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MUMBAI: Akshay Kumar, Manushi Chhillar and filmmaker Dr Chandraprakash Dwivedi paid their respects at the historic Somnath temple today as a sign of salute to Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan’s spirit, bravery and sacrifice to protect India’s freedom. Carrying Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan’s flag, they honoured the brave warrior who happens to be the last Hindu samrat of India.
Samrat Prithviraj, is based on the glorious life of the brave king Prithviraj Chauhan and features Akshay Kumar in the titular role. He plays the legendary warrior who fought valiantly to protect India from the merciless invader Muhammad of Ghor in this visual spectacle. As a part of a run up to the film’s release, director Dr Chandraprakash Dwivedi is honouring his life and self-less contribution by carrying his flag to historic spots of India.
Dr Chandraprakash Dwivedi said, “Somnath Temple is embedded in the microcosm of Hinduism in India and is of remarkable significance as it was plundered for generations by merciless invaders of our country. We brought Samrat Prithviraj’s flag to the temple and sought blessings at this holy and pure place. Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan was the last Hindu Samrat who stood up to protect Bharatmata’s freedom and dignity from invaders and plunderers. We have made this film to salute his glorious spirit. After doing the Ganga puja with the flag at Varanasi, we are now paying a tribute to the brave warrior at Somnath Temple. It is an incredible moment for us as a team that wanted to bring the samrat’s life come alive on the big screen.”
The Somnath temple is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites for Hindus and is believed to be first among the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Lord Shiva. The temple was reconstructed several times in the past after repeated destruction by multiple Muslim invaders and rulers, including Mahmud of Ghazni, who reportedly attacked the temple 17 times. Incidentally, Prithviraj’s arch enemy Mohammad of Ghor also ruled over Ghazni. He laid the foundation of Muslim rule in the Indian subcontinent which lasted for several centuries.
The ethereally gorgeous Manushi Chhillar plays the role of King Prithviraj’s beloved princess Sanyogita in Samrat Prithviraj and her launch is definitely one of the most awaited debuts of 2022. The film is set to release on June 3 in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
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MUMBAI: Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala was shot over 30 times by around eight to 10 attackers. Even after firing that many shots, the attackers checked whether he was alive. The popular musician had joined Congress last year and had even contested the Punjab Assembly Elections unsuccessfully.
Now, singer Mika Singh has recalled his conversation with the late singer-rapper when he visited Mumbai last week. Mika said that Sidhu Moose Wala told him that in Mumbai he could move freely without security. Mika also remembered Sidhu confiding in him that he previously got threats from 'gangsters'.
Also read Mrunal Thakur: 'Most important thing is patience'
Sidhu was shot dead on Sunday by unidentified assailants as he drove past the Jawaharke village of Mansa district. The incident took place two days after Punjab Police withdrew his security cover. He had joined Congress in December last year ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections.
Mika said, “Four years ago he used to talk about threats from gangsters. Some gangsters might have tried to extort money from him this time. Just last week he came to Mumbai. He told me that he could roam freely in Mumbai, without any security. I asked him to move to Mumbai in the future."
He also said, "He was a huge star. In just three years, he had made such a huge name for himself. Not just in Punjab, he had a fan following across the world. He used to write about true things in his songs. Is being successful a crime? His songs had an attitude in them. But Moose Wala himself wasn’t like that. People liked such songs of his and so he made them. The police and the government should take strict action" (against Sidhu Moose Wala’s assailants).
Mika had earlier shared a post saying, "I always say I’m proud to be Punjabi but today I feel shame to be saying the same. A young talented boy just 28 years old, so popular and with such a bright future ahead of him @sidhu_moosewala killed in Punjab by Punjabi’s. May God bless his soul and he rest in eternal peace. My prayers are with his family. Request to #Punjabsarkar please take strong action against these criminals. Heartbreaking."
The police had earlier said the killing appeared to be revenge for the murder of an Akali leader, Vicky Middukhera, last year. Sidhu Moose Wala's manager Shaganpreet had figured in the killing. Punjab Director General of Police V K Bhawra said the killing seemed to be the result of an inter-gang rivalry and that the Lawrence Bishnoi gang was involved in it.
For more news from the entertainment industry, stay tuned to TellyChakkar.
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MUMBAI : Although the impact of the widespread Coronavirus has waned in recent months, the virus has resurfaced. COVID-19 instances are on the rise once more, and some celebrities have been infected. Sadly, one of them is actor Karan Tacker, who just confirmed that he is COVID positive on social media. Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai revealed that he had been avoiding it for the previous two years but that it had finally caught up with him, and advised people not to underestimate the virus.
Also read EXCLUSIVE! Dhantejas Singh and Jasleen Singh ROPED in for Beyond Dreams' next on Star Bharat
Karan Tacker revealed the infection in a lyrical way in a post he uploaded on instagram. He said, “I dodged the virus for good two years, but this COVID turned out to be a dheet, finally got the best of me and attacked me on my peeth, the coughing and sneezing make me skip heartbeats, but the aches and the chills makes me realize I am a mortal like any other deadbeat, so wear a mask, don’t try to cheat, vaccine, booster, mask, repeat.”. The lad captioned the post, “Covid ki Rap sheet , Down with the bug guys, getting better. but anyone who's been in close quarters with me, watch out for symptoms and isolate please.” Take a look at the post
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Also read Oops! Bizarre Fashion! Check out all of Nia Sharma's weirdest looks and some fashion blunders
Soon after the post his freinds from the industries and fans have started pouring recpovery messsges to the actor.
We hope that the actor recovers soon and makes a rocking comeback as always.
For more updates, stay tuned to TellyChakkar.
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MUMBAI: TellyChakkar is back with yet another update from the telly world. Kunal Jaisingh is one of the most well-known actors on television. The actor has a long history with the television industry. For his on-screen presence and charm, he has been well received by the audience.The handsome hunk comes across as a visual delight on-screen.
Also read Joker: Kunal Jaisingh explains his keenness to do comic roles
The handsome hunk is now gearing up for his upcoming show, Muskurane Ki Wajah Tum Ho. The show is all set to air on Colors' TV and is produced by Cockcrow Entertainment and Shaika Films. Take a look at the video to see the actor dancing his heart out with Jignesh Joshi. The actor writes as his caption as 'The excitement of #muskuranekiwajahtumho launching tomorrow has gotten dancing silly… cannot wait to meet you guys tomorrow at 8:30pm Monday to Friday only on @colorstv' Take a look at the video.
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Kunal Jaisingh has ruled the hearts of the audiences with his stellar performances over the years. He started his career with Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya. Moreover, he got his breakthrough with Channel V India's, The Buddy Project where he portrayed Ranveer Shergill.
Later on, he was featured in many shows like Yeh Hai Aashiqui, Twist Wala Love, Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya, Savdhaan India, Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka, Doli Armaano Ki, Dil Boley Oberoi, among others. He was last seen in the show Pavitra Bhagya opposite Aneri Vajani and Kyun Utthe Dil Chhod Aaye as Prince Veer Pratap Singh wherein his acting skills were highly appreciated.
For more updates, stay tuned to TellyChakkar.
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MUMBAI: The whole nation is in shock about Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala's brutal murder.
Hours after his death, Canada-based gangster Satinder Singh, alias Goldy Brar, issued a statement with regard to the incident.
He confessed on the social media that he, along with Sachin Bishnoi of the Lawrence Bishnoi group, was responsible for the murder of the singer.
Also read:Sad! Bigg Boss 15 fame Rakhi Sawant expressed her feelings for the murder of Sidhu Moosewala
As per Goldy Brar, Sidhu was responsible for the killing of his brother Vicky Middukhehra, but the police didn’t act on this. He was also behind the encounter of his brother Ankit Bhadu.
Die-hard fans of Sidhu are in shock as they are not able to digest that their favourite singer has been murdered.
Recently, Woh Toh Hain Albela fame Anuj Sachdeva expressed his anger for the murder of the Punjabi singer.
He took to social media and uploaded a picture
He wrote, “Its sad people in India keep talking about the gun laws in the usa but doesn't have balls to raise their voice against the shootout in Punjab in the broad day light in India. #BluntNote.” He captioned the photo as, "Duniya ki chinta hai, Apney ghar mein aag lagi hai uska kya?"
Have a look at his post.
Also read:Shocking! Read on to know about the controversies surrounding Sidhu Moose Wala
Well, Sidhu, you will be missed!
For more news from the entertainment industry, stay tuned to TellyChakkar.
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MUMBAI : Congress leader and prominent Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s death left everyone in a state of shock. He got gruesomely murdered. With this, not just the Punjabi music world, or Punjab in particular lost an artist; rather, the entire nation lost a gem.
Also read: Must Read! Sidhu Moose Wala’s funeral will be held on May 31; details inside
The artist was shot dead in Punjab on Sunday, and post his untimely death, everyone was left in a state of utter shock. However, the truth remains the same, Moose Wala is now no more with us, and on May 31st at 12 noon his mortal remains will be cremated as well. An update has been shared on the late singer’s official Instagram account. There was a story shared in Punjabi and then in English which read - “Our brother Sidhu Moosewala's funeral visitation will be held on May 31st at 8:30 am in the morning. The cremation will take place at 12 pm in the village Moosa.”
Fans have found a major similarity between his song 295 as the singer passed away on the 29th of May 22. They even linked his murder to Tupac's demise as the visuals strike strong similarities. Tupac had also passed away in a car accident and now it was Sidhu, he had also revealed his demise through the visuals in the song.
The investigation of Sidhu Moose Wala’s death is in process. The Punjab police, on Monday, said that they have rounded up some people and have been able to gather important leads in the case.
Goldy Brar, the Canada-based gangster, claimed responsibility for Sidhu Moose Wala’s death. On May 29, Sidhu Moose Wala was travelling to the Jawahar Ke Village in Mansa along with his friend and cousin in the vehicle. Punjab police confirmed that there was no security personnel present with him, and he was not travelling in his bulletproof car. Unidentified persons drove by Moose Wala in Mansa, firing rounds at his car through three different weapons. The singer was killed in the firing post sustaining eight bullet injuries.
Also read: Shocking! Sidhu Moose Wala had told Mika Singh that he could roam freely in Mumbai
For more updates, stay tuned to Tellychakkar
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How Global Thought Leaders are transforming businesses with the vision to create a fairer, cleaner planet
Conflict and disruption are familiar themes in the news headlines. TBD Media Group's campaign aims to put optimism back on the table
LONDON, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The human race is facing deep uncertainty in both the long and short term: with open conflict ratcheting up tensions around the world, the ongoing climate crisis and the disruptive after-effects of the Covid pandemic, the decisions we make now will have a profound impact on the future of the planet. The challenges facing us can only be met by the people who have the power to make a difference: the innovators and thought leaders in the businesses driving change today.
Global Thought Leaders, a series of documentaries devised by award-winning production company TBD Media Group, tells the stories of the people whose ideas are making positive and lasting change for profit, people and planet. Through the films we see a common thread of how great ideas are executed around the world, thanks to a combination of far-sighted investment, collaboration and vision.
Paolo Zanini, Founder and CEO at TBD Media Group says:
"At a time when our trust in political leadership is at an all time low, Global Thought Leaders are filling the gap. Climate change can only be tackled by industry; conflict is a result of competing interests; our films are showing that excellent and visionary leadership can produce win-wins that will result in a cleaner, fairer world."
Zanini says that Global Thought Leaders is his own contribution to a better future:
"TBD Media Group has assembled a talented team of filmmakers to present these stories. We all believe in our responsibility to communicate these ideas to a wider audience. While many media outlets are using shock tactics to capture attention, the result of relentless bad news is a belief that nothing can be done to tackle the threats facing us. This campaign shows that not only can something be done, it is being done, and the overwhelming theme is that when we work together, we can achieve amazing things. Our mission is to encourage positive action through giving a global audience reasons to be optimistic."
The Global Thought Leaders documentary series examines how the most ambitious businesses in the world are harnessing innovation to transform the world we live in and create a better future for generations to come.
Companies featured in this launch:
AER Rianta International, Alchemy Crew (Canopy, Ticker), Andela, Case IH a brand of CNH Industrial, Gobazzar, Northern Trust Corporation, SoLVBL Solutions Inc., Green Hydrogen Systems, Payfor, OPEN Health Group, Skyhive Technologies, Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW),
More information on the Global Thought Leaders Campaign may be found here.
About TBD Media Group:
TBD Media Group is an international, purpose-driven, media developer that helps companies, organizations and governments tell their brand stories in a human and direct way. Learn more at https://www.tbdmediagroup.com/
Media Contact:
Jenna-Leigh Soobramoney
Head of Marketing
TBD Media Group
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MUMBAI : Dance India Dance is the most successful dance reality show on television. A show that began with three masters, Remo, Geeta, and Terence, and grand Master Mithun, is a brand today.
Post the launch of Dance India Dance, the makers of the show came up with Dance India Dance Little Masters, a dance reality with little kids as participants.
Some of the judges on the earlier seasons of the show were Farah Khan, Sandip Soparrkar, Geeta Kapur, Ahmed Khan, Mudassar Khan, Marzi Pestonji, and Chitrangda Singh.
The show is back with a new season, and the new judges of the show are Remo D'Souza, Sonali Bendre, and Mouni Roy. Jay Bhanushali has returned as the host of the show.
The show has gone on air. The audience loves it. Moreover, it is doing well on the TRP charts.
The contestants are slowly making a place in the audience’s heart and also many celebrities are cheering for some contestants.
( ALSO READ : Avneet Kaur talks about Dance India Dance days and breaks her silence on why she is away from television
Every weekend a guest comes on the show and motivates the contestants of the show.
This weekend Dharmesh will be gracing the show alongside Salman Yusuf Khan, Terance Lewis, Geeta Kapur.
Where they would be celebrating 13 years of Salman’s victory of Season 1 and the judges would be re – uniting for the show.
This will be the second time Terance Lewis and Geeta Kapur will be gracing the show as they had come during the premiere of the show and once again they would live the good old days.
The coming episode will be a nostalgic episode filled with lots of entertainment and fun.
For more news and updates from the world of television and Bollywood, stay tuned to TellyChakkar.
( ALSO READ : Unreal Crew from Jodhpur lifts Dance India Dance trophy
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MUMBAI : TellyChakkar is back with yet another interesting update from the world of television.
We have seen ever since the start of the year 2022, a lot of new TV shows are hitting the screens and at the same time, several shows are going off-air.
In fact, there are a few shows that are immediately being sacked within just a few months of their launch.
This news has come as a huge shocker for the fans as well.
We had previously reported about Sony TV's show Dosti Anokhi which started airing just a few months back has been wrapped up.
ALSO READ: Mose Chhal Kiye Jaaye: Disgusting! Prisha and Arman laugh at Saumya and continue their affair
And now, we have an exclusive update that the channel is now gearing up to pull the plugs of another show.
Well, it is none other than Mose Chhal Kiye Jaaye.
The show stars Vijayendra Kumeria and Vidhi Pandya in the lead roles.
Mose Chhal Kiye Jaaye started on a grand note a few months back and the viewers were loving how the story was progressing.
But now, we hear that the makers have decided to wrap up the show.
Well, there is no confirmation on the same yet but the show will be bidding adieu to the viewers at any point in time.
Vidhi and Vijayendra have so far tried their best to entertain the viewers not just with their rocking chemistry but also with their amazing performances.
The duo reunited after Udaan and fans were thrilled to see them together on-screen.
Well, we are still waiting for the official confirmation from the makers!
But if the news is true then we will sure miss seeing Armaan and Saumya on-screen!
What about you? Tell us in the comments.
Stay tuned to TellyChakkar for all the latest updates.
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MUMBAI : Devoleena Bhattacharjee is one of the most loved actresses on television today.
