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Oklahoma parents, faith leaders and education group sue to stop US’s first public religious school
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of parents, faith leaders and a public education nonprofit sued Monday to stop Oklahoma from establishing and funding what would be the nation’s first religious public charter school.
The lawsuit filed in Oklahoma County District Court seeks to stop taxpayer funds from going to the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 3-2 last month to approve the application by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City to establish the school, and the board and its members are among those listed as defendants.
The vote came despite a warning from Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general that such a school would violate both state law and the Oklahoma Constitution.
The Rev. Lori Walke, senior minister at Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma City and one of the plaintiffs in the case, said she joined the lawsuit because she believes strongly in religious freedom.
“Creating a religious public charter school is not religious freedom,” Walke said. “Our churches already have the religious freedom to start our own schools if we choose to do so. And parents already have the freedom to send their children to those religious schools. But when we entangle religious schools to the government … we endanger religious freedom for all of us.”
The approval of a publicly funded religious school is the latest in a series of actions taken by conservative-led states that include efforts to teach the Bible in public schools, and to ban books and lessons about race, sexual orientation and gender identity, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which is among several groups representing the plaintiffs in the case.
“We are witnessing a full-on assault of church-state separation and public education, and religious public charter schools are the next frontier,” Laser said.
Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt earlier this year signed a bill that would give parents in the state a tax incentive to send their children to private schools, including religious schools.
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma said in its application to run the charter school: “The Catholic school participates in the evangelizing mission of the Church and is the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out.”
Rebecca Wilkinson, the executive director of the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board, said in an email to The Associated Press that the board hadn’t been formally notified of the lawsuit Monday afternoon and that the agency would not comment on pending litigation.
A legal challenge to the board’s application approval was expected, said Brett Farley, the executive director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma.
“News of a suit from these organizations comes as no surprise since they have indicated early in this process their intentions to litigate,” Farley said in a text message to the AP. “We remain confident that the Oklahoma court will ultimately agree with the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in favor of religious liberty.”
Stitt, who previously praised the board’s decision as a “win for religious liberty and education freedom,” reiterated that position on Monday.
“To unlock more school options, I’m supportive of that,” Stitt said.
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This year’s fiscal closeout data shows that two-thirds of state agencies and offices sent less than 1% of the money allocated to them back to the state General Fund.
But a handful of agencies stood out for their reversions, or lack thereof. Indeed, the Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning alone accounted for 86% of the total reversions listed, or $526 million of its $609 million allocation.
That $526 million accounted for just a small portion – 17.2% – of the department’s overall General Fund budget of $3 billion. Others returned far greater percentages and some none at all.
Notably, the state’s list of reversions only details those returning directly to the General Fund and not those dedicated to separate accounts. Nor does it include an agency’s entire spending, which can include dedicated funds based on fees – like car registrations for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles – that don’t rely on General Fund tax dollars.
The fiscal year ran from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
Medicaid returns comprise bulk
When drafting the state’s two-year budget in 2021, lawmakers made a critical assumption: that the Public Health Emergency and accompanying supplemental federal match for Medicaid would end before the biennium was over.
Instead, the federal order continued longer than expected, meaning Indiana received millions more in federal funding in return for not striking any Hoosiers from the Medicaid rolls. Even though the Medicaid population swelled, Indiana spent fewer state dollars during that time period.
The enhanced match has since expired and the state is now undergoing the process of reevaluating Medicaid enrollees for eligibility.
Savings on Medicaid expenditures comprised the bulk of the General Fund reversions, along with a few smaller funds.
However, the amount of state funds dedicated to Medicaid continues to grow – to the alarm of Republican budget writers, who noted that expenses related to the low-income insurance program now made up 18% of the $44 billion two-year budget.
Democratic budget committee member Sen. Fady Qaddoura, of Indianapolis, urged his GOP colleagues to save those funds for coming Medicaid expenses, rather than leave them sitting in the General Fund.
“… In light of Republican concern that Medicaid growth is out of control, putting that money in the Medicaid Reserve Fund would have been a better way to establish long-term, robust support for the program,” Qaddoura said in a statement. “At a time when tens of thousands of Hoosiers, including children, are being kicked off Medicaid, we can’t do too much to provide a cushion of support for Medicaid.”
Few families use new ESA program
The Treasurer of State returned $8.9 million in unspent funds, or a whopping 76.6% of its $11.6 million overall budget – the highest reversions percentage across all agencies. Most of that amount is dedicated to the state’s Education Scholarship Accounts (ESAs), according to the agency.
Lawmakers created ESAs in 2021 to cover approved education costs for students with disabilities – such as transportation or specialized therapies – and dedicated $3 million the first year followed by $10 million in the 2023 fiscal year, the first year the program enrolled students.
The appropriation would be enough to fund about 1,300 ESAs, but the treasurer’s office reported that 143 students participated earlier this year. Because fewer kids signed up, the office reverted the money back to the General Fund.
“The Treasurer and our ESA team are working with the (General) Assembly to expand ESA eligibility so that more students can have access to those scholarship funds,” said Abhilash Reddy, a deputy general counsel and legislative director for the office.
When lawmakers sought to create a universal voucher program, the first version expanded the ESA fund to all students, meaning that the average student would be eligible to receive $7,500 per academic year. Bill author Sen. Brian Buchanan, R-Lebanon said another 300 families wanted to participate in the ESA program but were ineligible during the bill’s hearing in January.
The ultimate version of the universal school voucher program works through the state’s Choice Scholarships program, rather than ESAs, to expand eligibility to all but the wealthiest of Hoosiers.
ISP savings, trooper classes
Other agencies saw far smaller – but still significant – reversions, including the Indiana State Police (ISP). The department returned $5.9 million in funds, 2.8% of its General Fund allotment, mostly from a motor carrier fund and a benefit fund.
ISP Superintendent Doug Carter said that much of the funding acted as a sort of rainy day fund to pad the department’s budget in case of emergencies.
“(When I started), I initially was not in support of that. But I’ve come to find out over the years that it’s just a good collaborative effort and it’s a way for us to plan … for unexpected occurrences,” Carter said.
Notably, the ISP got a marked increase in the most recent state budget, earmarked to boost trooper salaries to start at $70,000 and shorten the matrix used for raises. Carter said the increases, set to take effort in the next paycheck since being enacted earlier this month, made a crucial difference in recruitment.
“We were able to see an increase in applicants in this last class … 48 people in the class that’s currently (training) now and they’re just finishing week number three,” Carter said. “That’s a big deal since we only graduated 12 last year.”
Carter said the department, which has roughly 1,100 law enforcement officers, hoped to hire an additional 100 troopers next year to close the 200-trooper gap.
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D-backs become buyers at trade deadline, add Mariners closer Paul Sewald in exchange for 3 players
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks have solidified the back of their bullpen ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline, acquiring closer Paul Sewald from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for infielder Josh Rojas, outfielder Dominic Canzone and minor leaguer Ryan Bliss, according to a person familiar with the deal.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal hasn’t been officially announced.
The D-backs opted to be buyers at the trade deadline despite a 7-16 record in July that’s caused their overall record to slide to 56-50.
Sewald has been a mainstay at the back of Seattle’s bullpen for the past three seasons.
He has a career-high 21 saves this season in 45 appearances, after recording 20 saves in 2022 and 11 in 2021. In his three seasons with Seattle, Sewald has an 18-8 record and 2.88 ERA in 172 games.
Arizona’s bullpen has struggled of late, with a rotating cast of closers like Scott McGough, Andrew Chafin and Miguel Castro. Sewald’s arrival should give the Diamondbacks some certainty on who will handle the ninth inning.
For Seattle, it’s a similar move to two seasons ago when the Mariners dealt then-closer Kendall Graveman to Houston at the deadline in exchange for utilityman Abraham Toro and reliever Joe Smith. At that time, the Mariners were nine game over .500 and ended the season 90-72, barely missing out on a wild card spot.
This season, the Mariners have been mired in mediocrity hovering around .500 for most of the season, never climbing more than three games above the .500 mark at any point. They started Monday 5 ½ games back in the AL West and 4 ½ games behind in the wild card race.
Rojas was a mainstay for the Diamondbacks in 2021 and 2022 but has struggled this season. He’s got a .252 career batting average and 22 homers. Canzone recently made his big-league debut and has a .237 average with a homer and eight RBIs in 41 plate appearances.
Bliss was batting .358 with 12 homers at Double-A Amarillo. He was drafted in the second round out of Auburn in 2021.
The D-backs and Mariners just completed a three-game series at Chase Field with Seattle winning two of the three games.
The deal was first reported by The Arizona Republic.
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The Komets signed forwards Jack Gorniak and Vincent De Mey and defenseman Jordan Spadafore on Monday.
Gorniak, 23, will play his first year as a pro after five seasons at the University of Wisconsin. The 5-foot-11 Gorniak scored 22 goals and added 40 assists for 62 points in 164 games with the Badgers. The Montréal Canadiens selected Gorniak in the fourth round of the 2018 NHL draft.
“Jack comes from an incredible college program, and he was an integral part of their team,” Komets coach Jesse Kallechy said in a news release. “He has elite speed, plays the game the right way, and is going to be a big piece for us this season.”
Spadafore, 22, played two seasons at Nipissing University, appearing in 38 games. Before his college career, the 6-2 Spadafore skated with four teams in the QMJHL and two in the MJAHL, where he amassed 344 penalty minutes in 113 games played.
“He’s a big strong defenseman who plays the game hard and will stand up for his teammates,” Kallechy said. He is a tough guy to play every night, and we are excited to bring his skill set to our defensive group.”
De Mey, 25, played three games with the ECHL's Kansas City Mavericks last season. The Los Angeles native played five seasons at Northern Michigan University, appearing in 162 games and scoring 71 total points (40 goals, 31 assists).
The additions bring Fort Wayne's roster to 16 along with returning forwards Shawn Boudrias, Tristan Pelletier and William Provost, and returning defensemen Darien Kielb and Noah Ganske. The newcomers include netminder François Brassard, the ECHL’s Goaltender of the Year in 2021-22 with the Jacksonville Icemen, along with defenseman Joe Gatenby, and forwards Nolan Volcan, Darian Pilon, Cole Young, Kamerin Nault, Parker Saretsky and Tristan Ashbrook.
The American Hockey League’s Bakersfield Condors, one step above Fort Wayne in the Oilers’ developmental system, have signed goalie Tyler Parks, defensemen Connor Corcoran and Jake Johnson, and forward Cameron Wright, all of whom could see time in Fort Wayne.
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Mark Jackson laid off by ESPN with Doris Burke and Doc Rivers slated as replacements, AP source says
Add Mark Jackson to the list of ESPN reporters and commentators who have been laid off over the past five weeks.
Jackson was let go on Monday with two years remaining on his contract. With Jeff Van Gundy also being laid off in late June, ESPN is expected to replace them with Doris Burke and Doc Rivers, two people close to the move told The Associated Press.
They spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they aren’t at liberty to publicly discuss personnel moves.
Burke and Rivers would join Mike Breen on ESPN and ABC’s top NBA broadcast crew.
Burke would be the first woman to serve as a game analyst for the NBA Finals on television. She has called the finals on ESPN Radio since 2020 and has been an analyst on ESPN’s NBA games since 2017.
Rivers, who was fired as coach of the Philadelphia 76ers in May, called games on ESPN during the 2003-04 season.
Jackson first joined ESPN in 2006 before leaving in 2011 to take the head coaching job with the Golden State Warriors. He returned to the network in May 2014 after being fired by the Warriors.
Van Gundy had been the network’s top NBA analyst since 2007 and recently called a record 17th NBA Finals. Breen, Van Gundy and Jackson called 15 finals together.
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A mass will be held for Eddie Long, an original Komet and the team's all-time leader in goals who passed away Friday at age 90, at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Most Precious Blood Catholic Church, with visitation beginning at noon. Visitation will also be from 12-3 p.m. and 5-8 p.m. Thursday at Hockemeyer & Miller Funeral Home. Long was an active member at Most Precious Blood.
Burial will be in Catholic Cemetery. The family encourages those attending services to wear their favorite hockey jersey or dress in colors of orange and black. Those wishing to give a memorial in Long's name can make them to Most Precious Blood Catholic School or Carriage House. Condolences and memories are encouraged and can be left online at www.hockemeyermillerfh.com.
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‘Absolute win’: Coalition president on Michigan Supreme Court’s crash injury ruling
MICHIGAN (WNEM) - Michigan’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of thousands who suffered catastrophic injuries in car crashes, meaning those injured before a certain date can continue to bill insurance companies for ongoing care.
“This Supreme Court decision today really marks the beginning of the end of the nightmare that over 18,000 crash survivors and their families have been living for the past couple of years,” said Tim Hoste, president of the Coalition Protecting Auto No Fault.
Hoste said he supports the latest action by the Michigan Supreme Court. On Monday, July 31, the court ruled that Michigan residents who were catastrophically injured in car crashes before the summer of 2019 can continue to bill insurance companies for ongoing care.
As TV5 reported, a new state law enacted in June of 2019 set a fee schedule and a cap on reimbursements not covered by Medicare.
Related: Michigan Supreme Court takes major car insurance case
“Michigan residents who have gone through catastrophic injuries, and have had to do tremendous amounts of effort to get back and recover as best they were able to. And they did that moving forward with the good faith understanding that these benefits were going to be there for them when they needed it, and would be able to provide care for them from that point forward. And then all of a sudden, in the middle of the game, the rules changed,” Hoste said.
