loved these Australians, and our hearts go out to those in the grip of terrible grief,” he said. “We know that this news has fallen hard on a close-knit and caring Queensland community. As well as, of course, the community to which all police officers belong.”
He said officers across the nation know the risks they face, yet do their duty.
“And today and every day I pay tribute to each and every one of the police officers who serve their local communities and who serve their nation,” Albanese said. “This is not a price that anyone who puts on the uniform should ever pay.”
In all, six people died in the violence Monday in Queensland state. The killers have been identified as former school principal Nathaniel Train, 47, his brother Gareth, 46, and sister-in-law Stacey, 45.
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CHICAGO (AP) — When it was over, when No. 800 was safely tucked away and Washington's fifth straight win was complete, Alex Ovechkin jumped on the ice one last time for another round of cheers.
Gordie Howe is next, and Wayne Gretzky is coming up very quickly.
Ovechkin scored three times to become the third NHL player with 800 career goals, and the streaking Capitals beat the lowly Chicago Blackhawks 7-3 on Tuesday night.
“It’s a big number,” Ovechkin said. “It’s the best company (you can) ever imagine since you started playing hockey.”
Ovechkin moved within one goal of Howe for second all-time. Gretzky has the record with 894 goals, but the 37-year-old Ovechkin is showing no signs of slowing down.
“I think once he’s going to be No. 1 he can have a sense of relief,” said Anthony Mantha, who had the primary assist on Ovechkin’s 800th goal. “Until then, I think he’s on the hunt, and that’s what we love about him.”
Mantha, Nic Dowd, Trevor van Riemsdyk and Dmitry Orlov also scored for Washington. Conor Sheary had two assists, and Charlie Lindgren made 26 stops.
The Capitals went 6-2-1 during a nine-game stretch that included only one home date. They play seven of their next nine at home, beginning Thursday night against Dallas.
“Now we just have to have a strong push before Christmas and then get the three days off,” forward Evgeny Kuznetsov said.
Chicago dropped to 1-11-1 in its last 13 games. It has scored just four goals during a four-game slide.
“I thought we battled back, but it’s Ovechkin," Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson said. “There were a couple of unfortunate bounces, and he makes you pay on those.”
Ovechkin scored on his first two shots, beating Petr Mrazek 24 seconds into the game before stuffing one home on a power play with 11:46 left in the first period. The winger then completed his 29th career hat trick when he knocked Mantha's pass over a sprawled Mrazek 6:34 into the third.
The rest of the Capitals jumped off the bench to celebrate after the milestone goal, and hats rained down on the ice from the crowd of 16,181 at the United Center. Fans then chanted “Ovi! Ovi!” — drawing a wave from Ovechkin.
“The fans here in Chicago were terrific, the way that they saluted him,” Washington coach Peter Laviolette said. “For him to get a hat trick on the road to get to 800 was just a special night.”
Ovechkin has seven goals in his last four games and a team-high 20 on the season. His previous four goals were all empty-netters.
“It’s mind blowing,” Chicago captain Jonathan Toews said. “How many guys can score goals at his rate in the season, let alone year after year after year? He’s one of a kind, for sure.”
Toews, Max Domi and Tyler Johnson scored for Chicago, and Mrazek finished with 23 saves.
It was Johnson's first game since Oct. 25. He had been sidelined by a right ankle injury.
HE'S BACK
Washington forward Dylan Strome played his first game back in Chicago since he signed a $3.5 million, one-year contract with the Capitals in July. He was traded from Arizona to Chicago in November 2018 and scored a career-high 22 goals for the Blackhawks last season.
“It's been really fun to play on this team,” Strome said. “There's incredible guys. Good coaching staff. Top to bottom, I think it's been a really, really easy transition for me.”
WORTH NOTING
Capitals center Lars Eller was scratched with an upper-body injury. He is day to day. ... Blackhawks forward Andreas Athanasiou missed the game because of a family funeral. ... Chicago assigned defenseman Filip Roos to Rockford of the American Hockey League. ... Capitals defenseman Erik Gustafsson returned to the lineup after he missed Sunday’s 5-2 win at Winnipeg with an upper-body injury.
UP NEXT
Capitals: Host the Stars on Thursday night.
Blackhawks: Host the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday night.
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By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 44 points, Jaylen Brown added five of his 25 in overtime, and the Boston Celtics blew a 20-point lead in the second half before rallying from a late 13-point deficit for a thrilling 122-118 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.
Marcus Smart hit four 3-pointers and scored 18 points for the NBA-leading Celtics, who wrapped up their six-game trip by avoiding their first three-game losing streak of the season.
Anthony Davis had 37 points and 12 rebounds, but he also missed two free throws with 28 seconds left in regulation to allow the Celtics back into it. LeBron James scored 33 points in a memorable chapter of the famed rivalry between the 17-time champion teams dubbed “the two pillars of our league” by new Lakers coach Darvin Ham.
The rivals played a wild second half in which the Lakers rallied from an 81-61 deficit midway through the third quarter with a 45-12 surge. Boston then erased Los Angeles’ 106-93 lead in the final 3:40 with a 17-4 run capped by Tatum’s tying jumper with 17.8 seconds left.
Russell Westbrook had 20 points and 14 assists for Los Angeles, but he also missed three open jumpers in overtime while the Celtics pulled away with 12 consecutive points. In their first game back from a six-game trip, the Lakers lost for the fourth time in five games after an 8-2 stretch that breathed life into their slow-starting season.
James scored 22 points after halftime for Los Angeles, but Smart hit his fourth 3-pointer with 45.8 seconds left to trim the Lakers’ lead to 110-108.
Davis then bricked two free throws, echoing his miss on a potential winning free throw with 3.7 seconds left in regulation of what became an overtime loss for the Lakers at Philadelphia last Friday.
Tatum coolly tied it with his 14-footer near the baseline, and James missed a 3-pointer at the regulation buzzer.
TIP-INS
Celtics: Al Horford missed his fifth straight game. He is expected back this weekend. … Robert Williams remained out recovering from preseason knee surgery, but he is expected to make his season debut soon.
Lakers: James had the 516th 30-point game of his career, passing Wilt Chamberlain for the second-most in NBA history. … Dennis Schröder had two points and one assist against the Celtics, who signed him in the summer of 2021 after his negotiations to stay with the Lakers broke down. Boston traded the German guard to Houston last February, and he returned to the Lakers in September. … Wenyen Gabriel missed his fifth straight game with a left shoulder sprain.
UP NEXT
Celtics: Host Orlando on Friday.
Lakers: Host Denver on Friday.
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By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 44 points, Jaylen Brown added five of his 25 in overtime, and the Boston Celtics blew a 20-point lead in the second half before rallying from a late 13-point deficit for a thrilling 122-118 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.
Marcus Smart hit four 3-pointers and scored 18 points for the NBA-leading Celtics, who wrapped up their six-game trip by avoiding their first three-game losing streak of the season.
Anthony Davis had 37 points and 12 rebounds, but he also missed two free throws with 28 seconds left in regulation to allow the Celtics back into it. LeBron James scored 33 points in a memorable chapter of the famed rivalry between the 17-time champion teams dubbed “the two pillars of our league” by new Lakers coach Darvin Ham.
The rivals played a wild second half in which the Lakers rallied from an 81-61 deficit midway through the third quarter with a 45-12 surge. Boston then erased Los Angeles’ 106-93 lead in the final 3:40 with a 17-4 run capped by Tatum’s tying jumper with 17.8 seconds left.
Russell Westbrook had 20 points and 14 assists for Los Angeles, but he also missed three open jumpers in overtime while the Celtics pulled away with 12 consecutive points. In their first game back from a six-game trip, the Lakers lost for the fourth time in five games after an 8-2 stretch that breathed life into their slow-starting season.
James scored 22 points after halftime for Los Angeles, but Smart hit his fourth 3-pointer with 45.8 seconds left to trim the Lakers’ lead to 110-108.
Davis then bricked two free throws, echoing his miss on a potential winning free throw with 3.7 seconds left in regulation of what became an overtime loss for the Lakers at Philadelphia last Friday.
Tatum coolly tied it with his 14-footer near the baseline, and James missed a 3-pointer at the regulation buzzer.
TIP-INS
Celtics: Al Horford missed his fifth straight game. He is expected back this weekend. … Robert Williams remained out recovering from preseason knee surgery, but he is expected to make his season debut soon.
Lakers: James had the 516th 30-point game of his career, passing Wilt Chamberlain for the second-most in NBA history. … Dennis Schröder had two points and one assist against the Celtics, who signed him in the summer of 2021 after his negotiations to stay with the Lakers broke down. Boston traded the German guard to Houston last February, and he returned to the Lakers in September. … Wenyen Gabriel missed his fifth straight game with a left shoulder sprain.
UP NEXT
Celtics: Host Orlando on Friday.
Lakers: Host Denver on Friday.
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — After four straight three-quarter-point interest rate hikes, the Federal Reserve is set to announce a smaller half-point increase in its key rate Wednesday, a first step toward dialing back its efforts to combat inflation.
At the same time, the Fed is expected to signal that it plans more hikes next year than it had previously forecast to try to conquer the worst inflation bout in four decades. And most economists think Chair Jerome Powell will stress that the Fed will likely keep its benchmark rate at its high point through next year, even after the hikes have ended.
The Fed’s decision Wednesday will follow a government report Tuesday that provided hopeful signs that inflation is finally easing from chronically high levels. Gas prices fell, the cost of used cars, furniture and toys declined, and the costs of services from hotels to airfares to car rentals dropped.
The six rate hikes the Fed has already imposed this year have raised its key short-term rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%, its highest level in 15 years. Cumulatively, the hikes have led to much costlier borrowing rates for consumers as well as companies, ranging from mortgages to auto and business loans. Worries have grown that the Fed is raising rates so much in its drive to curb inflation that it will trigger a recession next year.
Yet with price increases still uncomfortably high — inflation was 7.1% in November compared with a year earlier — Powell and other Fed officials have underscored that they expect to keep rates at their peak for an extended period.
With inflation pressures now easing, though, most economists think the Fed will further slow its hikes and raise its key rate by just a quarter-point at its next meeting early next year.
“The data (Tuesday) kind of fits with our idea that the Fed will downshift further in February,” said Matthew Luzzetti, an economist at Deutsche Bank and a former research analyst at the Fed. “Downshifting helps to maximize their prospects of a soft landing,” in which the Fed’s rate hikes would slow growth and tame inflation but not tip the economy into a recession.
On Wednesday, members of the Fed’s rate-setting committee will also update their projections for interest rates and other economic barometers for 2023 and beyond. Most analysts have forecast that they will pencil in a peak range of at least 4.75% to 5%, or even 5% to 5.25%, up from their September forecast of 4.5% to 4.75%.
Despite Powell’s recent hard-line remarks — he said late last month that “we have not seen clear progress on slowing inflation” — he and other Fed officials have made clear that they’re ready to dial down the pace of rate hikes. In doing so, they will have time to assess the impact of the increases they’ve already imposed. Those hikes have sent home sales plummeting and are starting to reduce rents on new apartments, a leading source of high inflation.
Fed officials have also said they want rates to reach “restrictive” levels that slow growth and hiring and bring inflation down to the their annual target of 2%.
“What policy rate is sufficiently restrictive we will only learn over time by watching how the economy evolves,” said Lisa Cook, one of seven members of the Fed’s Board of Governors. “Given the tightening already in the pipeline, I am mindful that monetary policy works with long lags.”
Fed officials have stressed that more important than how fast they raise rates is how long they keep them at or near their peak. In September, the Fed forecast it would do so through 2023. Yet Wall Street investors are now betting that the Fed will reverse course and start cutting rates before the end of next year.
In remarks late last month, Powell said he was tracking price trends in three different categories to best understand the likely path of inflation: Goods, excluding volatile food and energy costs; housing, which includes rents and the cost of homeownership; and services excluding housing, such as auto insurance, pet services and education.
In his speech, Powell noted that there had been some progress in easing inflation in goods and housing but not so in most services. Some of those trends extended into last month’s data, with goods prices, excluding food and energy, falling 0.5% from October to November, the second straight monthly drop.
Housing costs, which make up nearly a third of the consumer price index, are still rising. But real-time measures of apartment rents and home prices are starting to drop after having posted sizzling price acceleration at the height of the pandemic. Powell said those declines will likely emerge in government data next year and should help reduce overall inflation.
As a result, Powell’s biggest focus has been on services, which he said are likely to stay persistently high. In part, that’s because sharp increases in wages are becoming a key contributor to inflation. Services companies, like hotels and restaurants, are particularly labor-intensive. And with average wages growing at a brisk 5%-6% a year, price pressures keep building in that sector of the economy.
How the Fed will slow a robust labor market to help bring down inflation could prove perilous. Powell and other Fed officials have said they hope their rate hikes will slow consumer spending and job growth. Businesses would then remove many of their job openings, easing the demand for labor. With less competition for workers, wages could begin to grow more slowly.
Powell has even named a wage target: He regards annual pay growth at a rate of about 3.5% as compatible with 2% inflation. Right now, average pay is growing about 5%-6% a year.
Three months ago, the Fed’s policymakers estimated that the unemployment rate would rise to 4.4% next year, from 3.7% now. On Wednesday, the policymakers may forecast a higher unemployment rate by the end of 2023. If so, that would suggest that they foresee more layoffs and likely a recession.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The mayor of Kyiv is reporting multiple explosions in the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday, the first such time in weeks during Russia’s ongoing war against the country.
Vitali Klitschko wrote in a post on Telegram that there were explosions in a central district of the capital that is home to many government agencies and buildings. He said municipal teams were in place and more details were expected.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A fan was ejected following a complaint by Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green during a game at Milwaukee on Tuesday night, and the Bucks said they are investigating the incident and consulting with the NBA.
Security personnel removed the man, who was sitting a few rows beyond the baseline, during a stop in play with 5:19 left in the third quarter.
The fan said “some threatening stuff to my life," Green said.