(Also Read: WHAT! Devoleena Bhattacharjee doesn’t want to live alone with her pets and the reason is quite shocking
She is renowned as Gopi Bahu from Saath Nibhaana Saathiya and post her stint in Bigg Boss 13, the netizens cannot stop pouring love on her. She has made quite a lot of friends on the controversial reality show. While her friendship with Rashami Desai was seen breaking apart because of differences of opinion in the 15th season, her friendship with Pratik Sehajpal was much spoken about too.
The show is over and Pratik Sehajpal and Nishant Bhat have now made their way into the much spoken about Khatron Ke Khiladi season 12, and recently, Devoleena was seen spilling beans on her upcoming projects.
She was also seen rooting for her dear friend Pratik Sehajpal and wishing that he wins and emerges strong in the game show. She was also seen sharing how she wanted to participate in the show too, however, due to her foot injury, she could not. However, she really hoped to accompany Pratik in Khatron Ke Khiladi this season.
Devoleena also shared that since Pratik and Nishant are together, she is sure that they will rock this season!
What are your thoughts on the same? Do you think Pratik and Nishant will give a tough fight to the other contestants? Will you miss Devoleena and Pratik’s friendship on Khatron Ke Khiladi season 12?
(Also Read: Devoleena Bhattacharjee: Living in a joint family made me stronger
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MUMBAI : The Dhaakad screening turned out to be quite a star-studded affair. A large number of actors were present on the occasion to cheer for Kangana Ranaut. Her Lock Upp ‘kaidis’ also attended the event and were seen having a heart-warming reunion.
Munawar Faruqui and his girlfriend Nazila largely ignored Anjali Arora at Kangana Ranaut's 'Dhaakad' screening. A source who attended the screening says that Munawar and Anjali exchanged a very dry 'Hi' and it was very apparent that just when they saw that they were going to be photographed, not just the two but even Nazila quickly smiled to deliver a happy picture of the trio. The smiles were wide but fake.
Have a look.
Post that near-snub, Munawar kept himself in Nazila's company and Anjali drew away from the lovebirds, without talking anything to them. But it was stark that Anjali felt very hurt that Munawar was almost seeing through her.
Almost everyone out there was surprised to see the cold vibes between Anjali and Munawar. The fact is that till date, Anjali hasn't really recovered from the affection she had developed for Munawar. Munawar reciprocated the same, but Anjali did not realize he was taking her for a ride simply for garnering attention.
Other Lock Upp contestants like Poonam Pandey, Saisha Shinde, Shivam Sharma, Kaaranvir Bohra, Zeeshan Khan, Ali Merchant, and Vinit Kakar were also part of the event.
Also read: Exclusive! Shivani Thorat to soon join the cast of ‘Maddam Sir’
For more news from the entertainment industry, stay tuned to TellyChakkar.
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MUMBAI: A day after the Punjab Police withdrew the security of 424 people, including Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, the rapper was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Jawaharke village of Mansa district on Sunday, May 29.
Moosewala held a degree in electrical engineering. He had learned music during his college days and had later moved to Canada.
To think about it, popular model turned actor Asim Riaz was also attacked by a few goons while he was out cycling in his hometown. Taking to his Instagram stories, the Bigg Boss 13 first runner-up gave a glimpse of the multiple bruises he incurred because of this attack that he faced late in the night.
Asim was out cycling while someone on a bike attacked him from behind. In the video, Asim calls the attackers 'cowards' as they did not have the guts to attack him from the front. He got bruises on his arms, knees, thighs and even back. The video is indeed shocking and has left all his fans in rage as well.
Discussing the same, Asim Riaz’s fans started trending #GetWellSoonAsim on Twitter. There have been thousands of messages praying for his speedy recovery also many have been quite angry with the attackers. More than 30K tweets were done by the fans which has landed the hashtag #GetWellSoonAsim on the trending list.
This is one other such big incident coming to fore faced not only by a commoner but a person of celebrity status too.
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MUMBAI: Well, we all know that Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor have been shooting for their upcoming fantasy adventure drama film Brahmastra. The film is directed by Ayan Mukherji and produced by Dharma Productions and Fox Star Studios. The film will see Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Amitabh Bachchan in interesting characters. The film has had several delays since the film was announced four years back.
Also read Revealed! This is when Brahmastra will release
Reportedly, Producer Karan Johar, Disney India, and the team of Brahmastra have finally decided on a release date for the superhero epic rooted in mythology. As per reports, the makers are targeting September 9, 2022, as the release date for the film. The date coincides with Ganesh Chaturthi which is a major holiday in Maharashtra. The team is expected to make an official announcement in a couple of weeks.
There is a buzz going on with the recent teaser being released. Fans are thrilled to see Mouni Roy's avatar in the film. Take a look at her picture
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Fans are having mixed emotions while some of them are super excited and are loving her transition. Others say it is kind off inspired by her Naagin Role. Likewise few of them feel role is replica of The Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
Also read OMG! Unseen pictures from the sets of Brahmastra
For more updates, stay tuned to TellyChakkar.
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MUMBAI: Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin is presently ruling our television screens. The show is doing extremely well. The audience loves to watch the chemistry between Sai and Virat and the fights between Virat, Sai, Pakhi, and Samrat.
Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin has a lot of drama in store for the viewers. Sai shockingly gets accused of Malhar's murder and this puts her in a huge storm.
Currently, To seek revenge Jagtap takes the last straw and kidnaps Sai. He is unaware of Sai being pregnant. On the other hand, Samrat decides to fight Jagtap and bring Sai back but unfortunately, while saving Sai, Samrat loses his life. This leaves the Chavans in shock and Pakhi in disbelief that her husband is not alive.
Well, the fans are quite upset with the current track of the show and netizens display their rage and question the makers, What kind of a show are they making? What is the message behind such cringe content on television? Check out what they had to share:
viewers need to barge in & throw some rotten eggs & tomatoes at writers/cd/ph!! They have lost their minds!! @sidd_vankar Ruined GHKPM with lusty bhabhi & this one’s another level cringe!!
— Neelima (@Neela90697528) May 25, 2022
I think he needs to be institutionalized ASAP!! He is promoting lusty bhabhi, abuse in GHKPM & that cheap cringe in KKIS!! @sidd_vankar seriously just go & checkin you’re self to a mental asylum please take your friend Oscar with you!!
— Neelima (@Neela90697528) May 25, 2022
The last time I was this overjoyed to see a villain was when Vineet Kumar showed up as Sadaa. And now Sid as Jagtap! By God, being a villain has never before been this sexy!!! #GhumHaiKisiKeyPyaarMeiin #AyeshaSingh #SiddhartBodke #GHKPM #SaiJoshi #SaiRat
— Naaz(@Naaz_Samji) May 24, 2022
We can still justify KZK doing this. The Covid fear was real. But GHKPM has no reason for this shoddy editing.
— Sharon (@Johnlock_221B_) May 30, 2022
They have ruined her character & have seen their TRP fall but I guess they’re in hurry to promote real couple & shut the show!Well no one’s interested in watching devar/bhabhi cringe,viewers rejected Shruti & this will be cringe promax!I just request @StarPlus to move GHKPM 11pm!
— Neelima (@Neela90697528) May 27, 2022
I think he’s forte is cringe worthy content which he’s showcasing in GHKPM by portraying lusty bhabhi’s & in KKIS dono what to call sindoor wali shaadi?So KKIS he fulfilled his wish in GHKPM lusty 2 had only hug now wait for lusty 1 scenes!I just hope Starplus moves the show
— Neelima (@Neela90697528) May 28, 2022
Ha woh bhi ho jayega , soon a cross over between ghkpm and kkis , what if they go on their trip to Nagpur
— Pooja shet (@Poo180692) May 23, 2022
Stop playing with fans feeling and throw this buba bubi out of the show they have ruined everything
— SHIVI MALHOTRA (@Shivanimogha2) May 31, 2022
GHKPM NEEDS NEW ML
#GhumHaiKisikeyPyaarMeiin
In the upcoming episode, Jagtap creates trouble for Sai while Virat stands to support her against Chavan who is humiliating her. Jagtap kidnaps Sai while Virat and Samrat search for her. Jagtap shoots at Virat but Samrat comes in the middle and gets shot saving Virat. Unfortunately, this wreaks havoc in Sai's life as Virat stays with Pakhi who is pregnant with Samrat's Child. Pakhi pretends to be in pain just to get Virat's attention and stays with him all the time. Sai is not fine with what is happening and confronts Pakhi for snatching Virat after knowing her intentions to which Virat gets furious at her and blames her for Samrat's death.
What is your take on the current track of the show?
Also read: Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin: Pathetic! Jagtap kidnaps Sai leaving Samrat bloodshed
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MUMBAI: Tellychakkar is back with yet another update from Telly world.
Karan V Grover, who is currently seen as Angad Maan in Udaariyaan, is all set to get married to his long-time girlfriend Poppy Jabbal on June 1. The two have been dating each other for more than a decade and are now all set to take their relationship to the next level.
The wedding will take place in Himachal Pradesh in the presence of close family and friends. The wedding functions have already begun. Karan and Poppy's common friends Raj Laaxmi, Shama Sikander with husband James Milliron, Sonnalli Seygall will be attending the wedding and they have already left for the wedding. Karan and Poppy will tie the knot in a hush-hush wedding away from the hustle and bustle of city life followed by a reception party.
Well, we got our hands on all the fun that is going on in the wedding through Shama Sikander's lenses. Check it out:
Talking about their love story, Karan and Poppy had first met in a car parking area and later they met again through some common friends and soon started dating. Their families are also aware of their relationship. In fact, Karan and Poppy have quite a lot in common, the duo loves travelling and share the same sun sign that is cancer. That's why they have a rock-solid relationship. They are often seen attending each other’s family functions and meeting common friends from the industry too.
Also read: EXCLUSIVE! Karan V Grover to play the lead in Sandip Sikcand's next on Star Bharat
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To understand the orphan well problem in NM, someone’s going to have to count them - Samuel Gilbert, Source New Mexico
The 50-square-mile stretch of public land known as “the glade” is described on the Bureau of Land Management’s website as a “great spot for the weekend warrior.”
The glade is punctured by 600 oil and gas wells, connected by hundreds of access roads and an arterial network of buried gathering lines that leave unvegetated, eroded scars on the land.
It’s not far from Mike Eisenfeld’s home. He’s the energy and climate program manager for the San Juan Citizens Alliance. He lives in Farmington, N.M, an agricultural community transformed into a center of oil and gas production.
“You should be reclaiming and revegetating well pads and pipeline right of ways,” Eisenfeld said, driving past a cleared well pad, his voice sputtering as his truck traversed the washboard roads that have become a popular off-roading venue for locals. “And cleaning up the mess you have created.”
The U.S. Senate passed the bipartisan infrastructure package last year with nearly $44 million to plug and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells in New Mexico. The first round of funding is part of a nationwide push to address growing concerns over abandoned wells’ environmental and health impacts — particularly the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane.
“Orphan wells are an enormous source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 86 times more potent than CO2,” wrote Sen. Martin Heinrich in an emailed statement to Source New Mexico. “These emissions have devastating impacts on our climate and the health of our communities.”
TOTAL NUMBER OF ORPHAN WELLS IDENTIFIED BY BLM? ZERO
According to the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division (NMOCD), the agency charged with regulating oil and gas production, 1,741 orphaned and abandoned wells have been identified so far on state and private land.
“We are continuing to work to refine the numbers, looking through well files and other available data,” said Adrienne Sandoval, director of the division. Her agency plans to use drones and other technology to locate more orphan wells sites. “That number is going to continue to fluctuate and possibly grow. We are gaining a better understanding of the problem.”
While many have lauded the move to identify and plug orphan wells, the true scope of the problem in New Mexico is still poorly understood. On federal lands in New Mexico — where the majority of oil and gas extraction takes place — the number of orphan wells is still unknown.
The Bureau of Land Management leases oil and gas permits on such land. Through the agency’s process of reviewing records and inspecting wells deemed high-priority, BLM has not identified any on federal lands in the largest oil and gas region in the state, according to a spokesperson.
“BLM New Mexico is not aware of any federally managed orphaned wells residing under its administration within the state of New Mexico,” wrote BLM’s Allison Sandoval in an email to Source New Mexico.
Eisenfeld said this is dubious, and that there are likely many on BLM land.
Logan Glassenap, a staff attorney for the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, agrees.
“We know there is a problem. We don’t know its scope,” he said. In March, the alliance wrote a letter to BLM requesting an audit of all inactive oil and gas wells.
“We do know what it will take to get this under control,” Glassenap said. “But the first step is to figure out how many there are.”
In the San Juan Basin — New Mexico’s largest oil and gas region — there are nearly 40,000 wells located primarily on federal and tribal lands. Eisenfeld estimates there are likely thousands of wells in the region that, while not classified as orphaned, are “in some state of neglect, idleness or abandonment.”
“The problem is bigger than anyone realizes,” said Eisenfeld, piloting his gray Tacoma toward the Horseshoe Gallup Field in the Four Corners region of New Mexico, home to hundreds of non-producing wells. “Were at the cusp or really trying to assign liability and responsibility. That’s a good thing, but this will not be an easy fix.”
AGING PUMPJACKS, MILES OF HOSE
Eisenfeld first visited the Horseshoe Gallup Field after following a tip from a local rancher. The field is in a valley northwest of the San Juan Generating Station, the massive coal plant located in the Four Corners region of New Mexico. What Eisenfeld found was a landscape of aging oil and gas infrastructure, including 122 wells that have not produced oil or gas in at least five years, according to data from the Oil Conservation Division.
“These wells pose numerous environmental threats,” Eisenfeld said. “The government, as far as we can tell, considers these active sites and is not concerned about them.”
Judging by the state of some of the oil and gas infrastructure, five years seems like a low assessment of their age. The oil and gas field is littered with aging pumpjacks, exposed metal gas lines, and miles of rubber hoses carrying natural gas that mirror an expansive, ad hoc irrigation system braiding through the desert.
“Those hoses are not supposed to be permanent,” said Eisenfeld, crossing an arroyo and driving up a small hill to a collection site where “gathering” lines from nearby wells feed into a series of storage tanks.
The site appears unmaintained — rusted metal tanks and plastic barrels of chemicals with indiscernible labels bleached white from the sun. An overflowing waste container in one corner of the site emits a powerful smell of raw oil. These containers, according to Eisenfeld, are supposed to be emptied regularly.
“This personifies a dump zone,” said Eisenfeld, standing between an old yellow tanker truck, tires exposed to the rims, and the oil-stained ground near the waste container.
It’s an important question. According to the Environmental Defense Fund, nonproducing unplugged wells can leak “oil and other toxic chemicals” that contaminate water sources, contribute to air pollution and emit methane, the main component of natural gas.
The latter is of particular concern in the San Juan Basin, which has the highest concentration of methane pollution in the U.S.
Understanding the true scope of the problem will be crucial in plugging wells, Glassenap said, and thus reducing methane emissions and environmental damage.
“Whatever funding might come from the infrastructure bill, we won’t know how sufficient that funding is until we get an idea of the scope of the problem.”
According to the OCD, 6,000 wells in New Mexico have not produced in more than a year, and 2,600 of those are on federal lands.
“If there were 10 of me, we could find thousands,” Eisenfeld said, noting the limited resources of his organization.
Where do we send the bill?
Orphan wells are part of a larger “culture of abandonment” that has defined the oil and gas industry since oil was discovered in the region a century ago, Eisenfeld said.
In that time, the San Juan Basin has experienced numerous boom-and-bust cycles, with companies coming and going with fluctuating demand. Companies frequently declare bankruptcy and renege on environmental obligations to plug wells.
“With limited capital and the possibility of bankruptcy, oil and gas operators may not be able to plug wells and reclaim facilities effectively,” said the OCD in 2020.
Reclamation has been piecemeal and best. The industry has left an indelible mark on the landscape.
“It’s a real problem. It’s not just oil and gas but any extractive industry,” Glassenap said. “We have legacy mines that remain a problem 100 years later,” Glassenap said. “No one knows where to send the bill.”