He was quick to point out people are seriously injured in car crashes every day, and while he is glad for those who are grandfathered in, he worries about others who are dealing with life-changing injuries.
“We need, and we will continue to fight until we can get a fair and sustainable fee schedule so that all victims of catastrophic auto accidents can get the necessary medical care and rehab that they need,” Hoste said.
In its 5-2 opinion, the Michigan Supreme Court said a “vested contractual right” to ongoing benefits “cannot be stripped away or diminished,” especially when lawmakers failed to declare an intent to do so when they changed the law in 2019.
“All in all, this is an absolute win for anyone who has been injured,” Hoste said.
However, he said he believes car insurance companies will use Wednesday’s ruling as a reason to raise car insurance premiums.
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Which amateur will win the Loretta Lynn’s?
Hunter Lawrence, Levi Kitchen, Justin Cooper and other pros share what riders can expect during the Amateur National Motocross Championship, as Jason Weigandt and Jason Thomas preview the Loretta Lynn’s.
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Kansas ranchers work to protect herds from dangerous heat
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - With dangerous heat continuing throughout Kansas, it’s making life difficult for cattle and challenging ranchers responsible for keeping them healthy. Among farmers and ranchers trying to keep the heat from overwhelming their herds is Ken Stielow in Russell County.
“Every August, we expect some hot weather following wheat harvest, but this year has just been weird from the very beginning,” Stielow said.
With the extreme heat, he said cattle need more attention.
“We’ve had to check cows just about daily to make sure we don’t have problems,” Stielow said.
Some problems are minor.
“Grass has been really slow coming back, so we’ve had to just keep moving the cattle around,” Stielow said.
Other problems can be detrimental.
“We really have to watch our cattle and watch the water supply, because we don’t have really good water in all of the pastures,” Stielow said.
He said the effort to disaster includes bringing in a water trailer and hauling water to pastures that don’t have any. The hope for farmers and ranchers is that the dangerous heat won’t stick around much longer.
“I’d like to to cool off, it’s tough on old farmers too,” Stielow said.
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New buoy marker will make shipwreck exploration easier
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - Lake Superior has a new marking on the water near Marquette.
A new bouy on the lake will make finding shipwrecks easier.
The Marquette Maritime Museum has sponsored the new lake buoy for the Great Lakes Scuba Divers and Lake Preservation Club.
This new buoy marks a shipwreck just off Lake Superior’s shore near the Marquette Harbor Lighthouse.
Anchoring this buoy to the lake bottom will help the D. Leuty shipwreck and its artifacts stay intact. The club president said these local ships are important history and always have something new for people to explore.
“In local shipwrecks, you can find a lot of hull parts. You can find, on some of them, boilers that are intact you can go investigate. There are some interesting cribs and sunken docks with a lot of historical items that date back to the early shipping days,” said Fassbender.
The D. Leuty shipwreck is the first shipwreck to be marked by this club.
Located about 800 feet off the shore from the Marquette Harbor Lighthouse, this shipwreck dates back to the old logging days of Marquette in 1911.
Fassbender also said this new system will make shipwreck exploration significantly easier.
“There is a lot of interesting things to see but it is hard to find with just GPS numbers. If we mark it with a buoy, you can drive right up to it, hook on your boat then go enjoy the scene,” said Fassbender.
The Great Lakes Scuba Divers do more than just support the lake’s ships lost in time. Fassbender said keeping trash out of Lake Superior is a priority for the club.
“If you look at old photos of the docks you will see tires along the entire length. They were used as bumpers for boats. We know they don’t belong in the lake. We don’t want it in our food supply, we don’t want it in our drinking water. So it’s our mission to clean up the environment,” said Fassbender.
Next, the Great Lakes Scuba Divers plan to mark the Kershaw just off the rock cut in Harvey.
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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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Students from Saginaw’s sister city in Japan visit Michigan
SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - High school students from Saginaw’s sister city of Tokushima, Japan visited mid-Michigan this past week.
The group studied English at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU), traveled to Mackinac Island and Detroit, and met the mayor of Saginaw.
On Monday, July 31, they ended their visit by holding a Michigan Travel Fair at SVSU to share their cultural exchange experiences.
The students are the first international group to return to SVSU since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.
“We want to make it as diverse as we possibly can and we like to have as many different cultures represented at our school. We’re encouraging these students to come to Saginaw Valley, if they can, for college,” said Colette Urian, SVSU educator and an English instructor to exchange students.
Students were accompanied by two teachers from Japan as well.
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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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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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Red Cross blood drives planned this week in Bryan
The first is Tuesday and the second opportunity to give will be on Saturday.
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 5:17 PM CDT|Updated: 56 minutes ago
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Blood donations always take a dip during the summer and that’s why the American Red Cross is urging donors to roll up their sleeves this week and help save lives.
Two donation events are planned this week at the Red Cross office on Boonville Road in Bryan.
The first is Tuesday from noon to 6 pm.
The second is Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 pm.
Donors can find information for other donation events and preregister online by clicking here and entering your local zip code.
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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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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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Twin City Mission 60th anniversary gala
Get groovy and support the community
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Twin City Mission is celebrating their 60 year anniversary with a groovy themed gala on Aug. 12. Doors open for this event at 7 p.m. with food, a band, and auction items.
The event is to help support Twin City Mission in their aim to impact the community around them.
Chris Reyes, a board member for the organization, emphasizes the meaning behind the support of the people of the Bryan-College Station area.
“You can see the actual impact to those individuals that need that access to those resources that are not easily available,” said Reyes.
Twin City Mission is putting people first in their efforts to raise money to help those around them, and you can help too. Visit their website to learn more.
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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.
For press inquiries, email media@laautoshow.com.
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(KRON) – Angus Cloud, the actor best known for his role in the HBO series “Euphoria,” has been found dead at his family’s home in Oakland, according to his publicist, Cait Bailey.
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. As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways,” the statement read. “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.”
Variety also reported the actor’s death, citing his family.
A statement from HBO Monday read:
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.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting director Jennifer Venditti noticed him. Series creator Sam Levinson made him the co-star of the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television.
Cloud starred as Fezco on 16 episodes of the HBO show in addition to appearances in “North Hollywood,” “The Perfect Women” and music videos with Becky G and Juice WRLD.
He was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.”
Cloud was born in Oakland according to his IMDB page.
He was 25 years old. No cause of death was given
If you or anyone you know are struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline can be reached 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone, chat or text.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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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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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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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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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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About ZENVIA
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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BINGHAMTON, NY – (WIVT/WBGH) A local staffing agency held its COVID-delayed grand opening last week in Binghamton.
Peoplelink Staffing Solutions held a ribbon cutting on Thursday. It moved into 219 Main Street two years ago and has since expanded and renovated. Peoplelink, which has had an office in Endicott since 2017, currently assists 18 local employers with finding high quality candidates in the fields of manufacturing, warehousing, senior leadership and administrative workers. It averages between 100 and 125 workers placed at jobs at any given time. Branch Manager Renee Denney says the key is finding employees with the right skill set.
“Really understanding their business and making sure that we’re giving them the people that they need. So that the person can grow but they can grow too. And keeping that talent that this area desperately needs in this area, keeping them here in Binghamton,” said Denney.
Denney says that while a small portion of the positions remain temporary, most are designed to become permanent. More information can be found at peoplelinkstaffing.com.
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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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A Bismarck man accused of shooting and killing a 16-year-old girl in June with a stolen handgun has pleaded not guilty to terrorizing in a separate case that month.
Corbin Lampert, 19, is accused of pointing a handgun with a laser attached at a male juvenile at Bismarck’s Hillside Park on June 16, and asking the boy if he wanted to die. Lampert pleaded not guilty Monday to felony terrorizing and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted in that case.
Lampert faces felony charges of murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm in the June 25 killing of Taryn Hohbein at a gathering in an Ohio Street apartment. Authorities haven't discussed the relationship of the two other than to say they knew one another. The murder charge carries a potential punishment of life in prison without chance of parole.
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South Central District Judge Bobbi Weiler in June set bond at a total of $1 million cash. Lampert remained jailed in the Burleigh Morton Detention Center as of Monday.
He was to appear in court on both cases Monday, but the preliminary hearing for the murder case was moved to Sept. 7 because defense attorney Justin Balzer plans to contest the charges. The judge at that hearing will rule on whether there is enough evidence for the murder case to continue.
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ROCHESTER, N.H. — In a new policy plan unveiled Monday, Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis took aim at China with a “Declaration of Economic Independence” that also targets taxes, regulations and “elites” he blames for the nation’s decline.
Speaking in a New Hampshire warehouse, the Florida governor promised to diversify and expand the economy by fighting for the middle class.
"Revitalizing economic freedom and opportunity will require building an economy where the concerns of average citizens are elevated over those deemed too big to fail,” he said at Prep Partners Group, which coordinates warehousing, distribution and other logistics for other companies.
“We are a nation with an economy, not the other way around,” DeSantis said. “We are citizens of a republic. We are not cogs in a global economic empire.”
DeSantis said his top priority would be wresting economic control from China by ending the nation’s preferential trade status, banning imports of goods made from stolen intellectual property and preventing companies from sharing critical technologies with China. Current polices, he said, have created an “abusive relationship” between the two countries.
“The elites sold us a bill of goods when it came to China. They were wrong, and we need to get it right,” he said.
The 10-point economic plan is the third major policy proposal put forth by DeSantis, who remains a distant second to former President Donald Trump in most polls and is fighting for momentum in the midst of a campaign reset. He recently shed more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
But on Monday, his focus was on reckless federal government spending. His plan describes him as a “new sheriff in town” who will veto wasteful spending and mandate work requirements for welfare programs. He also claimed he could achieve 3% annual economic growth by keeping taxes low, eliminating bureaucracy and incentivizing investment.
On the education front, DeSantis said he will stop incentivizing “useless degrees” by making universities responsible for the loans their students accrue.
“It’s wrong to say that a truck driver should have to pay off the debt of somebody who got a degree in gender studies,” he said.
After the speech, in what was billed as a news conference, DeSantis sidestepped a question about Trump’s mounting legal fees. That’s even as the DeSantis campaign has been attacking Trump for devoting much of his political fundraising to his legal entanglements.
“We’re here to talk about restoring this economy. We’re here to talk about uplifting the middle class,” DeSantis said. “To me, if you ask voters, are they more interested in hearing about that or the process stories about politics? I think that they want to hear about the country’s future so that’s what we’re going to talk about.”
A spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee said DeSantis should be talking about the economic woes he created in Florida including the rising costs of housing, property insurance and health care.
“It remains a mystery why DeSantis would try to reboot his dumpster fire of a campaign by promising to bring his failures as governor nationwide,” Ammar Moussa said.
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BINGHAMTON, NY – (WIVT/WBGH) We’re just four days away from Greater Binghamton’s largest annual festival, the Spiedie Fest and Balloon Rally.
The Antique, Classic, Cool Car and Truck show will once again take place on Saturday and Sunday from 10 until 2 p.m. Registration is $20 for one day or $25 for both days for car lovers with more than one rig. This year’s featured car is a 1969 Dodge Charger painted like the General Lee from the classic T-V show Dukes of Hazzard. There will also be a costume contest where people who dress like Bo, Luke or Daisy Duke can win a ride in the classic car. Car Show Coordinator Robin Alpaugh says that the doors do open on the vehicle, and, no, festival goers will not be allowed to climb through the windows or slide across the hood. But, Alpaugh says they will get to check out a car that there aren’t very many left of.
“For many car people, this is a rare car. They wrecked so many of them during the filming, over 300, there’s not a lot of them left. They’re hard to find and they’re pretty pricey. I think that kind of makes it a little exciting,” said Alpaugh.
Alpaugh says the show will again have custom trophies, refurbished old pistons for the various classes and a custom-made Corning Museum of Glass trophy for best of show each day. Participants will now drive straight to the North Field and register after parking. Those who bring a vehicle will also be able to vote for a new award determined by the participants.
To register, go to spiediefest.com. You can also purchase admission or concert tickets there or at local Mirabito convenience stores.
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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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A second driver involved in a triple-fatality crash on the Spirit Lake Reservation two years ago has pleaded guilty to charges.
Trina Hunt, 20, of St. Michael, pleaded guilty last week to three counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury, according to U.S. Attorney Mac Schneider. Sentencing is scheduled Nov. 7.
The Aug. 11, 2021, crash killed a man and a boy who were passengers in one of the vehicles. A girl passenger later died of her injuries. Another girl was hospitalized with serious injuries.
Authorities said Hunt and the other driver -- Winter Skye Bigtrack, of St. Michael -- both were under the influence, without licenses, and driving recklessly and speeding. Bigtrack pleaded guilty to the same charges and was sentenced in August 2022 to serve 57 months in prison -- nearly five years.
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VESTAL, NY – (WIVT/WBGH) A local nursing home is proving that people of any age can enjoy a bouncy house, dunk tank and petting zoo.
On Wednesday, Vestal Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center hosted its second annual staff appreciation and community carnival. The carnival featured games, face painting, food trucks, ice cream, and other fun activities. Vestal Park is a skilled nursing and living facility. Administrator Nathan Anderson says that after all the hard work its employees have done since COVID, it felt nice to bring them and their families out for a day of fun.