"I was this close to really going back and diving all the way in, but just went back and told the official. And when I told the official, he said, he’s got to get out of here.
“You just hope it gets to the point to where these leagues can work with legislators to implement laws, because that’s the only thing that’s going to ultimately correct the issue, is if you know something real is going to happen to you," Green said.
After Milwaukee's 128-111 win, the Bucks said in a statement: “Under the referee’s discretion, we are investigating the situation and we are conferring with the NBA.”
The 32-year-old Green scored two points and had six rebounds and seven assists in the loss. He is averaging nine points, six rebounds and seven assists for the reigning NBA champions.
Two weeks ago, Green was fined $25,000 by the NBA “for directing obscene language toward a fan." The situation occurred during the fourth quarter of Golden State's loss at Dallas on Nov. 29.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Keion Brooks scored a career-high 30 points and Washington needed a second-half run to beat Cal Poly 74-68 on Tuesday night.
Washington (8-3) continued its season-long trend of being a strong second-half performer and a slow starter in the first half. The Huskies entered shooting 38% in the first half and 50% in the second. Against the Mustangs they shot 25% in the first and 66.7% in the second.
PJ Fuller II's 3-pointer with 10:31 left started a 12-0 run and turned a 51-44 deficit into a 56-51 lead with 6:47 remaining and Washington stayed ahead the rest of the way. Up to that point the Huskies never led for more than 83 seconds, which occurred early.
Cal Poly's (5-4) Trevon Taylor made a jump shot and a 3-pointer to end a 12-0 run early and Cal Poly maintained control for the rest of the first half. Nick Fleming's 3-pointer gave Cal Poly a 25-10 lead and it went to the half up 35-24.
Cole Bajema scored 13 points for Washington and Braxton Meah 11.
Chance Hunter and Taylor scored 13 apiece for the Mustangs.
This is the first meeting between the Huskies and Mustangs since 2016 and third overall.
Washington won by double digits in each of the previous two meetings, both in Seattle. The Huskies now are 5-5 all time against Big West opponents.
Cal Poly’s last victory against a Pac-12 Conference opponent came on Nov. 25, 2012 as the Mustangs overturned an 18-point deficit with 12 minutes remaining to hand then-No. 11 UCLA a 70-68 defeat.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The mayor of Kyiv reported multiple explosions in the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday, the first such time in weeks during Russia’s ongoing war against the country.
Vitali Klitschko wrote in a post on Telegram that there were explosions in a central district of the capital that is home to many government agencies and buildings. He said municipal teams were in place and more details were expected.
The reported blasts come as Ukraine has faced a barrage of Russian air strikes across the country, largely targeting infrastructure, in recent weeks as well as continued fighting along the front lines in the eastern and southern regions.
It was not immediately clear what the targets were, or whether civilian, administrative or military sites were the aim.
U.S. officials said Tuesday the United States was poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders desperate for more robust weapons to shoot down incoming Russian missiles.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed Western leaders as recently as Monday to provide more advanced weapons to help his country in its war with Russia. The Patriot would be the most advanced surface-to-air missile system the West has provided to Ukraine to help repel Russian aerial attacks in the war between the countries that erupted with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
U.S. officials also said last week that Moscow has been looking to Iran to resupply the Russian military with drones and surface-to-surface missiles.
Ukrainian authorities said that during the latest round of volleys on Dec. 5, more than 60 of 70 strikes were intercepted by air defense systems. Klitschko said Ukrainian forces shot down 10 self-explosive drones over Kyiv and the region Wednesday.
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KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers leading the negotiations on a bill to fund the federal government for the current fiscal year announced Tuesday they’re reached agreement on a “framework” that should allow them to complete work on the bill over the next week and avoid a government shutdown.
Congress faces a midnight Friday deadline to pass a spending bill to prevent a partial government shutdown. The two chambers are expected to pass another short-term measure before then to keep the government running through Dec. 23, which will allow negotiators time to complete work on the full-year bill.
“Now, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees will work around the clock to negotiate the details of final 2023 spending bills that can be supported by the House and Senate and receive President Biden’s signature,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the Democratic chair of the House Appropriations Committee.
Earlier in the day, Senate leaders said lawmakers from the two parties were nearing an agreement, but Republicans warned Democrats that lawmakers would need to complete their work by Dec. 22 or they would only support a short-term extension into early next year. That would give House Republicans more leverage over what’s in the legislation, since they will be in the majority then.
“We intend to be on the road going home on the 23rd. We intend not to be back here between Christmas and New Year’s, and if we can’t meet that deadline, we would be happy to pass a short-term (resolution) into early next year,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader in the Senate.
McConnell voiced confidence Republicans would be able to meet their priorities of increasing spending on defense without “having to pay a bonus above what President Biden asked for” on non-defense priorities. He said Democrats were willing to accept that because they had previously passed two bills on a party-line basis that allow for more government spending on various domestic priorities.
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said last week that the two parties were about $25 billion apart in what is expected to be about a $1.65 trillion package, not including mandatory spending on programs such as Social Security and Medicare. However, Democrats in their statements did not indicate what topline spending number had been reached in the framework announced Tuesday.
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CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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733 FPUS56 KHNX 140701
ZFPHNX
Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for tonight, Wednesday, Wednesday night, and Thursday.
CAZ300-141200-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows in the mid 30s.
West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs 44 to
50. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 45 to 51. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 40s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 47 to 53. Lows in
the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 47 to 53.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs 47 to 53.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 47 to 55. Lows in
the lower 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 37 50 38 50 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ301-141200-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Patchy fog
after midnight. Areas of frost late in the night. Lows in the
lower 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the
morning. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds up
to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 33 50 34 50 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ302-141200-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy fog and frost in the late evening and early
morning. Areas of fog, frost and freezing fog late in the night.
Lows in the lower 30s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of fog and frost in the morning.
Highs in the lower 50s. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Patchy fog and frost. Lows in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs around 50. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 30 51 31 49 / 0 0 0 0
Merced 31 53 32 52 / 0 0 0 0
Chowchilla 31 51 31 50 / 0 0 0 0
Madera 31 51 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
Firebaugh 31 51 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
Mendota 31 52 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ303-141200-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost in the late evening and
early morning. Patchy fog in the late evening and overnight.
Areas of frost late in the night. Lows in the lower 30s.
Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of fog and frost in the morning.
Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to
the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 30 51 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
Le Grand 31 51 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ304-141200-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows around 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 34 52 35 53 / 0 0 0 0
Avenal 36 51 37 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ305-141200-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost late in the evening. Areas
of frost after midnight, then widespread frost and patchy fog
late in the night. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost and areas of fog in
the morning. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds up
to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 32 53 33 52 / 0 0 0 0
Five Points 31 52 32 52 / 0 0 0 0
NAS Lemoore 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Kettleman City 34 52 35 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ306-141200-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy frost late in the evening. Areas of frost and
patchy fog after midnight, then widespread frost, areas of fog
and freezing fog late in the night. Lows around 30. North winds
up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Widespread dense freezing fog with
possible fog and frost in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s.
East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost in the evening.
Patchy fog through the night. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
around 30. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows around 30.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 32 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Kingsburg 31 51 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Sanger 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Kerman 30 52 30 52 / 0 0 0 0
Caruthers 31 52 30 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ307-141200-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost in the late evening and
early morning. Patchy fog after midnight. Areas of frost late in
the night. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of dense fog and frost in the
morning. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 34 53 34 52 / 0 0 0 0
Fresno 34 53 34 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ308-141200-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in the late evening and
overnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
45 to 51. East winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 46 to 52. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 49 to 55. Lows in
the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 49 to 55. Lows in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 49 to 56. Lows
around 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 30 51 31 49 / 0 0 0 0
Merced 31 53 32 52 / 0 0 0 0
Chowchilla 31 51 31 50 / 0 0 0 0
Madera 31 51 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ309-141200-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost late in the evening. Areas
of frost after midnight. Patchy fog late in the night. Lows in
the lower 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost and patchy fog in the
morning. Highs in the lower 50s. West winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost in the evening.
Patchy fog through the night. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the lower 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 50s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 30 52 31 53 / 0 0 0 0
Buttonwillow 29 53 31 53 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ310-141200-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy frost in the late evening and early morning.
Patchy fog after midnight. Areas of frost late in the night. Lows
around 30. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southeast after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Patchy
fog and frost in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Patchy fog and frost. Lows around 30. North winds
up to 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 50s. Light winds becoming northwest up to
5 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Light
winds becoming northeast up to 5 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows around 30.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 30 52 29 52 / 0 0 0 0
Allensworth 31 52 30 52 / 0 0 0 0
Wasco 31 52 30 52 / 0 0 0 0
Delano 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
McFarland 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Shafter 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ311-141200-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy frost in the evening, then areas of fog, frost and
freezing fog after midnight. Lows around 30. Northeast winds up
to 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of fog, dense freezing fog and
patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s. East winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Patchy frost in the evening. Patchy fog through
the night. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows around 30.
Northwest winds up to 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. North
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows around 30.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 31 53 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Hanford 30 53 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Corcoran 31 53 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ312-141200-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost in the late evening and
early morning. Patchy fog after midnight. Areas of frost late in
the night. Lows in the lower 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of fog and frost in the morning.
Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to
the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Dinuba 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Visalia 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Exeter 31 53 33 54 / 0 0 0 0
Tulare 32 52 32 52 / 0 0 0 0
Lindsay 31 53 33 54 / 0 0 0 0
Porterville 34 53 35 54 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ313-141200-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost and patchy fog late in
the night. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the
morning. Highs around 50. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to
the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. East winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. South
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Highs
in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 36 50 39 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ314-141200-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Patchy fog
late in the night. Lows 31 to 37. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy fog and frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows 32 to 38. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 33 to 39. East winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows 32 to 38.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 34 to 40.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows 33 to 39.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows 35 to 41.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 36 53 36 53 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ315-141200-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Patchy fog
late in the night. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy fog and frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 50s. South winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest
in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds up
to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 32 52 33 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ316-141200-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Patchy fog
late in the night. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the morning.
Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows 33 to 39. South winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. East winds up to
5 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 34 to 40. Southeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
upper 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 40.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
50s. Lows 34 to 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 34 53 35 55 / 0 0 0 0
Lamont 34 53 34 54 / 0 0 0 0
Mettler 33 52 35 54 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ317-141200-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost late in the evening. Areas
of frost after midnight. Patchy fog late in the night. Lows in
the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of fog and frost in the morning. Highs
in the upper 40s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the
lower 50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 31 46 33 49 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ318-141200-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost through the night. Lows
24 to 32. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 42 to
48. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost and patchy fog
in the evening. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows 29 to 35.
Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 46 to 52. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 29 to 35. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 46 to 54. Lows
29 to 35.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 44 to 53.
Lows 29 to 37.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 44 to 53. Lows
32 to 38.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 21 51 26 55 / 0 0 0 0
Bass Lake 23 46 28 50 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ319-141200-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost late in the evening. Areas
of frost after midnight. Patchy fog late in the night. Lows in
the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the morning.
Highs around 50. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west
in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the mid
30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows around 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 35 50 36 52 / 0 0 0 0
Three Rivers 31 54 36 58 / 0 0 0 0
Springville 29 48 32 51 / 0 0 0 0
Tule River Reservation 36 52 40 55 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ320-141200-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in the evening. Areas
of frost after midnight, then widespread frost late in the night.
Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 42 to
50. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the
evening. Lows 30 to 40. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 45 to 53. Northeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 30 to 40. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 45 to 55.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 40.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 44 to 54.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 30 to 40.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 43 to 53. Lows
30 to 40.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 44 to 54. Lows
33 to 43.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 34 46 37 49 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ321-141200-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog late in the night. Lows in
the mid 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the morning.
Highs around 50. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
$$
CAZ322-141200-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 42 to
48. Northeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Near steady
temperature in the upper 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 45 to 51. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 46 to
52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 38.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 45 to 53.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 32 to 38.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 43 to 51. Lows
32 to 38.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 45 to 51. Lows
34 to 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 23 45 29 48 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ323-141200-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost early in the evening.
Near steady temperature around 16. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Widespread frost in the
afternoon. Highs 31 to 41. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the
evening. Lows 13 to 27. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 28 to 42. North winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 24. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 28 to 42. Lows
10 to 24.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 25 to 40.
Lows 10 to 25.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 26 to 41. Lows
14 to 28.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 1 42 8 39 / 0 0 0 0
Wawona 21 47 27 50 / 0 0 0 0
Hetch Hetchy 26 50 32 53 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ324-141200-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost early in the evening.
Lows 22 to 28. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 41 to 49. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 28 to 34. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 43 to 51. Northeast winds up to
5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 25 to 33. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 43 to 51. Lows
25 to 33.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 40 to 50.
Lows 25 to 34.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 41 to 50. Lows
28 to 36.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 22 50 28 53 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ325-141200-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost until early morning.
Lows 22 to 30. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 42 to 48. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost in the evening.
Lows 30 to 36. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 45 to 51. Northeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 34. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 44 to 52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 27 to 35.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 41 to 51.
Lows 26 to 35.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 42 to 51. Lows
30 to 38.
$$
CAZ326-141200-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost early in the evening.
Near steady temperature around 15. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 29 to 41. North winds up
to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 26. North winds up
to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 27 to 41. North winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 22. North
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 26 to 40.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 22.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 24 to 39.
Lows 10 to 23.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 25 to 39. Lows
14 to 26.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 13 38 20 35 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ327-141200-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost until early morning.
Lows 9 to 19. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the afternoon. Highs
33 to 39. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in the evening.
Lows 16 to 26. North winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 31 to 41. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 13 to 23. North winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 30 to 40.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 12 to 24.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 29 to 40.
Lows 13 to 24.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 30 to 40. Lows
17 to 27.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 16 35 23 36 / 0 0 0 0
Shaver Lake 19 40 25 42 / 0 0 0 0
Lake Wishon 18 41 25 43 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ328-141200-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature around 11.
Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 25 to 37. North winds up
to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 11 to 23. North winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 22 to 36. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 6 to 18. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 19 to 35.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature around 15.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 19 to 34.
Lows 6 to 23.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 21 to 35.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 21 51 29 53 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ329-141200-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost until early morning.
Near steady temperature in the lower 20s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Widespread frost in the
afternoon. Highs 35 to 45. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the
evening. Near steady temperature around 30. Northeast winds up to
5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 36 to 48. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 20 to 34. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 34 to 48.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 20 to 34.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 33 to 47. Lows
19 to 33.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 23 to 37. Highs
35 to 47.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 21 39 27 41 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ330-141200-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in the evening. Near
steady temperature around 15. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Widespread frost in the
afternoon. Highs 26 to 40. Northwest winds up to 10 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 12 to 30. North winds up
to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 24 to 42. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature
in the lower 20s. North winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 22 to 40.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly clear. Near steady temperature
around 20.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 21 to 41.
Lows 7 to 30.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 23 to 41.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 14 40 22 42 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ331-141200-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost until early morning.
Near steady temperature in the lower 20s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 34 to 42. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 20s. North winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 33 to 45. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 17 to 31. North winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 32 to
44.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 16 to 30.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 31 to 44.
Lows 16 to 34.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 33 to 45.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 14 48 20 51 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ332-141200-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost early in the evening.
Widespread frost in the late evening and overnight. Lows 27 to
33. West winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 48 to
54. Northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 50 to 56. East winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 50 to
56.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 35.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 49 to 56. Lows
30 to 36.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 25 40 30 41 / 0 0 0 0
Kernville 27 53 31 57 / 0 0 0 0
Lake Isabella 29 54 33 57 / 0 0 0 0
Weldon 30 53 34 55 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ333-141200-
Piute Walker Basin-
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Near steady
temperature around 30. West winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning.
Highs 40 to 48. East winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest
in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the
evening. Lows 27 to 37. North winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 40 to 50. East winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 26 to 36. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 40 to
50.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 25 to 37.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 40 to 51. Lows
26 to 38.
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CAZ334-141200-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 42 to
48. East winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 30s. East winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 42 to 50. East winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 42 to
52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 37.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 42 to 52. Lows
29 to 39.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 29 45 33 46 / 0 0 0 0
Tehachapi 23 47 26 49 / 0 0 0 0
Twin Oaks 31 50 34 51 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ335-141200-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost through the night. Near
steady temperature in the lower 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 43 to
49. East winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 30s. South winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 44 to 50. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 45 to
53.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 44 to 53. Lows
in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 32 49 36 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ336-141200-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost until early morning.
Areas of frost late in the night. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 42 to 48. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 30s. South winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 42 to 50. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 44 to
52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 40.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 42 to 53. Lows
29 to 41.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 28 45 32 46 / 0 0 0 0
Frazier Park 21 48 25 48 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ337-141200-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. West
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 30.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the lower 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 31 53 34 54 / 0 0 0 0
Ridgecrest 27 53 31 55 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ338-141200-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost early in the evening.
Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 43 to 51. Northeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 45 to 53. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 44 to
52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 43 to 54. Lows
in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 29 51 32 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ339-141200-
Mojave Desert-
Including the cities of Rosamond, California City, Randsburg,
and Edwards AFB
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows
23 to 31. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 50s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 34. North winds up
to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 28 to 34. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 24 to 32.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows 26 to 35.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 36 49 38 50 / 0 0 0 0
California City 26 52 29 54 / 0 0 0 0
Edwards AFB 24 52 26 54 / 0 0 0 0
Rosamond 24 53 28 54 / 0 0 0 0
$$
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CT Current Conditions as of 02:00 AM EST Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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City/Town;Weather Condition;Temp (F);Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%)
Bridgeport;Clear;29;NW;4;71%
Chester;Cloudy;30;Calm;0;64%
Danbury;Clear;29;NNW;3;63%
Groton;Partly cloudy;30;NW;7;68%
Hartford;Cloudy;30;NW;4;74%
Meriden;Cloudy;32;NW;5;71%
New Haven;Mostly clear;31;NW;6;71%
Oxford;Mostly cloudy;26;W;8;74%
Willimantic;Cloudy;29;WNW;12;68%
Windsor Locks;Cloudy;30;NW;3;71%
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A fan was ejected following a complaint by Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green during a game at Milwaukee on Tuesday night. The Bucks said they are investigating the incident and consulting with the NBA. Security personnel removed the man, who was sitting a few rows beyond the baseline, during a stop in play in the third quarter. Green said he pointed out the fan’s behavior to a game official, and the situation was taken care of from there. Green said the fan said “some threatening stuff to my life.” The Warriors lost the game 128-111.
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By JAMIE STENGLE and STEPHEN GROVES
Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) — A destructive winter storm is marching across the United States. It delivered blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains on Wednesday, just hours after tornadoes touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. The National Weather Service said five tornadoes were confirmed across north Texas as of Tuesday afternoon, but potentially a dozen may have occurred. Forecasters expect the storm system to hobble the upper Midwest with ice, rain and snow for days, as well as move into the Northeast and central Appalachians. Minnesota was expecting a lull Wednesday, followed by a second round of snow.
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India and Bangladesh are locking horns in the first Test of the two-match series. In Rohit Sharma's absence, KL Rahul is leading the team in the first test. After winning the toss and opting to bat first, India did not have a great start to the inning.
Three quick wickets in the opening session rocked the Men in Blue, with opener Shubman Gill returning to the pavillion after scoring 20 runs off of 40 deliveries. Following KL Rahul's departure with just 22 runs to his name Virat Kohli was also dismissed quickly. Out of all these dismissals, Kohli's failure to perform well and his dismissal with a score of just one was the most heartbreaking for Indian supporters.
Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam trapped Kohli in front of the stumps in the 20th over of the Indian innings. Kohli tried to get the on-field decision overturned by using the Decision Review System (DRS), but it was unsuccessful.
Back to back wicket for bangladesh..
Virat Kohli was only 99 runs away from the century #ViratKohli #ViratKohli #indvsbang #INDvBAN #klrahul #TestCricket pic.twitter.com/smsRJhC4xL — Nikesh Gohite(@nikesh_gohite) December 14, 2022
After the former captain was dismissed only making one run, Twitter users expressed a variety of emotions. While some made fun of Kohli for failing to achieve another century, others chose to highlight his strategy.
Check out the reactions here:
One unplayable delivery and you are out.. Learn from Pant.. don’t let wicket taking bowler settle down..play with his mind don’t let him play with you. Keep shuffling in crease. @imVkohli #INDvsBangladesh #TestCricket
— dpk (@dpk3232) December 14, 2022
Virat Kohli should stop getting stunned and surprised whenever he gets dismissed. Just turn around and walk back. You're not someone who cannot get out. #ViratKohli #BANvIND — Anirudh (@Anirudh_1901) December 14, 2022
Old story started again — SARAVANAAGNI (@saravanaagni) December 14, 2022
What a difficult ball to play pic.twitter.com/asg2xSk2gU
— Shams ul Arfeen (@skshams23) December 14, 2022
He is doing dhonism post 2015..
Playing 1 good knock in 5-6 matches — Kartik (@kchandwaskar) December 14, 2022 | https://www.dnaindia.com/cricket/report-old-story-started-again-fans-react-after-virat-kohli-fails-to-perform-against-bangladesh-in-1st-test-3010614 | 2022-12-14T07:33:19 | en | 0.947776 |
WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
1252 AM CST Wed Dec 14 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST EARLY THIS
MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN JASPER, NORTHWESTERN NEWTON AND TYLER
COUNTIES...
At 1252 AM CST, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 5 inches of rain
have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 0.5 to 2 inches in 1
hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are possible in
the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor
drainage and low-lying areas.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Jasper, Woodville, Colmesneil, Town Bluff, Ebenezer, Warren,
Browndell, Spurger, Harrisburg, Jamestown, Farrsville, Mayflower,
Ivanhoe, Sam Rayburn Dam, Hillister and Wiergate.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
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Air travel is one of the most used ways of transport in India and Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport is considered to be a marvel for its construction and a varied number of facilities. Despite this, the Delhi Airport encountered an unexpected roadblock in December.
Many travelers, both international and domestic, talked about their frustrating travel experiences through the Delhi Airport, recounting tales of chaos and a misdemeanor by the staff members at the AGA airport, mostly in Terminal 3 (T3).
While the Centre and airport authorities have sprung into action to tackle the hours-long delay in boarding flights and luggage burdens, here is all you need to know about why Delhi Airport is not able to cope with the travel rush during the holiday season.
Why is Delhi Airport chaotically crowded and unorganized?
Photos and videos posted by air travelers shone a light on the chaotic conditions of the Delhi IGI airport which showed extremely long lines, long-drawn waiting hours, luggage lying around unattended, and seemingly no staff and airport security to aid entry inside the airport.
Though no official response has been issued by the Delhi airport authorities yet, airline companies such as Air India, Vistara, Spice Jet, and others have asked their customers to report for their flights 3 to 4 hours prior to the boarding time. This has sparked a lot of backlash on social media.
The main reason behind the rush in Delhi IGI airport, among other airports across the country, is the unanticipated holiday rush which comes after the Covid-19 restrictions have been fully lifted from domestic and international travel.
This is the first time in two years that travel restrictions for air travelers have been lifted. Not just this, but the holiday season in India and across other countries comes combined with the wedding rush in India has led to an increased crowd in Delhi Airport, leading to chaos.
Apart from the rush, wages, workplace issues, and layoffs in certain areas have also led to the shortage of airport staff in several metropolitan cities, including Delhi. Thus, many have been complaining about the lack of staff at entry gates and security checks.
The outrage on social media has prompted a response from Union Civil Aviation Minster Jyotiraditya Scindia, who made a surprise visit to the Delhi Airport, to take a gander at the situation. He also reassured all travelers to stay patient, saying that Centre is solving the problem by deploying more staff, digitizing the check-in process, and urging the use of the Digiyatra platform. | https://www.dnaindia.com/explainer/report-why-is-delhi-igi-airport-struggling-to-cope-with-holiday-rush-how-centre-is-tackling-boarding-delay-3010612 | 2022-12-14T07:33:25 | en | 0.965282 |
As parents, it is our responsibility to provide for our children and ensure that they have a bright future. In India, there are several government schemes that can help parents invest in the future of their daughters, from their education to their marriage. In this article, we will take a look at some of these schemes and how they can benefit parents and daughters.
Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana:
This scheme, launched by the Government of India, allows parents to open a savings account for their daughters and earn interest on the deposited funds. The interest rate is currently at 7.6% per annum, and the funds can be used for the education and marriage expenses of the daughter.
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme:
This scheme, launched by the Government of India, aims to educate and empower girls by providing financial assistance for their education. The funds can be used for school fees, books, uniforms, and other expenses related to education.
Ladli Laxmi Yojana:
This scheme, launched by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, provides financial assistance to parents for the education and marriage of their daughters. The funds are deposited in a savings account, and the interest earned can be used for the aforementioned expenses.
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Kanyashree Scheme:
This scheme, launched by the Government of West Bengal, provides financial assistance to girls for their education and empowerment. The funds are deposited in a savings account, and the interest earned can be used for the aforementioned expenses.
Aapki Beta Hamari Beti Yojana:
Haryana Government's 'Aapki Beta Hamari Beti Yojana' offers financial support to girls from scheduled castes, tribes, and backward classes. Under the scheme, the state government provides a one-time payment of Rs 21,000 on the birth of a child
In conclusion, there are several government schemes in India that can help parents invest in the future of their daughters. These schemes provide financial assistance for the education and marriage expenses of daughters, and they can help alleviate the financial burden on parents. By investing in these schemes, parents can ensure that their daughters have a secure and bright future | https://www.dnaindia.com/personal-finance/report-government-schemes-for-daughters-invest-in-these-options-to-secure-your-daughter-s-future-3010616 | 2022-12-14T07:33:37 | en | 0.957154 |
WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, December 16, 2022
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AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
1019 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST
FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Poor air quality expected.
* WHERE...Yakima Valley.
* WHEN...Until 3 PM PST Friday.
* IMPACTS...Poor air quality may cause issues for people with
respiratory problems.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Light surface and transport winds are
forecast through at least Friday with more uncertainty in
stagnant conditions heading into the weekend.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People with respiratory illness should follow their physician's
advice for dealing with high levels of air pollution during
periods of stagnant air.
State air quality agencies highly recommend that no outdoor
burning occur and that residential wood burning devices be
limited as much as possible. According to state air quality
agencies, prolonged periods of stagnant air can hold pollutants
close to the ground where people live and breathe. Check with
your local burn agency for any current restrictions in your area.
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Portugal were eliminated from the FIFA World Cup 2022 in the quarter final stage by giant killers Morocco, in one of the biggest upsets of the tournament. This meant that the 37-year-old superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has most certainly passed up the opportunity to add a World Cup trophy to his illustrious vault.
Moreover, rumours circulated that Ronaldo, who is nearing the end of his career, will retire from international football following this catastrophe and may never wear the Portugal jersey again.
However, it looks to be a lie, as according to a report in the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha, the superstar striker plans to play until the UEFA EURO 2024, which will be held in Germany. Cristiano Ronaldo will be 40 years old when the event begins.
Ronaldo lead Portugal to a stunning victory in Europe's premier international competition in 2016.
He failed to live up to expectations during the FIFA World Cup 2022. He only scored one goal in five games, and it was from the penalty spot. T he legendary striker was benched in both the Round of 16 match against Switzerland and the quarter-final match against Morocco. He entered the game against Morocco in the 50th minute but had little to no influence.