Crews make gains against New Mexico wildfire, largest in US - By Paul Davenport Associated Press
Crews were making progress in stopping the nation's largest active wildfire from spreading on Monday, the fourth straight day of warnings of extreme fire conditions in northern New Mexico.
The nearly 8-week-old fire was surrounded by containment lines cut and scraped around half of its perimeter, enclosing 493 square miles of forested mountains and foothills east of Santa Fe.
Nearly 3,000 firefighters and other personnel were assigned to the blaze, the largest in New Mexico's recorded history.
Red flag warnings were issued for Saturday through Monday because of high winds and low humidity, but crews backed by bulldozers and aircraft dropping water by midday Monday were able to jump on hot spots and allow only minimal growth, officials said.
With forecasts calling for improved weather conditions beginning Tuesday, fire officials said they were reducing the frequency of livestreamed evening "community meeting" briefings from daily to three times a week.
"This change is a direct result of the positive progress firefighters have made in containing this fire and limiting fire growth," officials said in a statement.
In another reflection of gains made to check the fire's growth, San Miguel County on Saturday lifted evacuation orders for several areas on the fire's western flank and downgraded pre-evacuation warnings in others.
Thunderstorms could develop in the area during a period beginning Wednesday night and ending Friday, said incident meteorologist Bruno Rodriguez. However, "we're not expecting widespread, wetting rain with it."
Initial estimates say the fire has destroyed at least 330 homes but state officials expect the number of homes and other structures that have burned to rise to more than 1,000 as more assessments are done.
The fire started in early April as a result of prescribed burns that either got out of control or smoldered for months before bursting into flames with drier and warmer weather.
Most of the large fires so far this spring have been in Arizona and New Mexico in a region where many fire managers have described forests as "ripe and ready to burn" due to a megadrought that has spanned decades and warm and windy conditions brought on by climate change.
Governor's mansion used state funds for party costs - By Daniel J. Chacón Santa Fe New Mexican
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's office tapped into a taxpayer-funded expense account to pay for a political event at the governor's mansion in October, prompting her reelection campaign to quietly reimburse the state two months later.
Documents obtained under a public records request show New Mexicans for Michelle, the governor's campaign committee, issued the state a $1,837 check in December to pay for expenses stemming from a Democratic Governors Association party hosted by Lujan Grisham in Santa Fe.
At the time, Lujan Grisham was serving as chairwoman of the association, a Washington, D.C.-based political organization dedicated to electing Democratic governors and other candidates.
The reimbursement appeared in the governor's campaign finance reports as a "campaign event."
"The campaign transparently and expeditiously reimbursed the state for an event hosted by the Governor as chair of the Democratic Governors Association," campaign spokeswoman Kendall Witmer said in a statement Wednesday.
Witmer did not provide any other comment or information about the event, and the Democratic Governors Association did not return messages seeking comment.
While the campaign reimbursed the state for purchases related to the event, "the contingency fund does allow for use (of the expense account) to host dignitaries and other guests from any political party," Maddy Hayden, a spokeswoman for the governor, wrote in an email.
Expenses reimbursed by the campaign include an $890 purchase from Colorado Party Rentals for 100 12-inch ivory-gold chargers, 100 10-inch ivory-gold dinner plates and stainless steel forks, knives and teaspoons.
Lujan Grisham's contingency fund spending has been a source of controversy in the past, and it's given the governor's critics, particularly Republicans hoping to win back control of the Governor's Office in November, ammunition to use against her as she runs for a second term.
A review of expenditures last year found spending on alcohol, dry cleaning and thousands of dollars worth of groceries for the governor's mansion, including Wagyu beef, a purchase that has generated stinging criticism against Lujan Grisham.
Complaints about the governor's spending initiated a "risk review" by the State Auditor's Office, which found the contingency fund has broad parameters.
"Statutory authority remains ambiguous without definitions (within the law) concerning what constitutes 'expenses directly connected with obligations of the elected office of governor,' which could be broadly interpreted, or what could be considered 'perquisites or allowances for state employees,' " according to a report the office issued last year.
"As a result, the New Mexico state Legislature may wish to review the matter and consider whether further statutory clarification is necessary with respect to the fund," the report stated.
Since the controversy with Lujan Grisham erupted, The New Mexican has been requesting invoices and receipts related to the contingency fund on a regular basis. On April 21, the newspaper made another request for invoices, receipts and expense reports from September to April.
The New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration called the public records request "excessively broad and burdensome" and said it needed additional time to gather the documents, first on May 4 and then again May 6. The department fulfilled the request Friday.
The latest batch of receipts and invoices since September turned up at least eight purchases of alcohol, including liquor, wine and beer.
"The expenses are directly connected with obligations and requirements of the elected office of governor — exactly what the contingency fund is intended to be used for," Hayden wrote.
Hayden did not respond to numerous questions about the contingency fund spending, including whether the purchase of alcohol is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars.
"I noticed you refer to 'the governor's contingency fund,' " Hayden wrote. "I just want to make sure you are aware that this fund has been available and utilized by many past governors and is budgeted by the state legislature. Governor Lujan Grisham is the first governor to disclose detailed information about the use of the fund to taxpayers and continues to use it in a fiscally responsible manner."
According to Hayden, less than 19 percent of the total budgeted contingency fund for the year has been spent, leaving around $78,000 unspent.
"During the (administration of former Gov. Susana Martinez, a Republican), for the six-month period from July 1 to December 31, 2017, we estimate that average monthly contingency spending was around $5,000 a month, based on records (as there were no reporting requirements at that time). For comparison, the spending you are inquiring about averages to around $2,200 a month," Hayden wrote.
The fund created headaches for Martinez, too.
Martinez tapped into the fund to pay for what turned out to be a raucous holiday party at the Eldorado Hotel & Spa. The party drew calls to police following reports of bottles being thrown from a balcony — an incident some say may have ended Martinez's hopes for national office.
At a little over $5,200, spending for the month of September was the highest for Lujan Grisham in the most recent review of invoices and receipts.
Included in the September spending was a $1,551 invoice from Cowgirl BBQ in Santa Fe.
The invoice showed an Aug. 30 delivery to the governor's mansion of "mesquite smoked BBQ beef brisket" and other dishes for 45 guests.
"This was an evening gathering that honored state employees for their service during the COVID-19 pandemic," Hayden wrote.
The event isn't listed in the governor's official schedule, which is posted online.
State launches infant formula website and crowdsourcing campaign – By Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico
As the United States continues to experience a shortage of infant formula, New Mexico officials on Friday launched a new website where parents and caregivers of infants can find infant formula supplies.
NMformula.com is meant to provide medically reliable information for families with questions about how to ensure their children receive proper nutrition, acting Department of Health Secretary David Scrase said in a news release.
“We are committed to assist families in New Mexico during this national formula shortage until it is resolved and want to remind anyone caring for an infant to understand the necessity of assuring formula is used in ways that are both accurate and safe for the child,” Scrase said.
The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told a Senate committee on Thursday the U.S. government should consider creating a stockpile of infant formula to avoid the possibility of future shortages.
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in about two months, he expects manufacturers to start to produce a surplus of infant formula, and when they do, the federal government will need to decide if it wants to “maintain that surplus as a government activity for the foreseeable future.”
The New Mexico website first asks parents and caregivers to contact their local Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Office, and provides an interactive map of WIC offices throughout the state.
If they can’t find formula that way, the state site instructs them to call their baby’s pediatrician or provider to see if they have in-office samples or any similar formula that may be more readily available in stores and is nutritionally similar to their infant’s typical formula, and to check smaller stores and drug stores that have formula when larger stores do not.
The website says parents and caregivers should not: give toddler formula to infants, nor dilute formula to make it last longer, nor make their own formula.
The site also links to the NM Infant Formula Support Network, a Facebook group created by the Early Childhood Department, where people spread info about where specific formula brands and types are in stock, and share surplus formula they may have, along with other resources.
NMformula.com also links to the Human Milk Repository of New Mexico, a nonprofit accredited milk bank that sells human breast milk for $4.50 per ounce, before taxes.
For parents and caregivers able to afford child care, the state also uses federal funding to pay for the Child and Adult Food Program, which provides infant formula for both home-based child care and child care centers.
The state’s efforts to crowdfund infant formula come two weeks after a mother in Massachusetts launched the Free Formula Exchange, a national mutual aid network aimed at connecting people who need formula with people who have formula to donate.
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Mourners in Uvalde are lining up outside a memorial for 19 students and two teachers killed in a mass shooting last week at Robb Elementary School. Many are struggling to cope with their deep grief.
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Mourners in Uvalde are lining up outside a memorial for 19 students and two teachers killed in a mass shooting last week at Robb Elementary School. Many are struggling to cope with their deep grief.
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NPR's Investigative Unit teamed up with The Marshall Project to look at a penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., that is one of the country's most violent and dangerous federal prisons.
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NPR's Investigative Unit teamed up with The Marshall Project to look at a penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., that is one of the country's most violent and dangerous federal prisons.
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) -- A seven-person civil jury in Virginia will resume deliberations Tuesday in Johnny Depp's libel trial against Amber Heard. What the jury considers will be very different from the public debate that has engulfed the high-profile proceedings.
For six weeks, testimony focused on details of alleged abuse that Heard says she suffered at the hands of Depp. Heard has outlined more than a dozen specific instances where she says she was assaulted by Depp.
Depp has denied any physical or sexual abuse, and says Heard concocted the claims to destroy Depp's reputation. Depp's legions of online fans have focused on their belief that Heard has been untruthful, and that that will determine the outcome.
But the case itself is a defamation claim. Depp sued Heard for libel - for $50 million - in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”
That article never even mentions Depp by name, but his lawyers say he was defamed nonetheless. Most of the article discusses public policy as it relates to domestic violence, and Heard's lawyers say she has a First Amendment right to weigh in.
In closing arguments, though, Depp lawyer Camille Vasquez argued that Heard's free-speech rights have limits.
“The First Amendment doesn't protect lies that hurt and defame people,” she said.
Depp's lawyers point to two passages in the article that they say clearly refer to Depp.
In the first passage, Heard writes that “two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture's wrath.” Depp's lawyers call it a clear reference to Depp, given that Heard publicly accused Depp of domestic violence in 2016 - two years before she wrote the article.
In a second passage, she states, “I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse.” (Depp's lawyers are also seeking damages over a headline that appeared above the online version of the article, even though Heard didn't write it.)
The jury, which has to come to a unanimous decision for a verdict, must decide whether those passages in the Post are defamatory. And the verdict form gives them step-by-step instructions on how to determine that.
Heard's lawyers say they have presented a mountain of evidence that Heard was abused. But they say that even if the jury were somehow to believe that she was never abused even a single time, she should still prevail in the lawsuit.
That's because libel law spells out several factors that must be considered. First, the alleged defamatory statements have to be about the plaintiff. Heard's lawyers said the article is not about Depp at all. He's not mentioned, and they say the focus is on Heard's experience about the aftermath of speaking out. Those statements remain objectively true even if she wasn't in fact abused, her lawyers contend.
Depp's lawyers, though, say the two passages are clear references to Depp, given the publicity that surrounded their 2016 divorce proceedings.
In addition, because Depp is a public figure, Heard can only be found guilty of libel if the jury decides that Heard acted with “actual malice,” which requires clear and convincing evidence that she either knew what she was writing was false or that she acted with reckless disregard for the truth.
Heard lawyer J. Benjamin Rottenborn said during Friday's closing arguments that Heard carefully reviewed drafts of the article - the first draft was written not by her, but by the American Civil Liberties Union - with her lawyers to make sure that what was written passed legal muster. Rottenborn said that fact alone is sufficient proof that she didn't act with actual malice.
As for the abuse itself, Depp's lawyers tried to suggest to the jury that if they think Heard is lying or embellishing any of her abuse claims, that she can't be trusted and that all of her abuse claims must be dismissed as untrustworthy.
“You either believe all of it, or none of it,” Vasquez said. “Either she is a victim of ugly, horrible abuse, or she is a woman who is willing to say absolutely anything.”
In Heard's closing, Rottenborn said the nitpicking over Heard's evidence of abuse ignores the fact there's overwhelming evidence on her behalf and sends a dangerous message to domestic-violence victims.
“If you didn't take pictures, it didn't happen,” Rottenborn said. “If you did take pictures, they're fake. If you didn't tell your friends, they're lying. If you did tell your friends, they're part of the hoax.”
And he rejected Vasquez's suggestion that if the jury thinks Heard might be embellishing on a single act of abuse that they have to disregard everything she says. He said Depp's libel claim must fail if Heard suffered even a single incident of abuse.
“They're trying to trick you into thinking Amber has to be perfect to win,” Rottenborn said.
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TORONTO -- Seasonal or higher than normal temperatures across much of the country will offer Canadians a chance to enjoy the summer, but predictions from a prominent national forecaster warn the humidity could welcome a rather stormy few months.
Chris Scott, chief meteorologist at The Weather Network, says the heat coupled with an active jet stream will lead to above normal precipitation that runs across the Prairies through to Ontario and Quebec.
While that “doesn't mean every day is going to be a wash-out,” Scott says he expects “some rather intense storms from time to time.”
Scott says Western Canada isn't shaping up to face the same conditions that led to last year's devastating heat wave and wildfires in British Columbia.
The westernmost province is expected to gradually emerge from a cool spring and into near-normal temperatures starting in June, which he says will drag out the snow melt and slow the start of wildfire season.
Across the Rockies, the extremes of springtime dryness in Alberta and floods in Manitoba will begin to even out, he said, as precipitation across the Prairies returns to more normal levels.
However, he noted the threat of drought conditions lingers in southern Alberta, which could be influenced by the “epic heat” expected to grip areas just south of the border.
“We'll have to watch exactly where that big heat dome sets up,” he said.
“This does set the stage for thunderstorms ... We can get big hail, big wind in the Prairies and we think this summer actually has a pretty good chance of having a few more of those big storms than usual.”
In Ontario and Quebec, most of the region is likely to experience a “very warm and humid summer” that doesn't quite touch the levels of last year's sweltering June.
“We're going to see a lot of warm weather, a lot of dry days,” he said, ahead of the start of the meteorological summer on June 1. The official start of summer is June 21.
“But when we get the setups for precipitation, just be extra vigilant this summer because we think these storms can really pack a punch.”
Scott doesn't anticipate a duplication of the “extremely rare” severe wind and thunderstorm that swept through Ontario and Quebec on May 21, but he urges Canadians - particularly campers - to be vigilant when it comes to fast-moving weather patterns.
The Atlantic provinces can expect above normal precipitation and above normal temperatures. Those factors suggest a very active hurricane season in the region, he said.
“We can't say exactly what storms do what; seasonal forecasts are a sketch,” he said.
“But it's a heads up if you're in Halifax or Yarmouth - wherever you are in Atlantic Canada and frankly back to Quebec and Ontario. Be aware of the situation, especially into July and August with the trend for tropical storms and hurricanes.”
Temperatures should be below normal in Yukon and Nunavut, while precipitation remains close to normal.
Around Hudson Bay, he said to expect above normal precipitation.
Scott noted that while extreme heat scenarios are on the rise and will continue in that direction, some of the recent phenomena around extreme weather events, such as severe thunderstorms, are harder to predict.
“We're getting more heat waves, absolutely 100 per cent. We're also getting less severe cold spells,” he noted.
“In between, you've got this mix of heavier rainfall, but then what's happening with severe wind and hail and tornadoes? We don't really know in that area. We may never because it's a very complex part of weather.”
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Seasonal or higher than normal temperatures across much of the country will offer Canadians a chance to enjoy the summer, but predictions from a prominent national forecaster warn the humidity could welcome a rather stormy few months.
Chris Scott, chief meteorologist at The Weather Network, says the heat coupled with an active jet stream will lead to above normal precipitation that runs across the Prairies through to Ontario and Quebec.
While that "doesn't mean every day is going to be a wash-out," Scott says he expects "some rather intense storms from time to time."
Scott says Western Canada isn't shaping up to face the same conditions that led to last year's devastating heat wave and wildfires in British Columbia.
