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Jimmy Kimmel spent a lot of time in his monologue Wednesday talking about Republicans, including Donald Trump and Truth Social, the social media network owned by the disgraced ex-president.
And Kimmel wanted to know if Trump has been banned by Truth Social just like he was banned by Twitter.
Trump was of course banned by Twitter for inciting the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the election. He’s been whining about it ever since, however, which is ostensibly why he slapped his name on the hastily cobbled-together Twitter clone called Truth Social.
Whether he remains banned remains to be seen. Billionaire Elon Musk, who has extremely, uh, idiosyncratic ideas about what free speech actually is, is in the process of trying to buy Twitter. And for some reason, when that deal was announced, downloads of Truth Social spiked in the Apple app store.
But as Kimmel noted, Trump hasn’t actually used Truth Social since it launched in February.
“Things are temporarily looking up for Donald Trump’s social media platform. ‘Truth Social’ is getting a boost from the news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter,” Kimmel said during his monologue on Wednesday. “Their app is now number one on the Apple Store free app chart. We know this
because Trump released a statement that said: ‘Truth Social is number one in the Apple App store.'”
“A statement he did not bother to post on Truth Social by the way because no one would see it there,” Kimmel continued.
“He still hasn’t posted on his own Truth Social app since the day it launched back in February. The last time he ignored something this much it was named Eric,” Kimmel said, adding that the reason Truth downloads beat Twitter has more to do with the fact everyone already uses Twitter.
“The big Truth Social selling point is that it’s free speech. They won’t ban you like Twitter did to Trump. But if you go through their community guidelines, which we did, you will see that isn’t necessarily true,” Kimmel said. “For instance, they report content that contains ‘misrepresentations about a business.’ Like for instance this tweet Trump posted about Dominion voting machines.”
Kimmel then displayed one of many tweets Trump wrote that brazenly lied about the 2020 election.
“You also can’t post content that ‘depicts violence or threats of violence.’ Like this video Trump tweeted of him beating up CNN,” Kimmel continued, showing that ridiculous thing.
“Truth Social does not allow copyright infringement. Like using a Nickelback song without permission,” Kimmel said, “Which Trump did right there.”
“And the biggest no-no, the one they actually call ‘Truth #1': They will delete your account if you use the platform as a ‘tool for a crime or any unlawful activity,” Kimmel said. “Like, I don’t know, starting a riot at the Capitol maybe? Now what I’m wondering is maybe this is why Trump hasn’t been posting on Truth social; he’s banned from that one too.”
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BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison Wednesday in the first of several corruption cases against her.
Suu Kyi, 76, who was ousted by an army takeover last year, has denied the allegation that she accepted gold and hundreds of thousands of dollars in a bribe from a top political colleague.
Her supporters and independent legal experts consider Suu Kyi’s prosecution an unjust attempt to discredit her and legitimize the military’s seizure of power while preventing her from returning to an active role in politics.
The daughter of Aung San, Myanmar’s founding father, Suu Kyi became a public figure in 1988 during a failed uprising against a previous military government when she helped found the National League for Democracy party. She spent 15 of the next 21 years under house arrest for leading a nonviolent struggle for democracy that earned her the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. When the army allowed an election in 2015, her party won a landslide victory and she became the de facto head of state. Her party won a greater majority in the 2020 polls.
Suu Kyi is widely revered at home for her role in the country’s pro-democracy movement — and was long viewed abroad as an icon of that struggle, epitomized by her years under house arrest.
But she also has been heavily criticized for showing deference to the military while ignoring and, at times, even defending rights violations — most notably a 2017 crackdown on Rohingya Muslims that rights groups have labeled genocide. While she has disputed allegations that army personnel killed Rohingya civilians, torched houses and raped women and she remains immensely popular at home, that stance has tarnished her reputation abroad.
She has already been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in other cases and faces 10 more corruption charges. The maximum punishment under the Anti-Corruption Act is 15 years in prison and a fine for each charge. Convictions in the other cases could bring sentences of more than 100 years in prison in total.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated his appeal Tuesday for Myanmar’s military to release all political prisoners including Suu Kyi and his condemnation of the military takeover of the country on Feb. 1, 2021, U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.
The U.N. chief also repeated his call for an immediate end to violence and repression in Myanmar and for respect for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “which enshrines the principles of equality before the law, the presumption of innocence, the right to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, and all the guarantees necessary for a person’s defense,” Haq said.
“These are trumped-up charges, politically motivated, to keep her inside prison for such a long time and also are designed to keep her away from the political limelight,” said Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, a Geneva-based activist with the pro-democracy group Burma Campaign UK. “And I’m sure the military is also thinking, by sentencing her, they are grabbing the hope away from people but, in reality, it’s doing completely the opposite because people haven’t lost hope. They are still standing up against the military.”
Suu Kyi’s trial in the capital, Naypyitaw, was closed to the media, diplomats and spectators, and her lawyers were barred from speaking to the media. The evening newscast on state television confirmed the sentence.
Following the victory of Suu Kyi’s party in the 2020 general election, lawmakers were not allowed to take their seats when the army seized power on Feb. 1, 2021, arresting Suu Kyi and many senior colleagues in her party and government. The army said it acted because there had been massive electoral fraud, but independent election observers didn’t find any major irregularities.
The takeover was met with large nonviolent protests nationwide which security forces quashed with lethal force, killing almost 1,800 civilians, according to a watchdog group, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.
As repression escalated, armed resistance against the military government grew, and some U.N. experts now characterize the country as being in a state of civil war.
Suu Kyi has not been seen or allowed to speak in public since she was detained and is being held in an undisclosed location. However, at last week’s final hearing in the case, she appeared to be in good health and asked her supporters to “stay united,” said a legal official familiar with the proceedings who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to release information.
In earlier cases, Suu Kyi was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment on charges of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies, violating coronavirus restrictions and sedition.
In the case decided Wednesday, she was accused of receiving $600,000 and seven gold bars in 2017-18 from Phyo Min Thein, the former chief minister of Yangon, the country’s biggest city, and a senior member of her political party. Her lawyers, before they were served with gag orders late last year, said she rejected all his testimony against her as “absurd.”
The nine other cases currently being tried under the Anti-Corruption Act include several related to the purchase and rental of a helicopter by one of her former Cabinet ministers.
Suu Kyi is also charged with diverting money meant as charitable donations to build a residence, and with misusing her position to obtain rental properties at lower-than-market prices for a foundation named after her mother. The state Anti-Corruption Commission has declared that several of her alleged actions deprived the state of revenue it would otherwise have earned.
Another corruption charge alleging that she accepted a bribe has not yet gone to trial.
Suu Kyi is also being tried on a charge of violating the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years, and on a charge alleging election fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of three years.
“The days of Aung San Suu Kyi as a free woman are effectively over. Myanmar’s junta and the country’s kangaroo courts are walking in lockstep to put Aung San Suu Kyi away for what could ultimately be the equivalent of a life sentence, given her advanced age,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch. “Destroying popular democracy in Myanmar also means getting rid of Aung San Suu Kyi, and the junta is leaving nothing to chance.”
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POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia cut off natural gas to NATO members Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday and threatened to do the same to other countries, using its most essential export in what was seen as a bid to punish and divide the West over its support for Ukraine.
The move, condemned by European leaders as “blackmail,” marked a dramatic escalation in the economic war of sanctions and countersanctions that has unfolded in parallel to the fighting on the battlefield.
The tactic, coming a day after the U.S. and other Western allies vowed to rush more and heavier weapons to Ukraine, could eventually force targeted nations to ration gas and could deal another blow to economies suffering from rising prices. At the same time, it could deprive Russia of badly needed income to fund its war effort.
Poland has been a major gateway for the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and confirmed this week that it is sending the country tanks. Just hours before Russia’s state energy giant Gazprom acted, Poland announced a new set of sanctions against the company and other Russian businesses and oligarchs.
Bulgaria, under a new liberal government that took office last fall, has cut many of its old ties to Moscow and likewise supported punitive measures against the Kremlin. It has also hosted Western fighter jets at a new NATO outpost on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.
The gas cutsdo not immediately put the two countries in any dire trouble. Poland, especially, has been working for many years to line up other suppliers, and the continent is heading into summer, making gas less essential for households.
Also, Russian gas deliveries to both Poland and Bulgaria were expected to end later this year anyway.
Still, the cutoff and the Kremlin warning that other countries could be next sent shivers of worry through the 27-nation European Union. Germany, the largest economy on the continent, and Italy are among Europe’s biggest consumers of Russian natural gas, though they, too, have been taking steps to reduce their dependence on Moscow.
“It comes as no surprise that the Kremlin uses fossil fuels to try to blackmail us,” said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “Today, the Kremlin failed once again in his attempt to sow division amongst member states. The era of Russian fossil fuel in Europe is coming to an end.”
Gazprom said it shut off the two countriesbecause they refused to pay in rubles, as President Vladimir Putin has demanded of “unfriendly” nations. The Kremlin said other countries may be cut off if they don’t agree to the payment arrangement.
Most European countries have publicly balked at Russia’s demand for rubles, but it is not clear how many have actually faced the moment of decision so far. Greece’s next scheduled payment to Gazprom is due on May 25, for example, and the government must decide then whether to comply.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told his country’s parliament that he believes Poland’s support for Ukraine — and the new sanctions imposed by Warsaw on Tuesday — were the real reasons behind the gas cutoff.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov called the suspension blackmail, adding: “We will not succumb to such a racket.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia views gas as a weapon for political blackmail and “sees a united Europe as a target.”
On the battlefield, fighting continued in the country’s east along a largely static front line some 300 miles (480 kilometers) long.
Russia claimed its missiles hit a batch of weapons that the U.S. and European nations had delivered to Ukraine. One person was killed and at least two were injured when rockets hit a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv.
Western officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence findings, said Russia has made slow progress in the eastern Donbas region, with “minor gains,” including the capture of villages and small towns south of Izyum and on the outskirts of Rubizhne.
Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, conceded that Russia has made minor progress in its advance on Rubizhne through its nearly constant bombardment, but that Ukrainian troops are fighting back and retreating only when there is nothing left to defend.
“There is no point in staying on territory that has been fired on so often that every meter is well known,” he said.
The Western officials said some Russian troops have been shifted from the gutted southern port city of Mariupol to other parts of the Donbas. But some remain in Mariupol to fight Ukrainian forces holed up at the Azovstal steel plant, the last stronghold in the city. About 1,000 civilians were said to be taking shelter there with an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian defenders.
