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SAN ANTONIO — A man has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a young family member, the Bexar County District Attorney's Office said Monday.
Adam Charles Barba, 61, was found guilty of the aggravated sexual assault of a child by a Bexar County jury on June 6.
"In an incident occurring on May 26, 2018, Adam Charles Barba was a guest in a home where he sexually assaulted a family member under the age of 14. He initially claimed that he was only trying to wake her up, but never actually denied what he was accused of. The victim, however, immediately told her mother, who then confronted defendant Barba," the DA's office said in a release on Monday.
Barba decided to let the judge set his punishment, which ranged between 5 years and 99 years or life in prison.
"In sentencing, Judge Del Prado also took into consideration two prior convictions for Possession of a Controlled Substance of 4-200 grams and Possession of a Controlled Substance of 4-200 grams With Intent to Deliver. These prior convictions made the defendant a habitual offender, with his new punishment range being between 25 and 99 years, or life imprisonment. The defendant still faces an additional charge of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child. During trial, the State was able to put on evidence of the Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child," the DA's Office said.
The judge sentenced Barba to life imprisonment.
“Sexual assault of a child is unacceptable,” said Bexar County Criminal District Attorney Joe Gonzales, “We champion every child and work continuously to keep our children safe.”
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida is seeing a rise in leprosy cases that could mean the disease has become endemic in the Sunshine State, according to a letter published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The letter, which was published in mid-July, said while leprosy is historically uncommon in the United States, cases more than doubled in the South over the last 10 years.
Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s Disease, is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae and is characterized by discolored patches of skin, ulcers, lumps and damage to the nerves.
The CDC said if untreated, the disease can progress to paralysis, blindness, the loss of one’s eyebrows, physical disfigurement, and even the “shortening of toes and fingers due to reabsorption.”
The Florida Department of Health said the disease first appeared in the state in 1921. The National Hansen’s Disease Program found that 159 cases of leprosy were reported in 2020. Florida was at the top of the list of states with the most new cases.
According to the Florida Health Charts, the state had 26 reported cases in 2019, 27 in 2020, and 14 in 2021.
“Central Florida, in particular, accounted for 81% of cases reported in Florida and almost one-fifth of nationally reported cases,” the letter said. “Whereas leprosy in the United States previously affected persons who had immigrated from leprosy-endemic areas, [about] 34% of new case-patients during 2015–2020 appeared to have locally acquired the disease.”
A disease becomes endemic when it occurs regularly within a certain community or area.
The CDC letter said multiple cases showed no sign of animal-to-human transmission or “traditionally known risk factors.”
One patient, a 54-year-old man in Central Florida, was treated at a dermatology clinic for a progressive rash caused by leprosy.
When asked, the man said he had lived in Central Florida his whole life, did not travel domestically or internationally, had no exposure to armadillos (which can carry the disease), had no contact with immigrants with endemic leprosy, and had no connection to someone with the disease.
Experts said there was some support for the theory that an increase in migration from other countries to the United States may have caused the disease to enter non-endemic areas. However, while leprosy cases are increasing in the U.S., the rate of new cases in people born outside of the U.S. had been on a decline since 2002.
“This information suggests that leprosy has become an endemic disease process in Florida, warranting further research into other methods of [local] transmission,” the letter said.
In the state of Florida, medical practitioners must report leprosy by the next business day so contact tracing can be done and reduce further infections.
“In our case, contact tracing was done by the National Hansen’s Disease Program and revealed no associated risk factors, including travel, zoonotic exposure, occupational association, or personal contacts,” the letter said. “The absence of traditional risk factors in many recent cases of leprosy in Florida, coupled with the high proportion of residents, like our patient, who spend a great deal of time outdoors, supports the investigation into environmental reservoirs as a potential source of transmission.”
The CDC said travel to Florida must now be considered when conducting contact tracing for leprosy in any state.
Leprosy, when contracted, can be treated by a combination of different antibiotics to prevent it from developing resistance to the medication, according to the CDC. Leprosy can be cured after one or two years of treatment.
However, even when cured, any nerve damage and disfigurement caused by the disease will be permanent.
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SÃO PAULO, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenvia Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENV), the leading cloud-based CX platform in Latin America empowering companies to transform their customer journeys, today announced that its fiscal 2023 second quarter and first half results will be released after the market close on Wednesday August 16, 2023.
Zenvia's senior management team will host a webcast to discuss the financial and operating results on Thursday, August 17, 2023, at 10:00 am ET. To access the webcast presentation, click here.
Additional information regarding Zenvia, including a replay of the webcast when available, can be found at https://investors.zenvia.com.
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ZENVIA is driven by the purpose of empowering companies to create unique experiences for end-consumers through its unified CX SaaS end-to-end platform. ZENVIA empowers companies to transform their existing customer experience from non-scalable, physical and impersonal interactions into highly scalable, digital-first and hyper-contextualized experiences across the customer journey. ZENVIA's unified end-to-end CX SaaS platform provides a combination of (i) SaaS focused on campaigns, sales teams, customer service and engagement, (ii) tools, such as software application programming interfaces, or APIs, chatbots, single customer views, journey designers, documents composer and authentication and (iii) channels, such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Instagram and Webchat. Its comprehensive platform assists customers across multiple use cases, including marketing campaigns, customer acquisition, customer onboarding, warnings, customer services, fraud control, cross-selling and customer retention, among others. ZENVIA's shares are traded on Nasdaq, under the ticker ZENV.
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Another Chick-fil-A in Alabama is set to reopen after a summer’s long remodel.
Chick-fil-A of Gadsden, located at 1008 S. 4th St., has announced it will reopen at noon Wednesday.
The restaurant began a 14-week remodel in May.
Cullman began a 20-week remodel on June 15, and Athens is currently in the midst of a retooling.
Earlier this year, three Birmingham area restaurants reopened.
The mega-popular chicken chain has also announced a two-story drive-through concept will open in the Atlanta metro area in 2024, as well as a new drive-through concept restaurant in New York City.
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As demand for organically grown food continues to increase across the country, Pennsylvania is bolstering its efforts to capitalize on the trend and position itself as a leader in the organic sector through substantial investments at the state level.
Building on the Pennsylvania Farm Bill, which allocates $1.6 million annually to support organic farming, Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro proposed another $1 million investment in organics in the 2023-24 fiscal year budget, calling organics the “future of Pennsylvania agriculture.”
Shapiro’s budget includes funding to create the Organic Center of Excellence to act as a “gateway” to services and resources for farmers and producers transitioning to organic farming.
To that end, the administration has said that the Organic Center of Excellence would provide a “coordinated, multi-faceted, and strategic effort to invest in and nurture the growth of organic agriculture.”
The center would remove obstacles for producers, such as streamlining access to state services and building on existing public-private partnerships with industry groups such as The Rodale Institute in Kutztown.
On a visit to Rodale last week, Shapiro touted the investments by his administration to grow the organic industry with the help of private partners.
“We need to come together to support this innovation with smart investments – and that’s what our Commonwealth has done with the Rodale Institute, investing over $5.3 million in grants that fund research and job training initiatives,” Shapiro said. “My administration will continue to make these investments, fully funding the Pennsylvania Farm Bill and creating an Organic Center of Excellence to support the future of Pennsylvania agriculture.”
“Pennsylvania currently ranks third in the nation in organic sales and fourth in organic farms, with great potential to continue advancing this sector,” Ashley Fehr, communications director for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said.
The organic farming boom has nearly tripled in the commonwealth over the last decade, increasing from 421 organic farms in 2011 to 1,125 farms in 2021, a 167% increase, according to the department.
By comparison, the number of organic farmers nationally grew from 8,516 to 17,430 farmers over the same period, reflecting a 105% increase.
Organic farming is also fueling economic growth in the commonwealth’s $132.5 billion agriculture industry.
In 2021, Pennsylvania farms produced and sold $1.09 billion in organic commodities, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. That figure is a 48% increase from 2019 — the last time the USDA organics survey was conducted.
The top organic commodities in Pennsylvania as of 2021 were livestock and poultry, generating $730 million in sales, and mushrooms, generating $95.4 million.
The process for farmers and producers wanting to make the transition to organics can be arduous, taking multiple steps over several years before many can receive the organic certification.
The first step, which can be one of the most difficult for farmers, is to adopt organic practices and discontinue the use of prohibited substances for three years unless they can prove that substances prohibited for the organic certification were not used on their farms during the last three years.
During this initial transition, it is not uncommon for farmers to experience crop failures and monetary losses.
“We know on the other side, it’s more profitable, but it’s just getting them through that transition period and so that is why all of this transition support is coming out,” Diane Kobus, executive director for Pennsylvania Certified Organic, a Pennsylvania-based organic certifier said.
After the three-year wait, farmers and producers must develop an organic system plan to comply with USDA organic regulations and submit an application to a certifying agent for review.
After reviewing the plan, an inspector will visit the site to determine if the operation meets regulatory compliance. If so, the certifying agent can issue an organic certification.
With that in mind, Pennsylvania Certified Organic, which is based in Centre County, is working to certify agricultural producers in organic farming across 25 states, making it the fifth largest organic certifier in the country.
Kobus said that while the benefits of organic farming are numerous, the reality of transitioning to organic can be challenging to navigate for traditional producers because it requires a significant amount of paperwork.
“It’s just a whole ‘nother way of farming and in doing business,” Kobus explained.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture also recognized that without state-level investments in support and resources, Pennsylvania’s farmers will not be able to meet the growing demand and capitalize on the organic industry.
“The Commonwealth must continue to give Pennsylvania farmers, producers and processors support to capture the benefits and opportunities of the organic marketplace, which has grown faster than the ability to meet Pennsylvania consumers’ demand,” Fehr said. “At the same time, that marketplace continues to get more competitive, and while information is readily available, it can be overwhelming to find trustworthy and reliable sources, and our farmers’ time remains incredibly valuable and limited.”
But the investments aren’t just coming from the state level.
Earlier this month, U.S. Sens. Bob Casey and John Fetterman, both Democrats from Pennsylvania, introduced federal legislation to support organic farming.
The bill would amend the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 and the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to expand organic research.
Fetterman said the bill would expand resources for the “critical” industry.
“We’re one of the top organic-producing states, and we need to keep it that way,” Fetterman, who serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee, said in a statement announcing the legislation.
Kobus said creating new funding streams for research in the organic sector is incredibly important, not only because it could help knowledge of organic practices become more widely available but because it shields the research from potential outside influences.
To illustrate that point, Kobus pointed out that many institutions have their research funded by multinational corporations, as well as pharmaceutical and chemical companies.
“Where research money comes from is really important,” Kobus said. “And so, we don’t really have those corporations to lean on for funding. Like, no corporation is going to fund research that is going to put them out of business.”
Supporters of organic agriculture point to its myriad environmental benefits as reasons to support the transition, including its ability to mitigate climate change by increasing the soil’s ability to sequester carbon and reduce erosion, as well as its ability to reduce groundwater contamination due to the lack of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers used in organic farming.
But there are economic benefits too.
In 2021, Pennsylvania organic sales were 9.8% of the nation’s total organic sales volume, according to USDA data.
“It [organic agriculture] creates more jobs, it creates a better revenue for the farmers and it’s better for the environment and the community,” Kobus said. “So I mean, it’s like a win-win-win situation when we’re talking about any of those areas — economy, environment, job creation.”
Kobus also said that organic agriculture can help support supply chain resiliency by reducing the nation’s demand for international goods, such as feed-grade grain for livestock.
“The more that we can grow locally, the more we can have resiliency in that supply chain,” Kobus said. “It’s costing the farmers less and they have better access to it.”
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SAN ANTONIO — New Braunfels police say they're looking for two suspects who stole several vehicles from a self storage facility in July.
The suspects in question allegedly broke into Memorial Self Storage along the 1800 block of South Walnut and managed to take a Ford F-150, four trailers, four riding lawnmowers and a generator over the course of two days, according to authorities. Photos provided by the New Braunfels Police Department on social media appear to show at least one of the suspects is male, but neither has been identified.
Comal County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $4,000 for "information that leads to an arrest and/or a grand jury indictment." Tips can be sent to Crime Stoppers at (830)620-8477 or submitted online here. Information can also be provided directly to New Braunfels police.
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A trio of top House Republicans are demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) hand over information pertaining to Hunter Biden’s plea deal, which has been on hold for days after a judge raised concerns about the agreement.
GOP lawmakers have railed for weeks against the plea agreement, calling it a “sweetheart deal” and arguing Hunter Biden was given preferential treatment because he is the son of President Biden.
The three Republicans escalated those attacks in a Monday letter, asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to answer a list of questions and provide documents and communications about Hunter Biden’s “unusual” plea agreement — the first request from Congress parsing the particulars of the deal.
“The Department’s unusual plea and pretrial diversion agreements with Mr. Biden raise serious concerns — especially when combined with recent whistleblower allegations—that the Department has provided preferential treatment toward Mr. Biden in the course of its investigation and proposed resolution of his alleged criminal conduct,” the letter reads.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) all signed the letter. The House GOP for months has been investigating the Biden family’s foreign business dealings and its associates. Lawmakers have previously made requests regarding the investigation into Hunter Biden led by U.S. attorney for Delaware David Weiss.
The Hill reached out to the DOJ for comment.
Hunter Biden’s plea deal was put on hold last week after the judge overseeing the case questioned the parameters of the agreement. As part of the deal, Biden was expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay income taxes. He also reached a diversion agreement relating to an unlawful possession of a weapon charge.
U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, a Trump appointee, raised concerns about the setup of the two-part deal and the scope of Biden’s immunity, and she ultimately gave both parties more time to explain why the deal — which she has to greenlight — should be accepted.
The three House Republicans pointed to some of Noreika’s concerns in their letter, including provisions in the pretrial diversion agreement that would shield Hunter Biden from future criminal charges on the gun charge or other federal charges within the scope of the agreement.
“Taken individually, each of the provisions discussed above raises serious concerns about how the Department has handled this matter. But when considered together, the provisions appear to be even more troubling,” the GOP chairmen wrote.
They claimed the Justice Department “shifted a broad immunity provision, which benefits Mr. Biden, from the plea agreement to the pretrial diversion agreement apparently to prevent the District Court from being able to scrutinize and reject that immunity provision.”
“And then, the Department has benefitted Mr. Biden by giving up its unilateral ability to bring charges against him if it concludes that he has breached the pretrial diversion agreement. Instead, it has placed upon itself the burden of getting the District Court’s permission to bring charges even though the District Court normally has no role in policing a pretrial diversion agreement in that manner,” they continued. “So, the District Court is apparently removed from the equation when it helps Mr. Biden and inserted into the equation when it helps Mr. Biden.”
The trio of Republicans also voiced concerns about the DOJ saying the investigations into Hunter Biden are “ongoing,” arguing it is an effort to shield the DOJ from congressional oversight. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) raised a similar claim last month.
“How can Hunter Biden plead guilty, no jail time, and the DOJ say there’s still an investigation, try to withhold information to the House? That’s unacceptable and will not stand,” McCarthy told reporters at the time.
The committee chairmen are asking Garland to provide information on other pretrial diversion agreements similar to Biden’s, in addition to “a generalized description of the nature of the Department’s ongoing investigation(s) concerning Hunter Biden.”
The letter from Jordan, Comer and Smith came the same day lawmakers heard testimony from former Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer behind closed doors. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) told reporters Archer said Hunter Biden included President Biden on a number of phone calls that presumably included business associates, a detail that Republicans will likely use in their attempts to link the president to his son’s business dealings.
Goldman said the testimony did not prove President Biden was involved in his son’s business dealings. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), however, said he thought Archer’s testimony “implicate[s] the president.”
That testimony came nearly two weeks after two IRS whistleblowers testified publicly, claiming that authorities slow-walked the case into Hunter Biden. The two whistleblowers previously spoke to the Ways and Means Committee behind closed doors, and those transcripts were released shortly after Hunter Biden’s plea agreement was announced.
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Ed Sheeran concluded a weekend concert at Soldier Field by claiming, “this is the largest concert that’s ever been here.” Since the 2003 stadium renovation, this statement can be considered true.
But when it comes to Chicago’s tourism, new numbers show the true king of Chicago is still a queen.
Downtown hotel occupancy peaked at 97% on the early June weekend of Taylor Swift’s concert, according to numbers shared with WGN Investigates by data analytics firm CoStar. That was followed closely by the 95% occupancy rate of central business district hotels on the opening night of Beyoncé’s Chicago concert.
“What we like seeing is this is happening over and over again driving-up leisure travel,” said Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association spokesperson Michael Jacobson. However, he cautioned that Chicago hotels are still not back to their pre-pandemic booking levels because conventions and business travel has been slow to recover.
“If you look at what’s supporting the hotel industry right now, it’s leisure travel, it’s special events, concerts, Lollapalooza,” Jacobson said. “They go a long way to driving individual weekends; but the real story is what hasn’t come back.”
Chicago had hoped NASCAR would drive downtown traffic as well; but the real back-ups came for city residents who had to navigate road closures in the days and weeks leading up to the event.
Beyoncé and Taylor Swift drove laps around NASCAR when it came to hotel bookings. Downtown lodging reservations peaked at 83% on the rain-soaked NASCAR weekend, the third lowest occupancy rate for Saturday nights in June and July, according to CoStar data.
Earlier this month, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Illinois) trumpeted record-breaking hotel revenue numbers for the just completed fiscal year in Illinois.
“Our tourism industry is back and it’s booming,” Pritzker declared on July 10. However, industry experts noted hotel revenue is more of a reflection of inflation and room rates than occupancy.
Room rates during the weekend of Swift’s show averaged $441 per night compared to $269 per night the weekend of Beyoncé’s show, according the Illinois Hotel and Lodging Association.
Conventions and business travel have yet to rebound to their pre-pandemic levels and the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association predicts it could be at least a year before they do.
“It speaks to the importance of bringing these large events downtown while we wait for business travel to recover,” Jacobson said.
Hotel staff are now buckling-up for what has traditionally been one of the busiest weekends of the year: Lollapalooza opens Thursday in Grant Park.
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Angus Cloud, the actor best known for playing Fezco on the HBO drama series “Euphoria,” has passed away.
He was 25.
TMZ first reported Cloud died in his family’s home in Oakland.
“It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today. As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways,” the family said in a statement. “Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss. The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
The Hollywood Reporter shared the following statement from HBO: “We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud. He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and Euphoria family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
The official Twitter account for “Euphoria” tweeted the same statement.
The reports did not list a cause of death.
Born in Oakland, California, Cloud was approached to appear on the HBO series while working at a restaurant near Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Cloud played Fezco “Fez” O’Neill in the show’s first two seasons. Fez is an area drug dealer and close friends with the show’s lead character Rue, played by Zendaya. Street-smart and skeptical, Fez is also a sensitive, though sometimes volatile, character who develops a romantic relationship with Lexi, played by Maude Apatow.
Cloud also appeared in the films “North Hollywood” and “The Line.”
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NEW YORK — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
That workers are overworked and underpaid is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended the economics of entertainment, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and televisions shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock rewrites with just one other writer.
“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
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SAN ANTONIO — Southside Independent School District claims to be the only school district in San Antonio to have metal detectors installed at every campus. The safety initiative has been in the works since last year following the Robb Elementary shooting.
“We’re taking all precautious. We take this very seriously,” said Randy Escamilla, Southside ISD director of public relations.
Southside ISD conducted a community survey, gathering community input on the idea of walk-through metal detectors. Escamilla said the survey garnered 80% support, which reinforced the district’s decision to move ahead with the project.
“It’s an exciting time to come back to school, and going through a metal detector will soon become normal,” Escamilla said.
Southside ISD spent $80,000 of school funds on 35 walk-through metal detectors. The devices are stationed at each schools’ various entrances.
The metal detectors have been in use since the end of the last academic year.
The Menchaca Early Childhood Center for example, is equipped with at least two metal detectors for students, staff and visitors to enter.
Administrators and teachers are among those responsible for ensuring each person is properly screened. If the machine goes off, staff will use a metal detector wand for additional inspection.
“Sometimes it’ll be their teachers who will be guiding them through, checking their bags. Any type of effort to make it comfortable for students, we’re going to take those measures,” Escamilla said.
April Mendez is beginning her second year at Southside ISD where she teaches pre-k 4 students at the Menchaca Early Childhood Center. Mendez hopes the metal detectors prove effective to improve security across the district.
Southside ISD has also installed an additional 600 security cameras and for the past few years, has had a police officer at each school.
“This has been the first school district where we’ve had actual metal detectors, but I think with the climate of school districts and circumstances in general, I think anything to keep our kids safe will do it,” Mendez said.
A Northside ISD spokesman said the district does not currently use walk-through metal detectors, although there have been early discussions on using the devices in a pilot program.
San Antonio ISD officials emailed KENS 5 saying the district does not have walk-through metal detectors at the campuses. The district did pilot a weapons screening system at graduation ceremonies and have leased a couple units for two years at athletic events.
To learn more about Southside ISD's security protocols, go here.
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Former President Trump’s dominance of the GOP field was underscored by a new poll released Monday.
The New York Times/Siena College poll showed Trump leading his closest rival for the nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, by a massive 37 points.
In the poll, Trump drew 54 percent support and DeSantis 17 percent. No other candidate registered higher than 3 percent support.
The poll was far from an outlier. Trump has maintained a lead of roughly 30 points over DeSantis in national polling averages for some time. There is no convincing evidence that any other contender is acquiring real momentum.
Given that Trump is showing such strength even while he has been indicted in two criminal cases, the question arises as to whether he is all but inevitable as the GOP nominee.
Here are the main arguments for and against that idea.
Trump is the inevitable nominee because…
His support looks rock-solid
Trump’s biggest political asset has been clear for years. His base voters are avid in their support and near-impervious to any negative information about him.
It’s more than seven years since then-candidate Trump told a crowd in Iowa, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”
Today, he stands accused of obstruction of justice and a series of other serious offenses in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. He is also charged with falsifying business records in a separate New York case.
Among Republicans, it hasn’t mattered.
In the New York Times poll, 71 percent of potential Republican primary voters said the GOP needed “to stand behind Trump” amid his charges, whereas only 22 percent argued there was no obligation to do so.
The exact same share — 71 percent — asserted that Trump was innocent of any “serious federal crimes.”
