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CAGUAS, Puerto Rico (AP) — A growing number of businesses, including grocery stores and gas stations, are temporarily closing across Puerto Rico as power outages caused by Hurricane Fiona drag on in the U.S. territory, sparking concern about the availability of fuel and basic goods.
Hand-written signs warning of closures have been popping up more frequently, eliciting sighs and groans from customers on an island where nearly 60% of 1.47 million clients still do not have power five days after the storm hit.
Betty Merced, a retiree who lives in the southern coastal city of Salinas, said she has spent several days looking for diesel to fill up her generator to no avail. She uses a sleep apnea machine and cannot risk going without it.
“There are a lot of people with a lot of needs,” she said. “If there is no diesel, we’re going to be very much in harm’s way.”
Merced said she would travel to the nearby town of Santa Isabel on Friday, and if she doesn’t find diesel there, she will drive more than an hour to the northern city of Caguas, where at least one convenience store had a “No gas” sign on its door Thursday evening.
“I didn’t think we were going to be so many days without power,” she said.
Gasoline also was unavailable in Salinas after all gas stations shut down Wednesday, said community leader Wanda Ríos Colorado.
“When I saw that, my stomach almost turned,” she said, adding that it gave her flashbacks of Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm that hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, resulting in nearly 3,000 deaths and sparking severe shortages of fuel, food, water and cash.
People also have struggled to get their prescriptions as some pharmacies temporarily close.
Puerto Rico’s Department of Consumer Affairs said there is no shortage of fuel, but rather a disruption to the system as a result of flooding, landslides and an island-wide power outage caused by Fiona when it slammed into Puerto Rico’s southwestern corner Sunday as a Category 1 storm.
Some fuel stations were unable to reopen or could not be refilled in the storm’s early aftermath, officials said.
Consumer Affairs Secretary Edan Rivera sought to temper concerns, saying that “there is no basis to talk about a fuel shortage in Puerto Rico.” He added that his agency also has found sufficient supplies of basic goods.
On Friday, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi of Puerto Rico activated the National Guard to help distribute diesel fuel to hospitals and supermarkets. The force is also supplying generators used to operate potable water plants and telecommunications towers.
On Thursday evening, Rivera announced that crews finally restored power to a gasoline distribution terminal in the southeastern town of Yabucoa that had been operating at a third of its capacity because it was running on a generator.
Rivera said this would speed up distribution of fuel across the island because the terminal could now operate 24 hours a day until the island recovers from the storm.
He said there is 14 days’ worth of regular gasoline, 25 for diesel and 11 for premium.
“There’s a peak in demand in the most affected areas, but it has been normalizing as trucks arrive,” he said.
Rivera added that some wholesalers have taken measures to prevent retailers from hoarding fuel.
“Some will say they have received less product, but it’s not that they’re getting less. They asked for a lot, and to err on the side of caution, they’re not being given everything they ask for,” he said.
Rivera also noted that a container ship carrying 300,000 barrels of diesel would arrive Friday and the product would be distributed starting Saturday.
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico’s Water and Sewer Authority said that of the 956,000 customers out of 1.32 million who have had water service restored since Fiona, more than 400,000 clients have water thanks to generators that depend on diesel.
Government officials said they expected to restore power by Friday in areas that were not severely affected by the storm, although they have not said when people living in storm-ravaged areas might have electricity.
U.S. President Joe Biden pledged Thursday to help Puerto Rico recover from Fiona, saying, “We are with you, we are not going to walk away.”
He recently approved an emergency disaster declaration and a major disaster declaration, which would free up more federal assistance to those affected by the hurricane. Biden also announced 100% federal funding for debris removal, search and rescue efforts, power and water restoration and shelter and food for one month.
“We’ll do everything we can to meet the urgent needs you have,” he said. “And we know they’re real, and they’re significant.”
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Half of Puerto Rico is without power more than five days after Hurricane Fiona struck — including an entire town where not a single work crew has arrived.
Many on the U.S. territory are angry and incredulous, and calls are growing for the ouster of the island’s private electricity transmission and distribution company.
Fuel disruptions are worsening the situation, forcing grocery stores, gas stations and other businesses to close and leaving apartment buildings in the dark because there is no diesel for generators.
Many are questioning why it is taking so long to restore power since Fiona was a Category 1 storm that did not affect the entire island, and whose rain — not wind — inflicted the greatest damage.
“It’s not normal,” said Marcel Castro-Sitiriche, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. “They have not given a convincing explanation of what the problem is.”
He noted that Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority and Luma, a private company that took over the island’s power transmission and distribution last year, also have not released basic information such as details of the damage to the electricity grid.
“We don’t know the extent of the damage yet,” Castro said, adding that he was concerned and surprised that Luma had not brought in additional crews to boost extra manpower already on the island.
Luma has said Fiona’s floods left several substations underwater and inaccessible, and it has insisted it doesn’t need more personnel.
“We have all the resources we believe we need,” said Luma engineer Daniel Hernández.
The lack of power has prompted at least two mayors to activate own repair teams, and several other town leaders are calling for answers on why Luma crews have not reconnected homes and key infrastructure.
“They haven’t even arrived here,” said Yasmín Allende, municipal administrator for Hormigueros, a town in western Puerto Rico that is home to more than 15,600 people, many of them elderly.
She said town officials have provided a list of downed transformers and power lines as well as the exact location of dozens of damaged electric posts. They have even cleared openings around damaged spots to ensure that electricity could be restored as soon as possible, she said.
“Everything is ready for them so they can come and do their job,” Allende said. “All they have to do is show up.”
Elizabeth González, who lives in Hormigueros, said she was forced to throw out two bags of meat Friday and is struggling to buy more gasoline for her generator, even as her husband, who has cancer, depends on it.
González said she is fed up with Puerto Rico’s power grid.
“It’s useless, as simple as that,” she said. “If a hurricane comes, if rain comes, or a little gust of wind, the power quickly goes out.”
The island’s power grid was already crumbling due to austerity measures, aging infrastructure and lack of maintenance when a powerful Hurricane Maria razed the system in 2017. Reconstruction of the grid had barely started when Hurricane Fiona hit last Sunday.
In the first days following Fiona, Luma officials and Gov. Pedro Pierluisi promised that the vast majority of customers would soon have their electricity back. But as of late Friday, more than 40% of 1.47 million customers were still in the dark.
In addition, 27% of 1.3 million water and sewer customers did not have water in part because pumps rely on electricity and not all had backup generators.
Neither Luma nor Puerto Rico’s power generating utility have said when electricity will be restored to the most affected areas. They have said only that hospitals and other critical infrastructure are their priority.
The situation has outraged many Puerto Ricans, including local government officials.
“I am not going to accept excuses,” said Alexander Burgos, mayor in the central mountain town of Ciales. “Our power lines are up, there are no electrical posts on the ground, and we are ready to be connected.”
Edward O’Neill, mayor of the northern town of Guaynabo, tweeted that Luma’s “bad performance” was “unacceptable.”
O’Neill, who worked for both the Puerto Rico’s power company and Luma, said his municipality has collected all necessary information to help crews restore power but has not seen any results.
In the northern town of Bayamon, Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera got tired of waiting and contracted independent repair crews that began work Friday afternoon, although they were not handling live wires. Aguadilla Mayor Julio Roldán announced he was doing the same in his northwest coastal town, saying, “We’re depending on other people to stay alive. We’ve had it.”
The mayor of the central mountain town of Utuado said no one in his municipality of 28,000 people had power and accused Luma of making residents unnecessarily suffer. The mayor of the western town of Moca echoed those sentiments, saying “Luma has not wanted to assume its responsibilities.”
Cathy Kunkel, a Puerto Rico-based energy and finance analyst, said she was surprised power had not yet returned to areas barely affected by Fiona, including the capital of San Juan.
She also questioned why Luma has not employed hundreds of experienced linesmen that worked with Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority before the private company took over transmission and distribution in June 2021.
“We have this absurdly frustrating situation,” she said. “The old system is held together in substandard ways. You actually want the people who know how to work on that particular system.”
The lack of power has been linked to several deaths. Authorities say a 70-year-old man burned to death when he tried to fill his running generator with gasoline and a 78-year-old man died from inhaling toxic gases from his generator. On Friday, police said a 72-year-old man and a 93-year-old woman died after their house caught on fire because they were relying on candles for light.
Castro-Sitiriche, the electrical engineering professor, said Puerto Rico’s government, Luma and the Electric Power Authority are all to blame.
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, is perhaps best known as an election denier who was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. John Fetterman, the Democrat hoping to flip the state’s Senate seat, has revolutionized how campaigns use social media. And Dr. Mehmet Oz was a TV celebrity long before he launched a GOP Senate campaign.
And then there’s Josh Shapiro.
In one of the most politically competitive states in the U.S., the Democratic contender for governor is waging a notably drama-free campaign, betting that a relatively under the radar approach will resonate with voters exhausted by a deeply charged political environment. But Shapiro faces a test of whether his comparatively low-key style will energize Democrats to rally against Mastriano, who many in the party view as an existential threat.
The GOP candidate, who worked to keep Donald Trump in power and overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020, supports ending abortion rights and would be in position to appoint the secretary of state, who oversees elections in this state that is often decisive in choosing presidents.
The tension of Shapiro’s strategy was on display during a recent swing through this small city, a dot in deeply Republican south central Pennsylvania. He spent 10 minutes ticking through his record as a two-term attorney general and his policy goals if he becomes governor, such as expanding high-speed internet and boosting school funding. But he also acknowledged that he knew what was on the minds of audience members, noting how his wife gives him a simple reminder every morning: “You better win.”
The 49-year-old Shapiro then became more explicit about the implications of a Mastriano win.
“This guy is the most dangerous, extreme person to ever run for governor in Pennsylvania and by far the most dangerous, extreme candidate running for office in the United States of America,” Shapiro told the crowd in Chambersburg, Mastriano’s home base in his conservative state Senate district.
Shapiro is managing something of a two-pronged campaign, one built for a conventional election year and another aimed at the tense political environment in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and the overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights.
Last month, Shapiro released a TV ad statewide that discussed a case he brought as attorney general against a contractor who agreed to repay wages after Shapiro’s office accused it of stealing from workers. Then, he’s also aired TV ads describing Mastriano as a threat to democracy, pointing out that Mastriano watched at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as pro-Trump demonstrators attacked police.
“It was there that day that my opponent sided with the angry mob, marched to the Capitol, breached the police lines, and he did so with one purpose, all of them: they didn’t want your votes to count,” Shapiro told an audience in Gettysburg, prompting one woman to call out, “He’s a traitor.”
That message isn’t lost on the Democrats who go see Shapiro.
“I think this is just a critical election,” said Marissa Sandoe, 29. “I think this election will determine whether we still have a democracy in this nation.”
Shapiro later shrugs off suggestions that, for his supporters, the grist of normal-year gubernatorial politics is being drowned out by existential issues, like saving democracy.
“I’m focused like a laser beam on making Pennsylvanians’ lives better,” Shapiro said.
The first midterm of a new administration is often challenging for the president’s party. But for now, polls suggest Shaprio is leading Mastriano and he also has a significant fundraising advantage. Shapiro has run more than $20 million worth of TV ads, while Mastriano has run hardly anything, and nothing since the primary.
Campaigning in the state where Biden was born, Shaprio may benefit from a recovery in Biden’s approval.
The president’s popularity nationally has improved to 45% from 36% in July, although concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a September poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Republican Party leaders who initially criticized Mastriano as being too extreme to win the fall general election say he could still win, despite his flaws, if the electorate is angry enough over inflation to check every box against Democrats as a vote against Biden.
But Republicans acknowledge Mastriano is running a race focused largely on his right-wing base, instead of reaching out to the moderates who often put winners over the top in one of America’s most politically divided states.