“The situation is very difficult. There are huge problems with water, food,” Serhii Volynskyi, commander of the marine unit inside the plant, said in a Facebook video message. He said hundreds of fighters and civilians were wounded and in need of medical help, and those inside included children, older people and disabled people.
In the Black Sea port city of Kherson, which Russian forces have occupied since early in the war, a series of explosions boomed late Wednesday near the television tower and at least temporarily knocked Russian channels off the air, Ukrainian and Russian news organizations reported.
Just across the border in Russia, an ammunition depot in the Belgorod region burned after several explosions were heard, the governor said. Blasts were also reported in Russia’s Kursk region near the border, and authorities in Russia’s Voronezh region said an air defense system shot down a drone.
Earlier this week, an oil storage facility in the Russian city of Bryansk was engulfed by fire.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak hinted at the country’s involvement in the fires, saying in a Telegram post that “karma (is) a harsh thing.”
In other developments:
— The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said the safety level at Europe’s largest nuclear plant, now under Russian occupation in Ukraine, is like a “red light blinking” as his organization tries in vain to get access to the Zaporizhzhia power station for repairs.
— Amid rising tensions over gas, Moscow and Washington carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in the U.S.
With the help of Western arms, Ukrainian forces managed to thwart Russian forces’ attempt to storm Kyiv. Moscow now says its focus is the capture of the Donbas, Ukraine’s mostly Russian-speaking industrial heartland.
A defiant Putin vowed Russia will achieve its military goals, telling parliament, “All the tasks of the special military operation we are conducting in the Donbas and Ukraine, launched on Feb. 24, will be unconditionally fulfilled.”
Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels, said Russia’s goal in cutting off the flow of gas is to “divide and rule” — pit European countries against one another as they cast about for energy.
While Poland gets around 45% of its gas from Russia, it relies overwhelmingly on coal and said it was well prepared for the cutoff. It has ample gas in storage and will soon benefit from two pipelines coming on line, analyst Emily McClain of Rystad Energy said.
Bulgaria gets over 90% of its gas from Russia, but it could increase imports from Azerbaijan, and a pipeline connection to Greece is set to be completed later this year.
Dobrin Todorov, a resident of Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, said the suspension is not a big problem.
“Ultimately, the choice between freedom and dignity or gas, the answer is clear, in favor of freedom and dignity,” Todorov said, adding that a lack of gas “cannot be compared to the hardship and tribulations that the Ukrainian people are currently suffering.”
Europe is not without its own leverage, since it is paying some $400 million a day to Russia for gas, money Putin would lose in a complete cutoff. Russia can, in theory, sell oil elsewhere — to India and China, for instance. But it doesn’t have the necessary pipelines in some cases, and it has only limited capacity to export gas by ship.
“The move that Russia did today is basically a move where Russia hurts itself,” von der Leyen said.
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Gambrell reported from Lviv, Ukraine, and Gera reported from Warsaw, Poland. Associated Press journalists Jill Lawless in London, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, David Keyton in Kyiv, Oleksandr Stashevskyi at Chernobyl, Mstyslav Chernov in Kharkiv, and AP staff around the world contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A seemingly divided Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over Oklahoma’s authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American lands, following a 2020 high court decision. The outcome probably rests with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the only member of the court who didn’t take part in the earlier case.
Barrett, who joined the court later in 2020 after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, didn’t tip her hand in more than two hours of arguments.
The case pits Native tribes in Oklahoma against Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt and is the latest strain on his relationship with tribal leaders.
The high court is being asked to decide whether the state retains the authority to prosecute non-Natives for crimes committed on tribal land when the victim is Native American.
Oklahoma appealed to the Supreme Court after a state court threw out the conviction against Victor Castro-Huerta, who is not Native American. Castro-Huerta was charged by Oklahoma prosecutors with malnourishment of his disabled 5-year-old stepdaughter, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
The state court ruled Oklahoma lacked the authority to prosecute a crime committed against a Native American on tribal land.
Castro-Huerta has since pleaded guilty to a federal child neglect charge in exchange for a seven-year prison term, though he has not been formally sentenced yet.
Two years ago, the justices split 5-4 in holding that a large chunk of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation. The decision left the state unable to prosecute Native Americans accused of crimes on tribal lands that include most of Tulsa, the state’s second-largest city with a population of about 413,000.
A state court ruling extended the high court decision to apply to crimes committed by non-Indians in which Native Americans are victims, leaving the federal government with sole authority to prosecute such crimes.
The four remaining justices in the majority in 2020 strongly suggested that they were against the state in the current case as well. Ginsburg was the fifth vote.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, the author of 2020’s McGirt decision, scoffed at the state’s concern for Native American victims “given the history in this country of the state abusing Indian victims in their courts.”
But when Zachary Schauf, Castro-Huerta’s lawyer, picked up on Gorsuch’s comments by saying states asserting an interest in protecting Native Americans is like putting “a fox in charge of the hen house,” Justice Clarence Thomas objected.
Thomas, a dissenter in 2020, noted that Castro-Huerta received a 35-year prison sentence in state court, compared with the seven years he expects to serve in the federal system.
Schauf said the difference in time spent behind bars probably would be less stark because of Oklahoma parole provisions.
On another point, federal officials have acknowledged that they lack the resources to prosecute all the crimes that have fallen to them, and several justices seemed especially interested.
“Indian victims right now are not being protected because the federal government does not have the resources to prosecute those crimes,” Kavanaugh said.
If the court rules against the state, “it’s going to hurt Indian victims,” he said.
Kannon Shanmugam, representing Oklahoma, returned repeatedly to the practical consequences, noting that only the federal government can prosecute crimes in nearly half the state.
“The federal government is failing at this task,” Shanmugam said.
Justice Department lawyer Edwin Kneedler, arguing his 150th Supreme Court case, said the court should rule for Castro-Huerta, but said he was “not here to minimize the challenges created by McGirt.”
The Supreme Court case involved the Muscogee reservation, but later rulings upheld the historic reservations of other Native American tribes in Oklahoma, including the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Quapaw and Seminole nations.
Stitt said during his State of the State speech in February that “Oklahoma has been robbed of the authority to prosecute crimes.”
Native American tribes are supporting Castro-Huerta in the Supreme Court. “Today’s Supreme Court arguments reaffirmed what tribes have said all along: the state of Oklahoma has neither the facts nor the law on its side,” Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. of the Cherokee Nation said in a statement that also accused Stitt of holding “anti-tribal views.”
The Cherokee Nation is the country’s largest Native American tribe by population with about 400,000 citizens, about 261,000 of whom live in Oklahoma.
Stitt is a member of the Cherokee Nation. But he has previously clashed with tribal leaders over his desire to renegotiate tribal gambling compacts that he claimed were expiring. Federal and state courts ruled against Stitt in lawsuits over the gambling question.
Last year, Stitt decided to not renew hunting and fishing license compacts with the Cherokee and Choctaw nations as part of an ongoing dispute between the tribes and the Republican governor.
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Miller reported from Oklahoma City.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California’s gigantic water supplier took the unprecedented step Tuesday of requiring about 6 million people to cut their outdoor watering to one day a week as drought continues to plague the state.
The board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California declared a water shortage emergency and required the cities and water agencies it supplies to implement the cutback on June 1 and enforce it or face hefty fines.
“We don’t have enough water supplies right now to meet normal demand. The water is not there,” Metropolitan Water District spokesperson Rebecca Kimitch said. “This is unprecedented territory. We’ve never done anything like this before.”
The Metropolitan Water District uses water from the Colorado River and the State Water Project to supply 26 public water agencies that provide water to 19 million people, or 40% of the state’s population.
But record dry conditions have strained the system, lowering reservoir levels, and the State Water Project — which gets its water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta — has estimated it will only be able to deliver about 5% of its usual allocation this year.
January, February and March of this year were the driest three months in recorded state history in terms of rainfall and snowfall, Kimitch said.
The Metropolitan Water District said that the 2020 and 2021 water years had the least rainfall on record for two consecutive years. In addition, Lake Oroville, the State Water Project’s main reservoir, reached its lowest point last year since being filled in the 1970s.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked people to voluntarily reduce their water consumption by 15%, but so far residents have been slow to meet that goal.
Several water districts have instituted water conservation measures. On Tuesday, the board of the East Bay Municipal Utility District voted to reduce water usage by 10% and cap daily usage for some 1.4 million customers in Contra Costa and Alameda counties, including Oakland and Berkeley. Households will be allowed to use 1,646 gallons (6,231 litres) per day — far above the average household usage of about 200 gallons (757 litres) daily — and the agency expected that only 1% to 2% of customers will exceed the limit, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The Metropolitan Water District restrictions apply to areas of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties that rely mostly on state water supplied through the district, including some parts of Los Angeles city. Mainly urban areas are impacted.
The MWD’s client water agencies must implement either the one-day-a-week outdoor use restriction or find other ways of making equivalent reductions in water demand, Kimitch said.
Although the water agencies support the water conservation move, it remains to be seen whether the public will do it, Kimitch said.
The Metropolitan Water District will monitor water use and if the restrictions don’t work, it could order an all-out ban on outdoor watering as soon as September, she said.
Meanwhile, state lawmakers have taken the first step toward lowering the standard for how much water people use in their homes.
California’s current standard for residential indoor water use is 55 gallons (208 liters) per person per day. The rule doesn’t apply to customers, meaning regulators don’t write tickets to people for using more water than they are allowed. Instead, the state requires water agencies to meet that standard across all of its customers.
But the state Senate overwhelmingly voted last week to lower the standard to 47 gallons (178 liters) per person per day starting in 2025 and 42 gallons (159 liters) per person per day beginning in 2030.
The bill has not yet passed the Assembly, meaning it is still likely months away from becoming law.
The U.S. West is in the middle of a severe drought just a few years after record rain and snowfall filled reservoirs to capacity. Scientists say this boom-and-bust cycle is driven by climate change that will be marked by longer, more severe droughts. A study from earlier this year found the U.S. West was in the middle of a megadrought that is now the driest in at least 1,200 years.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The older you are, the less you fret about aging in your own home or community.
That’s a key insight from a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, which found that U.S. adults ages 65 or older feel much better prepared to “age in place” than those 50-64, who are mostly still in the final stretches of their working years.