“It’s very nice to be able to get to do stuff again in the communities and get everybody back into the facility. During Covid everybody kind of shied away from skilled nursing settings and assisted living settings and anything along those lines so eventually what we ended up seeing was it was nice to be able to get everybody back together,” said Anderson.
Anderson himself took park in the festivities and was dropped in the dunk tank. Employees and residents were welcome to invite their friends and families to join the fun. Anderson says on August 14th the facility is also hosting its own Spiedie Fest with food trucks and a balloon launch.
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UPSTATE NEW YORK (WSYR-TV) — New York Attorney General Letitia James, Governor Kathy Hochul and the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) shut down seven unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in Cayuga, Oswego and Wayne counties on Monday, July 31.
According to the AG’s Office, the unlicensed dispensary chain, “I’m Stuck” — which has eight locations Upstate New York — was illegally selling cannabis without the proper authorization from OCM and selling cannabis to underage customers.
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) says the chain’s owner, David Tulley, ignored repeated notices and OCM orders to stop selling cannabis without a license at his stores and investigators from OAG also observed store clerks selling cannabis products to underage customers on multiple occasions.
Tulley’s stores in Auburn, Lyons, Macedon, Ontario, Pulaski and Williamson were shut down with the assistance and support of the New York State Police.
OAG says that at least since early 2022, Tulley has been selling cannabis without a license, which is even before OCM began issuing licenses. In February 2022, OCM sent a cease and desist letter to Tulley to stop operating without a license, but Tulley continued to operate his cannabis stores and ignored multiple notices of violations issued to him from OCM.
“In emails to OCM, Tulley misleadingly described his stores as a ‘consulting’ business that informs customers about the effects of cannabis, and in return, customers receive free cannabis products. However, undercover OAG investigators visited six ‘I’m Stuck’ locations owned by Tulley and were able to purchase $1,000 worth of cannabis products. During the undercover operations, OAG investigators observed that multiple ‘I’m Stuck’ stores made sales to individuals under the age of 21,” stated the OAG.
OAG investigators also asked store clerks if taxes were included in the price of the products they were purchasing on a number of occasions, and each time clerks informed them that taxes were not included.
Tulley also advertised his cannabis products to children in Easter egg hunts in April 2023. The hunts happened in Cayuga, Monroe, Wayne, Onondaga and Yates counties, where Easter eggs were scattered around public places and could be redeemed for prizes, including cannabis products and children’s toys.
An OAG investigator went to one of the hunts and collected numerous Easter eggs and redeemed cannabis flower, edibles, cannabis seeds and other products at the “I’m Stuck” store in Macedon, New York.
After OCM conducted inspections in June and July, 2023 and seized more than 47 pounds of cannabis flower, 244 pounds of cannabis edibles and 89 pounds of cannabis concentrate at Tulley’s locations, OCM issued an order to cease unlicensed activity at seven of these locations.
Tulley declared that he would defy OCM’s orders and remain open for business and that’s when OCM then requested assistance from the Attorney General to file this action to permanently close the location.
“Selling cannabis without a license remains illegal in the state of New York. We have repeatedly warned operators who are violating the state’s cannabis laws that they would be held accountable for shortchanging communities who are counting on revenue from adult-use sales and endangering the public health of cannabis consumers with poorly processed cannabis products,” said Chris Alexander, Executive Director, New York State’s Office of Cannabis Management. “When visiting legal cannabis businesses in New York, you can purchase products you trust that were safely processed from seed to sale. When you buy products from unlicensed operators, you are putting your health at risk. I thank the Governor and Attorney General for their commitment to shutting down the unregulated cannabis market.”
Not only is Attorney General James and OCM shutting down Tulley’s stores, but seeking penalties from Tulley, his companies and the building owners where his stores are located for allowing an unlawful business to operate on their properties.
Under New York’s Cannabis Law, those penalties include Tulley paying $10,000 per day for allowing the unlicensed sale of cannabis at his property and a $20,000 penalty for each day he continues to sell cannabis after receiving an order to cease operating from OCM.
With seven illegal businesses, Tulley could be fined millions of dollars in penalties as a result of Monday’s action.
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The group responsible for facilitating the growth of electrical transmission infrastructure in North Dakota has a new executive director.
Claire Vigesaa has been serving as deputy director for the North Dakota Transmission Authority, assisting now-former Executive Director John Weeda.
Weeda had held the position since 2018. He requested that the commission consider Vigesaa’s appointment and his decision to step back.
“He’s got a variety of experience; he’s very well connected in the industry,” Weeda said.
The state Industrial Commission appointed Vigesaa on Friday. The commission -- the governor, attorney general and agriculture commissioner -- comprise the rest of the authority.
Weeda told the Tribune he will continue to support Vigesaa in a new role that is yet to be formalized.
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The Transmission Authority facilitates the growth of transmission infrastructure in the state by funding projects and conducting studies. It received $7.5 million in funding from the federal Energy Department's Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants program, along with a $1.1 million match by the state Legislature for the 2023-25 biennium.
Vigesaa began serving with the authority after 40 years in the electric transmission industry. He served as general manager at the Upper Missouri Power Cooperative in Sydney, Montana, prior to taking on the role of authority deputy director.
In his co-op role he worked with both the Midwest Independent System Operator and the Southwest Power Pool, the two regional transmission organizations that oversee the grid in North Dakota, which familiarized him with their operations.
Electricity transmission in North Dakota is facing increased demand in conjunction with the state’s growth.
“North Dakota generates a lot of power, whether it’s wind, coal, gas, so we want to have transmission stellar to serve our own load but also to market it to developers outside the state,” Vigesaa said.
Another area that will be of focus to the authority in the coming years will be the issue of grid congestion from the wind power produced in the state, according to Weeda. Grid congestion is a phenomenon that occurs when there is not enough transmission infrastructure to deliver energy without going over capacity.
"There are times where the people that control the transmission system actually have to curtail wind generation in order to balance the system," he said.
The authority is pushing for the construction of additional infrastructure to allow for a greater amount of transmission, Weeda said.
“I think the quickest we can get any of those built is in the five to six year range; we need them now but we’re glad they’re coming relatively soon,” he said.
Vigesaa said he also plans to increase a focus on cybersecurity and reliability. He intends to get the Transmission Authority more involved in the Midwest Reliability Organization, which operates under the umbrella of the North American Electric Reliability Corp. That group was given the authority to act as the national Electric Reliability Organization in the 2000s following widespread blackouts.
“All the utilities in North Dakota are a part of it,” Vigesaa said. “That’s a very critical topic these days because the economy and the safety of North Dakotans is directly tied to having the lights on.”
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LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – For the last two years, a Utah-based winter entertainment company has raised up an annual kingdom of ice at Charles R. Wood Park – and both times, the structure has had a hard time staying intact against above-freezing weather. Now, the crew behind Ice Castles is proposing a rebrand for winter at the Queen of American Lakes.
Last week, Ice Castles Vice President of Events Jared Henningsen visited the Warren County Occupancy Tax Coordination Committee to talk about the company’s plans to rebrand. This winter, it’s not a castle coming to Lake George – it’s a “Winter Realm.”
“We’ve tried Ice Castles in its original form for the last two years, and unfortunately we’ve lost money doing so,” Henningsen said. “The weather hasn’t been kind to us in Lake George, but the community has, and that’s why I’m here with you today.”
Henningsen explained that Ice Castles is adopting a weather-resilient model, changing its attractions in ways that can better withstand unexpected warm spells. Last winter, Ice Castles Lake George had to delay opening into early February as warm weather kept the 25 million pounds of ice unstable and drippy, in no condition for anyone to enjoy. In both of its years in Lake George, the castle-sized attraction has seen numerous closures on weekends when the weather didn’t cooperate.
To that end, 2023-24’s Winter Realm attraction trades in a frozen castle in favor of an ice skating rink, holiday lights designed by sister brand Christmas in Color, and insulated ice sculptures. The sculptures will be designed with the understanding that they, too, may melt. A crew onsite in Lake George will keep producing new sculptures to replace old ones as needed.
Just like growing thousands of icicles, creating a skating rink and continuous flow of sculptures is not a cheap process. Ice Castles has requested $150,000 in Warren County funding to cover the costs. Most of that will go into the rental costs needed to set up the skating rink, with the rest supplementing other setup.
A more weather-flexible event means a wider open season. Ice Castles hopes to open the Winter Realm attraction around Thanksgiving, giving the organization more than two months of additional time in Lake George, compared to the last two years of Ice Castles.
Ticket prices were yet to be disclosed. Last year, tickets were priced at $22 and $15 for adults and children during the week, respectively; or $29 and $22 during the weekend. When tickets and other information do go live, it will all still be on the existing Ice Castles website.
Lake George is one of five U.S. communities where Ice Castles operates attractions. Others include New Brighton, Minnesota; Woodstock, New Hampshire; Midway, Utah; and Geneva, Wisconsin.
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LYME, N.Y. (WWTI) — An investigation has begun following the solar farm fire in the town of Lyme.
The fire ignited in the afternoon hours on Thursday, July 27 at the Convergent solar farm on County Route 179.
Those who lived within a one-mile radius of the scene were ordered to shelter in place for several hours Thursday night due to toxic fume concerns. Although the order was eventually lifted the blaze continued for over three days.
Fire crews from across the county fought the flames until they were finally extinguished around 11 a.m. on Sunday, July 30. By the time town offices opened on Monday, Lyme Supervisor Terry Countryman said conditions had improved significantly.
“We’re in a pretty good place right now with what’s going on up there,” Countryman shared. “We have all kinds of support from across the entire county.”
But now that the fire is out, a cause and origin investigation starts.
The company Convergent is working with local, state and federal agencies to understand how the fire started, if toxins from the solar equipment entered the air and how to prevent these incidents from happening.
“They’re monitoring everything that’s coming off from it,” Countryman said. “It is a new type of fire that we’re dealing with. What they find out there will result in legislation or new changes in policy to see how these things are done in the future.”
The day after the fire started Governor Kathy Hochul also convened an interagency safety working group to ensure the safety and security of energy storage systems across New York.
But because the farm is still in an emergency state, the investigation can’t start immediately.
“It’s still pretty hot out there,” Village of Chaumont Mayor James Morrow explained. “So it’s going to take a while before the investigators can really dig into it. It has to be below a certain temperature for 24 hours before they can get up close and take a closer look.”
However, it doesn’t take an investigation to see how this rocked local communities, such as Lyme and Chaumont.
As people sat in fear, the town and village canceled the annual Lyme Community Days.
“It couldn’t have happened at a worse weekend for the Village of Chaumont and the Town of Lyme,” Supervisor Countryman expressed. “With regards to it being our biggest weekend, so tons of non-profits that use this weekend to generate funds to keep going all ceased.”
So now officials are just hoping an incident like this doesn’t happen again.
“I’m glad nobody got hurt,” Morrow added. “I’m glad everybody’s safe and we’ll see how it unfolds.”
Agencies that assisted on the scene of the fire included several Jefferson County fire departments, County Fire and Emergency Management, the New York Office of Fire Prevention and Control, the Fire Investigation Bureau, the State Police and the Department of Environmental Conservation.
Officials said that units will remain on site throughout the cause and origin investigation.
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CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. (NEWS10) – As we continue our coverage of the limping Adirondack Line, it remains a question of why the train does not continue service north to the remaining New York stops. NEWS10 has the answers to why the train just can’t go any further.
Wildfires and heat restrictions in Canada coupled with staffing regulations in the United States has hampered Amtrak’s ability to open the Adirondack Line to Montreal. But many New York law makers now wonder why the train cannot continue service to the other eight stops past the Spa City.
A confidential source close to the situation tells me the reason is simply a logistical problem with turning the train around.
I boarded the train in Schenectady to take the ride to Saratoga and check out the final stop.
Bruce Becker, Vice President of Empire State Passengers Association explains why this stretch cannot facilitate a turnaround for the Adirondack.
“It’s a single-track line north of Saratoga. There are passing sidings along that but none of those allow a train to be reversed direction. IE: [for] locomotives on the north end heading north, the train would have to be physically turned around. So, the locomotive would be on the south end if it were to proceed further past Saratoga,” said Becker.
Yet, Becker says other issues might be at hand, as well.
“Amtrak is also constrained by how many locomotives they have available,” said Becker.
Officials think Amtrak could just add another locomotive and that would solve the problem. But Becker went on to tell NEWS10 Amtrak does not have enough engine cars to run two per train.
“Amtrak does operate some trains with a locomotive on both ends of the train that would not require the train to be turned, and that is not what is currently happening in Saratoga,” said Becker.
NEWS10 reporter, James De La Fuente asked, “is this simply just not lucrative to continue this past Saratoga, at this point?”
“There were issues with the length of time a conductor and engineer can work on any given day and also the question of potential ridership not including Montreal as the destination,” answered Becker.
So, for now, Saratoga Springs is the furthest north the Adirondack will be able to go probably for the rest of the summer.
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(KRON) – Angus Cloud, the actor best known for his role in the HBO series “Euphoria,” has been found dead at his family’s home in Oakland, according to his publicist, Cait Bailey.
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. As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways,” the statement read. “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.”
Variety also reported the actor’s death, citing his family.
A statement from HBO Monday read:
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.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting director Jennifer Venditti noticed him. Series creator Sam Levinson made him the co-star of the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television.