In one of the most heartbreaking spectacles in football history, Cristiano was seen crying on the field after Portugal's humiliating exit from the competition,
Ronaldo, who is now a free agent, was rumoured to be joining Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr for two-and-a-half year deal of 200 million euros per season. Al-Nassr head coach Rudi Garcia recently provided an update on the rumours. In an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, he said, "If you want to know anything about Cristiano Ronaldo, just ask. I'm not talking about this story, you know. Let us now wait. Our championship is set to resume." | https://www.dnaindia.com/sports/report-ronaldo-to-retire-portugal-star-makes-decision-on-future-after-fifa-world-cup-2022-exit-3010617 | 2022-12-14T07:33:43 | en | 0.971621 |
Realme recently launched the new Realme 10 Pro+ 5G and Realme 10 Pro under the Realme 10 Pro series in India. The Realme 10 Pro will go on sale in India on December 16 but the Realme 10 Pro+ 5G is now available for purchase in India via Flipkart. The device gets similar specifications as its Chinese counterpart. Here’s everything you need to know about the Realme 10 Pro+ 5G.
Realme 10 Pro+ 5G: Price and offers
Realme 10 Pro+ 5G comes in three RAM and storage configurations - 6GB + 128GB, 8GB + 128GB and 8GB + 256GB priced at Rs 24,999, Rs 25,999 and Rs 27,999 respectively. The device can be purchased via Realme online store, Flipkart and other offline stores. It will be available in Hyperspace Gold, Dark Matter and Nebula Blue colour options.
On Flipkart, buyers can get a Rs 1000 instant discount on SBI Credit and Debit Card transactions. You can also get Rs 1000 off on HDFC Bank Credit and Debit Card transactions.
Realme 10 Pro+ 5G specifications
Realme 10 Pro Plus comes with a 6.7-inch OLED display with a resolution of 2412 x 1080 pixels. The FHD+ display gets a 120Hz refresh rate, 360Hz touch sampling rate, and 800 nits of peak brightness. Under the hood, the new Realme phone is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1080 chipset paired with up to 8GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 256GB of UFS 2.2 storage.
Also read: Nothing Phone (1) available at just Rs 4,750 on Flipkart after Rs 22,749 discount, check details
When it comes to camera, the Realme 10 Pro Plus gets a triple camera system on the rear that consists of a 108MP primary sensor, 8MP ultra-wide sensor, and a 2MP macro sensor. For video calls and selfies, it has a 16MP shooter at the front. | https://www.dnaindia.com/technology/report-realme-10-pro-5g-goes-on-first-sale-in-india-via-flipkart-price-offers-and-more-3010610 | 2022-12-14T07:33:49 | en | 0.836318 |
New Delhi: Taking time to appreciate your parents creates memorable moments. Our parents support us through all of our highs and lows, from childhood to the day we have our own child. Growing up is a bittersweet joy with a rewarding bonus. We can give back and cherish our parents after years of relying on them. You're probably wondering why we're suddenly talking about this. So, a clip of a son surprising his dad with his dream bike has gone viral online. His subtle, but heartwarming reaction captured the attention of the internet. The clip was shared on Instagram by user named Ujwal Sidnag and accumulated a whopping 3 million views till now.
In the viral video, the son could be seen surprising his dad with something special on the occasion of his birthday. While he appeared perplexed at first, the father was rendered speechless when he realised that his son had gotten him the motorcycle he had wished for for the longest time. He hugged his son tightly, his eyes twinkling with pride and joy. The way he looked at the bike, one could realise what it looks like when 'dreams turn into reality'.
“There is no words to express you, you are my superman, super god everything. My dad always used to love my grandpa's bike which was returned back to the department as my grandpa was Sub-inspector. Until last year I had no idea how much he loved this bike when we randomly just visited the showroom to just check with the price but my dad was like, ‘We can't afford this right now, it's too expensive .’ But that day I really saw the love for it as he was curiously asking all the questions to the representative their ! He loved it so much because it was the exact same bike which his dad used to ride the older version of this back in his days! So thought there could not be any much of a gift than this, which makes him happy! I'm thankful to God for giving me strength to fulfill his dreams, whatever I'm today it's because of your support. I still remember when I quit my job & came told you I wanna pursue my passion & start a business & you said, ‘OK, do what makes you happy, I will always have your back!' What more could I ask than this, this is one of the best days of my life,” Ujwal captioned heartwarming clip.
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The clip was shared a few days ago. Since being shared, the clip has accumulated close to 438,000 likes and counting. . Netizens couldn't help but gush over the father-son's bond in the comments section.
“May god bless you with lot of success and your parents with a long life I wish my father was alive so I could gift him things but fate had different plans. This video made me so happy!..,” wrote an Instagram user. “That smile is worth going through all the struggles,” expressed another. “Parents always provide their children with the best.....they know their child's needs.... This goes for us as well...we as their children need to do for them as well....taking care of their dreams and needs.” posted a third. | https://www.dnaindia.com/viral/report-son-surprises-father-with-dream-bike-on-his-birthday-viral-video-shows-his-priceless-reaction-3010615 | 2022-12-14T07:33:55 | en | 0.987751 |
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For American Jews, the threat of antisemitism has become increasingly worrisome over the last few years.
Though they make up less than 3% of the U.S. population, Jews are disproportionately targeted in hate crimes in America. Last year, 1 in 4 American Jews said they had experienced antisemitism in some form, according to a survey by the American Jewish Committee. Meanwhile, one-third of Jewish students experienced antisemitism on college campuses in 2021, according to a study by the Anti-Defamation League.
Thirty-nine percent of American Jews have changed their behavior out of fear of antisemitism, according to a 2021 report by the American Jewish Committee. This includes not publicly identifying as a Jew, avoiding carrying or wearing markers that would identify them as Jewish, avoiding places or events for safety reasons and avoiding posting online content that identifies them as Jewish.
So much of this fear can be attributed to the normalization of anti-Jewish rhetoric and conspiratorial discourse in public life: Republican candidates, NBA stars including Kyrie Irving and rappers such as Ye have all floated conspiracy theories about Jews with relative impunity.
In the case of Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), he has praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. While appearing earlier this month on right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars show, the rapper and designer said he “loves” Nazis and that the “the Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world.”
Discourse like this doesn’t just end in antisemitic memes being spread on Twitter. (Though it encourages that, too; antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism have soared more than 61% in the two weeks since Elon Musk acquired the site.)
It’s much more dangerous than memes, said Beth Kean, the CEO of the Holocaust Museum LA.
“These celebrities are furthering Holocaust denial and emboldening right-wing extremist groups who now feel empowered to express their hate in broad daylight,” Kean said. “We see this in everything from antisemitic flyers littering lawns and cars in neighborhoods nationwide to large public displays with swastikas on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles, a cemetery in Chicago and a stadium in Jacksonville.”
This rise in antisemitic rhetoric comes just four years after a Pittsburgh synagogue attack that left 11 Jewish people dead ― the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.
Those who espouse such views seem to disregard the potentially violent effect their words may have on others, Kean said. The Holocaust started with just words, she noted.
“We know what can happen when hatred and bigotry go unchecked,” she said. “My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor. She watched her parents and siblings walk into the gas chambers.”
Jeremy Burton, the CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, told HuffPost that all Americans need to recognize that antisemitism is not just a Jewish problem to fight; it’s everyone’s problem.
“We’re going to keep living our lives and building vibrant Jewish communities, but antisemitism is a virus that infects our society,” Burton said. “An America where Jews can no longer live freely without fear is not the America that any decent person should want to be part of.”
“Make antisemitism your problem to fight,” he added. “Don’t look away.”
What does taking a stand look like? Below, experts share six ways to help combat antisemitism and be a better ally to the Jewish community.
Don’t normalize antisemitism.
For Burton, the most deeply trouble part of this moment is how antisemitism is being normalized by so-called legitimate actors. Anti-Jewish statements that a few years ago would have been unutterable are all over our social media and television screens.
“There have been neo-Nazis out there for decades, but now they are having dinner with a former president,” he told HuffPost, referring to Donald Trump’s dinner at Mar-a-Lago last month with Ye and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. “And it isn’t just that a celebrity tweets a swastika but that tens of thousands of other people then ‘like’ and retweet that post within hours.”
Conscientious people have taken notice to some extent, Burton said, but more can be done.
“I don’t think people have fully wrapped their minds around how much is changing, how fast and how dangerous it is,” he said. “If they did, I’d like to believe that there’d be more wall-to-wall outrage than we’re seeing right now.”
Report antisemitism and call out discrimination.
If you experience or witness an act of antisemitism, extremism, bigotry or hate, report it to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). If it’s an emergency, first call 911.
“Public reports enable ADL to gather information needed to educate lawmakers and law enforcement and to advocate for individuals and groups that are targeted because of their religion, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, origin or level of ability,” Kean explained.
Report antisemitic posts on social media, too, she said, and put pressure on business leaders who are profiting off of hate and antisemitic materials (for instance, books that promote Holocaust denial on Amazon) and promoting hate speech.
If you hear someone say something antisemitic even in passing, be courageous and say something back. If it comes from someone you know, engage them and figure out if it is coming from ignorance or genuine hate, said Carly F. Gammill, the director of the StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism.
“Try educating them calmly about why their words or actions are offensive,” she said.
Don’t just think, “I already knows what antisemitism is.” Dig deeper to understand the roots of antisemitism and the Holocaust.
Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein, a rabbinic scholar and public affairs adviser at the Jewish Federation of North America, thinks that many Americans are misinformed about Jewish history and misunderstand who the Jewish people are.
“They don’t always listen to how we define ourselves,” he said. “We are a multiracial, multiethnic and multicultural people whose families come from more than 70 countries around the world. We need to be students of each other’s past so we can drive towards a better future that works for all peoples.”
Rothstein recommends reading books like Paul Johnson’s “History of the Jews” and Deborah Lipstadt’s “Antisemitism Here and Now.”
To further your understanding, visit a museum or education center near you to learn about how what started with “just words” led to the systematic mass murder of 6 million Jews and millions of others, including LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities.
“Each day at our Holocaust museum, we teach the critical lessons and social relevancy of the Holocaust and other genocides to empower students and the public to stand up against hatred, bigotry and antisemitism,” said Kean, the CEO of the Los Angeles Holocaust museum.
Many of these institutions also offer opportunities to meet and talk with a Holocaust survivor to learn from a firsthand witness.
Not sure where to go? Check out the Association of Holocaust Organizations, an international network of more than 370 organizations and individuals working for the advancement of Holocaust education, remembrance and research.
Don’t let antisemitism become a partisan issue. (And don’t assume antisemitism is only perpetrated by white supremacists).
Don’t allow antisemitism to be turned into yet another partisan issue, Burton said.
“The fight against antisemitism should not be weaponized for partisan advantage,” he said. “Don’t be a conservative who only calls out antisemitism on the left, or a progressive who only calls it out on the right.”
Take the time to learn and understand how antisemitism may show up in your own circles, and call it out there. “It may be a little more uncomfortable to do so, but that’s where you can make the greatest difference,” he said.
Antisemitism can be perpetuated by anyone, not just white supremacists.
“There is a misconception that antisemitism only comes from neo-Nazis and white supremacists,” Rothstein said. “While these ideologies are, of course, steeped in antisemitism, the last 60 years have seen a dramatic increase of antisemitism across the political spectrum, from the far right to the far left.”
By typecasting all antisemites as white supremacists, antisemitism ― which is present in nearly all spaces, communities and movements ― can too easily be dismissed.
“This limits our ability to identify, mitigate and course correct,” the rabbi said.
Encourage your workplace to include antisemitism education in its DEI program.
Because many people don’t understand or recognize anti-Jewish biases, Jewish people in the workplace often experience microaggressions, invalidations, assaults and outright discrimination, Rothstein said.
“For instance, many don’t realize that religion is only one organizing aspect of the Jewish people,” he said. “Jews encompass all races and ethnicities, and many hold transgenerational trauma from decades of systemic genocide, persecution and discrimination.”
Because there’s so much nuance and outside confusion about the Jewish community, consider pushing to include more on the Jewish American experience in your company’s training on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
“Training and initiatives to increase awareness of antisemitism as a DEI issue would significantly reduce antisemitism, especially if the lessons were centered as a critical inclusion and belonging issue,” the rabbi said.
Teach your kids about antisemitism, too.
A national survey conducted by the ADL in 2020 showed that students who get Holocaust education in high school are more empathetic, tolerant and open-minded.
“Educators need to teach and facilitate age-appropriate discussions in their classrooms on how to address racism, bigotry and hatred, and legislators must prioritize anti-hate programs in schools,” Kean said.
In California, for instance, Gov. Gavin Newsom launched the Governor’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education to promote Holocaust and genocide education with the mission to provide students with the tools necessary to recognize and respond to bigotry and discrimination.
If you are a parent or grandparent, there’s room to educate, too. Maybe you talk to your kids about Ye’s recent comments and use it as an opening to discuss antisemitism and other forms of bias.
If you plan to visit a Holocaust museum or Jewish education center, bring the kids along.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The famous Hollywood-roaming mountain lion known as P-22 is drastically underweight and was probably struck and injured by a car, wildlife experts who conducted a health examination on the big cat said Tuesday.
The male cougar, whose killing of a leashed dog has raised concerns about its behavior, probably won’t be released back into the wild and could be sent to an animal sanctuary or euthanized, depending on its health, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said.
“Nobody is taking that kind of decision lightly,” spokesperson Jordan Traverso said during a videoconference. He added the agency understands “the importance of this animal to the community and to California,” and “we recognize the sadness of it.”
P-22 was captured and tranquilized on Monday in the trendy Los Feliz neighborhood near his usual haunt of Griffith Park, an island of wilderness and picnic areas in the midst of the Los Angeles urban sprawl.
State and federal wildlife officials announced last week that they were concerned the aging cat “may be exhibiting signs of distress” due in part to aging, noting the animal needed to be studied to determine what steps to take.
Tuesday’s examination found the cat had an eye injury, probably received from being hit by a car and more tests would be conducted to determine if the animal suffered additional head trauma, said Deana Clifford, the senior wildlife veterinarian with the department.
A computerized tomography scan is scheduled for later this week to look into other possible chronic health issues that may have caused his decline, Clifford said.
P-22 was first captured in 2012 and fitted with a GPS tracking collar as part of a National Park Service study. The cougar is regularly recorded on security cameras strolling through residential areas near Griffith Park.
