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Canada-based payments company Buckzy Payments has said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is important in the efficiency and security of cross border transactions.
Buckzy Payments’ officials commented on AI’s capabilities in the payments space in January 2022, when they explained its value in reducing human error and instantly calculating credit ratings for customers. But the rapid evolution of AI technology since then means that decision-makers in the payments space are now exploring how AI can help them solve other payment headaches.
Recent research by IBM shows global uptake of AI is becoming more prevalent across all industries, with over a third (35%) of businesses reporting its use in 2022, a four-point increase from the previous year. Another study by Nvidia has found that 37% of financial services companies plan to use AI in order to gain a competitive advantage. What’s clear from these figures is how AI has spread across multiple business practices, with fintechs investing time and resources in AI as a means to differentiate themselves from competitors.
In the cross-border payments space, AI is accelerating the resolution of transactions by accurately predicting FX rates. Predictive analysis can arrive at a predetermined FX rate, meaning transactions can be processed in real-time and costs remain transparent for all parties involved, as per the press release.
Company officials concluded that AI is now established as an essential component for financial services and the companies that provide them. Companies that downplay AI’s significance will quickly be left behind by more enlightened, forward-thinking competitors who have taken the time and the effort to invest in and integrate AI into both their customer-facing products and services and their back-end systems.
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After announcing Google Wallet, the search giant came through with its next digital payment update.
The app was spotted by 9to5Google, who notes that it's arriving as an update to the ‘old’ Google Pay app. As discussed during I/O 2022, Google is looking to shift into a more ‘comprehensive digital wallet.’ Google Wallet (opens in new tab) is designed for not only storing payment cards but digital IDs, car keys, transit passes, hotel keys, concert tickets, and more.
The update will display one’s digital payment cards in a carousel at the top for viewing. Any passes that a person may have will show beneath. One will also be able to tap ‘Add to Wallet,’ which will provide different payment options from transit passes to gift cards and more.
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LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) _ Fulton Financial Corp. (FULT) on Tuesday reported second-quarter profit of $70 million.
The bank, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said it had earnings of 42 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 36 cents per share.
The financial holding company posted revenue of $248.7 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $240.6 million, which also beat Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $227.2 million.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. (PNFP) on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings of $145.1 million.
The Nashville, Tennessee-based bank said it had earnings of $1.86 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.68 per share.
The regional bank operator posted revenue of $417.9 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $390.1 million, which also topped Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $361.5 million.
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BLAIRSVILLE, Ga. (AP) _ United Community Banks Inc. (UCBI) on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $66.8 million.
The Blairsville, Georgia-based bank said it had earnings of 61 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 66 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 69 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $220.8 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $212.4 million, topping Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $211.6 million.
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HARPER WOODS, Mich. (AP) — A third person has died, days after a Detroit-area man released on bond in a domestic violence case was accused of attacking his girlfriend and family, authorities said.
Flossie Bray, who was repeatedly stabbed on June 10, died over the weekend, family members said.
Her son, Jonathan Welch, is in custody on murder and other charges, which are likely to be changed after Bray's death.
Welch's girlfriend, Zlayiah Frazier, 22, and stepfather, Robert Bray Jr., 70, were also killed at Welch’s Harper Woods home.
A standoff with police lasted seven hours.
Welch, 23, was charged in June with assaulting Frazier and committing other crimes. He was eventually released after posting 10% of a $100,000 bond.
Welch has another court hearing Wednesday.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Tuesday that he has notified the state Supreme Court that his office intends to seek a warrant of execution for death row inmate Murray Hooper.
It would be the third execution warrant issued this year in Arizona.
Clarence Wayne Dixon was executed on May 11 for the 1978 murder of a 21-year-old Arizona State University student and Frank Atwood died June 8 by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for the 1984 murder of an 8-year-old Tucson girl.
Dixon’s execution was Arizona’s first after a nearly eight-year hiatus.
The Attorney General’s Office said there are 111 inmates on Arizona’s death row and 22 have exhausted their appeals.
Hooper and two co-defendants were sentenced to death for the New Year’s Eve 1980 murders of a Phoenix man and his mother-in-law during a home robbery.
The other two men died before their sentences could be carried out.
“Our state recognizes that those who commit the most heinous crimes deserve the ultimate punishment,” Brnovich said in a statement Tuesday. “It is the appropriate response and we must faithfully carry out the court-ordered sentences for the victims, their families and our communities.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California parole officials have approved the release of a notorious former Mexican Mafia prison gang leader who has been cooperating with law enforcement for nearly 20 years.
Two consecutive governors previously blocked parole for Rene “Boxer” Enriquez in part based on the argument that he is safer in prison than on the streets, where he may be targeted as a snitch by his old cronies.
“They can’t deny him parole based on, 'He might be in danger.' That’s kind of his risk to take,” his attorney, Laura Sheppard, said Tuesday.
Authorities have taken extraordinary steps to protect him over the years, once booking him into custody under a false name on a bogus charge of possessing a swordfish without a license.
In 2015, the Los Angeles Police Department used SWAT officers and a police helicopter to secure a downtown building so Enriquez could speak to a group of police chiefs and business leaders about the gang's growth and operations. Just last week, prison officials refused to provide his current photograph, citing security concerns.
“With his knowledge of the mafia, it’s his belief that if he stays out of their way ... that he’ll be fine," Sheppard said. "He doesn’t believe they’re going to chase him down like you see in the movies, hunt him throughout the world.”
Yet Enriquez plans to keep cooperating with federal authorities as they are again prosecuting the leadership of the prison-based gang that began in the 1950s in a juvenile jail and has since grown into an international criminal organization.
“It’s how he makes amends," Sheppard said. "He’s probably prevented more crimes than he was ever involved in.”
He has been in prison since 1993, serving a life sentence for two second-degree murders, multiple assaults and drug trafficking conspiracy.
Enriquez joined the Mexican Mafia — nicknamed the Black Hand or “La Eme,” its Spanish language initial — in 1985 while serving an earlier prison stint for rape and armed robbery, according to parole records. He spent nearly the next two decades building a reputation within the gang through murder, drug-running and terror, both in and out of prison.
Gov. Gavin Newsom turned over the final decision on the fate of Enriquez, now age 60, to a hearing by a 12-member panel of the 21-member parole board.
He cited in part the “unique security threats.” Enriquez has revealed “the inner workings of large-scale gang associations, and informed on individual gang members. He testified for the prosecution in numerous cases,” Newsom wrote.
Officials including a retired assistant director for the California prison system told the parole panel during a hearing Monday that Enriquez is a changed man who will continue contributing to law enforcement's battle against the gang.
“I’ve seen the worst of the worst and I know that he has definitely changed his world," said retired San Diego Police detective and gang expert Felix Aguirre.
But relatives and friends of Cynthia Figueroa Gavaldon lined up to argue that he is still dangerous and they fear for their safety upon his release. She was a 27-year-old mother of two young children when Enriquez ordered her killed on Christmas Eve 1989.
Enriquez "has nothing to offer the community. All he ever has known and touched has died,” said her father, Raymond Figueroa, referring to Enriquez as a “monster.”
He had two gang associates, including Figueroa's daughter, killed for violations such as stealing drugs and money. In the second case, he and an accomplice first forcibly overdosed their victim with heroin before driving him to a remote area where Enriquez fatally shot him.
He and another man also stabbed Mexican Mafia leader Salvador “Mon” Buenrostro 26 times with inmate-made weapons in 1991 in an interview room in the Los Angeles County Jail, though Buenrostro survived.
Enriquez has said he quit the gang in 2002 when he discovered its members were killing children and innocent relatives of gang members who fell into disfavor. He has said that he would have help from a witness protection program if he is released.
And over the years, Enriquez has had dozens letters of support for his parole from the FBI, local law enforcement officials, multiple state and federal prosecutors, and a deputy state attorney general.
Newsom previously blocked Enriquez's parole twice, in 2019 and 2020, and then-Governor Jerry Brown blocked it three times, in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
“He personally molded and shaped the Mexican Mafia’s expectations of its members and expanded the gang’s reach outside the prison,” Brown wrote in 2016. He said that included pioneering the gang's control of a vast network of drug dealers and gang members outside the prison walls.
Newsom this time said he was leaving a decision to the parole board because of its “unique procedural and appellate history” and “other unusually complex factors.” He asked parole officials to consider both Enriquez's “particularly violent criminal history and his singular rehabilitative record.”
A Los Angeles County judge overturned Newsom's 2020 parole reversal in August, saying the governor hadn't shown proof that Enriquez is still dangerous. The Second District Court of Appeal had blocked Enriquez's release while it considers Newsom's appeal.
Sheppard said she hopes the appeals court still rules on the case, even with Enriquez paroled, to set a legal precedent that “the governor can’t just make a decision based on speculation and historical issues.”
Commissioners late Monday separately ordered new parole hearings for two inmates of some renown.
Donald Bohana, 85, is serving a life sentence for the 1994 murder of Delores “Dee Dee” Jackson. She is the ex-wife of Tito Jackson, a member of the Jackson 5 musical group.
Curtis “Wall Street” Carroll, 43, is serving a life term for a robbery-murder in 1996, when he was 17. He helped start a financial literacy program in San Quentin State Prison where he, other inmates and volunteers taught money management. He gave a TEDx talk in 2016 that has more than 4.1 million views.
Both men were denied parole in March, Carroll for the first time and Bohana for the sixth time.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The local economic development agency that worked with Georgia officials in recruiting Hyundai Motor Group to build a $5.5 billion electric car plant near Savannah approved its portions of the deal Tuesday, though details of tax breaks and other incentives have yet to be disclosed.
The joint development authority that voted to enter the deal represents four southeast Georgia counties that will give up hundreds of millions in taxes in exchange for at least 8,100 jobs Hyundai has promised to create. Officials said they won't release details of the incentives package until the state and Hyundai finalize the deal, possibly later this week.
“I think it's very fair, I think it's very equitable,” Trip Tollison, who heads the Savannah Economic Development Authority, said of the deal. “I think it represents what the region needs to make the company — the folks moving here with all the jobs — successful.”
Republican Gov. Bryan Kemp called the project the largest economic development deal in Georgia's history when it was announced two months ago in Bryan County, where Hyundai plans to build the company's first U.S. plant dedicated to electric vehicles. The automaker plans to start construction next year and begin producing up to 300,000 vehicles per year in 2025.
State officials have said that the incentive package would be similar to the $1.5 billion in tax breaks and spending given to Rivian Automotive, which is planning an electric vehicle factory east of Atlanta.
The top item in that Rivian package was $700 million in property taxes waived by local governments over 25 years. The company agreed to make $300 million in payments in lieu of taxes starting in 2023. The Savannah Harbor-Interstate 16 Corridor Joint Development Authority voted Tuesday on how money from Hyundai's payments in lieu of taxes would be shared, but did not release how much projected tax revenues are being waived or how much Hyundai will pay.
Tollison, who works with the joint development authority, said Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham and Effingham counties must still approve the revenue-sharing agreement. He said Bryan County would get the majority of the money, but that other counties would share in revenue because they are putting up money to buy land and build roads, and also will see growth from the deal.
One major benefit for Hyundai will be an income tax credit worth an estimated $213 million. That's based on the credit of $5,250 per job over five years that Georgia offers for its largest development projects. If Hyundai didn’t owe that much state corporate income tax, Georgia would instead give the company personal income taxes collected from Hyundai workers.
Hyundai is also likely to save hundreds of millions of dollars from sales tax exemptions on machinery and construction materials.
State and local officials already spent $61 million to buy 2,200 acres (890 hectares) for the project site in Bryan County. The partners later bought another 700 acres (283 hectares) but haven’t disclosed how much the additional land cost. The authority approved a $65.7 million contract Tuesday to clear the land. It also approved a contract to design an entrance road.