Cloud starred as Fezco on 16 episodes of the HBO show in addition to appearances in “North Hollywood,” “The Perfect Women” and music videos with Becky G and Juice WRLD.
He was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.”
Cloud was born in Oakland according to his IMDB page.
He was 25 years old. No cause of death was given
If you or anyone you know are struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline can be reached 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone, chat or text.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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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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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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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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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — If you’re looking for reasons to be optimistic about the upcoming season for the Syracuse Orange, look no further than the team’s two offensive stars.
Syracuse University has the benefit of a veteran quarterback who’s entering his fifth year of college and an NFL caliber receiver who’s probably going to be playing on Sunday’s next fall. Today, those two received some national recognition.
Quarterback Garrett Shrader and tight end Oronde Gadsden II have been named to the Maxwell Award Watch List that’s given to the nation’s top player.
Shrader and Gadsden are two of 85 players on the Maxwell List, making Syracuse one of just 16 schools to have multiple players up for the award.
“Semifinalists for the Maxwell Award will be announced November 13, 2023, while the three finalists for the Maxwell Award will be unveiled November 28, 2023. The winners of the 87th Maxwell Award will be announced as part of the ESPN Home Depot College Football Awards Show held on December 7, 2023. The formal presentations of the Maxwell Award will be made at the Maxwell Football Club Awards in March 2024,” stated Syracuse University Athletics.
Shrader has been named a team captain for the second year in a row. He’s already put himself in the top ten of eight different categories at Syracuse University, including completions and passing yards.
As for Gadsden, he led all tight ends last season nationally in receiving yards with 969. That earned him a spot on the ACC’s first team as a sophomore.
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The new ‘Barbie’ dolls’ sales reflect the movie’s success
The “Barbie” movie is a huge hit, not only setting box-office records for a movie directed by a woman but launching major successes for dolls inspired by the film. Most of the dolls are versions of Barbie and Ken as portrayed by various actors in the film, coming at the heels of other recent Mattel releases, such as one portraying Anna May Wong and the brand’s first doll with Down syndrome. Some of the dolls are sold out, but retailers are restocking them as fast as they can.
The ‘Barbie’ movie continues to roar ahead
The “Barbie” movie follows Margot Robbie’s Barbie and Ryan Gosling’s Ken as they leave Barbie Land and enter our real world, interacting with other Barbies and Kens as well as Mattel’s “chief executive officer” in the film, as portrayed by Will Ferrell. Not only did the movie helmed by Greta Gerwig get rave reviews and set records in its first weekend, but it was No. 1 at the box office in its second weekend, with a robust $93 million this weekend at the U.S. box office alone.
Who else is in the ‘Barbie’ movie?
The cast of the “Barbie” movie is packed with big-name comedic actors and rising stars. Versions of Barbie beside Robbie’s version are portrayed by actresses such as Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Emma Mackey and Dua Lipa. Other versions of Ken beside Gosling’s take are portrayed by Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa and John Cena.
Besides the central duo, other characters include a Mattel employee, played by America Ferrera, a forgotten doll from Mattel history named Allen, played by Michael Cera and the film’s narrator, voiced by Academy Award winner Helen Mirren.
What you can still get
While a few of the dolls are sold out, you can still see them below. And most are still available, as are the toys and games based on the movie.
Best ‘Barbie’ dolls and playsets from the new movie
“Barbie The Movie” Collectible Doll, Margot Robbie As Barbie In Gold Disco Jumpsuit
Saturday Night Fever never dies in Barbie Land, as evidenced by this fabulous disco outfit worn by Robbie’s take on the character. It includes accessories, such as gold earrings and bracelets.
Sold by Walmart
“Barbie The Movie” Collectible Doll, Margot Robbie As Barbie In Pink Western Outfit
This rootin’ tootin’ cowboy shootin’ version of Robbie’s Barbie is a perfect gift for the country-loving person in your life. It comes with a stand for easy display, too.
Sold by Target
“Barbie The Movie” Collectible Doll, Margot Robbie As Barbie In Pink Gingham Dress
This version of Robbie’s Barbie is a bit of a throwback with its retro 1950s-style dress. It’s perfectly accessorized with period-appropriate pieces, such as a pearl necklace and earrings.
“Barbie The Movie” Collectible Doll, Margot Robbie As Barbie In Plaid Matching Set
This version of Robbie’s Barbie is perhaps the cutest with her pastel colors in plaid styling. It’s the outfit she wears when she makes it back home to Barbie Land.
“Barbie The Movie” Collectible Doll, President Barbie In Pink And Gold Dress
This President Barbie doll is modeled after Issa Rae’s take on the power-wielding character. Her stunning dress makes it clear she’s to be both feared and respected.
Sold by Amazon
“Barbie The Movie” Collectible Gloria Doll Wearing Pink Power Pantsuit
This Gloria doll is modeled after America Ferrera’s character in the movie. The suit and accessories, such as her gold hoop earrings, help her make a big impression.
“Barbie The Movie” Ken Doll Wearing Pastel Striped Beach Matching Set
This Ryan Gosling Ken doll is ready for a fashionable day at the beach, and he comes with a surfboard so he can stay cool riding the waves.
“Barbie The Movie” Collectible Ken Doll Wearing Denim Matching Set
This Ryan Gosling Ken doll oozes style thanks to the flared denim and Ken-branded boxer shorts peeking out from his waistband. The doll is fully articulated for easy posing.
Sold by Walmart
“Barbie The Movie” Collectible Ken Doll In White And Gold Tracksuit
This Ken is modeled after Simu Liu’s version of the character. The zipper actually works and you can place Ken’s hands into the pockets to show some attitude.
Sold by Mattel
“Barbie The Movie” Collectible Car, Pink Corvette Convertible
This collectible Corvette from the “Barbie” movie can be used as a decoration, but it’s also a fully functioning toy including working doors, wheels and even a trunk.
Sold by Walmart
Hot Wheels RC Barbie Corvette, Remote Control Corvette From “Barbie The Movie”
Remote-controlled cars have been a cherished toy for many a growing child. This version is modeled after the 1956 Corvette Stingray Margot Robbie’s Barbie drives in the film. It can hold two full-sized Barbie dolls.
Sold by Amazon
“Barbie The Movie” Fashion Pack With Three Iconic Film Outfits And Accessories
This accessory pack is the perfect way to celebrate the launch of the “Barbie” movie with dolls you already own. The three outfits are a pajama set and two outfits for hitting the town.
Sold by Target
Little People Collector “Barbie: The Movie” Special Edition Set For Adults And Fans, Four Figures
This set of figures includes two Kens and two Barbies. They’re 2.5 inches tall and make excellent toys for kids on the go, or desk and bookcase decorations for older fans.
Sold by Amazon
Mega “Barbie The Movie” Replica Dreamhouse Building Kit For Collectors
This Mega brand building set has 1,795 pieces, more than enough to keep fans of any age busy for an afternoon. It folds open once built so you can play with it like any other Barbie dreamhouse.
Sold by Amazon
Uno “Barbie The Movie” Card Game
This is the same Uno game that you know and love, except for a special “played with too much” rule. Each card features a picture of Barbies from the movie, as portrayed by various actors.
Sold by Amazon
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — A KXAN viewer said she saw baby foxes, also known as kits, playing on a trampoline in her garden Sunday in the north Austin, Texas, area.
That was only a couple of weeks after another viewer said she saw a family of foxes playing on the St. Edward’s University campus in Austin.
According to the Humane Society of the United States, it’s not unusual to see foxes in cities and towns, where food sources are easily found, including in your garbage.
While foxes live around the world in many different types of habitats, according to the Texas Wildlife Association, including the Arctic, the desert and even in trees, some foxes have also adapted to life in such urban environments as neighborhoods.
“Next time you are outside in a park, remember to look up, because if you are lucky, you might see a fox up in the trees,” TWA said.
TWA said three types of foxes live in Texas, including the swift fox, the red fox and the gray fox.
The swift, or kit fox, lives in the northwestern part of the state, the red fox inhabits the eastern and central parts, and the gray fox, the most common variety, can be found statewide, the TWA said.
The Humane Society said foxes are scared of people and are not typically dangerous except when they are rabid, which the society says is rare.
“Even then, a fox’s natural tendency is to flee rather than fight,” the Human Society stated.
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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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URBANDALE, IOWA — Before the 2023-24 school year begins, students and school board members are worrying about what kind of literature will be banned for students
An organization called Annie’s Foundation posted a list of nearly 400 books the Urbandale Community School District is sending to teachers, of which will be banned from the curriculum. The list stems from Senate File 496 which just passed last legislative session. The bill bans sexual orientation and gender identity in instruction in grades K-6th. Along with requiring all schools to remove books that include sexual content.
“The teachers have spent years curating these classroom libraries and texts and curriculums that have now basically been thrown out of the window,” said Hailie Bonz, an incoming senior at Urbandale High School and Study Body President. “What the senate file does is it reduced these literally works to a few isolated features, failing to recognize the text as a whole.”
Books such as Catch 22 and The Cather in the Rye are now prohibited from instruction in Urbandale schools for the upcoming school year.
“I think it was just really frustrating as a whole for a lot of students,” said Bonz. “I’m involved in a lot of AP and college level course and so for me, I was in AP Lit. last year and so I read some amazing books. And so I’m going forward and taking Advanced Comp. this year. And so I won’t be able to study 1984 or The Color Purple and a lot of those books that are so important and so critical for those curriculums.”
An Urbandale Community School District board member reached out to WHO 13 News about the story, and his concern from the community as a whole. He said that none of the board was consulted in the decision making process, board members just found out after it was sent out to teachers.
“Currently our superintendent and the lawyers that she talks to, because I can guarantee you that no teacher, no student, no parent, no board member work consulted about this,” said Dan Gutmann, an Urbandale School District Board member. “You know, there’s going to be a risk for litigation no matter how districts decide to comply with this legislation. And I find it so incredibly disturbing that the default in Urbandale schools is to side on the side of the censors.”
Gutmann and Bonz both believe that the law is extremely vague, but specific with restrictions of gender identity and sexual orientation. They believe that the school district is casting a wide net to remove books that could be deemed “problematic” before there are any complaints from parents on the literature. In doing this, it requires teachers to go through a challenge process to get a specific book removed from the list and back into lessons.
Bonz and Gutmann are calling on members of the Urbandale community to contact teachers, administration and board members to highlight their concern. Along with telling other public school districts to be aware, because this type of action could take place in their neck of the woods.
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Muncie officials say they believe a weekend shooting was not the act of one person targeting a specific group. Muncie police are still investigating the large party that turned violent.
“On Sunday morning, our community was shaken to the core by violence,” said Muncie Mayor Dan Ridenour, struggling to get the words out at a Monday press conference. He and the Muncie Police Department said one person was killed and 18 were wounded at an early Sunday morning shooting – 17 by gunshots and one person hit by a car.
Muncie Police Chief Nathan Sloan said the man killed, 30-year-old Joseph Bonner, attended the party. But Sloan said he could not release details on who or even how many people were shooting, if anyone was specifically targeted, or how many guns or shell casings were recovered.
When asked to describe the event in his own words, Sloan said, “I can tell the public that it was a party that was out of control, where shots were fired, and at least, that we know of now, 18 people were injured, and we don’t want any more of it.”
Hundreds of people – with estimates of between 500 to 1,000 – were at the Sunday night gathering. Police say some of the gunshot victims were teenagers. Because of the number of people, Muncie police asked for help and said 8-10 agencies responded.
Sloan said first responders were “rushing people to the hospital in our police cars, because we didn’t have time to wait.”
Muncie police have said no one is in custody right now, but repeatedly say there is no ongoing danger to Muncie. Sloan said the department is keeping details to themselves to protect the integrity of its investigation.
As of Monday mid-day, Deputy Chief Melissa Criswell said five people were still admitted to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital being treated for injuries. Of the four that had been transferred to hospitals in the Indianapolis area, one was in critical condition, two were in stable condition, and one had been released.
Criswell said many of those at the party crowded into the ER and parking lot of the hospital. She said some had to be kept from fighting with others. Sloan said there is no supporting evidence to point to the violence being gang-related.
Officials say the owner of the building had gotten a city noise ordinance exemption, but only for a gathering of 75 people until 9:00 pm. Gunshots were called into Delaware County dispatch just after 1:00 am.
Sloan said Muncie police were trying to contact the property owner to get the party shut down when shots were fired. When asked if the property owner should be charged with a crime, Sloan replied, “To me, I think there’s a responsibility.”
As previously reported, the Muncie Homecoming Festival was celebrating events this weekend to bring Muncie natives back home to celebrate the area. Organizers say the party where the shooting happened was not an official event for Muncie Homecoming. In a statement, the group condemns “acts of violence” and says it supports the work to make Muncie “a peaceful and loving community.”
The city of Muncie is coordinating access to mental health help for victims and the community. Ridenour says he’s starting a multi-agency task force to address issues of large, out-of-control parties and gun violence in the college town.
Read More: How Indiana’s permitless carry law could impact gun violence
Two public community prayer vigils are being held this week. The first is Monday at 6:00 pm at the corner of Hackley and Willard. Then on Tuesday, a vigil is being held at Berea Church at 1201 Wheeling Ave. at 7:00 pm.
The Muncie Police Department is asking any party attendees, witnesses, or those with social media or doorbell camera footage to come forward with information. They can contact the detective division with information at 765-747-4867.