The westernmost province is expected to gradually emerge from a cool spring and into near-normal temperatures starting in June, which he says will drag out the snow melt and slow the start of wildfire season.
Across the Rockies, the extremes of springtime dryness in Alberta and floods in Manitoba will begin to even out, he said, as precipitation across the Prairies returns to more normal levels.
However, he noted the threat of drought conditions lingers in southern Alberta, which could be influenced by the "epic heat" expected to grip areas just south of the border.
"We'll have to watch exactly where that big heat dome sets up," he said.
"This does set the stage for thunderstorms ... We can get big hail, big wind in the Prairies and we think this summer actually has a pretty good chance of having a few more of those big storms than usual."
In Ontario and Quebec, most of the region is likely to experience a "very warm and humid summer" that doesn't quite touch the levels of last year's sweltering June.
"We're going to see a lot of warm weather, a lot of dry days," he said, ahead of the start of the meteorological summer on June 1. The official start of summer is June 21.
"But when we get the setups for precipitation, just be extra vigilant this summer because we think these storms can really pack a punch."
Scott doesn't anticipate a duplication of the "extremely rare" severe wind and thunderstorm that swept through Ontario and Quebec on May 21, but he urges Canadians — particularly campers — to be vigilant when it comes to fast-moving weather patterns.
The Atlantic provinces can expect above normal precipitation and above normal temperatures. Those factors suggest a very active hurricane season in the region, he said.
"We can't say exactly what storms do what; seasonal forecasts are a sketch," he said.
"But it's a heads up if you're in Halifax or Yarmouth — wherever you are in Atlantic Canada and frankly back to Quebec and Ontario. Be aware of the situation, especially into July and August with the trend for tropical storms and hurricanes."
Temperatures should be below normal in Yukon and Nunavut, while precipitation remains close to normal.
Around Hudson Bay, he said to expect above normal precipitation.
Scott noted that while extreme heat scenarios are on the rise and will continue in that direction, some of the recent phenomena around extreme weather events, such as severe thunderstorms, are harder to predict.
"We're getting more heat waves, absolutely 100 per cent. We're also getting less severe cold spells," he noted.
"In between, you've got this mix of heavier rainfall, but then what's happening with severe wind and hail and tornadoes? We don't really know in that area. We may never because it's a very complex part of weather."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 31, 2022.
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The NHL's much-anticipated west final between the Oilers and Avalanche will get started Tuesday night in Denver with plenty of star power and intrigue on both sides.
Here are five things to know as we head into Game 1 of the Western Conference final:
GENERATIONAL MATCHUP
This year's Western Conference final is being hailed as a matchup between two of the game's brightest stars in Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers and Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche.
And rightfully so.
Over their careers, the two superstars have combined for 10 all-star appearances and 11 individual awards.
Both former first-overall draft picks — with MacKinnon going to Colorado in 2013 and McDavid to Edmonton in 2015 — they're each known for their game-breaking speed and skill as centremen of two of hockey's deadliest lines.
SECONDARY STUDS ON BOTH SIDES
While McDavid and MacKinnon are the headline-grabbers, they aren't the only stars that the Oilers and Avalanche boast.
Alongside McDavid is another fellow Hart Memorial Trophy winner in Leon Draisaitl, who has matched McDavid for the league lead in scoring this post-season with an astounding 26 in just 12 games.
As well, Evander Kane leads the playoffs with 12 goals, while Edmonton's second line has also been productive, with Zach Hyman producing 12 points and centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins tallying 11.
On the Avalanche side, while their numbers haven't been nearly as gaudy — MacKinnon has 13 points in 10 games — they're still a team with plenty of firepower up and down the lineup.
The best example of this would be in 23-year-old Norris trophy finalist Cale Makar, who has 13 points in the playoffs and is tied with MacKinnon for the team lead. The swift-skating defenceman finished with 86 points in the regular season.
Colorado's second line is powered by winger Mikko Rantanen, who led the Avs with 92 points the season, and centre Nazem Kadri, whose 87 points were just one back of MacKinnon's 88.
WILL OFFENCE REALLY DOMINATE SERIES AS EXPECTED?
The Oilers have averaged 4.33 goals per game in the playoffs while the Avalanche have averaged 4.30.
However, as dominant as both squads' offences have been, their defence, save for a couple outlier games, hasn't been lacking either/
Edmonton is allowing 3.08 goals per game this post-season while the Avs have been even better, conceding 2.70 goals per contest.
OILERS' PHYSICALITY COULD BE A CURSE
Edmonton's 156 penalty minutes are the most among active playoff teams.
The PIM numbers were mainly buoyed by their rough-and-tumble Battle of Alberta series with the Calgary Flames.
The Oilers could afford to take more penalties last round because they were up against an anemic Flames power play that converted on just 12.2 per cent of their opportunities.
Edmonton is more likely to get burned against the potent Avalanche attack.
Colorado leads the playoffs with a 34.5 power-play percentage.
MIKE SMITH'S MOMENT
As the age of 40, Edmonton netminder Mike Smith is playing some of the best hockey of his 16-year career.
In 12 games, Smith has put up a .927 save percentage and has outdueled former Conn Smythe winner Jonathan Quick and Vezina finalist Jacob Markstrom.
This is the third conference final that Smith has reached in his career. His last one came in 2012, when his Phoenix Coyotes fell to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 31, 2022.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers have recovered all 22 bodies from the site where a plane crashed on a mountainside in Nepal, the airline said Tuesday.
All the bodies were flown to Kathmandu and taken to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital where doctors are performing autopsies, Tara Air said in a statement.
The bodies will be handed over to relatives once autopsy is done, it said.
While 10 bodies were flown to Kathmandu on Monday, the remaining were brought by army helicopter on Tuesday. Relatives of the crash victims waited outside the hospital building for authorities to release the bodies.
The Tara Air turboprop Twin Otter aircraft lost contact with the airport tower Sunday while flying on a scheduled 20-minute flight in an area of deep river gorges and mountaintops.
Four Indians and two Germans were on the plane, Tara Air said. The three crew members and other passengers were Nepali nationals, it said.
Local news reports said the passengers included two Nepali families, one with four members and the other with seven.
The plane crashed Sunday in Sanosware in Mustang district close to the mountain town of Jomsom, where it was heading after taking off from the resort town of Pokhara, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu.
The plane’s destination is popular with foreign hikers who trek on its mountain trails, and with Indian and Nepalese pilgrims who visit the revered Muktinath temple.
The Twin Otter, a rugged plane originally built by Canadian aircraft manufacturer De Havilland, has been in service in Nepal for about 50 years, during which it has been involved in about 21 accidents, according to aviationnepal.com.
The plane, with its top-mounted wing and fixed landing gear, is prized for its durability and its ability to take off and land on short runways.
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LAWRENCE (KSNT) – A group of officers with the Lawrence Police Department decided to honor fallen military members this Memorial Day by pushing each other’s limits on Monday.
Among members of the U.S. military and veterans there exists a special way to pay homage to those who have served: The “Murph” Challenge. This intense exercise was named after former Navy Seal Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy who was killed in action in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005.
Murphy’s death has not only been memorialized through this challenge but has also been accomplished through film. The 2014 movie “Lone Survivor” features Murphy’s story as his character was played by Taylor Kitsch.
The workout includes:
- A one-mile run
- 100 pull-ups
- 200 push-ups
- 300 squats
- Another one-mile run
Lt. Murphy reportedly did this workout often according to Laura McCabe, Communications Manager with the LPD. After his death, the workout became a tradition among members of the military who are still active or veterans.
“That is the workout he used to do and apparently it’s a rough one,” McCabe said.
The three officers with the LPD who decided to undertake this legendary workout gathered at 5 a.m. and broke the exercises into sets, according to Officer Kelsey Pence who spoke with 27 News. The officers did 20 sets to complete the workout: Five pull-ups, 10 push-ups, and 15 squats.
“My dad was in the special forces,” Pence said. “We just did it to honor fallen military and that’s just a common workout among service members because of the history behind it.”
Pence was joined by officers Dean Kemppainen and Daniel Gray. Kemppainen has been a member of the LPD for 10 years and has been deployed to Iraq while Gray has been an officer for two and a half years and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Altogether, they were able to complete the Murph Challenge in an hour.
“We are extremely proud of the dedication and determination our officers show on a daily basis but especially on days like today when they feel personally inspired to honor those who’ve lost their lives in service,” McCabe said. “It hits very close to home for many officers. What a perfect – and healthy – way to show their respect and gratitude.”
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BRUSSELS (AP) — In the most significant effort yet to punish Russia for its war in Ukraine, the European Union agreed to ban the overwhelming majority of Russian oil imports after tense negotiations that exposed the cracks in European unity.
From the moment Russia invaded on Feb. 24, the West has sought to hit Moscow's lucrative energy sector to cut off funding for its war. But any such move is a double-edged sword, especially in Europe, which relies on the country for 25% of its oil and 40% of its natural gas. European countries that are even more heavily dependent on Russia have been especially reluctant to act.
In a move unthinkable just months ago, EU leaders agreed late Monday to cut around 90% of all Russian oil imports over the next six months.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo called the embargo a “big step forward” and Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin hailed it as “a watershed moment.” But both leaders cautioned that Europe would need time to adjust to the impact — and any further bans on Russian energy would come slowly.
The deputy head of Russia’s Security Council said Tuesday that energy sanctions against the country were intended to hurt ordinary Russians by making it harder for Moscow to fund social programs.
“They hate us all! The basis for these decisions is hatred for Russia, for Russians and for all its inhabitants,” Dmitry Medvedev, who is also a former president and prime minister, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, appeared to shrug the move off, though, saying Moscow would find other buyers.
Russia has also not shied away from withholding its energy supplies, despite the economic damage it could suffer as a result. Russian energy giant Gazprom said it cut natural gas supplies to Dutch trader GasTerra on Tuesday. It’s already turned the taps off to Bulgaria, Poland and Finland, and is considering doing the same to Denmark.
GasTerra said the move comes after it refused Gazprom’s “one-sided payment requirements.” That's a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demand that European nations pay for gas in rubles — an arrangement others have also refused. GasTerra said homes would not be hit as it had bought gas elsewhere in anticipation of a shutoff.
Talks at EU headquarters in Brussels were set Tuesday to focus on ways to end the trading bloc’s dependence on Russian energy, by diversifying supplies and speeding up the transition to renewable sources and away, as much as possible given soaring energy costs, from fossil fuels.
Leaders are also expected to discuss how to help Ukraine export millions of tons of grain trapped inside the country as a global food crisis grows.
EU leaders plan to call on Russia to halt its attacks on transport infrastructure in Ukraine and lift its blockade of Black Sea ports so that food can be shipped. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russia has prevented the export of 22 million tons of grain, much of it meant for people across the Middle East and Africa. He accused Moscow of “deliberately creating this problem.”
In other developments:
— Russian forces have seized around half of a key city in eastern Ukraine, according to the mayor. Analysts have painted the battle for Sievierodonetsk as part of a race against time for the Kremlin: The city is key to Russian efforts to quickly complete the capture of the eastern industrial region of the Donbas before more Western arms arrive to bolster Ukraine's defense.
— A court in Ukraine convicted two Russian soldiers on Tuesday of war crimes for the shelling of civilian buildings. It sentenced both to 11 1/2 years in prison, concluding the country’s second war crime trial held since the Russian invasion.
The EU oil embargo, tied up in a new package of sanctions that will also target Russia's biggest bank and state media outlets accused of spreading propaganda, covers crude oil and petroleum products but has an exception for oil delivered by pipeline.
That exception was demanded by Hungarian Prime minister Viktor Orban, who made it clear that he could only support the new sanctions if his country’s oil supply security was guaranteed. Hungary gets more than 60% of its oil from Russia, much of it through the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline.
The EU estimated that would mean around 90% of Russian oil is banned by the end of the year. That figure includes a ban on all Russian oil delivered by sea — which accounts for two-thirds of the EU's imports — plus a decision by Germany and Poland to stop using oil from the northern branch of the Druzhba pipeline.
The sanctions package must still be finalized in coming days — and the leaders said the exemption for crude delivered by pipeline will be reviewed “as soon as possible," though they did not specify when.
The compromise laid bear the increasing difficulty of reaching consensus among EU leaders when important national interests are in play — and the ways in which Hungary has emerged as thorn in the bloc's side.
But despite the struggles, the sanctions package — the sixth targeting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — was agreed in about a month, quite quickly for 27 countries with very different national interests.
Agreeing on another round of measures is likely to prove much tougher — especially because next on the docket is whether to target natural gas, which is much harder to cut off. That's because it represents a larger percentage of Europe's energy mix.
The compromise came after Zelenskyy urged leaders again to target Russia's oil.
Only once Moscow “feels the price for what it is doing against Ukraine” will it be forced to “start seeking peace,” he said in a video address.
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Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, contributed to this report.
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BOLIVIA, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who won a $10 million lottery prize in 2017 has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2020 fatal shooting of his girlfriend.
The News & Observer reported that 54-year-old Michael Todd Hill was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced Friday in the killing of 23-year-old Keonna Graham.
Graham was reported missing on July 20, 2020.
She was later found dead in a hotel with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Prosecutors said Hill confessed to killing Graham.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's longtime parliament speaker who has held the post for 30 years, was reelected Tuesday for a seventh four-year term with the minimum number of votes required and despite multiple crises plaguing the nation.
Still, the slim majority in favor of Nabih Berri was a reflection of a significant shift in public opinion in the crumbling economy on the verge of bankruptcy. His reelection was practically guaranteed — even though more than a dozen new lawmakers won seats running on a reform platform.
The new legislature is being ushered in as Lebanon remains in the grip of the worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history, rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by the ruling class, which has been running the country since the end of the civil war.
To most Lebanese, Berri, an 84-year-old former warlord, is a symbol of this entrenched sectarian-based political system and ruling class, which continues to hold despite rising discontent and the newly elected, reform-minded lawmakers.
As leader of the Shiite Amal movement, which is closely allied with the militant Hezbollah group, Berri is virtually untouchable. The two parties hold all 27 seats allotted to Shiites in parliament under Lebanon's power-sharing system.
The May 15 election was the first since Lebanon's economic crisis began in late 2019 with nationwide mass protests against the political class. Since then, the Lebanese currency has collapsed, banks have clamped down on depositors' money and the country's foreign currency reserves have dwindled to barely enough to purchase essentials such as fuel and medicine amid severe shortages.
The new parliament is deeply divided with no coalition holding a majority. Hezbollah and its allies lost the dominance they had held since 2018, and now hold 61 seats — four short of an absolute majority in the 128-seat chamber.
Berri was elected with 65 votes in favor — the lowest number he has ever received over the past three decades. There were 23 blank ballots and 40 were annulled. In 2000, Berri gor 124 votes in the assembly and in 2018, 98.
“My hand is extended to everyone who wants to cooperate with good faith to save Lebanon,” Berri said as celebratory gunfire by his supporters rang out across parts of Beirut. He had issued a statement on Monday calling on his supporters to abstain from the traditional firing in the air.
“Mr. Speaker, shooting is ongoing outside,” quipped legislator Sammy Gemayel, interrupting Berri as he spoke. Berri responded: “I issued a statement, what can I do?
The 13 independent candidates, drawn from the 2019 protest movement, and some of the Christian parties in parliament have said they will not vote for Berri, leaving him with a much slimmer support, mainly from Shiite parties belonging to the Hezbollah-led coalition. The powerful Berri was the only candidate for the post of speaker, which under Lebanon’s power-sharing agreement is held by a Shiite.
Ahead of the session, some of the independents and new legislators gathered outside Beirut’s port — the scene of a massive explosion in August 2020 that killed more than 200 people — and met with families of the victims who perished in the blast. After the meeting, they walked to Parliament, surrounded by hundreds of supporters chanting “thawra,” revolution in Arabic.
Independent legislator Mark Daou, who won a seat from the Beirut municipality, entered the parliament building carrying a large poster with photographs of those killed in the blast.