A general election would be a very different matter. But, within the GOP, there is every reason to think Trump has a lock on enough voters to carry him to the nomination.
His main rival is doing very poorly
DeSantis’s weakness has been a bigger surprise than Trump’s strength so far.
The Florida governor launched his campaign May 24 with a Twitter Spaces event marred by technical glitches. It was a sign of things to come.
DeSantis’s poll ratings have eroded over the two months-plus of his campaign to date. The national polling average maintained by data site FiveThirtyEight showed him drawing roughly 21 percent support on the day of his launch. He is now at roughly 16 percent.
The polling slide has been accompanied by broader campaign troubles. A recent series of staffing cuts has reduced his team by about one-third.
DeSantis’s backers publicly evince confidence that they are building a campaign for the long haul and that it will all come right in the end. The governor laid out an economic agenda in a New Hampshire speech Monday.
But as of today, DeSantis has seriously underperformed.
That’s very good news for Trump.
GOP voters don’t buy the argument that Trump is unelectable
Trump-skeptical GOP insiders coalesce around one central argument — that the former president would be a weak general election candidate, likely losing a winnable election.
As evidence they cite the 2020 election, when Trump lost the popular vote by more than 7 million votes to President Biden; his false claims of election fraud and the way they fueled the Capitol Riot of Jan. 6, 2021; his many legal challenges; and his low poll ratings among the general public.
In an Economist/YouGov poll released last week, Trump was seen favorably by 40 percent of the general public, and unfavorably by 57 percent. Self-professed independent voters broke against him on that question by almost 2-to-1.
But the GOP primary electorate, by and large, just doesn’t buy it. They believe Trump can defy the polls and pundits again, just as he did when defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The New York Times poll asked Republican voters whether Trump or DeSantis was better “able to beat Joe Biden.”
Fifty-eight percent went for Trump compared to 28 percent for DeSantis.
Unless those figures change drastically, it’s tough to see how Trump loses the nomination battle.
Trump is not the inevitable nominee because….
The campaign has barely begun
Today’s intense media coverage of every step of every campaign tends to lead to sweeping predications.
Many of those forecasts might seem premature.
The Iowa caucuses are more than five months away — an eternity in politics. The Republican National Convention, at which the nominee will be formally crowned, is almost a year away.
For the moment, Trump likely accrues some benefit from his near-universal name recognition.
In another Economist/YouGov poll earlier this month, the proportion of Republicans who said they didn’t know enough to express an opinion of a particular candidate stood at 9 percent for DeSantis, 21 percent for former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and 27 percent for former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
That gives those candidates room to grow, at least in theory, in a way that isn’t true for Trump.
Trump’s rivals could also hold out hope of game-changing moments during debate season, which is soon to begin. The first clash is set for Aug. 23 in Milwaukee.
Early polls are misleading
Trump’s rivals emphasize that predictions based on early polls in previous years were wrong.
That’s true — sort of. But it’s not quite so hard-and-fast a rule as the Trump skeptics claim.
In fact, in two of the last three contested Republican presidential primaries, the eventual winner was already leading the RealClearPolitics average at this point.
Trump had just burst into the lead in 2016, never to surrender it; and in 2012, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had already established a lead, which he would lose and regain. Romney is now a senator representing Utah.
The sole exception came in 2008, when Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) was in third place and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was leading the field. McCain went on to claim the nomination and Giuliani’s campaign sputtered into oblivion.
It’s not just a matter of polls. Campaigns can sometimes shift on a dime, as happened for the Democrats in 2020.
Then, Biden looked like a busted flush after trailing in fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire. A win in South Carolina — and a collective quiver of fear among moderate Democrats over the possibility of nominating Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — delivered the nomination to Biden.
Trump’s legal problems are getting worse
Even if Trump’s support has remained solid so far, it may not be destined to remain so.
What happens when the GOP has to focus fully on whether to nominate a candidate who could be convicted of serious offenses by the time Election Day rolls around?
Trump’s trial in the Mar-a-Lago matter has been set for May 20 next year.
Then there is the likelihood of Trump’s other troubles deepening.
An indictment is widely expected soon over Jan. 6. Trump himself wrote on Truth Social on Monday that he expected an indictment “any day now.”
In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) is wrapping up her probe into attempts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. Decisions on charges are expected in the next few weeks.
Every one of those cases, regardless of the verdicts, will put unflattering details of Trump’s behavior back in the spotlight — and could, perhaps, give some Republican voters second thoughts about nominating him.
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“They Cloned Tyrone” appears on its way to cult classic status in a hurry -- or just classic, cult or not -- and one Oscar-winning filmmaker is helping to fast-track it.
Barry Jenkins, the writer/director of 2016′s “Moonlight,” took to Twitter last weekend to lavish praise over the new Netflix film directed and co-written by Alabama native Juel Taylor.
“THEY CLONED TYRONE is… SOOOOOOO damn good!” Jenkins tweeted in a 3-part thread. “Like a modern day SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR with shades of EDGE OF TOMORROW and PLAYERS CLUB in the visual style of PEAK John McTiernan. And it’s just sitting there… on Netflix… getting a fraction of the flowers it deserves.”
McTiernan directed action classics “Predator” in 1987 and “Die Hard” in 1988.
Jenkins then zeroed in no Taylor, who was born in Tuskegee.
“It’s one of the best films Netflix has ever made and and a sizzling on-ramp for director Juel Taylor, who put both feet, his back and I’m sure all his folks backs into this,” Jenkins continued. “If this cat ain’t sittin at the DGA First Feature [nominee] table the system is broken, beyond impressed.”
Jenkins is referring to the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. Past winners include Jordan Peele, Bo Burnham and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Other nominees include Marielle Heller, Taylor Sheridan, Aaron Sorkin and Bradley Cooper.
Jenkins finished the thread with why the film hit him so hard. “I’ve been a bit down for personal reasons and seeing something like this totally lifted me, when a film can do that I tip my cap.”
The “If Beale Street Could Talk” director also tweeted a link to music featured in the film. “#nowplaying THEY CHOPPED TYRONE (INSPIRED BY THE FILM ‘THEY CLONED TYRONE’) by THE CHOPSTARS via @audiomack.”
This is obviously high praise from Jenkins, who frequently uses the platform to publicly support work of his fellow artists, new and old. His own feature debut “Medicine for Melancholy” released in 2008. Nearly a decade later, Jenkins took the film world by storm with “Moonlight,” which earned eight Academy Award nominations and three wins including best picture, adapted screenplay and supporting actor. The “Moonlight” win etched itself as one of the most famous moments in Academy Awards broadcast history when presenter Faye Dunaway initially announced “La La Land” as the winner. Her co-presenter Warren Beatty later stated that he had been mistakenly given a duplicate envelope.
“They Cloned Tyrone” is a brand new Netflix original film starring Jamie Foxx and John Boyega with multiple Alabama connections. The film, now streaming on Netflix, is directed and co-written by Taylor, a filmmaker born in Tuskegee with screenwriting credits that include high profile Hollywood productions like “Creed II” and “Space Jam: A New Legacy” prior to hopping in the director’s chair.
Written by Taylor and Tony Rettenmaier, “They Cloned Tyrone” depicts an eerie series of events that leads an unlikely trio (John Boyega, Teyonah Parris and Jamie Foxx) down a rabbit hole into a sinister neighborhood conspiracy. Filmed in Atlanta, it also stars David Alan Grier and Kiefer Sutherland. Watch the trailer above.
The film is a big winner with critics and streamers, scoring a 94% on the Tomatometer and a 100% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Taylor, 36, told The New York Times about what the article describes as “surprisingly personal” origins of the film’s complex sci-fi story. He said he knew he wanted to explore a “bootleg Scooby-Doo” mystery where the detectives are “inadequate” but “uniquely equipped” for solving the case. “I had this joke in my mind for a while, like ‘an entrepreneur, a pro, and a hustler walk into a bar and they end up solving a mystery,’” he told Netflix.
He said reconnecting with an old college friend whom he didn’t know suffered from depression changed his perspective on life, prompting him to incorporate thematic elements like blame, responsibility and identity into the story. He also talks about creating a fictional Southern neighborhood where much of the film takes place. Read the full NYT Q&A.
Taylor attended the University of Florida. He originally wanted to pursue video game design but transitioned to filmmaking after experimenting with music videos.
Taylor’s Hollywood resume keeps growing with a number of big screenwriting credits including “Creed II” and “Space Jam: A New Legacy.” Prior to “They Cloned Tyrone,” Taylor’s directing credits include several television series like “Twenties,” “Boomerang” and “A Guy, a Girl, and Their Monster.” Now, Taylor works with A-listers like Oscar-winner Foxx, “Star Wars” breakout Boyega and budding film and television star Teyonah Parris (“WandaVision,” “Candyman”).
Also appearing in the film is Huntsville native Suzanne Robertson, who plays “First Reporter,” a newswoman caught in the chaos of a growing phenomenon we won’t spoil. Robertson also served as the on-set visual effects coordinator for “They Cloned Tyrone.” Past visual effects credits include “Justice League,” “Bad Education,” “Beckett,” “Holidate,” “Hillbilly Elegy” and “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.”
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School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Tony B. Watlington, Sr., center, speaks at the mega-event launch of the district's annual back-to-school bus tours on Monday. — TRIBUNE PHOTOS/ABDUL R. SULAYMAN
School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Tony B. Watlington, Sr., center, speaks at the mega-event launch of the district's annual back-to-school bus tours on Monday. — TRIBUNE PHOTOS/ABDUL R. SULAYMAN
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Parents and children in front of Martin Luther King High School at the launch of the bus tours on Monday.
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Mayor Jim Kenney speaks at the launch of the bus tours on Monday.
School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Tony Watlington Sr., along with other school and city officials, kicked off its third annual back-to-school bus tour on Monday, but also promoted his strategic plan and a $70 million curriculum upgrade.
The tour got started at Martin Luther King High School on Stenton Ave., but will continue to about a dozen sites through Aug. 18.
“Parents can sign up for the parent’s portal so they can get important information throughout the school year and stay on top of our kid’s attendance and grades,” Watlington said. “Parents can learn how they can partner with the schools to make sure our students have excellent attendance this year.”
The school year starts on Sept. 5.
“It’s exciting to see our blue school buses decked out in their trademark Ring the Bell PHL, ready to roll and visit 11 sites across the city for the next month,” said Reginald Streater, Esq., president of the board of education. “In three years, our back-to-school bus tours have become a Philadelphia tradition.”
In July, the board of education unanimously approved “Accelerate Philly,” a five-year strategic plan for the school district “designed to accelerate student achievement by preparing them to imagine and realize the future they desire,” Watlington said.
After Watlington was hired in April 2022, he hosted 90 listening and learning sessions with more than 3,000 members from community groups, educators, family members and faith leaders, and then formed a transition team of educational experts to help shape the future of the 197,288-student district. With the help of 200 district officials, Watlington developed the strategic plan and priorities for the district.
Previously, Watlington was superintendent at the Rowan-Salisbury Schools in North Carolina.
According to Watlington, the new curriculum will start off with a focus on math and later will focus on reading.
“Last year, the percentage of students who attended 90% of every month increased from 57% to 60% and we want to get that number up to 90% this year,” Watlington said. “We made significant improvements last year and we want to partner with our parents to do to same this year.”
For example, teacher regular attendance was 84% last year, up from 77% in the previous school year, he said. In 2022, the number of students who dropped out of school declined by 265, compared to the previous year.
Councilmember Cindy Bass, D-8th District, said she was excited to have the kick off in her district.
“It sends a strong message about the importance of education throughout the city of Philadelphia,” Bass said. “This school [Martin Luther King H.S.] is well regarded in the community. King has really been the Northwest high school [since the closing of Germantown High School].
“We are making sure that young people are prepared on day one," Bass continued. "That sends the message that we care for you and we want good things for you and we are going to work to make that happen.”
Also present was Councilmember-at Large Kendra Brooks, WFP, and Stephen Fera, executive vice president of public affairs at Independence Blue Cross.
Mayor Jim Kenney, D., who championed the city’s free pre-kindergarten program, known as PHL-preK, was also in attendance. Since 2017, it has served 13,000 children ages 3-to-4. In the 2022-2023 school year, 4,300 children were enrolled.
“I care about education and I care about young people and I want to see them get a great start,” Kenney said. “It’s important that we invest in education. We’ve invested over a billion dollars in education during my administration.”
The bus tour is being sponsored by a grant from the Independence Blue Cross Foundation, along with partners such as Office Depot, Radio One and the Roosevelt Mall. There was also music along with food, including water ice and ice cream.
At the events, parents can register their children for school, get free required immunizations and physicals, get a free backpack with school supplies and students can participate in interactive educational activities.
To get more information on the bus tour schedule, please call 215-400-000 or go to the website: www.philasd.org/ringthebell.
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TEXAS, USA — Lawyers for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton requested Monday that all but one of 20 articles of impeachment be dismissed, arguing his removal would “override the will of the people” who elected him with knowledge of his alleged misconduct.
In a separate court filing, Paxton’s team also requested that his impeachment trial before the Texas Senate exclude any evidence of “any alleged conduct” that occurred prior to January 2023, when his third term in office began.
The second filing — which comes as all parties are under a strict gag order barring public comment on the proceedings and evidence — also blasted the House impeachment managers as “aggressive, reckless and misleading” with “little to no evidence whatsoever” to support the allegations against Paxton.
In their motion to dismiss, Paxton’s lawyers argued that almost all of the allegations outlined by House investigators were known to voters at the time of his most recent election, and that his impeachment would thus negate the will of Texas voters.
They also argued that Paxton’s impeachment would run afoul of the “prior-term doctrine,” which they said bars statewide officials from being impeached for conduct that predates their most recent election.
“With only a single exception, the articles (of impeachment) allege nothing that Texas voters have not heard from the Attorney General’s political opponents for years,” Paxton’s team wrote. “The alleged acts underlying 19 of the Articles took place before the Attorney General’s most recent election and were highly publicized.”
The unchallenged article against Paxton is related to the $3.3 million lawsuit settlement he reached with whistleblowers who were fired from his office after reporting Paxton to law enforcement for bribery and other alleged wrongdoing. The House’s investigation into Paxton began earlier this year, after he asked the Legislature to pay for the lawsuit settlement.
Paxton’s impeachment trial before Texas senators is set to begin Sept. 5.
Under rules previously adopted by the Senate, rulings on pretrial motions are expected to be made on the opening day of trial before opening statements. Approval of two-thirds of senators is required to dismiss an article of impeachment.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
This story comes from The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans - and engages with them - about public policy, politics, government, and statewide issues.
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(WEHT) — Indiana is known for plenty of things: corn, manufacturing and racing. However, Indiana is also big on another area, wrestling.
Whether that would be competition wrestling or entertainment wrestling, plenty of wrestlers have been born in Indiana, including some of the most recognizable in the industry.
Some names were involved with some of the biggest organizations in the country including World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) (now known as Impact Wrestling) and All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Here is a list of some of those names.
- The Funk Family (Dory, Dory Jr. and Terry)
- All born in Hammond, Indiana
- Ultimate Warrior
- Born in Crawfordsville as Jim Hellwig
- Known for high energy during matches, interviews and feud with Hulk Hogan, winning the WWE (then WWF) championship
- Mick Foley
- Born in Bloomington
- Known for three characters: Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love
- Known as hardcore legend
- Memorable feuds include: Undertaker, Triple H, The Rock and Randy Orton
- Dick the Bruiser
- Born in Delphi as William Afflis
- Went to college at Purdue
- Famous feuds include: Lou Thesz, Bobo Brazil, Angelo Poffo and “Classie” Freddie Blassie
- Former football player with Green Bay Packers
- B. Brian Blair
- Born in Gary
- Half of The Killer Bees in 80s
- Held position as Hillsborough County Commissioner District 6, 2004-2008
- Nick Dinsmore
- Born in Jeffersonville
- Best known as Eugene in WWE
- 8x OVW Heavyweight Champion and 11x OVW Southern Tag Team Champion
- Don Kent
- Born in Fort Benjamin Harrison as Leo “Joe” Smith Jr.
- Also known as The Black Dragon
- Roger Kirby
- Born in Muncie
- Real name Willis Kirby
- Trained by Dick the Bruiser and The Sheik
- Primarily competed with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
- Buck Weaver
- Born in Terre Haute
- Real name Ralph Weaver
- Died in 1956
- Rip Rogers
- Born in Seymour as Mark Sciarra
- Attended Indiana Central College
- Trained many stars as OVW trainer including Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Mark Henry, Bautista, Randy Orton and Pat McAfee
- Spike Huber
- Born in Indianapolis
- Son-in-law of Dick the Bruiser
- Tag team champions with Dick the Bruiser in 1979 and Wilbur Snyder in 1980
- Chief Lone Eagle
- Born in Hammond
- Danny Basham
- Born in Seymour as Daniel Richard Hollie
- Wrestled for WWE between 2003 and 2006, becoming tag team champion
- Wrestled for TNA as Damaja
- Bud Curtis
- Born in Terre Haute
- Real name as Hubert Curtis
- Died in 2006
- Miguel Torres
- Born in East Chicago, lives in Griffith
- Graduated from Purdue
- Wrestled in high school but known for MMA
- Former WEC Bantamweight Champion
- Fought for UFC
- Retired in 2016
- Lee Johnson
- Born in Gary
- Debuted in 2017
- Currently wrestles for All Elite Wrestling as a member of The Factory
- Chad Collyer
- Born in Richmond
- Trained by Dean Malenko and Jeff Bradley
- Wrestled for Heartland Wrestling Association, WWE, TNA, Ring of Honor (ROH), All Star Wrestling and OVW
- Mighty Wilbur
- Born in Logansport as Randall Buchanan
- Died in 2014
- Nate Webb
- Born in Indianapolis
- Wrestled for several promotions and former semi-pro football player
- Brian Costello
- Born in South Bend
- Wrestled for WWE from 1987 to 1992
- Jack Lipscomb
- Born in Indianapolis
- Dennis Hall
- Born in New Castle
- Known in the ring as Magnificent Max
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CHICAGO — The owners of the Chicago Blackhawks completed a purchase of another hockey team on Monday.
It’s one that helps to develop players before reaching the NHL level – and has done well doing so the past few years.
The Wirtz Corporation completed the purchase of the United States Hockey League’s Chicago Steel on Tuesday, making the team the latest to join the company’s business portfolio.
It’s the third hockey team that is owned by the corporation that was founded in 1926 by Arthur Wirtz and based in Chicago. They became full owners of the Blackhawks in 1966 and purchased the American Hockey League’s Rockford IceHogs in April 2021.
This acquisition comes just days after the death of company owner and CEO Rocky Wirtz at the age of 70 after a short illness on July 25. With his son Danny now leading the company, Wirtz Corporation completed the purchase of the Steel from Arlington Heights native Larry Robbins, who owned it since 2015.
He will remain on in an advisory role with the current hockey and business leadership in the franchise remaining in place through the transition.
“The Chicago Steel acquisition comes as a positive during a very difficult week for the Wirtz family due to the recent passing of Rocky Wirtz, but Rocky cared deeply about growing the game of hockey at all levels and was so excited about the opportunity to welcome this incredible junior program into the Wirtz Corporation portfolio,” said Wirtz Corporation chief financial officer in a statement. “We look forward to carrying on his legacy and supporting the Steel players and Steel organization with the resources needed to continue their great success.”
Founded in 1996 as the Fargo-Moorehead Ice Sharks, in the USHL, the team moved to Bensenville in 2000 and was renamed the Chicago Steel. Upon Robbins’ purchase of the franchise from Bruce Liimatainen and Mike Greenberg in May 2015, they moved to Geneva, where they currently call home.
Since that year, the Steel have won two Clark Cups and two Anderson Cups (USHL team with the most regular season points) while accumulating the most regular season wins (287) and playoff wins (29) in the USHL during that span. The Steel also has a strong track record of sending players to colleges along with professional hockey organizations.
- 160 players from the Steel since 2015 have earned NCAA Division I commitments.
- 39 players with ties to the franchise have been selected in the NHL Draft since 2015.
- 2021 No. 1 overall pick Owen Power (Sabres) and 2023 No. 3 overall pick Adam Fantilli (Blue Jackets) played for the Steel.
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Alabama’s two U.S. senators called President Biden irresponsible today for a “shameful” decision to leave U.S. Space Command Headquarters in Colorado and not move it to Huntsville, Ala., which ranked first in an official Pentagon review of possible headquarters sites.
“President Biden has irresponsibly decided to yank a military decision out of the Air Force’s hands in the name of partisan politics,” said U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) “Huntsville finished first in both the Air Force’s Evaluation Phase and Selection Phase, leaving no doubt that the Air Force’s decision to choose Redstone as the preferred basing location was correct purely on the merits.”
“As soon as Joe Biden took office, he paused movement on that decision and inserted politics into what had been a fair and objective competition,” U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said, “not because the facts had changed, but because the political party of the sitting president had changed.”
Tuberville called it “shameful” that Biden’s administration waited until “Congress had gone into recess and already passed next year’s defense budget before announcing this decision.”
“That decision should have remained in the Air Force’s purview,” Britt said. “Instead, President Biden is now trying to hand the Gold Medal to the fifth-place finisher. The president’s blatant prioritization of partisan political considerations at the expense of our national security, military modernization, and force readiness is a disservice and a dishonor to his oath of office as our nation’s Commander-in-Chief.
“Locating the permanent Space Command Headquarters on Redstone Arsenal undoubtedly remains in the best national security interest of the United States,” Britt said. “President Biden should allow the Air Force to proceed with doing its job. Alabama’s world-class aerospace and defense workforce, capabilities, and synergies stand ready to fulfill the mission and strengthen our national security long into the future.”
Tuberville said the top three choices for Space Command headquarters in the Pentagon site selection process were all in red states: Alabama, Nebraska and Texas. “Colorado didn’t even come close,” Tuberville said. “This decision to bypass the three most qualified sites looks like blatant patronage politics and it sets a dangerous precedent that military bases are now to be used as rewards for political supporters rather than for our security.”
“There remain serious questions as to whether the Air Force illegally used taxpayer dollars to upgrade facilities in Colorado Springs,” Tuberville said. “I hope that House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers will continue his investigation into that matter.” Rogers, a Republican, is a congressman from Alabama.