Kia, another subsidiary of the Hyundai Motor Group, got more than $450 million in incentives for its plant in West Point, southwest of Atlanta. Georgia has promised SK Innovation $300 million in incentives for a $2.6 billion, 2,600-worker battery plant that the Korean company is building northeast of Atlanta.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Democrats, Republicans and a media lawyer called Tuesday for an independent investigation into possible violations of North Dakota's open records laws by the state attorney general’s office.
At issue is whether there was criminal wrongdoing by Liz Brocker, who handled the deletion of Republican Attorney General Wayne Stenhejem’s state email account a day after he died from cardiac arrest.
Brocker, Stenehjem’s longtime administrative assistant and spokeswoman, resigned Friday and a phone number for her could not be obtained. Current Attorney General Drew Wrigley, a Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that his office investigated and found no evidence of wrongdoing.
“We have had a lot of eyes on this, a lot of attorneys with significant expertise have assessed the facts,” the statement said. “No one sees any tenable claim of illegality.”
The attorney general is tasked with investigating complaints about possible violations of state open records and meetings laws in state and local governments. It hasn't and shouldn't oversee investigations of itself, GOP Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner said.
“We need to get the facts on the table,” Wardner said in calling for an outside investigation. “It’s really difficult to conduct an investigation, investigating themselves."
Some see the deletion of the emails as a conspiracy or coverup, and it has been fodder for talk radio and political bloggers in North Dakota in recent days.
"There will always be doubters, but we need to make this clean and something people will accept,” Wardner said of an outside investigation.
An open records request showed that Brocker asked for Stenehjem’s account to be deleted in an email to an information technology employee on Jan. 29. She wrote that the deletion was approved by then-Deputy Attorney General Troy Seibel.
“We want to make sure no one has an opportunity to make an Open Record request for his emails, especially as he kept EVERYTHING,” Brocker’s email said.
The revelation of the deleted emails was made public last week when Wrigley responded to open records requests about a $1.8 million cost overrun on the lease for the attorney general’s office when Stenehjem was in charge. Wrigley had to explain in his response why certain information was not available.
Seibel’s email account was also deleted in May, two months after Seibel resigned following Wrigley’s stated plans to appoint his own deputy.
Seibel has said he didn’t recall a conversation about Stenehjem’s email account. He also said it could have been deleted as standard procedure.
Democratic Party Chairman Patrick Hart said the email deletions were illegal and called for a criminal investigation Tuesday, either by a county prosecutor’s office or an attorney general from another state.
“There has to be transparency and there has to be accountability,” Hart said. “The emails were not theirs to delete. They belong to the people of North Dakota.”
North Dakota law makes tampering with public records a felony if a public official “knowingly, without lawful authority, destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the verity or availability of a government record.”
Jack McDonald, a Bismarck attorney who represents media outlets on issues regarding the state’s open records and meetings laws, said the deletions were likely improper. He called for an independent investigation to determine whether those involved in the deletions had the authority to do so.
“Drew needs to turn this over to a (county) state’s attorney,” McDonald said.
Wrigley, a former U.S. attorney and lieutenant governor, is running to keep the attorney general’s job in November. Democrats have endorsed Grand Forks lawyer Timothy Lamb for attorney general, the state’s top law enforcement officer.
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DRAFI, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes late Tuesday as a wildfire threatened mountainside suburbs northeast of Athens. Firefighters battled through the night, struggling to contain the blaze which was being intensified by strong gusts of wind.
The Fire Service said 15 planes and nine helicopters were involved in the firefighting effort on the slopes of Mount Penteli, 25 kilometers (16 miles) northeast of Athens before being grounded at nightfall.
Police officers and firefighters carried elderly residents out of their homes to safety as the flames approached.
Huge clouds of smoke from the blaze was visible in central Athens.
Local officials said homes had been burned or damaged but there were no reports of injuries or stranded people. A children’s hospital in the area was also evacuated, officials said.
Greece has been spared the heat wave conditions currently plaguing countries in western Europe, but fire officials say that hot and dry conditions persisting for weeks as well as longer term temperature rises have increased the overall risk of forest fires.
More than 1,300 square kilometers (500 square miles) of land was damaged by wildfires in Greece last year, the worst damage recorded since 2007.
Fire Service spokesman Yiannis Artopios said four separate evacuation orders had been issued Tuesday, with push alerts sent to mobile phones in the affected areas.
“Its’s been a tough day,” the spokesman said, adding that more than 400 firefighters had been deployed. Some 300 police officers were also on duty to enforce traffic bans and patrol evacuated areas to prevent looting, officials said.
Evangelos Bournous, mayor of Rafina, a town near the fire, said firefighters were trying to protect property until planes and helicopters could again be used at first light.
“The flames get between the hills and form a tunnel of fire. That’s very difficult to stop and it’s not affected by the wind,” Bournous told state-run television. “At night time, it’s essentially an uncontrollable situation.” ___ Gatopoulos reported from Athens, Greece
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A very high number of heads of state and government -- 157 -- say they plan to attend September’s first totally in-person gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020.
The 104 heads of state on the provisional list of speakers include U.S. President Joe Biden, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, King Abdullah II of Jordan and the presidents of Iran, France, Brazil, Colombia, South Korea, South Africa, Egypt and Venezuela.
The 53 heads of government on the list include the still-to-be-chosen new prime minister of the United Kingdom, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the prime ministers of Japan, Israel, Iraq and Pakistan. China is sending its deputy prime minister and Russia is sending a minister, likely Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who has represented the country in recent years.
The Palestinians are a non-member state of the United Nations and their president, Mahmoud Abbas, is also on the speakers list as is the head of government of the Holy See, a permanent U.N. observer.
In September 2020, the pandemic kept world leaders from coming to New York for their annual meeting for the first time in the 75-year history of the United Nations. Instead, pre-recorded speeches from leaders were shown in the General Assembly Hall, introduced by a single diplomat from each country.
Last September, the U.N. decided on a hybrid format -- allowing world leaders to attend the annual gathering in person -- or deliver pre-recorded speeches if COVID-19 restrictions prevent them from traveling, an option 72 leaders chose.
General Assembly spokeswoman Paulina Kubiak said Tuesday there will be no pre-recorded speeches allowed this year.
Despite the continuing pandemic, it’s clear from the provisional speakers list released Monday night that over 80% of leaders of the U.N.’s 193 member nations want to address the annual gathering in person and engage in many of the off-the-record meetings and conversations where a lot of international business is conducted.
This year, the leaders and ministers will have worrying new issues to tackle -- Europe’s first major war in decades in Ukraine, a global food crisis that has left millions of people severely hungry and sparked fears of famine, high inflation and rising food and energy costs plus record heat in many parts of the worls signaling that much more must be done to tackle global warming.
There has been growing pressure from leaders for an an in-person meeting, but presidents, prime ministers and monarchs travel with large delegations which became an issue last year in terms of the number of people allowed into U.N. headquarters.
During high-level weeks, there are usually thousands of people in the U.N. complex, and hundreds of side events, many taking place in the U.N.'s confines. There is no word yet on whether there will be restrictions on the number of people allowed in the U.N. headquarters complex, or requirements for those who do enter.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix shed almost 1 million subscribers during the spring amid tougher competition and soaring inflation that’s squeezing household budgets, heightening the urgency behind the video streaming service’s effort to launch a cheaper option with commercial interruptions.
The April-June contraction of 970,000 accounts, announced Tuesday as part of Netflix’s second-quarter earnings report, is by far the largest quarterly subscriber loss in the company’s 25-year history. It could have been far worse, though, considering Netflix management released an April forecast calling for a loss of 2 million subscribers during the second quarter.
The less severe loss in subscribers, combined with an outlook calling for a return to growth in the July-September period. helped lift Netflix's battered stock by 7% in extended trading after the numbers came out.
Netflix's April-June regression follows a loss of 200,000 subscribers during the first three months of the year, marking the first time Netflix’s subscriber totals have shrunk in consecutive quarters since its transition from offering DVD-by-mail rentals to video streaming began 15 years ago.
The loss of nearly 1.2 million subscribers during first half of this year also provides a start contrast to the pandemic-driven growth that Netflix enjoyed during the first half of 2020 when its streaming service picked up nearly 26 million subscribers.
Despite the downturn, Netflix still earned $1.4 billion, or $3.20 per share during the quarter, a 6% increase from the same time last year. Revenue rose 9% from the same time last year to nearly $8 billion.
Netflix ended June with 220.7 million worldwide subscribers. far more than any of its new competitors such as Walt Disney Co. and Apple. And in a hopeful sign, Netflix management predicted its service will add about 1 million subscribers during the July-September period, signaling the worst of its slump may be over.
Although Netflix’s springtime subscriber losses weren't as bad as investors and management feared, the downturn served as a grim reminder of the challenges now facing the Los Gatos, California, company after a decade of unbridled growth.
Netflix’s stock price has plunged by nearly 70% so far this year, wiping out about $180 billion in shareholder wealth. Since then, other video streaming services have made big strides in attracting viewers, with Apple winning accolades for its award-winning line-up of TV series and films while Disney’s popular line-up of family-friendly titles continues to gain traction.
At the same time, Netflix has been raising its prices to help pay for its own original programming, just as the highest inflation rates in 40 years have led consumers to curb spending on discretionary items such as entertainment.
Such factors help explain Netflix's April announcement that it will crack down on the rampant sharing of subscriber passwords and take another step it once scorned by offering a less expensive tier of its service that will include commercial interruptions. Without providing further specifics, Netflix said Tuesday that both the ad-supported plan and the crackdown on password sharing will begin early next year. The company didn't say how much the streaming option with commercials will cost.
Netflix took another step toward putting together the ad=supported option last week when it announced it will team up with Microsoft to deliver the commercials.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave easy bipartisan approval Tuesday to admitting Finland and Sweden into NATO, as lawmakers aimed for quick Senate passage and a show of congressional support for expansion of the U.S. and European defense alliance in the face of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Committee members approved the expansion by voice vote. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and frequent critic of U.S. policy abroad, voted a neutral “present” rather than yes or no.
The vote sets the expansion up for a decision by the full Senate as soon as next week.
“We obviously want to see Finland and Sweden brought into the alliance as soon as possible,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House after Tuesday's vote.
“These are modern militaries, militaries that we know well,” Kirby said, stressing the strength that supporters say the two countries would bring to the military bloc.
NATO's 30 members are considering the admission of the two northern European countries against a backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia's five-month-old offensive against a pro-West Ukraine government has led European and U.S. allies to tighten ranks and strengthen defenses against any further aggression by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“As U.S. foreign policy priorities evolve to account for a changing world, what is self-evident is the future of the transatlantic partnership will be even more intertwined and integrated thanks to Putin’s recklessness," Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said in a joint statement with ranking Republican committee member Jim Risch of Idaho after his panel's endorsement.
“Today’s vote is further proof that the answer to aggression is not isolation, but deeper engagement with likeminded democracies,” Menendez said.
Putin's invasion led Finland and Sweden to abandon longstanding policies of military nonalignment and seek to join forces with NATO, with its joint conventional and nuclear forces.
President Joe Biden encouraged the move behind the scenes and welcomed leaders of the two countries to the White House in May to signal U.S. support.
The NATO expansion proposal marks a rare moment of Republican and Democratic agreement on a substantive issue before Congress. Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in May that lawmakers were moving the membership applications at a faster pace than is usual for NATO expansion bids. He said he expected full Senate approval this month.
Lawmakers are rushing to approve the matter before the long August break.
The applications by Finland and Sweden initially had been expected to win easy approval from other NATO members as well. NATO member Turkey has rescinded an unexpected early announcement that it would block the two nations' admission.
But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned this week that Turkey could still move to deny the expansion, if Finland and Sweden fail to crack down on members of banned Turkish Kurdish groups in exile there and meet other Turkish demands.
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JANESVILLE, Iowa (AP) — The mayor of a small northeast Iowa town died when a 14-year-old driver's education student collided with another vehicle, authorities said.
Gregory “Mike” Harter, 71, the mayor of Fairbank, died at the scene of the crash Monday morning on U.S. 218 near Janesville, city officials said.