“This is a moment of change in Lebanon. There is a new political group that represents a big part of Lebanese society that has taken a sizable bloc in parliament and will change the dynamics that we’ve had and that destroyed the country since the Civil War,” he told The Associated Press ahead of the session.
The investigation into the port explosion, when hundreds of tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate detonated, has been stalled for months amid legal challenges by officials charged by the investigative judge.
“Beirut has the right to know who killed her,” said independent legislator Yassin Yassin, in a reference to the bungled probe.
Reflecting the divisions in parliament, many of the annulled ballots Tuesday had slogans written on them such as “justice for the victims of the port blast” and “justice for Loqman Slim,” an anti-Hezbollah Shiite political activist who was found shot in his car last year.
The presence of the independent lawmakers in the legislature is a major achievement — they went into the vote fragmented and faced intimidation and threats by entrenched mainstream parties.
It sends a strong message to politicians who have for decades held on to their seats and continue to do so despite the economic meltdown, which has impoverished Lebanon and triggered the biggest wave of emigration since the 1975-90 civil war.
Tuesday's session reflected the legislature's divisions between pro- and anti-Hezbollah lawmakers who will likely find it difficult to work together to form a new government and enact desperately needed reforms.
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BEIJING (AP) — Shanghai authorities say they will take some major steps Wednesday toward reopening China's largest city after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown that has throttled the national economy and largely bottled up millions of people in their homes.
Full bus and subway service will be restored as will basic rail connections with the rest of China, Vice Mayor Zong Ming said Tuesday at a daily news conference on the city's outbreak.
"The epidemic has been effectively controlled,” she said, adding that the city will start the process of fully restoring work and life on Wednesday.
Schools will partially reopen on a voluntary basis for students and shopping malls, supermarkets, convenience stores and drug stores will continue to reopen gradually with no more than 75% of their total capacity. Cinemas and gyms will remain closed.
Officials, who set June 1 as the target date for reopening earlier in May, appear ready to accelerate what has been a gradual easing in recent days. A few malls and markets have reopened, and some residents have been given passes allowing them out for a few hours at a time. In online chat groups, some expressed excitement about the prospect of being able to move about freely in the city for the first time since the end of March, while others remained cautious given the slow pace and stop-and-go nature of opening up so far.
Workers were taking down some of the barriers that had been erected along sidewalks during the lockdown. A few people walked or biked on the still mostly empty streets. One man was getting his hair cut on the sidewalk, as a worker or volunteer in full protective clothing looked on.
More than half a million people in the city of 25 million won't be allowed out Wednesday — 190,000 who are still in lockdown areas and another 450,000 who are in control zones because of recent cases.
Shanghai recorded 29 new cases on Monday, continuing a steady decline from more than 20,000 a day in April. Li Qiang, the top official from China's ruling Communist Party in Shanghai, at a meeting Monday was quoted as saying that the city had made major achievements in fighting the outbreak through continuous struggle.
The success came at a price. Authorities imposed a suffocating citywide lockdown under China's “zero-COVID” strategy that aims to snuff out any outbreak with mass testing and isolation at centralized facilities of anyone who is infected.
However, the latest economic data showed that Chinese manufacturing activity started to rebound in May as the government rolled back some containment measures.
Schools will reopen for the final two years of high school and the third year of middle school, but students can decide whether to attend in person. Other grades and kindergarten remain closed.
Outdoor tourist sites will start reopening Wednesday, with indoor sites set to follow in late June, the Shanghai tourism authority said. Group tours from other provinces will be allowed again when the city has eliminated all high- and medium-risk pandemic zones.
Beijing, the nation's capital, further eased restrictions Tuesday in some districts. The city imposed limited lockdowns, but nothing near a citywide level, in a much smaller outbreak that appears to be on the wane. Beijing recorded 18 new cases on Monday.
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ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – A new study from Washington University in St. Louis says inappropriate antibiotics cause serious medical conditions for children, resulting in at least $74 million in excess health care costs in the United States.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, antibiotics “ONLY treat certain infections caused by bacteria.”
Even so, antibiotics are a common prescription for children.
“There is a general sense that antibiotics are benign, but, in fact, antibiotics are not benign,” said Dr. Anne Mobley Butler, an epidemiologist and assistant professor of infectious diseases at Washington University.
Past studies looked at a few hundred children and their antibiotic use, while Washington University researchers looked at 2.8 million children in the U.S. They examined insurance company claims to determine the cost of excess care and the negative side effects on children.
“The children who received inappropriate antibiotics had a higher risk of several complications, including skin rash, diarrhea … and a dangerous intestinal infection,” Butler said.
Children who were prescribed unsuitable antibiotics in outpatient settings such as doctors’ offices and urgent care centers were up to eight times more likely to develop complications.
“For influenza, we only saw about 4% of children receive antibiotics inappropriately. For bronchitis, we saw that 70% of children received antibiotics inappropriately,” Butler said.
The bottom line of the study is more education is needed for doctors and health care professionals in outpatient settings on guidelines for prescribing antibiotics and that parents should question pediatricians about their prescriptions
“When parents bring their children to the pediatrician’s office with a common bacterial or viral infection, they should feel empowered to ask questions and say my understanding is that we don’t need antibiotics for viral infection,” Butler said.
Many hospitals have stewardship programs for doctors and health care workers to learn about the appropriate use of antibiotics. Such programs are less common in outpatient settings.
The CDC says there are some common bacterial infections that don’t need antibiotics, including many sinus infections and some ear infections, since those ailments typically get better on their own.
“Taking antibiotics when they’re not needed won’t help you, and their side effects can still cause harm,” the CDC stated.
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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Russian forces in a “frenzied push” have seized half of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk that is key to Moscow's efforts to quickly complete the capture of the industrial Donbas region, the mayor told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
“The city is essentially being destroyed ruthlessly block by block,” Oleksandr Striuk said. He said heavy street fighting continues and artillery bombardments threaten the lives of the estimated 13,000 civilians still sheltering in the ruined city that once was home to more than 100,000.
It's impossible to track civilian casualties amid the round-the-clock shelling, said the mayor, who believes that more than 1,500 residents have died of various causes since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February. Evacuation efforts from Sievierodonetsk have been halted because of shelling.
“Civilians are dying from direct strikes, from fragmentation wounds and under the rubble of destroyed buildings, since most of the inhabitants are hiding in basements and shelters,” Striuk said.
Electricity to the city has been cut off and people need water, food and medicine, the mayor said: “There are food supplies for several more days, but the issue is how to distribute them.”
Sievierodonetsk is important to Russian efforts to capture the Donbas before more Western arms arrive to bolster Ukraine's defense. Moscow-backed separatists already held territory in the region and have been fighting Ukrainian troops for eight years.
Military analysts described the fight for Sievierodonetsk as part of a race against time for the Kremlin. The city. which is 145 kilometers (90 miles) south of the Russian border, is in an area that is the last pocket of Ukrainian government control in the Luhansk region.
In his nightly video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the situation in the Donbas remains “extremely difficult” as Russia has put its army's “maximum combat power” there.
At least three people were killed and six more wounded overnight in a Russian missile strike on the city of Sloviansk, west of Sievierodonetsk, Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a Facebook post on Tuesday morning. A school was among several buildings damaged. A crater marked the road between two apartment buildings heavily pockmarked by shrapnel.
Blood smeared the floor and stairwell of one building.
Resident Olena Voytenko, 59, said she knew one of the people killed, a man whose apartment caught fire in the blast. She believes he burned to death.
Another resident, Mikhaylo Samoluk, said the strike occurred roughly after 1:30 a.m.
“I was on my sofa and suddenly my sofa just jumped in the air,” he said.
In neighboring Luhansk, two people were killed and four were wounded by shelling, Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said Tuesday on Telegram. Haidai didn't specify when or where the attack occurred.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – It’s legal in nearly all of Missouri’s surrounding states to place a wager on college and professional sports teams, but the chips are stacked against the Show Me State.
The odds of legalizing sports betting at the beginning of the session in January were high, but once May rolled around, Missourians placing bets on their favorite sports teams became a long shot. Some of it is due to Senate Republicans not agreeing. Some are already working on a plan for next year.
“You’re going to have unfinished business,” Senate Majority Leader Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) said. “You don’t get to do 15 big things in a year. It’s just never going to be that way.”
Legally betting on the Kansas City Chiefs or the St. Louis Cardinals has been put on hold for another year in Missouri. Back in March, the House passed legislation to allow anyone 21 and older to legally place wagers on colleges and professional sports teams online or at side sports venues and casinos.
Back in 2018, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law against sports betting. Since then, roughly 30 states have legalized it, including Illinois. Earlier this month, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed legislation into law, legalizing it in the Sunflower State. Missouri’s governor says he’s indifferent.
“It depends whether you want sports betting or not, whether it’s a failure,” Gov. Mike Parson said. “I mean, I don’t know about that. Everybody has an opinion and whether it goes through the legislative process, that’s up to the legislators. I don’t know if that’s disappointing one way or another.”
Members, especially Republicans, in the upper chamber couldn’t find a path forward. A big hurdle is what to do with video lottery games like slot machines.
“The attorney general has turned a blind eye to this issue and lets this continue on,” Senate President Dave Schatz (R-Sullivan) said. “There are millions of dollars every day going through that’s not getting into the hands of the taxpaying base in this state that should be going to education.”
Lawmakers call them “grey” machines. It’s been a priority for Schatz over the years to get rid of the unregulated illegal slot machines that have been popping up in gas stations. These slot machines contain no consumer protections and can say that someone will win two out of every 100 times, but there are no laws regulating that.
“There are people who are living off the backs of people that are benefiting from illegal gaming on the 25,000 plus games that are going on throughout this state right now,” Schatz said. “If I’m disappointed in one thing that didn’t get done, that’s one thing that needs to be stopped in this state.”
Sen. Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg) has been filing legislation and working to legalize sports betting for years in the Show Me State. He says there are roughly 20,000 “grey” machines in Missouri. In the Senate’s version of the bill, 5,000 video lottery games would be allowed in the state with no more than seven per location in truck stops, fraternal and veterans clubs, and the entertainment districts around the six sports venues where the state’s professional teams play.
Shortly after the debate started, an amendment offered by Sen. Mike Bernskoetter (R-Jefferson City) would remove those lines from the bill, doing away with all slot machines. This is where debate ended in the Senate and with session now over, leaving members until next year to try again.
Another barrier to sports betting in the upper chamber – the tax rate on wagers. The Senate’s version increased the wagering tax to 10% compared to the 8% the House approved. Hoskins said that during discussions in the final weeks with stakeholders, it wasn’t enough for the casinos.
“The casinos want a golden ticket,” Hoskins said. “They want all the revenue to themselves and don’t want to provide the kind of revenue we need to help fund our veterans’ homes. Casinos basically killed this because of their greed.”
He said casinos were offered a 15% rate during the final hours of session but wouldn’t accept it. Compared to Missouri’s surrounding states, Illinois’ is up to 17%, Nebraska and Tennessee are 20% and Arkansas is between 13% and 20%, according to Hoskins.
“I think we’re going to see a lot of states realize that the casinos are getting really rich on this and it’s causing a lot of problems that those stakeholders, such as casinos, are not paying into the state to help out mental health when in regard to problem gambling,” Hoskins said.
Other Republicans in the Senate, think expanding gambling only causes more burden on the state.
“This is detrimental to society,” Sen. Bill White, R-Joplin said. “How many more people are we going to have that are going to need some sort of assistance because someone spent a little too much money on any of these forms of gambling?”
White said he also sees “grey” slot machines at gas stations when he stops on his drive from Joplin to Jefferson City.
“What are the social costs dealing with this?” White said. “How much money isn’t going home.”
Hoskins said all of Missouri’s professional sports teams were on board with legalizing sports betting, but it was the casinos who weren’t. He’s going to use the summer to talk with stakeholders on both sides, with the goal of lawmakers addressing the topic again next year.
According to the National Council on Problem Gambling, around 92,000 Missourians are currently struggling with a gambling problem, ranking Missouri 33rd out of 50 states. Last year, there were 4,000 calls and texts to the National Problem Gambling Hotline from Missouri.
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(CNN) -- Supreme Court officials are escalating their search for the source of the leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, taking steps to require law clerks to provide cell phone records and sign affidavits, three sources with knowledge of the efforts have told CNN.
Some clerks are apparently so alarmed over the moves, particularly the sudden requests for private cell data, that they have begun exploring whether to hire outside counsel.
The court's moves are unprecedented and the most striking development to date in the investigation into who might have provided Politico with the draft opinion it published on May 2. The probe has intensified the already high tensions at the Supreme Court, where the conservative majority is poised to roll back a half-century of abortion rights and privacy protections.
Chief Justice John Roberts met with law clerks as a group after the breach, CNN has learned, but it is not known whether any systematic individual interviews have occurred.
Lawyers outside the court who have become aware of the new inquiries related to cell phone details warn of potential intrusiveness on clerks' personal activities, irrespective of any disclosure to the news media, and say they may feel the need to obtain independent counsel.
"That's what similarly situated individuals would do in virtually any other government investigation," said one appellate lawyer with experience in investigations and knowledge of the new demands on law clerks. "It would be hypocritical for the Supreme Court to prevent its own employees from taking advantage of that fundamental legal protection."
Sources familiar with efforts underway say the exact language of the affidavits or the intended scope of that cell phone search -- content or time period covered -- is not yet clear.
The Supreme Court did not respond to a CNN request on Monday for comment related to the phone searches and affidavits.
The young lawyers selected to be law clerks each year are regarded as the elite of the elite. (Each justice typically hires four.) They are overwhelmingly graduates of Ivy League law schools and have had prior clerkships with prominent US appellate court judges.
Their one-year service becomes a golden ticket to prestigious law firms, top government jobs or professorships. Six of the current nine Supreme Court justices are former clerks.
The escalating scrutiny of law clerks reflects Roberts' concerns about the breach in confidentiality and possibly further leaks. It also suggests the court has been so far unsuccessful in determining Politico's source.
Roberts ordered the investigation on May 3, designating the court's marshal, Gail Curley, to lead the probe.
Curley, a lawyer and former Army colonel, oversees the police officers at the building. She is best known to the public as the person who chants, "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!" at the beginning of the justices' oral argument sessions. The marshal's office would not normally examine the details of cell phone data or engage in a broad-scale investigation of personnel.
The investigation comes at the busiest time in the court's annual term, when relations among the justices are already taut. Assisted by their law clerks, the justices are pressing toward late June deadlines, trying to resolve differences in the toughest cases, all with new pressures and public scrutiny.
Because of protests and security concerns related to the Mississippi abortion case, the court building is surrounded by an 8-foot non-scalable fence and concrete barriers.
The justices are also resolving a New York dispute that could, based on their remarks during oral arguments in November, expand Second Amendment protection for gun owners. Additionally, the court could further lower the wall of separation between church and state by permitting certain prayer at public schools and requiring public vouchers for religious institutions.
The draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was written by Justice Samuel Alito and appeared to have a five-justice majority to completely reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. That landmark ruling made abortion legal nationwide and buttressed other privacy interests not expressly stated in the Constitution. Some law professors have warned that if Roe is reversed, the Supreme Court's 2015 decision declaring a constitutional right to same-sex marriage could be in jeopardy.
Publication of the Alito draft opinion has already prompted national protests and dueling state legislative efforts -- to further eliminate all options for a woman seeking to terminate a pregnancy or, alternatively, to try to safeguard women's access to abortion where possible.
But it is difficult for anyone outside the building to know whether the Alito draft still commands a majority on a court tightly divided on abortion rights and split over how quickly to reverse precedent.
Scrutiny of a secretive group
As the justices continue their secret negotiations, the scrutiny of the law clerks is heating up.
The clerks have been the subject of much of the outside speculation over who might have disclosed the draft, but they are not the only insiders who had access. Alito's opinion, labeled a first draft and dated February 10, would have been circulated to the nine justices, their clerks, and key staffers within each justice's chambers and select administrative offices.