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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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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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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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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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(KRON) – Angus Cloud, the actor best known for his role in the HBO series “Euphoria,” has been found dead at his family’s home in Oakland, according to his publicist, Cait Bailey.
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. As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways,” the statement read. “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.”
Variety also reported the actor’s death, citing his family.
A statement from HBO Monday read:
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.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting director Jennifer Venditti noticed him. Series creator Sam Levinson made him the co-star of the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television.
Cloud starred as Fezco on 16 episodes of the HBO show in addition to appearances in “North Hollywood,” “The Perfect Women” and music videos with Becky G and Juice WRLD.
He was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.”
Cloud was born in Oakland according to his IMDB page.
He was 25 years old. No cause of death was given
If you or anyone you know are struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline can be reached 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone, chat or text.
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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 sturgeons 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 sturgeons 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, according to Farmer's Almanac, nearly 17,000 miles closer than average.
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HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) – Indiana is known for plenty of things: bowling, 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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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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WV National Guard deploys soldiers to Texas during border crisis
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - The West Virginia National Guard hosted a ceremony for volunteers soldiers headed to the Texas border Tuesday.
Fifty volunteers were called on, and 53 answered.
Those soldiers will help Texas’s Lone Start Operation secure the border, reduce the flow of fentanyl and combat the human trafficking crises, according to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice.
SFC Ryan Hopkins said he wanted to go because he heard about the disaster declaration by Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott that spans the 48 counties along the Mexican border.
“It fills me with a great sense of pride, more than 50 show up and willing to go and willing to support the mission,” Hopkins said. “They have currently been on a mission for three years or better, so their guys are starting to get wore out and tired.”
Capt. Zachary Pingley leaves behind his fiancée and two cats because he wanted to learn more about where these drugs come from.
“With what is happening from illegal immigration from doing law enforcement back home I see drug overdoses and just illegal drugs coming to the border,” Pingley said. “I think everyone is coming here with a perspective why they joined. They wanted to come here and see what is actually going on for themselves and come back with a good learning experience.”
The operation will be supported by 24 states, and Gov. Justice recognized the volunteers on their 30-day mission.
“A hundred percent volunteers it is really neat when you think about it,” Justice said. “Moms and dads, and what are they doing? They are stepping up for all of us.”
Once the soldiers get down to the border, they will release more information about where they are located.
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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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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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If you’ve ever tuned into HGTV or attended an open house, you’ve surely heard the term “curb appeal.” It’s basically your home’s first impression — the flash of awe (or disinterest) that potential buyers experience when they pull up to the curb and get their first good look at the exterior.
Curb appeal is important for many reasons: It helps boost your home’s value when you’re planning to sell, keeps property values high for your neighborhood and conveys a sense of pride in your property. But what does it take to maximize curb appeal? Thumbtack and Nextdoor found out.
What makes good (and bad) curb appeal?
In a survey of more than 1,000 homeowners across the U.S., home improvement app Thumbtack partnered with neighborhood networking app Nextdoor to ask what projects have the biggest impact.
If you’re looking to make a pretty big investment into your home’s curb appeal, landscaping is the way to go. Of all the homeowners surveyed, 82% ranked it as a major improvement. Also high ranking were painting your home’s exterior (78%), a well-kept lawn (73%) and beautiful windows (68%), all projects you can tackle to dramatically increase your home’s overall curb appeal.
On the other end of the spectrum, homeowners said the biggest curb appeal faux pas were trash in the yard and overgrown landscaping — 81% of them said these two things were a fast way to decrease your home’s curb appeal. They also agreed that other curb appeal killers were overgrown lawns (77%), parking old cars, RVs, vans or boats out front (64%), poorly maintained fences and exteriors (58%) and dirty or poorly painted home exteriors (57%).
Is curb appeal really that important?
Yes, this is something all homeowners nearly unanimously agree on, as 98% of them said having a home with good curb appeal is important. And if you’ve ever attended an HOA meeting, you know what a big deal it is when 98% of homeowners agree on something.
Curb appeal is especially crucial if you’re planning to sell your home. Of the homeowners surveyed, 54% said curb appeal on their street or in their neighborhood was a factor when they decided where to buy. And on average, a house with good curb appeal is 34% more valuable than the same house with bad curb appeal.
4 ways to immediately boost your home’s curb appeal
- Keep your lawn from taking over: To stay on top of your lawn, you need a mower you can count on. For smaller lawns, a push mower will do the job. But for a larger property, consider investing in a riding mower to help you save time and effort.
- Keep things clean: Dirty home exteriors were one of the things homeowners said could tank your curb appeal. A good pressure washer is a versatile tool for cleaning your driveway, sidewalks, decks, stairs, siding and more.
- DIY your landscaping: Even though landscaping is one of the pricier ways to invest in your home’s curb appeal, you can still get a boost without spending too much. A small garden or flower bed is a great way to start — as long as you maintain it and don’t let it get overgrown. For that, you’ll need some gardening tools.
- Give it a new coat of paint: There’s nothing that freshens up a home’s exterior like a new coat of paint.
Best products for improving your home’s curb appeal
Ego Power+ Cordless Lawn Mower
This battery-powered lawn mower has up to 45 minutes of run time and other helpful features, including a push-to-start button, LED headlights and six cutting height settings. Plus, it folds up to save space.
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John Deere S100 Riding Lawn Mower
The John Deere S100 was designed with comfort in mind, which means you can tackle your lawn with ease. It has a cutting width of 42 inches and can mow, mulch and bag up to an acre.
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Simpson Cleaning MegaShot Gas Pressure Washer
This washer is less expensive than equally powerful brands, and it can be used practically right out of the box. It easily tackles stubborn grime on decks and pavement.
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Karcher K1700 Electric Power Pressure Washer
Lightweight and quiet, this is a perfect pressure washer for beginners. But that doesn’t mean it skimps on power — it’s still a great tool for keeping your home’s exterior squeaky clean.
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Scuddles Stainless Steel Garden Tool Set
While this set is geared toward beginner gardeners, it’s still rugged enough for pros, with durable, rust-resistant stainless steel blades and a carry-on bag to keep everything organized.
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The One Exterior Paint and Primer
This durable combination of paint and primer from The One goes on smoothly, dries quickly and comes in a wide variety of trendy colors that are sure to boost your home’s value.
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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 sturgeons 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 sturgeons 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, according to Farmer's Almanac, nearly 17,000 miles closer than average.
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Whether you’re a fan of Food Network or someone who loves to spend time in the kitchen, you know Le Creuset. The French-made cookware brand is known for many things, coming in a wide range of colors. It’s got thick, heavy, enamel-coated cast iron and a lifetime warranty that has turned Le Creuset pieces into heirlooms.
There’s only one thing that’s stopping most of us from having a whole kitchen full of this stuff: the price tag. But now for the good news. We’re in the final week of Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale, so you still have a few more days to snag up to 45% off select Le Creuset pieces. And yes, that includes some of the iconic Dutch ovens.
Super-high quality … and prices to match (usually)
While the lifetime warranty means that a Le Creuset piece may very well be the last piece in its size and shape you ever need to buy, the prices also reflect that. A single Dutch oven will typically run you several hundred dollars.
However, people love them so much that the quality is worth the price. Celebrity chefs even belove Le Creuset pieces. Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa herself, once advised a fan who asked for a Le Creuset recommendation, “I use the Le Creuset #26 Dutch oven more often than everything else. It’s great for soups, stews and braising.” As further proof that you can’t beat the classics, Julia Child was also known to love her Le Creuset cookware.
5 Le Creuset deals you won’t want to miss at Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale
Le Creuset 4.5-Quart Oval Dutch Oven
Let’s start with a classic. This medium-sized Dutch oven is perfect for a family and can handle most main dishes and sides easily. It’s designed to go from the stovetop to the oven, and its oval shape makes it adaptable for larger cuts of meat, like leg of lamb. You can find it at Nordstrom in seven classic colors.
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Le Creuset Signature 2.75-Quart Enamel Dutch Oven
This smaller Dutch oven is great for singles, couples or those who need a second vessel for their sides and casseroles. It’s also great for baking and comes in eight colors to suit your kitchen’s aesthetic.
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Le Creuset 9-Inch Enamel Cast Iron Skillet
This versatile skillet can sear, saute and fry — and it can go from the stove to an oven up to 500 degrees. It comes pre-seasoned and is dishwasher-safe, making it a perfect choice for busy families who need a versatile staple to add to their kitchen.
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Le Creuset Signature 1.75-Quart Enameled Cast Iron Saucepan
This smaller pot is perfect for poaching eggs and fruit, making sauces and more. Its rounded base and curved interior make it easy to stir whatever’s inside and ensure nothing sticks — making cleanup a breeze.
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Le Creuset Heritage Rectangle Baking Dishes, Set of Three
For the baker in your family, this set of rectangle dishes — in 7.5, 10 and 12.5 inches — can accommodate any casserole, quiche or baked good. They can be used safely under the broiler or in the microwave, and you can even put them in the freezer.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – As we close the door on July 2023 in Fort Wayne, it will go down as a much wetter month than June. In fact, we ended up well above average in the precipitation department, which is music to the ears of those that have been dealing with drought conditions.
We picked up 5.28 inches of rain in Fort Wayne in July. As of July 31st, this is 1.35 inches above our average. We definitely enjoyed some periods of moderate to heavy rain. However, the occurrences of severe weather were not beneficial, especially during the middle of the night on the 28th into the 29th.
Strong storms contained very heavy rainfall on July 20th. In fact, we set a new daily record rainfall at the Fort Wayne International Airport for that day, with 1.66 inches of rain being recorded. This betters the old record set in 1946 by two-tenths of an inch.
Temperature-wise, it was a very average month. As of July 31st, we were right at our average monthly temperature for July, but we’ll likely end up ever so slightly below average once the last day of the month is factored in. The highest temperature was 92 degrees on July 27th, which was one of four 90-degree days we experienced. It’s worth noting we saw temperatures exactly at average six times in July, which is a higher total than what we seem to usually see.
Speaking of average, as of July 31st, we experienced exactly half of the possible sunshine we could have seen in July.
Meteorologist Camryn Leatherman will have a look ahead to August in a report Tuesday morning. We’ll update this story as the finalized July data is released.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — The American Cancer Society (ACS) of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia is hosting free community events at the Kingsport Farmers Market on Saturday.
The Bark for Life and Festival of Hope both kick off at 5 p.m., and they aim to honor canines and humans that have battled cancer.
The Festival of Hope is free and will feature food trucks, vendors, live music and a kids’ zone.
A ceremony honoring all attendees that have faced cancer happens at 6:30, and a Luminaria display to wrap up the evening takes place at 8:30.
The Bark for Life aims to honor the caregiving qualities of pets with a doggie parade, costume contest, and largest, smallest, youngest and oldest contests.
The ACS said for a $25 donation, each registered pet will get a bandana, goody bag and entrance into the awards/contests.
More information on the events and the American Cancer Society can be found on the organization’s website.
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Angus Cloud, breakout star of ‘Euphoria,’ is dead at 25
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “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.
In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “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.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
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.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple,” Cloud told Variety. “I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He had a supporting role in his first film, “The Line,” a college drama starring Alex Wolff and John Malkovich that premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival. Cloud was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.” He’s also made cameos in music videos for Juice WRLD, Becky G and Karol G.
The third season of “Euphoria” hasn’t yet begun filming.
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “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.”
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President Biden overturned a decision from the Trump administration to relocate the temporary headquarters of Space Command to Alabama, deciding instead to keep the base in Colorado.
The decision was made because Biden believes keeping the HQ in Colorado Springs, rather than relocating it to Huntsville, would maintain stability and not impact readiness, according to a senior U.S. official.
The senior administration official said Biden consulted with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other military leaders before deciding to keep the base in Colorado permanently.
Gen. James Dickinson, the head of Space Command, also helped to convince Biden to not relocate the base, according to the Associated Press.
U.S. Space Command headquarters is set to achieve “full operational capability” at Colorado Springs later this month, according to the senior administration official.
The official said moving the headquarters to Alabama would force a transition process that does not allow the new base to open until the mid-2030’s.
“The President found that risk unacceptable, especially given the challenges we may face in the space domain during this critical time period,” the official said. “Locating Headquarters U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs ensures peak readiness in the space domain for our nation during a critical period.”
Biden’s reversal is likely to spark the fury of Alabama Republicans who have for months feared the administration would scrap the relocation plan.
Alabama Rep. Mike Rogers (R), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has been investigating the delay behind the relocation plan, which was first put in motion when Space Command was resurrected in 2019.
Former President Trump’s decision to temporarily establish a headquarters in Colorado and relocate Space Command to Alabama was criticized as a political choice based upon a more favorable constituency in the Yellowhammer state.
Since coming into office, the Biden administration ordered reviews of the decision, none of which found anything improper in Trump’s decision, though they found the former president could have followed better practices in the process.
The delayed relocation reached new heights over the spring when NBC News reported the Biden administration was considering scrapping the relocation plan because of restrictive abortion laws in Alabama.
Rogers and other Alabama Republicans objected to any such plan, saying Huntsville, also known as Rocket City, was selected based on its merits and in a fair process, while pointing to the reviews that found nothing improper.
The House version of the annual defense bill that passed earlier this month includes provisions that slash funding for the Air Force Secretary until the administration makes a final decision. It’s unclear whether Rogers will be satisfied with a reversal.