The patrol said Harter was in a vehicle being driven by a 14-year-old from Waterloo that went onto the shoulder. The driver over-corrected, crossed the highway and median and collided with an oncoming car, the patrol.
The driver and another 14-year-old in the car, and the driver of the second vehicle, were injured, the patrol said.
Harter was mayor of Fairbank since 2018, after serving for two years on the city council, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported. He was a former educator who retired nearly a decade ago as a school superintendent.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred defended the sport’s treatment of minor leaguers, prompting immediate criticism from the players’ advocacy group.
“I kind of reject the premise of the question that minor league players are not paid a living wage,” Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America before Tuesday’s All-Star Game.
“I think that we’ve made real strides in the last few years in terms of what minor league players are paid, even putting to one side the signing bonuses that many of them have already received. They receive housing, which obviously is another form of compensation.”
MLB raised minimum salaries in 2021, increasing Class A pay from $290 to $500 per week, Double-A from $350 to $600, and Triple-A from $502 to $700 over the roughly five-month season. Players are only paid in-season.
Amateur players residing in the United States and Canada who are selected in this week's amateur draft have slot values for their signing bonuses, which clubs use as guidelines, ranging from $8.8 million for the first pick to just under $150,000 for the last selections of the 10th and final round.
Last November, MLB announced it was requiring teams to provide furnished accommodations, with a single bed per player and no more than two players per bedroom. Teams are responsible for basic utility bills.
“Most minor league baseball players work second jobs because their annual salaries are insufficient to make ends meet,” Harry Marino, executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, said in a statement responding to Manfred. “His suggestion that minor league pay is acceptable is both callous and false.”
Papers filed Friday in federal court revealed MLB agreed to pay $185 million to settle a lawsuit by minor leaguers. MLB agreed in the deal to rescind any prohibitions against teams paying wages to minor league players outside of the season.
An early estimate is that perhaps 23,000 players could share the money with an average payment of $5,000 to $5,500, with $55.5 million going to the players’ lawyers.
Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked Manfred to explain by next Tuesday the impact of potential legislation stripping the sport’s antitrust exemption from covering the sport’s relationship with minor league players.
While players with major league contracts are unionized, players with minor league contracts are not. The Major League Baseball Players Association gave Advocates for Minor Leaguers $50,000 last November, according to a federal disclosure statement.
“It is exciting to see players recognizing and appreciating the power of their collective voice in effecting positive change in things that they live day to day,” union head Tony Clark, a former first baseman, told the BBWAA in a question-and-answer session prior to Manfred's. “Harry Marino and the Advocates for Minor Leaguers have done a tremendous job in engaging and educating the the minor leaguers and helping them to find their voice. ... We are watching. We are providing support when and where possible.”
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ATLANTA (AP) — Nick Saban has been vocal about his issues with the status quo in name, image and likeness deals and their use in recruiting.
But it's not like Alabama's coach and his players haven't benefited, too. Saban said Crimson Tide players have made more than $3 million in NIL money.
“The biggest concern is how does this impact and affect recruiting?” he said Tuesday at the Southeastern Conference Media Days. "On the recruiting trail right now, there’s a lot of people using this as inducements to go to their school by making promises they may or may not be able to keep in terms of what players are doing.
“I think that is what can create a competitive balance issue between the haves and have-nots. We’re one of the haves. Don’t think that what I’m saying is a concern that we have at Alabama because we’re one of the haves.”
The touchy topic boiled over in the offseason after Saban singled out Texas A&M and other schools for using the NIL deals in recruiting. Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher fired back at his former boss and denied any wrongdoing in his program, which landed the No. 1 recruiting class in the country.
“I think they both kind of illustrate the frustration of how things are right now,” Mississippi State coach Mike Leach said. “It’s not sustainable, so something’s going to change.”
Leach says as things stand “college athletes have more privileges than anybody at any other professional level.”
“Go up to your next favorite NFL guy, say: ‘Hey, I heard in the NFL they’re going to have unmitigated free agency, 365, 24/7. And, by the way, there’s not going to be any salary cap or draft, you’re just going to have bidding wars,’” Leach said. “Just watch the expression on their face. Don’t look at anything else or write down any notes because the expression on their face will be well worth it.”
YOUNG'S APPROACH
Alabama quarterback Bryce Young says he can't afford to rest coming off his Heisman Trophy-winning season. That is, after all, old news.
“I don't feel like I'm a finished product by any means," Young said. “I have a lot of stuff I want to keep getting better at.
“The way I look at it, it’s an award that celebrates the past, which is an honor, but it doesn’t entitle me to anything in the future."
Young is trying to join Archie Griffin (1964 and 1965) as the only two-time Heisman winner.
SHANE'S STYLE
Shane Beamer didn’t let any of his fellow SEC coaches upstage him at media days, not even Alabama’s Saban.
South Carolina released a hype video on social media of Beamer ahead of his appearance at the podium. It showed Beamer swaggering into a team meeting room to Soulja Boy’s “Turn My Swag On" earlier Tuesday in Columbia. Players wiped his brow, handed him a Gamecocks cap (which he placed on backward) and some shades.
Beamer showed off a few moves while players held up lights in the background.
“Walked in, changed clothes, knocked it out in three takes,” he said later in Atlanta. “Had a lot of fun doing it as well. I was a little bit taken aback because one of our players thought I needed to hear the song so I knew what the song was and I knew what the words were. I’m not that old. I know who Soulja Boy is. I know some of the words to that song. It was an easy ask.”
VANDY’S WRIGHT MOVE
Mike Wright enters preseason camp as Vanderbilt’s starting quarterback.
Coach Clark Lea said he informed Wright and former starter Ken Seals of that decision after spring practices.
“It’s all about moving the ball,” Lea said. “One way to do that is with a mobile quarterback. Mike Wright is one of the best in the country in that respect.
“We want him to develop as a total quarterback, which he is. He’s demonstrated leadership abilities, too. We’re excited for him to enter the fall as our starting quarterback. He knows that he has to earn that every day. That’s part of our covenant.”
Wright flashed his personality and sartorial style, enthusiastically discussing his suit purchased in Atlanta and sporting a red carnation.
“I’m a big fashion guy,” he said, giving a shout-out to his suit guy.
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Andrej Sekera announced his retirement on Tuesday after almost two decades in the NHL.
The Slovak defenseman played the past 15 full seasons since making his debut in 2006. Sekera played 888 regular-season and playoff games for the Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes, Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars.
He was a key member of the Stars during their run to the Stanley Cup Final in the playoff bubble in 2020, blocking 38 shots in 27 games.
Sekera skated in the Olympics twice and played for Team Europe at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. He represented Slovakia eight times at the world championships, helping his country come away with the silver medal in 2012 and wearing the “C” as national team captain in 2019.
Now 36, Sekera played the past two seasons with Dallas after Edmonton bought out the remainder of his previous contract. He played almost 14 minutes a game for the Stars, helping them reach the playoffs for the third time in four years.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Outfielder Steven Souza Jr. has announced his retirement after playing parts of eight major league seasons.
Known best for his spectacular diving catch to preserve Jordan Zimmermann's no-hitter eight years ago as a rookie, Souza said Tuesday on Twitter he is calling it a career. He appeared in six games earlier this season with the Seattle Mariners at age 33, going 3 for 19 at the plate.
Souza played 515 regular-season and playoff games with the Washington Nationals, Tampa Bay Rays, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers and Mariners since making his debut in 2014.
“It’s been an incredible journey that I dreamed as a kid I would be able to go on,” Souza said in his Twitter post. “I want to give a special thanks to my wife and my family for supporting me during this amazing journey. Without your love and support, I never would have made it out of the (Gulf Coast League)."
Souza was a third-round pick of the Nationals in 2007. During his career, he was involved in a three-way trade twice: the 2014 deal that sent Trea Turner from the Padres to Washington and Wil Myers to San Diego, and one four years later that moved Brandon Drury to the New York Yankees.
The Everett, Washington, native hit .229 with 72 home runs and 207 RBIs in the regular season. He played 10 games on the Dodgers run to the NL Championship Series in 2021.
“I want to share my experiences and my love for the greatest game in the world with those who strive to (do) what I did,” he tweeted. “Here's to the next chapter.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Clark appears likely to stay on as head of the baseball players’ association.
"There’s a lot of work that needs to be done, and I am more than committed to continue to do it,” the former All-Star first baseman told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Tuesday.
Now 50, Clark took over as union head in late 2013 following the death of Michael Weiner. Clark led the union during labor negotiations in 2016 and during the deal in March that followed a 99-day lockout. The new agreement expires in December 2026.
Bruce Meyer headed the day-to-day bargaining during the most recent talks and was promoted last week to deputy executive director from senior director of collective bargaining and legal.
The union’s key decisions are made by a 38-man executive committee, which includes an eight-man executive subcommittee. Seven of the eight members of the executive subcommittee made $12 million or more in 2021 and the other made $3.5 million.
While the executive subcommittee voted 8-0 against approving the five-year contract, team player representatives voted 26-4 in favor, leaving the overall ballot at 26-12 for ratification.
Clark said voices are heard from lower-paid members of the union.
“The veteran players were the most vocal players about improving the system for the younger players,” Clark said. “They recognize the changes that were happening in the game and they recognize because they are in the clubhouse with the young players and wanting to let them know that they had their back when sitting down to negotiate.”
The agreement included a $50 million annual bonus pool for players not yet eligible for arbitration.
Clark said players pushed for “the acknowledgment that younger players were delivering more value and needed to realize more of that value.” ___
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A diner in China spotted what looked like dinosaur footprints in the stone patio of a restaurant. Paleontologists have now confirmed the discovery and say the tracks are roughly 100 million years old.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
140 PM MST Tue Jul 19 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH
FRIDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions possible. Afternoon
temperatures 112 to 116.
* WHERE...In Arizona, Parker Valley. In California, Imperial
Valley and Palo Verde Valley.
* WHEN...From Thursday morning through Friday evening.
* IMPACTS...High Heat Risk. Overexposure can cause heat cramps
and heat exhaustion to develop and, without intervention, can
lead to heat stroke.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
An Excessive Heat Watch means that a period of very hot
temperatures, even by local standards, will occur. Actions should
be taken to lessen the impact of the extreme heat.
Stay indoors and seek air-conditioned buildings. Drink water,
more than usual, and avoid dehydrating alcoholic, sugary, or
caffeinated drinks. Dress for the heat - lightweight and light-
colored clothing. Eat small meals and eat more often. Monitor
those with a higher vulnerability to heat, including small
children. Check in on family, friends, and neighbors, especially
the elderly. If engaging in outdoor activity, take longer and
more frequent breaks and avoid the hottest parts of the day.
Never leave kids or pets unattended in cars.
Public cooling shelters are available in some areas. Consult
county officials for more details, which may include guidance for
proper social distancing measures.
Recognize the signs and symptoms of heat-related illness. Early
signs include thirst and muscle cramps. Heat exhaustion may
include: cool, moist, pale skin; headache; dizziness; weakness or
exhaustion; nausea. The most serious illness is heat stroke,
which may include: vomiting; confusion; throbbing headache;
decreased alertness or loss of consciousness; high body
temperature (above 105F); hot, dry skin; rapid, weak pulse;
rapid, shallow breathing; seizures.
Heat stroke can be DEADLY. Treat as an emergency and call 9 1 1.
Continue to monitor NWS forecasts, broadcast outlets, and local
government for updates.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Reno NV
215 PM PDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Mono, Churchill,
Mineral, Storey, southern Washoe, Pershing, Douglas and Lyon
Counties through 345 PM PDT...
