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HOUSTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (NYSE: SCM) will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023 on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, after the close of the stock market.
Stellus Capital Investment Corporation will host a conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM, Central Time. The conference call will be led by Robert T. Ladd, Chief Executive Officer, and W. Todd Huskinson, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary.
Conference Call Details
Via Phone: Dial 888-506-0062 (domestic). Use passcode 810825. Starting approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call, a replay will be available through Thursday, August 24, 2023 by dialing 877-481-4010 and entering passcode 48865.
Via Live Webcast: Connect via the Public Company (SCIC) section of our website at www.stelluscapital.com, under the Events tab. A replay of the conference will be available on our website for approximately 90 days.
About Stellus Capital Investment Corporation
The Company is an externally-managed, closed-end, non-diversified investment management company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Company's investment objective is to maximize the total return to its stockholders in the form of current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in private middle-market companies (typically those with $5.0 million to $50.0 million of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)) through first lien, second lien, unitranche and mezzanine debt financing, and corresponding equity investments. The Company's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, Stellus Capital Management, LLC. To learn more about Stellus Capital Investment Corporation, visit www.stelluscapital.com under the Stellus Capital Investment Corporation link.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Statements included herein may contain "forward-looking statements" which relate to future performance or financial condition. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which change over time. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
Contacts
Stellus Capital Investment Corporation
W. Todd Huskinson, (713) 292-5414
Chief Financial Officer
thuskinson@stelluscapital.com
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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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KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles slammed into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s native city of Kryvyi Rih and the southern city of Kherson on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring close to 100 — a barrage that came one day after three drones struck Moscow in the latest attack on the Russian capital.
Russian officials blamed Ukraine for the drone assault, which damaged the facades of two office buildings in a business district but did not result in any injuries. The third drone was intercepted southwest of Moscow, officials said.
Ukrainian officials did not claim responsibility. However, in a video address later Sunday, Zelensky said, “Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia — to its symbolic centers and military bases.”
“This is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process,” Zelensky said. Since November, Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities have been subjected to relentless Russian airstrikes intended to destroy civilian infrastructure and Western-provided air defenses.
Early Monday morning, hours after Zelensky’s address, Russian forces launched two missiles at Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city about 275 miles southeast of Kyiv, killing six and injuring 75, officials said.
In a video address Monday, Zelensky said Russia fired Iskander ballistic missiles from occupied Crimea, which Moscow illegally invaded and annexed from Ukraine in 2014. One of the missiles ripped through five floors of a residential building, while the other destroyed a university building, Zelensky said.
“This proves again and again that for the safety of our cities, for the protection of the normal life of Ukrainians and our children, our military must have enough long-range weapons, enough means to defeat terrorists,” Zelensky said.
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration said one of the dead was found trapped in the rubble of a destroyed laboratory at the university.
On Monday, two early-morning Russian strikes killed at least four people and wounded 17 in Kherson, a southern port city which Ukraine liberated last year after months of Russian occupation, the regional governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said on Telegram. One victim was a utility worker.
With Moscow having reimposed a blockade on Ukraine grain in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian and Croatian foreign ministers agreed Monday on the “possibility” of using Croatian ports to export Ukrainian grain, after Russia terminated an agreement to allow safe passage for Ukrainian grain exports.
“We will now work on laying the most efficient routes to these ports and making the most of this opportunity,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said. He did not provide further details or a timeline, however, and it was not clear how such an arrangement would work.
Meanwhile, Wagner mercenary group boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who last month staged a dramatic but short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military leadership, said Monday that the private military had suspended recruitment but that Wagner would continue to operate in Africa and Belarus.
“To avoid secrets and behind-the-scenes conversations, I inform you that the Wagner Group continues its activities in Africa, as well as in training centers in Belarus,” Prigozhin said in a voice message published on the Grey Zone Telegram channel, an outlet close to the group. “As long as we do not experience a shortage in personnel, we do not plan to” recruit further, he said.