P-22 is believed to be about 12 years old, making him the oldest Southern California cougar currently being studied. Most mountain lions live about a decade.
“This is an old cat, and old cats get old-cat diseases,” Clifford said. “Any of us who had cats at home have seen this.”
“We’re working through all of those issues and we’ll take a totality of the findings into account to try to make the best decision we can for the cat,” she said.
P-22 usually hunts deer and coyotes, but in November the National Park Service confirmed that the cougar had attacked and killed a Chihuahua mix that was being walked in the narrow streets of the Hollywood Hills.
The cougar also is suspected of attacking another Chihuahua in the Silver Lake neighborhood this month.
P-22 has lived much of his life in Griffith Park, crossing two major freeways to get there. He was the face of the campaign to build a wildlife crossing over a Los Angeles-area freeway to give big cats, coyotes, deer and other wildlife a safe path to the nearby Santa Monica Mountains, where they have room to roam.
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Fox Business host Stuart Varney told former transportation secretary Elaine Chao “we were all appalled” by former President Donald Trump’s racist comment about her in September.
“Former President Trump attacked you on the grounds of your ethnicity,” Varney said to Chao at the start of a segment Monday about inflation. “I wonder if you’d like to take this moment to respond.”
“The president says many things. I don’t make a point of responding to his comments,” replied Chao, who is married to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and resigned her Trump administration post in January 2021 after the riot at the U.S. Capitol led by Trump supporters.
“OK. I’ll leave it right there. We were all appalled at what he said,” Varney responded.
In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sept. 30, Trump referred to Chao, who was born in Taiwan, as McConnell’s “China loving wife, Coco Chow!”
During an interview with Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto earlier this month, Chao called Trump’s comment racist and said people shouldn’t mention or repeat what he says.
Varney, once a staunch Trump supporter, has become increasingly critical of the former president in the wake of Republican losses in the midterm elections, commentating earlier this month that Trump “appears to be losing what used to be his iron grip on the GOP” after candidates he endorsed in many key midterm races lost.
He also suggested Trump’s announcement that he’d run for president again in 2024 was lackluster and accused him of “dragging the Republican Party into the mud” with his attacks on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his potential rival for the Republican nomination.
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Jimmy Kimmel didn’t think the details surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol could get any more out of control, but he was wrong.
“We’re still learning more about what went on in the days leading up to the attack on our Capitol on Jan. 6, and it’s even crazier than the crazy we previously thought was so crazy,” the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host said Tuesday. “Turns out the calls were coming from inside the House... and the Senate.”
According to a new report in Talking Points Memo, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows exchanged text messages with a group of at least 34 Republican members of Congress as they plotted to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss before and after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
A number of texts were published in the report, including one from Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) on Jan. 17, 2021, days before Joe Biden took office, calling on Trump to impose “Marshall Law.”
“Thank God this coup wasn’t planned by people who could solve the Wordle ― we’d all be in a lot of trouble right now,” Kimmel quipped.
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Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, are distancing themselves from Donald Trump because he is “losing value” and it’s not “worth it for them anymore,” according to the former president’s niece Mary Trump.
“Donald is definitely losing value in terms of the party and in terms of politics generally, and Ivanka and Jared are legitimately wealthy people apart from whatever Donald’s doing, so they don’t need him to the same degree they might have,” Mary Trump said Sunday on MSNBC.
“And they probably understand on some level that staying so closely allied with him for so long probably damaged them, at least socially.”
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and author of two books about the former president, noted that Donald Trump’s inner circle is highly transactional.
“A lot of people again are making the calculation that it just isn’t worth it for them anymore,” she said.
Ivanka Trump, who was a senior adviser in her father’s White House, was absent from his 2024 campaign announcement last month, though her husband attended.
Shortly after the announcement, Ivanka Trump issued a statement saying she had decided to focus on her family and would not be involved in politics this time around.
“While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena,” she said.
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Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, began his 18 months of mandatory military service at a front-line South Korean boot camp Tuesday as fans gathered near the base to say goodbye to their star.
Six other younger BTS members are to join the military in coming years one after another, meaning that the world's biggest boy band must take a hiatus, likely for a few years. Their enlistments have prompted a fierce domestic debate over whether it's time to revise the country's conscription system to expand exemptions to include prominent entertainers like BTS, or not to provide such benefits to anyone.
With lawmakers squabbling at Parliament and surveys showing sharply split public opinions over offering exemptions to BTS members, their management agency said in October that all members would perform their compulsory military duties. Big Hit Music said that both the company and the members of BTS "are looking forward to reconvening as a group again around 2025 following their service commitment."
Jin, who turned 30 earlier this month, entered the boot camp at Yeoncheon, a town near the tense border with North Korea, for five weeks of basic military training together with other new conscript soldiers, the Defense Ministry said. After the training involving rifle shooting, grenade throwing and marching practices, he and other conscripts would be assigned to army units across the country.
About 20-30 fans — some holding Jin's photos — and dozens of journalists gathered near the camp. But a vehicle carrying Jin moved into the camp without him getting out. The BTS official Twitter account later posted photos showing Jin with other members, likely at the camp, with a message saying: "Our bro!! Have a safe service!! Love you."
One image showed smiling members touching Jin's shaved head.
"I want to wait (for) Jin and see him go into the military and wish him all the best," Mandy Lee from Hong Kong said before Jin's entrance to the camp.
"Actually it's complicated. I wanna be sad. I wanna be happy for him," said Angelina from Indonesia. "Mixed feelings. He has to serve (for) his country." Angelina, like many Indonesians, uses only one name.
A couple dozen fans could be seen as a small turnout given Jin's huge popularity. But Jin and his management agency had earlier asked fans not to visit the site and notified them there wouldn't be any special event involving the singer, in order to prevent any issue caused by crowding.
Authorities still mobilized 300 police officers, soldiers, emergency workers and others to maintain order and guard against any accidents. Strict safety steps were expected as South Korea is still reeling from the devastating Halloween crush in October in Seoul that killed 158 people.
Jin — whose real name is Kim Seok-jin — wrote on the online fan platform Weverse earlier Tuesday that "It's time for a curtain call." He posted a photo of himself Sunday with a military buzz cut and a message saying, "Ha ha ha. It's cuter than I had expected."
By law, all able-bodied South Korean men must serve in the military for 18-21 months under a conscription system established to deal with threats from North Korea. But the law gives special exemptions to athletes, classical and traditional musicians, and ballet and other dancers if they have won top prizes in certain competitions and enhance national prestige. K-pop stars and other entertainers aren't given such benefits even if they gain worldwide fame and win big international awards.
Jin had faced an impending enlistment because the law disallows most men from further delaying their military service after they turn 30.
"Those in the pop culture sector experience little bit of disadvantages and unfairness, compared with those in the pure art sector or athletes," Jung Duk-hyun, a pop culture commentator, said. "This will likely continue to be an issue of controversy so I wonder if it must be discussed continuously."
Exemptions or dodging of duties are a highly sensitive issue in South Korea, where the draft forces young men to suspend their studies or professional careers. Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup previously said it would be "desirable" for BTS members to fulfill their military duties to ensure fairness in the country's military service.
Chun In-bum, a retired lieutenant general who commanded South Korea's special forces, said the government must move to repeal any exemptions as the military's shrinking recruitment pool is "a very serious" problem amid the country's declining fertility rate.
BTS was created in 2013 and has a legion of global supporters who call themselves the "Army." Its other members are RM, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook, who is the youngest at 25. The group expanded its popularity in the West with its 2020 megahit "Dynamite," the band's first all-English song that made BTS the first K-pop act to top Billboard's Hot 100. The band has performed in sold-out arenas around the world and was even invited to speak at United Nations meetings.
Hybe Corp., the parent company of Big Hit, said in October that each member of the band for the time being would focus on individual activities scheduled around their military service plans. In October, Jin released "The Astronaut," a single co-written by Coldplay.
Jung, the commentator, said sold projects could give BTS members much-needed time to develop themselves after working together as a group for many years. But Cha Woo-jin, a K-pop commentator, said it's unclear if BTS would enjoy the same popularity as a group when they get together again after finishing their military duties in a few years.
In August, Lee, the defense minister, said BTS members who are serving would likely be allowed to continue practicing and to join other non-serving BTS members in overseas group tours.
Cha said K-pop's global influence wouldn't be hurt much because of BTS members' enlistments as they "appear to represent K-pop but aren't everything of K-pop." Chung agreed, saying that other K-pop groups like BLACKPINK, Stray Kids and Aespa could rise further. (SJ/VOA) | https://www.newsgram.com/entertainment/2022/12/14/k-pop-bts-star-jin-begins-military-duty-at-front-line-boot-camp | 2022-12-14T07:35:39 | en | 0.975549 |
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Megan Thee Stallion took the stand Tuesday in a Los Angeles, California, courtroom to testify against Tory Lanez, who’s charged with shooting her after a party in 2020.
The 27-year-old rapper, whose real name is Megan Pete, gave an emotional testimony under oath, accusing Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, of firing a gun at her feet in the heat of an argument.
“I’m in shock. I’m scared. I hear the gun going off, and I can’t believe he’s shooting at me,” the Grammy award winner recounted of the incident Tuesday, according to reporters in the courtroom.
Megan testified that she and the Canadian rapper, 30, were driving away from a party at reality star Kylie Jenner’s house in July 2020, along with a bodyguard and a friend, when Lanez became upset that Megan asked him to leave the party. He also revealed to others in the car that he and Megan had an occasional sexual relationship, causing the argument to spiral, she said. She then got out of the car, and Lanez fired five shots that wounded her feet, she testified.
Lanez ― who’s been charged with assault with a firearm, illegal possession of a firearm and negligent discharge of a gun ― has pleaded not guilty. In several songs he’s since released, he says Megan and her team attempted to “frame” him. His trial began Monday and is expected to run through early next week. If convicted, he could face nearly 23 years behind bars.
Megan spoke through tears Tuesday as she described the effect that the whole ordeal ― from the alleged shooting to anger at her from Lanez’s fans ― has had on her.
“I can’t even be happy. I wish he would have shot and killed me if I knew I had to go through this torture,” she said.
Rapper Drake was among those who appeared to publicly doubt Megan’s accusations, rapping in a recently released song: “This bitch lie ’bout getting shots, but she still a stallion.”
Megan also accused Lanez of offering her and her friend in the car, Kelsey Harris, $1 million if they didn’t report the incident to the police, who stopped the group on Hollywood Boulevard minutes later.
Megan explained during her testimony Tuesday that she didn’t report the shooting to officers because she didn’t feel safe doing so.
“At the time, we are at the height of police brutality,” she said, alluding to the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020 and other similar racially motivated deaths.
“I felt like if I said this man has just shot me, they might shoot first and ask questions later. I don’t feel safe in the car. I don’t feel safe with the police officers either,” she added, “in the Black community, it’s not really acceptable to be cooperating with police officers.”
Instead, she spoke out with her allegations in an Instagram video weeks later, which led to Los Angeles County prosecutors charging Lanez in October.
Harris, Megan’s friend in the car, is also expected to testify and corroborate a text message she sent around the time of the incident saying, “Tory shot Meg,” The Los Angeles Times reported.
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Two men and a pet dog were rescued from a sailboat without power or fuel more than 200 miles off Delaware, 10 days after friends and relatives had last heard from them, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
Kevin Hyde, 65, and Joe Ditomasso, 76, were sailing from Cape May, New Jersey, to Marathon, Florida. But they disappeared after their Atrevida II sailboat left North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Dec. 3.
The Coast Guard was notified Sunday that the two sailors were overdue and launched a search that would stretch from Florida to New Jersey, the agency said. Coast Guard cutters and aircraft participated in the search along with ships from the U.S. Navy and commercial and recreational vessels.
On Tuesday, Hyde and Ditomasso waived their arms to draw the attention of the crew of the Silver Muna tanker ship off Delaware’s coast, the Coast Guard said.
The sailboat’s lack of fuel or power rendered its radios and navigation equipment inoperable, according to the Coast Guard.
The men and the dog were brought aboard the tanker shortly after 4 p.m. An evaluation by the ship’s medical staff revealed no immediate concerns, the Coast Guard said.
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Michelle Obama has the best response to the now-viral moment of a woman gushing over her husband’s looks during a campaign event.
Appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the former first lady, wife of Barack Obama, said that she’d heard about the woman’s comment but hadn’t seen the hilarious clip.
That is until Kimmel played the footage on his show for her from the scene that’s accumulated more than 8 million views on Twitter in the two months since it was posted.
“He came home, that’s the first thing he said. I was like, ‘How’d it go?’” Michelle Obama recalled on Monday’s episode, revealing that the comment was the highlight of her husband’s day. She said he told her, “‘Somebody said I was fine.’”
As for her reaction to the teasing moment? “I was like, ‘Oh, really, that’s so sweet,’” she said, as the audience laughed.
The moment took place on Oct. 29 while the former president was campaigning in Detroit for Democratic candidates in the midterm elections.
After quipping that being on the trail “feels a little harder than it used to” and “not just because I’m older and grayer,” a woman in the audience couldn’t help but totally disagree, shouting out that the 61-year-old was “still finer than a motherfucker.”
As the crowd erupted in laughter, Barack Obama chuckled and turned around to look at the woman before asking her to repeat what she said.
“She said I was still fine,” he told the cheering crowd. “I’m not going to tell Michelle you said that — although Michelle does agree. She knows.”
During Monday’s episode, Kimmel asked Michelle if she shares stories like that with Barack, to which she jokingly fired back, “He doesn’t need to know all my business.”
Last month, the author of “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times,” wrote on social media about the keys to a successful marriage and the importance of compromise.
“Over the years, a lot of young people have asked me about marriage. And my response usually goes something like this: You have to prepare yourself for long stretches of discord and discomfort. You have to learn how to make real compromises in the way you’ve lived as an individual. Glamorizing a relationship while you’re dating will lead you straight to difficulty once you’re married. You can’t paper over problems when you’re living with someone day in and day out,” she wrote on Instagram.