Mastriano has gotten institutional fundraising help, including events headlined by state party leaders, Donald Trump Jr. and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, but Republican strategists have whispered that the fundraisers aren’t well-attended and Mastriano went on Facebook this week to complain about a lack of support from “national-level Republican organizations.”
“We haven’t seen much assistance coming from them and we’re 49 days out,” Mastriano said.
At campaign events, Mastriano promises to be a pro-energy governor and bus migrants to Biden’s home in Delaware, and he warns that Shapiro is pursuing an extreme agenda.
“If we’re extreme about anything, it’s about loving our constitution,” Mastriano told a rally crowd in nearby Chambersburg earlier this month.
For his part, Shapiro is gamely going about the campaign, taking advantage of Mastriano’s weaknesses. The Democrat will be a guest in early October at the annual dinner of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, a group accustomed to endorsing Republicans for governor. Mastriano hasn’t accepted even its invitation to speak to its board, something Shapiro already did.
Building-trades unions that work on power plants, pipelines and refineries in a coal and natural gas powerhouse haven’t heeded Mastriano’s promises that “we’re going to drill and dig like there’s no tomorrow.”
Instead, they have accepted Shapiro’s middle-of-the-road stance on energy and attacked Mastriano’s support for right-to-work policies as anathema even to rank-and-file members who vote Republican.
“Here’s one thing my members get: They’ll never, ever be with someone who is for right-to-work, ever,” said James Snell, the business manager of Steamfitters Local 420 in Philadelphia.
Shapiro is also taking centrist positions that might help inoculate himself against Mastriano’s attacks.
The race got personal, with Mastriano repeatedly criticizing Shapiro’s choice of a private school for his children — a Jewish day school — as “one of the most privileged, entitled schools in the nation.”
Shapiro, a devout conservative Jew, responded that Mastriano — who espouses what scholars call Christian nationalist ideology — wants to impose his religion on others and “dictate to folks where and how they should worship and on what terms.”
Shapiro dug deeper on Mastriano, saying he speaks in “anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic tropes every day.” Mastriano calls those distractions from Shapiro’s record as attorney general and failure to stem rising homicides in Philadelphia.
Still, Shapiro is drawing crowds on Mastriano’s turf, far from his power base in Philadelphia’s upscale suburbs.
It is fertile ground, said Marty Qually, a Democratic county commissioner in Adams County, which includes Gettysburg, because Democrats are riled up like he’s never seen before and even Republicans there tell him they cannot accept Mastriano’s Christian nationalism or hard-line abortion stance.
It speaks volumes that Shapiro is campaigning in small towns, and not in Democratic strongholds: It means that he’s comfortable with where the race is, Qually said.
“Some folks here said: ‘Why do you want to go to Franklin County? That’s where the other guy’s from,’” Shapiro told the crowd in Chambersburg. “Let me tell you something. I’m glad I came. Ya’ll are making me feel at home.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — How do American leaders and their allies intend to respond if President Vladimir Putin seeks to escalate his way out of a bad situation on Ukraine’s battlefields, and makes good on renewed threats of annexing territory or even using nuclear weapons?
At least to start with, by trying to double down on the same tactics that have helped put Russia in a corner in Ukraine, U.S. and European leaders have made clear: more financial penalties and international isolation for Russia, more arms and other backing for Ukraine.
That won’t necessarily be easy. It’s been tough enough staying the current course of persuading all of dozens of allies to stick with sanctions and isolation for Putin, and persuading more ambivalent countries to join in. Global financial and energy disruptions from Russia’s war in Ukraine already promise to make the coming winter a tough one for countries that have depended on Russia for their energy needs.
And there’s no sign of U.S. or NATO officials matching Putin’s renewed nuclear threats with the same nuclear bluster, which in itself might raise the risks of escalating the conflict to an unimaginable level. Even if Putin should act on his nuclear threat, President Joe Biden and others point, without details, to an ascending scale of carefully calibrated responses, based on how far Russia goes.
To start with, “they’ll become more of a pariah in the world than they ever have been,” Biden told CBS’ “60 Minutes” just ahead of Putin’s new wartime measures and renewed nuclear threat.
“What they do will determine what response would occur,” Biden said on the nuclear side, adding that the U.S. responses in that case would be “consequential.”
“I do not believe the United States would take an escalatory step” in the event of a one-off, limited nuclear detonation by Russia aimed at trying to scare Ukraine and its supporters off, said Rose Gottemoeller, former deputy NATO secretary-general and former U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control. “Certainly, it would not respond with nuclear weapons.”
Putin this week pledged to use “all available means” to stave off any challenges as Russia moves to summarily claim more Ukrainian territory despite heavy losses on the battlefield to NATO-armed Ukrainian forces. In case NATO missed the point, another senior Russian political figure specified the next day that included nuclear weapons. Putin also mobilized Russian fighters to throw into the seven-month invasion of Ukraine, and announced votes in parts of Ukraine that the West says are meant to provide political cover for illegally absorbing those regions into Russia.
U.S. and European Union officials say new sanctions are in the works in response to Putin’s latest moves.
“Russia, its political leadership, and all those involved in organizing these ‘referenda’ as well as in other violations of international law and international humanitarian law in Ukraine will be held accountable,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pledged this week, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
But political declarations are the easy part. It’s unclear what type of measures can be agreed upon, as the financial punishments against Russia are also increasingly inflicting pain on other European economies weighed down by high electricity and natural gas prices and spiraling inflation. Hungary has led resistance to sanctions that might hit its supplies from Russia, but it isn’t alone in hesitating.
New sanctions may come only after much debate and hand-wringing among the 27 EU member countries in coming weeks, probably only after Russia has held its referendums.
The last round of sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was announced May 4, but only agreed on four weeks later, as concerns over oil divided member countries. Rather than a new set of sanctions, a “maintenance and alignment” package was sealed in July, mostly to close loopholes on measures already agreed upon.
Pressed by reporters in New York for details about what might be coming, Borrell said the sanctions would target “new areas of the Russian economy, especially — if I can be a little more concrete — the technological ones.”
Ursula von der Leyen, who heads the EU’s executive branch — the European Commission — which has been responsible for drawing up most of the sanctions, also appeared resolute, but she was hardly more forthcoming.
“We stand ready to impose further economic costs on Russia and on individuals and entities inside and outside of Russia who support (the war), politically or economically. Plus we will propose additional export controls on civilian technology as Russia moves to a full war economy,” she told CNN.
Beyond the economic sanctions, the EU since Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine has slapped asset freezes and travel bans on more than 1,200 Russians, including Putin, Russia’s foreign minister and other senior officials.
Militarily, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said this month that NATO is working with the defense industry to explore ways to boost arms production to better meet Ukraine’s needs and replenish the arsenals of allies who have been providing weapons and defense systems.
“We saw that during the COVID crisis, the industry was able to ramp up production of vaccines and now we need to have, to some extent, the same approach: ramp up quickly production of weapons and ammunition,” he told The Associated Press.
The U.S. as a matter of policy maintains ambiguity about how it would respond to any use of nuclear weapons in the conflict. Such a use would return the world to nuclear war for the first time since the U.S. dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and risk escalation on a scale the world has never seen.
But U.S. officials’ public comments on the matter this month are in line with expectations from arms experts that Washington’s response would be a graduated one based on the gravity of Russia’s nuclear use. A one-off and comparatively limited Russian nuclear use would deepen Russia’s isolation internationally, but may not necessarily draw an immediate Western nuclear use in kind.
It’s difficult to fathom Putin launching any central strategic nuclear strike at the United States or its NATO allies, which would be “to commit suicide,” said Gottemoeller, the former deputy NATO secretary-general.
Gottemoeller describes instead a scenario of Putin carrying out a single demonstration strike over the Black Sea or against a Ukrainian military target, in hopes of spiking pressure on Ukraine’s Western-allied government to capitulate.
Internationally, “There would be a very firm response that … would amount to, again redoubling efforts to help the Ukrainians,” and “also in terms of huge condemnation in the international community,” she said.
That condemnation would be sure to draw in countries that so far have declined to break with Russia or stop doing business with it, including China, India and countries of the global south, she said.
For Putin, actual nuclear use would give up all the benefits of simply threatening it, and pile on untold risks for Putin after that, said Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College London.
“The Chinese and the Indians and others that have not been marked in their condemnation of Russia … would have to speak. The last thing they want is for the precedent of nuclear use to be made,” Freedman said.
“So I think we can we can scare ourselves quite easily by the by the rhetoric he uses. But I think I think it’s best to recognize he does have a purpose, which is working, to stop the West intervening directly,” he said. “To start using nuclear weapons against the West, you have to expect” at least the risk of “nuclear weapons coming back in your direction.”
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A bargain hunter who went to an estate sale in Maine to find a KitchenAid mixer, a bookshelf or vintage clothing walked away with a 700-year-old treasure.
Instead of a kitchen appliance, Will Sideri stumbled upon a framed document hanging on a wall. It had elaborate script in Latin, along with musical notes and gold flourishes. A sticker said 1285 AD. Based on what he’d seen in a manuscripts class at Colby College, the document looked downright medieval.
And it was a bargain at $75.
Academics confirmed the parchment was from The Beauvais Missal, used in the Beauvais Cathedral in France, and dated to the late 13th century. It was used about 700 years ago in Roman Catholic worship, they said.
An expert on manuscripts said the document, first reported by the Maine Monitor, could be worth as much as $10,000.
After spying the unusual manuscript, Sideri contacted his former Colby College professor, who was familiar with it because there’s another page in the college collection. The professor reached out to another academic who’d researched the document. They quickly confirmed the authenticity.
The parchment was part of a prayer book and priests’ liturgy, said Lisa Fagin Davis, executive director of the Medieval Academy of America and a professor of manuscript studies at Simmons University in Boston.
The full missal was once owned by William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper publisher, before being sold in the 1940s and, much to the consternation of today’s academics, was divvied up into individual pages, she said.
The practice was common in the early 20th century. “Thousands of unique manuscripts were destroyed and scattered this way,” Davis said.
Davis has painstakingly researched The Beauvais Missal, and has tracked down more than 100 individual pages across the country. All told, the missal numbered 309 pages in its original form.
The page purchased by Sideri is of particular interest to scholars. It’s a treasure both because of its age and condition, which is far better than the other page in the Colby collection, said Megan Cook, Sideri’s former professor, who teaches medieval literature at Colby.
The parchment is worth upward of $10,000, according to Davis. But Sideri said he has no intention of selling it. He said he likes the history and beauty of the parchment — and the story of how he stumbled upon it.
“This is something, at the end of the day, that I know is cool,” he said. “I didn’t buy this expecting to sell it.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/bargain-hunter-finds-700-year-old-medieval-manuscript-at-estate-sale/ | 2022-09-24T16:40:16 | en | 0.978281 |
(The Hill) – President Biden honored Sir Elton John with the National Humanities Medal Friday following a performance from the musician on the south lawn of the White House.
“It’s my great honor, and I mean this sincerely, to present the National Humanities Medal to Sir Elton John,” Biden said to a visibly shocked John and cheers from the audience.
The honor was given to the British music icon “for moving our souls with his powerful voice and one of the defining song books of all time. An enduring icon and advocate with absolute courage, who found purpose to challenge convention, shatter stigma and advance the simple truth — that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect,” according to the citation.
John, who teared up as the president placed the medal around his neck, said, “I’m never flabbergasted, but I’m flabbergasted and humbled and honored by this incredible award from the United States of America.”
“America’s kindness to me as a musician is second to none, but in the war against AIDS and HIV it’s even bigger,” the musician said before choking up and adding, “I’m really emotional about this.”