If tradition was followed, copies were sent electronically and, separately, printed out and hand-delivered to chambers by aides to the marshal.
Other employees connected to the nine chambers would have had some access to the opinion. CNN could not verify that number, but former law clerks say the document could have been sent through regular channels to nearly 75 people. It is not known if court officials are asking employees who are part of the permanent staff, beyond the one-year law clerks, for their phone records.
Cell phones, of course, hold an enormous amount of information, related to personal interactions, involving all manner of content, texts and images, as well as apps used. It is uncertain whether details linked only to calls would be sought or whether a broader retrieval would occur.
There are protocols for handling drafts of court opinions, which circulate electronically on a closed system, separate from the computer system the justices and court employees use to communicate with people outside the court. Yet it is possible for printed copies to leave the building under even innocent circumstances, as work is taken home.
Court officials are secretive even in normal times. No progress reports related to the leak investigation have been made public, and it is not clear whether any report from the probe will ever be released.
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INDIANAPOLIS – It’s payday for the Indy 500 field of 33.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway handed out the prize money at the Victory Celebration at the JW Marriott downtown on Monday.
The total purse this year was just over $16 million becoming the largest payout in the race’s history, topping the $14.4 million awarded in 2008.
The biggest check went to the new champion, Marcus Ericsson, who earned $3.1 million for the victory, the largest winner’s payout ever.
“The Indianapolis 500 is the greatest race in the world, and these drivers lay it all on the line for a chance to drink the winner’s milk and kiss the famous Yard of Bricks,” speedway owner Roger Penske said in a release. “This year’s record-setting purse is reflective of their tireless pursuit of history and the world-class talent they display on every lap.”
Runner-up Pato O’Ward took home $1 million, the largest second-place prize in almost a decade.
Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion and four-time Brickyard 400 winner Jimmie Johnson won Rookie of the Year honors earning an extra $50,000 for a total prize of $207,900. Johnson qualified 12th and led two laps before a late crash dropped him to a 28th place finish.
The average payout for the drivers was $485,000.
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2 women missing after group on rafts, paddleboards went over dam in James River
RICHMOND, Va. - Officials in Virginia say two women are missing after a group of people in rafts and on paddleboards went over the Bosher Dam on the James River.
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WWBT-TV reports that 12 people were involved in the accident Monday afternoon.
One of them managed to get out of the river and reach a nearby house for help.
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Assistant Fire Chief Jeffrey Segal said kayakers in the area helped rescue nine more.
But Segal said two women in their 20s are unaccounted for despite a very thorough search. They planned to keep looking Tuesday morning.
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3 dead in head-on crash in Stafford County
STAFFORD, Va. - Three people are dead after a Memorial Day weekend crash involving two vehicles in Stafford County.
Police say the head collision happened around 7:39 p.m. Sunday near Austin Ridge Drive and Shields Road.
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Both drivers and a passenger were killed.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman at a Texas elementary school — even as parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside — has been placed with the school district's homegrown police chief.
It's left residents in the small city of Uvalde struggling to reconcile what they know of the well-liked local lawman after the director of state police said that the commander at the scene — Pete Arredondo — made the “wrong decision” last week not to breach a classroom at Robb Elementary School sooner, believing the gunman was barricaded inside and children weren’t at risk.
Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said at the Friday news conference that after following the gunman into the building, officers waited over an hour to breach the classroom. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the shooting.
Arredondo, who grew up in Uvalde and graduated from high school here, was set to be sworn in Tuesday to his new spot on the City Council after being elected earlier this month, but Mayor Don McLaughlin said in a statement Monday that wouldn't happen. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the swearing-in would happen privately or at a later date.
“Pete Arredondo was duly elected to the City Council,” McLaughlin said in the statement. “There is nothing in the City Charter, Election Code, or Texas Constitution that prohibits him from taking the oath of office."
The 50-year-old Arredondo has spent much of a nearly 30-year career in law enforcement in Uvalde, returning in 2020 to take the head police job at the school district.
When Arredondo was a boy, Maria Gonzalez used to drive him and her children to the same school where the shooting happened. “He was a good boy,” she said.
“He dropped the ball maybe because he did not have enough experience. Who knows? People are very angry," Gonzalez said.
Another woman in the neighborhood where Arredondo grew up began sobbing when asked about him. The woman, who didn't want to give her name, said one of her granddaughters was at the school during the shooting but wasn't hurt.
Juan Torres, a U.S. Army veteran who was visibly upset with reports coming out about the response, said he knew Arredondo from high school.
“You sign up to respond to those kinds of situations” Torres said. “If you are scared, then don’t be a police officer. Go flip burgers.”
After his election to the City Council, Arredondo told the Uvalde Leader-News earlier this month that he was “ready to hit the ground running.”
“I have plenty of ideas, and I definitely have plenty of drive,” he said, adding he wanted to focus not only on the city being fiscally responsible but also making sure street repairs and beautification projects happen.
At a candidates’ forum before his election, Arredondo said: “I guess to me nothing is complicated. Everything has a solution. That solution starts with communication. Communication is key.”
McCraw said Friday that minutes after the gunman entered the school, city police officers entered through the same door. Over the course of more than an hour, law enforcement from multiple agencies arrived on the scene. Finally, officials said, a U.S. Border Patrol tactical team used a janitor’s key to unlock the classroom door and kill the gunman.
McCraw said that students and teachers had repeatedly begged 911 operators for help while Arredondo told more than a dozen officers to wait in a hallway. That directive — which goes against established active-shooter protocols — prompted questions about whether more lives were lost because officers didn’t act faster.
Two law enforcement officials have said that as the gunman fired at students, law enforcement officers from other agencies urged Arredondo to let them move in because children were in danger, The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they had not been authorized to talk publicly about the investigation.
Arredondo started out his career in law enforcement working for the Uvalde Police Department. After spending 16 years there, he went to Laredo, a border city located 130 miles (209 kilometers) miles to the south, where he worked at the Webb County Sheriff's Office and then for a local school district, according to a 2020 article in the Uvalde Leader-News on his return to his hometown to take the school district police chief job.
Ray Garner, the police chief of the district in Laredo where Arredondo worked, told the San Antonio Express-News in a story published after the Uvalde shooting that when Arredondo worked in the Laredo district he was “easy to talk to" and was concerned about the students.
"He was an excellent officer down here,” Garner told the newspaper . “Down here, we do a lot of training on active-shooter scenarios, and he was involved in those.”
Arredondo, who spoke only briefly at two short news conferences on the day of the shooting, appeared behind state officials speaking at news conferences over the next two days, but was not present at McCraw’s Friday news conference.
After that news conference, members of the media converged at Arredondo's home and police cruisers took up posts there. At one point, a man answering the door at Arredondo's house told a reporter for The Associated Press that Arredondo was “indisposed.”
“The truth will come out,” said the man before closing the door.
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat whose district includes Uvalde, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he's asking a lot of questions after “so many things went wrong.”
He said one family told him that a first responder told them that their child, who was shot in the back, likely bled out. “So, absolutely, these mistakes may have led to the passing away of these children as well,” Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez said while issue of which law enforcement agency had or should have had operational control is a “significant” concern of his, he's also “suggested” to McCraw "that it’s not fair to put it on the local (school district) cop.”
“At the end of the day, everybody failed here," Gutierrez said.
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Associated Press writer Stengle contributed from Dallas, and also contributing were Curt Anderson in Miami, Jim Vertuno in Austin, Mike Balsamo in Washington and Elliott Spagat in Uvalde.
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Group of teens trespassing on railroad narrowly dodge oncoming train
TORONTO - Hair-raising footage shows the moment a group of teenagers who trespassed on a rail bridge in Toronto, Canada narrowly dodged an oncoming train on Friday, May 20.
According to Metrolinx, a Milton Line GO Train was crossing a river overpass when it came dangerously close to hitting the group of trespassers.
One of them was "clinging to the fence on the edge of the bridge," the agency reported.
The train crew spotted two other teens on the track looking as if to "outrun the train."
"Incidents like this are too often tragic and life-altering – not only for loved ones but for the crew and first responders involved," Metrolinx said. "The train crew slammed on their emergency brakes and blasted their horn." The train missed one of the boys by only a foot, Metrolinx said.
Thankfully the teens are safe, but crossing a railroad or trespassing on it can have serious consequences.
More than 100 Canadians a year are seriously injured or killed while crossing or trespassing on railways, according to Operation Lifesaver.
In the U.S., more than 400 trespass fatalities and nearly as many injuries along railroads occur each year, according to the Department of Transportation.
Here are some tips to stay safe near railways, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.
- Trains do not follow a set schedule, so they can come at any time of day from either direction.
- A train traveling at 55 MPH can take more than a mile to stop.
- Trains overhang railroad tracks by three feet or more on either side. Even when you are not standing directly on the tracks, you risk being hit by a train by being on railroad property.
- Despite their size, trains are relatively quiet and do not always sound warning horns when approaching a crossing.
- Never attempt to walk under, around or between train cars, even when a train is at a complete stop.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Thousands of homes in the metro are without power as storms pass through Tuesday morning.
According to Evergy’s outage map, areas near Oak Park High School, Gladstone and Ravenwood are seeing over 5,000 people combined without power.
To the south, another near 2,000 people are without power near Bannister Road and Blue River Road.
Evergy confirmed that the outages are storm related and they have crews in all areas working to restore the power.
On the Kansas side, there is a smaller pocket of outages near Roeland Park where about 42 people are without power.
Storms are forecasted to continue throughout the morning with a break coming around midday, before they return, mostly to the south of the metro.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd legend Ronnie Van Zant's childhood home put up for sale
The house in Jacksonville, Florida where Lynyrd Skynyrd rock legend Ronnie Van Zant and his brothers Donnie and Johnny grew up is now up for sale.
The home is on the market for $629,000 and comes with eight lots, a fourplex home and a manufactured home.
The property also includes a historical marker that was placed in the front yard in 2018. The sign reads, "The Van Zants’ legacy, memorialized in this house, commemorates their prodigious contribution to the world of rock music."
"That house was our life, that neighborhood was our neighborhood," Johnny Van Zant said in 2018. "We all learned how to play drums in that house, we all learned how to swing on the swing-set out there — that’s where we learned to sing. We didn’t have 700 channels like today. We didn’t have nothing but four channels. We weren’t super rich."
According to property records, Blue Horizon Property Solutions purchased the home in 2015 for $67,500.
Ronnie Van Zant and friends from the west Jacksonville neighborhood formed Lynyrd Skynyrd in the 1960s, and the band became Southern Rock superstars in the 1970s. He and several others died in a plane crash in 1977.
His brother Johnny Van Zant has been the lead singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd since 1987.
FILE - Rickey Medlocke, Johny Van Zant and Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd perform on stage at Resorts World Arena on June 30, 2019, in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Steve Thorne/Redferns)
And brother Donnie Van Zant founded another 1970s rock band, .38 Special, but hearing problems forced him to retire in 2013.
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Johnny and Donnie both still live in northeast Florida.
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Man drowns after jumping into Potomac River near Woodrow Wilson Bridge, officials say
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - Authorities say a man drowned after he jumped into the Potomac River near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Monday.
Maryland Natural Resources Police say the incident happened around 6 p.m. in an area of the water south of the bridge.
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Officials say a 37-year-old man jumped into the water from an anchored vessel and immediately began calling for help. He was thrown a life jacket but was unable to put it on before he went unconscious.
The man was pulled from the water by a good Samaritan who attempted CPR before emergency crews arrived. The man was later pronounced dead.
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It was a dangerous Memorial Day on the water across the D.C. region. Authorities say a man drowned in the water near Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis Monday afternoon. In the Richmond area two women have gone missing after a group in rafts and paddleboards went over the Bosher Dam on the James River.
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Suspected homicide in Fairfax County after body found in wooded area: police
RESTON, Va. - Authorities are investigating a suspected homicide after the body of a man was found in a wooded area in Fairfax County.
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The body was found Tuesday morning in the 12000 block of Greywing Square in Reston.
Police say the man was found with trauma to his body.
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Uvalde grieves at funerals for 19 children, 2 teachers after Texas shooting
UVALDE, Texas - It should have been the first day of a joyous week for Robb Elementary School students — the start of summer break. Instead, the first two of 19 children slain inside a classroom were being remembered at funeral visitations.
The gathering for 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza was at Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home on Monday in Uvalde, Texas, directly across from the grade school where the children, along with two teachers, were shot to death last week before the gunman himself was killed. Visitation for another 10-year-old, Maite Rodriguez, was at the town's other funeral home.
Over the next two-and-a-half traumatic weeks, people in the southwestern Texas town will say goodbye to the children and their teachers, one heart-wrenching visitation, funeral and burial after another. As family and friends unleash their grief, investigators will push for answers about how police responded to the May 24 shooting, and lawmakers have said they'll consider what can be done to stem the gun violence permeating the nation.
This week alone, funerals are planned for 11 children and teacher Irma Garcia.
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On Monday, some mourners at Amerie’s visitation wore lilac or lavender shades of purple — Amerie’s favorites — at the request of her father, Angel Garza. Many carried in flowers, including purple ones.
The little girl who loved to draw had just received a cellphone for her 10th birthday. One of her friends told Angel Garza that Amerie tried to use the phone to call police during the assault on her fourth-grade classroom.
People arrive to pay their respects during visitation for Amerie Jo Garza at Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home on May 30, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Among the mourners at Amerie's visitation were some of Maite's relatives. Like many people, they were attending both.
Maite's family wore green tie-dye shirts with an illustration showing Maite with angel wings. Before going into the funeral home, they stopped at the ditch to see the metal gate gunman Salvador Ramos crashed a pickup truck into before crossing a field and entering the school.
"How did he walk for so long?" asked Juana Magaña, Maite's aunt.
Hillcrest Memorial itself and the shooting will be forever linked. After Ramos wrecked the truck, two men at the funeral home heard the crash and ran toward the accident scene. Ramos shot at them. He missed and both men made it to safety.
Eliahna "Ellie" Garcia’s funeral will be June 6 — the day after she was supposed to turn 10. Her family had been preparing a big birthday bash at her grandmother’s house this coming weekend. She had been hoping to receive gifts related to the Disney movie "Encanto."
"She loved that movie and talked a lot about it," said her aunt, Siria Arizmendi.
Ellie was quiet even around family but loved doing videos and had been already practicing with her older sister a choreography for her quinceañera party — the celebration of a girl's 15th birthday — even though it was still five years away, Arizmendi said.
Ellie's older sister is doing OK, Arizmendi said, understanding their family and others face a long road to recovery.
"It is just sad for all the children," she said.
Funeral directors, embalmers and others from across Texas arrived to help. Jimmy Lucas, president of the Texas Funeral Directors Association, brought a hearse and volunteered to work as a driver, pitch in for services, or do whatever he could, he told NBC News. Other arriving morticians were there to help with facial reconstruction services given the damage caused by the shooter's military-style rifle.
Gov. Greg Abbott, speaking at a Memorial Day event in Longview, urged Texans to keep Uvalde in their prayers.
"What happened in Uvalde was a horrific act of evil," Abbott said. "And as Texans, we must come together and lift up Uvalde and support them in every way that we possibly can. It is going to take time to heal the devastation that the families there have gone through and are going through, But be assured, we will not relent until Uvalde recovers."
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Sunday a review of the law enforcement response. Police have come under heavy criticism for taking well over an hour to kill Ramos inside the adjoining classrooms where he unleashed carnage.
Officials revealed Friday that students and teachers repeatedly begged 911 operators for help as a police commander told more than a dozen officers to wait in a hallway. Officials said the commander believed the suspect was barricaded inside an adjoining classroom and that there was no longer an active attack.
The revelation raised new questions about whether lives were lost because officers did not act faster to stop the gunman, who was ultimately killed by Border Patrol tactical officers.
Authorities have said Ramos legally purchased two guns not long before the school attack: an AR-style rifle on May 17 and a second rifle on May 20. He had just turned 18, permitting him to buy the weapons under federal law.