Michelle, who celebrated 30 years of marriage with Barack in October, added: “So you’ve got to ask yourself: What are you trying to get out of this relationship? Have you truly thought it through? Do you want a wedding or do you want a lifelong partnership? Those are two very different things. Together, you are answering the question: Who are we and who do we want to be?”
She and Barack Obama have two daughters: Malia, 24, and Sasha, 21.
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The major advance in fusion research announced in Washington on Tuesday was decades in coming, with scientists for the first time able to engineer a reaction that produced more power than was used to ignite it.
Using powerful lasers to focus enormous energy on a miniature capsule half the size of a BB, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California started a reaction that produced about 1.5 times more energy than was contained in the light used to produce it.
There are decades more to wait before fusion could one day — maybe — be used to produce electricity in the real world. But the promise of fusion is enticing. If harnessed, it could produce nearly limitless, carbon-free energy to supply humanity’s electricity needs without raising global temperatures and worsening climate change.
At the press conference in Washington, the scientists celebrated.
“So, this is pretty cool,” said Marvin “Marv” Adams, the National Nuclear Security Administration deputy administrator for defense programs.
“Fusion fuel in the capsule got squeezed, fusion reactions started. This had all happened before – 100 times before – but last week for the first time they designed this experiment so that the fusion fuel stayed hot enough, dense enough and round enough for long enough that it ignited,” said Adams. “And it produced more energy than the lasers had deposited.”
Here’s a look at exactly what nuclear fusion is, and some of the difficulties in turning it into the cheap and carbon-free energy source that scientists hope it can be.
WHAT IS NUCLEAR FUSION?
Look up, and it’s happening right above you — nuclear fusion reactions power the sun and other stars.
The reaction happens when two light nuclei merge to form a single heavier nucleus. Because the total mass of that single nucleus is less than the mass of the two original nuclei, the leftover mass is energy that is released in the process, according to the Department of Energy.
In the case of the sun, its intense heat — millions of degrees Celsius — and the pressure exerted by its gravity allow atoms that would otherwise repel each other to fuse.
Scientists have long understood how nuclear fusion has worked and have been trying to duplicate the process on Earth as far back as the 1930s. Current efforts focus on fusing a pair of hydrogen isotopes — deuterium and tritium — according to the Department of Energy, which says that particular combination releases “much more energy than most fusion reactions” and requires less heat to do so.
HOW VALUABLE COULD THIS BE?
Daniel Kammen, a professor of energy and society at the University of California at Berkeley, said nuclear fusion offers the possibility of “basically unlimited” fuel if the technology can be made commercially viable. The elements needed are available in seawater.
It’s also a process that doesn’t produce the radioactive waste of nuclear fission, Kammen said.
Crossing the line of net energy gain marks a major achievement, said Carolyn Kuranz, a University of Michigan professor and experimental plasma physicist.
“Of course, now people are thinking, well, how do we go to 10 times more or 100 times more? There’s always some next step,” Kuranz said. “But I think that’s a clear line of, yes, we have achieved ignition in the laboratory.”
HOW ARE SCIENTISTS TRYING TO DO THIS?
One way scientists have tried to recreate nuclear fusion involves what’s called a tokamak — a doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber that uses powerful magnets to turn fuel into a superheated plasma (between 150 million and 300 million degrees Celsius) where fusion may occur.
The Livermore lab uses a different technique, with researchers firing a 192-beam laser at a small capsule filled with deuterium-tritium fuel. The lab reported that an August 2021 test produced 1.35 megajoules of fusion energy — about 70% of the energy fired at the target. The lab said several subsequent experiments showed declining results, but researchers believed they had identified ways to improve the quality of the fuel capsule and the lasers’ symmetry.
WHY IS FUSION SO HARD?
It takes more than extreme heat and pressure. It also takes precision. The energy from the lasers must be applied precisely to counteract the outward force of the fusion fuel, according to Stephanie Diem, an engineering physics professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
And that’s just to prove net energy gain is possible. It’s even harder to produce electricity in a power plant.
For example, the lab’s lasers can only fire a few times a day. To viably produce energy, they would need to fire rapidly and capsules would need to be inserted multiple times a minute, or even faster, Kuranz said.
Another challenge is to increase efficiency, said Jeremy Chittenden, a professor at Imperial College in London specializing in plasma physics. The lasers used at Livermore require a lot of electrical energy, and researchers need to figure out a way to reproduce their results in a much more cost-effective way, he said.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan last month to involuntarily hospitalize homeless people with mental illnesses, raising alarm for disability and mental health advocates.
Under the new policy, law enforcement, as well as medical workers, will be authorized to remove and involuntarily hospitalize any individual who “appears to be mentally ill” or “displays an inability to meet basic living needs,” even if they don’t appear to be a danger to themselves or others.
This would solve a “crisis we see all around,” Adams said at a press conference introducing the plan on Nov. 29, referring to homeless people with mental illnesses living on the streets.
But the new policy isn’t the safest solution for that population, according to disability activists and mental health experts who spoke to HuffPost. Many had major concerns surrounding the mayor’s plan and how it reflects historical legislation that has targeted and endangered homeless and disabled communities in the past.
The plan’s use of the word “involuntarily” raised immediate concern for activists.
While introducing the plan, Adams stated that the nature of people’s mental illnesses can prevent them from realizing they need intervention and support. But mental health activist Dior Vargas points out that this stance fails to value their autonomy.
“There may be circumstances where you may not necessarily know what’s best for you. But I think that having that person’s involvement [is important],” Vargas told HuffPost. “They know themselves better than anyone else … and having them involved in their treatment, I think it is more important because it’s something that’s empowering for people.”
Dr. Sharon McLennon-Wier, executive director of the Center for Independence of the Disabled, New York, said that people have the right to do what they want, which includes not seeking treatment if they don’t pose a threat to themselves or others.
“If they’re not necessarily causing any harm or harm to themselves, why should they be removed from a corner that they find to be their home?” McLennon-Wier asked.
Adams did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
While Adams’ plan will have a direct and immediate negative impact on the homeless population, especially Black and Indigenous people of color, advocates also worry about how the language in the plan further perpetuates the stigma that all people experiencing homelessness have a mental illness.
According to McLennon-Wier, a person’s psychological diagnosis can’t be determined just by looking at them.
Statistics also disprove the assumption that all homeless people have a mental illness. The National Alliance of Mental Illness found that among the half a million unhoused people in the U.S., 20.8% of them have a serious mental illness.
Additionally, McLennon-Wier notes, in a society that has a substance abuse problem, intoxication could be mistaken for a psychotic episode.
“Because of that, we can’t say that everyone that’s living on the streets has mental [illnesses],” McLennon-Wier, who is a mental health provider, told HuffPost. “Substance abuse is more of a behavioral health disorder rather than a mental illness.”
Since the plan focuses on outside perceptions of someone’s mental state and their ability to take care of themselves, any unhoused person could be involuntarily hospitalized, even if they don’t actually have a mental illness.
The city announced the plan after numerous attacks on subways and streets, some involving homeless people, left residents scared. In October, Adams claimed that mental illnesses were the cause of these attacks. One incident in January involved a woman who died after a man with schizophrenia pushed her onto the subway tracks, The New York Times reported.
But people with psychiatric disabilities are more likely to be victims of a crime than perpetrators, said Vargas, drawing parallels to the way mental illness is often associated with violence in discussions about gun violence.
“I just feel like because of [this rhetoric and negative portrayals of mental illness], people don’t see them as human beings, and as people who deserve that understanding and support,” said Vargas.
“This isn’t a preventative measure; I think this is more reactionary, and one that is very politicized.”
The Ugly Laws
Many disability advocates have drawn parallels between the New York plan and the historic “ugly laws” — a name disability advocates use to describe city ordinances introduced in the late 19th century that made it illegal for poor, disabled people to exist in public.
The laws came as a supplement to anti-begging and anti-vagrancy laws that were sweeping the nation at the time, said Susan Schweik, a retired professor and author of “The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public.”
The first “ugly law” was passed in San Francisco in 1867 and swept the nation throughout the rest of the century. The laws were based on appearance discrimination, saying that “no person who is diseased, maimed, or deformed, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object shall expose himself to the public.”
The last known ugly-law-related arrest, in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1974, caught the attention of disability rights activists and organizations in the Midwest that spoke out against the discriminatory laws and organized to overturn them.
These laws are examples of “disability discrimination by the state,” combining “policing, surveillance, shutting in of disabled people, the systems of fear and disgust that could be mobilized against disabled people,” Schweik said.
The last ugly law wasn’t removed from the books until 1974 in Chicago.
While an ugly law couldn’t be passed in Congress today because of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Schweik says there are many current policies founded on the same anti-homelessness and ableism that underpinned those old laws.
Even without the laws, Schweik added, there are other dynamics at play that are designed to keep anyone deemed to have a “problem body or mind” out of public spaces.
Institutions for people with disabilities and mental illnesses, such as the Willowbrook State School in New York, also segregated these groups out of the larger community.
In the ’60s, disability activists fought for independent living freedoms, such as home- and community-based services, to ensure support for disabled people in their own communities. But barriers to public transportation, employment and other resources still exist, making it difficult for disabled people to fully integrate into society.
Fears Over Police Handling Social Work
Vargas said she worries about having the police carry out the mayor’s plan.
“Having police involved just makes me worried, given how they’re not properly trained to work with people from those communities,” she said. “The idea of [people with disabilities or mental illnesses] being taken and placed somewhere without their permission just was really upsetting.”
While city officials say that New York’s new policy seeks to connect people struggling with mental illnesses with the treatment and resources they need, activists are worried that, in practice, the plan will go the way of the previous ugly laws, which shut out and hid homeless people away from society.
“[The plan] just seems very related to other situations where people who were considered undesirable [would] be placed elsewhere away from the community, when really having those community resources are more helpful than anything,” Vargas said.
Advocates Want Community Investment
The city has a “moral obligation” to provide treatment and care to homeless people with mental illnesses, Adams said in the news conference. But advocates say his plan doesn’t work to address systemic issues like lack of affordable housing and employment for unhoused people.
“You want to be able to give them that support, but if you aren’t investing in other systems or programs that prevent them from getting to that spot, I think that’s where the money and the time should be invested in,” Vargas said. “This isn’t a preventative measure; I think this is more reactionary, and one that is very politicized.”
Vargas wants to see investments in communities and mental health care, as well as more empathy and compassion for the unhoused population.
Similarly, McLennon-Wier said she would like to see the mayor put his efforts toward addressing the housing, employment and health care inequities in New York.
In September 2022, 20,764 single adults were sleeping in New York shelters each night, according to the Coalition for the Homeless. Data shows that the number of vacant apartments in New York is notably higher than it was five years ago, with 4.54% of apartments vacant as of 2021, compared to 3.63% in 2017.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Eight people suffered minor injuries Tuesday in a fire at a New York Police Department warehouse that houses DNA evidence from crime scenes as well as cars, e-bikes and motor scooters, police and fire officials said.
The fire at the Erie Basin Auto Pound, a low warehouse situated atop a long, curving breakwater on the Brooklyn waterfront, broke out at around 10:30 a.m., FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgens said.
The volume of fire quickly overwhelmed firefighters who had gone inside to battle the blaze and then had to retreat and fight it from the outside, Hudgens said. The effort included drones as well as boats spraying water into the warehouse from the harbor, he said.
The fire, which sent a plume of smoke that could be seen for miles (kilometers), was still going Tuesday afternoon and might take days to bring under control, Hodgens said.
Hodgens said three firefighters, three emergency medical workers and two civilians suffered minor injuries.
Police Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, who joined Hudgens at a briefing at the fire scene, said the facility is used to store DNA evidence from crime scenes as well as e-bikes, motorbikes and cars. “It’s mainly evidence but we store other things there as well,” he said.
The police have sometimes used the warehouse for public events in which they have crushed illegal motorcycles, scooters and ATVs seized from people operating them illegally.
Maddrey said that once the fire is under control, police property specialists will go inside and see what has been destroyed and what can be salvaged. “We don’t know the severity of the damage inside,” he said.
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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) on Tuesday commuted the sentences of the 17 people on the state’s death row to life imprisonment without parole, the latest step in a yearslong effort to use her clemency power to correct extreme sentencing practices and provide second chances.
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.”
Prior to Brown’s announcement, Oregon had already been shifting away from the use of the death penalty. A moratorium on executions has existed since 2011, before Brown took office. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limited the circumstances under which the death penalty can be imposed. The following year, the Oregon Department of Corrections announced it would close the state’s physical death row and house those sentenced to death with the rest of the prison population.
Brown’s move does not eliminate the death penalty, but it does mean that those who had received a death sentence cannot be executed if a future governor decides to reinstate the punishment. Brown’s office said it believes she is the seventh American governor in the past 50 years to commute all death sentences within a state.
President Joe Biden campaigned on eliminating the federal death penalty but has so far failed to commute the sentences of those on federal death row.
Brown, who leaves office next month, has embraced clemency “as a tool for criminal justice reform and as an act of grace, exercising the belief that compassionate mercy and ensuring public safety are not mutually exclusive,” the Guardian wrote in September.
She has approved the early release of 963 people to help limit the spread of COVID-19 in prisons, removed a year from the sentences of 41 incarcerated firefighters, and created pathways to release for 73 people who committed crimes before they were 18 years old. She also pardoned around 45,000 people with marijuana convictions.
Over the years, Brown has granted more commutations and pardons than all Oregon governors of the past 50 years combined, but her efforts are not unprecedented. Rather, they are a return to the historical use of clemency to address injustices, a practice that slowed with the rise of tough-on-crime policies in the 1980s and 1990s. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oregon-governor-kate-brown-commute-death-row_n_6398fbc9e4b0c2814647de3d | 2022-12-14T07:36:21 | en | 0.968494 |
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Stephen Colbert hasn’t said Donald Trump’s name out loud on “The Late Show” for some time now, instead opting to use withering nicknames that viewers have suggested for the former president on Twitter.