John had been invited to perform at the White House for a concert titled “A Night When Hope and History Rhyme” due to his advocacy in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The performer earned standing ovations after playing a number of his hits, including “Your Song,” “Rocket Man” and “Tiny Dancer.”
Among the 2,000 guests present at the concert were Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and civil rights activist Ruby Bridges. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/biden-surprises-elton-john-with-national-humanities-medal/ | 2022-09-24T16:40:23 | en | 0.973332 |
(NewsNation) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is firing back at comments the CEO of McDonald’s made last week about crime in the city causing businesses to leave.
On Sept. 14, the chief executive of the world’s largest fast-food chain claimed crime had gotten so bad that employees were scared to return to the office at the company’s headquarters.
“Everywhere I go, I’m confronted by the same question: ‘What’s going on in Chicago?’” Chris Kempczinski said during an event at the Economic Club of Chicago. “While it may wound our civic pride to hear it, there is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis.”
Despite his criticism, Kempczinski said McDonald’s is “doubling down” and staying put in the city.
Lightfoot, however, said the CEO should have “educated himself” before making those comments.
She cited a letter from Michael Fassnacht, whom she picked to head World Business Chicago, an organization that helps promote economic development and tout business gains in the city, The Chicago Tribune reported.
Fassnacht wrote in the letter that while the departures of companies such as Citadel and Boeing are disappointing, there have been 112 other companies who have moved to or opened their doors in Chicago over the last 18 months.
“These 112 company relocations or new market entrants created over 19,000 direct and indirect jobs. Additionally, the (Bureau of Labor Statistics) business establishment data shows there are 7,400 more businesses today in the Chicago metro area than pre-COVID,” Fassnacht wrote, according to the Tribune.
Looking at crime statistics, there is reason to question some of Kempczinski’s claims.
Some crime is actually down this year compared to when McDonald’s decided to come to the city.
McDonald’s announced it was moving its headquarters from the suburb of Oak Brook to downtown Chicago in 2016. The move actually happened in 2018.
Back in 2016, there were 762 homicides in Chicago, The Associated Press reported — a two-decade high. Comparatively, police data shows Chicago can expect to see more than 600 homicides in 2022, according to WTTW-TV. That’s still down more than 10% compared to each of the last two years, WTTW said.
Robberies are also down. In 2018, there were 9,684 robberies, police data shows. Meanwhile, in 2021, there were 7,925 robberies — an almost 20% decrease from when McDonald’s headquarters opened in the West Loop.
Another problem with Kempczinski sentiments? He cited Boeing and Caterpillar as two companies that moved out of Chicago — but that’s only part of the story.
Caterpillar was never based in the city — its global headquarters were in Deerfield, a northern suburb, before it left for Texas.
And Boeing didn’t cite crime as its reason for leaving Chicago. The company’s chief executive said in a statement that the company relocated to the Washington, D.C., area because of its proximity to their customers and stakeholders, according to The Associated Press. Going to Arlington, Virginia, means Boeing, which is concentrating on the defense industry, is closer to Pentagon leaders, and that company executives would be near the Federal Aviation Administration, the AP said in May.
Their rival defense contractors, including General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, are also already based in the Washington area as well.
Statistics aside, many Chicagoans — like folks in most parts of the country — remain concerned about crime. Throughout Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s time in office, polls show crime has ranked as the No. 1 issue for Chicago voters, NewsNation previously reported.
Lightfoot, meanwhile, has said the city is addressing these concerns.
“Progress on violence can be slow, and at times can be frustrating. But we’re working on it day in and day out,” Lightfoot said. “And we’re seeing the fruits of those labors.”
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(NerdWallet) – It takes an emotional and physical toll when you experience pregnancy loss — and it can also bring an unexpected financial burden.
Even with insurance, surgical treatment for a miscarriage can add up to more than $4,300 on average, according to FAIR Health — a national, independent nonprofit that uses health care claims data to provide cost estimates to consumers.
How much of that you pay depends on your insurance plan.
What is a miscarriage?
Miscarriage is the most common form of pregnancy loss, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. A miscarriage occurs when there is a spontaneous loss of the embryo or fetus in the womb during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. Studies indicate roughly 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage, with the majority occurring during the first trimester.
After a miscarriage, the body needs to shed the contents of the uterus. This may happen naturally and last a few weeks. But it also could require taking medication or undergoing minor surgery called dilation and curettage, or D&C, to ensure all the remaining tissue is removed.
The Cleveland Clinic provides more detail on the signs and types of miscarriage. If you’re pregnant and experience any of the symptoms described, contact your physician.
Miscarriage and the cost of a D&C procedure
Costs really go up when a person needs a D&C after a miscarriage. FAIR Health data shows the average cost of a D&C during the first trimester is $4,307 with insurance; a D&C used to treat a second-trimester miscarriage is $5,301 on average. These costs include outpatient facility and physician fees, which may be higher or lower depending on where you’re treated.
Your share of the bill would be determined by your plan’s coinsurance or copayment policies, as well as your deductible and out-of-pocket maximums.
For someone who isn’t insured, FAIR Health data shows the cost almost doubles to $8,445 for a first-trimester procedure and to $9,742 during the second trimester.
State Medicaid programs also cover treatment for miscarriage. Medicaid provides coverage to people who are pregnant and who meet eligibility requirements. Pregnancy-related care provided under Medicaid includes services needed to care for the pregnant person and their unborn baby. This includes medical services that become necessary because the person was pregnant, like a D&C. The national program pays for roughly 40% of births in the U.S., according to KFF, a health research group.
A person who qualifies for Medicaid because they are pregnant remains eligible for at least 60 days after the pregnancy ends, allowing for continued care during the postpartum period, including after pregnancy loss. And under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, state Medicaid programs can extend the postpartum coverage period to 12 months. As of last month, 34 states had implemented or planned to implement that extension.
Contact your state Medicaid office to determine what is covered where you live.
Miscarriage and the cost of medication
A surgical procedure may not be necessary in all cases of miscarriage, with medication being a less invasive and cheaper option. The most likely drug to be prescribed is misoprostol. Studies show adding a second medication — mifepristone, which is taken before misoprostol — can be more effective than taking misoprostol alone. This would make it less likely that a person who has experienced a miscarriage would require additional medical intervention like a D&C.
Since pregnancy care is an essential health benefit under the Affordable Care Act, most insurance plans and Medicaid are required to cover medication used to treat a miscarriage. However, mifepristone and misoprostol also are used in abortions, which has impacted access in some states.
On average, treating a miscarriage with medication costs just under $700, whether you take one or both drugs, according to a 2018 study published by the American Medical Association.
How the recent Roe v. Wade decision impacts miscarriage
The overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to enact laws banning or severely restricting abortion. These state laws can also impact people experiencing pregnancy loss since treatment for miscarriage often depends on the same medications and the same surgical procedures that are used to induce an abortion and clear tissue from the uterus.
The impact could be felt through insurance coverage as well as access to care.
A Texas abortion law enacted in 2021 allows civil actions to be brought against anyone who assists with ending a pregnancy after six weeks, resulting in at least a $10,000 fine. As a result, there have been reports detailing stories of patients who struggle to get care after a miscarriage because doctors or pharmacists are trying to avoid any appearance of assisting an abortion.
Access challenges could impact cost if patients are forced to pay for services themselves, either because coverage is denied or they’re forced to seek care at facilities outside their insurance plan’s network. Delays in administering medication after a miscarriage could also result in the need for additional medical care.
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CYPRESS HILLS, Brooklyn (WPIX) — It was a gruesome discovery, and now, after a woman’s dismembered body was found in suitcases in her apartment in Brooklyn, police investigators are searching for at least one person of interest in connection with the crime.
The incident is also reminding local residents of a similar murder from earlier this year, which also involved a dismembered body discovered nearby. That case is unrelated, but the proximity and similarity have left some neighbors disturbed.
In the most recent case, a woman in her early 20s was found dismembered in her home in the Cypress Hills neighborhood.
On Thursday, NYPD crime scene technicians and detectives were in and out of the building, removing bags of evidence related to the grisly scene that was discovered the day before.
Around 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the building’s super, who’d received complaints of a foul odor coming from an apartment, let police in to check on a woman in her early 20s. They entered and found parts of her body cut up and left in two suitcases, according to police.
A neighbor who lives on the same floor, a few doors down, who did not want to give his name, said that the woman and her boyfriend had long had a contentious relationship.
“You’d hear arguing, banging, loud stuff,” he said about arguments in the woman’s apartment that many neighbors couldn’t avoid.
“If you tried to break it up,” he continued, “you’re just putting yourself in a problem you can’t solve.”
He said that there was often evidence that the fights between the woman and her boyfriend got very physical.
“Somebody gets hit very hard in the mouth, right?” he said. “The blood trail will lead from the door to the elevator. They stood in the elevator obviously to the first floor, came back out to the front of the building. The blood trail stops there, and you’d see them both arguing in front of the building.”
The boyfriend is being sought in the case, according to neighbors and police sources.
Some other residents of the building said that the disturbing scene was just too close to home.
“I want to move,” said one resident, a mother who was returning home after picking up her child from school. “I’m annoyed, and I’m shocked,” she said. She declined to give her name.
Another resident, Noël, was also returning home from school with his children on Thursday afternoon.
“I never thought I’d see something like that coming out of this building,” he said.
Others in the neighborhood said that while the case is disturbing, they’re not surprised.
Samantha Wren said she lived her whole life in the neighborhood until moving recently to Texas. She’d returned to help her mother settle the affairs of her recently deceased father.
“Now, this is the second time in this neighborhood that something like this has happened,” Wren said. “Not that they’re linked — it’s just that it’s unfortunate.”
Wren was referring to a case from six months ago, when the torso of a missing woman, Susan Leyden, was found in a bag in a shopping cart about 15 blocks away. Days later, other remains were found. Alleged serial killer Harvey Marcelin ended up being charged with the murder. He has pleaded not guilty in the case, and his trial is pending.
But no suspect has been apprehended in this latest case. Investigators gathered evidence on Wednesday afternoon and continued through early in the evening on Thursday, hoping to put together a clearer picture of the crime.
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(KXAN) — You may have noticed a sticky, clear substance clinging to your vehicle and outdoor furniture this summer — but what is it?
“It’s just a sticky, yuckiness,” said Wizzie Brown, an entomologist with Texas A&M’s Agrilife Extension.
If your car looks like it’s covered with clear sticky droplets — you’ve probably got honeydew.
“If you’re standing under the tree and you feel like it’s raining on you — you’re actually being, I guess, peed or pooped on,” added Brown. Gross, yes, but scientifically accurate.
What is honeydew?
This honeydew is a sugary waste product of aphid insects called “phloem feeders” that are basically eating from broadleaf trees, like pecans, to get the “tree juice.”
“There’s a whole bunch of different hoppers like leaf hoppers, treehoppers, plant hoppers, all of those are phloem-feeding insects and are capable of producing honeydew,” Brown said.
Summer droughts can stress trees, making them more vulnerable to these insects.
How do I get rid of honeydew?
Using a hose to wash your trees helps reduce the insect population, and a simple hosing of water should “melt the sugar” off whatever it’s sticking to.
But don’t wait to wash it off, the honeydew will harden if left alone — making it more difficult to clean.
The honeydew also attracts ants who love to eat it and while we wouldn’t suggest you do the same.
According to Brown, “the Greeks and Romans and stuff. They used to feed on honeydew because it was a sugary, sweet substance and kind of nectar of the gods because it’s falling from the sky.”
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The Federal Reserve escalated its fight against inflation this week, instituting a major rate increase and saying more will likely follow. The moves will cause a jump in the number of unemployed Americans by the end of next year, the central bank said.