Prigozhin added that most Wagner fighters were “on vacation” after a long period of “very hard work,” and that a small number had signed contracts to become regular soldiers with Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
His comments seemed to provide further confirmation that Wagner and Russian President Vladimir Putin were adhering to a deal brokered by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to end the mutiny.
Under the agreement, Putin agreed to drop insurgency charges in exchange for Prigozhin calling off the rebellion. The Russian president said the mercenaries could either sign contracts with the Russian military to keep fighting in Ukraine, move to Belarus or go home.
A number of Wagner fighters have relocated to Belarus, to a camp about a dozen miles from the town of Osipovichi.
On the group’s plans, Prigozhin remained vague. “The future: We define our following tasks, the outline of which is drawn more and more clearly; these are tasks that will be performed in the name of the greatness of Russia,” he said.
Meanwhile, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan is expected to attend a Ukrainian-backed “peace” summit in Saudi Arabia this weekend, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive planning. Russia, however, will not attend the conference.
Saudi Arabia and Ukraine have invited 30 countries to participate in the summit in Jeddah, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. They hope to win the support of neutral countries such as India and Brazil.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow would monitor the meeting. “It remains to be seen what goals will be set and what, in fact, the organizers plan to talk about,” Peskov said during a daily briefing for reporters.
The summit will be the latest multilateral talk called by Ukraine to try to increase international support for a 10-point peace plan proposed by Zelensky in December, which called for full restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and the withdrawal of all occupying Russian troops.
“We would be immensely pleased if the West, East, South, and North work together in this format toward restoring the global security system,” Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, posted on Twitter. “Meanwhile, this forum is for responsible states that uphold international law and the U.N. Charter. Therefore, Russia will not be there.”
Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry, said the meeting in Saudi Arabia could be useful by helping the West realize that Zelensky’s plan was doomed to fail.
“A lot of different initiatives have been proposed now,” Zakharova said. “We’re in touch with our partners. As concerns the event that will be held by Saudi Arabia, if it helps the West realize the Zelensky plan’s complete futility, then it won’t be useless,” Zakharova told journalists on Monday.
Ebel reported from London. Natalia Abbakumova in Riga, Latvia, contributed to this report.
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Authorities in Malibu, California are investigating human remains that were discovered Monday in a large drum.
Someone at Malibu Lagoon State Beach called the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to report a 55-gallon drum with a body inside, an LASD official told Fox News Digital.
The drum was found around 10:30 a.m.
Crews with the Los Angeles County Fire Department brought the barrel to land.
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Homicide detectives responded to the scene, authorities said.
Investigators have not released details about the remains – gender, age or possible cause of death.
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Cleveland 6-year-old allegedly choked by a former after school care worker
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A former after school care worker is charged after allegedly choking a 6-year-old boy.
Michael Standberry is charged with assault, endangering children, and unlawful restraint, according to Cleveland Municipal Court records.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
The alleged incident happened on Mound Elementary’s playground in December.
Standberry was an employee of the Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Ohio at the time of the incident.
The Boys and Girls Club told 19 News Standberry was fired shortly after the incident following an internal investigation.
The safety and welfare of our kids is the top priority for Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio. The individual involved in the alleged incident was terminated in December 2022 following an internal investigation and is no longer part of our organization. BGCNEO has cooperated fully with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and police in their inquiries into this matter.
Boys & Girls Clubs are safe, fun places to go after school. We do not condone any behavior that is not to the highest standard regarding our youth.
We will not have any further comment in light of the ongoing legal proceedings.
Tahja Mosley, the boy’s mother, said she saw on CMSD security camera footage the ordeal unfold.
“I was an emotional wreck to see the videos of what was done to my son,” Mosley said. “I wasn’t there to help him. It was tragic.”
The boy allegedly tripped another student and that was when Standberry allegedly choked him to reprimand him.
Mosley said her son developed behavioral issues after this alleged incident.
“I was lost for words. It tore me apart because it’s like we always think teachers are right and sometimes we don’t listen to our kids or ask our kids what triggered this or what’s making you act this way,” Mosley said.
CMSD released this statement to 19 News.