The poll also documented greater insecurity around aging in place for older Black and Latino Americans, the likely result of a deep-rooted wealth gap that markedly favors white people.
Aging in one’s own home, or with family or a close friend, is a widely held aspiration, with 88% of adults 50 and older saying it’s their goal in an earlier AP-NORC poll.
The outlook among those 65 or older is upbeat, with nearly 8 in 10 saying they’re extremely or very prepared to stay in their current home as long as possible.
But doubts creep in for those ages 50-64. Among that group, the majority who rate themselves as extremely or very prepared shrinks to about 6 in 10, according to the poll.
This relatively younger group is especially likely to say their financial situation is the main reason they don’t feel very prepared to age in place. And they’re also more likely to feel anxious about being able to stay in their communities, get care from medical providers and receive backup from family members or close friends, the poll found.
Part of it may be due to fear of the unknown among people who’ve relied on a paycheck all their lives.
“When you’ve never done it before, and you are only going to do it once, you’re sort of flying by the seat of your pants,” said Leigh Gerstenberger, in his late 60s and retired from a career in financial services. “I spent a lot of time talking to people ahead of me in the journey,” says the Pittsburgh-area resident.
Also, people approaching their 60s may question if Social Security and Medicare will truly be there for them. Stacy Wiggins, an addiction medicine nurse who lives near Detroit, figures she’ll probably work at least another 10 years into her late 60s — and maybe part-time after that. Older friends are already collecting Social Security.
“In my group, you wonder if it’s going to be available,” Wiggins said of government programs that support older people. “Maybe it’s not. You will find people who are less apt to have a traditional pension. Those are things that leave you with a lot of trepidation toward the future.”
Some people now in their 50s and early 60s may still be dealing with the overhang of the 2007-09 recession, when unemployment peaked at 10% and foreclosures soared, said Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins University nursing school. For an aging society, the U.S. does relatively little to prepare older adults to navigate the transition to retirement, she observed.
“As Americans, we’ve always idolized youth and we’re notoriously underprepared for thinking about aging,” Szanton said. “It often comes as a surprise to people.” Her involvement with aging-in-place issues started early in her career, when she made house calls to older people.
In the poll, people 50 and older reported that their communities do an uneven job of meeting basic needs. While access to health care, healthy food and high-speed internet were generally rated highly, only 36% said their community does a good job providing affordable housing. Just 44% were satisfied with access to transportation and to services that support older people in their homes.
Kym Harrelson-Pattishall is hoping that as more people retire to her coastal North Carolina community, health care facilities and other services will follow. As it stands now, a major medical issue can involve a car trip of up to an hour to the hospital.
A real estate agent in her early 50s, Pattishall shares the goal of aging at home, but her confidence level is not very high. “I think it would just eat away what savings I have,” she said.
It’s all about adjusting, says another small-town resident, about 20 years older than Pattishall. Shirley Hayden lives in Texas, near the Louisiana border and on the track of hurricanes from the Gulf of Mexico. She says she has no investments and only modest savings, but she rates herself as very prepared to continue aging in place.
“You have to learn to live within your means,” Hayden said. “I don’t charge things I can’t afford to pay for.
“My biggest thing I have to work around as far as expenses is insurance,” she added. “I don’t really need any new clothes. In Texas, you live in jeans and T-shirts and they don’t go out of style. Yeah, your shoes wear out, but how often do you buy a pair of shoes?”
Not so easy to work around is the well-documented racial wealth gap that constrains older Black people in particular. A Federal Reserve report notes that on average Black and Latino households own 15% to 20% as much net wealth as white households.
In the poll, 67% of Black Americans and 59% of Latino Americans ages 50 and older said they felt extremely or very prepared to stay in their homes as long as possible, compared with the 73% share of white Americans saying they feel confident.
Wiggins, the Detroit area nurse, is Black and says it’s a pattern she’s familiar with. “Part of it is generational wealth,” she said. “I have friends who are white, whose dad died and left them settled. I have friends who are Black whose parents died, and they left enough to bury them, but nothing substantial.”
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AP Director of Public Opinion Research Emily Swanson and Polling Reporter Hannah Fingerhut contributed to this report.
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The AP-NORC poll of 1,762 adults age 50 and older was conducted between February 24 – March 1 with funding from The SCAN Foundation. It used a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based Foresight 50+ Panel of adults age 50 or older, which is designed to represent the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike.
Breyer, 83, seemed a bit subdued as he sat through the last of more than 2,000 arguments Wednesday in which he has taken part during 28 years on the high court. His wife, Joanna, also was in the courtroom.
But at the end of the case about Oklahoma’s authority to prosecute people accused of crimes on Native American lands, an emotional Chief Justice John Roberts paid tribute to Breyer for his prowess during arguments.
“For 28 years, this has been his arena for remarks profound and moving, questions challenging and insightful, and hypotheticals downright silly,” Roberts said.
A day earlier, Breyer provided only the most recent example, inventing a prison inmate named John the Tigerman in a case involving transporting an inmate for a medical test. Breyer called him “the most dangerous prisoner they have ever discovered.”
Just since Breyer announced in late January that he was retiring, he has asked lawyers to answer questions involving spiders, muskrats and “4-foot-long cigars smoked through hookahs” — none of which, it’s fair to say, had any actual links to the cases at hand.
Breyer once granted an interview to The Associated Press in which he acknowledged that his questions sometimes stretch the bounds of credulity.
That’s by design.
“The point is to try to focus on a matter that is worrying me. Sometimes it’s easier to do that with an example,” he said in 2008.
He’s also not above a joke at his own expense. “I mean, we could stay here a long time, which we won’t, listing things I don’t know,” he said in court last week.
On the bench, Breyer’s questions will sometimes elicit a laugh from Clarence Thomas or a grin from Brett Kavanaugh. Other justices have affectionately needled Breyer about the queries, which can go on and on. “I can never equal my colleague’s evocative hypotheticals,” Justice Samuel Alito said during arguments in February.
In that case, about the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to combat climate change, lawyer Beth Brinkmann actually thanked Breyer for the cigar question, which she said helped her.
Brinkmann’s comment prompted Justice Elena Kagan to observe: “You know, it’s not always the case, Ms. Brinkmann, that a lawyer responds to one of Justice Breyer’s hypotheticals by saying that’s really helpful.”
The topics range far and wide, but animals often play a featured role, as happened last week in a case involving a workers compensation law for federal contractors at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state.
“The new law applies to workers who work at any structure and its lands. So, when I read that, I think maybe there are several federal workers who are busy on a river at Hanford cleaning out muskrat nets — nests, OK, and they are nowhere near a structure where particular forms of waste are disposed of, expect — except by the muskrats, which have nothing to do with this, OK?” he asked.
In March arguments about arbitration, Breyer said, “Now suppose instead of saying you can’t arbitrate it, what they do — and this is ridiculous, but you’ll see why I do it this way for simplification — they put a spider next to it, and there’s a rule saying you can’t ever arbitrate anything with a spider, OK?”
Eventually Breyer told the lawyer, Scott Nelson, he was free to ignore the question “because it’s too weird.”
Many lawyers would welcome the invitation, but Nelson was game. “I’m going to take a stab at it anyway because, you know, I don’t think these cases are any fun without a little bit of zoology involved,” he said.
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MASKS ON, MASKS OFF
A plain black robe makes it easy to get dressed for court. But this term, amid a roller coaster of COVID-19 concerns, justices have weighed whether to add masks to their courtroom attire, with on again, off again results.
When they returned to the courtroom in October following more than a year and a half of pandemic-inspired arguments by phone, the justices were unmasked. The lone exception was Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a diabetic since childhood, who has consistently worn a mask in court. Everyone else in the courtroom was required to wear masks, but lawyers removed theirs when they made their arguments.
In January, as coronavirus cases were spiking, seven justices wore masks for the first time while hearing arguments in cases about the Biden administration’s authority to require vaccines for health care workers and impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s large employers. Neil Gorsuch was the lone unmasked justice, while Sotomayor, his seatmate, stayed out of the courtroom altogether and took part in arguments from her office. They denied a media report that they were at odds over masks.
Sotomayor returned for February arguments, but everyone else was unmasked as the omicron surge waned. The court soon dropped the mask requirement for everyone else in the courtroom.
Then for the term’s final arguments this week, Justice Elena Kagan showed up wearing a mask. The court said she had been exposed to someone with the virus and while repeatedly testing negative had decided to wear one out of an abundance of caution.
While masking was a choice, judicial modesty prevailed — only solid colors, white, black or dark blue.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republicans hoping to emerge from crowded primaries this year stacked up on operatives with ties to former President Donald Trump, betting those connections would give them a leg up on landing critical endorsements that would help them win.
But as Trump wades into some of the most competitive primaries, the strategy is proving a bust.
In Ohio and Pennsylvania, two states that will kick off a more frenzied phase of the midterm campaign next month, the former president passed over candidates who hired some of his most prominent aides and allies. He instead endorsed contenders including Mehmet Ozand JD Vance, who were relatively new to politics but boasted high-wattage profiles tied to television and books.
As Trump seeks to assert himself this election year as the GOP’s undisputed kingmaker, the endorsements are a reminder of the traits that are often most important to him. While he demands loyalty of those around him, he rarely returns it in equal measure. And the former reality television star-turned-president remains dazzled by the power of celebrity in politics.
“Obviously Donald Trump is very mercurial about how he does things, right? So we might know now, with 20/20 hindsight, that that was not the best bet to make,” said longtime GOP strategist Doug Heye of the campaigns’ Trump hires. “But at the time,” he said, the hiring “made the most sense.”
The dynamic is especially clear in Pennsylvania, where Trump endorsed Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon best known as the host of daytime TV’s “The Dr. Oz Show,” over former hedge fund manager David McCormick.
McCormick hired two of Trump’s most trusted aides: domestic policy adviser and speechwriter Stephen Miller and longtime communications aide and counselor Hope Hicks. (Miller dropped McCormick as soon as Trump announced his support for Oz.) McCormick is also married to Trump’s former deputy national security adviser, Dina Powell, and had the backing of other allies, including former Trump campaign adviser David Urban and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is running for governor in Arkansas.
Kellyanne Conway, who managed Trump’s 2016 campaign and served as White House counselor, also works for McCormick’s super PAC, Honor Pennsylvania, which paid her firm $15,000 last month.