The Fed has put forward a series of aggressive interest rate hikes in recent months as it tries to slash price increases by slowing the economy and choking off demand. But the approach risks tipping the United States into a recession and causing widespread joblessness.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday acknowledged that rate hikes would cause pain for the U.S. economy, as growth slows and unemployment rises. He added, however, that "a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain later on."
The job losses forecasted by the Fed this week would by the end of 2023 raise the unemployment rate from its current level of 3.7% to 4.4%. That outcome would add an estimated 1.2 million unemployed people, according to Omair Sharif, the founder of research firm Inflation Insights.
Those job losses will disproportionately fall on some of the most vulnerable workers, including minorities and less-educated employees, according to economists and studies of past downturns.
Here are the groups of workers who would most likely lose their jobs if unemployment rises:
Black and Hispanic workers
Black workers would be among the first to lose their jobs if unemployment spikes, since they're disproportionately concentrated in industries sensitive to economic downturns. Racial discrimination often influences choices made by companies about which workers to fire, economists said.
"The Fed's actions really do mean some disparate impact for Black workers in the American economy," Michelle Holder, a labor economist at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told ABC News.
The vulnerability of Black workers in a downturn manifested during the most recent recession, in spring 2020, when the pandemic caused higher unemployment for Black workers at every education level when compared with their white counterparts, a RAND Corporation study found.
Overall, the unemployment rate for Black workers in the early period of the pandemic peaked at 16.8%, while the unemployment rate for white workers reached only 14.1%.
Between the late 1980s and mid-2000s, government employment data shows "considerable evidence" that Black workers are among the first ones fired as the economy weakens, according to an economic study published in 2010 in Demography, an academic journal.
"To be blunt, discrimination still occurs in the American labor market," Holder said.
A similar dynamic of disproportionate job losses impacts Hispanic workers, the economists said.
William Spriggs, the chief economist at the AFL-CIO labor union and a professor of economics at Howard University, said Hispanic workers would suffer acutely in a downturn brought about by interest rate hikes, since they're disproportionately represented in the construction industry.
When the Fed raises rates, it often leads to a spike in mortgage rates, causing prospective homebuyers to put off their purchases and builders to delay further construction. U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages jumped to 6.29% on Thursday, the highest level in 14 years, according to Freddie Mac's mortgage market survey.
As of last year, Hispanic workers made up nearly a third of all construction workers, according to a National Association of Home Builders analysis of government data published in June.
"We've already seen construction work is slowing," Spriggs told ABC News. "Those construction workers get hit first."
Less-educated workers
Another group that would stand among the first to end up jobless amid a downturn is less-educated workers.
Two years ago, during the pandemic-induced recession, less-educated workers suffered far more acute job losses than their better-educated peers, according to a study published in 2021 by the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
In general, when the economy weakens, poorly educated workers endure a more negative effect on employment than their better-educated counterparts, according to a study published by the Minneapolis Federal Reserve in 2010.
In the Great Recession, the employment rate for workers with just a high school diploma fell 5.6%, while the employment rate for workers with a college degree fell less than 1%, the study found.
"Workers who tend to fare better when the economy contracts are better-educated workers," said Holder.
Young workers
Data from the two most recent recessions, in 2020 and 2007, indicates that young workers suffer disproportionately when the economy contracts.
During the pandemic-induced recession, young workers became jobless at a much higher rate than older workers, according to a study released by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute in 2020.
From spring 2019 to spring 2020, the overall unemployment rate among workers ages 16 to 24 rose from 8.4% to 24.4%, while unemployment for workers ages 25 and older rose from 2.8% to 11.3%, the study found.
A similar outcome followed the Great Recession. Between 2007 and 2010, workers between the ages of 16 and 24 suffered a more dramatic drop in employment than any other age group, according to a Brookings Institution analysis of government data that focused on the ratio of employed workers in a given demographic compared to its representation in the population as a whole. | https://6abc.com/fed-interest-rate-hike-potential-job-lost-unemployment/12260386/ | 2022-09-24T16:41:09 | en | 0.968091 |
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Morning" game were:
01-02-06-07-11-13-14-16-17-21-22-24
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
6-4-8-7, FIREBALL: 1
(six, four, eight, seven; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
6-4-8-7, FIREBALL: 1
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
4-6-0, FIREBALL: 9
(four, six, zero; FIREBALL: nine)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
4-6-0, FIREBALL: 9
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COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee authorities say they are searching for a man suspected of hitting a police officer with a car and driving over him, sending him to the hospital with serious injuries.
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, initial reports show a Collierville Police Department officer found a car early Saturday believed to be involved in a shooting in Shelby County.
The agency says the driver hit the officer with the car, forcing him onto the vehicle’s hood. Citing preliminary reports, the agency says that driver ran over the officer as he left.
Authorities say the officer fired at the man at some point, though it’s unclear if any shots struck the driver. Police are requesting help finding the suspect identified as 32-year-old Keith Houston Jr.
They say he may be driving a white 2017 Corvette and ask anyone with information regarding his whereabouts to call the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation or the Collierville Police Department.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Some Oregon parks officials say high demand for crowded campsites is leading to arguments, fistfights and even so-called “campsite pirates.”
Brian Carroll with Linn County Parks and Recreation said park rangers have had to play mediator this summer as would-be campers argue over first-come, first-served campsites at Sunnyside County Park, the Statesman-Journal reported Friday.
“People were literally fighting over campsites,” said Carroll. “What we experienced this year was certainly a general level of increased frustration and anxiety of people not being able to get their campsite. There seems to be less general common courtesy going on.”
Tensions also escalated over reserved campsites, with some recreationists wrongly claiming already-reserved sites by tearing off the reservation tags and replacing them with their own, prompting the nickname “campsite pirates.” The original parties end up angry and confused when they arrive to find their campsite occupied. The practice isn't common, but it's happening more than it used to, Carroll said.
“In the past, it was extremely rare,” he said. “Have there been disputes? Yeah, you know that happened previously. But like I said, not on the scale that we saw this year.”
Sunnyside County Park isn't the only place experiencing such woes. Earlier this year, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department said it would seek legislation to give rangers added protection because of the increasing level of assaults and harassment targeting rangers.
“Traditionally about 1% of our visitors really struggle with complying to rules and regulations,” said Dennis Benson, recreation manager for Deschutes National Forest. “Now, we’ve got more like 10% of the population that doesn’t comply or adhere with rules, regulations, those kinds of things, which is lending itself to more problematic behaviors on public lands.”
Oregon's state park system has opened just three new campgrounds since 1972, though the state's population has increased dramatically.
Last year, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department set records for its total numbers of visitors — an estimated 53.6 million day visits and 3.02 million campers who stayed overnight. This year’s numbers are about the same, state Parks and Recreation Department associate director Chris Havel said.
“This summer we’ve been extremely busy, at 96% to 98% capacity, which basically means you might find a night here or there, but basically everything is taken,” Havel said. “What we’re noticing again this year is that it’s a lot of people new to camping and the outdoors in general. In other words, the trend that we saw start during the pandemic of people coming out for the first time is continuing, and that means we’re going to stay busy.” | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Crowded-campsites-high-demand-causes-fights-17464196.php | 2022-09-24T16:41:24 | en | 0.970038 |
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for 24 counties as Tropical Storm Ian gathers strength over the Caribbean and is expected to bring heavy rain and hurricane-force winds to the state next week.
DeSantis issued the order Friday encouraging residents and local governments to make preparations as the storm moves toward the state. He has also requested a federal pre-landfall emergency declaration.
“This storm has the potential to strengthen into a major hurricane and we encourage all Floridians to make their preparations,” DeSantis said in a statement. “We are coordinating with all state and local government partners to track potential impacts of this storm.”
The National Hurricane Center said Ian is forecast to rapidly strengthen in the coming days before moving over western Cuba and approach Florida next week with major hurricane force.
John Cangialosi, a senior hurricane specialist with National Hurricane Center in Miami, said it is currently unclear where Ian will hit hardest in Florida and said residents should begin preparing for the storm, including gathering supplies for potential power outages.
“Too soon to say if it's going to be a southeast Florida problem or a central Florida problem or just the entire state,” he said. “So at this point really the right message for those living in Florida is that you have to watch forecasts and get ready and prepare yourself for potential impact from this tropical system.”
The governor's declaration applies to Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota and St. Lucie counties.
Meanwhile, strong rain and winds are lashing the Atlantic Canada region as a powerful post-tropical cyclone made landfall there, with forecasters warning it could be one of the most severe storms in the county's history. Fiona made landfall in Nova Scotia before dawn Saturday.
More than 500,000 customers in Atlantic Canada have been affected by outages. Ocean waves pounded the town of Port Aux Basques on the southern coast of Newfoundland, where entire structures were washed into the sea.
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YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Faculty members at Eastern Michigan University have voted to ratify a new four-year labor agreement with the school.
The Eastern Michigan University chapter of the American Association of University Professors said Friday that 96% of its members voted in favor of the deal which would include pay raises and more favorable health care coverage.
Dozens of faculty members began picketing Sept. 7 at the school, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southwest of Detroit.
The union and the school's administration had been split over salary increases and how much faculty members should pay for health care. Union leaders had argued that the school’s proposal for health care would have saddled its members with thousands of dollars in additional costs.
Striking faculty members returned to their classrooms Sept. 12, after a deal was reached with the university to end the walkout.
The new contract would cover more than 500 tenured and tenure-track faculty and includes $4,000 raises in base pay or 4% in the first year of the agreement, whichever is greater, as well as 3.25% base pay increases in the second and third years, the union said.
Faculty also would receive the same health care options as administrators and other groups on campus, with health care premiums based on an 80/20 cost-sharing model.
“Our goal was to bring back an agreement to address concerns we heard about supporting our students, fair compensation and creating a foundation for continued quality education at EMU,” said Matt Kirkpatrick, associate professor of English language and literature and chair of the faculty union negotiating team.
The university’s Board of Regents still has to review and vote on the agreement before it is finalized. That is expected to occur “in the near future,” the school said Friday night in a statement.
“Contract negotiations of this nature are complex and challenging,” the school said. “The administration is pleased with the terms of the tentative agreement and greatly supports the university’s outstanding faculty and their work in the classroom to support our students.”
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has decided not to block the state’s plan to move two dozen troubled juvenile offenders from a suburban New Orleans detention center to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
In a 64-page ruling issued late Friday, Chief U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick denied a motion to immediately halt the plan to move the teenagers to the adult maximum security facility despite calling it “untenable” and “disturbing,” The Advocate reported.
The state’s Office of Juvenile Justice proved in a three-day court hearing this month that it could provide the youth constitutionally required levels of care at the Angola facility, Dick wrote.
“The prospect of putting a teenager to bed at night in a locked cell behind razor wire surrounded by swamps at Angola is disturbing,” the judge said in the ruling. “Some of the children in OJJ’s care are so traumatized and emotionally and psychologically disturbed that OJJ is virtually unable to provide a secure care environment."
“While locking children in cells at night at Angola is untenable, the threat of harm these youngsters present to themselves, and others, is intolerable,” she wrote. “The untenable must yield to the intolerable.”
The transfer was proposed in July and would serve as a last resort following increased escapes and fights at the Bridge City Center for Youth in Jefferson Parish. There have been at least four escapes this year, as well as a riot in which 20 juveniles took over parts of the complex.
But the plan has been sharply criticized by criminal justice advocates, former officials and the parents of children currently held at the center. An attorney for the plaintiffs did not immediately return a request for comment.
When exactly youth might be moved to Angola remains unclear. In a court filing earlier this month, attorneys for Gov. John Bel Edwards and the Office of Juvenile Justice wrote that there is no set date on which the agency plans to relocate them.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — So you're paying attention to the tectonic geopolitical issues at the U.N. General Assembly, and many of them are addressed in carefully calibrated and crafted diplospeak. Then, suddenly, someone like Ralph Gonsalves steps up to the podium.