“This is absolutely not over,” Tuberville said. “I will continue to fight this as long as it takes to bring Space Command where it would be best served - Huntsville, Alabama.”
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On Monday, the District Attorney’s Office announced the conviction of LaTanya Griffin for aggravated assault and possession of an instrument of crime for the June 6, 2022, shooting of a 31-year-old man near SEPTA’s Market-Frankford line (the El).
“SEPTA video shows LaTanya Griffin exiting Jacks’ Bar early in the morning, about 12:30 a.m.,” said Assistant District Attorney Trey Flynn, supervisor of the D.A’s Homicide and Non-Fatal Shootings Unit.
Per the footage, Griffin and the victim talked on camera as though they were acquainted, then the victim turned and walked down Wister Street. “LaTanya Griffin screamed at him and shot him, and when he fell to the ground, she casually walked away while smoking a cigarette,” said Flynn.
The victim was treated at Temple Hospital and survived the assault.
The D.A.’s office said great detective work helped them to catch up to Griffin, but SEPTA’s state of the art cameras also played an important role.
“The incident occurred not on SEPTA, but very near to SEPTA, enabling police and a jury to identify the shooter,” said District Attorney Larry Krasner.
“We have more than 30,000 cameras on our buses, trolley’s, regional rail lines and trolleys, and they can catch perpetrators,” said John Golden, SEPTA’s media relations spokesperson. “Anytime the police need us, we are here."
The case was the subject of a press conference at The Rock Ministries in Kensington where Rev. Buddy Osbourne is the pastor. The church also runs a homeless shelter on the opposite side of the street, all beneath SEPTA's El line.
Despite these and other gun related incidents, shootings are actually down in Philadelphia compared to the last three years during the pandemic, according to the D.A.’s office.
As of Monday, there were 241 homicides in Philadelphia, said Krasner. At the same time last year, there were 317 homicides, a difference of 72 fatal cases.
“The levels of gun-violence remains unacceptable, but levels are improving and we should be encouraged,” said Krasner. “We have a long way to go, but [as] we look at the pandemic, we are halfway down the mountain.”
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana school districts now have the ability to request state funding for teacher handgun training if they so choose, and districts that opt-in could then allow certified teachers to carry on school grounds.
However, not every district is on board with the idea.
HB 1177, which passed last legislative session, stipulates districts would need to approve allowing staff to carry in the first place before any teacher could carry in the classroom. Teachers would also need to pass the MMPI-2, a standard psychological evaluation and 42.5 hours of firearms training with a qualified instructor.
”This is a fill-in-the-gap,” Derrick Turner, who owns Bare Arms, LLC, and Forged Kinetics, said. “It’s appropriate training.”
Turner currently runs a gun shop and a gun range. A large multipurpose room he’s currently renovating could soon start preparing teachers for what to do in the event of a school shooting.
“They can get experience to stimulus from an environment that is constantly changing, constantly moving…get exposure to that style of training that you don’t normally get,” Turner said. ”100% of these instances where there’s been an active shooter, they’ve all ended because of a gun.”
Turner said HB 1177 could help districts fill the gap in lieu of additional law enforcement.
”For some districts, counties, municipalities, town marshals, they don’t have the manpower to do that,” Turner said. ”You can fill that void and the kids can be protected by somebody who is adequately trained.”
However, several school corporations we reached out to aren’t so sure.
A statement from M.S.D. of Wayne Township reads in part:
- “M.S.D of Wayne Township is not actively engaged in this training and does not have plans in the near future to participate…“
A statement from Perry Township reads in part:
- “…No comment on this one…”
A statement from Jay School Corporation Superintendent Jeremy Gulley reads:
- “At this time, we do not currently plan to send any of our employees to training reimbursable by the school safety grant described in House Bill 1177. We currently use our school safety grant dollars (a state matching grant) to pay for our district school resource officer (SRO). We currently have employees who are authorized to access school-owned firearms to protect innocent life in the schools and have maintained this program since 2018. We ensure that these employees are properly selected and appropriately trained. Details defining our local selection and training requirements may be found in the attached document. Anyone authorized to access or carry a firearm in a school should be properly selected and appropriately trained. Policy-makers at the local, state, and national levels, should work together to fund a trained law enforcement officer at every school in the nation.
”Our schools being safer doesn’t mean putting more guns in the schools,” said Paul Farmer, president of the Monroe County Education Association.
Farmer said MCCSC will not participate in the program at this time, adding he does not think HB 1177 will ultimately make schools safer.
”We have a board policy that our SROs, and actually any individual for that matter, are not allowed to carry handguns,” Farmer said. ”Let’s use those resources for more counselors, more social workers, more mental health professionals more, you know, that work directly with our schools, those types of programs could be far, far better and actually reach far more students.”
Meanwhile, Turner recommends school districts who are interested in opting in should contact local law enforcement if they have questions about finding qualified firearms instructors. If a district opts in, every staff member who participates will be kept confidential.
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WASHINGTON — Actor Angus Cloud, known for his role in HBO's "Euphoria," has died. He was 25.
Cloud's publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given. TMZ first reported the news.
“It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today,” Cloud’s family said in a statement. “As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways. Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss. The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence."
The actor's death comes shortly after his father's death. Cloud had recently posted a picture of his father on Instagram with the caption "Miss you breh."
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
"We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud," the post read. "He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and Euphoria family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time."
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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July 2023—the 7th wettest July of the past 153 years with nearly half its days reporting rainfall—closes on a GORGEOUS NOTE Monday. The high temp is likely to end up 83-deg after a morning low of 64. Humidities and dew points have been eminently comfortable.
July rainfall comes in at 7.61″–more than twice normal at O’Hare and 3.90″ above the normal of 3.71″. But the 11.13″ at Midway was a new record for the South Side site where the observational record goes back to 1928. That tally beat the previous July rain record of 10.29″ recorded in 1996 by a wide margin.
Now we head into August—a month which ranks the 2nd warmest and 2nd wettest month of the year. A typical August sees normal temps start at 84/67 and cool modestly to 80/63 as daylight continues its slow seasonal decline.
Chicagoans have watched as the city has lost 47 minutes of its possible daily sunshine since our longest day (and first day of astronomical summer) back on June 21st. July 31st ends up with 2 minutes 5 seconds less potential daylight than 24 hours earlier. But the coming 31 days in August will see another 136 minutes of daylight disappear as the seasonal loss of daylight continues. But shorter days take a while to impact temps here. There’s plenty of warm weather yet to go before the chillier days of late autumn take hold.
The National Weather Service-Chicago Forecast Office has storm survey crews out in the field today continuing to examine storm damage from Friday night’s storms. The office is reporting confirmation of 6 tornadoes—-what are referred to as “QLCS” twisters—different from the conventional super cell-generated twister which is very often strong and longer lasting and which spins up under the rear southwest quadrant of supercells. By comparison, “QLCS” twisters tend to be weaker and don’t last as long. They also spin up along bow shaped t-storm lines on the front side of incoming squall lines. That was certainly the case Friday night. All six twisters are surveyed to have produce EF0 and EF1 level damage with winds generally in the 80 to 95 mph range. (The acronym “QLCS stands for “Quasi-Linear Convective System”–and the term applies to the bow-shaped squall line along which these tornadoes develop). Damage Friday night was done by straight line storm gusts as well.
The new work week opens much quieter with another beautiful day ahead tomorrow with a summer sky likely to be decorated by some cottony cumulus and a slight increase in humidity. There’s also some Canadian wild fire smoke creeping onto the scene again. The densest smoke if predicted north of Chicago—but we’re likely to see some colorful sunrises and sunsets due to the smoke in coming days.
Warmth and humidity build Wednesday and Thursday and a few isolated t-storms can’t be ruled out.
But it’s the coming weekend which will have to be monitored for more significant precipitation according to current model guidance. Not all models are on board with storms yet, but a blend of models would suggest showers and t-storms and an easterly wind will suppress temps and potentially open the heavens even as humidities take off and more humid air with dew points in the 60s takes hold.
HERE’S MY LATEST MONDAY CHICAGO METRO FORECAST (7/31/2023)
TONIGHT: Scattered clouds, comfortable. Low 63.
TUESDAY: Partly sunny and warm with moderate humidities and easterly lake breezes continuing. High 86—but closer to 80 on area beaches.
TUESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy, seasonable early August temps. Low 65.
WEDNESDAY: A good deal of cloudiness but with mixed sun at times. Chance of a few isolated t-storms mainly south of the city in the afternoon. High 89—but low to mid 80s on area beaches.
THURSDAY: Partly cloudy, quite warm a bit more humid. Several scattered t-storms can’t be ruled out—but coverage looks limited. High 89—but low 80s lakeshore.
FRIDAY: Partly sunny, hazy, warm and a bit humid. High 87—but upper 70s lakeshore.,
SATURDAY: Clouding over, more humid. Prospects for t-storms increase, particularly in the afternoon—but becoming more likely Saturday night. High 84.
SUNDAY: Humid with clusters of showers and t-storms likely. High 83—70s lakeshore.
MONDAY: Partly sunny.. High 83.
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A 22-year-old woman charged with capital murder is now behind bars in Alabama to face charges that she participated in the murder of a woman two years ago in DeKalb County.
Jessie Eden Kelly, 22, was booked into the Cherokee County Jail on July 22, according to jail records. Kelly, along with her mother Loretta Kay Carr, 45, of Fort Payne, was charged last month with capital murder-kidnapping in the October 2021 death of Mary Elizabeth Isbell.
Kelly was arrested in Pennsylvania on June 25 on a felony charge of arrest prior to requisition, and she faces felony burglary and stealing charges in Douglas County, Mo.
The remains of Isbell, who had been reported missing for almost two years, were identified June 30, on what would have been her 39th birthday, after their discovery in Little River Canyon National Park.
Isbell was reported missing by her ex-husband on Dec. 27, 2021. Detectives with Hartselle police used phone records to determine she had been living in the DeKalb County area on Lookout Mountain.
A search of her residence and vehicle turned up physical evidence - including signs of a struggle - which was entered into a national database, authorities said.
The discovery of her remains came after a tip last month. Authorities believe Isbell’s death occurred sometime between the evening of Oct. 18 and the early morning of Oct. 19, 2021.
The three women knew each other through a man, an investigator said following Carr’s arrest.
Though investigators suspected Isbell’s body was somewhere in the area of park, they were unsure of its exact location until they received information from one of the suspects.
A hearing is scheduled for Carr on Wednesday. Her lawyers earlier this month sought body camera footage from the search of her residence and questioning, and want to bar statements from lawyers and authorities on the case, as well as cameras from her trial.
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty.
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SEPTA continues to investigate a series of accidents that caused a fatality and over two-dozen injuries across the city and region, a spokesperson confirmed Monday.
The transit authority's many lines of service have seen five accidents involving buses or trolleys in late July. The crashes have happened across Philadelphia with one in Upper Darby involving suburban street trolleys.
The most recent event, Thursday's crash of a trolley under repair leaving the Elmwood Depot and crashing into a historic home in Cobbs Creek, is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. In an interview, the SEPTA spokesperson said the other four incidents are being handled internally.
"We're very concerned by these incidents. Having this number of incidents is very concerning," the spokesperson said. "We try to assure our riders that it's safe to ride the system."
In response to the accidents, SEPTA has added a new round of "Safety Stand-downs," where safety officers meet with operators to discuss concerns over vehicles and procedures. They usually occur twice a year.
While riders and other stakeholders have expressed concerns over staffing levels, the spokesperson said there is "nothing immediately we have" in the evidence that "points to" staffing shortages being at fault for any of the crashes. SEPTA is about 150 short of their budgeted headcount of 2,700 operators across bus, subway and trolley lines.
Training classes have increased in size over the past year, but adjustments are still being made to match operator availability with rider demand, which is close to 70% of pre-pandemic levels.
"This may be an opening for more conversations," the spokesperson said regarding staffing levels and ensuring operators are getting enough rest. "The staffing has certainly been a challenge. We have made some progress with it."
TWU Local 234 represents over 5,000 SEPTA employees. Their president, Brian Pollitt, said in a statement, "Different factors were involved in each of these recent accidents. The union is investigating the incidents of last week so that we can advise SEPTA on how to avoid these events in the future."
The spokesperson said SEPTA has communicated with city and state elected officials during the process. Rep. Ed Neilson, chair of the House Transportation Committee in Harrisburg, said there are plans for meeting with SEPTA and possibly a local public hearing in September.
In a statement, a city spokesperson expressed thanks to the first responders who assisted after the accident in the Northeast that killed a 72-year-old male passenger and injured 19 other people when two buses collided. "Traffic crashes are a serious public safety threat to Philadelphians and any life lost on our streets is completely unacceptable," the statement said. "Although thisfatal crash is still an open investigation and the cause of the crash has not been determined, we know we can save lives by continuing to make common-sense changes to our street system that prioritize the safety of people in our roadways regardless of how they travel."
The SEPTA spokesperson said the four internal investigations should take an additional two to three weeks.
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CARMEL, Ind. — Ty Boyd saw the lay-off notice coming.
“I’ve already got jobs lined up because I kinda seen the writing on the wall,” said the soon-to-be unemployed staffer at Praxis of Carmel, one of three Indiana drug treatment facilities whose licenses were revoked last week by Indiana’s Family and Social Services Agency (FSSA).
There has not been any kind of public explanation for why FSSA pulled the licenses.
The affected facilities include Praxis of Carmel, Praxis Treatment of Fort Wayne, and Praxis of South Bend. A spokesperson for FSSA says the facilities were told last week not to accept any new patients and to transfer or discharge current patients by Aug. 17.
While news of the revoked license was spreading around the state, Landmark CEO Matt Boyle emailed employees at the facilities to assure them they would fight the revocations and that employees “need not worry about their job security.”
Two days later, furlough notices arrived in workers’ inboxes. COO AJ Henry explained the loss of the licenses prompted Medicaid to cancel its contracts with the facilities leading to the decision to lay off workers for 30 days.
Boyd is just wondering how he’ll make ends meet without the next two paychecks.
“Now, rent’s gonna be due. Mortgage is gonna be due. Your car payments and insurance all those things are gonna be due,” he said.
In a subsequent email, Boyle told employees he was encouraged that Landmark has “an airtight case to our licenses restored quickly”, adding “The State of Indiana acted illegally on the basis of hearsay.”
FOX59 also received an email from Boyle today stating that in the coming days, he will be releasing “a more concrete statement about what happened” in the soon-to-be shuttered drug treatment facilities.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A brightly flashing “X” sign has been removed from the San Francisco headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter just days after it was installed.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said Monday it received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure over the weekend, including concerns about its structural safety and illumination.
The Elon Musk-owned company, which has been rebranded as X, had removed the Twitter sign and iconic blue bird logo from the building last week. That work was temporarily paused because the company did not have the necessary permits.
The city of San Francisco had opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the giant “X” sign that was installed Friday on top of the downtown building as Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
Representatives for X did not immediately respond to a message for comment Monday.
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Not every Madison County school will have a fulltime student resource officer when the academic year starts on Aug. 2.
But Madison County Schools, Madison County Sheriff’s Department and county officials said they were working to make sure there was an SRO on all of the district’s 28 campuses at some point in the school day. The district has almost 20,000 students.
“We have to look at this as kind of a work in progress,” Madison County Commission Chairman Mac McCutcheon said at the commission’s meeting on July 19.
He, Sheriff Kevin Turner and Superintendent Ken Kubik have had discussions about reaching the goal of having one on every campus, and McCutcheon, a former law enforcement officer, believes campuses will be fully staffed next year.
The commission approved an agreement for 19 officers this school year with the district and the sheriff’s department, with the entities sharing the cost for salaries, equipment and vehicles. The SROs will also have a supervisor sergeant.
Madison County Chief Deputy Stacy Bates told the commission nine schools will not have an SRO fully dedicated to their campuses. And Bates said some of the 19 SROs will cover multiple schools.
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Over the weekend, crime in Philadelphia includes an attack with a machete in Center City and the death of a local high school football star. — Public Records.com
Naeem Pankey, 22, of Frankford, was identified by police as the homicide victim in a shooting on Saturday on the 1300 block of Arrott Street. Pankey, who graduated from Imhotep Institute Charter High School in 2019, was a local, high school football star who had been praised in the Wilkes-Barre Citizen’s Voice online newspaper. He was also recognized by Varsity 570, which covers high school sports stats in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Pankey died of gunshot wounds to the leg, shoulder, back and lower body during a shootout around 9:24 p.m. He was transported to Temple University Hospital where he died of his injuries. No arrests were made and the investigation is ongoing with the Police Homicide Investigations Unit, according to Officer Tanya Little of Police Media Affairs.
Also this weekend, a 31-year-old man was also shot in the 2500 block of Reese Street. The man was shot once in the neck, once in the back and twice in the hand. The incident took place at 11:22 a.m., Saturday. No weapons were recovered and police are still investigating.
On Sunday in North Philadelphia, a 24-year-old man was shot multiple times in the 900 block of Ontario Street at 6:03 a.m. He was rushed to Temple University Hospital and was placed in critical condition, according to police.
In Center City, a woman claiming self-defense struck a man with a machete in the lobby of the Best Western Plus Philadelphia Convention Center Hotel on Sunday at 10:35 a.m. Police found a man, dressed only in his underwear, sitting in the lobby and bleeding from the top of his head when they arrived. The woman said that the man had sexually assaulted her.
The man was detained by police and was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for treatment. The woman was also transported to an area hospital. No charges have been filed and the there is an ongoing investigation with the police Special Victim’s Unit.
The District Attorney’s Office asked for the public’s help in finding perpetrators in the Saturday shooting of a 30-year-old man on Musgrave Street. The man was shot in the leg and is listed at Einstein Hospital in stable condition.
There was also a double shooting the same day in West Tioga. A 23-year-old man was shot in the head and was pronounced dead. A second victim was shot in the arm and was in stable condition.
Anyone with information should contact the Philadelphia Police Department.
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(WTTV/WXIN) — Google is making it easier for people to regain control of their phone numbers that were stolen by scammers and attached to Google Voice accounts and used for spam calls.
Last year, the Identity Theft Resource Center reported about 4,000 complaints from people who had their phone numbers hijacked by crooks. That made up about 61% of all identity theft reports they received.
Google Voice is popular among scammers because it allows you to make international calls. However, you have to have a valid phone number attached to the account, so bad guys have been stealing phone numbers to make their crooked calls.
Victims suddenly start getting angry calls and text messages from people telling them to stop contacting them even though they’re not the ones making the call with their number.
Scammers usually steal phone numbers by posing as interested buyers and sellers in online marketplaces. Then they try to convince you to share your Google verification code in order to attach your phone number to a Google Voice account.
If this has happened to you or someone you know, Google has a process to regain control of the number.
Go online to “Google Voice Help,” scroll down and click on “protect your verification code.” Scroll down again and click on “disconnect your number from Google Voice.”
The next page says “take your number back.” That’s where you can enter your phone number and click on “send the code.” Google will text you the code, and once you enter that on the website, you’re done.
At that point, your number should be disconnected from Google Voice services and the bad guys can’t use it anymore. Even if this hasn’t happened to you, it’s still a good reminder to never share your Google verification code with somebody you don’t know.
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Nigeria President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, second from left, poses, for a group photograph with other West Africa leaders after a meeting in Abuja Nigeria on Sunday. — AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu
NIAMEY, Niger — Economic sanctions could severely hurt one of the world’s poorest nations after a coup unseated one of the West’s last democratic partners against Islamic extremists in West Africa’s Sahel region.
Niger’s neighbors are also threatening armed intervention against the junta run by the head of the presidential guard, although analysts say there is only a slim chance of the regional body successfully sending troops.
Both the United States and France have sent forces and hundreds of millions of military and humanitarian aid in recent years to Niger, which was a French colony until 1960. The French and the US train Nigerien forces, and the French military carries out joint operations in the north.
Since the coup that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, people have been toting Russian flags and praising that country in pro-junta demonstrations.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Niger in March to strengthen ties and announce $150 million in direct assistance, calling the country “a model of democracy.” France pulled out of Mali last year and has some 1,500 troops in Niger.
The West African regional body known as ECOWAS announced travel and economic sanctions against Niger on Sunday over the coup and said they would use force if the coup leaders don’t reinstate him within one week.
Since the 1990s, the 15-nation bloc has unsuccessfully tried to protect democracies against the the threat of coups, with mixed success.
Niger relies heavily on foreign aid and sanctions could further impoverish its more than 25 million people. ECOWAS suspended all commercial and financial transactions between its member states and Niger, as well as freezing Nigerien assets held in regional central banks.
The sanctions could be disastrous and Niger needs to find a solution to avoid them, the country’s Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou told French media outlet Radio France Internationale on Sunday.
“When people say there’s an embargo, land borders are closed, air borders are closed, it’s extremely difficult for people ... Niger is a country that relies heavily on the international community,” he said.
Four nations are run by military governments in West and Central Africa, where there have been nine successful or attempted coups since 2020.
In the 1990s, ECOWAS intervened in Liberia during its civil war, one of the bloodiest conflicts in Africa and one that left many wary of intervening in internal conflicts. In 2017, ECOWAS intervened in The Gambia to prevent the new president’s predecessor, Yahya Jammeh, from disrupting the handover of power. Around 7,000 troops from Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal entered the country, according to the Global Observatory, which provides analysis on peace and security issues. The intervention was largely seen as accomplishing its mission.
If the regional bloc uses force, it could trigger violence not only between Niger and ECOWAS forces but also between civilians supporting the coup and those against it, Niger analysts say.
“While this remains to be a threat and unlikely action, the consequences on civilians of such an approach if putschists chose confrontation would be catastrophic,” said Rida Lyammouri, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a Morocco-based think tank.
Lyammouri also said he does not see a “military intervention happening because of the violence that could trigger.”
Blinken on Sunday commended the resolve of the ECOWAS leadership to “defend constitutional order in Niger” after the sanctions announcement, and joined the bloc in calling for the immediate release of Bazoum and his family.
The military junta, which seized power on Wednesday when members of the presidential guard surrounded Bazoum’s house and detained him, is already cracking down on the government and civil liberties.
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(WXIN) — Angus Cloud, the 25-year-old actor known for playing Fezco on HBO’s “Euphoria,” has died at his family’s home in Oakland, his family and multiple Hollywood news sources confirm.