Trump’s alliance with Oz sparked deep frustration among some on his team who signed on with McCormick and believed the former president would, at worst, stay neutral in the primary. But Oz shared a longstanding relationship with Trump, having known him for years and having similarly risen to fame with a television show. In announcing his endorsement, Trump noted Oz “has lived with us through the screen.”
“He’s somebody that had great success on television, which is like the ultimate poll,” Trump told supporters at a teletownhall last week. He noted Oz had the support of Fox News host Sean Hannity, and made the case that Oz, who also had the backing of former first lady Melania Trump, was simply best positioned to win the general election this fall.
Trump gave a similar rationale in Ohio, where he ultimately chose to back Vance, the “Hillbilly Elegy” author and venture capitalist who became a fixture on Fox News and conservative podcasts. He impressed Trump with his performance in a recent GOP debate.
At a rally Saturday night, Trump said he studied the race “very closely” and ”liked a lot of other candidates.” But, he said, “we have to pick the one that’s going to win.”
For now, the power of Trump’s endorsement is unclear. His backing opens his chosen candidates to a flood of money, attention and, sometimes, an appearance with the former president at one of his signature rallies. In Ohio, it might have helped lift Vance ahead of the May 3 primary. A Fox News pollreleased Tuesday found Vance slightly ahead of rivals Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons after trailing them in March.
Polls in Pennsylvania conducted in late March and early April suggested Oz was locked in a tight race, though there’s been little recent polling to detect if Trump’s endorsement has made a difference.
But in Georgia, another state where Trump has invested heavily, his chosen candidate for governor, David Perdue, is lagging in polls and fundraising. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution pollreleased Tuesday found incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp leading Perdue 53% to 27% among likely voters. That just barely puts Kemp above the 50% threshold he would need to avoid a runoff.
Any major loss could deflate Trump’s image as the most powerful force in the party as he weighs a 2024 presidential run.
But such concerns do little to temper efforts among Republicans to win over Trump. Vance and his Ohio rivals, for instance, spent months traveling to Mar-a-Lago, mimicking his style, and running ads that painted each other as insufficiently loyal. They also brought on a coterie of Trump aides to help with their efforts.
Former Ohio Republican Chair Jane Timken, in particular, invested big, hiring Conway as well as two longtime Trump allies, Corey Lewandowski and Dave Bossie. Lewandowski was hired even though he was accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward a GOP donor, leading to his brief excommunication from Trump’s circle.
Records show Timken paid Lewandowski $20,000 in March and also paid thousands to another Trump ally, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik. When Trump was president he pardoned Kerik, who had pleaded guilty to federal tax fraud and other charges that put him behind bars for three years.
Hiring Lewandowski and Kerik briefly became a campaign issue when Timken was pressed on the decision during a debate.
Meanwhile, investment banker Mike Gibbons, who fashioned himself as a Trump-style businessman, also tapped into Trump’s network, hiring the firm run by Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Bill Stepien, which was paid $20,000 earlier this month.
Mandel, the former Ohio state treasurer who most aggressively adopted Trump’s shock jock tactics, has been campaigning with Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. He was pardoned by Trump after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.
While Vance brought on some in Trump’s orbit and had the backing of Trump-allied megadonor Peter Thiel, he also had the support of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, along with Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
At an event last week in Ohio, Trump Jr. noted those working for rival candidates.
“Trump person, speaks really favorably about someone that JD is opposing. Yeah, because they’re being paid $20,000 a month to do that. That’s their job. Doesn’t mean they actually believe it,” he quipped.
Trump has endorsed more than 100 candidates for offices up and down the ballot. Allies say he’s driven by a long list of factors — sometimes spite, sometimes personal rapport or even an appealing television appearance. After leaving the White House, he was eager to back those who offered to challenge GOP incumbents who voted for his impeachment, and also backed those who have parroted his election lies.
Trump has, at times, expressed frustration with former aides profiting from perceptions that they can sell his endorsement, and has made clear that those lobbying him needed to disclose their clients, according to a person familiar with his recent comments who requested anonymity to discuss them.
But allies say that anyone who believed they could buy a Trump endorsement was fundamentally mistaken.
“You hire consultants to coach you, to guide you on how to get the Trump endorsement,” said Bryan Lanza, a former Trump adviser who helped launch a pro-Vance super PAC but is no longer involved in any of the contests. “They help explain Trump, how he processes information, what he looks for, what he’s looking for in candidates.”
Still, Lanza said, those hires don’t guarantee Trump’s favor.
While there are advantages to hiring Trump whisperers, Lanza said, “I wouldn’t hire two. I’d certainly hire one.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — World leaders and a bevy of U.S. political and foreign policy elite are preparing to pay their respects to the late Madeleine Albright, the child refugee from war-torn Europe who rose to become America’s first female secretary of state.
Led by President Joe Biden and predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, the man who picked Albright to be his top diplomat and the highest-ranking woman ever in the U.S. government at that time, some 1,400 mourners will gather Wednesday to celebrate her life and accomplishments at Washington National Cathedral.
Albright, 84, died of cancer last month, prompting an outpouring of condolences from around the world that also hailed her support for democracy and human rights. In addition to the current and former presidents, the service will be attended by at least three of her successors as secretary of state along with other current and former Cabinet members, foreign diplomats, lawmakers and an array of others who knew her.
Biden, Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are all scheduled to deliver tributes at the service, while the current secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and former secretaries Condoleezza Rice and John Kerry are slated to attend. Other top current officials expected to be present include Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, CIA Director Bill Burns and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Foreign dignitaries slated to attend include the presidents of Georgia and Kosovo and senior officials from Colombia, Bosnia and the Czech Republic.
Albright was born in what was then Czechoslovakia but her family fled twice, first from the Nazis and then from Soviet rule. They ended up in the United States, where she studied at Wellesley College and rose through the ranks of Democratic Party foreign policy circles to become ambassador to the United Nations. Clinton selected her as secretary of state in 1996 for his second term.
Although never in line for the presidency because of her foreign birth, Albright was near universally admired for breaking a glass ceiling, even by her political detractors.
As a Czech refugee who saw the horrors of both Nazi Germany and the Iron Curtain, she was not a dove. She played a leading role in pressing for the Clinton administration to get involved militarily in the conflict in Kosovo. “My mindset is Munich,” she said frequently, referring to the German city where the Western allies abandoned her homeland to the Nazis.
As secretary of state, Albright played a key role in persuading Clinton to go to war against the Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic over his treatment of Kosovar Albanians in 1999. As U.N. ambassador, she advocated a tough U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the case of Milosevic’s treatment of Bosnia. NATO’s intervention in Kosovo was eventually dubbed “Madeleine’s War.”
She also took a hard line on Cuba, famously saying at the United Nations that the 1996 Cuban shootdown of a civilian plane was not “cojones” but rather “cowardice.”
In 2012, Obama awarded Albright the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, saying her life was an inspiration to all Americans.
Born Marie Jana Korbel in Prague on May 15, 1937, she was the daughter of a diplomat, Joseph Korbel. The family was Jewish and converted to Roman Catholicism when she was 5. Three of her Jewish grandparents died in concentration camps.
Albright was an internationalist whose point of view was shaped in part by her background. Her family fled Czechoslovakia in 1939 as the Nazis took over their country, and she spent the war years in London.
After the war, as the Soviet Union took over vast chunks of Eastern Europe, her father brought the family to the United States. They settled in Denver, where her father taught at the University of Denver. One of Korbel’s best students was Rice, who would later succeed his daughter as secretary of state.
Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959. She worked as a journalist and later studied international relations at Columbia University, where she earned a master’s degree in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1976. She then entered politics and what was at the time the male-dominated world of foreign policy professionals.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chris Bassitt pitched six strong innings, and the New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 Tuesday night for their franchise-best sixth straight series win to start a season.
“Awesome,” Bassitt said about the Mets’ early dominance, “We started fast, but I’m more excited about the last six series of the year rather than the first six.”
Bassitt (3-1) struck out six batters and allowed two hits and two walks. Drew Smith and Adam Ottavino combined to pitch two innings of scoreless relief before Edwin Díaz pitched a scoreless ninth for his third save in four opportunities.
“We had a good game plan going in,” Bassitt said. “Just mixing speeds, mixing locations, and did that well.”
But Bassitt is frustrated for and concerned about his teammates, who have now been plunked a major-league leading 18 times after Mets batters were hit three more times Tuesday night. The righty blamed the baseballs, which he says are “all different.”
“The MLB has a very big problem with the baseballs. They’re bad,” he said. “Everyone knows it. Every pitcher in the league knows it. They’re bad. They don’t care. MLB doesn’t give a damn about it. We’ve told them our problems with them and they don’t care.”
Cardinals starter Jordan Hicks hit Dominic Smith in the second and Pete Alonso was hit in the helmet by Kodi Whitley in the eighth inning, after which benches and bullpens started to clear. Both benches were warned, and tensions quickly fizzled down. Then Starling Marte was plunked by Aaron Brooks with the bases loaded in the ninth, leading to the final score.
Hicks (1-2) allowed two runs on two hits and two walks in two innings before being pulled in the top of the third inning after being struck on the right wrist by a Dominic Smith line drive in the second.
“It’s the best I felt through two,” said Hicks, who left with a right wrist contusion. The X-rays were negative. “I have full faith that it would have been a really good outing today, and my stuff was sharp until that moment.”
Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said that Hicks threw in the batting cage and “felt pretty good about it, went back out there, and after a couple pitches it started tightening up more and more, and that’s when obviously we took him out.”
Jeff McNeil doubled to right field to leadoff the third and scored on James McCann’s ensuing double to the center field wall to give the Mets a 1-0 lead. Marte greeted rookie relief pitcher Andre Pallante with a single down the left field line to drive in McCann and put the Mets up 2-0.
The Cardinals have lost three straight for the first time this season.
UPON FURTHER REVIEW
Marmol lost his first challenge of his managerial career when he challenged second base umpire Charlie Ramos’ call that McNeil beat Brendan Donovan to second base to get a force out to end the fifth inning. Plate umpire and crew chief Mark Wegner announced the ruling on the field stood. The Cardinals had won their previous four challenges in 2022.
CALL FOR ARMS
The Mets have signed veteran right-handed relief pitcher Tommy Hunter on a minor league contract. The 35-year-old did not allow an earned run in 8 1/3 innings over four appearances with the Mets in 2021.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mets: RHP Jacob deGrom is continuing to heal from a stress reaction in his right scapula. deGrom will begin strengthening activities but has not been cleared to throw.