At 208 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking thunderstorms moving
northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 20 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible. Also expect periods of brief heavy rainfall with
some of these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Fallon, Lovelock, Bodie, Chalfant, Crowley Lake, Benton, Pyramid
Lake, Bridgeport, Lahontan Reservoir, Toms Place, Mono Lake, Fernley,
Hawthorne, Yerington, Virginia Peak, Middlegate, Wellington, Silver
Springs, Derby Dam and Smith.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is possible with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3868 11955 3908 11947 3963 11949 4019 11977
4086 11879 4086 11765 4068 11764 4068 11730
4000 11754 3988 11746 3955 11749 3938 11776
3910 11778 3900 11819 3889 11817 3847 11770
3789 11842 3747 11783 3746 11784 3746 11867
TIME...MOT...LOC 2108Z 241DEG 33KT 3883 11828
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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HIGH SURF ADVISORY
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service San Diego CA
145 PM PDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PDT THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Large breaking waves of 4 to 7 feet. Occasional sets of
9 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...San Diego County Coastal Areas and Orange County
Coastal Areas. Highest surf on exposed southwest facing
beaches.
* WHEN...Through Thursday morning.
* IMPACTS...Surf and very strong rip currents will create
dangerous swimming conditions.
* ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...An additional south swell will
maintain high surf along south facing beaches into Thursday,
mainly for far northern San Diego County into Orange County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to
dangerous surf conditions.
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On a recent morning in the town of Mora, rancher Peter Velazquez called to about 20 cows and calves in a field right next to his neat house, its porch vibrant with flowers.
He shook feed out of a sack, while the cattle followed him around, huffing and mooing. From here in the valley, he can see the high ground on the mountainside where the cows would usually be this time of year.
He pointed out an area called Rio de la Casa. He has a permit from the Santa Fe National Forest to graze there. While the cows are on the high ground, he grows alfalfa to make hay for the winter in the valley.
This year, those mountains are covered in burned patches from the Calf Canyon/Hermit's Peak fire, the state's largest, and the U.S. Forest Service has forbidden grazing. There is probably still edible vegetation, said Velazquez, but, "there's no fences for us. They're all burned."
Now, he gives the cattle hay and feed every day, and has nowhere to grow alfalfa for the winter. His costs are mounting.
"This fire has really set us back, life-changing for sure," he said.
And so far, Velazquez said he has received little help. He is not eligible for the disaster assistance FEMA has made available for victims of the fire, because his home was unaffected. He said the New Mexico Livestock Board gave him 12 bales of hay, which did not last long.
Standing in the field, looking at burn scars, he echoed local consensus that when two planned burns carried out by the U.S. Forest Service combined to become a vast wildfire it, "really did a number to a lot of permittees and to a lot of small ranchers."
When President Joe Biden visited the state last month, he pledged more support.
"We have a responsibility to help the state recover, to help the families who have been here for centuries," he said.
But whether the government compensates people like Velazquez for all his losses is a question bound up with legislation inching through Congress, and with local plans for legal action.
So far federal assistance has focused on measures like fire suppression, debris clearance and reseeding. As Biden pointed out during his visit, full compensation for victims would require the passage of a law similar to one passed after the 2000 Cerro Grande fire, which began as a planned burn, and destroyed about 280 houses and parts of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Back then, the initial budget allocation for compensation was $455 million. For comparison, as of July 11 this year, FEMA said it had granted less than $4 million to 1,117 fire victims.
Full compensation would make a big difference to someone like artist and teacher Anita Ross, whose home and studio in the forests outside Mora burned into a pile of twisted junk. Because she had homeowner's insurance, she was not eligible for FEMA assistance, but her insurance did not cover 30 years' of art supplies which she used for her work and for teaching, as a volunteer in this poor area.
"I had a lot of supplies, but they were all categorized," she said, looking at her former home. "So if I want to teach a class on paper making, bam, I got my stuff. And I'm just going to have to reassess all that."
The New Mexico congressional delegation has worked to include the fire assistance legislation as an amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual bill granting hundreds of billions of dollars of funding. U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández sponsored it in the House of Representatives, where it passed on July 14. But the law must also make it through the Senate, where Sen. Ben Ray Luján has sponsored it, and even if successful is unlikely to be signed by the President before the end of the year.
Even if the law passes, although funding would be unlocked, timing could still be an issue. After the Cerro Grande fire, FEMA oversaw the rebuilding of many homes, but two years on, some people were still living in trailers. A government report from 2003 documents lingering unpaid claims.
And in the three counties in northeastern New Mexico worst hit by the fire - Mora, San Miguel and Taos - many fire victims do not have the capital to wait out hard times.
"I think there's a lot of us that are probably going to have to sell," said Velazquez, the rancher. "Myself, I might have to get rid of half [my herd]."
Some people are considering legal action, in case the legislation does not pass. Antonia Roybal-Mack, a lawyer in Albuquerque, grew up in Mora and several family members lost land in the fire. She is preparing a mass tort case against the Forest Service.
She has begun by requesting paperwork from the Forest Service related to the agency's report into the Las Dispensas planned burn which got out of control in early April amid high winds and low humidity.
That report concluded, "Overall, the planning and analysis for this project were done according to current standards and policy."
Roybal-Mack believes that conclusion should be challenged.
"It's: we did everything wrong, but we do everything wrong all the time," she said.
"I have two goals of this lawsuit," she said. "The first is to create law and legislation that would mean prescribed burns do not continue under these circumstances."
"The second thing is we are talking about generational land, people who live off the land," she added. "So, filing suits for them to be made whole."
Roybal-Mack and her colleagues have been holding meetings with fire victims, who are numerous. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham's office estimates that about 900 structures have burned, including homes, and since monsoon rains began, flash floods have burst river banks as rain rushes, unabsorbed, over soil burned hard.
Many displaced people are now living elsewhere in the state. Bernice Naranjo is spending time with her children in Española since her home and land burned. She and her husband had begun renovating the centuries-old adobe in 1971.
"From nothing," she said, "that one little tiny room, that was not even a room, became a beautiful home."
With tears in her eyes, she remembered a beautiful chokecherry tree, making jam with the fruit, seeing her grandchildren playing around it, and then the sight of the tree totally burned when she returned to their land.
"I actually wanted to send and get a bucket of ashes from our house and send it to the Forest Service," she said, "because they are accountable."
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service San Francisco CA
221 PM PDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...SNEAKER WAVES AND ENHANCED RIP CURRENTS THROUGH WEDNESDAY
EVENING...
.A long period southerly swell will continue to impact the
coastal waters through Wednesday. The long period swell will
result in increased risk of sneaker waves and strong rip currents
for south-facing beaches. Strong currents also possible for west-
facing beaches. Individuals going to the coast should use caution
and are advised to remain off of exposed coastal rocks and
jetties.
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY
EVENING...
* WHAT...Increased risk of sneaker waves and strong rip currents
along the coast for south facing beaches.
* WHERE...Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National
Seashore, Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast, San
Fransisco Peninsula Coast, San Francisco and Northern Monterey
Bay.
* WHEN...Through Wednesday evening.
* IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and
localized beach erosion.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highest risk of sneaker waves and strong
rip currents this afternoon through Wednesday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions.
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Updated July 19, 2022 at 6:10 PM ET
The media world – especially in streaming – breathed a huge sigh of relief Tuesday.
That's because Netflix's second-quarter earnings report revealed the company lost 970,000 subscribers. And while that is a big number – the biggest subscriber loss in the company's 25-year history — it is also a little less than half the 2-million subscriber loss the company predicted in April, which sent shock waves through Wall Street and the streaming industry.
In fact, much of Netflix's Q2 report read like an attempt to assure investors and the media world it has learned a lesson from April's news, when the company announced a 200,000 subscriber loss — which sent their stock plummeting 37% in a day, leading to several rounds of layoffs and belt-tightening. The report even provides a little good news, predicting a 1 million subscriber gain in the third quarter.
In a way, Netflix took the toughest public hit back in April; this report follows with a rosier-than-predicted subscriber loss and details on a range of efforts aimed at raising subscriber counts again and finding new revenue.
For example, the company confirmed it is working with Microsoft to create a new, lower-priced subscription tier which would feature advertisements inside their programming. They expect to launch the service in a handful of areas with big advertising markets – New York and Los Angeles, perhaps? – timed in early 2023. This comes after years of resisting placing ads in Netflix shows and a likely recognition that some consumers won't join the service unless this option is available.
Netflix is also testing two different ways to crack down on password sharing, which it estimates results in about 100 million households accessing the service for free. The report outlines two different approaches, now undergoing testing in Latin America; in one group of countries, subscribers can "add a member," in another, they can "add a household," with fees totaling about $2.99 monthly.
The report notes that Netflix has been trying to transition its service from a library of shows which originated elsewhere, to a platform mostly fueled by its own original content. Their statement says they're past the most "cash-intensive" part of that transformation, indicating the days of $15 billion budgets for programming may be passing.
Netflix's fortunes have often been seen as a bellwether for the industry at large. Now with 220.7 million subscribers, it is still the largest streaming service. But it's recent subscriber losses may provide a come-to-their-senses moment which encourages Wall Street investors to take a more realistic look at Netflix and the streaming industry in general.
When the disrupter becomes an institution
I've always thought Netflix's success with investors was based on a couple of improbable ideas: that it could keep increasing its subscribers every quarter without fail and that it could keep funneling huge sums of money into programming. Now, with rising competition from rival streamers and customers concerned about increasing expenses, the streamer has to reconsider ideas it has previously rejected out of hand.
This is what happens when the disrupter becomes an institution; ideas that were once radical reinventions are now conventions which may need to be subverted themselves.
With that in mind, here's a few more ideas Netflix should reconsider:
The binge watching model needs to be modified. The report gushes about the success of Stranger Things, which emerged as its biggest English-language TV hit ever in its fourth season, with 1.3 billion hours viewed. What the report doesn't note, however, is that the show's most recent season debuted in two chunks, ensuring that fans remained interested in the show over several weeks, keeping episodes in the streamer's Top 10 for a long while.
As much as some fans might enjoy the ability to access all episodes of a show's season at once, it seems healthier for more series to stretch out the release of episodes — allowing conversation about good shows to build, while giving potential fans more time to find a show.
Netflix series are often too long and too drawn out. I've been saying this since the streamer's ill-fated lurch into Marvel programming; too many Netflix shows feel like movie ideas stretched out into multi-episode series, with storylines that sag midway through the season as producers try to fill out all the episodes. Better to take a page from the Marvel series on Disney+ like Loki, Hawkeye and Ms. Marvel, which all offered seasons six episodes long and filled with content.
Netflix has a growing quality TV deficit. Even though shows like Stranger Things, Squid Game and Ozark racked up the Emmy nominations this year, the service was outpaced by rival HBO and faces challenges from Hulu and Apple TV+. It isn't minting awards-level prestige shows like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black or The Queen's Gambit like it once used to, and that will affect a certain segment of the subscriber base.
Netflix must build up goodwill with consumers before it tackles password sharing. Pushing consumers to pay more to share passwords with others will be a tough turn, essentially insisting subscribers pay for a feature that they have gotten free for many years. They'll be attempting this while also trying to build their subscriber count by limiting "churn" – the numbers of subscribers who drop the service, sometimes to join a rival.
Doesn't matter how many tests they run in smaller markets; when you say your business is focused on choice and control for subscribers and those customers choose to share passwords, unringing that bell is a serious challenge.
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WFO BURLINGTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Burlington VT
511 PM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Franklin and northeastern St. Lawrence Counties through 615 PM EDT...
At 510 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Waddington, moving southeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Potsdam, Norfolk, Louisville, Moira, Parishville, Norwood, Brasher
Falls, Waddington, Madrid, Lawrenceville, Chipman, Dickinson,
Hopkinton, North Stockholm, Dickinson Center, West Stockholm, Coles
Creek State Park, Nicholville, Winthrop and St. Regis Falls.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 4481 7447 4444 7467 4483 7527 4485 7527
4484 7528 4484 7529 4488 7522 4487 7519
4489 7517 4487 7516 4489 7515 4490 7512
4489 7512 4491 7511 4492 7508
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 293DEG 25KT 4486 7517
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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This week, it was hotter than ever in the United Kingdom.