In a statement sent to TMZ, the first outlet to report the death, Cloud’s family confirmed his passing.
“It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today,” the statement read. “As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways.”
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss. The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend,” the statement continued. “Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
A rising star in Hollywood, Cloud was likely best known for portraying Fezco, or Fez, on the teen drama series “Euphoria”. He had just celebrated his 25th birthday two weeks prior on July 10.
Cloud’s family, TMZ reports, has not provided any information regarding the actor’s exact cause of death.
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Black Republicans and fellow GOP presidential hopefuls continue to slam Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over new standards for how Black history is taught in Florida schools.
The social studies standards, which DeSantis has repeatedly defended, include teaching middle-schoolers that "slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."
On Sunday, Will Hurd, a former Republican congressman from Texas who is also running for the Republican presidential nomination, said that "slavery is not a jobs program."
"Anybody that is implying that there was an upside to slavery is insane," Hurd said on NBC News's "Meet the Press."
Hurd said he was surprised that DeSantis continues to voice support for the standards, but called his behavior "one more part of a fact pattern of Ron DeSantis being mean and hateful."
"It'd be hard to make the case, if Ron DeSantis was the Republican nominee, that folks in Black and Brown communities should support him," Hurd said when asked whether DeSantis has "disqualified himself." "Folks in the LGBTQ community won't support him because of his hateful rhetoric toward all my friends in the LGBTQ community."
In response to a request for comment, DeSantis's campaign forwarded a tweet featuring comments the governor made Friday, saying he was "defending my state of Florida against false accusations and against lies."
DeSantis is parrying the criticism over Florida schools as he is struggling to reboot his campaign after falling flat in public polls of the GOP presidential race, which is dominated by Donald Trump.
Over the past week, the governor has faced criticism from multiple Black Republicans over his decision to defend the controversial curriculum issued by the state Board of Education. While DeSantis first sought to distance himself from the standards, earlier this month, he said the curriculum is "probably going to show" that "some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life."
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), the only Black Republican representing Florida in Congress, has pushed back against the curriculum, tweeting that "the attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong & needs to be adjusted."
"That obviously wasn't the goal & I have faith that [the Florida Department of Education] will correct this," Donalds said.
The new Florida standards also drew a rebuke from Vice President Harris. During a visit to the state this month, she emphasized that slavery involved rape, torture and "some of the worst examples of depriving people of humanity in our world." DeSantis has dismissed Harris's remarks, accusing her in a statement of lying "about Florida's educational standards to cover for their agenda of indoctrinating students and pushing sexual topics onto children."
Other Republican presidential candidates also criticized DeSantis's stance Sunday.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy told CNN's "State of the Union" that while he hasn't read the curriculum in detail, "obviously, we should be teaching kids about the awful legacy of slavery."
"But even more importantly, we're not teaching them enough about the ideals that actually do define this country," he said. "Personally, I think the deeper problem in our schools today is many of them teaching young Black kids, students and minorities that they're oppressed based on the color of their skin or their genetic attributes. That's the real psychological slavery in the present, and that's what I have the biggest problem with."
And Nikki Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who is also running for president, told CBS's "Face the Nation" that, in the 21st century, "we can all agree that there . . . were no positives that came out of slavery."
"[DeSantis] should come out and say no positives came out of slavery," she said. "I think that's what these Republicans and Democrats have asked him to say. We'll see what he does."
On Friday, presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, also rebuked DeSantis while speaking to reporters on the campaign trail in Iowa.
"As a country founded upon freedom, the greatest deprivation of freedom was slavery," Scott said. "There is no silver lining . . . in slavery. . . . What slavery was really about [was] separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their wives. It was just devastating. So, I would hope that every person in our country - and certainly running for president - would appreciate that."
Later Friday, during a campaign stop in Iowa, DeSantis seemingly took a swipe at Scott, who is currently seen as his strongest rival to challenge Trump for the GOP nomination. Asked what he thought about Scott's comments, DeSantis said that "part of the reason our country has struggled is because D.C. Republicans all too often accept false narratives, accept lies that are perpetrated by the left."
He did not elaborate on what lies he was accusing Scott of accepting.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida is seeing a rise in leprosy cases that could mean the disease has become endemic in the Sunshine State, according to a letter published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The letter, which was published in mid-July, said while leprosy is historically uncommon in the United States, cases more than doubled in the South over the last 10 years.
Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s Disease, is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae and is characterized by discolored patches of skin, ulcers, lumps and damage to the nerves.
The CDC said if untreated, the disease can progress to paralysis, blindness, the loss of one’s eyebrows, physical disfigurement, and even the “shortening of toes and fingers due to reabsorption.”
The Florida Department of Health said the disease first appeared in the state in 1921. The National Hansen’s Disease Program found that 159 cases of leprosy were reported in 2020. Florida was at the top of the list of states with the most new cases.
According to the Florida Health Charts, the state had 26 reported cases in 2019, 27 in 2020, and 14 in 2021.
“Central Florida, in particular, accounted for 81% of cases reported in Florida and almost one-fifth of nationally reported cases,” the letter said. “Whereas leprosy in the United States previously affected persons who had immigrated from leprosy-endemic areas, [about] 34% of new case-patients during 2015–2020 appeared to have locally acquired the disease.”
A disease becomes endemic when it occurs regularly within a certain community or area.
The CDC letter said multiple cases showed no sign of animal-to-human transmission or “traditionally known risk factors.”
One patient, a 54-year-old man in Central Florida, was treated at a dermatology clinic for a progressive rash caused by leprosy.
When asked, the man said he had lived in Central Florida his whole life, did not travel domestically or internationally, had no exposure to armadillos (which can carry the disease), had no contact with immigrants with endemic leprosy, and had no connection to someone with the disease.
Experts said there was some support for the theory that an increase in migration from other countries to the United States may have caused the disease to enter non-endemic areas. However, while leprosy cases are increasing in the U.S., the rate of new cases in people born outside of the U.S. had been on a decline since 2002.
“This information suggests that leprosy has become an endemic disease process in Florida, warranting further research into other methods of [local] transmission,” the letter said.
In the state of Florida, medical practitioners must report leprosy by the next business day so contact tracing can be done and reduce further infections.
“In our case, contact tracing was done by the National Hansen’s Disease Program and revealed no associated risk factors, including travel, zoonotic exposure, occupational association, or personal contacts,” the letter said. “The absence of traditional risk factors in many recent cases of leprosy in Florida, coupled with the high proportion of residents, like our patient, who spend a great deal of time outdoors, supports the investigation into environmental reservoirs as a potential source of transmission.”
The CDC said travel to Florida must now be considered when conducting contact tracing for leprosy in any state.
Leprosy, when contracted, can be treated by a combination of different antibiotics to prevent it from developing resistance to the medication, according to the CDC. Leprosy can be cured after one or two years of treatment.
However, even when cured, any nerve damage and disfigurement caused by the disease will be permanent.
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FILE - New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver speaks to supporters during an election night party in Asbury Park, N.J., Nov. 2, 2021. Oliver, who is currently serving as acting governor while Gov. Phil Murphy is out of the state, has been taken to a hospital for an undisclosed issue. Murphy spokesman Mahen Gunaratna said in a statement Monday, July 31, 2023 that Oliver, 71, was taken to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston and is unable to carry out the duties of acting governor. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, file)
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who is currently serving as acting governor while Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is out of the state, has been taken to a hospital for an undisclosed medical issue.
Oliver, 71, was taken to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston and is unable to carry out the duties of acting governor, Murphy's spokesperson Mahen Gunaratna said in a statement Monday. Under the state constitution, Democratic Senate President Nicholas Scutari will serve as acting governor.
Gunaratna said Oliver was receiving "medical care" but declined to elaborate.
Murphy's office has said he's out of the country on a family vacation in Italy, where he owns a home.
Oliver, a Democrat, has served as the state's second lieutenant governor since 2018. She concurrently serves as the head of the Department of Community Affairs, which coordinates state aid to towns and cities and oversees code enforcement.
In 2010, she became the first African-American woman to serve as speaker of the state Assembly in the state's history.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A man was shot by police after investigators say he fired shots outside a Jewish school in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday.
Police said the man, who has not yet been identified, was trying to get into the Margolin Hebrew Academy before fleeing the scene in a maroon pickup truck with California tags.
Officers spotted the vehicle in the Berclair area and initiated a traffic stop. Memphis Police said the man got out of the pickup truck with a gun in his hand and was shot by an officer.
The suspect was taken to Regional One in critical condition. No other injuries were reported.
The Margolin Hebrew Academy confirmed no one at the school was injured during the incident.
“We can confirm that no one has been hurt in any way, and everyone is now safe, thank G-d. Please look out for further communication with additional information to come. In the meantime, our campus is completely closed. We thank you for your understanding,” the academy said in a statement.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is now investigating the situation.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools said all of their schools were on a precautionary lockdown as police investigated the situation.
Assistant Police Chief Don Crowe commended the Hebrew academy for their safety procedures and Memphis officers for finding the suspect so quickly.
“Today is a great example of very vigilant officers trying to protect the city. I personally believe that we have avoided a tragedy. I believe the suspect was going to harm somebody before the day was over,” he said.
MPD Chief CJ Davis also recognized the officers for their actions.
“I am proud of the vigilant and quick response of MPD officers who mitigated a potential mass shooting situation today. Many thanks to our neighboring jurisdictions for also providing critical information to stop the suspect’s actions,” she said.
Police said they cannot determine if the shooting at the Hebrew academy was a hate crime at this time.
Congressman Steve Cohen released a statement in response to the incident saying, “I am shocked to know of this senseless incident and relieved at report that no one at the school was injured. Antisemitism is on the rise in this country. I am saddened that an apparent act of violent antisemitism has come to Memphis. We all need to be on our guard against antisemitism and white nationalism.”
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James Hugo Warren III, a third-generation publisher who founded the Philadelphia New Observer, died on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. He was 72.
He became a publisher and established the Philadelphia New Observer in 1979 after being inspired by both his father and grandfather.
A weekly newspaper with a focus on African Americans, the New Observer was created to inform the neighborhood about important events and issues that affected their daily lives.
"Hugo helped me travel and see the sports world with an objective and realistic eye and writer's style," said Walter Davis, a journalist who was introduced to Warren by former broadcaster and community leader Sonny Hill.
His profound maturity and leadership were recognized when he was a child, earning him the moniker "little man."
Born in Philadelphia to the late J. Hugo Warren II and Ruth G. Warren on Oct. 11, 1950, he was the second oldest of three children. He went to Overbrook High School and was drafted into the U.S. Army's Airborne Division during the Vietnam era.
As the president of the New Observer, Warren brought attention to social justice and equality.
He received many awards as a result, including the African American Legends Hall of Fame award, the National Newspaper Publishers Honor Award, and the mayor's proclamation for exceptional community service from the city of Philadelphia.
"I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Hugo Warren," said photojournalist and WURD radio host David Barnes. "It was Hugo Warren and Helen Blue that let me know that my images have value."
He is survived by his children, Safiyyah Warren Moore (Chris) and James H. Warren IV; grandchildren, Christopher Moore Jr. and Warren Moore; sister, Michelle Warren Floyd; nephew, Bradley Floyd III; niece, Alexis Lee (Quin); and other family members and friends.
Services were held on Saturday, July 22, at Khadijah Alderman Funeral Service.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Hip-hop superstar Cardi B drew attention on social media over a video showing her lashing out during a Las Vegas performance after someone threw a drink at her while she was onstage.
Video circulated online over the weekend after a TikTok user posted footage of the incident at Drai’s Beachclub on the Las Vegas Strip.
The clip shows the hip-hop performer onstage during the event when someone in the audience hurls liquid, splashing the rapper. Cardi B can be seen retaliating by throwing her microphone into the audience in the direction from which the liquid was launched.
According to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, a woman came into a police station on Sunday to report a “battery.” She told officers that she had been struck by an item thrown from the stage on Saturday. Police said the incident had been documented, but no arrest or citations had been issued.
It’s unclear if that woman, who has not been identified, threw the drink at Cardi B.
The event made waves on social media as many excoriated the person who threw the liquid. They compared the situation to similar events that have happened in recent weeks: Bebe Rexha suffered a black eye after being struck by a cellphone, country singer Kelsea Ballerini was hit in the face by a bracelet, rapper Sexyy Red ended a show early when fans refused to stop throwing water bottles on stage, a fan threw their mother’s ashes at Pink while she was performing, Ava Max was slapped while performing in Los Angeles, and Harry Styles was hit in the eye with an object during a Houston performance.
Others noted humorously that although Cardi B had thrown her microphone, her song “Bodak Yellow” – and her recorded vocals – continued uninterrupted.
“The song didn’t stop. Y’all listening to an iPad,” said one X (formerly known as Twitter) user.
There was no indication if charges would be filed in the Cardi B incident.
Cardi B recently completed 15 days of community service in New York after pleading guilty to multiple charges filed against her following a 2018 fight at a strip club in Queens.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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“Jay Leno’s Garage” has featured a wide variety of cars, but this 1923 McFarlan Model 154 Knickerbocker Cabriolet is truly one of a kind.
The car is part of California’s Nethercutt Collection, and Vice President Cameron Richards believes it’s the only surviving example.
Originally based in Connersville, Indiana, McFarlan was a carriage builder that moved into car production, but it focused more on luxury than volume, building only 600 cars per year between 1910 and 1928.
McFarlan didn’t do things in half measures. The Model 154 weighs 5,200 pounds and, behind its Rolls-Royce-like grille, sits a 572-cubic-inch inline-6 with 18 spark plugs and four valves per cylinder. Those valves are arrayed on either side of the combustion chambers in a T-head arrangement, which was preferred at the time because of low quality gasoline, Leno explains in the video. The T-head eased cooling, lessening the chance of detonation.
All of those valves and spark plugs generated 120 hp, which is channeled to the rear wheels through a 3-speed manual transmission with a modern H-pattern shifter.
This car was owned by Roscoe Conkling “Fatty” Arbuckle, a famous comedian in the period, and sports a fold-out canopy and director’s chair so the star could relax during rest stops. The driver was less fortunate. Arbuckle’s Model 154 has a popular body style for the period, with a covered rear compartment but an open cockpit.
While forgotten today, the McFarlan was once considered an American rival to Rolls-Royce, Richards notes. Leno agrees with that, comparing the car from Indiana to a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost. Unlike Rolls-Royce though, McFarlan didn’t survive. The firm went bankrupt and was eventually bought by Auburn, another ill-fated Indiana automaker.
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The last known Volkswagen Type 2 Schulwagen, a version used to train dealership staff, has resurfaced after 43 years.
Owned by collector Lind Bjornsen, the restored Schulwagen made its public debut last month in Huntington Beach, California, on International VW Bus Day. The event celebrated the Type 2, also known as the Microbus, and marked the U.S. debut of the iconic van’s spiritual (and electric) successor—the Volkswagen ID.Buzz.
The Schulwagen, German for “school vehicle,” came about after VW terminated its contract with U.S. importer Max Hoffman and set up its own U.S. division, Volkswagen of America (now part of Volkswagen Group of America).
Taking over U.S. sales operations meant setting up a dealer network, which VW representatives Will Van De Camp and Geoffrey Lange started doing in 1954. The following year they had VW send over three service tech trainers and a pair of Type 2 vans to travel to dealerships and train staff to work on Beetles and Microbuses. Based on the Type 2 Kombi model, the Schulwagen fleet eventually totaled 14 vehicles costing more than $5,000 each—making them the most expensive VW models at the time.
This Schulwagen sat in an Ohio barn for 43 years, according to VW. It was purchased by Bjornsen, who removed 10 layers of paint to find the original Volkswagen of America lettering which, along with some unique equipment like a rear workbench, proved the van’s provenance. The factory subsequently confirmed that the barn find was delivered to VW of America in January 1955. The van was then restored to original condition over the course of five months.
Americans will have to wait a bit longer for a new VW Bus. The ID.Buzz is scheduled to arrive here next year as a 2025 model. It will bring with it three rows of seats, a larger battery pack, and a more powerful electric motor than the versions already on sale in other markets. This high-end version of the electric VW Bus probably won’t be used for dealer training, but it will have something in common with the Schulwagen. With an expected price of about $65,000, it will also be among the most expensive Volkswagens currently on sale.
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BRIGHTON, Iowa (AP) — You-pick farms are struggling through heat, drought and haze as customers cancel picking appointments and crops across Iowa refuse to grow.
These farms offer visitors the chance to harvest their own produce straight from the tree, bush or ground.
But this summer marks Iowa’s third year in a row of drought. And that is hurting farmers who grow water-intensive crops like blueberries and strawberries that are particularly sensitive to heat and drought, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported.
Kim Anderson told The Gazette that her well started faltering during last summer’s heat and drought at her 5-acre Blueberry Bottom Farm near Brighton in southeastern Iowa.
Many of her blueberry bushes became parched. And recently, for the first time in the farm’s five-season history, she had to cancel a day of picking appointments because there weren’t enough ripe berries.
“I just never anticipated something like this, that the well wouldn’t have enough water,” she said.
Similarly, Dean Henry told The Gazette that these are the worst conditions he has seen in his 56 years of operating the Berry Patch Farm in Nevada in central Iowa.
Henry said the Iowa Department of Natural Resources restricted his well water usage from 20 acres a day to 1 acre a day. But his strawberry plants need lots of water.
This year, his entire crop failed.
The heat has affected customers too. Some you-pick farms reported a decrease in customer visits, according to The Gazette. If people do come, they aren’t staying as long as normal to take in the entertainment at the farms, like picnic tables or games.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires also caused Iowa skies to grow hazy and air quality to be poor several times this summer. Customers canceled their appointments on especially hazy days, Anderson said.
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HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark’s foreign minister said Sunday the government will seek to make it illegal to desecrate the Quran or other religious holy books in front of foreign embassies in the Nordic country.
Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said in an interview with the Danish public broadcaster DR that the burning of holy scriptures “only serves the purpose of creating division in a world that actually needs unity.”
“That is why we have decided in the government that we will look at how, in very special situations, we can put an end to mockery of other countries, which is in direct conflict with Danish interests and the safety of the Danes,” he said.
A recent string of public Quran desecrations by a handful of anti-Islam activists in Denmark and neighboring Sweden have sparked angry demonstrations in Muslim countries.
Løkke Rasmussen said the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is determined to find “a legal tool” to prohibit such acts without compromising freedom of expression, but he acknowledged that would not be easy.
“There must be room for religious criticism, and we have no thoughts of reintroducing a blasphemy clause,” he told DR. “But when you stand up in front of a foreign embassy and burn a Quran or burn the Torah scroll in front of the Israeli embassy, it serves no other purpose than to mock.”
His comments followed a statement issued late Sunday by the Danish government saying freedom of expression is one of the most important values in Danish society.
But, it added, the descreation of the Muslim holy book in Denmark has resulted in the nation being viewed in many places around the world “as a country that facilitates insult and denigration of the cultures, religions, and traditions of other countries.”
The government repeated its condemnation of such descecrations, say they are “deeply offensive and reckless acts committed by few individuals” and “do not represent the values the Danish society is built on.”
In Sweden, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Sunday on Instagram that his government is analyzing the legal situation regarding desecration of the Quran and other holy books, given the animosity such acts are stirring up against Sweden.
“We are in the most serious security policy situation since the Second World War,” Kristersson said.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has called an emergency remote meeting Monday to discuss the Quran burnings in Sweden and Denmark.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Chris Buescher was already in good position to qualify for NASCAR’s playoffs.
Now, even something remarkable over the last four races of the regular season won’t keep him out.
Buescher pulled away on a restart with three laps to go to win at Richmond Raceway on Sunday and snag one of the final spots in NASCAR’s playoff field.
Buescher led 88 laps and was ahead by nearly 6 seconds when a caution came out with under 10 laps to go. That erased his lead over Virginia native Denny Hamlin, who was booed by his hometown crowd before the race.
But Hamlin got a poor final restart and Buescher easily pulled away for his first Cup Series win of the season, third of his career.
“I knew that last restart was going to be tough, but I knew we had the speed in this thing,” Buescher said.
He and RFK Racing teammate Brad Keselowski led a combined 190 of the 400 laps in their Fords. Keselowski, now a part owner of the team, led 102 laps on the 0.75-mile oval.
Buescher started 26th and had to drive through the field for the win that locked him into the 16-driver playoff field. Buescher became the 13th race winner this year and there are three playoff spots up for grabs over the next month.
It was the 139th Cup win for primary team owner Jack Roush, second since Keselowski joined the ownership group.
Ford now has 723 wins in NASCAR’s top Cup Series.
“Everybody at RFK Racing who has worked so hard to get us to this point,” said Buescher.
Hamlin, winner last week at Pocono, finished second in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. Kyle Busch was third in a Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, followed by the Fords of Joey Logano from Team Penske and Ryan Preece of Stewart-Haas Racing.
“One win is good, but you get three or four or five and then you feel a lot better,” Keselowski said. “It sure beats not having any at all, but we want to keep going. It’s nice to have one car locked in the playoffs. We need to get both cars locked in the playoffs. We have a good points gap, but we want wins and this is where we need to be.”
Keselowski, despite being winless this season, is still mathematically in contention for the playoffs.
The race was slowed just three times by caution flags, with the final yellow sending the leaders to pit road for four tires with eight laps to go. When the green flag was shown again, Buescher used the inside line to pull away for his third career victory.
Hamlin’s bid for the victory ended on the second lap of the final sprint when he drove in too deep in the first turn and slid up the track. He finished 0.549-seconds behind Buescher.
“I got a bad restart,” Hamlin said. “I had to recover too much ground from what I lost on the front stretch. Almost got to the outside, and then in turn four, almost got to the outside again, and then in turn one, I was like ‘I’m just going to ship it in there and try to get to the outside one more time’ and I just carried way too much speed and locked up the left front tires.”
LARSON-HAMLIN
Kyle Larson, angered last week when Hamlin caused him to hit the wall while leading while Hamlin went on to win, was running a few laps down when he nudged Hamlin out of the way with 70 laps to go during Sunday’s race.
Larson, who won at Richmond in April, finished 19th.
“I think he was having a frustrating day,” Hamlin said. “It’s all good.”