UP NEXT
RHP Carlos Carrasco (1-0, 1.58 ERA) takes the mound for the Mets in Wednesday’s series finale; he is 0-1 with a 2.84 ERA in two career starts against St. Louis.
The Cardinals will start LHP Steven Matz (2-1, 5.27 ERA) in his second career start against his former team.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Mikal Bridges was playing his 47th minute of basketball on Tuesday night when he leaped into the air, threw down a huge two-handed jam and pulled himself up on the rim with a little sneer for good measure.
He’s the do-everything man for these Phoenix Suns. And, no, he’s not even close to tired.
Bridges scored 31 points and blocked four shots in arguably the best game of this pro career, leading the Suns over the New Orleans Pelicans 112-97 to take a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference first-round series.
“I’m ready to play tomorrow,” Bridges said with a big grin at the postgame news conference. “I’m energized, my teammates keep me going. I’m itching my knee right now, talking about it. I’m ready, I love being out there with my teammates. They’re my best friends, it makes it way easier.”
Chris Paul added 22 points and 11 assists, bouncing back from a subpar performance in Game 4. Deandre Ayton added 19 points and nine rebounds.
The Suns never trailed but also never totally pulled away until the final few minutes against the feisty Pelicans. Once again, Phoenix found a way to close, improving to 50-0 this season when leading after three quarters, including 3-0 in this series.
Bridges closed the Suns’ scoring with two emphatic dunks in the final minute.
Brandon Ingram scored 22 points and CJ McCollum added 21 for New Orleans, which was hurt by a slow start and 15 turnovers.
“I just thought that we made some timely mistakes, starting with the turnovers,” Pelicans coach Willie Green said. “Fifteen turnovers for 23 points, that fuels their team and that fuels their transition opportunities. That is an area where we know we have to be better.”
The Suns took an 89-78 lead into the final quarter after Cameron Payne’s late 3-pointer. The Pelicans — just 36-46 during the regular season — pulled within seven points with less than two minutes left, but Cameron Johnson threw down a one-handed jam on the ensuing fast break to keep the Suns in control.
Phoenix will try to clinch the series in Game 6 on Thursday in New Orleans. If the first five games are any indication, it will not be easy.
It was an ironman performance for Bridges, who played 47 of a possible 48 minutes yet never looked tired. He made 12 of 17 shots from the field, blocked four shots, grabbed five rebounds and had two steals.
The lanky 25-year-old — who was one of three finalists for the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year Award — has never missed a game in his four-year NBA career, playing in 309 regular-season games and 27 more in the postseason.
“He doesn’t miss games, he guards the best players every night and then he has 31,” Paul said.
Phoenix played its third straight game without All-Star guard Devin Booker, who was still out with a strained right hamstring that happened in Game 2.
Phoenix led by as many as 17 during the second quarter before settling for a 59-46 advantage. Paul had 16 points before the break while Ayton added 13. Ingram had 13 for the Pelicans.
“We have to change the way we start a game and come out with energy,” Pelicans center Jonas Valanciunas said. “If we didn’t have that struggle in the first half, it would have been a different game.
TECH TROUBLE
Paul was irritated postgame about a technical foul he received in the fourth quarter. It came at a crucial juncture: The Suns were leading just 100-92 with 4:39 left.
The point guard got the technical after being whistled for an eight-second violation. Paul claimed that all he said was “C’mon” at the scorer’s table because he was hoping for a review.
“It’s out of control, that’s ridiculous,” Paul said. “It is what it is. We try not to get fourth-quarter techs on our team. That’s a big deal.”
LIGHTER POCKETS
Speaking of displeasure with officials, Suns coach Monty Williams was fined $15,000 for publicly criticizing the officiating in Game 4 of the first-round playoff series against the New Orleans Pelicans, the NBA announced before the game. The Pelicans had a 42-15 advantage in foul shots during Game 4, which the Suns lost.
TIP-INS
Pelicans: Jose Alvarado was once again tough on defense, forcing the eight-second call in the fourth quarter against Paul, which resulted in a turnover and technical foul on Paul. … New Orleans shot just 5 of 25 (20%) from 3-point range.
Suns: Booker has been working out at the team’s practice facility, but it’s still unclear when he’ll be able to return. … Payne gave the Suns a boost with seven points in the first quarter. He averaged just 4.8 points through the first four games of the series. … Phoenix was just 1 of 9 from 3-point range before closing the first half by hitting 4 of 6.
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TORONTO (AP) — Auston Matthews looked a little sheepish after scoring his 50th goal into an empty net last month. How the Maple Leafs sniper bagged No. 60 was a lot more like it.
Matthews scored twice, the second on one of his patented snapshots, to become just the third player in the NHL’s salary cap era to register 60 goals in a season as Toronto defeated the Detroit Red Wings 3-0 on Tuesday night.
After being thwarted by Red Wings netminder Alex Nedeljkovic on a couple good looks in the first period, Matthews scored his 59th from in tight with just over four minutes left in the second to set the stage for his 60th in the third.
The 24-year-old kept a puck in at the offensive blue line on a power play and moved into the slot before ripping a puck past Nedeljkovic’s glove to send the crowd at Scotiabank Arena into a frenzy.
“It was pretty special,” Matthews said. “Just the reception from my teammates, the crowd, I mean, everything. It just kind of sends chills down your bones.”
Fans broke into deafening chants of “M-V-P! M-V-P!” for a superstar they believe is more than deserving of his first Hart Trophy as league MVP.
“Just the way he goes about it, the way he does it, the consistency, some of the things he’s done … you continue to shake your head,” said captain John Tavares, who had the other Toronto goal.
Matthews, who had gone five games without scoring, joined Steven Stamkos in 2011-12 and Alex Ovechkin in 2007-08 as the only players to reach 60 goals since the mid-1990s.
“Pretty unreal,” Tavares added. “A tremendous amount of love from the fans and a great way to do it.”
Matthews has also had a stretch of 51 goals in 50 games.
“It’s unique, it’s rare,” Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe said. “I’m just really happy for him. He works extremely hard.”
Jack Campbell made 20 saves to register his fifth shutout of the season for Toronto (53-21-7), which clinched home ice advantage in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and also set a franchise record with its 30th home victory of the season. William Nylander added two assists.
The Leafs are locked into the No. 2 seed in the Atlantic Division and will open the postseason next week at Scotiabank Arena against either the Boston Bruins or Tampa Bay Lightning.
“We’re working towards something bigger,” Matthews said. “Definitely a moment for us to enjoy and be happy about. But the job’s not done, the work’s not finished.”
Nedeljkovic stopped 33 shots for Detroit (31-40-10), including those big early saves on Matthews.
“Ned played great,” Wings forward Sam Gagner said. “If you’re scoring 60, you’re finding ways to get it done no matter who you’re matched up against. He’s a really special player.”
Matthews, who suited up for his third straight game after missing three in a row with an undisclosed injury, solved Nedeljkovic with 4:12 left in the second on a backhand.
And after Tavares doubled the Leafs’ lead at 4:03 of the third with his 27th, Matthews buried No. 60 at 5:49 on a play that was close at the blue line.
Some fans threw hats on the ice in honor of the accomplishment, while teammates gave him an ovation on the bench.
“It means a lot,” Matthews said. “Just how tight-knit we are and this locker room, it’s like a family in there and a brotherhood.
“That’s what it’s all about.”
NOTES: Toronto defenseman Jake Muzzin, who played for just the 46th time in 2021-22, returned to the lineup after sitting out the last six games with an undisclosed injury. … Alexander Kerfoot got the call on the left side of the Leafs’ top line with Matthews and Mitch Marner as Michael Bunting (lower-body injury) missed his second consecutive contest. … Marner needs three points in the regular-season finale Friday against Boston to become the fourth player in franchise history to reach the century mark, joining Matthews, Darryl Sittler and Doug Gilmour.
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Just before the yesterday's game between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Gujarat Titans, The official Instagram handle of the Sunrisers Hyderabad posted a video of the speedster, Umran Malik in which he was seen talking about his journey so far in the IPL and who would have thought that later in the day, he would produce a fiery spell and take a fifer against Gujarat Titans.
On a flat surface, Umran Malik produced raw pace and took 5 wickets during his spell and gave away 25 runs. Most of his deliveries clocked or were close to 150 kmph. The wicket-taking delivery that he bowled to Wriddhiman Saha was bowled at the speed of 153 kmph. What's more intriguing is that he took all these wickets on a fat surface where we saw batsmen taking on bowlers and smashing them all over the park as more than 380 runs were scored during this match.
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Umran Malik's wickets included Shuban Gill, Wriddhiman Saha, Hardik Pandya, David Miller and Abhinav Manohar. Gujarat Titans lost 5 wickets during this match and all wickets were taken by Umran Malik with his sheer pace and 4 out of 5 of those wickets were bowled. Watch all the wickets taken by Umran Malik below.
pic.twitter.com/EwM1EfZZjP — Vaishnavi Sawant (@VaishnaviS45) April 27, 2022
Despite Umran Malik finishing with figures of 5/25 in a spell of serious pace-bowling, Gujarat Titans successfully chased down 196, thanks to Wriddhiman Saha's blistering 68 and stunning cameos from Rahul Tewatia and Rashid Khan at the death.
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NTPC is inviting applications for 15 Executive (Solar PV), Executive (Data Analyst) and Executive (LA/R&R) posts. The last date to apply is May 13, 2022. Interested candidates can apply through the official website, careers.ntpc.co.in.
NTPC Executive Recruitment 2022: Vacancy Details
Post: Executive (Solar PV)
No. of Vacancy: 05
Pay Scale: 100,000/- (Per Month)
Post: Executive (Data Analyst)
No. of Vacancy: 01
Post: Executive (LA/R&R)
No. of Vacancy: 09
Pay Scale: 90000/- (Per Month)
NTPC Executive Recruitment 2022: Eligibility Criteria:
Executive (Solar PV): The candidate must have a BE/B.Tech Degree in any discipline with 60% Marks and 05 years of experience in relevant Area
Age Limit: 40 years
Executive (Data Analyst): The candidate must have a BE/B.Tech/ME/M.Tech in CS/IT/ECE or MCA OR PG Degree/Diploma in Data Science/Business Analytics/ Data Analytics with 60% Marks and 03 years of experience in relevant area.