Michael Standberry is not now and was not a CMSD employee at the time of the alleged incident at Mound Elementary School on December 1, 2022. Standberry was employed by the Boys and Girls Club that provides separate, after-school programming at Mound and other school facilities outside the school day.
On December 6, 2022, CMSD’s Safety and Security team was made aware of the incident that allegedly took place in one of our schools; they investigated it,and completed the incident report attached. As reflected in the report, CMSD was notified of the incident the same day that Mr. Standberry had been placed on leave by his employer, the Boys and Girls Club.
CMSD denies having retaliated in any way against the student or family involved in the incident that allegedly occurred in the Boys & Girls Club programming.
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Last week, the State Public Disclosure Commission sent a message to Attorney General Bob Ferguson and other candidates who are trying to keep voters in the dark about their donors.
Ferguson is running for governor in 2024, and he transferred $1.2 million left over from his past attorney general campaign to his gubernatorial campaign. He made that transfer under the wire, right before state campaign finance officials clarified officially that for such transfers candidates not only must get permission from donors in writing, but also must disclose whose permission they got.
Previously, candidates could keep all those names secret despite the state’s robust campaign finance disclosure rules. Ferguson has argued that the new rules don’t apply to his transfer so he’s not going to make the names public. That’s a choice — a choice in favor of secrecy and against the people’s interest in transparency.
There’s a loophole lurking in the secrecy, too. Someone who gave the maximum to Ferguson’s attorney general race and had the funds transferred now can max out on the gubernatorial race, too, doubling what they could otherwise legally give.
Ferguson isn’t the only candidate who narrowly beat the deadline. State Sen. Manka Dhingra, a Democrat from Redmond, transferred a comparatively small $74,000 surplus to a new campaign to succeed Feguson as attorney general. There might be others.
Last week, the PDC gave every indication that such secrecy is not acceptable. In a case out of Spokane that focused on a 2021 transfer of surplus campaign funds, the commission ruled that the new guidance didn’t apply because the candidate couldn’t see that the change was coming. Two years ago, no one was talking about it. Ferguson, Dhingra and anyone else who transferred in the spring don’t have that excuse. They surely knew the PDC was poised to act. They rushed to get their transfers in under the wire.
The PDC also noted that the 2021 election is long over, so there’s not much point retroactively applying the rule to it. The 2024 election, the ruling conspicuously left unsaid, is just getting underway. The money flowing into 2024 campaigns matters a lot, so disclosure matters.
There’s a pending challenge to Ferguson’s transfer that might resolve all this someday. However, he and anyone else choosing secrecy about their transfers should see the writing on the wall and release their donor information before the PDC compels them to do so.
It’s not too late to do the right thing.
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In a statement, the chain said its dine-in Block 37 complex downtown, the 14-screen New City facility on Clybourn Avenue near Lincoln Park and the AMC Norridge 6 set all-time box-office records in the week starting July 21.
Detailed figures were not released, but the chain as a whole also recorded its best week ever, led by the Chicago screens and 62 other locations nationwide that also set records.
With the movie business still recovering in fits and starts from COVID — and much of Hollywood on strike for higher wages and a bigger cut of the streaming business — any good news will be most welcome. And the good news is continuing, with AMC saying this past weekend — the second since "Barbenheimer" opened — was its third best since the start of the pandemic.
“These two movies, along with the many others playing on our huge silver screens, continue to rewrite what is possible at the box office,” AMC Chairman and CEO Adam Aron said. “At AMC, we are thrilled to add our own new all-time records into that conversation. Achieving the most admissions revenue in a single week in AMC’s storied 103-year history is a testament to the moviegoing audience, who has demonstrated once again that they are ready, willing, and eager to come out to movie theaters.”
"Oppenheimer" also was a huge draw at Lakeview’s historic Music Box Theatre, which specializes in art films but on occasion picks up general releases.
The film sold out the Music Box’s main stage 750-seat theater twice this past Saturday, according to theater owner Bill Schopf. “That’s never happened before.”