SCORCHER
With temperatures in the mid-80s, it was about 15 degrees cooler than Saturday, when the temperature approached 100 and the heat index was at least 105.
Nevertheless, points leader Martin Truex Jr. still struggled.
“It was definitely really, really hot,” he said. “It felt longer than 400 laps. I’ll be honest, when we got to the end of stage two —– I thought there was no way. I thought that was the checkered flag. It just felt really, really long.”
Truex finished seventh.
CLEAN RACE
All 36 cars that started the race were still running at the end.
UP NEXT
The series moves to Michigan where Kevin Harvick, winless so far in this his final season, is the defending champion.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Matt Olson says it’s no mystery why he’s leading the majors in RBIs.
In Atlanta’s powerful lineup, Olson is often hitting with runners on base.
Olson drove in five runs with two homers, including a two-run shot in the eighth, and the Braves beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-6 on Sunday to cap their sweep of the high-scoring series.
Olson has 35 homers, tops in the NL, and 88 RBIs. The Braves scored 29 runs in the three-game sweep in the matchup of NL contenders.
“There’s always dudes on base,” Olson said. “I feel like I’m rarely taking at-bats with the bases empty.”
The only player in the majors with more homers than Olson is Shohei Ohtani, with 39. Ohtani will bring the Los Angeles Angels into Atlanta for a series beginning Monday night.
With the sweep, the Braves won five of six against the Brewers in the last two weeks, including two of three in Milwaukee on July 21-23.
“You know you’re probably not shutting them out,” said Brewers left fielder Christian Yelich, who homered and drove in two runs.
Yelich said a “back-and-forth game” is likely against Atlanta. Sure enough, the Brewers lost despite holding leads of 1-0, 3-2 and 6-5.
“To keep roaring back, it’s a testament to how tough these guys are,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said.
Atlanta (67-36) leads the NL East by 11 1/2 games over Miami. Milwaukee’s loss coupled with Cincinnati’s win at the Dodgers dropped the Brewers (57-49) into second in the NL Central.
Orlando Arcia led off the eighth with a double to left against Milwaukee’s Joel Payamps (4-2). With one out, Olson’s tiebreaking 35th homer landed in the Atlanta bullpen in right-center.
Payamps entered with a string of 17 consecutive scoreless appearances. He had allowed just seven hits in his last 18 innings.
Kirby Yates (5-0) pitched a scoreless eighth for the win. Raisel Iglesias earned his 20th save by striking out the side in the ninth.
Olson’s three-run homer lifted the Braves to a 5-3 lead in the third. He drove in Ronald Acuña Jr., who singled and stole second, and Austin Riley, who walked.
Collin McHugh blew the 5-3 lead by giving up three runs in the sixth. William Contreras doubled in two runs for Milwaukee.
Atlanta’s Marcell Ozuna tied the game at 6 with his homer off Hoby Milner.
Riley continued his power surge for Atlanta by hitting his eighth homer in the last 11 games in the first, giving him 24 on the year. The two-run shot off Colin Rea carried 463 feet to left-center.
Rea allowed five runs in five innings.
Carlos Santana, acquired from Pittsburgh on Saturday, hit his first homer with the Brewers in the third. The liner over the right-field wall gave Milwaukee a 3-2 lead. Yelich led off the third with his 16th homer.
TRADE
Atlanta added veteran infielder Nicky Lopez in a trade with the Kansas City Royals. The Braves sent left-hander Taylor Hearn to Kansas City for the 28-year-old Lopez, who can play shortstop, second base and third.
ROOKIE RETURNS
Atlanta rookie AJ Smith-Shawver, recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett before the game, allowed three runs and four hits in five innings.
“He’s got a great way about him,” Snitker said of the 20-year-old right-hander. “There’s no panic in him. … There’s tremendous upside for him as he figures things out.”
FIRST THINGS FIRST
Thanks to Riley’s homer, the Braves have scored 109 first-inning runs, the most in the majors by any team in any inning. The Texas Rangers’ 90 fourth-inning runs are second on the list.
“We come in ready to swing and ready to do damage,” Ozuna said.
TRAINING ROOM
Brewers: LHP Wade Miley (left elbow) will come off the 15-day injured list to start Wednesday night at Washington. … RHP Brandon Woodruff (right shoulder) will pitch for Triple-A Nashville on Tuesday. … RHP Julio Teheran (right hip impingement) was placed on the 15-day IL. RHP Peter Strzelecki was recalled from Nashville.
UP NEXT
Brewers: RHP Corbin Burnes (9-6, 3.46 ERA) is scheduled to pitch Monday night’s opener of a three-game series at Washington against RHP Jake Irvin (3-5, 4.96 ERA).
Braves: Atlanta opens an interleague series against the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night. Braves RHP Charlie Morton (10-8, 3.57 ERA) faces RHP Griffin Canning (6-4, 4.46 ERA). Morton is 4-1 with a 3.83 ERA in 10 career starts against the Angels.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sparked by the young guy and the old man, the Cincinnati Reds took over sole possession of first place in the NL Central.
Elly De La Cruz, the 21-year-old sensation, and Joey Votto, who turns 40 in September, helped the Reds rout the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-0 on Sunday. They won home and road series against the NL West-leading Dodgers this season.
“It’s big-time for us,” winning pitcher Graham Ashcraft said. “It keeps us going and gives us that edge to keep fighting.”
De La Cruz hit a two-run homer and went 4 for 5 in his third game of the season with four hits. He also scored twice as the Reds rapped out 14 hits in handing the Dodgers their worst loss since a 15-0 defeat to San Francisco on June 17.
De La Cruz broke out of the struggles he’s had since the All-Star break, while Votto shook off his offensive funk with a two-run shot. Votto went 2 for 5 with three RBIs.
“He knows how to come out of those slumps. He gives us ideas and tips on how we can get out of there too,” De La Cruz said. “He helps me and if there’s something I can help him out with, I’ll tell him, too.”
Votto respects the equanimity shown by his much younger teammates.
“During the rough spells, these guys have been the exact same people every day,” he said. “It’s a very young team. The energy is consistent. That’s the really charming part about it. Every single day from spring training, the optimism has been there.”
Ashcraft (6-7) scattered five hits over six innings and struck out two.
The Dodgers hit into three double plays on Friday and three more Sunday. They managed just two hits in a 3-2 loss Saturday. They didn’t get a runner past second base over the final five innings in the finale.
Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas made his first career pitching appearance in the ninth. He nearly hit Votto before the designated hitter answered with an RBI double that made it 9-0. Rojas then hit Christian Encarnacion-Strand.
Dodgers starter Michael Grove (2-3) got hit hard over the first three innings. Three pitches into the game, the Reds led 1-0 on TJ Friedl’s RBI double. Friedl scored on a throwing error by center fielder James Outman, and Matt McLain hustled home on Spencer Steer’s groundout to third.
“Too many pitches to hit with guys on base. I got to shore that up,” Grove said. “My attack plan wasn’t great early and I just got put on defense to start with and had to adjust. I got punished cause I was leaving pitches over the plate.”
De La Cruz’s solo shot traveled 411 feet into the right-field pavilion with two outs in the second. It was De La Cruz’s seventh homer.
McLain hit his 11th homer into the Dodgers bullpen in left leading off the third. Votto’s 418-foot shot into the Reds bullpen in right field scored Jake Fraley, who singled, and extended the lead to 7-0.
Votto was robbed of a potential second homer on Outman’s leaping catch at the top of the wall in right-center in the fifth.
The Reds led 8-0 on Friedl’s RBI double with two outs in the sixth.
Grove gave up eight runs and 10 hits in six innings. The rookie right-hander struck out a career-best 10 and walked one on a career-high 96 pitches.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: INF Jonathan India went on the IL with left heel pain.
Dodgers: DH J.D. Martinez left after the first inning with left hamstring tightness. … C Will Smith left the game in the top of the fourth with a left elbow contusion after getting hit by a pitch. X-rays were negative. … OF Mookie Betts (right ankle soreness) was out of the lineup for the second straight day. He got hurt in the batter’s box trying to avoid a pitch on Friday, but is expected back Tuesday. … LHP Julio Urías is having his next start pushed back a couple days while he deals with a nail issue. … LHP Clayton Kershaw (shoulder) played catch.
UP NEXT
Reds: LHP Andrew Abbott (6-2, 1.90 ERA) starts Monday night in the opener of a four-game series at the Chicago Cubs.
Dodgers: RHP Lance Lynn (6-9, 6.47 ERA) makes his Dodgers debut Tuesday in an interleague series opener against Oakland.
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Six years after he was traded away by the Chicago Cubs, Jeimer Candelario’s career is coming full circle.
The former Detroit Tigers third baseman, now with the Washington Nationals, was traded to the Cubs on Monday night, one day before baseball’s annual trade deadline.
The Nationals will receive the Cubs’ 12th- and 14th-ranked prospects, according to MLB Pipeline: Left-handed pitcher DJ Herz and infielder Kevin Made.
Candelario is in the midst of an impressive bounce-back season with the Nationals. He’s hitting .258 with an .823 OPS (128 OPS+) with 16 homers and 30 doubles in 419 plate appearances.
Candelario spent parts of six seasons with the Tigers before the new administration opted to let him go last winter. If the Tigers had tendered Candelario a contract, he would have earned about $7 million or so in arbitration. Instead, he ultimately signed a one-year, $5 million deal with the Washington Nationals.
Candelario, 29, came up in the Cubs’ minor league system and was traded to the Tigers at the deadline in 2017 along with fellow infield prospect Isaac Paredes in exchange for catcher Alex Avila and left-handed reliever Justin Wilson.
It turned out to be perhaps the best trade of former general manager Al Avila’s tenure with the Tigers. (And, yes, Alex is his son).
Candelario was the Tigers’ best offensive performer in 2020 and 2021. But, like many of his teammates, he fell off dramatically in 2022, hitting just .217 with a .633 OPS (83 OPS+) in 467 plate appearances. After hitting a league-high 42 doubles along with 16 home runs in 2021, his slugging percentage dipped to .361 in 2022.
The Cubs have opted to buy at the deadline. Although their record is a meager 53-52, they entered the day only 4 games back in the National League Central and 3 1/2 games back in the NL Wild Card chase.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have given outside linebacker Danielle Hunter a hefty pay raise, paving the way for the team’s best pass rusher to participate in practice after a months-long contract stalemate.
The Vikings announced Sunday on their website that they reached a new deal with Hunter, the three-time Pro Bowl pick with 71 sacks who will turn 29 in three months.
Hunter reported to training camp last week on schedule after skipping the offseason program and mandatory minicamp, but he has yet to join his teammates on the field. Head coach Kevin O’Connell said Saturday that Hunter has been “in the building” and that they’ve been in “daily dialogue” about his physical and mental preparation.
“Danielle Hunter is a very special player, and as soon as we can get him out here, you guys will see him out here,” O’Connell said.
Hunter’s previous contract called for a $4.9 million base salary. According to NFL Network, he’ll make $17 million guaranteed this year with an opportunity to earn an additional $3 million in incentives. Hunter will still hit the free agent market after the season, unless he and the team strike a deal on an extension in the meantime.
Hunter’s presence will be vital for a Vikings defense that has been one of the NFL’s worst over the past three years. They allowed the second-most yards and the fourth-most points in the league in 2022, despite decent production by their primary edge rushers. Hunter had 10 1/2 sacks, Za’Darius Smith had 10 sacks and backups D.J. Wonnum and Patrick Jones had four sacks apiece.
Smith was since traded to Cleveland in a cost-cutting move, leaving Hunter as the only proven pass rusher on the roster. Marcus Davenport was signed as a free agent to push for a starting spot, but this remains one of the biggest questions surrounding the team this season.
“I think Danielle’s a phenomenal player,” said defensive coordinator Brian Flores, who was hired to replace the fired Ed Donatell. “I look forward to working with him.”
Under Donatell, Hunter often found himself as a standup rusher in a three-point stance. The Vikings with Flores are aiming to get back to turning Hunter loose with his hand in the ground more often.
“Veteran players, they’ve seen a lot of defense, coverages, fronts, stunts. I think terminology will probably be the one thing that’s a little bit different, maybe, but some of it, there’s some crossover from some things he’s heard in the past so I don’t think it’ll take long for him to get up to speed,” Flores said. “At the end of the day, we’re telling him to go get the quarterback. There’s really not much to that. So I think he’ll be just fine.”
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July 31, 2023 05:26 PM
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Angus Cloud, an actor best known for his role as the drug dealer Fezco "Fez" O'Neill in HBO's "Euphoria, has died at the age of 25.
In a statement to The Associated Press, the 25-year-old's publicist said he died at his family's home in Oakland, California. It said the family had to say goodbye to "an artist, a friend, a brother and a son."
Cloud had buried his father last week and intensely struggled with the loss, the family said, though they did not give an exact cause of death.
"The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend," the statement said. "Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence."
In a post on X, an account for "Euphoria" said, "He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and Euphoria family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time."
Cloud was scouted by a "Euphoria" casting associate while walking down the street in New York, where he had been working at a restaurant at the time.
He went on to star in the show's first two seasons and has had film and music video roles. He was finishing up three film projects at the time of his death.
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EAST ELMHURST, Queens (WABC) -- A flight simulator at a college in Queens is helping to train the next generation of pilots and air traffic controllers at a time when airlines are dealing with pilot shortages that have led to countless delays for travelers.
Steven Duran flew in a simulator at Vaughn College in Queens on Monday. One day, he hopes to be in the cockpit of one of the big commercial planes next door at LaGuardia Airport. It's a job with big responsibilities.
"It's something that's always in the back of your head," Duran said. "Especially when operating an airplane. Even the trainer like we do, we always have to operate it to a high standard.
There's a need for more people like Duran.
According to Boeing's report, that came out just last week, i says commercial aviation will need 649,000 pilots over the next two decades. This year's forecast marks the first increased need since the pandemic decimated air travel in 2020.
"In my 27 years at Vaughn, have never seen industry demand like this," Vaugh College President Sharon Devivo.
There is demand for more diversity in the field as well, the president of the aviation institution says.
In 2022, out of more than 162,000 commercial pilots, only 5.5% were women, and less than 2% were Black.
Vaughn boasts that more than 80% of its student population is from underrepresented communities.
"Unless you've got a brother, cousin, uncle, typically white, who's involved in the aviation industry, you tend not to know. Any job you think of you can do in aviation," Devivo.
"Originally my goal was to become a pilot," graduate student Najma Jaima said.
That was until Jaima saw what it was like to be an air traffic controller and perhaps discovered her purpose.
"You don't have room for mistakes," she said. "You always have to be on top of everything."
Instructors at Vaughn College say there's not only a pilot shortage but an air traffic controller shortage.
They're encouraging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to look at other resources to increase the number of people training and accelerate the processes to train them for the very important job of helping planes take off and land.
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Twitter's new "X" sign was taken down on Monday after the city of San Francisco reprimanded the company for installing a giant, flashing sign above its building without a permit.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said it received 24 complaints about the sign, including "concerns about its structural safety and illumination."
A building permit is technically required to dismantle the sign too, but the removal was allowed to proceed "duty to safety concerns," Patrick Hannan, a spokesperson for the department, told NPR.
The signage was the latest effort in the social media platform's rebranding since the sweeping changes were announced last week.
The removal comes less than three days after a city inspector went to Twitter's headquarters on Friday to alert the company of its permit violation and to evaluate the sign located on the roof, according to the city's complaint.
A Twitter representative denied access but explained that the structure is "a temporary lighted sign for an event." The inspector clarified that any signage without a permit must be removed.
The inspector came to the headquarters again on Saturday to visit the roof. But upon arrival, "access was denied again by tenant," the complaint said.
Twitter did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment. But to a tweet alleging that San Francisco authorities were trying to force Musk to remove the "X" sign, the Twitter owner replied on Saturday with a laughing-crying emoji.
Twitter was already in hot waters with the city of San Francisco last Monday for removing Twitter's original sign, which includes its name and iconic blue bird, without proper permits or taping off the sidewalk as part of pedestrian safety measures.
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Connor Rogers breaks down Giants recent call-up, Marco Luciano, and while the SS boasts exciting power potential, there are too many questions that make him worth an add in mixed fantasy leagues.
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"Find me waterfront homes in central Minnesota."
The future is here in real estate, with a little help from ChatGPT artificial intelligence. Zillow, the real estate information site, is partnering with the AI app to allow users ask conversational questions about specific property listings. Users can also share the types of for-sale and rental homes they are interested in, including details like location and price range, and get results back from the app.
Much like how the internet changed how real estate is marketed and sold, AI is now transforming the home buying experience. The newAI real estate pluginretrieves relevant information from Zillow's database of real estate listings when asked a question.
The plugin became available to a select number of ChatGPT users in May, before it rolled out more widely. Plugins are software additions that allow for the customization of computer programs, apps, and web browsers, as well as the customization of the content offered by websites.
"Generative AI is changing the way people search for information,” David Beitel, chief technology officer at Zillow, said in a statement. “We've been embracing AI and machine learning starting with the Zestimate in 2006, and later introducing personalized recommendations and natural language search — which means we're well-equipped to help customers search and find homes in this new way."
But is new technology the solution to find homes? Megan Fox, an agent at Compass Real Estate in New Jersey, said in this competitive market with inventory being extremely low, a local real estate expert is critical in helping navigate the process.
“AI is great for certain things, but a local agent is crucial for getting to know the area,” Fox said. “Our kids go to school here, we know the restaurants, the neighborhood.”
Paul Reddam, of Homesville Realty Group with Compass in Austin, Texas, said that it’s important to have the best technology and tools available to efficiently manage the home search process. One of his favorite AI tools is the likely-to-sell feature that Compass agents use. Likely-to-sell recommendations help agents in engaging with the right contacts — people in the area who have the highest likelihood of selling their homes in the next 12 months.
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The AI tool Zillow is offering through ChatGPT allows home buyers and sellers to connect their real estate needs: buying, selling, financing and renting. Using natural language search queries, the tool helps buyers find exactly what they’re looking for.
Other AI features that Zillow recently added include AI generated floor plans for listed homes.
The Zillow ChatGPT plugin is currently building its data, allowing Zillow to refine the user experience based on user interactions. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has put in safeguards to minimize inaccuracies and prevent inappropriate responses.
Digital tools are great for navigating the home search process, Fox said. But she added they are best when used with guidance from a local real estate agent who can decipher nuances of the market.
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X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has threatened to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased last year by Elon Musk.
An attorney representing the social media site wrote to the Center for Countering Digital Hate on July 20 threatening legal action over the nonprofit's research into hate speech and content moderation. The letter alleged that CCDH's research publications seem intended "to harm Twitter's business by driving advertisers away from the platform with incendiary claims."
Musk is a self-professed free speech absolutist who has welcomed back white supremacists and election deniers to the platform, which he renamed X earlier this month. But the billionaire has at times proven sensitive about critical speech directed at him or his companies.
The center is a nonprofit with offices in the U.S. and United Kingdom. It regularly publishes reports on hate speech, extremism or harmful behavior on social media platforms like X, TikTok or Facebook.
The organization has published several reports critical of Musk's leadership, detailing an increase in anti-LGBTQ hate speech as well as climate misinformation since his purchase. The letter from X's attorney cited one specific report from June that found the platform failed to remove neo-Nazi and anti-LGBTQ content from verified users that violated the platform's rules.
In the letter, attorney Alex Spiro questioned the expertise of the researchers and accused the center of trying to harm X's reputation. The letter also suggested, without evidence, that the center received funds from some of X's competitors, even though the center has also published critical reports about TikTok, Facebook and other large platforms.
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"CCDH intends to harm Twitter's business by driving advertisers away from the platform with incendiary claims," Spiro wrote, using the platform's former name.
Imran Ahmed, the center's founder and CEO, told the AP on Monday that his group has never received a similar response from any tech company, despite a history of studying the relationship between social media, hate speech and extremism. He said that typically, the targets of the center's criticism have responded by defending their work or promising to address any problems that have been identified.
Ahmed said he worried X's response to the center's work could have a chilling effect if it frightens other researchers away from studying the platform. He said he also worried that other industries could take note of the strategy.
"This is an unprecedented escalation by a social media company against independent researchers. Musk has just declared open war," Ahmed told the Associated Press. "If Musk succeeds in silencing us other researchers will be next in line."
Messages left with Spiro and X were not immediately returned Monday.
It's not the first time that Musk has fired back at critics. Last year, he suspended the accounts of several journalists who covered his takeover of Twitter. Another user was suspended for using publicly available flight data to track Musk's private plane; Musk had initially pledged to keep the user on the platform but later changed his mind, citing his personal safety. He also threatened to sue the user before allowing him back on the platform under certain restrictions.
He initially had promised that he would allow any speech on his platform that wasn't illegal. "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means," Musk wrote in a tweet last year.
X's recent threat of a lawsuit prompted concern from U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who said the billionaire was trying to use the threat of legal action to punish a nonprofit group trying to hold a powerful social media platform accountable.
"Instead of attacking them, he should be attacking the increasingly disturbing content on Twitter," Schiff said in a statement.
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Best to ignore Luciano in mixed-leagues
July 31, 2023 06:28 PM
Connor Rogers breaks down Giants recent call-up, Marco Luciano, and while the SS boasts exciting power potential, there are too many questions that make him worth an add in mixed fantasy leagues.
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Good afternoon, Central Coast!
We are finally seeing some cooler temperatures in the forecast this week.
Tonight in San Luis Obispo County it will be partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy later on. Low temperatures will be in the lower to mid 50s. West winds will be about 15 mph in the evening.
Tomorrow in San Luis Obispo County it will be mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy later on. Highs will range from the upper 50s at the beaches to the upper 60s inland. West winds are expected to be about 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
Tomorrow night in San Luis Obispo County it will be partly cloudy early in the evening, then low clouds and fog will move in later in the evening. Lows will be in the lower 50s. West winds are expected to be about 15 mph in the evening.
Tonight in Santa Barbara County it will be mostly cloudy, with a low of about 62 degrees. West winds are expected to be about 5 mph becoming east in the evening.
Tomorrow in Santa Barbara County it will be partly sunny, with a high near 76. South southeast winds will be about 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
Tomorrow night in Santa Barbara County it will be Partly cloudy, with a low of about 61. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east northeast after midnight.