Age Limit: 35 years
Executive (LA/R&R): Candidate must be a Graduate with a 2-year full-time PG Degree/PG Diploma/PG Programme in Rural Management/Rural development OR MBA (Rural Management) OR MSW with 60% Marks and 02 years of experience in relevant Area
Age Limit: 35 years
Application Fee: Pay Examination fee through Net-Banking, Credit Card, Debit Card OR Challan
For GEN/OBC/EWS: 300/-
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How to Apply: Interested and eligible candidates may apply online through the NTPC Official website careers.ntpc.co.in.
NTPC Executive Recruitment 2022: Selection Process: Selection will be based on a Written Exam/Interview.
NTPC Executive Recruitment 2022: Important Dates
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Netflix has released the long-awaited sequel to the Polish erotic thriller 365 Days. Michele Morrone and Anna Maria reprise their roles as Massimo and Laura in 365 Days: This Day. However, another key character, Nacho, played by Simone Susinna, will join their relationship. He portrays Massimo's gardener, and he makes a fascinating addition to the cast.
The events of the previous film are continued in the sequel to 365 Days. Massimo and Laura are married. At the end of the first film, the couple's unborn child was killed in a car accident. Laura, on the other hand, has not even informed Massimo that she is pregnant. Laura's existence as the wife of a mob boss has been revealed to be unfulfilling.
Fans have had different reactions to 365 days: This Day. There is less storyline and more closeness between the characters, according to some. Some commended the picture for staying loyal to its soul and getting right into the romantic-thriller plot. Some have complained that the sequel's backing track is too frequent, making it look like a music video.
Take a look at some tweets here:
I feel #365daysThisDay isn't supposed to be a good movie just a really good porno with hot actors and beautiful European islands with a touch of violence and we gotta accept that pic.twitter.com/lzUrBP7pDj — (@Neptune_Leo22) April 27, 2022
At this point I feel like I’m watching a music video #365daysThisDay pic.twitter.com/wwlFss5bdW — JAI(@waydakior) April 27, 2022
Everyone’s saying “The plot is trash” but I beg to differ because there is NO PLOT…..Everyone just fucked for 1 hour and 51 mins #365daysThisDay pic.twitter.com/YunhrPWMUF — [Meredith Grey] (@meredithgreypo) April 27, 2022
no plot, a song every 2 seconds, BAD ACTING and sex
can't wait for the next one#365daysThisDay — brie (@aglnic) April 27, 2022
The last 20 mins of the show is where the movie actually begins…..#365daysThisDay pic.twitter.com/Q8jtuXyoGA — [Meredith Grey] (@meredithgreypo) April 27, 2022
Terrible songs every 30 seconds, bad acting, sex scenes very 10 minutes… but am i gonna tune in to the next movie? you are absolutely correct #365daysThisDay pic.twitter.com/gTm7DRej2g
— JONATHAN MAJORS AND REGE JEAN PAGE I COOK N CLEAN (@fvrblkk) April 27, 2022
365 Days: This Day finishes in major suspense. Netflix has already confirmed a sequel to this film, which might bring the love story to a satisfactory conclusion. Barbara Biaows and Tomasz Mandes directed the film, which was written by Mojca Tirs, Blanka Lipiska, and Mandes and produced by Ewa Lewandowska and Mandes (Ekipa) and Maciej Kawulski.
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After adopting a resolution to play a key role in national politics, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K Chandrashekhar Rao on Wednesday said what is required is not political fronts but an alternative agenda to take the country on the path of progress.
As TRS celebrated its 21st foundation day today, the Telangana ruling party decided to venture out of regional politics into national politics.
Rao, while delivering a speech at the event at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, said, "Today, India needs alternative agenda which pave way the country towards the growth path. It should begin from a point."
On the call of some Left party leaders to unite all parties to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Rao said that it is a "bad agenda."
"The dethroning of the ruling parties should not be the agenda. The relief is required for people and not the political parties. Several PMs and union government ruled the country. It is not the change of governments but the living standards of people. The time should come to live happily for all sections," he said.
Noting that the people are expecting KCR to announce a political front, Rao asserted to adopt a process which is similar to the Telangana growth for the development of the country.
"The country required alternative agenda and not an alternative political alliance. We need to find the venues. We should bring integrated agriculture policy, economic policy and also industrial policy, everyone should get the opportunity to work and provide the platforms. India should move towards growth and not for narrow political benefits. India needs progressive path and it required ideological base," the TRS chief said.
"The young MLAs of the TRS requested to float Bharata Rastra Samithi. Such ideas are coming out from the leaders," he added. Highlighting the achievements of the state government, Rao said that Telangana is moving fast in achieving development goals and also emerged as a role model in the country.
He also said that results have been achieved in drinking water supply, irrigation, power and welfare of all poorer sections. Lauding the state for its per capita Gross State Domestic Product, Rao said that it is more than the country’s per capita GDP.
"At the time of formation of Telangana, the GSDP was Rs 5 lakh crore and it is doubled to Rs 11.50 lakh crore," he added. "If the Centre performed on par with Telangana, the state’s GSDP would have crossed Rs 14.5 lakh crore. This is observed by CAG and other economic experts and it is a stark example that the Centre did not do well like Telangana," the Chief Minister said.
Telangana, he said, has surpassed other states and doubled the per capita income to Rs 2.78 lakh. Telangana stands number one in per capita power consumption, zero fluoride and tap water connections to every household, he added.
Hitting out at the Centre over paddy procurement, the TRS president also said, "We have reached to that stage where Centre is not ready to buy all the agriculture produce because of high production."
Noting that the party has expanded and emerged as an "invincible political outfit" to protect the state, Rao said that TRS did not have an office at the time of the launch and is now constructing its party office in Delhi.
"Land was bought at the cost of Rs 8.50 crore and another Rs 8 to Rs 10 crore will be spent on construction. In a 6 to 7 months time, the building will be opened. Except for Hyderabad and Warangal, the party offices are opened in 31 districts," he said.
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PM Narendra Modi is all set to visit Assam today where he is all set to lay the foundation stone for several projects. The Prime Minister will address the 'Peace, Unity and Development Rally' at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district at around 11 am.
According to Prime Minister's Office (PMO), during the program, PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone for various projects in the education sector. The Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone of Veterinary College (Diphu), Degree College (West Karbi Anglong), and Agricultural College (Kolonga, West Karbi Anglong).
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These projects, worth more than Rs 500 crore, will bring new opportunities for skilling and employment in the region. During the program, the Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone for more than 2,950 Amrit Sarovar projects. The state will develop these Amrit Sarovars at a cumulative cost of around Rs 1,150 crore.
At around 01:45 pm, the Prime Minister will reach Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, and dedicate Dibrugarh Cancer Hospital to the nation. Later, at around 3 pm, he will attend a public function at Khanikar ground in Dibrugarh, where he will dedicate six more cancer hospitals to the nation and lay the foundation stone for seven new cancer hospitals.
READ | BJP's CT Ravi hits back at Telangana minister KTR's 'not a national party' dig
At Dibrugarh, Assam Cancer Care Foundation, a joint venture of the Government of Assam and Tata Trusts, is executing a project to build South Asia's largest affordable cancer care network with 17 Cancer care hospitals spread across the state.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate seven cancer hospitals completed under phase 1 of the project. These cancer Hospitals are built at Dibrugarh, Kokrajhar, Barpeta, Darrang, Tezpur, Lakhimpur, and Jorhat.
He will also lay the foundation stone of seven new cancer hospitals at Dhubri, Nalbari, Goalpara, Nagaon, Sivasagar, Tinsukia and Golaghat to be constructed under phase 2 of the project. Notably, the Assam government has declared a state holiday in both districts for April 28 ahead of PM Modi's visit.
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday met those injured in the Thanjavur electrocution incident, which claimed the lives of 11 people and left 15 injured during a chariot procession at a temple.
He visited Thanjavur Government Medical College and Hospital, where the injured were admitted and undergoing treatment. Stalin also met the families of the deceased. The Chief Minister has announced financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh each for the severely injured and Rs 50,000 each for the injured.
"It is a tragic and painful incident. We have ordered government officials to take action on this issue. I have conveyed my condolences to the bereaved families," Stalin told media persons after the visit.
He also said that officials and doctors have been directed to give proper treatment and care to the injured being treated at the hospital. The state government has also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh to the kin of the deceased while Rs 2 lakhs will be given from the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) trust to them.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund to the next of kin of the deceased. President Ram Nath Kovind, the Prime Minister and state Governor RN Ravi have expressed their condolences to the families of the victims.
An FIR has been registered and an investigation has started in connection with the incident. According to the police, prima facie it suggested that a high tension wire came in contact with the temple car which while reversing came in contact with an overhead line and caught fire.
READ | 11 electrocuted during temple chariot procession in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur
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Alphabet Inc`s Google has begun entertaining people's requests to remove search results containing their home addresses, phone numbers and email accounts, the latest shift in its stance between personal privacy and access to information.
The world's most used internet search tool said on Wednesday that the expansion of its removal policies globally followed growing demand from users and evolving norms about the threat posed by easy access to contact details.
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"Research has told us there`s a larger amount of personally identifiable information that users consider as sensitive," Michelle Chang, global policy lead for Google search, said in an exclusive interview. "They are increasingly unwilling to tolerate this content online."
Until now, Google would only accept requests to remove webpages that shared contact info alongside some sort of threat or required payment for removal. It also has stripped links to bank account and credit card numbers and medical records.
It received tens of thousands of requests annually in recent years, approving about 13% of them. Chang said she expected the approval rate to grow under the expanded rules, which also allow for removing links to confidential log-in credentials.
Older Google policies enable requesting takedowns of results directing to unwanted pornography and, in Europe, "inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive" personal information. Last year, Google began allowing removal of photos of minors.
Chang said in weighing requests under the contact information policy, Google would aim to preserve availability of data in the public interest. It also will not remove information that "appears as part of the public record on the sites of government or official sources."
The company said it typically processes requests within a few days.
Webpages Google drops can still be accessed through other search engines or directly, and Chang said users are encouraged to contact publishers to address "the root of the issue.
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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has been sworn in as the new foreign minister of Pakistan by President Arif Alvi. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other prominent leaders were also present on this occasion. Bilawal Bhutto is the chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.