On Tuesday, parts of England hit a temperature above 40 degrees Celsius – or 104 degrees Fahrenheit — a first in the U.K.'s recorded history.
The government had urged Brits to stay home if possible. Train stations were shut or empty; an airport closed a runway and police closed a highway when asphalt melted and buckled. The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the city's fire brigade received 1,600 calls for assistance and that firefighters were fighting at least a dozen major fires across the city. Residents of Blidworth, a village near Nottingham, were evacuated as 15 fire crews battled an enormous blaze on a nearby farm.
"I wasn't expecting to see this in my career," said Stephen Belcher, the chief scientist at the U.K.'s Meteorological Office.
Here's a look at today's provisional maximum temperatures at 16:00 👇#heatwave2022 #heatwave pic.twitter.com/A957lUFdOL
— Met Office (@metoffice) July 19, 2022
With much of the U.S. facing its own heat wave, it could be easy for Americans to wonder why the extreme heat has been so disruptive in the U.K.
In short: Because it's not a common occurrence there, the country and its residents are less equipped to deal with heat, officials and experts say — even as climate change means extreme days are more likely in the years to come.
Why is the U.K. more vulnerable to heat than the U.S.?
In parts of the U.S., temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit are relatively common. In the South and Southwest, it's normal to record triple-digit temperatures a dozen or more times each year.
By contrast, temperatures as hot as those recorded Tuesday are typically expected in the U.K. once every 100 to 300 years, according to the Met Office.
Because of that, infrastructure in the U.K. — from homes to commercial buildings to roads to train tracks to airport tarmacs — isn't always built to withstand the high temperatures.
"It can be difficult for people to make the best decisions in these situations, because nothing in their life experience has led them to know what to expect," Penny Endersby, the chief executive at the Met Office, said ahead of the heat wave.
"Here in the U.K., we're used to treating hot spells as a chance to go play in the sun. This is not that sort of weather. Our lifestyles and our infrastructure are not adapted to what is coming," she added.
For example, most homes in the U.K. don't have air conditioning. The British government estimates that only about 5% of homes have any form of AC – and most of those that do have portable units designed to cool a single room. Meanwhile, nearly 90% of Americans have air conditioning in their homes.
How did that play out this week?
It's too soon to know how deadly this week's heat wave has been. Experts had also warned that many people, potentially thousands, could die in connection with the extreme temperatures. (After a trio of heat waves rocked the U.K. in the summer of 2020, a government report concluded that the country saw 2,500 more deaths than expected during the heat, even after accounting for COVID-19.)
More immediately apparent was the effect on infrastructure. Roads, tarmacs, and rail systems are more vulnerable in the U.K. than they are in the U.S.
The U.K.'s national rail service warned of slower trains and closed some routes entirely in anticipation of the heat, and an airport in London closed a runway for several hours on Monday after heat caused the pavement to buckle.
In the east of England, authorities shut down a highway for hours when the heat caused the concrete underlying the surface asphalt to ripple upward. "Whilst this ramp may seem appealing to the more adventurous of you, it's proving to be hazardous," local police wrote on Twitter.
A14 Westbound Bottisham
— BCH Road Policing Unit (@roadpoliceBCH) July 18, 2022
*Please approach with caution* @HighwaysEAST in attendance with a lane closure until the road surface can be assessed.
Whilst this ramp may seem appealing to the more adventurous of you, it’s proving to be hazardous and may result in a closure.
1830 pic.twitter.com/GYpq9d72kg
Like many older roads in England, that stretch of the A14 was once paved with concrete, said National Highways, the government-owned company that operates the country's highways. It had since been paved over with asphalt, but the underlying concrete could not handle this week's heat.
"In the extreme heat a cumulative effect has meant the temperature of the concrete under the asphalt has risen over recent days meaning sections have expanded and overwhelmed the tolerances (gaps) we allow for normal expansion," they wrote.
Will this happen more often?
Heat waves — their frequency, duration and severity — are a major consequence of climate change, said Larry Kenney, a professor of physiology at Penn State. Especially vulnerable are the elderly, people with heart disease, infants, and people who are physically active in the heat, like athletes and military personnel.
"People need to understand that heat is the most deadly of all weather-related fatalities, much more so than tornados, hurricanes, all other things combined," Kenney told NPR.
All that means this week's temperatures in the U.K. are unlikely to be a one-time occurrence. As the planet warms, the chances of such extreme temperatures there could be 10 times as likely, or more, the Met Office says.
"Research conducted here at the Met Office has demonstrated that it's virtually impossible for the U.K. to experience 40 degrees C in an undisrupted climate," said Belcher, the agency's top scientist.
"If we continue under a high emissions scenario, we could see temperatures like this every three years," he said.
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TX Marine Warnings and Forecast for Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
348 PM CDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Southeast winds around 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt.
* WHERE...Laguna Madre between the Port of Brownsville and
Baffin Bay.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM CDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund's Brent Leggs and Maxwell Brown Chapel AME Church's Juanda about grants to preserve African-American cultural sites.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund's Brent Leggs and Maxwell Brown Chapel AME Church's Juanda about grants to preserve African-American cultural sites.
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WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
255 PM MDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Daytime high temperatures of 104 to 106 degrees with
nighttime low temperatures 73 to 78 degrees.
* WHERE...Parts of far west Texas and south-central New Mexico.
* WHEN...Through midnight MDT Tuesday night.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Andrew Limbong is a reporter for NPR's Arts Desk, where he does pieces on anything remotely related to arts or culture, from streamers looking for mental health on Twitch to Britney Spears' fight over her conservatorship. He's also covered the near collapse of the live music industry during the coronavirus pandemic. He's the host of NPR's Book of the Day podcast and a frequent host on Life Kit.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Norman OK
411 PM CDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...For the first Excessive Heat Warning, dangerously hot
conditions with heat index values up to 111. For the second
Excessive Heat Warning, dangerously hot conditions with heat
index values up to 109 expected.
* WHERE...In Oklahoma, Grady, McClain, Cleveland, Pottawatomie,
Comanche and Cotton Counties. In Texas, Wichita and Archer
Counties.
* WHEN...For the first Excessive Heat Warning, until 9 PM CDT
this evening. For the second Excessive Heat Warning, from 1 PM
to 8 PM CDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat and humidity will significantly increase
the potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
conditions with heat index values up to 112. For the second
* WHERE...In Oklahoma, Logan, Payne, Oklahoma, Lincoln and
Tillman Counties. In Texas, Wilbarger and Baylor Counties.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat and humidity will significantly
increase the potential for heat related illnesses,
particularly for those working or participating in outdoor
activities.
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM CDT
index values up to 112 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of east central, southeast and southern
Oklahoma and northern Texas.
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM CDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...For the Excessive Heat Warning, dangerously hot
conditions with heat index values up to 111. For the Heat
Advisory, heat index values up to 106 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of central, northern, northwest and southwest
* WHEN...For the Excessive Heat Warning, until 9 PM CDT this
evening. For the Heat Advisory, from 1 PM to 8 PM CDT
Wednesday.
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Updated July 19, 2022 at 5:47 PM ET
The Biden administration is trying to decide whether to make a second COVID-19 booster more widely available to protect more people against the latest surge driving up infections and hospitalizations this summer.
Anyone age 50 and older — and anyone 12 and older with a weak immune system — has been eligible for a second booster since March. But most people younger than 50 couldn't get one. That could now change. NPR learned that federal officials are currently debating the move.
Proponents of expanding booster eligibility say the nation urgently needs to boost as many people as possible because of the threat posed by the most contagious version of the coronavirus to emerge yet, known as BA.5.
Skeptics doubt another booster of the same vaccine will provide much added protection to most people. Some also worry another shot could backfire, by training the immune system to only fight the original strain of the virus. There's also concern getting another booster now may interfere with efforts to roll out the next generation of boosters that target omicron in the fall. For most people younger than 50,the protection they got from their first three shots has been wearing off. In fact, a new study released Tuesday indicates the antibody response fades substantially within three months. So with infections surging again amid widespread transmission of the BA.5 variant, federal officials have been debating whether to open up eligibility to protect more people through the summer.
"What else can we do to reduce the likelihood of serious illness?" asks Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota epidemiologist who has been urging federal officials to loosen booster eligibility. "Boosters are, I think, the obvious answer."
Some other infectious disease experts agree.
"There is as much COVID around now as almost at any time. People are no longer being as careful as they were. We know that immunity wanes over time. We have a variant that is capable of evading immune system. We have good evidence that a second booster lowers the probability of a severe case," says Dr. Robert Wachter at the University of California, San Francisco. Wachter thinks the government should offer second boosters to all adults. Others think boosters should just be offered only to those at high risk. "I don't think it would make much sense for a perfectly healthy 25-year-old person to necessarily get a boost now," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser. "There's a difference between a perfectly healthy 25-year-old person and a 43-year-old with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease."
But other infectious disease experts argue there really isn't good evidence that a second booster would enhance protection much for most otherwise health people. And, they argue, three shots are still protecting most people from getting severely ill and dying.
"The goal of this vaccine is to protect against serious illness. If we're going to try to protect again mild illness for years then we're going to have boost a couple times a year and that doesn't make sense from a public health standpoint," says Dr. Paul Offit, who heads the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
And there is concern that if people get the same shot too many times it could be counter-productive — by kind of training their immune systems to only try to fight off the original strain instead of protecting against new variants. Although this remains a theoretical risk, some say the evidence that it might be real is growing.
"There's this phenomenon of imprinting also known as original antigenic sin where if you continue to give doses of the same vaccine you could in a sense trap the immune system of wanting to respond to the original virus and not adapting as well to future variants," says Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious disease specialist and a fellow at Kaiser Health News.
A final concern concerns public messaging: Giving people another booster now may confuse things in the fall when the government plans to roll out the next generation of vaccines. Those will likely be bivalent vaccines, meaning that have been updated to target omicron along with the original strain of the virus. The idea is to try to protect people against what could be another bad winter surge.
And if people get boosted now, in mid summer, there may not be enough time in between the shots — since people may have to wait months in between boosters for them to work. (There's disagreement about this and no good evidence for what is the optimal interval.) "The spacing between boosters is important," says John Moore, an immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine. "One reason is that the response to a vaccine dose is impaired when the level of antibody in the blood is too high."
Some also argue the country should focus vaccination outreach efforts on getting more people to get their first shots and first boosters. One-third of adults remain unvaccinated and only half of those who have gotten vaccinated have gotten their first booster.
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2 people struck by lighting in Florida, both taken to hospitals, officials say
LAKE MARY, Fla. - Two people were struck by lightning and taken to hospitals in Volusia County on Tuesday afternoon after strong storms moved through the area, according to emergency officials.
A man was struck while he was reportedly mowing his lawn in the Tymber Trace neighborhood in New Smyrna Beach, an official said. That man did not have a pulse and was not breathing when first responders arrived at his home, however, they were able to get a pulse.
He was transported in critical condition to Halifax Medical Center.
A 66-year-old woman was reportedly struck by lightning outside an Autozone store on State Road 44, about a mile south of where the man was struck by lighting. She was taken to the hospital, but was not considered a trauma.
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No other details were immediately released.
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Donations top $300K for Nicholas Bostic — man who saved 5 kids from house fire
LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A GoFundMe account for an injured pizza deliveryman who saved five trapped children from a house fire has raised more than $300,000 as of Tuesday.
Police in Lafayette, Indiana, said 25-year-old Nicholas Bostic was driving around 12:30 a.m. on July 11 when he saw the home up in flames. He threw his car into reverse and pulled into the driveway. He told police he wasn’t able to call 911 and he "didn’t want to waste time trying to find someone who could."
Some media outlets have reported Bostic worked as a pizza delivery man, which was why he was in the neighborhood.
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Bostic tried knocking on the door, but no one answered his calls. He was able to get in through the back door and began yelling for people inside.