Overall, Oppenheimer grossed $207,000 last week at the Music Box, the top figure among all Chicago movie houses, Schopf said, citing industry data. And it kept chugging this last weekend, pulling in $83,793, again No. 1 in the Chicago market and 28th nationally.
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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
To arrange an interview or for any questions, please contact:
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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Dallas Cowboys bring the energy during first day of padded practices
OXNARD, Calif. - Monday was the first day of practice in pads for the Dallas Cowboys in Oxnard.
Head coach Mike McCarthy called it the "real start to training camp" during his first news conference.
READ MORE: Jerry Jones: This year's Cowboys are 'best complementary team' he can remember
Monday's practice first of 10 padded practices in camp. There will be four in the next six days.
The team picked up the energy as it put the pads on.
McCarthy told returns this is the day that everyone has been waiting on.
"This is as close as we can get to preparation for a game," he said. "The opportunity to really practice real football as far as the fundamentals and techniques and just the progression of how practice is set up is really the focal point."
On the opening drive, Dak Prescott connected with new veteran receiver Brandin Cooks for a touchdown.
Michael Gallup also had a very nice catch on a deep ball from Prescott.
"We want the competitive environment. We want to work in that space. It is very important to establish your play-style through these ten padded practices," McCarthy said.
Cornerback Trevon Diggs returned to doing individual work after sitting out with a bruised toe.
The NFL also announced a two-game suspension for Cowboys backup running Ronald Jones for violating the league's PED policy.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A brightly flashing “X” sign has been removed from the San Francisco headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter just days after it was installed.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said Monday it received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure over the weekend. Complaints included concerns about its structural safety and illumination.
The Elon Musk-owned company, which has been rebranded as X, had removed the Twitter sign and iconic blue bird logo from the building last week. That work was temporarily paused because the company did not have the necessary permits. For a time, the “er” at the end of “Twitter” remained up due to the abrupt halt of the sign takedown.
The city of San Francisco had opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the giant “X” sign, which was installed Friday on top of the downtown building as Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
The chaotic rebrand of Twitter's building signage is similar to the haphazard way in which the Twitter platform is being turned into X. While the X logo has replaced Twitter on many parts of the site and app, remnants of Twitter remain.
Representatives for X did not immediately respond to a message for comment Monday.
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California’s newly empowered privacy regulators announced their first case Monday, a probe of the data practices of newer-generation cars that are often or always connected to the internet.
The agency was established by a 2020 ballot initiative that toughened the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. As of July 1, it can conduct operations to enforce Californians’ right to learn what is being collected about them, the right to stop that information from being spread and the right to have it deleted.
Data collection in cars has surged in recent years, especially in cars that encourage users to plug in their phones to play music, get spoken directions and make hands-free calls. Location information, which can come from nearby cell towers or GPS signaling, is sought after by businesses wanting to pitch their products to nearby drivers.
When combined with web surfing habits and other internet data collated by brokers, movement tracking can paint a full portrait that includes a person’s home, workplace, shopping habits, religious attendance and medical treatments.
Insurance companies also want data on how quickly drivers brake ahead of problems on the road, along with other performance indicators, and they are willing to pay to get it.
Though phone connections beam detailed call logs and contacts lists to the automakers and their business partners, those companies have vague privacy policies, The Washington Post has reported. While California laws requires visibility for consumers, that is often hard to come by.
“Modern vehicles are effectively connected computers on wheels. They’re able to collect a wealth of information via built-in apps, sensors, and cameras, which can monitor people both inside and near the vehicle,” Ashkan Soltan, CPPA’s executive director, said in a statement. “Our Enforcement Division is making inquiries into the connected vehicle space to understand how these companies are complying with California law when they collect and use consumers’ data.”
Vehicle data may prove to be another area where California regulators learn by working with their counterparts in Europe, instead of Washington, where Congress has been unable to agree on a national privacy law.
European investigations have prompted vehicle makers to disclose more about data collection and offer more ways to alter it.
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Cleveland EMT returns to work amid ‘inconsistent evidence’ in kidnapping case
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The city of Cleveland employee who told police she “ran for her life” to escape kidnappers back in May has returned to work, 19 Investigates has uncovered.