On Tuesday, Colbert debuted a new moniker that was tweeted about Trump which referred to the hit TV show “The White Lotus.”
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“The White Scrotus,” Colbert cracked about Trump as he mocked the reported release of a book of letters from celebrities the ex-POTUS has in the works.
Colbert also jumped back into character as Trump, but didn’t like the taste in his mouth, and delivered a damning description of the GOP lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election result.
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Twitter has not paid rent for many of its offices for weeks and is looking at denying severance payments to thousands of employees who have been laid off since billionaire Elon Musk took over the social media behemoth, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Musk and his circle of advisers are reportedly still trying to cut costs after the $44 billion takeover in October. Shortly after the deal closed, Musk laid off about half of the company’s 7,500 full-time employees. A month later, hundreds of others left with their own offers of severance after Musk demanded that only “extremely hardcore” staffers remain.
U.S.-based employees were offered at least two months of pay and a month of severance to comply with federal and local labor laws. That deal came only after Twitter considered not paying any severance at all.
But the Times reported that Twitter leaders have discussed how the company could deny the payments it had agreed to and then just wait for lawsuits from the stiffed ex-workers. The paper added that many people have yet to receive separation paperwork weeks after they stopped working at Twitter.
(Some executives were set to receive millions of dollars upon termination, but Musk claimed they were fired for “cause,” which would void any severance agreements.)
The company has also not paid rent for its downtown San Francisco headquarters or other offices around the globe and has been refusing to pay some vendors tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Times said Musk’s team hopes to renegotiate lease agreements for the far smaller company, but his aggressive tactics have drawn ire from the real estate and management companies that own the buildings.
The latest details reflect the ongoing chaos as Musk seeks to remake Twitter in his own image and stem financial losses amid critiques that he vastly overpaid for the company. Twitter has already slashed a slew of benefits that are common in Silicon Valley’s tech industry. Musk has disbanded many of the teams that help Twitter navigate thorny political and moderation issues and has fired employees who have criticized him. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-elon-musk-severance_n_6399046fe4b0c2814647e679 | 2022-12-14T07:36:33 | en | 0.984496 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, finally agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders desperate for more robust weapons to shoot down incoming Russian missiles, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
The approval is likely to come later this week and could be announced as early as Thursday, said three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision is not final and has not been made public. Two of the officials said the Patriot will come from Pentagon stocks and be moved from another country overseas.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed Western leaders as recently as Monday to provide more advanced weapons to help his country in its war with Russia. The Patriot would be the most advanced surface-to-air missile system the West has provided to Ukraine to help repel Russian aerial attacks.
During a video conference on Monday, Zelenskyy told host Germany and other leaders of the Group of Seven industrial powers that his country needed long-range missiles, modern tanks, artillery, missile batteries and other high-tech air defense systems to counter Russian attacks that have knocked out electricity and water supplies for millions of Ukrainians.
He acknowledged that, “Unfortunately, Russia still has an advantage in artillery and missiles.” And he said protecting Ukraine’s energy facilities from Russian missiles and Iranian drones “will be the protection of the whole of Europe, since with these strikes Russia is provoking a humanitarian and migration catastrophe not only for Ukraine, but also for the entire EU.”
White House and Pentagon leaders have said consistently that providing Ukraine with additional air defenses is a priority, and Patriot missiles have been under consideration for some time. Officials said that as the winter closed in and the Russian bombardment of civilian infrastructure escalated, that consideration took on increased priority.
Pentagon and State Department officials at briefings on Tuesday would not confirm the plan to provide Patriots to Ukraine, repeatedly saying they had nothing to announce.
U.S. officials had balked at providing the weapons to Ukraine because they could be considered a escalation that would trigger a response from Moscow. The Patriot also requires significant training and there were concerns that U.S. troops would have been required to operate it. Biden has flatly rejected sending any U.S. combat troops to Ukraine.
Asked about training, Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said that in general the U.S. takes those needs into consideration when providing complicated weapons systems to Ukraine, such as the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS. Currently U.S. forces are training Ukrainian troops on a number of systems, including the HIMARS, in other European countries, such as Germany.
The administration’s potential approval of a Patriot battery was first reported by CNN.
According to officials, the U.S. plan would be to send one Patriot battery. A truck-mounter Patriot battery includes up to eight launchers, each of which can hold four missiles.
The entire system, which includes a phased array radar, a control station, computers and generators, typically requires about 90 soldiers to operate and maintain, however only three soldiers are needed to actually fire it, according to the Army.
Patriot missile systems and other similar sophisticated surface-to-air weapons are in major demand among U.S. allies, including eastern European nations worried that they could be Russia’s next targets. The U.S. has a limited number of the systems, and has deployed them across the the Middle East and Europe in recent years to help allies protect against the threat of incoming ballistic missiles from countries such as Iran.
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DALLAS (AP) — A destructive winter storm marched across the United States on Wednesday, delivering blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains hours after tornadoes touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
Five tornadoes were confirmed across north Texas as of Tuesday afternoon based on video and eyewitness reports, but potentially a dozen may have occurred, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, Texas, reported.
Dozens of homes and businesses were damaged by the line of thunderstorms, and several people were injured in the suburbs and counties stretching north of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. More than 1,000 flights into and out of area airports were delayed, and over 100 were canceled, according to the tracking service FlightAware.
Two people were missing and homes were destroyed Tuesday when a tornado hit Four Forts, Louisiana, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Shreveport, said Sgt. Casey Jones of the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office.
“I’m hoping they’re with family somewhere,” Jones said. There were no immediate reports of deaths.
The severe weather threat continued into Wednesday for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
Blizzard warnings stretched from Montana into western Nebraska and Colorado, and the National Weather Service said as much as 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow was possible in some areas of western South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska. Winds of more than 50 mph (80 kph) at times will make it impossible to see outdoors in Nebraska, officials said.
“There’s essentially no one traveling right now,” said Justin McCallum, a manager at the Flying J truck stop at Ogallala, Nebraska.
Forecasters expect the storm system to hobble the upper Midwest with ice, rain and snow for days, as well as move into the Northeast and central Appalachians. Residents from West Virginia to Vermont were told to watch out for a possible significant mix of snow, ice and sleet, and the National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch from Wednesday night through Friday afternoon, depending on the timing of the storm.
In the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, police spokesperson Amanda McNew reported five confirmed injuries Tuesday.
A possible tornado blew the roof off the city’s service center — a municipal facility — and left pieces of the roof hanging from powerlines, said Trent Kelley, deputy director of Grapevine Parks and Recreation.
It was also trash day, so the storm picked up and scattered garbage all over, he said.
Photos sent by the city showed downed power lines on rain-soaked streets, as well as toppled trees, damaged buildings and a semitrailer that appeared to have been tossed around a parking lot.
In Colorado, all roads were closed in the northeast quadrant of the state. The severe weather in the ranching region could also threaten livestock. Extreme winds can push livestock through fences as they follow the gale’s direction, said Jim Santomaso, a northeast representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association.
“If this keeps up,” said Santomaso, “cattle could drift miles.”
A blizzard warning has been issued on Minnesota’s north shore, as some areas are expecting up to 24 inches of snow and wind gusts up to 40 mph. And in the south of the state, winds gusting up to 50 mph (80 kph) had reduced visibility.
National Weather Service meteorologist Melissa Dye in the Twin Cities said this is a “long duration event” with snow, ice and rain through Friday night. Minnesota was expecting a lull Wednesday, followed by a second round of snow.
The same weather system dumped heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada and western U.S. in recent days.
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Groves reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Associated Press writers Ken Miller in Oklahoma City; Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas; Sam Metz in Salt Lake City; Trisha Ahmed in Minneapolis; Jesse Bedayn in Denver; Margery Beck in Omaha, Nebraska; and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this report. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-storm-tornado-south_n_63990fa8e4b015bb573fdacc | 2022-12-14T07:36:46 | en | 0.965335 |
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India Wholesale Price Index(WPI) Data, November 2022: India’s wholesale inflation measured by the wholesale price index (WPI) eased to a 21-month low of 5.85 per cent in November from 8.39 per cent in September, data released by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry showed.
The WPI remained below the double-digit mark for the second straight month. Prior to that, the WPI print came above the double-digit mark for 18 straight months from April 2021 to September 2022.
Last month’s wholesale inflation figure is at its lowest level since February 2021 when it was at 4.83 per cent.
The WPI for the month of September was revised to 10.55 per cent from 10.70 per cent, the data showed. The WPI in November 2021 was 14.87 per cent.
“Decline in rate of inflation in November, 2022 is primarily contributed by fall in prices of food articles, basic metals, textiles, chemicals & chemical products and paper & paper products as compared to the corresponding month of the previous year,” the commerce ministry release said.
The food articles segment eased to 1.07 per cent in November, the data showed. In the previous month, this was 8.33 per cent. The month-on-month easing can be attributed to fall in prices of vegetables, onion and fruits.
Vegetable prices contracted (-)20.08 per cent last month, against a rise of 17.61 per cent in October, the data showed. Onion prices contracted (-)19.19 per cent from (-)30.02 per cent a month ago and that of fruits slipped (-)1.07 per cent in November from 0.23 per cent in the prior month.
Additionally, paddy prices eased to 6.45 per cent last month, against 6.63 per cent in October while potato prices dipped to 13.75 per cent from 44.97 per cent, the data showed. Eggs, meat & fish eased to 2.27 per cent from 3.97 per cent a month ago.
On the other hand, prices of cereals climbed to 12.85 per cent last month from 12.03 per cent in October. During the same period, wheat spiked to 18.11 per cent from 16.25 per cent and that of milk rose to 6.03 per cent from 5.53 per cent.
The fuel and power segment eased to 17.35 per cent last month from 23.17 per cent in October. LPG prices contracted (-)13.40 per cent from 4.82 per cent month ago, HSD (High-Speed Diesel) slipped to 42.10 per cent from 43.05 per cent and petrol prices eased to 14.11 per cent from 25.02 per cent.
The manufactured products segment eased to 3.59 per cent in November from 4.42 per cent month ago.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mostly higher Wednesday in Asia after a rally on Wall Street spurred by news that inflation in the U.S. cooled more than expected last month.
The 7.1% consumer price index reading for November raised hopes Tuesday for easing pressure on the economy ahead of an interest rate policy update from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
The Fed is widely expected to raise its benchmark rate a half-point Wednesday, smaller than the past four hikes of three-quarters of a point.
Also Wednesday, the Bank of Japan’s quarterly “tankan” survey showed a deterioration in business conditions for major Japanese manufacturers, reflecting higher costs for industrial inputs and energy and weaker demand as the Fed and other central banks raise interest rates to tame inflation.
The headline index for large manufacturers was 7, down from 8 in the previous quarter and the fourth straight quarter of declines. The tankan measures corporate sentiment by subtracting the number of companies saying business conditions are negative from those responding they are positive.
Conditions for nonmanufacturers, such as service industries, rose to 19 from 14, as Japan lifted pandemic precautions and reopened to foreign tourists.
“Today’s Tankan survey suggests that while the services sector is going from strength to strength, the outlook for the manufacturing sector continues to worsen," Darren Tay of Capital Economics said in a commentary. He noted that capital spending projections also weakened slightly.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 advanced 0.7% to 28,156.21 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.6% to 19,722.16. South Korea's Kospi was up 1.1% to 2,399.25.
The Shanghai Composite index edged 0.1% lower to 3,172.33.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.7% to 7,251.30. India's Sensex gained 0.7% while the SET in Bangkok added 0.6%.
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 0.7% to 4,019.65 and the Nasdaq composite gained 1% to 11,256.81. The Dow Jones Industrial Average picked up 0.3% to 34,108.64.
Small company stocks also gained ground. The Russell 2000 index rose 0.8% to 1,832.36.
Stocks pared back gains as analysts cautioned investors not to get carried away by hopes for an easier Fed, as they have in the past.
The detail of the inflation data “under the hood being less encouraging than it is on the surface," Mizuho Bank economists said in a report. They noted that core services prices were up 0.4% from a month earlier, distorting inflation risks.
“To be precise , the headline understates underlying inflation risks that concern the Fed," the report said.
Tuesday’s report offered hope that the worst of inflation really did pass during the summer, though inflation remains painfully high and shoppers are paying prices well above levels from a year earlier.
A Fed rate hike of 0.50 percentage points would usually be a big deal because it's double the typical move. But with inflation coming off its worst level in generations, it would be a step down from the four hikes of 0.75 percentage points the Fed has approved since the summer.
Some of Wall Street's wildest action Tuesday was in the bond market, where yields fell sharply immediately after the inflation report's release.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, fell to 3.48% from 3.62% late Monday. The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, dropped to 4.22% from 4.39%.
Other central banks around the world, including the European Central Bank, are also likely to raise their own rates by half a percentage point this week.
Even if inflation is finally abating, the global economy still is threatened by rate increases already pushed through. The housing industry and other businesses that rely on low interest rates have shown particular weakness, and worries are rising about the strength of corporate profits broadly.
In other trading, U.S. benchmark crude lost 30 cents to $75.09 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It jumped $2.22 on Tuesday to $75.39 per barrel.
Brent crude, the pricing basis for international trading, shed 34 cents to $80.34 per barrel.
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Your CIBIL Score plays a vital role when you apply for credit as it demonstrates your creditworthiness. While you can now get a loan in just a few hours with 100% digital application and disbursal, don’t miss out on doing a CIBIL Score check before you apply. This simple step can not only help you avoid rejection, but also help you get affordable credit.
Read on to recognize the relationship between your CIBIL Score and loan interest rates, and what you can do to improve your score.
The impact CIBIL Score has on the interest rate of your loans
To assess your cost of borrowing, you are sure to consider the interest rates levied by lenders. A high interest rate means a high borrowing cost and vice versa. Lenders consider a number of factors before deciding on the interest that is appropriate for your loan application. Among these is your credit or CIBIL Score.