In an ocean of speakers from around the world — from the driest of the dry all the way to downright bitter and angry — the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines stood out Saturday with his use of metaphor and imagery.
The cadence. The word choice. The drama. The poetry quotations.
A sampling:
— “... the dangerous vanities, delusional vainglories and hubris of men and women in power, particularly in the global centers of imperialism and in the locales of those intoxicated with the quest for hegemony.”
— “Without fresh hope, a desecration of our future awaits us.”
— “I ask the relevant and haunting questions: What's new? Which world? And who gives the orders? The future of humanity depends on satisfactory answers to these queries.”
— “We are a resilient people. We are not a people of lamentations.”
— “Trying to go up a fast-moving down escalator is a challenging exercise.”
Gonsalves is no stranger to summoning eloquence for political effect at the United Nations. Last year, months after a volcanic eruption in his country displaced 20,000 people, he came to the General Assembly and issued a clarion call in his oration.
“Across our land, the faces of men and women are strained and anxious," he said. “Please help St. Vincent and the Grenadines in its midnight hour of need."
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Mali’s prime minister lashed out Saturday at former colonizer France, the U.N. secretary-general and many people in between, saying that the tumultuous country had been “stabbed in the back" by the French military withdrawal. In the same remarks, Abdoulaye Maiga praised the “exemplary and fruitful cooperation between Mali and Russia.”
In his speech to the General Assembly, Maiga slammed what he called France’s “unilateral decision” to relocate its remaining troops to neighboring Niger amid deteriorating relations with Mali's two-time coup leader, Col. Assimi Goita.
While it was Goita and his allies who overthrew a democratically elected president by military force two years ago, Mali's prime minister repeatedly referred to a “French junta” throughout his speech Saturday.
“Move on from the colonial past and hear the anger, the frustration, the rejection that is coming up from the African cities and countryside, and understand that this movement is inexorable,” Maiga said. “Your intimidations and subversive actions have only swelled the ranks of Africans concerned with preserving their dignity.”
France intervened militarily in 2013, leading an effort to oust Islamic extremists from control of the northern Malian towns they had overtaken. Over the past nine years, France had continued its presence in a bid to stabilize the country amid repeated attacks by insurgents. The French departure has raised new concerns about whether those militants will again regain territory with security responsibilities now falling to the Malian military and U.N. peacekeepers.
Maiga spoke for more than 30 minutes on a Saturday morning in a speech that referenced everything from Victor Hugo to the Rwandan genocide. The Malian prime minister also offered a grim assessment of the U.N. peacekeeping mission known as MINUSMA, while openly praising the influence of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group who have been accused of carrying out human rights abuses.
“We must recognize that nearly 10 years after its establishment, the objectives for which MINUSMA was deployed in Mali have not been achieved,” Maiga said. “This is despite numerous Security Council resolutions.”
The Malian prime minister had particularly sharp words as well for the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, criticizing his recent comments on the standoff between Mali and Ivory Coast over 46 detained Ivorian soldiers.
Maiga reiterated claims before the U.N. General Assembly Saturday that the soldiers were sent to Mali as mercenaries, which the Ivorian government has vigorously denied. Ivory Coast says the soldiers were to provide security for a company contracted by the United Nations, but Maiga maintained Saturday that there is “no link between the 46 and the United Nations.”
Three female Ivorian soldiers already have been released as a “humanitarian gesture,” but there have been no updates about the others.
“Since friendship is based on sincerity, I would like to express my deep disagreement with your recent media appearance, in which you took a position and expressed yourself on the case of the 46 Ivorian mercenaries," he said in comments aimed at Guterres.
The nature of the offenses in the case “does not fall within the remit of the secretary-general of the United Nations," he added.
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials are appealing a judge's ruling that they lacked the legal authority to fire members of the city’s largest police union for violating a COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
State Supreme Court Judge Lyle Frank in Manhattan ruled Friday that the city health department's mandate couldn’t be used to fire or put on leave members of the Police Benevolent Association.
Frank said it was “undisputed” that city officials could issue vaccine mandates. But the judge said officials overstepped their authority by unilaterally creating a new condition of employment, as opposed to going through collective bargaining.
Frank ordered the reinstatement of union members who were “wrongfully” terminated or put on unpaid leave for refusing to get vaccinated. The city immediately filed a notice of appeal, freezing the judge's decision until the appeal is heard.
“This decision confirms what we have said from the start: the vaccine mandate was an improper infringement on our members’ right to make personal medical decisions in consultation with their own health care professionals,” PBA President Patrick Lynch said in a statement. “We will continue to fight to protect those rights.”
A spokesman for the city’s Law Department said the ruling “is at odds with every other court decision upholding the mandate as a condition of employment.”
Neither the city nor the union provided information about how many union members have been been placed on leave or fired over the mandate.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Laos have made their third largest seizure ever of methamphetamine, confiscating a haul of 33 million tablets along with 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine, an official with the U.N. anti-crime agency said Saturday.
The huge bust came after 200,000 tablets were found Friday night in a truck that was stopped at a checkpoint in the northwestern province of Bokeo, said Jeremy Douglas, the regional representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. That action exposed a trafficking group and its plans, leading to the far bigger seizure following the driver's interrogation.
Douglas pointed out that the truck was stopped near the Kings Roman Casino, which is located in a special economic zone of Laos that operates virtually autonomously of national law. Such zones are found in the neighboring countries of Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia, all of which have loose law enforcement and have struggled with organized crime.
Laos’ top drug seizure — also one of Asia’s biggest — was in October last year when police in the same province of Bokeo seized more than 55.6 million meth pills in a single raid, along with about 1,500 kilograms (3,300 pounds) of crystal meth, according to reports in Lao media.
The country’s second largest seizure, of 36.5 million meth pills, took place in January, also in Bokeo.
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime warned in a report in May that the production and trafficking of synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine is burgeoning in the region. It said the number of meth tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia exceeded a billion for the first time last year.
The 1.008 billion tablets was seven times higher than the amount seized 10 years earlier, the agency said, warning that increased production makes the drug cheaper and more accessible, creating greater risk to people and their communities.
Methamphetamine is easy to make and has supplanted opium and its derivative heroin to become the dominant illegal drug in Southeast Asia for both use and export.
The Golden Triangle area, where the borders of Myanmar - the main methamphetamine producer - Laos and Thailand meet, was historically a major production area for opium and hosted many of the labs that converted it to heroin.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police moved quickly Saturday to disperse peaceful protests against President Vladimir Putin's military mobilization order, arresting hundreds, including some children, in several cities across the vast country.
Police detained more than 700 people, including over 300 in Moscow and nearly 150 in St. Petersburg, according to OVD-Info, an independent website that monitors political arrests in Russia. Some of the arrested individuals were minors, OVD-Info said.
The demonstrations followed protests that erupted within hours Wednesday after Putin, in a move to beef up his volunteer forces fighting in Ukraine, announced a call-up of experienced and skilled army reservists.
The Defense Ministry said about 300,000 people would be summoned to active duty, but the order left a door open to many more getting called into service. Most Russian men ages 18-65 are automatically counted as reservists.
On Saturday, police deployed in force in the cities where protests were scheduled by opposition group Vesna and supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. They moved quickly to arrest demonstrators, most of them young people, before they could hold protests.
In Moscow, a heavy contingent of police roamed a downtown area where a protest was planned and checked the IDs of passersby. Officers rounded up those they deemed suspicious.
A young woman climbed on a bench and shouted “We aren't cannon fodder!” before police took her away.
In St. Petersburg, small groups of demonstrators managed to gather and shout protest slogans before being rounded up.
In the city of Novosibirsk in eastern Siberia, over 70 people were detained after singing an innocuous Soviet-era song praising peace.
In another Siberian city, of Irkutsk, police handed summons to military conscription offices to men who took part in a protest.
People who tried to hold individual pickets that are allowed under Russian law also were detained.
The quick police action followed the dispersal of Wednesday’s protests, when over 1,300 people were detained on Wednesday in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities.
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KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A group of Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that they were beaten and abused for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region this month.
Recounting their ordeal to reporters in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, one of the seven Sri Lankans said he was shot in the foot; another had his toenail ripped off and was slammed in the head with the butt of a rifle.
Ukrainian officials described their treatment as torture.
“Every day we were cleaning toilets and bathrooms,” Dilukshan Robertclive, one of the former captives, said in English. “Some days Russians came and beat our people, our Sri Lanka people.”
Four of the seven were medical students in the city of Kupiansk and three were working there when Russian forces poured across the border in late February and occupied large swaths of eastern and southern Ukraine.
The group said they were captured at the first checkpoint out of Kupiansk and then taken to Vovchansk, near the border with Russia, where they were held in the factory with around 20 Ukrainians.
“They took our passports, other documents, phones, clothes, and locked us up in a room," said Sharujan Gianeswaran, speaking in Tamil to an Associated Press journalist by phone. "There were also Ukrainian people with us, and they were questioned and sent away in 10 days, 15 days or one month. With us they never spoke, because they could not understand our language.”
Police said the factory housed a Russian “torture center” — one of 18 in the Kharkiv region.
“They were bound and blindfolded. After that they were captured and then taken to the city of Vovchansk,” said Serhiy Bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the National Police in Kharkiv.
Six among the group said they were held in a large upstairs room. The seventh, the only woman, was kept in a dark cell by herself, her companions said. The woman wept silently and did not speak as the group told their story Saturday.
One man said he was shot in the foot by the Russian captors. Another had a toenail ripped off after the soldiers repeatedly bashed it with the butt of a rifle. The men showed their injuries to journalists.
“Most of the time we could not understand what they told us and we were beaten for that,” Gianeswaran said.
It dawned upon the Sri Lankans that the battle lines were shifting only when Russian soldiers ordered them to help load trucks with food and weapons.
As the last trucks raced away, the group asked fruitlessly for their passports and papers back, knowing that to move around without them would be impossible in a country filled with checkpoints.
Russian troops captured several cities and towns in northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region early in the war. Ukrainian troops retook the area during a swift counteroffensive earlier this month.
When the Sri Lankans realized the Russians were gone, on Sept. 10, the group left the factory and started walking toward the city of Kharkiv, having no real idea how to get to the regional capital which had remained in Ukrainian hands.
“We walked on that road for two days and were exhausted and hungry. We had no food or money to buy food,” Gianeswaran said.
They slept on the side of the road and walked until they reached a river. But with so many bridges in the region destroyed by one side or the other in months of fighting, they could find no way to cross.
Finally someone noticed their plight, gave them shelter and called for a ride from security forces.
Police said the group was picked up in the Chuhuiv area, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) from where they started. They are in Kharkiv now, with no idea of what the future holds. Robertclive said they are psychologically damaged by their months in captivity.
But the men smiled when asked how they felt when they realized the worst of their ordeal was at an end.
“They (Ukrainians) have given us food and clothing,” Gianeswaran said. “We thought we were going to die but we are saved and are being well looked after.”
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The agent for Buffalo Bills safety Micah Hyde announced Saturday that the team plans to place the starter on season-ending injured reserve because of a neck injury.
Jack Bechta added in a message posted on Twitter that he expects Hyde to be healthy in returning for next season.
Hyde already had been ruled out for Sunday's game against Miami. He was carted off the sideline in the second half of Buffalo’s 41-7 win over Tennessee on Monday night.
Coach Sean McDermott said Tuesday that the Bills sent Hyde to the hospital to have his injury further evaluated.
The injury represents a big blow for the Bills, who are off to a 2-0 start.
Hyde and Jordan Poyer have established themselves as one of the NFL’s top safety tandems since both signed with the Bills in 2017. The two were tied with a team-leading five interceptions last season.
Buffalo will be without at least four defensive regulars for their AFC East showdown against the Dolphins.