Have a great night!
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Cases of syphilis are on the rise across the country and in San Luis Obispo County, according to the SLO County Public Health Department.
Health officials say there were 99 cases of syphilis diagnosed in San Luis Obispo County in 2022. In 2021, there were 65 cases.
The number of syphilis cases in SLO County has generally been trending upward since at least 2013 when there were 22 cases, according to data released by Public Health.
Health officials say they don't know what's behind the increase in cases.
Meanwhile, a nationwide shortage of the drug most commonly used to treat syphilis has been reported.
Bicillin L-A is a long-acting, injectable form of penicillin. Health officials say it is in low supply because of surging demand.
There are other medications that can be used to treat syphilis but they may take longer to work, and Bicillin L-A is the only recommended treatment for pregnant people and infants with syphilis, according to the California Department of Public Health.
“Syphilis can be prevented and, even amid this medication shortage, it can be cured if it is found in the early stages,” said Dr. Penny Borenstein, County Health Officer, in a statement released Monday. “However, syphilis can cause very serious health problems if it is left untreated and can be especially devastating when it is transmitted to a baby during pregnancy and birth. Our Public Health team is here to help you protect yourself, get tested, and get treatment if needed.”
Syphilis is transmitted through sexual contact and can be passed on to an unborn baby.
First and second stage syphilis can appear as sores and rashes, and many people may not even realize they are infected. Left untreated, syphilis can eventually lead to brain, nervous system, and eye injury as well as other health issues.
Amid the increase in cases and medication shortage, the San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department is urging prevention and testing. For information on low-cost testing, treatment and education, including free condoms, visit www.slocounty.ca.gov/STD-Test or call 805-781-5500.
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A Ventura County man won a nearly $138,000 jackpot by way of an ‘unforgettable hand’ in four-card poker at the Chumash Casino Resort on July 26, a resort spokesperson announced Monday.
The guest, whose name was listed only as Don W., drew a royal flush in four-card poker while also betting on a special $1 side wager. That qualified him for the “Multi-Progressive Table Games” jackpot, the Chumash Casino Resort press release said.
“I opened the hand and did a double-take, and then turned to my wife and said, ‘Look what I’ve got!’” Don said, according to the press release. “She asked me, ‘What does it pay, $2,000?’ I said, ‘No, look up there — $137,000!’ She about fell over.”
Don's exact winnings came out to $137,921.
RELATED: Ventura County man hits record $1.36 million jackpot at Chumash Casino Resort
A multi-progressive jackpot is a table games pit promotion that awards the winning guest the jackpot which had been accruing from previous guests' losing $1 side wagers.
Don and his wife said the money will probably be divided up between their seven grandkids and eight great-grandkids, according to the release.
Don’s wife, who was seated next to him and was also in the hand, won a $1,000 “envy bonus” for placing a $1 side wager.
It’s the second time these two have hit a jackpot at Chumash.
“When my wife won a $35,000 jackpot 10 years ago, it was a total shock,” Don said according to the release. “We left right away and installed new windows on our house. And now this. Great entertainment for us.”
A different Ventura County man won a record $1.36 million jackpot in early June — the largest in the casino's history.
Just over a month prior, that same man won a $556,000 jackpot.
Chumash Casino Resort is a 21-and-over facility.
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Judi Dench says she can no longer see on film sets: ‘And I can’t see to read’
As her eyesight continues to worsen, Oscar-winning actor Judi Dench said this week that acting and seeing on film sets are becoming more difficult.
Since revealing in 2012 that she was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration, the “Philomena” and “Skyfall” actor has been open about how her failing eyesight has strained daily life as well as her acting career.
Dench, 88, said in February that it was “impossible” for her to read scripts. And in a recent interview with the Notebook, a Daily Mirror magazine, published over the weekend, Dench said her eyesight continues to worsen beyond just scripts and shared, “I can’t see on a film set any more.”
“And I can’t see to read,” she continued. “So I can’t see much. But you know you just deal with it. Get on.”
Actor Judi Dench, 88, tells Graham Norton that her age-related macular degeneration has made it increasingly difficult for her to learn her lines.
Dench has continued to act in recent years, including roles in the 2021 Oscar best picture nominee, “Belfast,” the 2022 drama “Allelujah” and a cameo in Apple Studios’ Christmas musical comedy “Spirited,” starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds.
When Dench appeared on an episode of “Louis Theroux Interviews” late last year, the Independent reported that she told Theroux she does not want to retire from acting.
Around the time she went public with her diagnosis, Dench gave some background of her condition, telling “Entertainment Tonight” in 2012, “This condition is something that thousands and thousands of people all over the world are having to contend with ... and it’s something I have learnt to cope with and adapt to — and it will not lead to blindness.”
Oscar-winning actor Judi Dench wrote a heated letter about Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ in the British newspaper the Times. She said the streamer should reconsider adding a disclaimer.
According to the Mayo Clinic Health System website, AMD is the most common cause of vision loss for adults over age 50 and especially affects the ability to read, recognize faces and view road signs.
However, the Oscar-winning “Shakespeare in Love” actor admitted her condition was “bad enough,” though, and that she had recently had to ask a friend to cut up her food for her when they were dining in a darkened room. She also said that looking at Theroux, he was “quite fuzzy.” In recent years, she also had to give up driving.
The “Iris” actor has managed to continue acting thanks, in part, to her photographic memory. (In the past, Dench has bragged, “I could do the whole of ‘Twelfth Night’ right now.”) But due to her inability to read the words on the page, Dench has had to rely on friends to teach her lines. She has previously shared how she is looking for a device that can help her learn scripts.
“It’s difficult for me if I have any length of a part,” Dench told Daily Mirror. “I haven’t yet found a way.”
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Air Quality Issues Stay North This Time
Over the Summer, we have had well over 20 Air Quality Alerts issued in Minnesota and a few more issued in Iowa. Another wave of Canadian wildfire smoke has made its way into northern Minnesota. Further south, we will be avoiding it this time around.
The jet stream that has been guiding the smoke towards us will be blowing north and east of our area entirely. This means that the poor air quality in northern Minnesota should become more of an issue in Wisconsin and/or Michigan (depending on the precise tracking of the jet stream) than in southeast Minnesota or northeast Iowa.
Our air quality could become moderate during the middle of the week, but it would be because of Ground Level Ozone as opposed to smoke.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Inside North Carolina Central's Cybersecurity Lab, Dr. Deanne Cranford-Wesley sits in front of two screens showing ongoing global cyberattacks.
"It is absolutely crucial to the United States. We need cyber warriors. We need young people to get into the field to protect the nation. We're hearing of ransomware attacks. We have attacks on our infrastructure. Our students need to be in that field to protect the nation," said Dr. Deanne Cranford-Wesley, while describing the future of warfare.
Combatting such incidents has drawn greater attention from the federal government. The US Department of Justice's 2022 fiscal year budget requested more than $150 million to strengthen cybersecurity, noting the impact of the May 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. Enhancing the talent pool is seen as vital in protecting everything from national security to private enterprises ranging from healthcare to banking.
"I have seen a great interest peak among the students here at North Carolina Central," said Brianna Phifer, a senior at NC Central set to graduate in December.
Phifer said she's been interested in computers since elementary school.
"They offered an after school computer program where we just learned the basic fundamentals of just how to use a computer," said Phifer.
According to a 2021 report from the Aspen Institute, women made up just 24% of the cybersecurity workforce. Further, just 4% of workers were Hispanic and 9% were Black, all figures well below their general population percentages.
"To the upcoming generation of people that look like me, I'm entering into a field that is evolving," Phifer shared.
According to CyberSeek, there are more than 21,000 current openings for cybersecurity positions the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects openings for information security analyst jobs will increase by nearly 20,000 on an annual basis through 2031, representing a 35% growth in the field.
"The focus has definitely shifted. We've been offered a lot of opportunities, such as conferences or career events or career fairs, where we have had the opportunity to network with the industry professionals," said Phifer, who recently completed an internship in the field.
The partnership between NC Central and Halifax Community College will allow HCC students to transfer up to 68 credits into NC Central's Cybersecurity Concentration Program to put toward a degree. NC Central is also reaching out to younger people to try and increase diversity in the field, recently hosting students from four underrepresented high schools for a free weeklong camp.
"They built robots. They learned about social engineering, forensics concepts, how to do an investigation, building that awareness," said Cranford-Wesley.
Cranford-Wesley noted based off its success, the university is looking into opportunities to offer a similar program in the fall and spring.
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Deal strengthens Bain's global ML, cloud, data & app engineering capabilities
BOSTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company today announced that it has acquired Max Kelsen's consulting and managed services divisions (collectively referred to as "Max Kelsen Consulting"), a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, to offer enhanced ML and AI capabilities to clients across the globe.
Based in Australia and founded in 2015, Max Kelsen Consulting's team of full stack ML engineers deliver ML systems, AI-powered applications, and advisory services for clients. Now, as one unified and integrated team under Bain's Advanced Analytics Group (AAG), Max Kelsen Consulting and Bain will together help enterprises develop and operationalize high-impact AI and ML enabled use cases.
"We are delighted to welcome the Max Kelsen Consulting team to Bain, and to bring their industry-leading machine learning expertise to bear to deliver even more powerful solutions to our clients," said Roy Singh, global head of Bain's Advanced Analytics Group. "We are seeing growing demand from clients for AI-related services and engineering capabilities that will enable them to be early movers in shaping how this generational shift in technology could transform their respective industries."
"We are very excited about the quality of the Max Kelsen Consulting team and the innovative work they have done for clients in Australia and globally. This acquisition will strengthen the suite of AI and ML capabilities we offer to our clients regionally and globally," said Richard Fleming, leader of Bain's Advanced Analytics Group in Asia Pacific.
Max Kelsen has worked with Australian and global companies to build and deploy ML solutions including real-time prediction, forecasting, computer vision, industrial control optimization, robotics and more, as well as working with clients to establish best practice operational machine learning (MLOps) capabilities. The company has served a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, and has partnered with market-leading cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. While Max Kelsen applies its ML and AI expertise across industries, such as mining, financial services and retail, the company has particularly deep experience serving the healthcare & life sciences sector.
"We are excited to join Bain at a time when businesses are starting to navigate the disruptions brought on by generative AI," said Nicholas Therkelsen-Terry, co-founder and CEO of Max Kelsen. "In a rapidly evolving business climate, companies that understand how to use these tools to their advantage will come out on top. By joining Bain, we are thrilled to be working with an even larger pool of global clients and supporting Bain to strengthen their global ML capabilities."
Max Kelsen also operates a products division (SAVI Surgical and PROPeL Health AI) and a research division, which are not part of the acquisition by Bain.
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About Bain & Company
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
About Max Kelsen
Founded in Brisbane in 2015, Max Kelsen is one of Australia's leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions businesses. The company delivers innovation, directly linked to the generation of business value and competitive advantage to customers in Australia and globally, including Fortune 500 companies. Max Kelsen is also dedicated to reinvesting our expertise and profits to solve the challenges of humankind, focusing on Cancer Genomics, AI Safety, and Quantum Computing.
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The moon will seem extra big and bright and thus be quite a sight this August, with a sturgeon supermoon visible on Tuesday and then a rare blue supermoon coming at the end of the month.
Two of the four supermoon events of 2023 will take place in August, with the first happening on Tuesday. On Aug. 30, there will be a blue supermoon, which won't happen again until 2032. Here's what you need to know so you can catch this summer's lunar double feature.
What is a supermoon?
A perigean full moon, better known as a supermoon, happens when the moon is full during the closest point in its orbit around Earth. This gives its appearance an extra pop, making it look up to 8% bigger and 16% brighter than a typical full moon, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
According to NASA, the moon's typical orbit ranges between 226,000 and 251,000 miles from Earth, but variances can bring it a bit closer or farther away. Only the closest three or four approaches each year qualify as supermoons. The last one was on July 3.
Up first is the sturgeon supermoon on Tuesday
The sturgeon moon got its name from Native American tribes that found that the giant sturgeon from the Great Lakes were "most readily caught" at this time of the summer, according to Farmer's Almanac. It's also known as a green corn moon, grain moon, flying-up moon, harvest moon, ricing moon, black cherries moon and mountain shadow moon.
This spectacle will hit peak illumination at 2:32 p.m. ET. "That evening, look toward the southeast after sunset to catch a glimpse of the Sturgeon Moon rising," Farmer's Almanac says.
A sturgeon, for non-anglers, is an enormous fish with roots in the Jurassic Period that spends its life — up to 150 years — in both fresh and salt water. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America, reaching as long as 20 feet and nearly 2,000 pounds, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But most of the sturgeon inhabiting the Great Lakes measure about 6 feet in length and weigh approximately 200 pounds.
The second show is a rare blue supermoon
While the term "supermoon" references the moon's orbit in relation to Earth, a blue moon has to do with frequency, referring to when there's a second full moon in a single calendar month, NASA says. "Blue moon" is also used to describe the third of four full moons in an astrological season.
The moon takes 27.3 days to orbit the Earth, but because of how the sun's light hits the satellite, it takes 29.5 days to complete its lunar cycle from one new moon to the next.
The term "once in a blue moon" is an idiom used to describe a rare but nonetheless recurring event. But according to NASA, blue moons aren't actually all that rare, recurring every two and a half years or so.
A blue supermoon, however, happens far less frequently. According to the website Time and Date, the last blue supermoon was in December 2009, and the next one won't be until August 2032.
This year's blue supermoon will peak at 9:36 p.m. ET on Aug. 30, Farmer's Almanac says, but you can use its moonrise calculator to see when it will be visible in your area.
The end-of-August supermoon will be the biggest and brightest of 2023 because the moon will be "exceptionally close" to Earth at 222,043 miles, nearly 17,000 miles closer than average.
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What game show would NFL rookies win?
July 31, 2023 05:36 PM
Bijan Robinson, Rashee Rice, Devon Achane, Deuce Vaughn, Jahmyr Gibbs, Jonathan Mingo, Jake Haener, Clayton Tune, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Michael Mayer, Marvin Mims, Tank Bigsby and Zay Flowers discuss the shows they'd win.
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Cardi B concertgoer files battery report; claims was ‘struck’ by object thrown from stage
Days after a video went viral that shows Cardi B throwing her microphone at a concertgoer in response to getting splashed by an unknown liquid, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed that a show attendee has come forward to “report a battery.”
“According to the victim, she was attending an event on July 29, 2023, at a property located in the 3500 block of Las Vegas Boulevard,” the Las Vegas police said in a statement to The Times. “During a concert, she was struck by an item that was thrown from the stage.”
The authorities, who fielded the complaint Sunday, did not mention Cardi B by name in their statement, or specify that the thrown object was a microphone.
The time and location of the victim’s filing corresponds with the address and timing of the “WAP” rapper’s concert.
Cardi B threw a microphone at a concertgoer who pelted her with their drink at a Las Vegas concert. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media.
“The incident has been documented on a police report and no arrest or citations have been issued,” police said. “No further details will be provided at this time.”
Representatives for Cardi B have not responded to The Times’ request for comment.
A viral video of the incident shows someone in the audience at Drai’s Beachclub in Las Vegas flinging the contents of their drink cup directly at the “I Like It” rapper, who flinches upon getting splashed before chucking her mic at the concertgoer. Cardi B can be seen shouting from the stage at the person who targeted her as security guards close in on them.
On Wednesday, Drake became the latest artist to get hit by an object hurled by a fan at a concert. Should we blame the pandemic? Social media? Lazy bouncers?
The Grammy winner was performing her hit song “Bodak Yellow” when she got splashed. She is among a growing number of musicians — including Bebe Rexha, Kelsea Ballerini, Drake, Steve Lacy and Harry Styles — who have recently been hit by projectiles onstage.
This did not mark the first time Cardi B tossed her mic during a performance this weekend.
In footage from her show at the same venue on Friday, the “Hustlers” star can be seen throwing her microphone across the catwalk stage after the backing track for her song “I Like It” was cut short and she finished the performance a cappella.
Times staff writer Christi Carras contributed to this report.
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Full Moon on Display!!
If you are looking for something to do Monday evening, a full moon is going to be out. It’s nickname is the Sturgeon Moon; it’s name comes from the sturgeon that are commonly found in the Great Lakes this time of year.
It will also be visible Tuesday night as well, but we are expected to have less cloud cover Monday night than Tuesday night. Thus, the moon becomes easier to check out.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- In these dog days of summer, many are seeking relief from the heat by going indoors. It's one reason why COVID-19 numbers are creeping up again.
"When it gets really hot, people go indoors. When it gets really cold, people go indoors. And when you're inside, the ventilation is different; people are closer together. So I think that's part of it," said UNC infectious disease doctor David Wohl about the summertime surge of COVID infection and hospitalizations.
Nationwide, there's been a 10% increase in people hospitalized with COVID. It's just more than 7,100 weekly hospitalizations. Still, well below what it was during the peak of the omicron strain: More than 150,000.
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The number of North Carolinians hospitalized with COVID-19 stands at 210 patients, a 27% increase from the first week of summer.
"We are seeing that increase in numbers, and we can see this across the system," Wohl said.
The rise is also confirmed by the latest wastewater testing samples. COVID-shed particles continue to be tracked by the state -- with parts of Raleigh, south Durham and Chapel Hill-Carrboro now testing in the top percentile for infection.
"You see increases in infection and eventually you see increases in hospitalization just because of the people who are vulnerable, either because they're not vaccinated or they're under-vaccinated or didn't respond as well as we'd like to vaccine. Those people end up getting sicker," said Wohl. "The good news is we have much less COVID-19 being circulated. It looks like and we certainly see much less consequential COVID-19."
Wohl said we're seeing less serious cases of COVID now because we have more immunity from it than ever before. To hold on to that progress, he's telling his patients to get ready for a new and better round of COVID shots coming out this fall.
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JUSTIN, Texas, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Canoo (Nasdaq: GOEV), a high-tech advanced mobility company, today announced that it will report its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 after market close on Monday, August 14, 2023. The Company will host a conference call and live webcast at 5:00 pm ET to discuss the results, followed by a question-and-answer period.
Those interested are invited to listen to the live webcast online here. A replay of the webcast will be available shortly afterwards here.
Date: Monday, August 14, 2023
Time: 5:00 pm ET
U.S. Dial-in: 877-407-9169
International Dial-in: 201-493-6755
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The anthropomorphic cattle dog has been captivating her target audience and then some. We spoke to parents about how the show has provided comfort and guidance in the wild world of parenting.
Who is she? Bluey Heeler is a six-year-old Australian blue heeler that is the protagonist of her eponymous children's show — as well as several toy collections, an album, books and a popular stage show.
What's the big deal? Aside from her name dominating the search bar suggestions on YouTube as soon as you begin typing the word "blue..."?
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What are people saying? Pretty good stuff! NPR's Scott Detrow spoke to some Bluey viewers on why they're drawn to the program from down under.
Linda McGee, a Chicago area mom of two, on why she first got into it:
It's taught me to really just play along and just tap into my childlike innocence and sense of wonder. There's so many things that I've done that I probably would never do if I wasn't watching Bluey. I probably would not be, like, a horsey ride or, like, a car driving to the grocery store for some reason.
Joseph Peterson, a Frederick, Md. dad of one, on which episode first caught his attention:
For me, I think that episode is Sleepytime.
It's just so heartwarming and empathetic, I think both for the difficulty it is for children — it really sees them in kind of the struggles to stay in their own bed at night — and also, it's really empathetic towards the parents' point of view, right? What that struggle can mean, going back and forth from bedroom to bedroom to the bathroom, to sharing space on the bed or on the floor.
And Mari Brisco, a mother of one in New Orleans on how she found herself totally engrossed with the show:
So my daughter was born eight weeks early. So I've always worried, in the back of my head like, "Oh, my God, is she hitting the right milestones at this age and everything?" And even watching that episode [Baby Race] I was like, "It's OK. You know, she's going to crawl when she crawls. She's going to talk when she talks."
So, what now?
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The unofficial fan chants to learn ahead of Taylor Swift’s L.A. shows
As Taylor Swift prepares to close the U.S. leg of her record-breaking stadium tour with a whopping six shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, fans are busy figuring out last-minute outfit details and transportation and logistics.
But do you know what to do once you’re at the concert? Audience participation has slowly made its way into the Eras tour, complete with inside jokes and various chants during Swift’s three-plus-hour-long set. Here’s an unofficial guide (in order of appearance on the setlist) to what the Swiftie fandom is doing that will make you feel right at home in the crowd.
Parking! Public transit! Fan chants! Friendship bracelets! Everything you need to know before you see Taylor Swift at SoFi Stadium for the L.A. stops of her Eras tour.
“Fearless”
When: The end of the bridge after she sings “It’s the first kiss, it’s flawless, really something / It’s fearless.”
What: Put your hands up in a heart.
Why: One of her earliest traditions that dates back to the Fearless tour in 2010, Swift puts her hands up in a heart after she sings the bridge. Fans have been doing it back ever since.
“You Belong With Me”
When: After she sings, “I’m the one that makes you laugh, when you know you’re ’bout to cry.”
What: Clap your hands twice.
Why: It’s a part of the song. Swift and her dancers will do it with you!
“Marjorie”
When: When she starts singing “Marjorie.”
What: Turn on your phone’s flashlight.
Why: The song “Marjorie” is a tribute to Swift’s grandmother Marjorie Finlay, who was an opera singer. Fans surprised her and made her cry by lighting up the stadium with phone flashlights when she performed the emotional track during her second night in Atlanta, solidifying it as a tradition for the rest of the Eras tour.
“Delicate”
When: After she sings, “We can’t make any promises, now can we babe? But you can make me a drink.”
What: Shout, “1, 2, 3, let’s go b—!”
Why: This tradition was started by a fan who attended Swift’s Pasadena show in 2018 during her Reputation tour. Swift started doing the chant during her shows a few weeks later and later even thanked the fan for starting the tradition. It’s one of the loudest chants you’ll hear all night!
“All Too Well (10 Minute Version)”
When: While she sings, “And you were tossing me the car keys, ‘F— the patriarchy’ / Keychain on the ground.”
What: Sing along with “F— the patriarchy.”
Why: This song can be difficult to sing along to, given the sheer amount of lyrics, but this is one line you can confidently scream with everyone around you.
“Style”
When: Right before the start of the song.