Other Alabama politicians, including Gov. Kay Ivey (R), quickly blasted the the decision as political. Alabama overwhelmingly voted for Trump in the 2020 election and has two GOP senators, while Colorado voted for Biden and has two Democratic senators.
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) said the base Redstone Arsenal in Alabama was the correct location based on its merits, arguing “Biden has irresponsibly decided to yank a military decision out of the Air Force’s hands in the name of partisan politics.”
“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,” she said in a statement.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby reiterated during an interview with CNN on Monday that the president’s decision was entirely due to national security considerations, pointing specifically to the rising threat from China.
“This was really a decision based on one thing and one thing only for a president and that was operational readiness,” Kirby said. “He took the inputs of many leaders across the Department of Defense that when it came down to it, he believes that it’s in the best national security interest of the country if we leave Space Command in Colorado.”
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennett (D) joined officials from his state in celebrating Biden’s decision.
“Over the past two and half years, we have repeatedly made the case that the Trump administration’s decision to relocate U.S. Space Command was misguided,” the senator wrote on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Today’s 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,” he added.
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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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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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Strikers to meet with Leinenkugel’s Tuesday
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 5:54 PM CDT|Updated: 23 minutes ago
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WEAU) - A group of Leinenkugel’s workers that are on strike are slated to meet with the company Tuesday to further discuss terms.
A group of about 45 employees went on strike three weeks ago. This is the first strike at the brewery since the 1980s.
The Local 662 Teamsters Union says all of the employees work at the Brewery in Chippewa Falls.
Some of them have been working at the Brewery for over 30 years.
As a result of the strike, some local bars in Chippewa Falls have stopped serving Leinenkugel’s products in solidarity with the workers.
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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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GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – Teachers, staff and students at Chuckey-Doak High School are preparing for the upcoming school year. Some of those preparations include setting up classrooms, preparing coursework and getting new teachers acquainted with the school.
“We won’t be fully prepared until day one when we know who our students are,” said Principal Steven Broyles. “When all of the students are here, we know who’s definitely going to be here, who’s not.”
Broyles told News Channel 11 that one of the biggest challenges when preparing for the new school year is making sure that all 600 students have a schedule in hand by the first day of classes.
One change that will be added to the list of classes at Chuckey-Doak that students can take is a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) class. Broyles said this will be the first time the school has offered this class.
Liz Carlson, a math teacher at Chuckey-Doak, said she has had to change her course planning because of a new math curriculum required by the State of Tennessee.
“It is a huge change, a lot of it is set up for us, which is really great, but we prepped in the summer,” said Carlson. “Then last week we went over all of that, getting our textbooks and looking at the online platform and stuff.”
Carlson said she thinks the new math curriculum will help her students.
“I think the greatest thing for parents about this new curriculum is that all of it is online as well as in the textbook,” said Carlson. “And I think that’s just super helpful because it’s basically accessible anywhere the student is.”
Chuckey-Doak High School will have an abbreviated day on Tuesday for freshmen, and the first full day of class for all students is on August 4th.
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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.
Media contacts
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Bain & Company:
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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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LIMESTONE, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Crumley House is a non-profit unlike any other on the East Coast that deals with traumatic brain injuries.
For decades, the non-profit has called Limestone, Tennessee home, but its reach stretches far beyond Greene County.
“It plays such a tremendous role in people’s lives,” said Guynn Edwards, the Executive Director of The Crumley House.
Running any non-profit is a lot of work, but at the Crumley House, that work turns to play. It’s a laid-back atmosphere focused on healing and a return to somewhat normalcy following a life-changing brain injury.
It’s a mission that started with a need that was soon after propelled by a dream.
“In the early 1990s, a mother who had a daughter who had a brain injury after being involved in an accident found that there were no services locally; so she came up with the dream of The Crumley House,” Edwards said. “She started raising money and brought in the Coors hitch and it started as something very simple in someone’s kitchen.”
In 2001, residents were able to move into the halls of the Limestone facility. Little did they know just how life-changing that move would be.
“We have people from 11 different states and all over the state of Tennessee. We have a full house now and over 200 people on a waiting list to get in. If there were funding, we’d build 2 or 3 more places for people to live,” said Edwards.
Classes offered at the facility range from physical therapy to cognitive abilities. Occupational skills and speech therapy are also a part of the day-to-day offerings.
Residents said being a part of the Crumley House makes a world of difference in their recovery.
“They’re like a big family, and everybody takes care of everybody, and if you have any needs, you just tell somebody,” said resident Kelly Wilson.
The positive impacts of the center can be seen almost immediately by not only residents but also staff.
“It changes their life. We are thankful that most of our folks got a second chance in life,” Edwards said.
Funding is crucial for The Crumley House. Community donations allow them to keep up with daily operations and continue to make improvements. One day, they dream of expanding to serve even more people with brain injuries.
One of the non-profit’s biggest fundraisers is coming up on Aug. 12.
The Polynesian Beach Party will be held at Cherokee Creek Farm in Jonesborough.
Tickets can be purchased here.
While the Polynesian Beach Party is a significant fundraiser for the group, money can be donated year-round by clicking on the non-profit’s website by navigating to the ‘Donate Now’ tab.
All proceeds raised will help the non-profit purchase new transportation for resident excursions.
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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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Angus Cloud, breakout star of ‘Euphoria,’ is dead at 25
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “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.
In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “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.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
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.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple,” Cloud told Variety. “I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He had a supporting role in his first film, “The Line,” a college drama starring Alex Wolff and John Malkovich that premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival. Cloud was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.” He’s also made cameos in music videos for Juice WRLD, Becky G and Karol G.
The third season of “Euphoria” hasn’t yet begun filming.
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “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.”
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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.
For press inquiries, email media@laautoshow.com.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Registration is happening now for the fall 2023 Kingsport Miracle League season. The league is free to participants and is intended for kids and young adults with developmental disabilities.
According to the Kingsport Department of Parks and Recreation, games begin on Aug. 26 at the city’s specialized Miracle Field at 2017 Brickyard Park Drive.
The league offers two co-ed divisions; one for ages 17 and under and another for those aged 18 and up.
The Miracle League runs concurrently with Kingsport’s other youth baseball leagues.
The season runs until Oct. 7 with games happening each Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A typical game runs two to three innings, or around an hour long.
Jerseys are provided to players for free and there’s no fee to register for the league.
The Kingsport Miracle Field is around one-third the size of a normal baseball field and is made of flat, rubberized material that accommodates wheelchairs, walkers and other mobility-assisting devices. The mound and all bases are flat so wheelchairs and those with prosthetics can easily play ball.
Kingsport Parks and Rec said more than 100 players usually take part in games each season.
You can register online by clicking here, or in person on the opening day, Aug. 26.
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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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Kara Deniz, (202) 497-6610
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Former Omaha Police officer sentenced to prison on federal child porn charges
LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - A former Omaha Police officer was convicted of possessing and producing child pornography Monday.
Christopher Groth, 39, of Gretna, was sentenced in Lincoln to 36 years in prison on one count each of possession and production of child pornography. Groth was also ordered to serve two decades on supervised release, as well as payment of a $3,000 special assessment which will go toward funds established for victims of this and related crimes.
“In an appalling and heinous way, Christopher Groth violated his sworn oath as a police officer by victimizing children,” Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel said in a release from Acting U.S. Attorney Susan Lehr’s office.
Groth was originally charged in February 2022 with transporting child pornography a couple of weeks before two other related charges were added. The 39-year-old pled guilty in March to one count of producing child pornography and changed his original “not guilty” plea for possession to guilty. He’d been lodged in Saline County Jail.
Senior Magistrate Judge John M. Gerrard presided over Monday’s hearing.
Court documents stated that Groth coerced a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct between September and December 2020 for the purpose of producing a visual depiction. In those documents, Groth admits to having eight such images.
Additionally, investigators said they found more than 700 “child exploitation files depicting other unidentified children” while searching Groth’s phone and email account, according to the release.
The documents also indicated that Groth has been in treatment for a mental or emotional condition “since 2002-2003 sporadically.”
The FBI investigated the case as part of the DOJ’s Project Safe Childhood.
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(KTLA) – The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the discovery of a body inside a 55-gallon drum in Malibu Lagoon on Monday.
A park worker first saw the drum floating by the Pacific Coast Highway bridge Sunday night but didn’t think much of it at the time, a spokesperson for the L.A. County Fire Department told Nexstar’s KTLA.
When lifeguards arrived at work Monday morning, they saw the drum in the lagoon and tried to pull it out at which point they discovered the body inside, officials said.
No information about the victim was immediately known.
KTLA helicopter footage showed the black plastic drum standing upright in shallow water and the beach appeared to be closed for the investigation.
Late last spring, a body was found in a barrel in Nevada’s Lake Mead. Authorities said the body may have been there for four decades but have not yet identified the victim, despite identifying other bodies that appeared due to receding water levels.
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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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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.
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PORT ANGELES, Washington (WJW) – An 8-year-old child was attacked by a cougar at Olympic National Park’s Lake Angeles on Saturday evening.
The child was with their family at Lake Angeles, south of Port Angeles, when the attack happened Saturday night, the National Park Service said Monday.
“The cougar casually abandoned its attack after being yelled and screamed at by the child’s mother,” NPS wrote in a news release. The child suffered only minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital for evaluation.
Park officials then evacuated the remaining campers in the Lake Angeles area, closing the space and Heather Park to the public. Olympic National Park wildlife biologist Tom Kay said in a statement that the decision to close the Lake Angeles Trail, Heather Park Trail, Switchback Trail, and the entire Klahhane Ridge Trail was made “out of an abundance of caution.”
Early Sunday morning, park law enforcement and wildlife personnel who specialize in cougar tracking were dispatched to the last known location of the cougar at Lake Angeles, the park service reported. If located, the cougar will be euthanized and removed from the park for a necropsy.
“This may provide clues as to why the animal attacked since cougars are rarely seen and attacks on humans are extraordinarily rare,” park officials said. “Olympic National Park has extensive protocols in place for wildlife observations, interactions, and attacks and the lethal removal of this cougar is in line with these protocols.”
Because Olympic National Park is considered “cougar territory,” NPS recommends visitors be prepared for the encounter. They should not hike or jog alone, and children should remain near adults. Pets should also be left at home.
Should you encounter a cougar, you should remain calm and avoid running, according to wildlife experts. Do your best to appear as large as possible, continue watching the animal, and be loud. NPS also recommends throwing items like rocks or sticks at the cougar.
There have been no recent deaths caused by cougars in Olympic National Park, according to NPS data.
It’s not the first wildlife attack in the national parks this year, though.
Last week, a woman was found dead after an “apparent bear encounter” near Yellowstone National Park. Earlier this month, a woman in the park suffered “significant injuries” after being gored by a bison.
The park warns that between mid-July and mid-August, bison are in mating season and “can become agitated more quickly.”
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(KRON) – Angus Cloud, the actor best known for his role in the HBO series “Euphoria,” has been found dead at his family’s home in Oakland, according to his publicist, Cait Bailey.
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. As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways,” the statement read. “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.”
Variety also reported the actor’s death, citing his family.
A statement from HBO Monday read:
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.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting director Jennifer Venditti noticed him. Series creator Sam Levinson made him the co-star of the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television.
Cloud starred as Fezco on 16 episodes of the HBO show in addition to appearances in “North Hollywood,” “The Perfect Women” and music videos with Becky G and Juice WRLD.
He was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.”
Cloud was born in Oakland according to his IMDB page.
He was 25 years old. No cause of death was given
If you or anyone you know are struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline can be reached 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone, chat or text.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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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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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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AUSTIN (KXAN) — A KXAN viewer said she saw baby foxes, also known as kits, playing on a trampoline in her garden Sunday in the north Austin, Texas, area.
That was only a couple of weeks after another viewer said she saw a family of foxes playing on the St. Edward’s University campus in Austin.
According to the Humane Society of the United States, it’s not unusual to see foxes in cities and towns, where food sources are easily found, including in your garbage.
While foxes live around the world in many different types of habitats, according to the Texas Wildlife Association, including the Arctic, the desert and even in trees, some foxes have also adapted to life in such urban environments as neighborhoods.
“Next time you are outside in a park, remember to look up, because if you are lucky, you might see a fox up in the trees,” TWA said.
TWA said three types of foxes live in Texas, including the swift fox, the red fox and the gray fox.
The swift, or kit fox, lives in the northwestern part of the state, the red fox inhabits the eastern and central parts, and the gray fox, the most common variety, can be found statewide, the TWA said.
The Humane Society said foxes are scared of people and are not typically dangerous except when they are rabid, which the society says is rare.
“Even then, a fox’s natural tendency is to flee rather than fight,” the Human Society stated.
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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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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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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A man was shot by police after investigators say he fired shots outside the Margolin Hebrew Academy on White Station Road Monday afternoon.
Police said the man was trying to get into the school and fled the scene in a maroon RAM pickup truck with California tags.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools said all of their schools were on a precautionary lockdown as police investigated the situation.
This photo was shared with educators warning them to be on the lookout for the man. WREG has chosen not to show his face so we don’t give him publicity.
Officers spotted the suspect’s vehicle in the area of McCory and Gary in Berclair and initiated a traffic stop. MPD 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.
Parents who came to the school said they were alerted by the school about the incident.