Cornerback Dane Jackson, tackle Ed Oliver and backup tackle Jordan Phillips also were ruled out Friday. Poyer and tackle Tim Settle were among five players listed as questionable after practicing on a limited basis.
Rookie cornerbacks Christian Benford and Kaiir Elam are in line to start against a Tua Tagovailoa-led Dolphins offense which leads the NFL through two games with 703 yards passing. Benford and Elam opened the season sharing snaps at the the cornerback spot opposite Jackson.
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LONDON (AP) — Filling in for the retired Roger Federer at the Laver Cup, 2021 Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini put Team Europe back in front by edging Team World's Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (11), 4-6, 10-7 on Saturday.
Federer closed his career at the team event founded by his management company on Friday night. The 20-time Grand Slam champion's last match came in doubles alongside longtime rival Rafael Nadal, a loss to Team World's Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock.
Federer stuck around, though, and helped Berrettini by offering coaching advance during Saturday's opening singles match.
Berrettini, a 26-year-old from Italy, originally was listed as an alternate on Team Europe, and it was clear he would step in for Federer, who said he ran his plan to bow out after doubles past the ATP and the team captains, Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.
Like Federer, Nadal withdrew from the three-day competition following their doubles contest.
Nadal's wife is supposed to give birth to their first child soon.
Nadal, who holds the men's record of 22 major titles, also has been dealing with injuries all season, including a torn abdominal muscle, but said he wanted to take part in Federer's farewell.
“For me, it was important, because I knew it was important to him,” said Nadal, who cried along with Federer after their doubles match Friday.
Berrettini's victory put Team Europe ahead 4-2, before Nadal's replacement, Cam Norrie, faced Taylor Fritz in the second singles match on Day 2.
The most-anticipated matches were to follow during the night session, with the return to competition of Novak Djokovic, who has not played since winning Wimbledon in July for his 21st Grand Slam trophy.
Djokovic, a 35-year-old from Serbia, could not enter the U.S. Open because he was not allowed to fly to the United States as a foreign citizen who has not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Djokovic was slated to do double duty Saturday, facing U.S. Open semifinalist Tiafoe in singles, before partnering with Berrettini against Sock and Alex de Minaur in doubles.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The International team battled to a draw Saturday morning in the Presidents Cup. The way this week has gone, it almost felt like a win.
The Korean duo of Tom Kim and K.H. Lee won two late holes and closed out Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns on the 17th hole, ending the morning foursomes session at 2-2.
It was the first time the Americans did not win a session at Quail Hollow.
But it didn't change the big picture.
This U.S. team is so strong and deep that what felt like an off day meant losing no ground. It still had a 10-4 lead going into afternoon fourballs, now needing only five-and-a-half points out of 16 remaining to win the cup.
Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama finally got their first point of the week when it was least expected. They were 2 down after eight holes until winning the next five holes and putting away Cameron Young and Collin Morikawa, 3 and 2.
“Any victory against the U.S. team has got to be really hard fought,” Scott said. “So this feels good.”
The other two matches were easily in American hands.
Max Homa is still having the week of his life. After his late heroics the night before, he partnered with Tony Finau in a 4-and-3 victory over Si Woo Kim and Cameron Davis, two of the bright spots for the International team this week.
Homa is now 3-0 in his debut playing in a cup.
And then there was Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas winning their third match in three tries this week, a 4-and-3 victory over Sungjae Im and Corey Conners.
Im gave the International side an early lead, but he was hurt by erratic play from Conners, who had a right miss he couldn't solve. The International team lost three holes on the front nine by making bogey, and Spieth made a big birdie at the turn for a 2-up lead.
The match turned on a mistake by the International team, which was starting to match shots against the Americans.
Spieth missed a short birdie putt on the par-5 12th that would have given the Americans a 3-up lead. On the next hole, Im had a 15-foot birdie putt to cut the lead to 1 down. It missed on the high side and rolled out 7 feet, and Conners missed the par putt.
Suddenly, the Americans were 3 up and closed them out on the 15th when Spieth drove it into the stream to the left, only for Im to follow him with a shot in the water. The Americans won with a bogey and the match was over.
Spieth has never lost a Presidents Cup foursomes match, moving to 7-0 with four partners. As a partnership in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, Spieth and Thomas are 7-2.
They headed out in the afternoon trying to become the first U.S. partnership to win all four matches in the Presidents Cup since Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker in 2009 at Harding Park.
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 24, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
852 AM PDT Sat Sep 24 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM PDT THIS MORNING...
While patchy dense fog may linger through mid-morning around the
Monterey Bay Region, conditions will begin to improve as surface
temperatures warm and the fog bank lifts. Motorist are urged to
drive with caution while experiencing fog and/or reduced
visibility through the morning.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Morning" game were:
01-02-06-07-11-13-14-16-17-21-22-24
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
6-4-8-7, FIREBALL: 1
(six, four, eight, seven; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
6-4-8-7, FIREBALL: 1
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
4-6-0, FIREBALL: 9
(four, six, zero; FIREBALL: nine)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
4-6-0, FIREBALL: 9
(four, six, zero; FIREBALL: nine) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Morning-game-17464127.php | 2022-09-24T16:43:39 | en | 0.892108 |
COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee authorities say they are searching for a man suspected of hitting a police officer with a car and driving over him, sending him to the hospital with serious injuries.
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, initial reports show a Collierville Police Department officer found a car early Saturday believed to be involved in a shooting in Shelby County.
The agency says the driver hit the officer with the car, forcing him onto the vehicle’s hood. Citing preliminary reports, the agency says that driver ran over the officer as he left.
Authorities say the officer fired at the man at some point, though it’s unclear if any shots struck the driver. Police are requesting help finding the suspect identified as 32-year-old Keith Houston Jr.
They say he may be driving a white 2017 Corvette and ask anyone with information regarding his whereabouts to call the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation or the Collierville Police Department.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating the incident. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Authorities-Man-drove-over-Tennessee-officer-is-17464160.php | 2022-09-24T16:43:45 | en | 0.962317 |
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Some Oregon parks officials say high demand for crowded campsites is leading to arguments, fistfights and even so-called “campsite pirates.”
Brian Carroll with Linn County Parks and Recreation said park rangers have had to play mediator this summer as would-be campers argue over first-come, first-served campsites at Sunnyside County Park, the Statesman-Journal reported Friday.
“People were literally fighting over campsites,” said Carroll. “What we experienced this year was certainly a general level of increased frustration and anxiety of people not being able to get their campsite. There seems to be less general common courtesy going on.”
Tensions also escalated over reserved campsites, with some recreationists wrongly claiming already-reserved sites by tearing off the reservation tags and replacing them with their own, prompting the nickname “campsite pirates.” The original parties end up angry and confused when they arrive to find their campsite occupied. The practice isn't common, but it's happening more than it used to, Carroll said.
“In the past, it was extremely rare,” he said. “Have there been disputes? Yeah, you know that happened previously. But like I said, not on the scale that we saw this year.”
Sunnyside County Park isn't the only place experiencing such woes. Earlier this year, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department said it would seek legislation to give rangers added protection because of the increasing level of assaults and harassment targeting rangers.
“Traditionally about 1% of our visitors really struggle with complying to rules and regulations,” said Dennis Benson, recreation manager for Deschutes National Forest. “Now, we’ve got more like 10% of the population that doesn’t comply or adhere with rules, regulations, those kinds of things, which is lending itself to more problematic behaviors on public lands.”
Oregon's state park system has opened just three new campgrounds since 1972, though the state's population has increased dramatically.
Last year, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department set records for its total numbers of visitors — an estimated 53.6 million day visits and 3.02 million campers who stayed overnight. This year’s numbers are about the same, state Parks and Recreation Department associate director Chris Havel said.
“This summer we’ve been extremely busy, at 96% to 98% capacity, which basically means you might find a night here or there, but basically everything is taken,” Havel said. “What we’re noticing again this year is that it’s a lot of people new to camping and the outdoors in general. In other words, the trend that we saw start during the pandemic of people coming out for the first time is continuing, and that means we’re going to stay busy.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Crowded-campsites-high-demand-causes-fights-17464196.php | 2022-09-24T16:43:57 | en | 0.970038 |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for 24 counties as Tropical Storm Ian gathers strength over the Caribbean and is expected to bring heavy rain and hurricane-force winds to the state next week.
DeSantis issued the order Friday encouraging residents and local governments to make preparations as the storm moves toward the state. He has also requested a federal pre-landfall emergency declaration.
“This storm has the potential to strengthen into a major hurricane and we encourage all Floridians to make their preparations,” DeSantis said in a statement. “We are coordinating with all state and local government partners to track potential impacts of this storm.”
The National Hurricane Center said Ian is forecast to rapidly strengthen in the coming days before moving over western Cuba and approach Florida next week with major hurricane force.
John Cangialosi, a senior hurricane specialist with National Hurricane Center in Miami, said it is currently unclear where Ian will hit hardest in Florida and said residents should begin preparing for the storm, including gathering supplies for potential power outages.
“Too soon to say if it's going to be a southeast Florida problem or a central Florida problem or just the entire state,” he said. “So at this point really the right message for those living in Florida is that you have to watch forecasts and get ready and prepare yourself for potential impact from this tropical system.”
The governor's declaration applies to Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota and St. Lucie counties.
Meanwhile, strong rain and winds are lashing the Atlantic Canada region as a powerful post-tropical cyclone made landfall there, with forecasters warning it could be one of the most severe storms in the county's history. Fiona made landfall in Nova Scotia before dawn Saturday.
More than 500,000 customers in Atlantic Canada have been affected by outages. Ocean waves pounded the town of Port Aux Basques on the southern coast of Newfoundland, where entire structures were washed into the sea.
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AP reporter Julie Walker contributed to this report from New York. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/DeSantis-declares-emergency-as-storm-expected-to-17464136.php | 2022-09-24T16:44:04 | en | 0.946078 |
YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Faculty members at Eastern Michigan University have voted to ratify a new four-year labor agreement with the school.
The Eastern Michigan University chapter of the American Association of University Professors said Friday that 96% of its members voted in favor of the deal which would include pay raises and more favorable health care coverage.
Dozens of faculty members began picketing Sept. 7 at the school, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southwest of Detroit.
The union and the school's administration had been split over salary increases and how much faculty members should pay for health care. Union leaders had argued that the school’s proposal for health care would have saddled its members with thousands of dollars in additional costs.
Striking faculty members returned to their classrooms Sept. 12, after a deal was reached with the university to end the walkout.
The new contract would cover more than 500 tenured and tenure-track faculty and includes $4,000 raises in base pay or 4% in the first year of the agreement, whichever is greater, as well as 3.25% base pay increases in the second and third years, the union said.
Faculty also would receive the same health care options as administrators and other groups on campus, with health care premiums based on an 80/20 cost-sharing model.
“Our goal was to bring back an agreement to address concerns we heard about supporting our students, fair compensation and creating a foundation for continued quality education at EMU,” said Matt Kirkpatrick, associate professor of English language and literature and chair of the faculty union negotiating team.
The university’s Board of Regents still has to review and vote on the agreement before it is finalized. That is expected to occur “in the near future,” the school said Friday night in a statement.
“Contract negotiations of this nature are complex and challenging,” the school said. “The administration is pleased with the terms of the tentative agreement and greatly supports the university’s outstanding faculty and their work in the classroom to support our students.”
More than 15,000 students are enrolled at the school's Ypsilanti campus. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Eastern-Michigan-University-faculty-ratify-new-17464132.php | 2022-09-24T16:44:07 | en | 0.984612 |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has decided not to block the state’s plan to move two dozen troubled juvenile offenders from a suburban New Orleans detention center to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
In a 64-page ruling issued late Friday, Chief U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick denied a motion to immediately halt the plan to move the teenagers to the adult maximum security facility despite calling it “untenable” and “disturbing,” The Advocate reported.