"I mean, I was high-tailing it, 110%. It started to get hard to see, because the smoke was getting bad," Bostic told journalist Dave Bangert. "I don’t know how to explain it, but it was like I accepted I was going to probably die, right there, that night. But it was a weird calm. You just got to work as fast as you can."
Nicholas Bostic (photo credit: Lafayette, Indiana Police Department)
When he ran upstairs, he found four people — the youngest a 1-year-old and the oldest an 18-year-old — asleep. Once he got them out safely, they told him a 6-year-old girl was still inside.
Without hesitation, Bostic ran back into the house and up the stairs where the other children were, but the child wasn’t there. He would have to make it downstairs to reach her.
"He described looking down the stairwell into a ‘black lagoon’ of smoke and thought it impossible to go that way," police said. "He knew he was there to get that child out, and even though the fire and smoke downstairs frightened him, he would not quit.
"Nicholas wrapped his shirt around his mouth and nose and plunged into the blackness ... [he]crawled on the ground, feeling in front of him with his hands, and used the child’s cries to help him locate her in the darkness."
After he found the child, he rushed back up the stairs and punched through a glass window, but the child’s leg got caught in a cord attached to the blinds. He had to untangle the cord before he leaped from the second-floor window and made sure to land on the side where he wasn’t holding the child. He was able to pick himself up off the ground and carry her to safety.
Miraculously, the child was mostly uninjured.
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Bostic suffered from severe smoke inhalation and a serious cut on his arm. He later had to be flown to Indianapolis for treatment.
Video from the scene shows Bostic on the ground injured, while asking repeatedly if the child was OK.
"His selflessness during this incident is inspiring, and he has impressed many with his courage, tenacity, and steadfast calmness in the face of such perilous danger," police said.
According to Bangert, Bostic is out of the hospital.
"Everyone says, hero-this or hero-that," Bostic also told Bangert. "I don’t know about that. I was just a guy."
The city will recognize Bostic at the Lafayette Aviators’ baseball team’s National Night Out event on Aug. 2. Proceeds from the game’s ticket sales will go toward Bostic’s gofundme page to help in his recovery.
Heather Miller contributed to this report. This story was reported from Los Angeles.
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Florida elections law: Neighboring states show support for stricter voting laws in Sunshine State
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Pointing to broader implications of the case, Georgia is backing Florida in a fight about a 2021 elections law that a federal judge said is unconstitutional.
Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr filed a brief Monday at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals supporting the Florida law (SB 90-2021), which, in part, placed additional restrictions on "drop boxes" for mail-in ballots and prevented groups from providing items such as food and water to voters waiting in line at polling places.
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled March 31 that the law was unconstitutionally intended to discriminate against Black voters. A panel of the federal appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments Sept. 15 in Florida’s appeal of Walker’s ruling.
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In the 36-page brief Monday, Carr and lawyers in his office wrote that a court precedent requires plaintiffs to show "discriminatory results," along with intent, to establish a violation of part of the federal Voting Rights Act. Also, the brief took issue with Walker’s conclusions about the intent of Florida lawmakers.
"(The) district court improperly used its disagreement with the Legislature’s judgment (regarding the need to foreclose potential avenues of fraud, maintain election integrity and efficiency, and bolster voter confidence) to conclude that such valid legislative interests were mere pretext for racial discrimination," the brief said. "Courts cannot use simple disagreement with legislatures as a basis for inferring discriminatory intent, and it is corrosive of the judicial role, not to mention democracy, to suggest as much."
Also, the brief indicated that the appeals court’s ruling in the Florida case could affect a pending challenge to elections laws in Georgia. The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hears cases from Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
"In particular, Georgia, like many other states, has enacted restrictions on soliciting persons waiting in line to vote, including for the purpose of offering them things of value such as money, gifts, food, or beverages," the brief said. "And it has other laws and regulations governing voting by mail, drop boxes, and other aspects of elections that could be affected by this court’s eventual decision in this case. Accordingly, Georgia has a keen interest in both the outcome of this case and the reasoning of this court’s decision even apart from the result."
Republican lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis approved the Florida law (SB 90) amid a broader push by the GOP nationally to change elections laws after former President Donald Trump lost in 2020 to Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump’s narrow defeat in Georgia helped fuel the Republican effort to revamp laws. Florida had relatively few problems in the 2020 elections, but lawmakers and DeSantis argued they needed to add safeguards to help prevent fraud.
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In challenging the law, however, voting-rights groups argued it was intended to restrict minority voters’ access to the ballot. As an example, the number of Black voters using drop boxes significantly increased in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Black voters are a key Democratic Party constituency.
Walker, in a 288-page ruling, agreed with the voting-rights groups about the discriminatory intent of the law and found parts of it unconstitutional. In addition, he took the rare step of putting Florida under a process known as "preclearance," meaning that a court would have to approve changes to parts of elections laws.
The appeals court in May issued a stay of Walker’s ruling — allowing the law to be in effect during this year’s elections. But the underlying court fight continued.
Attorneys for the state and the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which intervened in the case, filed briefs last week in the case. Lawyers for the voting-rights groups have not filed their arguments.
In addition to Georgia, several organizations supporting Florida have filed friend-of-the-court briefs during the past week.
As an example, the Indiana-based Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a brief Monday that said Florida’s "initiatives to prevent voter fraud, instill voter confidence in the election process, and maintain an orderly, efficient, and peaceful election process justify the minimal, reasonable restrictions the new laws may place on plaintiffs."
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Florida man who planned to blow up his street with homemade explosives arrested, deputies say
EUSTIS, Fla. - A Florida man who allegedly built explosive devices with the intent to blow up himself and his street was arrested Monday in Lake County, according to an arrest affidavit.
The Lake County Sheriff's Office said a woman, who had been staying at the home of the 55-year-old man, contacted law enforcement Friday saying the man had been making bombs and booby traps devices in his Eustis home on Tulip Avenue and told her his intentions. She said the man had built several devices recently and was awaiting a shipment of chemicals to finish building the devices.
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Detectives executed a search warrant for the home and LCSO's hazardous device team – which has specialized training in explosive devices – sent a robot into the home to prevent deputies from getting hurt in any traps.
Inside the home, authorities found multiple destructive devices, a fuel bomb/incendiary device, and several guns and ammunition. They also found a "significant amount of anti-Semitic literature" inside the home, but deputies said it's unclear whether he had any specific targets.
The Lake County Sheriff's Office releases images of items found inside the Eustis home.
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Law enforcement also spoke to multiple neighbors who said the man fired his guns regularly from within the home, and saw him detonate explosive devices on the property. A neighbor said the explosion was "forceful enough to shake the walls within their home," the affidavit stated.
The man was booked him into the Lake County Jail on several charges including making/possessing a destructive device, discharging a destructive device, and threatening to throw, project, place or discharge a destructive device.
According to law enforcement, deputies had been called to the home numerous times over the last few years for his "unusual and concerning behavior" and had been Baker Acted in the past.
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Police: Woman dead, 2 suspects hurt in shooting during Gainesville home invasion
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A woman is dead, and two alleged suspects are hospitalized following a shooting during a reported home invasion in northeast Gainesville Tuesday morning, according to police.
The Gainesville Police Department released a statement on Facebook stating officers responded to the home shortly before 7 a.m. and found three people who had been shot.
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GPD authorities at the scene performed "extensive life-saving procedures," on the three people, right before they were taken to a hospital for extensive medical care. Officers said the woman died of her injuries.
"The other two individuals that were shot are the main suspects in the home invasion and are currently under the watch of law enforcement at the hospital," GPD said in a statement.
The identities of three people have not been released at this time.
Anyone who has more information on the incident or people involved, is asked to contact Detective Russano at 352-393-7719 or email at RussanoDB@cityofgainesville.org.
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BEAUMONT, Texas — Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial for a Port Arthur man accused of hitting and killing beloved Beaumont Police Officer Sheena Yarbrough-Powell.
Luis Torres, 20, is charged with intoxication manslaughter. Torres is accused of driving drunk and hitting Officer Yarbrough-Powell and her partner, Officer Gabriel Fells, on August 9, 2020, on Cardinal Drive.
Police said Torres hit the unit head-on with the two officers inside while he was driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 69.
Torres was 18 years old when the deadly crash took place. According to a probable cause affidavit, his blood alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit.
Torres initially pleaded guilty in April and was set to be sentenced on Monday, May 23, 2022. Torres withdrew his guilty plea the day he was set to be sentenced, opting to go to trial instead.
The reason for the withdrawal is unknown.
If Torres is convicted, he could face anywhere from five to 99 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.
12News has a crew at Tuesday's court proceedings.
Court proceedings began with an opening statement from the prosecution.
Assistant District Attorney Waylon Thompson said, "this will be a week of misery" for everyone in the courtroom. Thompson said they planned to show pictures of the final seconds of Officer Yarbrough-Powell's life.
Thompson's believes those images will not leave anyone's head once the trial is finished.
“We’re going to put witnesses on the witness stand who are going to give you details the kind of which you wish you never had to hear," Thompson said. "We’re going to introduce photographs that you are never going to be able to get out your head because they are that bad. Prepare yourselves.”
The defense chose not to give an opening statement.
This is a developing story. We will update with more if and when we receive more confirmed information.
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'Law & Order' crew member murdered at NYC set
NEW YORK - A man working at the set of 'Law and Order: Organized Crime' was fatally shot in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning.
It happened on a street in the borough's Greenpoint neighborhood that was being used as a set for the TV show. The victim, Johnny Pizarro, was a contractor who was tasked with securing street parking for vehicles for the production.
Around 5:15 a.m., the 31-year-old was sitting in a car holding a parking spot when a man walked up to him and shot him multiple times in the head and neck. Pizarro did not survive.
The NYPD's crime scene unit was at the scene for hours collecting evidence and going door-to-door trying to find neighbors who might have seen something.
Actor Christopher Meloni is seen at the film set of the 'Law and Order: Organized Crime' in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on July 19, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
Police sources told FOX 5's Lisa Evers that there is a chance the shooting may not have had anything to do with the parking spot but may have been a targeted hit.
No arrests have been made in the case.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. adults who haven’t gotten any COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from Novavax — a more traditional kind of vaccine, influential government advisers said Tuesday.
Regulators authorized the nation’s first so-called protein vaccine against COVID-19 last week, but Novavax shots cannot begin until the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends how to use them.
Most Americans have gotten at least their primary COVID-19 vaccinations by now, but CDC officials said between 26 million and 37 million adults haven’t had a single dose -- the population that Novavax, for now, will be targeting.
“We really need to focus on that population,” said CDC adviser Dr. Oliver Brooks, past president of the National Medical Association. Hopefully, the vaccine "will change them over from being unvaccinated to vaccinated.”
While it’s unclear how many will be persuaded by a more conventional option, “I'm really positive about this vaccine,” agreed fellow adviser Dr. Pablo Sanchez of Ohio State University.
The Novavax difference
All of the vaccines used in the U.S. train the body to fight the coronavirus by recognizing its outer coating, the spike protein -- and the first three options essentially turn people’s cells into a temporary vaccine factory. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines deliver genetic instructions for the body to make copies of the spike protein. The lesser-used Johnson & Johnson option uses a cold virus to deliver those instructions.
In contrast, the Novavax vaccine injects copies of the spike protein that are grown in a lab and packaged into nanoparticles that to the immune system resemble a virus. Another difference: An ingredient called an adjuvant, that’s made from the bark of a South American tree, is added to help rev up that immune response.
Protein vaccines have been used for years to prevent other diseases including hepatitis B and shingles.
How well it works
Large studies in the U.S., Mexico and Britain found two doses of the Novavax vaccine were safe and about 90% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19. When the delta variant emerged last summer, Novavax reported a booster dose revved up virus-fighting antibodies that could tackle that mutant.
Typical vaccine reactions were mild, including arm pain and fatigue, but regulators did warn about the possibility of a rare risk, heart inflammation, that also has been seen with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, mostly in teen boys or young men.