Rob and Gila Golder have two young children who attend the school and live nearby. They told WREG they have been happy about the security measures taken, including a fence that surrounds the property, on-going training, and recent active shooter training.
“The security both at this school and across this Jewish community is very, very tight, it’s very coordinated, there is a security committee that meets, we have all kinds of grants to support the security of all our Jewish institutions. I know that it has been and continues to remain a priority for the community,” said Gila.
Due to the high level of security, they can only think perhaps the accused shooter made it close enough due to on-going construction happening. MPD has not said if that is the case and no possible motive has been released.
Police have also not identified the suspect but Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Memphis) said in a statement that the suspect was Jewish himself and a former student at the school.
“We have recently learned that the shooter at the Margolin Hebrew Academy was himself Jewish and a former student at the school. I am pleased the academy had effective security and that the police acted quickly to protect students,” Cohen said.
Assistant Police Chief Don Crowe also praised the Hebrew academy for their safety procedures and 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 recognized the officers for their actions as well.
“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.
MSCS interim superintendent Toni Williams showed her support for the school, saying, “The entire MSCS family wraps its arms around the Margolin Hebrew Academy family. Your alertness amidst the unimaginable was heroic. We stand united in combatting gun violence and keeping our students and staff safe.”
This is the second shooting outside a Memphis school in less than a week. A security guard at Freedom Preparatory Academy was shot on July 25. Senate minority leader Raumesh Akbari (D-Memphis) urges lawmakers to enact reforms to stop future gun violence.
“With the new school year approaching, this is the second shooting at a school campus in Memphis in less than a week. No family and no community should have to live in constant fear that gun violence may claim the lives of their children or loved ones,” Akbari said in a statement. “We are not helpless against this epidemic of gun violence. We can enact reforms that stop future gun violence. Now, it’s more urgent than ever that lawmakers come together during our special session to give police the tools they need prevent shootings from happening in the first place.”
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is now investigating the situation.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Some of Pennsylvania’s school districts may have to empty their reserves or take out loans to open for the fall semester because billions of dollars in state aid is held up in a month-old political stalemate.
State payments to school districts normally start going out by the end of July, but the standoff between Gov. Josh Shapiro and a politically divided Legislature appears sure to stretch well into August, and perhaps beyond.
A dispute over education funding has contributed to holding up the proposed $45 billion state budget. One stumbling block is a whether to create a $100 million program subsidizing students in the lowest-performing districts so they can attend private or religious schools.
In Steelton-Highspire School District, officials are discussing whether to take out a loan to ensure the district can open when school begins on Aug. 24, Superintendent Mick Iskric said.
The district has been working with a deficit for 14 years, Iskric said, and there’s no funding to bridge the gap when the state starts missing payments to the roughly 1,400-student district just outside Harrisburg.
“Our payments that come in go right out the door,” he said. “We’re impacted immediately.”
Any loan, however, will likely come with high-interest rates and fees that would further compound the district's deficit, Iskric said.
Lawmakers are not scheduled to return to the Capitol until mid-September, but Senate leadership has said they may return earlier if negotiations wrap up.
Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, said in a statement that the chamber understands it is important to finalize the budget ahead of the school year.
Counties are also anticipating stalled payments and hundreds of millions of dollars that normally go to Pennsylvania’s state-related universities are also being held up, potentially meaning higher tuition.
Education funding became one of the thorniest parts of the budget process after a landmark court ruling said the way Pennsylvania pays for public schools violates the rights of students in the state's poorest districts.
The proposal to subsidize private or religious school tuition for students in the lowest-performing districts advanced in the Republican-controlled Senate, which found an ally in Shapiro. But Democrats who control the House opposed it, after pushing unsuccessfully for more public school funding for Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts.
The state will miss its first payment to schools, about $190 million earmarked for special education, at the end of July. A delay past mid-August means districts will miss the first portion of their basic education funding, $1.1 billion, which typically is delivered at the end of that month.
About $40 million in federal funding — which supports the state’s poorest districts, after-school programs, migrant education and more — typically starts flowing this month. Those dollars are also snarled in the budget impasse.
Districts that have to take out loans to bridge a funding gap may be able to pay off the debt when the state starts making payments, but they will still be on the hook for interest and fees, Iskric said. That happened in 2015, when a drawn-out budget feud left districts scrambling to cover costs.
The previous stalemate showed why it is important for districts to maintain enough money to plug holes when state funding stalls, said Susquehanna Community School District Superintendent Bronson Stone.
Stone's is among Pennsylvania's poorer districts and gets a majority of its funding from the state. It has built enough of a reserve in recent years to get through October, he said.
“If it lasts beyond October, then we’d have to reconfigure finances and look for possibly some support, whether through borrowing or things along those lines,” he said. “I’d hope it wouldn’t last that long.”
Hazleton Area School District can make it just about two months given its $6 million biweekly payroll, said Superintendent Brian Uplinger.
The impasse could have a nearly immediate impact on pre-K programs and daycare, plus an early intervention program for all Luzerne County families who have children with special needs.
The district would begin considering borrowing in November, Uplinger said. Before that, programs like athletics and extracurriculars could see cuts to make ends meet.
“Everything we do is for our students. We want to make sure they’re getting the best and most they can while they’re with us,” he said. “If we’re not getting funded appropriately, or at all, our programming suffers and then they suffer.”
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PITTSBURGH — A jury is set to deliberate whether to impose the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison without parole on a man who spewed antisemitic hate before fatally shooting 11 worshippers at a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh's Jewish community.
The same jurors who convicted 50-year-old Robert Bowers in June on 63 criminal counts listened to closing arguments Monday in the penalty phase of his federal trial, held nearly five years after the truck driver from suburban Baldwin perpetrated the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.
The extent to which mental illness and Bowers' difficult childhood played a role in the massacre dominated the lawyers' arguments for and against capital punishment. The jury is expected to get the case and begin deliberations on Tuesday.
Speaking for the government, U.S. Attorney Eric Olshan said Bowers was clearly motivated by religious hatred when he entered the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, and opened fire with an AR-15 rifle, shooting everyone he could find.
The gunman raved incessantly on social media about his hatred of Jewish people — using a slur for Jewish people some 400 times on a platform favored by the far right — and remains proud that he killed Jews, the prosecutor reminded jurors.
“Do not be numb to it. Remember what it means. This defendant targeted people solely because of the faith that they chose,” Olshan said.
He added: "This is a case that calls for the most severe punishment under the law: the death penalty.”
Bowers’ lead defense attorney, Judy Clarke, acknowledged the horror of his crimes but urged jurors to opt for mercy and a life sentence.
Bowers' attorneys have argued that he has schizophrenia, a serious brain disorder whose symptoms include delusions and hallucinations, and that Bowers attacked the synagogue out of a delusional belief that Jews were helping to bring about a genocide of white people by coming to the aid of refugees and immigrants. On Monday, Clarke recounted Bowers' history of psychiatric hospitalizations, including an extended stay in a residential juvenile mental health program.
The defense also presented evidence of Bowers’ difficult childhood.
“What has happened cannot be undone. We can’t rewind the clock and make it that this senseless crime never happened. All we can do is make the right decision going forward. We are asking you to make the right decision, and that is life,” Clarke said in her closing argument.
A life sentence would mean that “prison is where Mr. Bowers will die in obscurity, not as a hero and not as a martyr,” she said.
Olshan, the prosecutor, disputed the defense experts' diagnosis of schizophrenia, asserting that Bowers was not suffering psychosis but had chosen to believe white supremacist rhetoric. And while acknowledging that Bowers was a depressed, neglected child, Olshan downplayed the significance of it, noting that Bowers had held jobs, paid bills, and was an otherwise functioning adult.
“He was not a child, he was a grown man. He was responsible for his actions, not his family and things that happened decades earlier. He was, he is responsible for his actions," Olshan said.
Clarke retorted that “childhood matters.”
“It defies reality to say he got better, he’s fine, he’s just an evil guy. What it does is reflects a complete misunderstanding of serious mental illness," she said.
In order to impose death, jurors must find that aggravating circumstances, which make the crime especially heinous, outweigh mitigating factors that could be seen as diminishing his culpability. Those aggravating circumstances could include the vulnerability of Bowers' elderly and disabled victims and his targeting of Jewish people.
Olshan played a composite of 911 calls made from inside the synagogue, including audio of people being shot and a survivor’s horrified screams.
He said Bowers had taken “11 people, 11 full lives, 11 people who loved their families, 11 people who loved their friends, 11 people who were loved. ... How do you measure the impact of all of that loss?”
The prosecutor spoke about 75-year-old Joyce Fienberg's care for her family and 65-year-old Richard Gottfried's devotion to his faith. He said Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, 66, had the ethos of a country doctor: “He loved delivering babies but he never delivered judgment.” David Rosenthal, 54, and Cecil Rosenthal, 59, intellectually disabled brothers, “loved life," Olshan said. "But maybe more than anything, they loved Tree of Life."
The other deceased victims were Rose Mallinger, 97; Bernice Simon, 84, and her husband, Sylvan Simon, 86; Dan Stein, 71; Melvin Wax, 87; and Irving Younger, 69.
The attack also wounded seven people, including five responding police officers. Bowers was shot three times before surrendering when he ran out of ammunition.
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LANCASTER, Pa. — The FIFA Women's World Cup is one of the largest sporting events on the planet and the U.S. Women's Soccter Team (USWNT) has one of the most rabid fan bases. Andrew Kalista caught up with one fan who made the long journey from Lancaster County to support the Red, White, and Blue.
“[We] certainly miss the folks back home but we try to bring the noise on the road with our friends and family here," said Dana Billig who is chapters secretary with the Lancaster American Outlaws.
Dana and his wife Roberta have been living it up the last two World Cups, traveling to France and now New Zealand to cheer on Team USA for a unique and exciting adventure.
"It’s always a fun experience traveling and seeing the difference cultures, getting to do some touring around and see places that otherwise might not have traveled,” Billig told FOX43 over Zoom from his hotel in New Zealand.
While they may be thousands of miles away from home, these American Outlaws always feel at home and bring the energy from the Lancaster group.
To Dana, these trips have become like family. “It's like a family reunion atmosphere coming together seeing people that we have seen at other games," he said.
In New Zealand, for the group stage, Billig took in the match against rival Netherlands and witnessed that second-half rebound.
“The Horan, header was fabulous, epic, coming in from the other side of the stadium," he gushed.
The goal of the trip is to, of course, have fun for the Billig's, but also a little business for the team and the Outlaws …
“Battle to win another star and bring it home for the U.S.!”
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Justin Verlander, Eduardo Rodríguez remain Dodgers’ top targets at trade deadline
With less than 24 hours remaining until Major League Baseball’s trade deadline, the Dodgers’ last-minute wish list is starting to take shape, according to multiple people with knowledge of the team’s thinking unauthorized to speak publicly.
Plan A is a pursuit of New York Mets ace Justin Verlander — a potential blockbuster deal that remains on the table ahead of Tuesday’s 3 p.m. Pacific deadline, but will require the teams to bridge gaps on both the prospect return the Dodgers would send to New York, as well as how much of Verlander’s contract the Mets are willing to pay down.
Plan B could be a pivot to Detroit Tigers left-hander Eduardo Rodríguez — a 30-year-old veteran who is having a career-best year and could become a free agent this winter.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts knows all about the trade deadline. In 2004, the Dodgers shipped him to the Boston Red Sox, where he won a World Series title.
Plan C might be, well, nothing — with the Dodgers’ continued wariness of inflated deadline prices making any further big-name moves far from a guarantee.
To be certain, the club wants to add an impact starter to their underwhelming rotation. The chances of them completing another acquisition are seen as possible, if not likely.
But to get Verlander, Rodríguez or any other notable alternative available on the trade market, there are still hurdles that have to be cleared.
With the clock ticking toward the deadline, there are still significant decisions for the front office to make.
Verlander would be the biggest coup for the Dodgers rotation.
The unit entered Monday ranked 25th in the majors in starting pitching ERA, worse than all but one other team currently in a playoff position. The rotation suffered a 6.18 ERA during July, the highest in club history since relocating to Los Angeles. And the team is currently lacking a surefire ace, with Clayton Kershaw battling a shoulder injury and Julio Urías mired in the worst season of his career.
Verlander, a three-time Cy Young Award winner and two-time World Series champion, would be an immediate game-changer.
He has a 3.15 ERA on the season overall, and a 1.95 mark over his last nine outings. He was a free-agent target for the Dodgers last winter, before ultimately signing with the Mets. He would be an upgrade to the top of the Dodgers rotation, too, representing one of the few legitimate front-line starters who might be moved before Tuesday’s deadline.
Completing a trade with the Mets, however, is proving to be complicated.
For starters, Verlander has a no-trade clause in his contract, though his stated desire to contend for a championship should clear the path for a move to Los Angeles.
He is also due a lot of money in the next couple of years. There is roughly $15 million remaining of his $43.33-million salary this season. He is under contract for another $43.33 million next year. And if he pitches 140 innings in 2024, he’ll have a vesting option of $35 million kick in for the 2025 campaign.
While the Dodgers made Verlander a two-year, $80-million offer this winter — only slightly below the Mets’ winning bid of two years and $86.67 million — the extra salary included in the 2025 option is believed to be one sticking point in negotiations between the teams.
With more than $90 million potentially due over the next three years to Verlander — who turned 40 this February and would be 42 by the end of the contract — the Dodgers would like the Mets to help cover some of the costs, similar to how they paid down a significant portion of Max Scherzer’s contract in a trade with the Texas Rangers over the weekend.