A day after visiting Uvalde and pledging, "We will," in response to people chanting, "Do something," President Joe Biden on Monday expressed some optimism that there may be some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman.
"I think things have gotten so bad that everybody’s getting more rational, at least that’s my hope," Biden told reporters before honoring the nation’s fallen in Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery.
"The Second Amendment was never absolute," Biden said. "You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and buy a lot of weapons."
A bipartisan group of senators talked over the weekend to see if they could reach even a modest compromise on gun safety legislation. Encouraging state "red flag" laws to keep guns away from those with mental health issues, and addressing school security and mental health resources were on the table, said Sen. Chris Murphy, who is leading the effort.
The group will meet again this week under a 10-day deadline to strike a deal.
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Nathan Ellgren in Uvalde and Jim Salter in O’Fallon, Missouri, contributed to this report.
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An air ambulance is believed to be in attendance at the scene of a collision between a van and tractor in Branscombe. The A3052 is currently closed in both directions following the incident between Seaton Road and the B3174 Hollyhead Road.
Travel and news alert service Inrix reports there is slow traffic in the area.
It is said that an air ambulance has ben sent to the scene along with other emergency services.
Devon and Cornwall Police have been approached for more details. Devon Live will be bringing you all of the latest updates regarding M5 traffic in the blog below
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Extent of injuries is 'unclear'
A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "Police were called to reports of a road traffic collision involving a tractor and van on the A3052 near Branscombe at around 1pm today, Tuesday, May 31.
"Police and the ambulance service are at the scene, but the extent of any injuries is unclear. The incident is ongoing."
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More people than ever have attended the latest Barnstaple Boys Secondary Modern school reunion.
Gerald Thorne, who organised the event said: "Thanks to the media there was a more than successful turnout for the latest Barnstaple Boys Secondary Modern school reunion at the Barnstaple Rugby Club.
"After missing three years due to the pandemic the organiser, I was worried that he might not be able to let the former pupils know as I had been out of touch for so long but thanks to the help of the media it proved as popular as ever.
“We have lost some over the years but thanks to the publicity we actually attracted old boys that had not attended before."
The school, in the Derby area of the town was founded in 1939 and closed in 1972 The former students are nearly all past retirement age with the majority being in their 70s,80s,and 90s.
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Torridge Racing, the council's newly formed racing division, has officially announced their entry into this year’s Bideford Soapbox Derby, which is due to take place on Sunday, June 19.
Last year’s race was attended by an estimated crowd of around 5,000, watching more than 30 teams’ race against the clock. The route saw competitors finish on Bideford’s historic quay, after navigating their way through two large ramps and more hay bales than Bideford has seen since its market days. Amongst all the cheering and celebrating, the community rallied together to raise an astonishing £10,000 for the local charity ChemoHero.
ChemoHero creates and provides ‘Boxes of Kindness’ to everyone undergoing chemotherapy treatment at North Devon District Hospital. Over 35 items are included in the boxes for patients to use both during treatment and afterwards while they recover at home. Many of the items are designed to help with the side effects of chemo and are provided at the start of treatments when patients are often unfamiliar with the process or what they might need.
The Torridge Racing soapbox lovingly know as ‘Peggy’ has been expertly “bodged” together with 100 per cent recycled materials. The chassis compromises a defunct mobility scooter and two quad bikes, welded together by chief mechanic, Adrian Blight. Key Pitts Off Road Adventures also deserve a massive thank you for donating the front end of a quad bike to finish off the design. The team hasn't quite decided on the bodywork just yet, but Mechanic Kieron Carey-Body is keen for a Torridge waste bin or two to feature. Driver Mark Crocker is hoping for some pre-season testing while team manager Tom Vanstone is waiting for the promotional team material so the fund raising for the ChemoHero charity can kick off in earnest.
The organising team behind the Bideford Soap Derby event said: “After a colossal debut to the Torridge events calendar last September, we have been working hard to make an anticipated comeback. This year sees a “boneshaker” ramp added to the map, a large LCD screen with film crew to capture the action and a more precise laser timing system to help decide who will be crowned champion. Bideford Soapbox Derby 2022 is on course to be packed with fun, laughter and carnage.
"The locally organised event is free to attend with stalls including a raffle, delicious refreshments, and a stage with live music. The team at Bideford Soapbox Derby is looking forward to welcoming all the soapbox competitors and viewers alike. It’s going to be a blast you wouldn’t want to miss it.”
All funds raised by the teams will go towards supporting the charity and their work. To support the team of your choice visit the Bideford Soapbox Team’s Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/Bidefordsoapboxderby
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Croyde Surf Life Saving Club will celebrate its 60 th year with new headquarters double the size of its previous site. Since its formation the club has been at the heart of Croyde, training thousands of lifesavers, young and old, to be safe on one of the UK’s wildest, most challenging beaches, with many fulfilling vital roles within the Croyde community. However, the club faced its own challenge when the land it leased no longer became available.
Due to the nature of their work and their large membership, a lot of equipment is essential to the club for training, competitions, gaining qualifications, and keeping themselves and others safe in the sea.
Thankfully, help came in the form of a larger area of available land near the club’s current base with a 49-year lease, ensuring it would still have a permanent home come its 100 th year.
When faced with fresh concerns following the discovery of a drinking water main running through the new site, the club reached out to South West Water to investigate a possible diversion of the pipe.
Following a positive meeting between the club, the water company and North Devon MP Selaine Saxby, it was agreed the diversion would be funded by South West Water’s Neighbourhood Fund.
Susan Davy, South West Water’s chief executive, said: “We play a critical role in the region and through our Neighbourhood Fund we are building on our work to support the lives of people and the places they love for generations to come.
“We are very pleased to support Croyde Surf Life Saving Club and to fund this diversion so they can continue to provide safety, training, fun and mental health benefits to the local community.”
Ben Byrom, chairman of Croyde Surf Life Saving Club, said: “Following the easing of pandemic restrictions, we’ve seen a sharp rise in membership applications. Members young and old learn to respect the environment, enhance their mental health and have fun, so we’re grateful to South West Water for their help so our new base can be built and our vital work can continue.”
Selaine Saxby, Conservative MP for North Devon, said: “When the Croyde Surf Life Saving Club came to me for help, with a very expensive, potential problem, I was optimistic that South West Water would be able to help make it more affordable, but I was delighted when they told me that they would cover the whole cost of diverting the water mains.
"I look forward to seeing the new site when it is up and running and would like to thank South West Water and all of the other companies and organisations that continue to support our vital surf life saving clubs in North Devon.”
The new headquarters is expected to the completed around the end of September 2022.
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A family-run café which suffered thousands of pounds worth of damage after an intruder is said to have broken in and went on a smashing rampage before allegedly being stopped has now reopened. Entry was gained into Annie and The Flint last Wednesday morning, May 25, when the offender is claimed to have smashed their way through the glass fronted door between 12.30am and 12.45am.
Once inside, extensive damage was caused by hurling crockery, including against the front windows causing them to smash, throwing tables and chairs and chucking around food. The café in the High Street remained shut for four days to clear up the mess and replace or repair items that were damaged.
Scene of crime investigators spent last Wednesday gathering evidence and then the big clean up could commence. It reopened yesterday, May 30.
Read more: Taxi fares could go up in North Devon
Police have confirmed a man was detained on suspicion of burglary, possession of class A drugs and assault of an emergency worker. The suspect, a man in his 20s, was immediately transferred to North Devon District Hospital for treatment, and still awaits questioning.
Also at the scene, a 31-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm. He has since been released pending further investigation.
The café is owned by Paul and Laura Hopkinson and the first they heard of their break-in was by their eldest daughter who had seen it shared on Snapchat.
Paul recalled: "They say the quickest way to find out things these days is social media. Our daughter saw it on a Snapchat story as people had been videoing it. She came into our room to wake us and said, 'I that's our café someone has broken in to'. We dashed there as quickly as we could and we basically greeted by a scene of utter chaos.
"It looked like someone had gone on a rampage. Apparently while it was going on a few people going past decided to help stop him and got in a fight in there with him so there was also blood in the café.
"By the time we arrived most of the police had left and the ambulance had gone. It's not something you usually get happening in Ilfracombe.
"Around £5,000 of damage was caused. Not a huge amount was able to be salvaged. We only had about 25 per cent crockery left so we had to put in an emergency order. We also lost a good portion of our stock and all the perishable foods had to go.
"Some of the tables and chairs could be fixed and we had to carry out a deep clean. Our initial reaction was shock and then we just had to deal with it to get open as quickly as possible.
"It was not a malicious attack against the café. It's been incredibly annoying and stressful but you just have to get on with life."
"We have lost four days of business and obviously being the start of half-term it's one of our busier times. Although we were back open yesterday we have got big boards across the windows. Although we have had good support from locals on Facebook, holidaymakers coming down will look at the café and think, what on earth is that about?"
A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "Police were called at around 12.15am on Wednesday, May 25, with reports of criminal damage occurring to a shop front on Ilfracombe High Street. Units attended and detained a man on suspicion of burglary, possession of class A drugs and assault of an emergency worker.
"The suspect, a man in his 20s, was immediately transferred to North Devon District Hospital for treatment; and still awaits questioning.
"At the scene, officers were also made aware of reports of an assault and a 31-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm. He has since been released under investigation pending further enquiries.
"Officers are continuing to carry out enquiries in relation to this matter."
Annie and The Flint opened in September 2016. It is a speciality coffee shop that serves artisan style food. Its name comes from when Paul owned an IT business call Flint Hosts and the cafe's first manager was called Annie.
Although she has since left, the name is a reminder of how she helped the business in its early days. Also involved in the business is Paul and Laura's 19-year-old son Joshua.
Paul said: "Owning the café has been great and it's an ever growing business. The last few years have been some what challenging and we have been closed more than we have been open, but it's getting to the right place now. We definitely see our revenue increase of the summer period.
"Following the break-in, people have been really supportive. We are blown away by the number of people coming past and talking to us. We wrote about what happened on Facebook and we have had some amazing comments from the local community."
Annie and The Flint is open Monday to Saturday from 8.30am to 4.30pm.
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Exeter Chiefs tighthead prop Alfie Petch has signed for Northampton Saints ahead of the 2022/23 season.
The 22-year-old has played seven times for Chiefs having represented England at U16s, U18s and most recently at U20s.
Cornishman Petch started playing rugby at Bude RFC and was brought into the Exeter Chiefs Academy at the age of 14.
Ahead of the 2018/19 season, Petch signed a three-year deal with the Chiefs and the 19 and half stone frontrower made his first-team debut the same season, coming off the bench against Harlequins in the Premiership Rugby Cup in November 2018.
This season Petch as been is dual-registered with RFU Championship side, Cornish Pirates, to gain some much-needed experience at senior level with the Covid-19 pandemic limiting his chances to play for Exeter in recent years.
Petch made 23 appearances in the Championship for Pirates and incoming Northamptin director of rugby Phil Dowson believes the front rower will complement Saints’ existing group of tightheads nicely.
He said: “The Championship is a fantastic breeding ground for young props and Alfie impressed us with his natural strength, power and scrummaging ability.
“He’s got skill around the park too, so he’s not a one-trick pony, but first and foremost he loves scrummaging and wants to better himself to see how far he can go – which is music to [Scrum Coach] Matt Ferguson’s ears.”
“Alfie has spent all his life in the West Country, so he’s excited to move up to Northampton for a fresh start. He loved playing week-in, week-out for Cornish Pirates and that desire to get on the pitch and build his experience was just what we were looking for.”
“I’m really excited about a new challenge in Northampton and getting stuck in with all the boys there,” added Petch. “It’s a young squad of talented players up at Saints, with an impressive coaching group too – I’m also very grateful to Alan Paver at Cornish Pirates for helping me so much this season.
“I really believe Northampton will be consistent Premiership contenders in the years ahead, so I can’t wait to get started.”
While Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter has never really replaced Wales star Tomas Francis, who left the club a year ago for Ospreys to keep his international ambitions alive, the club have a number of up-and-coming tightheads to compete with former England international Harry Williams.
Dynamic ball carrier Patrick Schickerling, 23, has exploded on the scene this season, while 23-year-old Marcus Street continues to build his reputation.
Giant Josh Iosefa-Scott, who arrived in Devon last summer from his native New Zealand, has played 14 senior games for the Chiefs in his maiden season but has fallen away from the first team in the second half of the season.
Petch joins fellow tighthead Sam Nixon in departing Sandy Park this summer.
Nixon moves to French Pro D2 side Grenoble after just one season at Exeter, some of which was spent on loan to Bristol Bears.
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Northampton Saints have confirmed the signing former Exeter Chiefs backrower Aaron Hinkley after a highly successful trial at the Midlands club.
Former England Under-20s and Under-18s international Hinckley, 23, has signed a deal at the club ahead of the 2022/23 season after impressing in his two Gallagher Premiership appearances for Saints while on trial, facing Harlequins and Saracens.
The highly-rated flanker began his career in Gloucester’s academy set-up in 2017 before moving to Exeter Chiefs three years later. Hinkley found first-team opportunities limited at both clubs but produced several scintillating performances at age-group level for England – scoring a memorable try at cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens for the Under-20s against Scotland.
Incoming Northampton director of rugby Phil Dowson, said: “Aaron’s been really impressive ever since he arrived here on a trial.
“He’s a high-energy, aggressive player who is really good over the ball – as we’ve seen in the matches he’s played so far.
“One of his big points of difference is his speed, and the edge he brings when he plays.”
“We wanted to get him inside our environment on trial first to see what he’s about and how he could fit into our group, and he’s worked hard throughout his time with us.
“He was one of the standout performers in [Head of Academy] Mark Hopley’s England Under-20s squad back in 2019. Hoppers has been so complimentary about the amount of effort Aaron puts into every session he’s involved in.
“It speaks volumes about his character that – after such a long time away from playing any competitive rugby – he was able to come into the side in a crucial Premiership match and play at an outstanding level, so we think the ceiling is high for him and we’re excited to sign him up on a long-term deal.”
Hinkley said: “I’m buzzing to sign on at Saints long-term having been at the club for a few months now.
"It’s been a fantastic environment to come into, and I’m really enjoying playing at Franklin’s Gardens under this coaching group.”
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Acclaimed Suffolk folk duo Honey & The Bear are bringing their live show to the South West with a difference this summer. They will be joined on stage by celebrated percussionist Evan Carson and in-demand multi instrumentalist Toby Shaer for shows in Ashburton on June 11 and Penzance on June 12.
After a long series of very popular livestream gigs during lockdown husband and wife team Jon and Lucy Hart are happy to be back on the road singing and playing to audiences in person once again.
"We were so happy to keep going during the lockdown and develop a new community of listeners online, but playing live shows to an audience in the room again has been incredible, it seems that everyone has really missed this experience," said Jon.
Honey & The Bear also released their second album 'Journey Through The Roke' last year and listeners will get the chance to hear some of that material for the first time as they bring folklore of the past and present to life, from Suffolk and beyond.
They will be performing at Ashburton Arts Centre on June 11 and The Acorn, Penzance on June 12.
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Showaddywaddy is heading to the Barnstaple stage next month. Formed in the 1970s in Leicester from several local bands, they have sold more than 20 million records and have toured the world. The band has been entertaining its fans on the road non-stop since 1973.
Showaddywaddy recently claimed the title of hardest working band for a second year running.
Their live show is dynamic and uplifting featuring all their biggest hits, many of which reached number one in the pop charts of Europe, including Under the Moon of Love, Three Steps to Heaven, Hey Rock & Roll, When, Blue Moon, Pretty Little Angel Eyes and many, many more.
Romeo Challenger, one of the founding members of Showaddywaddy, said: “The fans have always been amazing. We are loving being back on stage after so long off the road.”
The band is performing at Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple on Friday, July 1 at 7.30pm. Tickets can be booked online at queenstheatre-barnstaple.com, or at the Box Office (Mon-Sat 10am-4pm ph. 01271 316523).