He was elected as an MP for the first time in 2018, and now he will hold the post of a cabinet minister for the first time in Shehbaz Sharif government. His father Asif Ali Zardari has been the President of Pakistan and mother Benazir Bhutto was the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Bilawal's sister Bakhtawar Bhutto tweeted, "Today in this unity government, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will take oath as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan. We are proud of him. He has proved his superiority in the Parliament and has always stood by his democratic values. Excited to see him next."
Read | From exile to Pakistan’s youngest foreign minister, the journey of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Bilawal Bhutto came to Delhi with his father on April 8, 2012. From here he went to Ajmer. At that time he wrote on Twitter, "My mother once said that somewhere in every Pakistani, lives India and in the heart of every Indian lives a small Pakistan." He posted it with the So True hashtag.
During his India visit, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had offered prayers at the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer Sharif. After this he had said that coming here was a very peaceful and spiritual experience. The first challenge before Bilawal Bhutto is the relationship between Pakistan and the United States.
As Pakistan's foreign minister he will have the task of rebuilding strained ties with the US, which were hurt by Imran Khan's repeated allegations about the Joe Biden administration being part of a 'foreign conspiracy' to oust his government. The US has rubbished Khan's allegations.
Apart from this, how he will be able to take forward relations with India, will definately test his skills. Bilawal Bhutto has said that everyone should understand that this is not a simple coalition government. In Pakistan, the Muslim League (Nawaz) and the Pakistan People's Party were once considered rivals.
Now Bilawal has been made a minister in the Shehbaz Sharif government. A few days ago, Bilawal had met Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, in London. On the relations between India and Pakistan, Bilawal had said that many people in both the countries are living in poverty while we spend so much money on nuclear weapons to destroy each other.
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The mural painted on the side of a Montgomery, Alabama building represents more than brush strokes. It depicts a time in history when poll taxes and literacy tests kept Blacks from voting. Fifty-seven years later, there's a new tug of war around voting rights bringing Alabama to the center stage, once more.
It started after the new GOP map was drawn up.
"I feel like there are elements in the Democratic party that want to redefine the Republican party and want to turn us into this entity that is not for fighting for Civil Rights," Alabama GOP Chairman John Wahl said.
The NAACP lawsuit claims Republicans didn't account for the surge in Black voters. They challenged it and a lower court sided with the NAACP.
"We're still feeling good that once they hear our arguments that they will agree with the lower courts," NAACP Alabama State Conference President Benard Simelton said.
Then, the Supreme Court stepped in, allowing the new map to be used until they sort things out this fall.
"I'm confident because I think if you look at the lines and look at the basis from the past the historical data with these lines, you can see this is not something that was pulled out of order or something new," Wahl said. "These are based on historical presence and keeping these communities together."
Sitting at the center of this, in a historic downtown neighborhood where MLK once lived and the Alabama bus boycotts kicked off, business owner Valerie Smedley runs an unofficial mini-museum dedicated to teaching people about civil rights.
"So, a lot happened out here regarding the bus boycott. So, this is the nucleus of where things happened," she said.
Smedley understands the importance of having more Black representation.
"I love this t-shirt because it tells you it's okay for us to join, you know, the things that Blacks want to do and things that we've heard about where we need to stay woke, the redistricting, the things of that nature," she said. "We need to watch what is happening around us and not take it for granted."
Some say it's a numbers game.
The lawsuit also claims due to the jump in the number of Black residents and decline in the number of white residents in the state, they're also due to a second Congressional voting district.
"The reason we believe that is because Blacks alone make up over 27% of the population in the state of Alabama," Simelton said.
What does that mean and why does this matter?
The simple explanation comes from the Brennan Center for Justice.
They say these lines, or districts, can influence who wins an election.
They say for example, a district with mostly farmers will elect a representative who will fight for farmers' interests, but a district with mostly city dwellers may elect a representative with different priorities.
"The numbers are speaking for themselves," Smedley said. "We are starting to grow. We're owning more. We're in charge of more. We have more businesses. So, if we continue on that path, even as slow as it may be, at some point, we're going to be more in charge."
Residents and business owners like Smedley say much like the fights during civil rights, they're just looking for a fair shake and don't want to be brushed off or written off.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — West Palm Beach police on Wednesday announced an increased reward of $40,000 in the shooting death of a 1-year-old boy earlier this month.
Kaleb Watson was shot and killed around 6 p.m. on April 7 while sitting in the backseat of a car, which was parked in an alley.
The toddler's mother and father, both 20, were also in the vehicle when a gunman came up and opened fire. Kaleb's mother was shot, but survived, while his father was not hit.
As of Wednesday, the shooter has not been captured.
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"The people that are responsible know exactly what happened, and the people that witnessed this incident knows what happened," West Palm Beach Police Chief Frank Adderley said a news conference Wednesday. "We're asking for them to come forward."
An impassioned Adderley announced the reward for an arrest and conviction in the case has increased to $40,000.
Multiple agencies have contributed to that reward, including the West Palm Beach Police Department, FBI, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
"A 16-month-old was murdered. Where's the voice of the community?" Adderley said. "Is it that this is gonna be accepted by the people that live in this neighborhood? Or are we gonna make a positive change?"
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Adderley released very few new details about the investigation Wednesday — including staying tight-lipped about a possible motive — saying doing so could compromise the case.
The police chief did, however, admit that detectives are not getting much cooperation from people who live in the "high crime neighborhood."
"I think it's a shame. I think this community needs to take ownership and say, it's time for a change here," Adderley said. "It's too many violence. It's too many shootings in this neighborhood, and we need to stop it."
"A bullet don’t know-no name," said resident Geneva Thomas, who's lived off Douglass Street for more than two years.
On Wednesday Thomas received a new police flier, showing there's now a $40,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.
"It’s too much! We need the mayor to come here. It’s too much killing for no reason. It’s a baby! I’m scared for my life now," Thomas said.
But some neighbors said there’s a sense of fear and retaliation if someone talks.
"It's a bad situation," said a woman named Destiny. "If you say something and they know exactly who said something, that might be your life, you know? You’re not going to get a lot of cooperation when it’s someone else’s life that you're putting on the line for information."
Anyone with information that can help investigators is asked to call the West Palm Beach Police Department at 561-822-1900 or Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at 1-800-458-TIPS.
This story was originally published by Matt Papaycik at WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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But the Action News Investigative team has found some municipalities rely on an honor system to make sure the law is being followed.
Our investigation uncovered some questionable bills by Capital Towing out of Morton, Delaware County.
The company is owned by Tom McGarrigle, a former state senator and current chair of the Delaware County Republican Party.
We began asking Marple Township officials questions about two towing bills, who said they're going to begin conducting audits.
"We just want to make sure people aren't getting ripped off, and the insurance companies aren't getting ripped off, and make sure they doing right by the people," said Marple Township Police Chief Brandon Graeff.
Chief Graeff tells Action News changes are in order after two vehicles were towed on March 17 following an accident at the intersection of Sproul and Springfield roads in Broomall.
Invoices obtained by the investigative team show Capital Towing charged a vehicle owner $945 for a one-day tow.
But under Marple Township law, that was $520 too much.
Among the charges: $250 in additional labor charges and $225 in special equipment charges. Neither are allowed.
And the company wrongly billed for the storage rate and number of days.
Larry Gentile, the Marple Township manager, called it concerning.
"This came to light because a motorist went to pick up her car and noticed an incredibly high tow bill for one day," he said.
McGarrigle declined our request for an on-camera interview.
In a phone interview, he acknowledged the overcharge, calling it a mistake by a secretary who accidentally billed for a different tow from Glen Mills.
Concord Township does not currently have a towing ordinance.
He said when the company was alerted, it refunded the excess charges.
"We've never had a complaint and they're always been great to and for us, to the people as we know. Maybe it was an oversight," said Chief Graeff.
But it appears the owner of the other vehicle involved in the accident also was billed too much.
That invoice also had a line item charge for labor, this time for $100 which, again, isn't allowed.
Its owner likely doesn't know because it was a duty tow, meaning Marple Township police called for the tow after an accident.
"Insurance companies are generally going to pick up a car from a tow yard from a crash. We as consumers never see that," said Chief Graeff. "We just pay our insurance. Insurance cuts a check, everyone is happy."
A key question is: how long has Capital Towing been overcharging for Marple Township tow service?
Currently, only two companies are licensed with the township for duty tows: Capital and K&S Towing.
Since the questionable tow bills, Gentile says the township plans to begin performing audits of all duty tows but it does not plan to do audits for prior years.
"We're going to be sending correspondence to our two tow services, that effective May 1, that we'll need to get a copy of all their invoices," said Gentile.
McGarrigle said his company welcomes an audit.
We checked with a few other municipalities in Delaware County and found none do audits.
However, neighboring Haverford Twp. said it is going to require invoices with all duty tows moving forward.
Marple Township told us it can revoke licensing for duty tows if companies do not follow township rates and laws.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City teens are speaking out about violence in their city. They believe the community needs to do more to keep them safe.
Wednesday night a panel of young people came together to talk about their feelings and leaders were there to listen. The meeting comes after 14-year-old Manuel Guzman was killed at Northeast Middle School by a fellow student earlier this month.
The panel of around ten teenagers talked about the violence the see and experience in their everyday lives. They say to be able to talk about it helps and they are hoping for change in the future.
For them, ArtsTech gives them a safe place to be in a city where they often feel unsafe. The organization is a non-profit serving young people (14 to 24) by encouraging art and technical skills.
“Art is our outlet. It’s what we do,” Tatyiana Johnney, 15, said.
“I don’t believe that they’ve had that space to even express themselves on what’s been going on in their schools,” Dominique Hines, ArtsTech Program Administrative Coordinator, said. “For the people that don’t believe kids are the decision makers they will be soon.”
In 2021, more than 30 people between the ages of 14 to 24 were killed. Eleven out of 47 homicides this year were young people between that age group.
After the stabbing at Northeast Middle, Executive Director of ArtsTech, Juan Tabb felt the teens needed to talk. The discussion was led by them with questions provided around 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Johnney goes to Paseo High along with Terry Simpkins, 17. They say talks like these along with the ability to express themselves helps them get past their frustrations.
“What happens if this kid had a dream and they want to live up to it? Next thing you know this kid can’t do that because they got shot or got killed,” one panelist said.
“We talk about it with our parents, our friends, but sometimes we don’t express how we really feel. So, I think getting all different types of teenagers up here with different opinions, different minds, different experiences was really great. An amazing idea, honestly,” Johnney said.