The state’s Office of Juvenile Justice proved in a three-day court hearing this month that it could provide the youth constitutionally required levels of care at the Angola facility, Dick wrote.
“The prospect of putting a teenager to bed at night in a locked cell behind razor wire surrounded by swamps at Angola is disturbing,” the judge said in the ruling. “Some of the children in OJJ’s care are so traumatized and emotionally and psychologically disturbed that OJJ is virtually unable to provide a secure care environment."
“While locking children in cells at night at Angola is untenable, the threat of harm these youngsters present to themselves, and others, is intolerable,” she wrote. “The untenable must yield to the intolerable.”
The transfer was proposed in July and would serve as a last resort following increased escapes and fights at the Bridge City Center for Youth in Jefferson Parish. There have been at least four escapes this year, as well as a riot in which 20 juveniles took over parts of the complex.
But the plan has been sharply criticized by criminal justice advocates, former officials and the parents of children currently held at the center. An attorney for the plaintiffs did not immediately return a request for comment.
When exactly youth might be moved to Angola remains unclear. In a court filing earlier this month, attorneys for Gov. John Bel Edwards and the Office of Juvenile Justice wrote that there is no set date on which the agency plans to relocate them.
But Angola is only a short-term solution. Edwards said the juveniles will be transferred to the Jetson Center for Youth in Baker once renovations there are complete. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Federal-judge-won-t-block-plan-to-put-teens-at-17464195.php | 2022-09-24T16:44:19 | en | 0.966329 |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — So you're paying attention to the tectonic geopolitical issues at the U.N. General Assembly, and many of them are addressed in carefully calibrated and crafted diplospeak. Then, suddenly, someone like Ralph Gonsalves steps up to the podium.
In an ocean of speakers from around the world — from the driest of the dry all the way to downright bitter and angry — the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines stood out Saturday with his use of metaphor and imagery.
The cadence. The word choice. The drama. The poetry quotations.
A sampling:
— “... the dangerous vanities, delusional vainglories and hubris of men and women in power, particularly in the global centers of imperialism and in the locales of those intoxicated with the quest for hegemony.”
— “Without fresh hope, a desecration of our future awaits us.”
— “I ask the relevant and haunting questions: What's new? Which world? And who gives the orders? The future of humanity depends on satisfactory answers to these queries.”
— “We are a resilient people. We are not a people of lamentations.”
— “Trying to go up a fast-moving down escalator is a challenging exercise.”
Gonsalves is no stranger to summoning eloquence for political effect at the United Nations. Last year, months after a volcanic eruption in his country displaced 20,000 people, he came to the General Assembly and issued a clarion call in his oration.
“Across our land, the faces of men and women are strained and anxious," he said. “Please help St. Vincent and the Grenadines in its midnight hour of need."
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Mali’s prime minister lashed out Saturday at former colonizer France, the U.N. secretary-general and many people in between, saying that the tumultuous country had been “stabbed in the back" by the French military withdrawal. In the same remarks, Abdoulaye Maiga praised the “exemplary and fruitful cooperation between Mali and Russia.”
Maiga was directly criticizing U.N. Secretary-General Secretary-General Antonio Guterres by the fourth sentence of his speech to the General Assembly. And he slammed what he called France’s “unilateral decision” to relocate its remaining troops to neighboring Niger amid deteriorating relations with Mali's two-time coup leader, Col. Assimi Goita.
While it was Goita and his allies who overthrew a democratically elected president by military force two years ago, Mali's prime minister repeatedly referred to a “French junta” throughout his speech Saturday.
“Move on from the colonial past and hear the anger, the frustration, the rejection that is coming up from the African cities and countryside, and understand that this movement is inexorable,” Maiga said. “Your intimidations and subversive actions have only swelled the ranks of Africans concerned with preserving their dignity.”
France intervened militarily in 2013, leading an effort to oust Islamic extremists from control of the northern Malian towns they had overtaken. Over the past nine years, France had continued its presence in a bid to stabilize the country amid repeated attacks by insurgents. The French departure has raised new concerns about whether those militants will again regain territory with security responsibilities now falling to the Malian military and U.N. peacekeepers.
Maiga insisted Saturday that “terrorist groups have been severely weakened” since the August 2020 coup d'etat even though militants over the summer attacked the country’s largest military base, just 15 kilometers (9 miles) outside the capital, Bamako.
In a more than 30-minute speech, he referenced everything from Victor Hugo to the Rwandan genocide. Maiga repeated unfounded claims that France colluded with Islamic extremists and spoke of nefarious elements with “hidden agendas.”
At one point he even called into question the nationality of Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum, whom he called a “foreigner who claims to be from Niger.”
“We know that the people of Niger, brothers of Mali, are distinguished by very rich societal, cultural and religious values,” Maiga said. “Bazoum is not a Nigerien.”
The Malian prime minister offered a grim assessment of the U.N. peacekeeping mission known as MINUSMA, while openly praising the influence of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group who have been accused of carrying out human rights abuses.
“We must recognize that nearly 10 years after its establishment, the objectives for which MINUSMA was deployed in Mali have not been achieved,” Maiga said. “This is despite numerous Security Council resolutions.”
The Malian prime minister had particularly sharp words as well for Guterres, criticizing his recent comments on the standoff between Mali and Ivory Coast over 46 detained Ivorian soldiers.
Maiga reiterated claims before the U.N. General Assembly Saturday that the soldiers were sent to Mali as mercenaries, which the Ivorian government has vigorously denied. Ivory Coast says the soldiers were to provide security for a company contracted by the United Nations, but Maiga maintained that there is “no link between the 46 and the United Nations.”
On Saturday, he said that soldiers had arrived in Bamako with weapons, indicating on their paperwork that they were painters and masons. Instead, he said, they came “with the evil intention of destabilizing the country.”
Three female Ivorian soldiers already have been released as a “humanitarian gesture,” but there have been no updates about the others.
“Since friendship is based on sincerity, I would like to express my deep disagreement with your recent media appearance, in which you took a position and expressed yourself on the case of the 46 Ivorian mercenaries," he said in comments aimed at Guterres.
The nature of the offenses in the case “does not fall within the remit of the secretary-general of the United Nations," he added.
Maiga, a government spokesman, was dispatched to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly instead of Goita. The coup leader instead attended celebrations Friday in Bamako marking Mali's independence from France in 1960.
Also in attendance at that event was the junta leader who seized power in Guinea a little over a year after Mali's coup d'etat. A third West African country, Burkina Faso, underwent a military coup in January, deepening fears that democracy is backsliding in the region amid mounting violence from Islamic extremists. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Mali-prime-minister-lashes-out-at-France-UN-17464128.php | 2022-09-24T16:44:27 | en | 0.973 |
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials are appealing a judge's ruling that they lacked the legal authority to fire members of the city’s largest police union for violating a COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
State Supreme Court Judge Lyle Frank in Manhattan ruled Friday that the city health department's mandate couldn’t be used to fire or put on leave members of the Police Benevolent Association.
Frank said it was “undisputed” that city officials could issue vaccine mandates. But the judge said officials overstepped their authority by unilaterally creating a new condition of employment, as opposed to going through collective bargaining.
Frank ordered the reinstatement of union members who were “wrongfully” terminated or put on unpaid leave for refusing to get vaccinated. The city immediately filed a notice of appeal, freezing the judge's decision until the appeal is heard.
“This decision confirms what we have said from the start: the vaccine mandate was an improper infringement on our members’ right to make personal medical decisions in consultation with their own health care professionals,” PBA President Patrick Lynch said in a statement. “We will continue to fight to protect those rights.”
A spokesman for the city’s Law Department said the ruling “is at odds with every other court decision upholding the mandate as a condition of employment.”
Neither the city nor the union provided information about how many union members have been been placed on leave or fired over the mandate.
The decision comes days after Mayor Eric Adams announced the city was lifting its vaccine mandate for private sector on Nov. 1. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/NYC-appeals-ruling-over-vaccine-mandate-for-17464164.php | 2022-09-24T16:44:33 | en | 0.966419 |
BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Laos have made their third largest seizure ever of methamphetamine, confiscating a haul of 33 million tablets along with 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine, an official with the U.N. anti-crime agency said Saturday.
The huge bust came after 200,000 tablets were found Friday night in a truck that was stopped at a checkpoint in the northwestern province of Bokeo, said Jeremy Douglas, the regional representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. That action exposed a trafficking group and its plans, leading to the far bigger seizure following the driver's interrogation.
Douglas pointed out that the truck was stopped near the Kings Roman Casino, which is located in a special economic zone of Laos that operates virtually autonomously of national law. Such zones are found in the neighboring countries of Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia, all of which have loose law enforcement and have struggled with organized crime.
Laos’ top drug seizure — also one of Asia’s biggest — was in October last year when police in the same province of Bokeo seized more than 55.6 million meth pills in a single raid, along with about 1,500 kilograms (3,300 pounds) of crystal meth, according to reports in Lao media.
The country’s second largest seizure, of 36.5 million meth pills, took place in January, also in Bokeo.
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime warned in a report in May that the production and trafficking of synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine is burgeoning in the region. It said the number of meth tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia exceeded a billion for the first time last year.
The 1.008 billion tablets was seven times higher than the amount seized 10 years earlier, the agency said, warning that increased production makes the drug cheaper and more accessible, creating greater risk to people and their communities.
Methamphetamine is easy to make and has supplanted opium and its derivative heroin to become the dominant illegal drug in Southeast Asia for both use and export.
The Golden Triangle area, where the borders of Myanmar - the main methamphetamine producer - Laos and Thailand meet, was historically a major production area for opium and hosted many of the labs that converted it to heroin.
Decades of political instability have made Myanmar’s frontier regions largely lawless, to be exploited by drug producers and traffickers. Bokeo borders on Myanmar and Thailand, and the Mekong River runs through it, making it a crossroads for the drug trade. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Police-in-Laos-seize-meth-pills-in-one-of-biggest-17464194.php | 2022-09-24T16:44:39 | en | 0.96447 |
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police moved quickly Saturday to disperse peaceful protests against President Vladimir Putin's military mobilization order, arresting hundreds, including some children, in several cities across the vast country.
Police detained more than 700 people, including over 300 in Moscow and nearly 150 in St. Petersburg, according to OVD-Info, an independent website that monitors political arrests in Russia. Some of the arrested individuals were minors, OVD-Info said.
The demonstrations followed protests that erupted within hours Wednesday after Putin, in a move to beef up his volunteer forces fighting in Ukraine, announced a call-up of experienced and skilled army reservists.
The Defense Ministry said about 300,000 people would be summoned to active duty, but the order left a door open to many more getting called into service. Most Russian men ages 18-65 are automatically counted as reservists.
On Saturday, police deployed in force in the cities where protests were scheduled by opposition group Vesna and supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. They moved quickly to arrest demonstrators, most of them young people, before they could hold protests.
In Moscow, a heavy contingent of police roamed a downtown area where a protest was planned and checked the IDs of passersby. Officers rounded up those they deemed suspicious.
A young woman climbed on a bench and shouted “We aren't cannon fodder!” before police took her away.
In St. Petersburg, small groups of demonstrators managed to gather and shout protest slogans before being rounded up.
In the city of Novosibirsk in eastern Siberia, over 70 people were detained after singing an innocuous Soviet-era song praising peace.
In another Siberian city, of Irkutsk, police handed summons to military conscription offices to men who took part in a protest.
People who tried to hold individual pickets that are allowed under Russian law also were detained.
The quick police action followed the dispersal of Wednesday’s protests, when over 1,300 people were detained on Wednesday in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities.