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John J. Ray III, who made his name overseeing the liquidation of Enron in the early 2000s, is the man in charge of sifting through the rubble of FTX, the once-mighty cryptocurrency exchange — founded in 2019 and run into the ground by 2022 by Sam Bankman-Fried.
On Tuesday, Ray testified before the House Financial Services Committee, relaying what he could about the company he took over just four weeks ago. When a congressman asked Ray how his experience with FTX compares with Enron, Ray was quick to make the distinction clear:
“The crimes that were committed [at Enron] were highly orchestrated financial machinations by highly sophisticated people to keep transactions off balance sheets,” Ray told lawmakers. FTX, on the other hand, was “not sophisticated at all.”
“This is really old-fashioned embezzlement,” Ray continued. “This is just taking money from customers, and using it for your own purpose.”
In other words: Look, there’s a lot going on here, but don’t let all the talk of digital assets confuse you — this is a con as old as time.
Mark Cohen, a lawyer for Bankman-Fried, said his client “is reviewing the charges with his legal team and considering all of his legal options.”
So, what’s happening? Quite a lot today:
Federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York (aka, a really aggressive, elite bunch of lawyers who rarely lose when it comes to white-collar cases) charged Sam Bankman-Fried with eight charges of fraud and conspiracy. They say he misappropriated FTX customers’ deposits by using those funds to pay expenses and debts of Alameda, his crypto hedge fund.
US Attorney Damian Williams called the FTX case “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.”
Meanwhile, US markets regulators filed civil lawsuits accusing Bankman-Fried of defrauding investors and customers, saying he “built a house of cards on a foundation of deception while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto.”
And as if all that weren’t enough, Bankman-Fried’s predecessor, Ray, spent the day calling out the colossal mismanagement that took place before FTX and Alameda collapsed. In addition to calling the previous leaders “a very small group of grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals” — under oath, mind you — Ray also illustrated that mismanagement by revealing that FTX used QuickBooks to run its business, which was valued at more than $30 billion at its peak. (Ray clarified: “Nothing against QuickBooks. It’s a very nice tool. Just not for a multibillion-dollar company.”)
Anything else?
So much… but I’ll stick to the highlights.
Bankman-Fried could face up to 115 years in prison if convicted on all eight counts against him in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday morning, according to congressional statutory maximum sentencing guidelines.
(That said, he likely wouldn’t get the maximum sentence, and it’s not uncommon for a judge to have those sentences run concurrently.)
Bankman-Fried remains in the Bahamas, where FTX was based, and was arrested Monday night. He was arraigned Tuesday, and a Bahamian judge denied his request for bail, saying that he posed a flight risk. (His extradition to the United States is in the works, but that process can take weeks.)
What should we make of all this?
There’s still a ton we don’t know about the case. But the fact that prosecutors put together an eight-count, 14-page indictment just four weeks after FTX filed for bankruptcy suggests prosecutors may have an ace in the hole, and/or a preponderance of evidence against the company. (The SDNY are an aggressive people, but they are not sloppy, and they don’t indict without a solid case.)
Several lawyers not involved in the case have told me that the speed of Bankman-Fried’s arrest signals that former FTX employees may be aiding prosecutors.
“The smart move by former employees would be to rush to become a cooperator in exchange for more lenient treatment, and it would not be surprising to learn that one or more of them had done so,” said Howard A. Fischer, a former SEC lawyer. He added: “The fact that only one person has been charged so far would seem to indicate this as well.”
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Immigration, always simmering in the American political conversation, could take on new importance with a “surge” at the border, the end of Title 42, a doomed impeachment effort and the slim possibility of a bipartisan win before the year is done.
One guarantee is that when Republicans take control of the House in January, you’re going to hear a lot more about the border and President Joe Biden’s top Homeland Security official.
The ‘surge’
A description by a top border agent in El Paso, Texas, of a “major surge in illegal crossings” this weekend came ahead of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ trip to the border on Tuesday.
And the increase in border crossings comes days before the Trump-era Covid-19 policy the Biden administration had used to keep many migrants out of the US expires.
Officials have warned that migrants camped across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, may try to cross as soon as the policy, known as Title 42, is officially rescinded following a court order. The policy has been used to turn away migrants at the border more than 2 million times.
The Biden administration has asked Congress for more than $3 billion to prepare for the expected increase in border crossings.
Read a full report from CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez.
Impeachment effort
Back in Washington, the far-right flank of the GOP, itching to impeach Mayorkas since not long after he took office, renewed their pressure campaign in a press conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
They want the incoming Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee to launch an impeachment investigation of Mayorkas ASAP in early January.
While it’s not yet clear what “high crimes and misdemeanors” Mayorkas would have committed to justify impeachment, it would be an unprecedented use of impeachment power to go after a Cabinet secretary for what amounts to pursuing Biden administration policy.
Only one Cabinet secretary has ever been impeached: former Secretary of War William Belknap, all the way back in 1876.
Belknap’s is a Gilded Age tale of corruption, financial payoffs and a weeping resignation. The allegation against Mayorkas is not that he is corrupt, but that he is not executing the law as Republicans feel he should.
While their alleged crimes are very different, any impeachment effort against Mayorkas would likely end similarly: Belknap was acquitted in a Senate trial. Democrats, controlling the Senate majority, would surely do the same if Republicans could even muster the majority needed to impeach Mayorkas.
Immigration is affecting the speaker race
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who wants to be the next House speaker and is still trying to win over the right-wing lawmakers who want to impeach Mayorkas, has promised only an investigation to see if impeachment is warranted. McCarthy would rather just see Mayorkas resign, although there’s no indication Mayorkas will.
“If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action and every failure. And we will determine whether we can begin an impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy said during his own trip to the border in November.
Simply launching an investigation is not enough for GOP Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, who said Tuesday that one reason he opposes making McCarthy speaker is McCarthy’s reticence to commit to impeaching Mayorkas.
Still some hope for a bipartisan effort
Meanwhile, there’s been some talk of a bipartisan push in the waning days of the year to finally deliver protection to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children and have lived most of their lives as Americans.
You’ve heard them referred to as “Dreamers” or “DACA recipients,” named after previous failed legislation and executive action by then-President Barack Obama that was put in jeopardy by former President Donald Trump.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who recently announced she’s leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent, and Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, have been working on a bipartisan proposal, although there is little time left this year.
The legislation, which also authorizes at least $25 billion to $40 billion for border security and extends Title 42 for at least a year, is meant to give DACA recipients some clarity and a pathway to citizenship. Read more from this December 5 report by Alvarez and CNN’s Daniella Diaz.
Because the proposed compromise – there are not yet any concrete details – extends Title 42, it would likely have to pass without help from some Democrats who have long opposed that Trump-era policy, which means passing it this year will be a heavy lift.
“It’s unlikely to happen before the end of the year, and even next year it’s going to be very hard,” Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican, told the Texas Tribune.
Americans aren’t that optimistic about immigration policy
One interesting tidbit out of CNN’s post-election poll released on Monday is that while Americans expect Republicans’ ascendance to the House majority to have a positive impact on the economy and cut down on government spending, they also expect a harmful impact on immigration laws (32% positive, 41% negative).
People are more closely split on how the new GOP majority will affect oversight of the Biden administration (35% positive, 38% negative).
Immigration has been an impossible puzzle for years. Biden’s is the fourth successive presidency during which lawmakers have failed to settle on a comprehensive policy to deal with both migrants at the border and people who have lived most of their lives within the country. Resolving those problems seems unlikely, but there will definitely be a lot more focus on the border.
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s “personal piggy bank” Alameda Research was deeply intertwined with his exchange, FTX.
Court filings against alleged crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried are shedding more light on the cozy relationship that burned down his empire: the one between crypto exchange FTX and its sister hedge fund Alameda Research.
“There was no meaningful distinction between FTX customer funds and Alameda’s own,” the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged Tuesday. Alameda is said to have improperly siphoned $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX.
In its own suit, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Alameda enjoyed special access to FTX’s trading backend. It could execute trades faster than other customers and was exempt from auto-liquidation, both “unfair advantages,” the suit said. And it could borrow as much money as it liked.
Alameda Research was the giant crypto hedge fund and market making firm that Sam Bankman-Fried launched in 2017, well before FTX. It started as a bitcoin arbitrage trader but quickly grew into one of the industry's most influential names, both for its perceived trading prowess and its billions of dollars in capital. Alameda's stature rose in tandem with FTX's; Bankman-Fried ran both until October 2021, when he declared he was leaving the fund.
Publicly, the firms claimed to be two different companies that operated "at an arm's length," Alameda's former CEO Caroline Ellison has previously said. But in reality Bankman-Fried ran FTX and Alameda in lockstep, the suits allege. And Alameda was playing with FTX customers' funds.
Bankman-Fried, who owns 90% of Alameda, was arrested in the Bahamas Monday and faces criminal money laundering, conspiracy and fraud charges in the U.S. His stunning fall from CEO at the top of the crypto industry to international defendant took just over one month.
In that time, the 30 year-old former billionaire had embarked on an aggressive apology tour to cast his role in FTX’s implosion as stupid and reckless, but hardly criminal. At times he jumped around questions that probed Alameda’s relationship with FTX and has repeatedly denied knowing of any backdoors.
Hardcoded loopholes
The new suits take direct aim at Bankman-Fried’s assertions. He “directed” FTX to let Alameda do things its other customers could not, like fall below margin requirements on risky bets and execute trades when its accounts were empty, the suits allege. They went on to say these loopholes were baked into FTX’s code at Bankman-Fried’s direction.
When institutional customers like Alameda placed trades on FTX they used an API, which is by design more streamlined – and thus faster – than the website retail traders use. But Alameda’s access was faster still. According to the CFTC, it “was able to bypass certain portions” of the FTX API to move “several milliseconds faster” than other big spenders.
Part of Alameda’s speed boost was due to its other special privileges. Because it didn’t need to have enough money to place trades, it wholly sidestepped the automatic balance check that other accounts had to clear. This gave Alameda “another significant speed advantage.”
Once, when Alameda maxxed out its borrow limit on FTX, Bankman-Fried told staffers to set a ceiling so high it would never be reached, the CFTC alleged. It could theoretically withdraw tens of billions of dollars from FTX.
Alameda’s infinite money glitch led to the hedge fund repaying “billions of dollars of loans” using customer deposits, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. It unsealed criminal charges against Sam Bankman-Fried Tuesday after the former FTX CEO’s arrest in the Bahamas.
Bankman-Fried tried to hide the relationship between his “personal piggy bank” and FTX by routing money to seemingly unaffiliated bank accounts that Alameda controlled, according to the SEC. FTX used the unassuming account name “[email protected]” to track its sister company’s multi-billion dollar debts without raising eyebrows. And Alameda never told third-parties that its “loan” was from FTX.
Even when FTX tried to untangle its liabilities in 2022 it gave special treatment to Alameda. Bankman-Fried stopped the exchange’s accounting systems from charging interest on the hedge fund’s $8 billion liability (it had done so automatically, per the SEC).
We can’t really shut it down
Bankman-Fried “drafted and shared a document that questioned whether Alameda should be permanently shut down” in September 2022, months before it imploded, according to the CFTC.
His reasoning: Alameda was taking on more risk than it was worth.
“I think it might be time for Alameda Research to shut down. Honestly, it was probably time to do that a year ago,” Bankman-Fried wrote in a document titled “We came, we saw, we researched.”
At the same time, Bankman-Fried acknowledged that Alameda played such a large role in FTX’s operations that it might be impossible to pull the plug. As FTX's primary market maker, ensured trades went smoothly for all FTX customers, not just itself. Disappearing Alameda would create a shortfall in liquidity that might undermine FTX's value as an exchange.
“Given the amount that Alameda is doing, we can’t really shut it down,” he wrote, according to the CFTC.
The fall
The SEC and CFTC chart Nov. 2 as the day Alameda and FTX began to unravel. On that day, the regulators said CoinDesk published an article that probed Alameda’s extensive FTT token holdings. FTT is a token issued by FTX, and Alameda had billions of dollars of FTT and other FTX-linked tokens on its balance sheet.
“On November 6, 2022, in response to this article, the CEO of Binance tweeted that, “[d]ue to recent revelations that have came [sic.] to light,” he would be selling the remainder of his significant FTT holdings, which he acquired during the buyout from FTX seed investment,” the CFTC said.
Binance’s call-to-liquidate tanked the price of FTT and triggered a run on deposits at FTX. One day later it became clear to the exchange that it didn’t have enough cash to cover for customers, the CFTC said.
At the same time, Alameda traders were directed to “sell everything that could be sold” in a mad dash to “generally do anything possible to quickly obtain billions of dollars in capital to send to FTX,” the CFTC said, noting Bankman-Fried played a key role in that effort.
Bankman-Fried also planned to use Alameda’s firesale to fill a hole at FTX US, which was also getting pummeled by withdrawals. Executives there had found “a shortfall they did not understand and were unable to quantify,” per the CFTC. (During his apology tour Bankman-Fried insisted that the U.S. exchange was never insolvent.)
“On November 8, Bankman-Fried directed Alameda traders to prioritize meeting FTX US capital requirements and to send excess capital to FTX US. On information and belief, Alameda sent in excess of $185 million to FTX US to fill its shortfall,” the CFTC said.
It was just one more criss-cross in the sprawling, unspoken, ties between Alameda and all aspects of the FTX empire.
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- Sam Bankman-Fried has been labeled a “flight risk” and will be held in the Bahamas until February 8.
- FTX’s new CEO, John Ray, also faced some backlash from the Securities Commission of The Bahamas.
- Solana price is maintaining its upward heading, unfazed by FTX-related developments.
Over the last 24 hours, FTX has been making headlines for the ongoing hearing in the US, its former CEO Sam-Bankman Fried’s arrest and the filing of fraud charges at the hands of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Regardless, Solana price has observed no negative implication, in spite of its connection with Sam Bankman-Fried.
Sam Bankman-Fried faces more trouble
While on the one hand, FTX’s hearing is taking place in the United States, on the other, Sam Bankman-Fried is sitting at the mercy of the Bahamian court. After being arrested on Monday, the former Chief Executive Officer of FTX requested bail.
However, a magistrate judge denied this plea and instead remanded Bankman-Fried to the Department of Corrections. This is because the Bahamian court found the former head of FTX to be a “flight risk” and stated he would be held in the country until at least February 8.
Sam Bankman-Fried is not alone in being reprimanded by authorities as the bankrupt exchange’s new CEO, John Ray III, is also taking hits. In a media release on Tuesday, the Securities Commission of The Bahamas (SCB) stated that John had made some key misstatements regarding FTX’s predicament. The release read,
“Mr. Ray has not once reached out to the Securities Commission to discuss any of his concerns before airing them publicly. [His remarks] do not appear to be concerned with facts but rather appear intended only to make headlines.”
Consequently, FTT’s value declined slightly over the last 24 hours, but Solana remained untouched. This is despite the latter’s affiliation with FTX’s sister company Alameda Research which has invested heavily in the cryptocurrency.
Solana price climbs the charts
Solana price continued posting green candles even as FTX’s rabbit hole continued to deepen by the day. Back when the crypto market first crashed on November 6 due to FTX’s collapse, FTT noted the highest decline, followed by SOL. Today, the smart-contract cryptocurrency increased by over 6% in 24 hours to trade at $13.80.
Solana price is inching closer to its immediate resistance at $14.31, which will act as an important support level if it is surpassed. Breaching it would allow SOL to tag $14.80 as well, and bouncing off of it would set the altcoin on the path to reaching $16.12.
SOL/USD 4-hour chart
However, if the bearishness in the market increases and Solana price declines, it would end up tagging the support level at $12.80. Falling through it would see SOL tagging the critical support floor at $11.70. However, a daily candlestick close below it would invalidate the bullish thesis, pushing the cryptocurrency to tag $10.22, a level last visited in February 2021.
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