“I thought that this was something that’s extremely necessary for our community and I’m happy that we had it,” Simpkins said.
Tabb said he’s proud of how the teens discussed difficult issues in front of city leaders. Community activists, a member of the Kansas City Public School Board, and Fifth District Councilwoman Ryana Parks-Shaw sat and listened to the teen’s feelings and concerns.
“For youth to be able to put these emotions and feelings into actions in painting, and creation but also through words expressing themselves is awesome,” Tabb said.
“Hearing another child being dead or got killed or got hurt is not necessary. You shouldn’t have to be coming out here killing kids for no reason,” another panelist said.
Tabb hopes discussions like these not only help them understand themselves better, but the world around them as well.
“They took it and ran with it, and so, I’m just very proud,” Tabb said.
On May 11 ArtsTech will show a recording of the panel discussion to city leaders like Mayor Lucas and council members.
“The May 11 event is going to be youth and adult driven because we want to address the youth’s opinions, but also some of the views that the youth have and we want to give them answers,” Tabb said.
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LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — Erica Enderle bent over the crib of her severely handicapped 10-year-old daughter Macy, lightly brushing her hair.
“Hi, sweetheart,” Enderle said to Macy, the child Enderle credits with starting her on the path where she is today – the single mom of seven adopted children – many of whom have special needs.
On this day, Enderle has some special news for Macy – the family is this year’s winner of Schloegel Design Remodel’s Big Splash Bathroom Giveaway.
This is the 11th year Schloegel has selected the family of a special needs child to award a bathroom makeover – a major change for families who long for bathrooms where a wheelchair can fit through the door and tubs and showers specially designed for someone who can’t use their limbs.
Enderle, a former social worker, who thrives on helping kids in need, has known for years that her bathrooms needed upgrades that she will likely never be able to afford. She took us on a tour of the upstairs bathroom of her Lee’s Summit home.
“It’s very small, very cramped,” she said. “There’s a whole lot of banging on the door and ‘hey get out. It’s my turn.’”
Then there’s the downstairs bathroom that Macy, who is blind, has epilepsy and cerebral palsy, uses. Since the door is too narrow for Macy’s wheelchair, her mom has to carry all 65-pounds-of-her inside.
“I just gave her a shower last night and it’s extremely difficult,” said Enderle, who is single.
Schloegel has promised to remodel both her bathrooms for free. Plus the Kansas City company and several of its vendors are also planning to fix some other troubling issues in her home, including some dangerous electrical wiring.
The scope of the work is almost overwhelming for Enderle who was nominated for the Big Splash Giveaway by a Missouri social service agency.
She said she’ll never forget the phone call telling her that she’d won.
“I remember just being so full of emotion,” she said with her eyes filling with tears.
Being the recipient of so much charitable work has been hard for her to accept.
“I feel like I should be giving something for all this,” she said. “Or paying something to them.”
Schloegel’s Chris Peterson, a co-owner, said it’s exactly selfless people like Enderle who make it an honor to help.
“You know some of these families go through more challenges in a typical day than most of us do in a typical month,” Peterson said. “So if we can reach out and do a little bit to give back, that’s what it’s all about.”
Amanda Jackson, executive director of FOX4’s Love Fund for Kids, said the Big Splash Bathroom Giveaway has been a God send to special needs families across the Kansas City metro.
“These families are ecstatic,” Jackson said. “It has eliminated such a critical need for them.”
Work on both of Enderle’s bathrooms will be completed this summer. FOX4 Problem Solvers will be back to show you the difference hard work, craftsmanship and generosity can make.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Public Schools held its first school board meeting Wednesday since the fatal stabbing of a student inside Northeast Middle School.
The meeting right after the death of Manuel Guzman, 14, was cancelled with the district saying it needed to concentrate on helping the Northeast Middle School community. Wednesday night district leaders explained how they’ve been helping students and staff heal since.
“In a lot of ways I still don’t have the words to talk about what happened but I understand in order for us to heal we have to begin to have more dialogue around our schools, our systems, our supports and resources,” KCPS Superintendent Dr. Mark Bedell said.
Since a care team was deployed to Northeast Middle School the district has also been working on enhancements to keep all staff and students safe.
KCPS is now consulting with a firm on an audit of safety and security policies and procedures. The district is also consulting with specialists on the possibility of using advance technology to enhance safety. A review of emergency operation plans is underway. Finally it is partnering with KCPD for school resource officer support for middle school and high schools.
“I can’t do this as a superintendent by myself. Neither can this board or administration faculty and staff. We have to have the whole community galvanized to say enough is enough. We have to have safe havens in this city,” Bedell said.
A KCPS Board of Directors statement during the meeting reinforced student safety is the district’s top priority. But district leaders say the pandemic has made that more difficult.
“Our students were socially isolated for almost two years. So them being able to reconnect and learn how to be in same space with others we are seeing a heightened level of conflict,” Dr. Lateshia Woodley said.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — New developments surrounding the wrongful death lawsuits filed in the Westport crash involving a fire truck that left three people dead. The lawsuits are being consolidated in one Jackson County courtroom.
Judge John Torrence said Wednesday at a case management conference, he would grant the motion to consolidate a handful of lawsuits surrounding the same crash.
At this point these cases have only been consolidated for discovery. Later, the court will decide if these cases will be consolidated for trial, as well.
“Part of court efficiency,” attorney for the Elwood Family, Tim Dollar, said.
Dollar is representing the Elwood family. Their son, Michael, was killed.
In the lawsuit, Elwood’s parents named the City, the Kansas City Fire Department and the driver of the pumper truck.
On Dec. 15, 2021, a pumper collided with an SUV near Broadway Ave. and Westport Road.
The force of the crash sent the vehicles into a Westport building that collapsed.
Elwood, the driver of the SUV he was in and a pedestrian died.
“From the very beginning, they have wanted accountability, that’s what the civil justice system offers,” Dollar said, “and then fair and reasonable compensation for tragic losses that really no one can put a price on.”
The lawsuit from Elwood’s family said the fire truck had been told to stand down from a call and to remain in quarters, but ran a red light.
“These all involve the same set of circumstances in terms of our allegations against the city of what they did wrong and what the circumstances were that led up to these tragic events,” Dollar said. “Then, of course, everybody will have their individual harms and losses they’ve suffered from all the other families that were affected.”
The lawsuit alleges negligence on the part of the firetruck’s driver, and on the part of the department for failing to properly train the driver.
A spokesperson with the city said they’re not commenting on the lawsuit.
The attorney for the fire department has not responded.
A trial date has been set for June 5, 2023.
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The role of a recruitment cell of the Karnataka police, headed by a senior official, is under scrutiny in a scam that has surfaced in the conduct of examinations for the hiring of 545 police sub-inspectors (PSIs) to the state department.
On Wednesday, in a move seen as being linked to the police sub-inspectors recruitment scam, the additional director general of police (ADGP) for the recruitment cell and chairman of the PSI recruitment committee Amrit Paul was transferred out of the cell by the Karnataka government.
Paul, who has overseen police recruitments in the last two years, was transferred to the internal security department while a senior ADGP rank officer R Hitendra from the crime and technical services department was given the concurrent charge of the recruitment cell.
Paul’s transfer by the BJP government after the opposition Congress party called into question the continuance of the officer as the head of the recruitment cell amid allegations of corruption in the recruitment of PSIs. “We had questioned the issue of the continuance of the ADGP in charge of the recruitment cell. The order to transfer only this officer suggests that the government is concerned over the role of the police recruitment cell,” said Priyank Kharge, the Congress MLA from Kalaburagi.
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One of the factors over which the recruitment cell located in Bengaluru has come under scrutiny is the fact that the allotment of examination centres for candidates aspiring to be police sub-inspectors was done centrally by the recruitment cell. The CID investigations into the PSI recruitment scam have revealed that as many as 22 of the 107 candidates, who were selected through a written and objective exam on October 3, 2021, from the Kalyana Karnataka region, took the exam at the Jnana Jyothi English School run by a former Kalaburagi BJP functionary Divya Hagaragi and her husband Rajesh Hagaragi.
Police sources said that the number of those selected from the Kalaburagi school exam centre was one of the highest among all 92 centres where the recruitment exam was held last year.
Seven of the 22 successful candidates who took the exam at the Jnana Jyothi school have been arrested after the CID investigation found that they received assistance at the exam centres for scoring high marks—despite answering very few questions in the 150-mark objective section of the exam.
While initially it was believed that only 11 of nearly 500 students, with roll numbers starting with 9221, who took the exam at the Kalaburagi centre (belonging to the former BJP functionary) were successful in the recruitment exam, the CID probe has revealed that the centre was allotted more than one series of roll numbers. The CID police on Tuesday arrested a candidate N V Sunil with a roll number starting with 9222. “He also took the exam at the same school. His signature has been verified for attendance of the exam at the centre,” said sources in the police.
The examination centre where the overall top rank winner in the recruitment exam wrote the test has seen 14 recruitments. The CID is investigating how candidates who paid middlemen Rs 30 lakh to Rs 70 lakh to rig the exam managed to get themselves allotted to examination centres where cheating would be facilitated by the agents. The role of the police recruitment cell is under scrutiny in this context.
The former BJP functionary Divya Hagaragi, against whom the CID has obtained an arrest warrant, has been elusive since the case was registered on April 9 by the CID.
Police sources said the school owner needs to be questioned in custody as there is evidence to indicate she was party to the cheating arrangement. Three teachers from the school who were invigilators for the recruitment exam have been arrested by the CID for aiding the exam malpractice.
The exam scam emerged after a candidate Veeresh N was found to have obtained 121 marks in the police sub-inspector recruitment exam despite answering only 21 out of 100 questions in an objective paper for 150 marks.
The key lynchpin involved in organising the police sub-inspectors recruitment exam fraud has been identified as Rudragouda D Patil alias R D Patil—a Congress block president for the Afzalpur region of the Kalaburagi district. Patil, 38, was arrested last week with his brother Mahantesh Patil in Kalaburagi by the CID police.
The recruitment exam for 545 police sub-inspectors—438 across Karnataka and 107 in Kalyana Karnataka—was held on October 3, 2021, at 92 examination centres in Bengaluru city, Mysuru city, Mangaluru, Hubbali Dharwad, Kalaburagi, Davangere, and Tumkur. Nearly 54,000 candidates out of nearly 1.5 lakh applicants appeared for the recruitment exam.
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