But early on, manufacturing problems delayed the Novavax vaccine — meaning the shots were studied long before the omicron variant hit, so it's not clear how well they hold up against the immune-evading mutant.
Still, Novavax points to lab testing that shows the first two shots do spur production of virus-fighting antibodies that are cross-protective against omicron, including the BA.5 subtype that’s currently the nation’s top threat. A booster dose further revved up cross-protective antibodies.
How to use Novavax shots
The CDC’s advisers unanimously endorsed the two-shot primary series. But several noted that it was important for regulators to clear a booster by the time, five or so months after their last dose, that Novavax recipients will need one.
Also, the two doses typically are given three weeks apart. But CDC officials said that like with other COVID-19 vaccines, it's possible to wait up to eight weeks for the second dose — except for people at the highest risk, who need protection quickly.
What happens next
CDC’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, must sign off on the advisory panel’s recommendations for adults to get the first two Novavax doses. In its first purchase, the U.S. government bought 3.2 million doses.
The Novavax vaccine also is used in Europe, Canada, Australia, South Korea and other countries. Many allow booster doses, and European regulators recently cleared the shots to given as young as age 12.
The Maryland-based company likewise expects U.S. authorization of a booster dose and teen vaccinations to follow fairly soon.
And like other vaccine makers, Novavax is testing shots updated to better match the newest omicron subtypes -- in anticipation of another round of boosters this fall and winter.
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Confidence of US home builders plunges in July as rising costs slow sales
Home builder confidence suffered a near-record drop in July as high inflation and climbing mortgage rates stalled the housing market by slowing sales and discouraging potential buyers.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Housing Market Index (HMI) was released on Monday, showing how builder confidence in the market for newly-built, single-family homes dropped to 55.
It was the seventh straight monthly decline and a drop of 12 points since June, indicating a further sign of a weakening housing market, according to the NAHB.
The July score marked the lowest index reading since April 2020 — which was 30 — when most of the country was under some form of lockdown at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also represented the largest single-month drop in the history of the HMI, except for the 42-point drop in April 2020.
The HMI can range between 0 and 100. Readings above 50 mean more builders view market conditions as good rather than poor — but experts said the July reading of 55 still represented additional signs of a weakening housing market.
"Production bottlenecks, rising home building costs and high inflation are causing many builders to halt construction because the cost of land, construction, and financing exceeds the market value of the home," NAHB Chairman Jerry Konter, a home builder and developer from Savannah, Ga., said in a statement.
"In another sign of a softening market, 13% of builders in the HMI survey reported reducing home prices in the past month to bolster sales and/or limit cancellations," Konter added.
What is the NAHB Housing Market Index?
The index is based on a monthly survey of National Association of Home Builders members designed to get a sense of the single-family housing market.
The survey asks respondents to rate market conditions for the sale of new homes at the present time and in the next six months — as well as the traffic of prospective buyers of new homes.
The NAHB/Wells Fargo HMI gauges builder perceptions of current single-family home sales and sales expectations for the next six months as "good," "fair" or "poor." The survey also asks builders to rate traffic of prospective buyers as "high to very high," "average" or "low to very low."
Scores for each component are then used to calculate a seasonally-adjusted index where any number over 50 indicates that a majority of builders feel good about selling their homes in the housing market.
The HMI, which began in 1985, fell to a record low of 8 in January 2009. It set a record high of 90 in November 2020, statistics show.
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Current housing market: ‘Affordability is the greatest challenge’
All three components of the home builders’ index saw declines in July 2022, according to the NAHB. Current sales conditions dropped 12 points to 64, sales expectations in the next six months declined 11 points to 50, and traffic of prospective buyers fell 11 points to 37.
The NAHB also shared three-month averages for different U.S. regions. The Northeast fell six points to 65, the Midwest dropped four points to 52, the South fell eight points to 70 and the West dropped 12 points to 62.
The housing market, a crucial part of the economy, is slowing as homebuyers face much higher home financing costs than a year ago following a rapid rise in mortgage rates. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed for the fourth consecutive month in May, and are expected to continue that trend when the National Association of Realtors issues its June snapshot this week.
Meanwhile, the average rate on a 30-year home loan climbed to 5.51% last week, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. A year ago, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.88%.
"Affordability is the greatest challenge facing the housing market," NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz said in a statement. "Significant segments of the home buying population are priced out of the market. Policymakers must address supply-side issues to help builders produce more affordable housing."
First-time home buyers accounted for 27% of transactions in May, down from 28% in April and 31% in May 2021, the National Association of Realtors said.
Real estate investors and other buyers able to buy a home with just cash, sidestepping the need to rely on financing, accounted for 25% of all sales in May, down from 26% in April, the group added.
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This story was reported from Cincinnati. The Associated Press contributed.
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BEAUMONT, Texas — There is another update in the building battle that has been raging around the former AT&T building in downtown Beaumont.
(Editor's note: The above video is from a June 29, 2022 newscast.)
Beaumont City Council Members voted to adjust a clause that could save the building from demolition and pave the way for new developers to step in. The 5-1 vote that changed the fine print of the AT&T sale took place during a city council meeting Tuesday afternoon.
The specific changes that were discussed regarded the contract in order to allow for new businesses to take over.
The building's previous owner, Tom Flanagan, sold the building to the city in 2021. However, Flanagan had the right to buy the building back if the city chose not to demolish it.
In early April 2022, Beaumont City Council members agreed to demolish the former AT&T building and move forward with their riverfront development plans.
Related: North Texas investor's last-minute downtown AT&T building pitch puts demolition plans on hold
A last-minute interest from a north Texas investor in May 2022 made the council reevaluate their original plans to demolish it. The investor proposed buying the building and turning it into luxury apartments with a public gym and rooftop bar.
Tuesday’s vote gave the city the green light to solicit bids from potential developers. However, the city has agreed the building cannot be developed into office space.
Interim City Manager Chris Boone believes the change will give the council more options to consider moving forward.
Within the next 30 days, the city will put out a request for proposals asking any potential buyers to come forward with their vision for the building.
This is a developing story. We will update with more if and when we receive more confirmed information.
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Released video shows moments before plane stolen at Sea-Tac Airport in 2018
SEATAC, Wash. - Earlier this month, the Port of Seattle released surveillance video showing the moments before a man stole a plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in 2018.
On August 10, 2018, 29-year-old Richard Russell, who was a ground service agent employed by Horizon Air, flew the empty stolen plane around Western Washington before crashing on Ketron Island in Pierce County. He died in the crash.
One of the videos from Port of Seattle showed Russell going through security after 2:30 p.m. that day wearing a black T-shirt with "The Sky's No Limit" printed on the back.
Five hours later, video showed a Horizon Air Q400 turboprop being towed in the Sea-Tac lot and later taking off on a short runway.
Russell flew the plane over Puget Sound for about 70 minutes before crashing.
According to hundreds of documents released by the FBI in April, Russell's family and friends were concerned by his demeanor days before the incident. Investigators found on Aug. 3, 2018, even days before the incident, Russell skipped work and expressed "feeling as if he was not living up to what others expected of him."
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On Aug. 5, 2018, Russell seemed strange and evasive, and family and friends attempted an intervention. The investigation notes family and friends thought he was also drinking more than usual.
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SAN ANTONIO — Vanessa Franco was ready for a new rental to live with her three children and granddaughter.
“I was applying for a place to move since my lease was up,” she said.
She used online rental marketplace TurboTenant to apply to lease a home.
“The homeowner reached out to me and asked me if I was interested in a property for rent,” Franco said. “He told me he would grant me access to the property and to view it.”
Rental schemes often mimic the actual rental process and can be hard to spot. Franco took all the steps she should, including going to see the home in person. The landlord told her to download the OpenDoor app to get access inside the home. OpenDoor is a home sales app that does not list rentals, but the landlord told her the home was rent-to-own. Franco got the app and went inside to view the home. Afterwards, she signed a lease, spending $3,500 for rent and fees.
She moved in. A home security officer showed up shortly after with some disturbing news: “He asked me what I was doing there with my family," Franco said. “He told me I was part of a rental scam.”
She was unlawfully occupying the property. The lease was fake and she cannot locate the real home owner.
“I did not trespass into the property,” Franco said. “They gave me access to it. That’s how I moved in.”
Even though she was living there with her family, people would continue to show up and go into the home, getting access the same way she did. She told several people who entered that home is not really for rent.
“Random people come into the home that I paid my monthly rent on,” Franco said. “My biggest concern is the safety of my family.”
She is able to live in the home, for now, after filing reports with the police, FBI, Attorney General, Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureau (BBB). Police eventually gave her permission to change the locks so others cannot come into the home without her permission. But, her time there is running out.
“I have no idea where I’m going to go with my family. The savings that I invested to move is gone,” Franco said.
Turbo Tenant said it blocked the account that listed the home after other renters complained. A spokesperson said TurboTenant has no affiliation with OpenDoor. TurboTenant’s policy is to review the account when someone reports a fraudulent listing. Renters are refunded their application fee if the account is blocked for fraud. It also includes a link at the bottom of every page on how to avoid fraud.
“It’s an unfortunate reality of the rental market that fraudsters will always try to use platforms like ours to take advantage of renters, but we’re very proactive in catching them and making things right when it’s in our power to do so,” said Jonathan Forisha of TurboTenant.
OpenDoor did not reply to a request for comment.
A common tactic of schemers is to use rental platforms and post fake listings.
“They usually try to tie a legitimate organization into the middle to legitimize their scheme,” said Jason Meza of the Better Business Bureau.
Rental apps and websites are designed to make moving easier, but in reality, they can make extra work for renters since listings are easy to clone.
“Then you’ve got to into open public records," Meza said. "You’ve got to do your own searches, find out who the real owner is. Maybe make contact with landlords in advance around their system just to make sure you are speaking with real, legit people.”
Franco is left to make another move without the money required to rent.
“I’m the victim that is stuck in the middle,” Franco said. “I don’t know if I’m going to be there tomorrow.”
Franco said she is so far unable to get any of her money back.
If you are a victim of rental fraud, it is important to report it so schemers can be stopped. Report it to police, your local law enforcement, the Texas Attorney General, the BBB, the Federal Trade Commission.
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Saban: Alabama players topped $3 million in NIL money
ATLANTA - Nick Saban has been vocal about his issues with the status quo in name, image and likeness deals and their use in recruiting.
But it's not like Alabama's coach and his players haven't benefited, too. Saban said Crimson Tide players have made more than $3 million in NIL money.
"The biggest concern is how does this impact and affect recruiting?" he said Tuesday at the Southeastern Conference Media Days. "On the recruiting trail right now, there’s a lot of people using this as inducements to go to their school by making promises they may or may not be able to keep in terms of what players are doing.
"I think that is what can create a competitive balance issue between the haves and have-nots. We’re one of the haves. Don’t think that what I’m saying is a concern that we have at Alabama because we’re one of the haves."
The touchy topic boiled over in the offseason after Saban singled out Texas A&M and other schools for using the NIL deals in recruiting. Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher fired back at his former boss and denied any wrongdoing in his program, which landed the No. 1 recruiting class in the country.
"I think they both kind of illustrate the frustration of how things are right now," Mississippi State coach Mike Leach said. "It’s not sustainable, so something’s going to change."
Leach says as things stand "college athletes have more privileges than anybody at any other professional level."
"Go up to your next favorite NFL guy, say: ‘Hey, I heard in the NFL they’re going to have unmitigated free agency, 365, 24/7. And, by the way, there’s not going to be any salary cap or draft, you’re just going to have bidding wars,’" Leach said. "Just watch the expression on their face. Don’t look at anything else or write down any notes because the expression on their face will be well worth it."
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PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Southeast Texans are encouraged to attend a community forum hosted by the Save Sabine Lake coalition to discuss a proposed pipeline.
The first of two community forums takes place Tuesday, July 19, 2022, at 7 p.m. at the Bob Bowers Civic Center in Port Arthur.
The second meeting is Thursday, July 21, 2022, at 7 p.m. at the Bridge City Senior Citizen Hall.