What: Shout, “What time is it Taylor?”
Why: You might be the only one in your section to do this, but some fans have decided to ask Swift this question right before she starts singing “Style,” so that she’ll respond with the first word of the next song: “Midnight.”
“Bad Blood”
When: After she sings, “Band-aids don’t fix bullet holes, you say sorry just for show, if you live like that, you live with ghosts.”
What: Shout, “You forgive, you forget, but you never let it (pause) go!”
Why: A lesser known version of Swift’s song “Bad Blood” features rap verses by Kendrick Lamar. Although she doesn’t perform that version on tour, fans have decided to chime in with Lamar’s part during the song’s bridge. Just don’t forget to pause a beat before you say “go!”
“Anti-Hero”
When: After she sings, “Did you hear my covert narcissism disguised as altruism like some kind of congressman” while the background vocals sing, “Tale as old as time.”
What: Sing, “Taylor, you’ll be fine.”
Why: Fans sing producer Jack Antonoff’s part in the recording of “Anti-Hero” featuring his band, Bleachers.
“Bejeweled”
When: In between her singing “And by the way” and “I’m going out tonight.”
What: Shout, “Where are you going Taylor?”
Why: This tradition appears to have started with TikToker Tyler Conroy, who posted a video of himself shouting the words at Swift’s Houston show. Swift liked the TikTok, which led fans to declare this an official new chant.
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Middle of Week “Rain” & Heat
Just like last week, it’s the second half of the week that is more eventful than the first. Wednesday and Thursday are trending to be the hottest days this week. Although neither air temperatures nor dew points will be to the level we experienced on either of those days last week. Still, you will want to dress comfortable. We get relief towards the weekend.
Our odds for rain (let alone severe weather) are also lower than last week. Outside of a couple, potential isolated thundershowers on Wednesday, we are looking to stay dry until the weekend. No rain opportunities for the next week are looking to bring the possibility of severe weather locally.
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What game show would NFL rookies win?
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Console & Associates, P.C.: Flagstar Bank Reports 2021 Data Breach Exposing Social Security Numbers of an Estimated 1.4 Million People
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 4:50 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
MARLTON, N.J., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 1.4 million consumers are being notified that their Social Security numbers were compromised following a recent cyberattack. The data breach lawyers at Console & Associates, P.C. are investigating claims on behalf of anyone affected by the Flagstar Bank breach, hoping to fully inform them of the risks they face in the wake of the breach as well as their legal rights.
The sensitive personal data of 1.4 million Flagstaff Bank customers has been compromised. Now, members' full names and Social Security numbers may be in the hands of criminals, putting victims at a greater risk of identity theft and other frauds.
On July 30, 2023, Flagstar Bank filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine describing a data breach affecting consumers nationwide. According to the notice, the data breach affected an estimated 1.4 million people.
The list of sensitive information that was exposed includes consumers':
- Full names, and
- Social Security numbers.
If you receive a data breach notice from Flagstar Bank, you could now be at risk of identity theft—and the devastating financial and legal consequences that go along with it.
Flagstar's filing with the Maine AG indicates a previous data breach letter was sent on March 15, 2015, which may be an error.
What Should You Do if You Receive a Flagstar Bank Data Breach Letter?
Additionally, victims should consider contacting a data breach attorney immediately, as anyone who receives a data breach letter from Flagstar Bank may be entitled to financial compensation.
If you wish to discuss this data security incident, or if you have any questions regarding your rights following the Flagstar Bank data breach, please contact Console & Associates, P.C. at (866) 778-5500. Interested parties and potential plaintiffs can also learn more about this data breach and potential lawsuit at https://www.myinjuryattorney.com/flagstar-bank-data-breach-investigation/. This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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Twitter's new "X" sign was taken down on Monday after the city of San Francisco reprimanded the company for installing a giant, flashing sign above its building without a permit.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said it received 24 complaints about the sign, including "concerns about its structural safety and illumination."
A building permit is technically required to dismantle the sign too, but the removal was allowed to proceed "duty to safety concerns," Patrick Hannan, a spokesperson for the department, told NPR.
The signage was the latest effort in the social media platform's rebranding since the sweeping changes were announced last week.
The removal comes less than three days after a city inspector went to Twitter's headquarters on Friday to alert the company of its permit violation and to evaluate the sign located on the roof, according to the city's complaint.
A Twitter representative denied access but explained that the structure is "a temporary lighted sign for an event." The inspector clarified that any signage without a permit must be removed.
The inspector came to the headquarters again on Saturday to visit the roof. But upon arrival, "access was denied again by tenant," the complaint said.
Twitter did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment. But to a tweet alleging that San Francisco authorities were trying to force Musk to remove the "X" sign, the Twitter owner replied on Saturday with a laughing-crying emoji.
Twitter was already in hot waters with the city of San Francisco last Monday for removing Twitter's original sign, which includes its name and iconic blue bird, without proper permits or taping off the sidewalk as part of pedestrian safety measures.
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Paul Reubens is gone. Why Pee-wee Herman is destined to live on
Paul Reubens has left the Earth, riding a sporty red-and-white bicycle into that Puppetland from whose bourn no traveler returns, but leaving us with his great creation and alter ego: Pee-wee Herman.
As an actor with many, diverse credits — he was most recently seen onscreen in “What We Do in the Shadows,” “The Conners” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Mosaic” and was Emmy-nominated as a guest actor for a recurring role on “Murphy Brown” — there was more to Reubens, who died Sunday at age 70, than Pee-wee. But there was no more to Pee-wee than Reubens, who thought him up, lived inside him and made him run. (Though I suppose, in some sense, Pee-wee might have told Reubens where he wanted to run.)
Pee-wee was a local celebrity before he was catapulted to national celebration via “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” in 1985 — which also gave director Tim Burton his first feature — and television’s “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” the following year. (My own familiarity with Reubens began when he starred in my friend Randy Akerson’s California Institute of the Arts film thesis, “The Beat Scene,” as an angsty beatnik who would run out into streets at night to find a dark corner to scream in.)
Some will have seen the character emerge from the primordial soup at the Groundlings. Many more, myself among them, in its deluxe expanded version at the Roxy, in 1981: “The Pee-Wee Herman Show,” a breathless take on the hosted children’s shows that would have been intimately familiar to kids of Reubens’ generation, and the generations immediately preceding and following. (Many, many more will have seen that show, recorded for posterity by HBO, on television.)
Paul Reubens, the actor best known for portraying the character Pee-wee Herman before arrests temporarily derailed his career, has died. He was 70.
When “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” debuted on CBS, a live-action children’s series in a Saturday morning lineup otherwise occupied by largely uninspiring cartoons, it was an anomaly, a throwback, even as it looked ahead, in its subversive openness to difference and inclusion, to the future. With its sharp-edged, neon-bright, tertiary-colored, handmade, homemade, paint-splattered aesthetic; designs by puppeteer-artist Wayne White and artist Gary Panter, who had worked the Roxy show and drew the posters and handbills that proliferated around town; and music by Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh, “Playhouse” embodied a new-wave sensibility, as if all the best shops on 1980s Melrose Avenue (where the Groundlings theater still sustains) had been compressed into a single setting.
Like many idiosyncratic characters or outsider artworks — and Reubens was not averse to describing his creation as a work of art — Pee-wee has the quality of seeming marginal, even as he is massively mainstream, like the band you used to see in crappy little clubs and are surprised to learn sells millions of records and fills stadiums.
Anyone halfway familiar with the character might draw him on command: red bow tie; gray suit, a little too small, in a way that later became oddly fashionable; white socks; hair cropped so close it appears to be painted on. Many among us will have had cause to ape his “Tequila” dance, to have made a joke about the Alamo basement, chanted “Mekka-lekka hi mekka hiney ho!” or remarked on their friends’ ”big but.” When “The Pee-wee Herman Show,” a retooled revival of the Roxy show, opened on Broadway in 2010, after a successful run in Los Angeles, advance sales amounted to more than $3 million. (HBO, back again, ran it as”The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway.”)
That there were dark patches in Reubens’ life that caused temporary caesuras in his career is not completely out of tune with Pee-wee, who was not without a dark side — which made him, after all, more relatable, interesting and hilarious to the children of all ages who made up his audience.
An authority figure who was also a case of arrested development, Pee-wee was an overgrown peer who might also prove a role model. It is the job of the revolutionary to redefine what’s normal, if not to demolish the very idea of normalcy. Pee-wee spoke to the outsider in us all. “I’m a loner, Dottie, a rebel,” runs a line from “Big Adventure,” quite possibly the first words that occurred to you on hearing of Reubens’ passing.
In Sunday’s Calendar section, I wrote about the sparkling new reconstruction that is “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse: The Complete Series” (Shout Factory), which not only puts this crazy diamond of a series on to Blu-ray for the first time but has been assembled from the original 16mm film elements — something even the original series, put together on videotape, didn’t do.
Pee-wee was in and out of Reubens’ life over the years. Between the Roxy show and accompanying HBO special and the premiere of “Playhouse,” there were multiple Pee-wee appearances on “The David Letterman Show”; a spot opposite Morgan Fairchild on “Evening at the Improv”; a Pee-wee-esque interpretation of Pinocchio, with Carl Reiner as Gepetto, as part of Shelley Duvall’s wonderful Showtime series “Faerie Tale Theater”; and “Saturday Night Live,” which Pee-wee guest-hosted.
In 1991, after “Playhouse” had gone off the air, and in the wake of Reubens’ much publicized arrest in Florida, Pee-wee opened the 1991 MTV Music Awards to rapturous cheers and pumped fists. (“Heard any good jokes lately?”) Following “Big Adventure,” on the big screen there was “Big Top Pee-wee” in 1988, followed after nearly 30 years by the Netflix feature “Pee-wee’s Big Holiday,” produced by Judd Apatow. In this century, there were appearances on Scott Aukerman’s “Comedy Bang! Bang!” and “WWE Raw.” “Playhouse” was rerun on Comedy Central and Adult Swim. Reubens always stayed invisible.
“I occupy this unique place in some people’s childhood,” Reubens told me when we spoke in 2014, “where there was a point in time where I influenced them in some way. I don’t want to get corny on you, but I am kind of corny, and that’s one of the greatest things about my career, I get this incredible feedback from people all the time. When I go out now, someone will come up to me and say, ‘I’m an artist because of you.’ I didn’t really set out to do that, but it’s enormously satisfying.”
It makes sense that Reubens, who had been ill for several years, kept quiet about it. Pee-wee is a sprite, a creature of myth, like Pan — immune to time or decay or serious illness. (He is easy enough to imagine with a cold, but not with cancer.) He cared for the character — who he only ever played, never exploited or mocked — too much to let the cracks show. Sadly, his creator was merely mortal. Paul Reubens is gone. Long live Pee-wee Herman.
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Pipeline operators to pay $12.5M after crude oil spills in Montana, North Dakota
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two pipeline operators have agreed to pay a $12.5 million civil penalty related to crude oil spills in Montana and North Dakota.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced the settlement in a 2022 federal court lawsuit. Belle Fourche Pipeline Company and Bridger Pipeline LLC will pay the $12.5 million to resolve the claims made under the Clean Water Act and Pipeline Safety Laws, the EPA said. The affiliated companies own and operate oil pipelines in Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming.
In 2015, Bridger’s Poplar Pipeline broke and spilled more than 50,000 gallons (about 190,000 liters) of crude into the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana. Bridger has completed cleanup of the site, and in 2021 settled a lawsuit with federal and Montana authorities for $2 million. Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality previously fined Bridger $1 million in the case.
In 2016, Belle Fourche’s Bicentennial Pipeline in Billings County, North Dakota, broke due to a landslide and spilled over 600,000 gallons (about 2.3 million liters) of oil, impacting an unnamed tributary, Ash Coulee Creek and the Little Missouri River. Belle Fourche’s cleanup is ongoing with oversight from North Dakota’s Department of Environmental Quality, according to the EPA.
The agreement announced Monday does not resolve all issues with the Ash Coulee spill and reserves the government’s right to bring future legal claims.
The $12.5 million civil penalty includes a nearly $4.6 million portion for North Dakota’s Department of Environmental Quality. Belle Fourche also will pay the state’s past response costs, totaling over $98,000, according to court documents filed Monday.
“Oil pipeline spills can cause enormous and long-lasting damage to the environment,” Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator Larry Starfield of the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance said in a statement. “This settlement holds Belle Fourche and Bridger Pipeline accountable for their significant oil spills and requires them to take meaningful measures to prevent future spills from their oil pipelines.”
The operators also are required to implement specified compliance measures, in addition to the civil penalty.
Belle Fourche and Bridger are owned by Wyoming-based True Companies, whose spokesman, when reached by email, did not have an immediate comment on the agreement.
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LOS ANGELES AUTO SHOW® 2023 REGISTRATION OPENS FOR MEDIA AND INDUSTRY DAY AT AUTOMOBILITY LA® ON NOVEMBER 16
AutoMobility LA is the global Media Day and Industry Gathering taking place at the LA Convention Center prior to the show's public opening
LOS ANGELES, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles Auto Show®, the leading automotive and lifestyle in-person event, will open registration tomorrow for AutoMobility LA®; its annual preview day for both media and industry professionals.
Scheduled for November 16 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the LA Auto Show's press and B2B gathering is an opportunity for the global community and key decision makers to convene in Southern California for the latest debuts, product announcements, networking opportunities and more.
The 2023 LA Auto Show will continue to highlight the latest innovations in electrification, as well as exhibits and festivities that span California's automotive lifestyle and legacy of car culture. Visitors will have an opportunity to experience both indoor and outdoor driving tracks, which provide visitors with unparalleled access to comparison shop the latest offerings from major manufacturers.
Registration opens tomorrow on August 1 and is complimentary for accredited and approved media. Industry attendees will be offered an "early bird" registration fee of $75 through October 15. After that date, the full registration fee of $150 will apply to all approved industry registrants. Registration is accessible at automobilityla.com/register.
Taking place in the nation's foremost zero-emissions vehicle market, AutoMobility LA is the preeminent destination for media, automotive and tech companies, influencers, and policymakers to discuss and experience the latest in transportation innovation.
Celebrating its 116th year, LA Auto Show remains as influential to the North American automotive industry as any time in its history. At the center of the largest car-buying market in North America for both gas-powered and electric vehicles, LA Auto Show and AutoMobility LA offer vital perspective and foresight into how the rest of the country and the global market will soon look.
"Given the growing influence of electrification, the LA Auto Show will be the ultimate destination for car buyers looking to compare models and test-drive," said LA Auto Show President, Terri Toennies. "We'll also have the latest gas-powered vehicles as well as a fascinating array of special exhibits and attractions that highlight Southern California's impact on the global automotive landscape."
More comprehensive details pertaining to vehicle unveilings, manufacturer participation and significant announcements will follow. To learn more about AutoMobility LA, to book accommodations with the show's partner hotels, and for information about media and industry credentials, please visit: AutoMobilityLA.com.
Following AutoMobility LA, the 2023 LA Auto Show opens its doors for ten days from Friday, November 17 through Sunday, November 26 to welcome hundreds of thousands of consumers to comparison shop, test drive the latest vehicles, and immerse themselves in Southern California's largest annual car culture showcase. For information about the LA Auto Show and ticket purchases, please visit LAAutoShow.com.
About the Los Angeles Auto Show (LA Auto Show®)
Founded in 1907, the Los Angeles Auto Show (LA Auto Show®) is widely recognized as one of the most influential shows globally. Reflective of its location, the show celebrates the love affair Angelenos have with their cars and offers a global platform to industry technology and innovation, synonymous with California.
The show runs for 10 full days over the Thanksgiving period and is a must-attend destination for many industry influencers, car enthusiasts and families wanting to enjoy a day out over the holiday season. Held annually at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the LA Auto Show contributes several-hundred-million dollars to the local economy, stimulates the local job market, and is the number one revenue generator for the LA Convention Center.
Taking place on November 16, AutoMobility LA media and industry days will include a range of groundbreaking industry announcements and reveals. Doors open to the public November 17-26. LA Auto Show is owned and operated by ANSA Productions. To receive the latest show news and information, follow the LA Auto Show on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn and sign up for alerts at laautoshow.com.
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Federal judge declines to block new Indiana law barring teaching of sex in grades K-3
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has declined to block the enforcement of a new state law barring the teaching of human sexuality to students from pre-K through the third grade.
U.S. District Judge J.P. Hanlon ruled late Friday that claims by Indianapolis Public Schools teacher Kayla Smiley that the law infringes on her First Amendment free speech rights and is too vague to be enforced were insufficient to justify a preliminary injunction blocking the law.
Hanlon said teachers do not have unlimited free speech rights in the classroom. Instead, as government employees, their speech is limited to subjects and messages approved by the Legislature, he wrote.
“Ms. Smiley cites no authority establishing that an elementary school teacher has the right to speak in her capacity as a private citizen when expressing an educational message to her students,” Hanlon wrote in his 15-page ruling. “Without a substantial effect on protected speech, Ms. Smiley is unlikely to succeed on her claim that (the law) — on its face — violates the First Amendment.”
Hanlon also ruled that while the law doesn’t define “human sexuality” or related terms, there is a sufficient core of understandable meaning to those phrases that prevents him from striking down the statute for being too vague.
Indiana schools typically don’t provide any kind of sex education until at least fifth grade except for state-mandated programs focused on preventing child abuse.
The lawsuit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana in June.
Republican lawmakers approved the law this year during a session that targeted LGBTQ+ people in the state. It took effect July 1 after Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed it into law in May.
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CHICAGO -- Angus Cloud, a young actor best known for his role in the drama "Euphoria," has died, his family announced in a statement to CNN on Monday.
He was 25.
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"It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today. As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways. Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss. The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence," they wrote.
"We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone," his family added. "We ask for privacy at this time as we are still processing this devastating loss."
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POMPANO BEACH, Fla., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Auto Finance Company, LLC ("SAFCO") today announced a Chief Financial Officer transition. Jason Person has been named as SAFCO's new CFO.
Most recently, Mr. Person served as the Vice President and Treasurer of Regional Management Corporation, a diversified consumer finance company, where he managed a team responsible for liquidity management, investor relations, and financial analytics. Prior to Regional Management Corporation, Mr. Person served as the Director of Treasury and Capital Markets at Global Lending Services and as Assistant Vice President of Finance for Exeter Finance Corporation. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from Anderson University and an MBA from Texas A&M University.
The company's current CFO Gary Stein is retiring after 22 years of dedicated service to SAFCO. Mr. Stein will remain in an advisory capacity for several months to help with the transition.
Commenting on the transition, SAFCO's CEO George Fussell, Sr. conveyed his heartfelt appreciation for Mr. Stein's contributions during his tenure, stating "We owe Gary a great debt of gratitude for his years of service. His remarkable leadership, financial acumen, and mentorship of the team have been instrumental in shaping the very foundation of our company's success. We wish him the best in his well-deserved retirement." Mr. Fussell further stated, "Jason represents a significant addition to our executive leadership team. He brings a wealth of expertise in treasury/capital markets, financial planning, and analytics that will undoubtedly contribute to SAFCO's continued success as we move forward."
About SAFCO
SAFCO is an industry-leading auto finance company with the power to see creditworthiness where others don't. Our proprietary originations system, complete with deep machine learning, enables us to see beyond credit scores and basic alternative data and instead base our decisions on unique, realistic insights that reveal the full credit potential of applicants. SAFCO is headquartered in Pompano Beach, Florida.
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Trump attempt to derail Georgia election investigation rejected by judge
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to keep a Georgia district attorney from prosecuting him and from using certain evidence gathered in her investigation into potential illegal meddling in the 2020 election in the state.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney didn’t mince words in his nine-page ruling, which said Trump lacked the legal grounds to bring the challenge before any indictment has been filed in the case. Any harm alleged by Trump and by Cathy Latham, a Republican fake elector from Georgia who had joined his motion, is “either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” the judge wrote.
The alleged harms “are insufficient because, while being the subject (or even target) of a highly publicized criminal investigation is likely an unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation,” McBurney wrote.
In a caustic footnote, seemingly nodding to Trump’s status as the dominant frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination for president despite having been indicted twice already, the judge added: “And for some, being the subject of a criminal investigation can, à la Rumpelstiltskin, be turned into golden political capital, making it seem more providential than problematic.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, has strongly suggested that she is likely to seek charges in the case in the coming weeks. While she has not directly said she plans to seek charges against the Republican former president, she has repeatedly said no one is above the law.
Monday’s ruling came in response to a motion filed in March by Trump’s Georgia-based legal team that said a special grand jury seated to help Willis investigate “involved a constant lack of clarity as to the law, inconsistent applications of basic constitutional protections for individuals being brought before it, and a prosecutor’s office that was found to have an actual conflict, yet continued to pursue the investigation.”
The special grand jury did not have the power to indict, but it did issue subpoenas and heard from some 75 witnesses while meeting from May to December last year and issued a final report with recommendations for Willis.
Trump attorney Drew Findling did not immediately respond Monday to text and voicemail messages seeking comment.
Latham was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who met at the state Capitol in December 2020 and signed a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. Willis last year informed them that they were targets of her investigation, though some have since reached immunity deals with her team.
McBurney said there are no grounds to disqualify Willis from pursuing her investigation and likely prosecution, saying she had not acted improperly.
“The drumbeat from the District Attorney has been neither partisan (in the political sense) nor personal, in marked and refreshing contrast to the stream of personal invective flowing from one of the movants,” he wrote, no doubt referring to Trump.
Trump’s attorneys several weeks ago took another stab at barring Willis from prosecuting him and getting the special grand jury’s report tossed out with twin filings against Willis and McBurney in Fulton County Superior Court and the Georgia Supreme Court. Explaining this extraordinary action, they cited the fact that McBurney had yet to rule on their earlier motion and Willis’ indication that she would soon seek charges in the case.
The state Supreme Court unanimously declined to intervene, dismissing the petition.
A judge from neighboring Cobb County was assigned to consider the other petition after the chief judge of the Fulton County Superior Court recused himself and the other judges on that bench from hearing the matter involving McBurney. He has set a hearing for Aug. 10.
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Locals Representing 340K UPS Workers Nearly Unanimously Recommend Contract
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters local unions representing 340,000 full- and part-time workers at UPS voted 161-1 on Monday to endorse the tentative agreement reached with the delivery giant on July 25 and recommend its passage by the full membership.