Putin on Saturday signed a hastily approved bill that toughens the punishment for soldiers who disobey officers’ orders, desert or surrender to the enemy. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Russian-police-block-mobilization-protests-17464193.php | 2022-09-24T16:44:45 | en | 0.97307 |
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A group of Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that they were beaten and abused for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region this month.
Recounting their ordeal to reporters in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, one of the seven Sri Lankans said he was shot in the foot; another had his toenail ripped off and was slammed in the head with the butt of a rifle.
Ukrainian officials described their treatment as torture.
“Every day we were cleaning toilets and bathrooms,” Dilukshan Robertclive, one of the former captives, said in English. “Some days Russians came and beat our people, our Sri Lanka people.”
Four of the seven were medical students in the city of Kupiansk and three were working there when Russian forces poured across the border in late February and occupied large swaths of eastern and southern Ukraine.
The group said they were captured at the first checkpoint out of Kupiansk and then taken to Vovchansk, near the border with Russia, where they were held in the factory with around 20 Ukrainians.
“They took our passports, other documents, phones, clothes, and locked us up in a room," said Sharujan Gianeswaran, speaking in Tamil to an Associated Press journalist by phone. "There were also Ukrainian people with us, and they were questioned and sent away in 10 days, 15 days or one month. With us they never spoke, because they could not understand our language.”
Police said the factory housed a Russian “torture center” — one of 18 in the Kharkiv region.
“They were bound and blindfolded. After that they were captured and then taken to the city of Vovchansk,” said Serhiy Bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the National Police in Kharkiv.
Six among the group said they were held in a large upstairs room. The seventh, the only woman, was kept in a dark cell by herself, her companions said. The woman wept silently and did not speak as the group told their story Saturday.
One man said he was shot in the foot by the Russian captors. Another had a toenail ripped off after the soldiers repeatedly bashed it with the butt of a rifle. The men showed their injuries to journalists.
“Most of the time we could not understand what they told us and we were beaten for that,” Gianeswaran said.
It dawned upon the Sri Lankans that the battle lines were shifting only when Russian soldiers ordered them to help load trucks with food and weapons.
As the last trucks raced away, the group asked fruitlessly for their passports and papers back, knowing that to move around without them would be impossible in a country filled with checkpoints.
Russian troops captured several cities and towns in northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region early in the war. Ukrainian troops retook the area during a swift counteroffensive earlier this month.
When the Sri Lankans realized the Russians were gone, on Sept. 10, the group left the factory and started walking toward the city of Kharkiv, having no real idea how to get to the regional capital which had remained in Ukrainian hands.
“We walked on that road for two days and were exhausted and hungry. We had no food or money to buy food,” Gianeswaran said.
They slept on the side of the road and walked until they reached a river. But with so many bridges in the region destroyed by one side or the other in months of fighting, they could find no way to cross.
Finally someone noticed their plight, gave them shelter and called for a ride from security forces.
Police said the group was picked up in the Chuhuiv area, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) from where they started. They are in Kharkiv now, with no idea of what the future holds. Robertclive said they are psychologically damaged by their months in captivity.
But the men smiled when asked how they felt when they realized the worst of their ordeal was at an end.
“They (Ukrainians) have given us food and clothing,” Gianeswaran said. “We thought we were going to die but we are saved and are being well looked after.”
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The agent for Buffalo Bills safety Micah Hyde announced Saturday that the team plans to place the starter on season-ending injured reserve because of a neck injury.
Jack Bechta added in a message posted on Twitter that he expects Hyde to be healthy in returning for next season.
Hyde already had been ruled out for Sunday's game against Miami. He was carted off the sideline in the second half of Buffalo’s 41-7 win over Tennessee on Monday night.
Coach Sean McDermott said Tuesday that the Bills sent Hyde to the hospital to have his injury further evaluated.
The injury represents a big blow for the Bills, who are off to a 2-0 start.
Hyde and Jordan Poyer have established themselves as one of the NFL’s top safety tandems since both signed with the Bills in 2017. The two were tied with a team-leading five interceptions last season.
Buffalo will be without at least four defensive regulars for their AFC East showdown against the Dolphins.
Cornerback Dane Jackson, tackle Ed Oliver and backup tackle Jordan Phillips also were ruled out Friday. Poyer and tackle Tim Settle were among five players listed as questionable after practicing on a limited basis.
Rookie cornerbacks Christian Benford and Kaiir Elam are in line to start against a Tua Tagovailoa-led Dolphins offense which leads the NFL through two games with 703 yards passing. Benford and Elam opened the season sharing snaps at the the cornerback spot opposite Jackson.
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LONDON (AP) — Filling in for the retired Roger Federer at the Laver Cup, 2021 Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini put Team Europe back in front by edging Team World's Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (11), 4-6, 10-7 on Saturday.
Federer closed his career at the team event founded by his management company on Friday night. The 20-time Grand Slam champion's last match came in doubles alongside longtime rival Rafael Nadal, a loss to Team World's Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock.
Federer stuck around, though, and helped Berrettini by offering coaching advance during Saturday's opening singles match.
Berrettini, a 26-year-old from Italy, originally was listed as an alternate on Team Europe, and it was clear he would step in for Federer, who said he ran his plan to bow out after doubles past the ATP and the team captains, Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.
Like Federer, Nadal withdrew from the three-day competition following their doubles contest.
Nadal's wife is supposed to give birth to their first child soon.
Nadal, who holds the men's record of 22 major titles, also has been dealing with injuries all season, including a torn abdominal muscle, but said he wanted to take part in Federer's farewell.
“For me, it was important, because I knew it was important to him,” said Nadal, who cried along with Federer after their doubles match Friday.
Berrettini's victory put Team Europe ahead 4-2, before Nadal's replacement, Cam Norrie, faced Taylor Fritz in the second singles match on Day 2.
The most-anticipated matches were to follow during the night session, with the return to competition of Novak Djokovic, who has not played since winning Wimbledon in July for his 21st Grand Slam trophy.
Djokovic, a 35-year-old from Serbia, could not enter the U.S. Open because he was not allowed to fly to the United States as a foreign citizen who has not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Djokovic was slated to do double duty Saturday, facing U.S. Open semifinalist Tiafoe in singles, before partnering with Berrettini against Sock and Alex de Minaur in doubles.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The International team battled to a draw Saturday morning in the Presidents Cup. The way this week has gone, it almost felt like a win.
The Korean duo of Tom Kim and K.H. Lee won two late holes and closed out Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns on the 17th hole, ending the morning foursomes session at 2-2.
It was the first time the Americans did not win a session at Quail Hollow.
But it didn't change the big picture.
This U.S. team is so strong and deep that what felt like an off day meant losing no ground. It still had a 10-4 lead going into afternoon fourballs, now needing only five-and-a-half points out of 16 remaining to win the cup.
Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama finally got their first point of the week when it was least expected. They were 2 down after eight holes until winning the next five holes and putting away Cameron Young and Collin Morikawa, 3 and 2.
“Any victory against the U.S. team has got to be really hard fought,” Scott said. “So this feels good.”
The other two matches were easily in American hands.
Max Homa is still having the week of his life. After his late heroics the night before, he partnered with Tony Finau in a 4-and-3 victory over Si Woo Kim and Cameron Davis, two of the bright spots for the International team this week.
Homa is now 3-0 in his debut playing in a cup.
And then there was Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas winning their third match in three tries this week, a 4-and-3 victory over Sungjae Im and Corey Conners.
Im gave the International side an early lead, but he was hurt by erratic play from Conners, who had a right miss he couldn't solve. The International team lost three holes on the front nine by making bogey, and Spieth made a big birdie at the turn for a 2-up lead.
The match turned on a mistake by the International team, which was starting to match shots against the Americans.
Spieth missed a short birdie putt on the par-5 12th that would have given the Americans a 3-up lead. On the next hole, Im had a 15-foot birdie putt to cut the lead to 1 down. It missed on the high side and rolled out 7 feet, and Conners missed the par putt.
Suddenly, the Americans were 3 up and closed them out on the 15th when Spieth drove it into the stream to the left, only for Im to follow him with a shot in the water. The Americans won with a bogey and the match was over.
Spieth has never lost a Presidents Cup foursomes match, moving to 7-0 with four partners. As a partnership in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, Spieth and Thomas are 7-2.
They headed out in the afternoon trying to become the first U.S. partnership to win all four matches in the Presidents Cup since Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker in 2009 at Harding Park.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Diego CA
932 AM PDT Sat Sep 24 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM SUNDAY TO
11 PM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot with temperatures 105 to 110 degrees.
* WHERE...Coachella Valley, San Diego County Deserts and San
Gorgonio Pass Near Banning.
* WHEN...Sunday morning through Tuesday evening.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or evening. Know
the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Wear
light weight and loose fitting clothing when possible and drink
plenty of water.
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING
THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot with temperatures 95 to 105 degrees.
* WHERE...The Inland Empire.
* WHEN...From Monday morning through Wednesday evening. Hottest
conditions Monday and Tuesday.
* WHAT...Dangerously hot with temperatures 95 to 100 degrees.
* WHERE...San Diego County Valleys.
* WHEN...From Monday morning through Wednesday evening.
* WHERE...Orange County Inland Areas.
* WHAT...Dangerously hot with temperatures 85 to 92 degrees.
* WHERE...San Diego County Coastal Areas and Orange County
Coastal Areas.
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 106
possible. Hottest in the valleys.
* WHERE...Los Angeles and Ventura County coast and valleys.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the potential
for heat related illnesses, particularly for those working or
participating in outdoor activities.
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Be prepared to drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-
conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives
and neighbors.
Young children and pets should never be left unattended in
vehicles under any circumstances. This is especially true during
warm or hot weather when car interiors can reach lethal
temperatures in a matter of minutes.
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Dense fog has dissipated. So, the advisory has been cancelled.
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 24, 2022
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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
852 AM PDT Sat Sep 24 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM PDT THIS MORNING...
While patchy dense fog may linger through mid-morning around the
Monterey Bay Region, conditions will begin to improve as surface
temperatures warm and the fog bank lifts. Motorist are urged to
drive with caution while experiencing fog and/or reduced
visibility through the morning.
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DeSantis declares emergency as storm expected to hit Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for 24 counties as Tropical Storm Ian gathers strength over the Caribbean and is expected to bring heavy rain and hurricane-force winds to the state next week.
DeSantis issued the order Friday encouraging residents and local governments to make preparations as the storm moves toward the state. He has also requested a federal pre-landfall emergency declaration.
“This storm has the potential to strengthen into a major hurricane and we encourage all Floridians to make their preparations,” DeSantis said in a statement. “We are coordinating with all state and local government partners to track potential impacts of this storm.”
The National Hurricane Center said Ian is forecast to rapidly strengthen in the coming days before moving over western Cuba and approach Florida next week with major hurricane strength.
John Cangialosi, a senior hurricane specialist with National Hurricane Center in Miami, said it is currently unclear where Ian will hit hardest in Florida and said residents should begin preparing for the storm, including gathering supplies for potential power outages.
“Too soon to say if it’s going to be a southeast Florida problem or a central Florida problem or just the entire state,” he said. “So at this point really the right message for those living in Florida is that you have to watch forecasts and get ready and prepare yourself for potential impact from this tropical system.”
The governor’s declaration applies to Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota and St. Lucie counties.
Meanwhile, strong rain and winds are lashing the Atlantic Canada region as a powerful post-tropical cyclone made landfall there, with forecasters warning it could be one of the most severe storms in the county’s history. Fiona made landfall in Nova Scotia before dawn Saturday.
More than 500,000 customers in Atlantic Canada have been affected by outages. Ocean waves pounded the town of Port Aux Basques on the southern coast of Newfoundland, where entire structures were washed into the sea.
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