Zoom links are also available for those who want to attend virtually.
In June 2022, a coalition of organizations led by the Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) launched a month of action to stop the proposed Blue Marlin crude oil pipeline.
The 37-mile Blue Marlin Pipeline would stretch from Nederland to a deep-water port in the Gulf. The meeting will allow landowners along the pipeline route to discuss how they can protect their property.
Dallas-based company Energy Transfer is seeking approval to build and operate the massive crude oil export terminal, which would move nearly two million barrels per day through the lake, according to the Save Sabine Lake website.
PACAN CEO and environmental justice activist John Beard, Jr. says Energy Transfer is the wrong company to operate a pipeline, and Sabine Lake and Bessie Heights Marsh would be the wrong places for a pipeline.
"We're taking our campaign door to door and to the airwaves to show that Gulf Coast folks oppose this risky pipeline," Beard said.
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The coalition says the pipeline would negatively impact Sabine Lake’s highly-sensitive oyster reefs and fisheries as a result of dredging, sedimentation, turbidity, degradation of water bottoms, pollution and oil spills.
In addition, the coalition says an oil spill in Sabine Lake or Bessie Heights Marsh would result in large-scale greenhouse gas emissions.
Mary West says that Sabine Lake is crucial to the community and local economy.
"We believe that Energy Transfer's Blue Marlin project puts all of us at extreme risk of environmental and economic catastrophe," West said.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to promote his efforts to combat climate change but will stop short of issuing an emergency declaration that would unlock federal resources to deal with the issue, according to a person familiar with the president's plans.
Biden has been under pressure to issue an emergency declaration after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., pulled out of negotiations over climate legislation. During his visit to Somerset, Mass., Biden could announce other steps on climate change but the White House has not released details.
The president has been trying to signal to Democratic voters that he’s aggressively tackling global warming at a time when some of his supporters have despaired about the lack of progress. He has pledged to push forward on his own in the absence of congressional action.
The person familiar with Biden's intention to hold off on making an emergency declaration spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans publicly. It was not clear whether an emergency declaration remains under consideration.
Declaration of a climate emergency would be similar to one issued by former President Donald Trump boosting construction of a southern border wall. It would allow Biden to redirect spending to accelerate renewable energy such as wind and solar power and speed the nation’s transition away from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. The declaration also could be used as a legal basis to block oil and gas drilling or other projects, although such actions would likely be challenged in court by energy companies or Republican-led states.
The focus on climate action comes amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, with Britain reaching the highest temperature ever registered in a country ill-prepared for such weather extremes.
The typically temperate nation was just the latest to be walloped by unusually hot, dry weather that has triggered wildfires from Portugal to the Balkans and led to hundreds of heat-related deaths. Images of flames racing toward a French beach and Britons sweltering — even at the seaside — have driven home concerns about climate change.
The president vowed late last week to take robust executive action on climate after Manchin — who has wielded outsized influence on Biden’s legislative agenda because of Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the Senate — hit the brakes on negotiations over proposals for new environmental programs and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
One of the biggest backers of fossil fuels within the Democratic caucus, Manchin has blamed persistently high inflation for his hesitation to go along with another spending package. His resistance has enraged other congressional Democrats who have ramped up pressure on Biden to act on his own on climate.
“I think given the global crisis that we're facing, given the inability of Congress to address this existential threat, I think the White House has got to use all of the resources and tools that they can,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. On a climate emergency, “that's something that I've called for, a long time ago.”
Biden, who served in the Senate for more than three decades, "has been chained to the legislative process, thinking about his past as a senator,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said at a news conference Monday night. “Now he’s unchained, and he has to go.”
John Podesta, board chairman of the liberal Center for American Progress, said environmental leaders met with senior White House officials on Friday to discuss policy ideas. Some proposals included ramping up regulations on vehicle emissions and power plants, reinstating a ban on crude oil exports and suspending new leases for oil drilling on federal lands and waters.
“If he’s going to make good on his commitments to do everything he can to bring emissions down, he’s got to pay attention to those critical regulatory issues that are facing him,” said Podesta, a former climate counselor for President Barack Obama.
Ben King, an associate director at the Rhodium Group, an independent research firm, said the United States is “nowhere close” to meeting ambitious goals set by Biden for reducing emissions.
Biden escalated the country’s emissions reduction target to at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030. Under current policies in place at the federal and state level, the U.S. is on track to reach a reduction of 24% to 35%, according to the Rhodium Group’s latest analysis.
“Absent meaningful policy action, we’re far off track from meeting the goals that the U.S. is committed to under the Paris accord,” King said, referring to a 2015 global conference on addressing climate change.
Even as Democrats and environmental groups pushed Biden to act on his own, some legal scholars questioned whether an emergency declaration on climate change is justified.
“Emergency powers are designed for events such as terrorist attacks, epidemics and natural disasters,’’ said Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the liberty and national security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
Such powers “aren’t intended to address persistent problems, no matter how dire. And they aren’t meant to be an end-run around Congress,’’ Goitein wrote in a op-ed for The Washington Post last year.
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Jan. 6 committee, has tested positive for COVID-19, but the panel will still hold its prime-time hearing on Thursday, according to a spokesman for the panel.
Thompson, D-Miss., announced Tuesday that he tested positive for the virus on Monday and is experiencing mild symptoms. Thompson said he will be isolating for the next several days, but Jan. 6 committee spokesman Tim Mulvey said the committee’s eighth hearing this summer will proceed. He did not say if Thompson will participate virtually.
The news of Thompson’s diagnosis comes as the nine-member panel is preparing for the hearing, which is expected to focus on what President Donald Trump was doing in the White House on Jan. 6, 2021 for several hours as his supporters were breaking into the Capitol and interrupting the certification of Joe Biden's presidential victory. Two White House aides who resigned immediately afterward are expected to testify, according to a person familiar with the hearing’s lineup.
Matthew Pottinger, former deputy national security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, a former deputy press secretary, are expected to testify, according to the person, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and requested anonymity.
Previous hearings have detailed chaos in the White House, and aides and others were begging the president to tell the rioters to leave the Capitol. But T rump waited more than three hours to do so, and there are still many unanswered questions about what exactly he was doing and saying as the violence unfolded.
Lawmakers on the nine-member panel have said the hearing will offer the most compelling evidence yet of Trump’s “dereliction of duty” that day, with witnesses detailing his failure to stem the angry mob.
“We have filled in the blanks,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who will help lead Thursday’s session, said Sunday. “This is going to open people’s eyes in a big way.”
Throughout its yearlong investigation, the panel has uncovered several details regarding what the former president was doing as a mob of rioters breached the Capitol complex. Testimony and documents revealed that those closest to Trump, including his allies in Congress, Fox News anchors and even his own children, tried to persuade him to call off the mob or put out a statement calling for the rioters to go home.
Thursday’s hearing will be the first in the prime-time slot since the June 9 debut that was viewed by an estimated 20 million people.
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WASHINGTON — Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine, on Tuesday accepted a human rights award on behalf of the people of Ukraine in recognition of their fight against Russia's invasion of their country.
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation recognized the Ukrainian people with its Dissident Human Rights Award. Zelenska, who is visiting Washington this week, accepted the award in person.
“It is an honor to be here and accept this award in the name of every Ukrainian man and woman fighting Russian aggression today,” she said, speaking through a translator.
Her husband, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has won admiration from Ukrainians and Ukraine’s supporters abroad by staying put in the capital, Kyiv, after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his attack on Ukraine in late February.
Zelenska largely disappeared with the couple’s two children during the first months after the invasion but emerged from seclusion May 8 to greet U.S. first lady Jill Biden, who had been traveling in eastern Europe and made an unannounced visit to western Ukraine to meet her counterpart.
Zelenska was due at the White House later Tuesday to meet with Jill Biden. Michael LaRosa, a spokesperson for Biden, said the women would discuss continued U.S. support for Ukraine and its people as they defend their democracy and cope with the fallout from Russia's war.
On Wednesday, Zelenska will address members of Congress in an auditorium at the Capitol, following a similar appearance by her husband at an earlier stage of the war.
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DALLAS — It has become one of the most pressing debates in the life of a modern parent: when to allow their children access to social media and once they have it, how best to limit it.
A Republican state representative is planning to introduce a bill that would completely eliminate the guesswork for parents and ban any child under 18 from using social media in Texas.
Rep. Jared Patterson of Frisco says since he first started talking about his social media bill earlier this month, the reaction has been a mixed bag. But he says it has served a purpose.
“What it’s done, I think, the most is started a number of conversations with parents about the effects of social media on their children. And at the end of the day, I think that’s the best thing that’s come out of this so far,” Rep. Patterson said on Inside Texas Politics.
Rep. Patterson is sensitive to arguments that it could impede a teenager’s first amendment rights, as well as parental rights. But he argues the playing field isn’t currently level for parents.
“The problem is that parents don’t stand a chance when you’re talking about artificial intelligent, machine-learning algorithms on these social media platforms," Rep. Patterson said.
The Republican from Frisco says he has yet to put words to paper, so no bill is close to being ready to file. And he says they’re still researching how’d they’d enforce it.
The 88th Texas Legislature is scheduled to convene on Jan. 10, 2023.
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) _ Equity Bancshares Inc. (EQBK) on Tuesday reported second-quarter profit of $15.3 million.
The Wichita, Kansas-based bank said it had earnings of 94 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for gains related to mergers and acquisitions, came to 91 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $53.3 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $49.2 million, which topped Street forecasts.
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Mexico's unicorns unlikely to IPO locally, says Mexican exchange CEO
Mexico’s tech startups may be enjoying a boom, but its top stars are unlikely to list on the country’s own stock market, the national exchange’s chief executive told Reuters in an interview last week.
Mexican startups like Stori and Kavak helped raise a record $3 billion last year, according to entrepreneur group Endeavour, but getting Mexican startups to list locally - even in a bull market - will be a tall order, said Jose Oriol Bosch, CEO of Bolsa Mexicana de Valores SAB de CV. “It would have been a disaster if one of the Mexican unicorns had listed here,” he said. “(Investors) wouldn’t pay the valuation multiples that they end up paying on the Nasdaq.”
He added, “If I were a unicorn (founder) … I would also go (to the U.S).” His comments come as the Mexican exchange, Latin America’s second-largest national stock market, faces a shortage of new stock offerings, having failed to host a single IPO since 2017, as well as seeing a string of recent delistings such as Aeromexico.
“It worries me and it occupies my time,” said Oriol, adding however that the problems faced by Mexico’s exchange are largely structural and broadly “out of our hands.” Oriol isn’t alone - a lack of tech IPOs has plagued larger markets like London, too, with U.S. market valuations and private equity buyouts pulling home-grown startups elsewhere, especially pre-profit companies.
Brazilian tech startups like Nubank have also chased the allure of the United States. In an effort to attract Mexico’s startups, Oriol said the exchange is now focusing on boosting retail investor demand via a financial education push on social media and a museum dedicated to the 100-year history of the exchange.
The administration of President Andres Lopez Obrador has also offered tax breaks for founders that IPO locally, although Oriol acknowledged this has so far proven ineffective. A consortium of four Latin American national exchanges, MILA, which Mexico joined in 2014, also initially offered hope, but “hasn’t worked” in bolstering local markets, Oriol said.
Still, the ex JP-Morgan director argues that the equities market is a marginal part of the exchange’s business, which has enjoyed record annual revenues for several consecutive years from its debt-raising products and information services. The exchange, which is itself publicly listed, is also keen to be seen as a leader in technology, and its low debt record makes a major acquisition in the near-term viable.
“We’re in a good position and open to look for growth,” said Oriol. Nonetheless, as a public company, the exchange is also susceptible to market volatility. Its shares are down 18% over the past year compared with a 6.3% drop in the benchmark index.
The exchange did not offer any comment on its falling share price. It may, however, need to answer to investors, who want to see exchanges worldwide attract new listings to avoid them resembling museums themselves.
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