However, the more money the Mets include in the deal, the more of a prospect package they’ll want in return, with young Dodgers pitchers, including Emmet Sheehan, believed to be coveted by New York, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
A pathway to an agreement is possible, particularly with other Verlander suitors such as the Rangers and Houston Astros (who Verlander played for during their infamous 2017 season) reportedly turning their attention elsewhere in recent days. Lining up the right prospect return and cash exchange, though, has thus far dragged out negotiations.
If Verlander falls through, Rodríguez could provide another opportunity for the Dodgers to explore. As of Monday afternoon, the team had maintained interest in him, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation.
Rodríguez has been one of the bright spots on a struggling Detroit team, posting a 2.95 ERA in 15 starts that ranks ninth-best among MLB pitchers with at least 80 innings.
Rodríguez does have his own complicated contract situation. While there are three years and $49 million remaining on his deal after this season, he will have the ability to opt out of his contract this winter and become a free agent.
Given that the Dodgers have already balked at high prices for other rental pitchers — notably, Lucas Giolito of the Chicago White Sox, who wound up being traded to the Angels — the threat of losing Rodríguez after only a few months could pose a challenge in striking a fair return for a trade.
Nonetheless, Rodríguez’s resume, which also includes a World Series title in 2018 with Boston, could still be appealing enough to warrant a deal, especially amid the ever-growing concerns surrounding the Dodgers rotation.
If the team can’t get Verlander or Rodríguez, it’s unclear how they might try to maneuver.
Other rental starters like Jack Flaherty of the St. Louis Cardinals and Michael Lorenzen of the Tigers are available, as are a number of relief arms that could boost the bullpen. But any minor moves might be overly redundant, following the team’s depth additions of Lance Lynn and Joe Kelly last week.
It leaves the Dodgers facing a potential all-or-nothing scenario in the final hours before the deadline. They would love to add another impact pitcher. They know which targets they covet most.
Now, they’re facing their last opportunity to try and hammer something out, with Verlander and Rodríguez emerging as the biggest names to watch before Tuesday’s deadline strikes.
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Clippers’ Amir Coffey arrested in Hollywood on suspicion of carrying concealed gun in car
Clippers wing Amir Coffey was arrested early Sunday in Hollywood on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle where he was a passenger, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Coffey was one of two passengers in a vehicle that was stopped for speeding by officers near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue at 1:50 a.m., according to the LAPD. The driver was cited for speeding and another passenger was cited for possession of marijuana, police said. The LAPD did not release their names.
Los Angeles County jail records show Coffey was booked for the misdemeanor crime at 5:05 a.m. Sunday and released nearly four hours later. He is due in court Aug. 24 for a hearing on the matter.
“We’re aware of a legal situation involving Amir Coffey and are looking into it,” the Clippers told The Times in an email Monday afternoon.
For Clippers rookie and Minnesota native Amir Coffey, the response to George Floyd’s death hit especially close to home.
Coffey signed with the Clippers in 2019 after going undrafted out of Minnesota. He had a breakout season two years later, averaging 9 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 69 games, and was rewarded that summer with a three-year, $11-million contract.
Coffey played in 50 games last season, averaging 3.4 points, 1.1 rebounds and 1.1 assists.
His name — along with Clippers forward Marcus Morris Sr. and the team’s first-round pick in the 2023 draft — was mentioned in trade discussions between the Clippers, Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards earlier this summer that would have brought guard Malcolm Brogdon to Los Angeles. Those talks eventually broke down.
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Idaho mom Lori Vallow Daybell sentenced in deaths of 2 children and her romantic rival
Idaho woman Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival in a case that included bizarre claims that her son and daughter were zombies and that she was a goddess sent to usher in the biblical apocalypse.
Vallow Daybell was found guilty in May of killing her two youngest children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell, her fifth husband’s previous wife. Vallow Daybell will serve three life sentences one after the other, the judge said.
The husband, Chad Daybell, is awaiting trial on the same murder charges. Vallow Daybell also faces two other trials in Arizona — one on a charge of conspiring with her brother to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and one of conspiring to kill her niece’s ex-husband. Charles Vallow was shot and killed in 2019, but her niece’s ex survived an attempt later that year.
At the Fremont County Courthouse in St. Anthony, Idaho, Judge Steven W. Boyce said the search for the missing children, the discovery of their bodies and the evidence photos shown in court left law enforcement and jurors traumatized, and he would never be able to get images of the slain children out of his head.
A parent killing their own children “is the most shocking thing really that I can imagine,” Boyce said.
Vallow Daybell justified the murders by “going down a bizarre religious rabbit hole, and clearly you are still down there,” the judge said.
“I don’t think to this day you have any remorse for the effort and heartache you caused,” he said.
Newly released court documents in the case of two children who were found dead in Idaho reveal allegations that their mother believed they were zombies.
Boyce heard testimony from several representatives of the victims, including Vallow Daybell’s only surviving son, Colby Ryan.
“Tylee will never have the opportunity to become a mother, wife or have the career she was destined to have. JJ will never be able to grow and spread his light with the world the way he did,” Ryan wrote in a statement read by prosecuting attorney Rob Wood. “My siblings and father deserve so much more than this. I want them to be remembered for who they were, not just a spectacle.”
Ryan also wrote about his own grief.
“I’ve lost the opportunity to share life with the people I love the most. I have lost my sister, father, brother and my mother,” he wrote. “I pray for healing for everyone involved, including those who took the lives of everyone we loved.”
The murder scheme and Tammy Daybell’s death left a deep rift in her family, Tammy’s sister Samantha Gwilliam told the court.
“Why? Why plan something so heinous? You are not exalted beings, and your behavior makes you ineligible to be one,” Gwilliam said, referring to the unusual religious claims. “Because of the choices you made, my family lost a beloved mother, sister and daughter.”
Tammy Daybell’s mother was fighting cancer, and spent the last months of her life watching the murder trial, Gwilliam said. The family has also been hounded by media and others drawn by “all of the salacious scandal you stirred up,” Gwilliam told Vallow Daybell, who looked down as she sat between her defense attorneys.
“I miss my sister every day. I will grieve her, and the loss of my mother, every single day of my life,” Gwilliam said. “As for you, I choose to forget you and as I leave the courtroom here today, I choose to never think of you again.”
An Idaho jury has convicted Lori Vallow Daybell in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival.
Boyce also heard from Vallow Daybell before handing down the sentence. She quoted Bible verses about how people should not judge each other. She said she too mourned the deaths of her children and Tammy Daybell but knew they would be together in the afterlife.
She claimed she is regularly visited by the spirits of her dead children, as well as the spirit of her “eternal friend,” Tammy Daybell, and suggested that the three weren’t murdered at all.
“Jesus Christ knows that no one was murdered in this case,” she said. “Accidental deaths happen. Suicides happen. Fatal side effects from medication happen.”
Wood pointed to the two Arizona cases as well as the three murders in six weeks in Idaho.
“A defendant who is willing to murder her own children is willing to murder anyone,” Wood said. “Society can only be protected from this defendant by a sentence of life in prison without parole.”
Vallow Daybell was committed multiple times for treatment before she was declared mentally competent for the court proceedings. But Wood said there is no evidence that her crimes were related to her “alleged mental illness” — which includes delusional disorder with grandiose features, according to reports referenced in court.
“The evidence is overwhelming that she did know right from wrong,” Wood said, noting testimony from several people who said she lied to them about the deaths.
In July 2019, Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, shot and killed her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, in a suburban Phoenix home. Cox told police he acted in self-defense. He was never charged and later died of what authorities determined were natural causes.
Vallow Daybell was already in a relationship with Chad Daybell, a self-published writer of doomsday-focused fiction loosely based on Mormon teachings. She moved to Idaho with her kids and brother to be closer to him.
The children were last seen alive in September 2019. Police discovered they were missing a month later after an extended family member became worried. Their bodies were found buried in Chad Daybell’s yard the following summer.
During the trial, experts said Tylee appeared to have been stabbed and her body burned before it was buried in a pet cemetery, Wood said.
JJ’s head was wrapped in tape and plastic, asphyxiating him, Wood said, speculating that his last thoughts must have “been filled with fear and betrayal.”
Tammy Daybell’s body was bruised, suggesting she fought back as she was asphyxiated in her bed, Wood said.
Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow married in November 2019, about two weeks after Daybell’s previous wife, Tammy, was killed. Tammy Daybell initially was described as having died of natural causes, but an autopsy later showed she had been asphyxiated, authorities said.
Defense attorney Jim Archibald argued during the trial that there was no evidence tying Vallow Daybell to the killings, but plenty showing she was a loving, protective mother whose life took a sharp turn when she met Chad Daybell and fell for his “weird” apocalyptic religious claims. He suggested that Daybell and Cox were responsible for the deaths.
Chad Daybell told her that they had been married in several previous lives and she was a “sexual goddess” who was supposed to help him save the world by gathering 144,000 followers so Jesus could return, Archibald said.
Vallow Daybell’s former friend Melanie Gibb testified during the trial that Vallow Daybell believed people in her life had been taken over by evil spirits and turned into “zombies,” including JJ and Tylee.
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Come for the singing, stay for the beer. Enjoy an evening of opera arias, duets and choruses while sipping on craft beverages. Aug. 1, 6-8 p.m., 167 E. Badger Road
Celebrate traditional music and dance for all ages. The two-day outdoor festival includes performances, workshops and jam sessions. Aug. 4-5, 4330 Libby Road
If you’ve never tried grilled cheese with mustard, now’s your chance. Celebrate the “King of Condiments” with live music, games and mustard tastings at the National Mustard Museum. Aug. 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 7477 Hubbard Ave., Middleton
Spend the evening sampling and learning about wines from California vineyards. Don’t miss the appetizers, which include stuffed mushrooms, smoked trout puffs and onion tarts. Aug 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m., 6261 Nesbitt Road, Fitchburg
Experience nature at night with an evening stroll through the garden while learning about plants and insects. Registration closes on August 2. Aug. 9, 5-6:30 p.m., 3330 Atwood Ave.
Whether you’re in the mood to perform or just listen, head over to Leopold's Books Bar Caffè for outdoor live music. Aug. 11, 7-10 p.m., 1301 Regent St.
Calling all film fanatics: Drive to Stoughton for a three-day independent film festival featuring short films, documentaries and fiction films. Aug 11-13, Various locations
Experience the scenic views of Madison while participating in either a 5K or half-marathon. Stick around afterward to enjoy complimentary drinks and live music. Aug. 12, 7 a.m., 800 Langdon St.
The only thing better than curds is an entire festival dedicated to curds. Head over to Breese Stevens Field for a full day of all-things-curds. Aug 13, 2-6 p.m., 917 E. Mifflin St.
Nothing says summer like sweet corn and live music. Make sure to check out the other food vendors and family activities. Aug. 16-20, 200 Park St., Sun Prairie
Check out this hour-long dance performance which combines artists, storytelling, emotion and physical connection. Stop by early for appetizers and drinks at Garver Lounge. Aug 17, 7-8 p.m., 3241 Garver Green
Head over to Fitchburg to browse paintings, ceramics, jewelry and more. The fair also includes local restaurants and vendors, live music and a children’s art yard. Aug 19, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 5550 E. Cheryl Parkway, Fitchburg
What’s better than drinks with a view? Sip on a cocktail and learn about the 4,000 plants on Monona Terrace’s rooftop garden. Aug. 16, 4-6 p.m., 1 John Nolen Drive
Celebrate the end of summer with three days of music, food and family fun. Also, don’t miss the aerial dance performance and jazz brunch. Aug 25-27, 1103 Spaight St.
Join the OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center for the fifth year. The festival features performers, family activities and food and drink vendors. Aug. 20, 1-6 p.m., 2930 N. Sherman Ave.
OTHER AUGUST ACTIVITIES
INDIE CONCERT: Courtyard Ayre at Robinia Courtyard, Aug 2
IT’S A BARBIE WORLD: Barbie Dance Party at High Noon Saloon, Aug. 5
STORYTIME: The Moth Madison Storyslam at High Noon Saloon, Aug. 7
LISTEN UP: Spoken Word Night at Cafe Coda, Aug. 10
MUSIC IN THE PARK: The Sessions at McPike Park at McPike Park, Aug. 11, 12, 16, 17
MAKE PLANTS INTO ART: Botanic Plant Press Workshop at Rotary Botanical Gardens, Aug. 13
MAKE YOUR OWN DRINK: Cider & Apple Brandy Cocktail Class at The Cider Farm, Aug. 16
LEARN ABOUT MUSHROOMS: Fun with Fungi at the UW Arboretum, Aug. 20
LATIN NIGHT: Orquesta Salsoul Del Mad at McKee Farms Park, Aug. 21
LIVE JAZZ: Trio Soleil at the North Street Cabaret, Aug. 24
FAMILY FUN: Middleton Good Neighbor Festival at Firemen’s Park, Aug. 25-27
DINNER WITH A VIEW: The Chef + The Farmer Dinner at Still Point Flower Farm, Aug. 26
MOVIE NIGHT: Madison Film Festival at Bartell Theatre, Aug. 26
DANCE YOUR HEART OUT: Dane Dances at Monona Terrace, Recurring Fridays
Ila Schrecker is an editorial intern at Madison Magazine.
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