Your CIBIL Score gives the lender a comprehensive view of your past credit behavior. Based on this, they assess your future behavior. The score ranges between 300-900, where a score above 750 indicates a low-risk profile. This essentially means that you have the ability to make timely and full repayment, lowering your risk of defaulting on the loan. As a result, it becomes feasible for a lender to offer you credit at competitive interest rates, which reduces your cost of borrowing.
Availing a secured or unsecured loan on CIBIL Score below 750 can not only result in a high interest rate, but also in rejection. Having a poor CIBIL Score implies that you are new to handling credit, have delayed or defaulted on repayment in the past, or don’t have the ability to repay new credit. Thus, you carry a higher risk. As a result, lenders are less hesitant to offer loans on CIBIL Score that does not meet the threshold. This doesn’t always mean that your loan application is rejected. It can result in you getting a loan of a smaller amount with a higher interest rate to offset the lender’s risk.
3 smart tips to improve your credit score
There are a number of factors that are considered in the calculation of credit score. This includes your repayment history, credit utilization ratio, debt-to-income ratio, types of credit availed, and outstanding accounts. Maintaining financial discipline across these segments can help you maintain a good CIBIL Score and boost it over a period of time too.
Improving your credit or CIBIL Score is not something that you can do overnight. It takes time and consistent efforts to increase your creditworthiness. Here are 3 simple and smart tips you can follow.
Your repayment history carries a high weightage in your credit score calculation. Making timely repayment is one of the most important and easiest ways to ensure that your credit or CIBIL Score is on the higher side. You can set reminders or standing instructions to make sure that all your EMIs or credit card bills are paid on time and in full.
Credit utilization is basically the amount of credit you have used against the credit limit you enjoy. A high ratio indicates that you have a less than ideal handle over your finances and increases your profile risk. Keep this ratio below 30% to maintain a good credit or CIBIL Score. For instance, this means not swiping your credit card up to its limit every month.
Conducting a CIBIL Score check on a regular basis allows you to keep an eye on the data that goes into the calculation of your score. Any errors in this can dip your score, so watch out for these and report it to the financial institution at once.
By conducting a regular CIBIL Score check, you can also arm yourself with insights that can help you improve your CIBIL Score and get fast approval on loans. While you can conduct a yearly free CIBIL Score check on the CIBIL website, just one check isn’t sufficient. You can use other lender websites to check your CIBIL Score for free. Bajaj Finserv is a leading NBFC offering a CIBIL Score check service that is free, quick and easy. Use this service by filling up your basic details and get results in just a few minutes. This way, you can do a CIBIL Score check easily at any time and from anywhere. Check your CIBIL Score today and be proactive about maintaining your credit health for more affordable credit. | https://indianexpress.com/article/business/sponsored-business/how-does-your-cibil-score-impact-loan-interest-rates-8323829/ | 2022-12-14T07:36:56 | en | 0.946759 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s committee to study reparations for African Americans will meet in Oakland Wednesday to discuss what form reparations could take and eligibility requirements to receive possible payments.
The first-in-the-nation task force previously voted to limit reparations to Black California residents whose ancestors were living in the United States in the 19th century. This week, the group will talk about whether there could be additional eligibility requirements and what time frame reparations could hinge on.
The group will also discuss how the state may address its impact on Black families whose property was seized through eminent domain, a topic that garnered renewed attention after lawmakers last year voted to allow the return of a beachfront property known as Bruce's Beach to descendants of Black residents from whom it was taken in the 20th century.
Kamilah Moore, the task force’s chair, doesn’t expect the group to come to any final decisions at this week’s two-day meeting.
“We’re still in the exploratory phase,” she said.
The task force has a July 1 deadline to complete its final report for the Legislature listing recommendations for how the state can address its legacy of discriminatory policies against Black Californians. The group's work contrasts from similar efforts that have stalled in Congress.
Lawmakers in other parts of the country have pushed their states and cities to study reparations without much progress. But Evanston, Illinois became the first U.S. city last year to make reparations available for Black residents, and public officials in New York will try anew to create a reparations commission in the state.
Officials from Oakland, Sacramento, Los Angeles and other California cities will talk about local reparations efforts during a panel Wednesday.
That will include Khansa T. Jones-Muhammad, vice-chair of Los Angeles’ Reparations Advisory Commission, who said the commission — created last year under then-Mayor Eric Garcetti — doesn't have a date set in stone to complete its work.
The goal of the commission is to advise the city on a pilot program for distributing reparations to a group of Black residents.
“A lot of our first year has really just been laying the groundwork to have a strong commission,” she said.
In September, economists started listing preliminary estimates for what could be owed by the state as a result of discriminatory policies. But they said they need more data to come up with more complete figures.
Moore said the task force has not decided on any dollar amounts or what form reparations could take, but the public's interest in those estimates shows optimism about the group's work. The group hasn't discussed where money for reparations could potentially come from.
About 30 people gathered Saturday at a Black-owned coffee shop in Sacramento for a reparations information session led by the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, said Chris Lodgson, an organizer for the group.
The coalition is focused on advocating for reparations for Black residents. It has been supportive of reparations largely targeted at the descendants of enslaved African Americans.
“Generally speaking, Black folks can support other Black folks in the things that they want and need even if not everybody is benefitting equally from it or directly from it," Lodgson said.
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former assemblywoman, authored the bill that created the state's task force, and the group began its work last year. The bill was signed into law in September 2020 after a summer of nationwide protests against racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minnesota.
In June, the task force released a 500-page report describing discriminatory policies that drove housing segregation, criminal justice disparities and other realities that harmed Black Californians in the decades since the abolition of slavery.
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Breast cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer (33 per cent) among females in Chandigarh, according to a population-based cancer registry, which is a collaboration of Tata Memorial Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGI), Chandigarh.
Dr S M Bose, former senior professor and HOD surgery, PGI, says globally, as well as in India, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women.
ICMR and population-based cancer registries in India have shown an increase in the incidence of breast cancer and it is estimated that one in 18-20 Indian females is likely to develop breast cancer during their lifetime. The complexity of multimodal treatment (which includes surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, target therapy, immunotherapy etc.), the existing healthcare delivery system and the financial condition of the country make it difficult to look after the enormous number of patients.
In India, the disease is seen in younger females, more than half the patients are in the locally advanced stage on the first consultation, and most of the patients are very poor and unable to afford costly investigations and multimodal treatment. An acute shortage of dedicated specialists in all fields results in only a fraction of patients with breast cancer receiving proper and complete comprehensive treatment.
The incidence of breast cancer increases with age, and in India, says Dr Bose, the average age of presentation is around 50 years. The younger age of patients is associated with larger-sized tumours, a higher number of metastatic lymph nodes, poor tumour grade, low rates of hormone receptor positivity, and a higher percentage of triple-negative cases, resulting in poor disease-free survival and poorer overall survival.
“Except for 5-10 per cent of breast cancer cases, where the risk factor is a genetic predisposition, in the remaining 90 per cent of sporadic breast cancers, the identified risk factors are either reproductive hormonal, lifestyle or environmental factors, primarily through their influence on the hormonal milieu,” says Dr Bose, who is the recipient of three National Dr B C Roy Awards and author of several books on breast cancer.
Reproductive factors such as early menarche, late menopause, nulliparity, late age at first childbirth and lack of breastfeeding are well known to increase the incidence of breast cancer. The increasing incidence of breast cancer in India is attributed to rapid westernization of lifestyle, intake of unhealthy diet and use of alcohol and tobacco. The use of contraceptive pills and migration to an altered environment of western countries also increase the incidence of breast cancer in Indian women. “No breast cancer risk factor, unique to the Indian population, has been yet reported. “
Breast cancer has a genetic linkage and is supposed to be more common amongst females whose first relatives (mother, sister, daughter) had this problem, these women are amongst, ‘high-risk patients.’ “Genetic screening is uncommon in India, but it should be done for those above 60 years, those with a maternal family history of ovarian cancer, and in selected cases who have a paternal family history of prostate or pancreatic cancer. Genetic evaluation of breast cancer patients is not readily available, is costly and results are not very reliable
Late presentation in India
In India, says Dr Bose, more than 60 to 70 per cent of patients present themselves to the hospital in stage 3 or 4. It has been well established that more than 90 per cent of patients belonging to stage 1 are cured of the disease but only 30 per cent of patients belonging to stages 3 and 4 survive.
“This clearly shows the importance of early presentation of the patient but then this is missing in India. It is sad to see patients in advanced stages even in 2022, and many of these patients are educated, financially sound and can easily reach a medical centre. The follow-up of the patients is very poor. There is no protocol, and no proper records are available. The present-day scenario of breast cancer is quite disappointing. India requires more dedicated centres and more competent specialists, augmentation of infrastructure, procurement of equipment and other facilities,” he says.
Dr Bose says cancer is the deadliest noncommunicable disease of this century. Diagnosis can be achieved in a deep-seated tumour of 3 to 4 mm and 5-10 per cent have genetic or hereditary links, he adds. | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/breast-cancer-cases-early-diagnosis-is-important-8323830/ | 2022-12-14T07:37:02 | en | 0.952233 |
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The resident doctors association of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi has written a letter to the medical superintendent of the hospital stating that if biometric attendance is compulsory, clarity should also be given on the enumeration of extra hours of work.
The RML hospital administration had issued a circular on December 3 stating that all doctors and other staff at the hospital have to mark their attendance on the biometric system.
According to a resident doctor posted at RML, the working hours for the doctors always exceed that of a government employee. “Resident doctors are backbone of all hospitals governing by central government. The hours of weekly work by residents far exceeds the desired work hours of any other government employee,” said the letter.
Through the letter, the doctors demanded that as residents, their work must “be appreciated and applauded” by the institution.
“In name of biometrics attendance, there will be harassment of resident in monthly salary. If biometrics attendance has to compulsory we welcome the decision by institute but also demand the clarity of enumeration for extra hours of work or compensatory off that work,” it further said.
The letter also attached an RTI reply by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare regarding the working hours of resident doctors.
“We request your keen attention in the matter and hopeful that institute will clarify the situation and direct us for betterment of patients care which we are doing irrespective of counting work hours,” it added. | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/extra-work-extra-pay-resident-doctors-delhi-rml-hospital-8323762/ | 2022-12-14T07:37:08 | en | 0.956409 |
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WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Saturday's results
Regina 5 Calgary 2
Saskatoon 9 Prince Albert 0
Portland 4 Seattle 3 (SO)
Brandon 2 Spokane 1
Lethbridge 4 Swift Current 3 (SO)
Medicine Hat 6 Moose Jaw 3
Red Deer 5 Edmonton 2
Tri-City 4 Prince George 3
Kamloops 6 Victoria 1
Vancouver 3 Kelowna 2 (OT)
Sunday's results
Calgary 5 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 6 Regina 1
Portland 4 Everett 2
Seattle 5 Vancouver 2
Tuesday's results
Spokane 5 Moose Jaw 2
Saskatoon 8 Medicine Hat 3
Seattle 8 Prince George 1
Wednesday's results
Kelowna at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Vancouver at Portland, 6 p.m.
Kelowna at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday credited the BJP’s state unit president C R Paatil and the party organisation in Gujarat for the spectacular victory in the recently-concluded Assembly elections.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Gujarat Assembly elections for the seventh consecutive time and put up its best-ever performance with 156 of the 182 seats.
At the meeting of the parliamentary party, the first after the BJP’s spectacular victory in Gujarat, Modi spoke said if state units function like Gujarat’s the results will always be good. After the meeting, Paatil said the prime minister has credited the win to each and every worker of the party.
In the meeting, which was also attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP National President J P Nadda, the BJP’s MPs were urged to continue the campaigns initiated by the party such as Khelo India and G 20 vigorously.
Union Minister of Railways and IT Ashwani Vaishnaw made a presentation on the economic situation in the country. In his presentation, Vaishnaw said inflation is under control and the cost of living in India compared to western countries is still better. | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/pm-modi-credits-gujarat-victory-to-bjp-state-unit-chief-c-r-patil-8323810/ | 2022-12-14T07:37:14 | en | 0.97371 |
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U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Saturday's results
Regina 5 Calgary 2
Saskatoon 9 Prince Albert 0
Portland 4 Seattle 3 (SO)
Brandon 2 Spokane 1
Lethbridge 4 Swift Current 3 (SO)
Medicine Hat 6 Moose Jaw 3
Red Deer 5 Edmonton 2
Tri-City 4 Prince George 3
Kamloops 6 Victoria 1
Vancouver 3 Kelowna 2 (OT)
Sunday's results
Calgary 5 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 6 Regina 1
Portland 4 Everett 2
Seattle 5 Vancouver 2
Tuesday's results
Spokane 5 Moose Jaw 2
Saskatoon 8 Medicine Hat 3
Seattle 8 Prince George 1
Wednesday's results
Kelowna at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Vancouver at Portland, 6 p.m.
Kelowna at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in a money laundering case after he was produced before a local court in Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
Ansari, a five-time former MLA, was lodged in a jail at Banda in Uttar Pradesh. The 59-year-old was questioned by the ED in this case last year.
He was taken into custody by the ED under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after he was produced before a court in Prayagraj on the basis of a production warrant moved by the agency, according to official sources.
His MLA son Abbas Ansari was also arrested by the federal probe agency in November after questioning at its sub zonal office in Prayagraj. This was followed by the arrest of Mukhtar Ansari’s brother-in-law Atif Raza.
The money laundering case against Mukhtar Ansari stems from multiple FIRs lodged by the Uttar Pradesh Police apart from two more FIRs lodged against a company called Vikas Constructions (a partnership firm) that was run by his wife, two brother-in-laws (including Atif Raza) and others.
Mukhtar Ansari is under the ED scanner in connection with at least 49 criminal cases booked against him including those on charges of land grabbing, murder and extortion.
He faces trial in Uttar Pradesh in several cases, including attempt to murder and murder. | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/up-politician-mukhtar-ansari-arrested-ed-money-laundering-case-8323773/ | 2022-12-14T07:37:20 | en | 0.984949 |
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