Of the 176 local unions with UPS members, 14 affiliates failed to show up to a meeting in Washington, DC, to review the tentative agreement.
At least two representatives from all other local unions discussed more than 60 changes and improvements to the UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement, the largest private-sector collective bargaining agreement in North America. The gains achieved during negotiations, which occurred regionally and nationally since January, are larger and more lucrative than any previous Teamsters contract at UPS. The tentative agreement, valued at $30 billion, establishes record wage increases for all workers for the life of the contract, installation of air conditioning in new vehicles, the end of an unfair two-tier wage system, catch-up raises for part-timers, Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday for the first time, new language to prevent forced overtime on days off, and other huge wins.
Now that local unions have nearly unanimously endorsed the tentative agreement, all rank-and-file UPS Teamsters will have the chance to vote on ratification from August 3-22.
"The entire UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee stands behind this historic contract and our UPS local unions have resoundingly voted to endorse it," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "Our tentative agreement is richer, stronger, and more far-reaching than any settlement ever negotiated in the history of American organized labor. The Teamsters are immensely proud of reaching agreement with UPS to improve the lives of our members, their families, and working people across the country."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
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Trump’s early work to set rules for nominating contest notches big win in delegate-rich California
Donald Trump has scored a major victory in his efforts to reshape the mosaic of state Republican Party rules that determine the GOP presidential nominee.
The California Republican Party over the weekend voted overwhelmingly to approve a plan to award all of their 169 presidential delegates to a candidate that wins a majority of the vote in the state’s March 5 primary.
That’s a hurdle that Trump, who remains popular in the party and is the early frontrunner in the crowded 2024 GOP field, could clear.
If no candidate wins more than 50%-plus-one in California’s Super Tuesday primary, then the delegates will be awarded to candidates based on their share of the vote. The rule change passed on a 53-16 vote Saturday by the California GOP’s Executive Committee is much more favorable to a frontrunner than a proposal that the party was considering a few weeks ago.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung called it “a humiliating defeat” for Trump’s strongest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and the super PAC that’s been heavily supporting his presidential campaign.
“We are pleased the California Republican Party readopted a Winner-Take-All provision, and we look forward to competing across California to win all of its delegates, just as President Trump did in 2016 and 2020,” Cheung said in a statement.
DeSantis’ campaign had said it was closely monitoring the delegate plans in the states, but a spokesman for the campaign did not respond to questions about their conversations with the California GOP.
Communications Director Andrew Romeo said: “We’re putting an organization together that can win in any state, in any format, anytime, and anywhere. Game on.”
But Never Back Down, a super PAC supporting DeSantis’ campaign whose top advisors are schooled in the arts of delegate rules, was less sanguine.
“Smoke-filled back rooms do not reflect the will of or benefit voters in any state. Yet across the country games are afoot to enhance the potential outcome of primary elections for one former president who half of the Republican electorate no longer wants as the party leader,” Ken Cuccinelli, the founder of Never Back Down, said in a statement. “Even with these asinine primary rules changes, we remain confident Governor DeSantis will become the Republican nominee and 47th president of the United States.”
Never Back Down did not respond to a request to make Cuccinelli available for an interview.
California has more delegates to award than any other state, making its delegate haul valuable in the contest to win the majority of more than 2,000 Republican delegates and secure the party’s nomination.
State parties set their rules governing how delegates are awarded based on the results of presidential caucuses and primaries, a process that Trump and his team have been working for years to influence.
The complex process repeatedly tripped up Trump’s 2016 campaign but after years of work by the former president himself and his advisers, the resulting system largely favors a frontrunner.
Many state Republican parties made changes to their rules ahead of the 2020 election by adding more winner-take-all contests and requiring candidates to earn higher percentages of the vote to claim any delegates.
As state parties this year are finalizing their delegate plans for 2024, California’s proposal received heightened attention because of the number of delegates at stake.
The party was originally considering a plan earlier this month that could have potentially allowed a second-place finisher to collect more delegates.
The earlier proposal would not have allowed for a candidate to take all the delegates if they received a majority of the votes.
Instead, it split the 169 delegates into two groups. Of those, 156 of the delegates would be allocated based on the primary results in each of the state’s 52 congressional districts. The candidate who received the most votes in each district would receive two delegates, while the second-place candidate in the district would get one. The remaining 13 delegates would have been allocated to candidates based on the percentage of the statewide vote they won.
That proposal drew outrage from some Trump supporters on Twitter who cast it as a plot to harm Trump.
California Republican Party Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson said the initial proposal “was a starting point so that we could take the issue up,” but dividing up the delegates proportionally incentivizes every candidate to campaign in California because they could be awarded their share of what they win.
“This is what primaries are for,” Patterson said. “I’m excited to see all of these candidates step up and either show us that they can take a portion or win the state on their own and to make that case to California voters.”
Patterson declined to detail the specific input each campaign provided but said the party heard from campaigns beyond just those of Trump and DeSantis, along with supporters of the various candidates and potential delegates.
She said it was “a very open and transparent process,” with the party allowing for public comment and discussion during the final weekend vote and during an earlier meeting of the party’s rules committee, which first passed the change.
“I feel good about where we ended up on Saturday, despite what some people might say,” she said.
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SÃO PAULO, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenvia Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENV), the leading cloud-based CX platform in Latin America empowering companies to transform their customer journeys, today announced that its fiscal 2023 second quarter and first half results will be released after the market close on Wednesday August 16, 2023.
Zenvia's senior management team will host a webcast to discuss the financial and operating results on Thursday, August 17, 2023, at 10:00 am ET. To access the webcast presentation, click here.
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Biden decides to keep Space Command in Colorado, rejecting move to Alabama
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama. The choice ended months of thorny deliberations, but an Alabama lawmaker vowed to fight on.
U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Monday that Biden was convinced by the head of Space Command, Gen. James Dickinson, who argued that moving his headquarters now would jeopardize military readiness. Dickinson’s view, however, was in contrast to Air Force leadership, who studied the issue at length and determined that relocating to Huntsville, Alabama, was the right move.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details of Biden’s rationale for the decision.
In announcing the plans, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, said the decision was based on an “objective and deliberate process informed by data and analysis.” He said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin supported the president’s decision.
Reaction to the decision came fast and was sharply divided, as Colorado lawmakers praised it and Alabama officials slammed it as a political maneuver. “This fight is far from over,” warned Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
Biden, said the U.S. officials, believes that keeping the command in Colorado Springs would avoid a disruption in readiness that the move would cause, particularly as the U.S. races to compete with China in space. And they said Biden firmly believes that maintaining stability will help the military be better able to respond in space over the next decade. Those factors, they said, outweighed what the president believed would be any minor benefits of moving to Alabama.
Biden’s decision enraged Alabama lawmakers and is sure to fuel accusations that abortion politics played a role in the choice. The location debate has become entangled in the ongoing battle between Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville and the Defense Department over the move to provide travel for troops seeking reproductive health care. Tuberville opposed the policy is blocking hundreds of military promotions in protest.
The U.S. officials said the abortion issue had no effect at all on Biden’s decision. And they said the president fully expected there would be different views on the matter within the Defense Department.
Tuberville, in a statement, said the top three choices for Space Command headquarters were all in Republican-leaning states — Alabama, Nebraska and Texas — and bypassing them “looks like blatant patronage politics.”
Formally created in August 2019, the command was temporarily based in Colorado, and Air Force and Space Force leaders initially recommended it stay there. In the final days of his presidency Donald Trump decided it should be based in Huntsville.
The change triggered a number of reviews.
Proponents of keeping the command in Colorado have argued that moving it to Huntsville and creating a new headquarters would set back its progress at a time it needs to move quickly to be positioned to match China’s military space rise. And Colorado Springs is also home to the Air Force Academy, which now graduates Space Force guardians, and more than 24 military space missions, including three Space Force bases.
Officials also argued that any new headquarters in Alabama would not be completed until sometime after 2030, forcing a lengthy transition.
Huntsville, however, scored higher than Colorado Springs in a Government Accountability Office assessment of potential locations and has long been a home to some of earliest missiles used in the nation’s space programs, including the Saturn V rocket. It is home to the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command.
According to officials, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who ordered his own review of the matter, leaned toward Huntsville, while Dickinson was staunchly in favor of staying put. The officials said Austin presented both options to Biden.
In a statement Monday, Kendall said the service will work to quickly implement Biden’s decision, adding that keeping the command in Colorado will “avoid any disruption to its operational capability.”
The decision was hailed as a victory in Colorado lawmakers and condemned in Alabama.
“For two and a half years we’ve known any objective analysis of this basing decision would reach the same conclusion we did, that Peterson Space Force Base is the best home for Space Command,” Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said in a statement. “Most importantly, this decision firmly rejects the idea that politics — instead of national security — should determine basing decisions central to our national security.”
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., said the decision “restores integrity to the Pentagon’s basing process and sends a strong message that national security and the readiness of our Armed Forces drive our military decisions.”
Rogers, meanwhile, vowed that his committee will continue an investigation into the matter, calling it a “deliberate taxpayer-funded manipulation of the selection process.” He added, “It’s clear that far-left politics, not national security, was the driving force behind this decision.”
Republican Alabama Sen. Katie Britt echoed his sentiment, saying it was irresponsible for Biden to “yank a military decision out of the Air Force’s hands in the name of partisan politics.” She said an Air Force evaluation of the potential locations ranked Huntsville first, adding that the decision ”should have remained in the Air Force’s purview.”
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Associated Press writer Kim Chandler in Montgomery, Ala., contributed to this report.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Chants of “freedom” echoed through the streets outside an aid facility in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday where just days earlier an American nurse and her daughter were kidnapped by armed men.
Hundreds of Haitians marched through the gang-ravaged zone, bursting with anger at the abduction, which has become a symbol of the worsening violence plaguing the Caribbean nation.
New Hampshire woman Alix Dorsainvil had been working as a community nurse for the religious and humanitarian aid group El Roi Haiti when she and her daughter were taken from its campus on Thursday, the organization said. She is the wife of its founder, Sandro Dorsainvil.
Witnesses told the Associated Press that Dorsainvil was working in her organization’s small brick clinic when a group of armed men burst in and seized her. Lormina Louima, a patient waiting for a check-up, said one man pulled out his gun and told her to relax.
“When I saw the gun, I was so scared,” Louima said. “I said, ‘I don’t want to see this, let me go.'”
Other members of the community said the unidentified men asked for $1 million in ransom, something that’s become standard as Haiti’s gangs turn to slews of kidnappings to line their pockets and bleed the country dry. Hundreds have been kidnapping in Haiti this year alone, figures from the local nonprofit Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights show.
Since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, gangs have taken over much of Port-au-Prince, killing, raping and sowing terror in communities already suffering endemic poverty.
The same day that Dorsainvil and her daughter were taken, the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” for Haiti and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave amid growing security concerns. In its advisory, the State Department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
The violence has stirred anger among Haitians, who say they simply just want to live in peace.
Protesters, largely from the area around El Roi Haiti’s campus, which includes a medical clinic, a school and more, echoed that call as they walked through the sweltering streets wielding cardboard signs written in Creole in red paint.
“She is doing good work in the community, free her,” read one.
Among the protesters was Jean Ronald, a local resident who said the community has significantly benefitted from the care provided by El Roi Haiti.
Such groups are often the only institutions in areas far beyond the reach of the law, but have increasingly had to shut down operations as violence has deepened. The closures often leave thousands of vulnerable families without access to basic services like healthcare or education.
Earlier this month, Doctors Without Borders announced it was suspending services in one of its hospitals because some 20 armed men burst into an operating room and snatched a patient.
As the protesters walked through the area where Dorsainvil was taken, the streets were eerily quiet. The doors to the clinic where she worked were shut, the small brick building empty. Ronald and others in the area worried the latest kidnapping may mean the clinic won’t reopen. Such closures
“If they leave, everything (the aid group’s programs) will shut down,” the Haitian worried. “The money they are asking for, we don’t have it.”
Shortly after, protests dispersed.
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller refused to confirm Monday whether the abductors had made any demands, or to answer other questions.
“I will say we are aware of the reports that two US citizens were kidnapped in Haiti. Obviously, the safety and security of American citizens overseas is our highest priority. We are in regular contact with the Haitian authorities. We’ll continue to work with them and our US government interagency partners, but because it’s an ongoing law enforcement investigation, there’s not more detail I can offer,” Miller wrote in a statement Monday.
In a video for the El Roi Haiti website, Alix Dorsainvil describes Haitians as “resilient people.”
“They’re full of joy, and life and love. I’m so blessed to know so many amazing Haitians,” she says.
Dorsainvil graduated from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti. Before that, she went to Cornerstone Christian Academy in Ossipee, New Hampshire which offers pre-K through eighth grade education.
“Pray that God would keep her safe, be with her through this trial, and deliver her from her captors,” the school said on its Facebook page.
Dorsainvil’s father, Steven Comeau, reached in New Hampshire, said he could not talk.
El Roi Haiti celebrated the nurse’s work in a statement over the weekend.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti’s worsening situation.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Indian-American engineer says he was fired last year from his long-time job with a missile defense contractor’s Alabama office after he was heard speaking Hindi on a video call, according to a federal lawsuit he filed against the company.
Anil Varshney, 78, filed a civil rights lawsuit in the Northern District of Alabama against Parsons Corporation and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin, whose department oversees the United States Missile Defense Agency, AL.com reported Monday.
“This case arises out of Defendants’ intentional acts to end Mr. Varshney’s highly distinguished engineering career because he is a 78-year-old Indian American,” the lawsuit reads. “Defendants abruptly terminated Mr. Varshney after one of his white colleagues overheard him speaking Hindi to his dying brother-in-law in India and falsely reported him for a violation of ‘security regulations.’ ”
Sharon L. Miller, an attorney representing the Virginia-based defense contractor, did not immediately respond to a phone message and email requesting comment. In a response filed with the court, Parsons denied wrongdoing and asked for the lawsuit’s dismissal.
The lawsuit goes on to say that Varshney, who worked at Parsons’ Huntsville office from July 2011 to October 2022, accepted a video call from his brother-in-law in an empty cubicle and spoke to him for about two minutes. The company then said he committed a security violation by using the Facetime application at the classified worksite and fired him. He claims there was no policy prohibiting the call he accepted.
The firing blackballed him from future work with the Missile Defense Agency, the lawsuit alleges. He first began working for the federal agency in 2002 and continued in tandem with his employment at Parsons until 2022. In doing so, he achieved the American Dream, the lawsuit says.
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Memphis, Tennessee, police shoot suspect after he fired shots outside Jewish school
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis police on Monday said officers shot a suspect after he attempted to enter a Jewish school with a gun and fired shots after he couldn’t get into the building.
Assistant Police Chief Don Crowe said the suspect, whose identity has not been released, approached Margolin Hebrew Academy-Feinstone Yeshiva of the South around 12:20 p.m. He fired several shots and then left in a maroon truck.
“Thankfully, that school had a great safety procedure and process in place and avoided anyone being harmed or injured at that scene,” Crowe said.
Officers soon found the suspect’s vehicle “shortly after that,” Crowe said, adding that officers then shot the suspect after he exited the truck with a firearm in hand. The suspect was sent to a hospital, where he is in critical condition.
It was not immediately clear if school was in session.
When asked if law enforcement believe the shooting was a hate crime, Crowe said officers were still on the scene and collecting information.
“It’s way too early for that. Again, we’re very early in this investigation,” Crowe said.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations is now handling the case.
Oscar Gomez said two of his teenage children were outside their house when the man was shot in their neighborhood. They told him about the shooting when he arrived home from work, he said.
“They heard the shooting, and they threw themselves on the floor trying to protect themselves,” said Gomez, 39.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, whose district includes Memphis, said in a statement that he was “shocked” to hear about the incident at the school and noted that acts of “violent antisemitism” are on the rise across the country.
Monday’s shooting comes nearly four months after a shooter opened fire at a private Christian school in Nashville and killed six people, including three nine-year-old children. That tragedy has sparked closer scrutiny of Tennessee’s relaxed gun laws and renewed calls to strengthen security at both public and private schools across the state.
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A new face has entered the race for Indiana's 3rd District Congressional seat in the U.S. House – the 10th Republican to do so.
Tim Smith, CEO at Lifeline Youth & Family Services, announced his campaign Monday morning. Smith, a self-proclaimed conservative outsider, said his goal is to "end wokeness and expand freedom" in a media release.
"We've seen the power of an outsider in office – someone who will fight for the people," Smith said.
U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, who currently holds the 3rd District seat, is seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, he said in January. Banks made the announcement after Sen. Mike Braun said he would run for governor.
Other candidates in the Republican primary include Grant Bucher, a project manager for Weigand Construction; former Allen Circuit Court Judge Wendy Davis; Mike Felker, Warsaw maintenance technician and veteran; Fort Wayne resident and veteran Jon Kenworthy; Auburn lawyer Chandler Likes; former Congressman Marlin Stutzman; Eric Whalen, Decatur resident; Scott Wise, commercial manager for Warner Electric; and state Sen. Andy Zay, R-Huntington.
Jo Anderson, teacher at East Allen County Schools, and Phil Goss, a businessman and former State Department employee, are both running on the Democratic side.
Smith challenged Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry for the position in the 2019 election. Smith received 39% of the vote.
His campaign focuses on preserving "America's freedoms and principles from the radical left's woke ideologies," the media release said. Smith outlines abortion and immigration as two issues he will focus on, and he wants to "uphold law and order," and "expose government waste, fraud and abuse."
Smith was born in Fort Wayne and raised in New Haven, graduating from New Haven High School. He also graduated from Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne and the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at IUPUI.
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Missouri governor rejects mercy plea from man set to be executed for killing 6-year-old girl
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Monday that the state will proceed with this week’s planned execution of a man who abducted and killed a 6-year-old girl nearly two decades ago, though the man’s attorneys are still pressing claims he is mentally incompetent.
Johnny Johnson, 45, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Tuesday evening for the July 26, 2022, fatal beating of Casey Williamson in her St. Louis County hometown of Valley Park.
Johnson’s attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution. They also asked that Parson grant clemency — reducing Johnson’s sentence to life in prison — while asserting that Johnson’s mental illness has left him incapable of understanding the connection between his actions and his execution.
Parson denied the clemency request. He noted that a variety of courts — including the original trial judge and 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just days ago — have thus far rejected Johnson’s incompetency claims.
“Johnny Johnson’s crime is one of the most horrific murders that has come across my desk,” Parson said in a statement. “Casey was an innocent young girl who bravely fought Johnson until he took her life.”
Parson, a former sheriff, said he received “countless letters in the last few weeks seeking justice for Casey” and hopes that carrying out the execution “may provide some closure for Casey’s loved ones.”
In a clemency petition, Johnson’s attorneys said that Casey’s father, Ernie Williamson, opposes the death penalty.
But other relatives urged the governor to let the execution go forward.
Casey’s great aunt, Della Steele, sent a message to Parson emphasizing that Johnson could have turned back at any point but instead chose to abduct, assault and kill Casey and then literally covered up his crime. The grief from Casey’s death led to destructive events in the lives of other family members, she wrote in the message, which she shared with The Associated Press.
“Please stand strong beside Casey,” Steele wrote. “Remove this threat from our presence. Send the message that it is not okay to terrorize and murder a child.”
Casey’s mother had been best friends in childhood with Johnson’s older sister and had even helped babysit him. When Johnson showed up at a barbecue, Casey’s family let him sleep on a couch in the same house where they were spending the night.
In the morning, however, Johnson lured the girl out of the home to an abandoned glass factory, even carrying her on his shoulders on the walk. When he tried to sexually assault her, Casey screamed and tried to break free, according to court documents. He killed her with a brick and a large rock, then washed off in the nearby Meramec River. Johnson confessed to the crimes that same day.
After a search involving first responders and volunteers, Casey’s body was found in a pit not too far from her home, buried beneath rocks and debris.
At Johnson’s trial, defense lawyers presented testimony showing that he had stopped taking his schizophrenia medication and was acting strangely in the days before the slaying.
Johnson would be the fourth person executed this year in Missouri, and the 16th nationally.
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Enrollment in Indiana's preschool program is lagging behind last year's record levels despite expanded eligibility.
Open to 4-year-olds from lower-income families, On My Way Pre-K awards grants to eligible children so they can attend high-quality preschool programs for a year before kindergarten.
About 4,500 children, including nearly 300 in northeast Indiana, were enrolled for the new academic year as of July 1, according to the program's online dashboard Monday. Seven counties, including DeKalb, didn't have any for the upcoming year.
The program had 6,230 participants last year, which was about 30% more than the previous year's total of 4,793.
The income limit last month increased to 150% of the federal poverty line, from 127%. For a family of four, that raised the annual income eligibility to $45,000, from $34,000, a news release said.
Children must be 4 by today and plan to start kindergarten in the 2024-25 school year to qualify.
Recipients may use On My Way Pre-K grants at any approved site, including homes, centers, schools and religious settings.
More than 21,000 children have attended preschool through On My Way Pre-K since it began in 2015 with five pilot counties, including Allen. It expanded to 20 counties two years later and became a statewide offering in 2019.
The latest enrollment data shows 210 Allen County participants this upcoming year, which is about 79% of last year's. Local participation has annually exceeded 200 children since the 2019-20 year, except during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020-21. That year, 98 children enrolled, the dashboard said.
Last year, the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration released two studies that described the program's benefits.
A five-year study by Purdue University compared 376 students who participated in On My Way Pre-K in the 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic years with 182 students attending programs considered adequate but not high quality.
On My Way Pre-K participants had stronger school readiness, language and literacy skills, results showed. As third and fourth graders, researchers said, these students earned higher scores in the math and English sections of ILEARN, the state's standardized test.
Researchers from the University of Chicago conducted a kindergarten readiness study. It focused on an assessment given to 1,608 On My Way Pre-K students and measured oral language, literacy and math skills.
Compared with national norms established for higher-income children, the Hoosier preschoolers scored, on average, at or above national target levels on 29% of the language and literacy skills and 40% of the math skills reviewed in the assessment, the study found.
Visit www.OnMyWayPreK.org for information, including links to the application and a map of service providers.
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