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the city said Lachelle Jordan “is working her regular duties as an EMT in the field.”
The city tells us no one has been arrested or charged in this case.
It has been 86 days since the 30-year-old mother of two vanished from outside of her home.
She went missing on May 6 and was found on May 11.
Her disappearance alarmed the people who knew her the best and set off a massive search by police in her Glenville neighborhood.
Jordan’s twin sister told 19 News at the time that her car was still at her house and so were her keys and wallet.
At the time she went missing, Jordan was set to testify in a rape case involving 65- year-old Michael Stennett.
He was arrested two days after she went missing for violating a protection order and a stalking charge.
But at the time, police said they had no information connecting him to her disappearance.
City prosecutors later dropped those charges.
That office is run by the city’s chief prosecutor Aqueelah Jordan, Lachelle’s sister.
Five days after Lachelle Jordan went missing, she was found alive.
Surveillance video showed her walking into a convenience store around midnight wearing a ripped shirt that looked like it had been burned.
Dispatch audio revealed Jordan told first responders that she ran away from her kidnappers, who tried to burn her alive.
Police never put out any information about a suspect or suspects.
After 19 Investigates reached out Monday, the city told us no persons of interest have been identified and they “don’t have any information at this time that would indicate a threat to public safety in connection with this case.”
We asked a city spokesperson to clarify what “inconsistent evidence” investigators found.
He said “we have nothing further to add at this time.”
Despite the answers we got from the city, there are still a lot of unanswered questions in this case.
Michael Stennett will be back in court in a month for the rape charges.
He was ordered to wear an ankle monitor and have no contact with Jordan, a witness in that case.
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President Biden has acknowledged his seventh grandchild on camera for the first time after repeatedly shunning her existence.
Biden long refused to recognize his 4-year-old granddaughter, Navy Joan Roberts, who Hunter had with ex-stripper Lunden Roberts. The president finally accepted her late last week. Biden, however, had not spoken about her on camera until now.
"I have seven grandkids; five of them are old enough to talk on the phone," Biden said during a Jay Shatty Podcast episode posted Monday. "Every day, I either text them or call them."
"I think being there is important and makes such a difference," he later said. "I think knowing that someone is going to be there for you just to listen, just to hold you, just to hug you."
"Half of it is just showing up," he added.
HUNTER BIDEN REMAINS 'GOOD STANDING' MEMBER OF DC BAR DESPITE FACING CRIMINAL CHARGES
Biden had frequently acted as if the child did not exist until speaking about her to People magazine last Friday.
"Our son Hunter and Navy's mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward," Biden said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"This is not a political issue, it's a family matter," he added. "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy."
The declaration followed numerous instances of him ignoring her and negative press, which included a scathing op-ed from New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd titled, "It's Seven Grandkids, Mr. President," and a report that said Biden aides were instructed to only acknowledge six grandkids.
December 2022 marked the second Christmas season in a row that the White House left Hunter's out-of-wedlock daughter out of a Christmas stocking display.
And before that, in 2020, Biden said he and his wife, Jill Biden, had five grandchildren, forgetting about a newborn Hunter had just had with his wife, Melissa Cohen. The stumble later forced a correction from the first lady, who said they have six grandchildren, leaving out Navy Joan.
PRO-BIDEN PAC DISBURSED THOUSANDS TO FAMILY FRIEND WHO DISCUSSED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES WITH HUNTER
At a White House "take your child to work day" event in April, Biden claimed to have six grandchildren. "I have six grandchildren, and I'm crazy about them. And I speak to them every single day. Not a joke," he said.
Earlier this month, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shut down a reporter's question concerning Navy Joan, saying she didn't "have anything to share."
Hunter Biden had long denied being Navy Joan's father, but a 2019 DNA test proved otherwise. He has since fought to lower child support payments.
Navy Joan was born in August 2018, and Roberts filed a paternity suit in May 2019. Both parties agreed to temporary child support following the DNA test results.
Hunter Biden and Roberts reached an agreement to settle their paternity and child-support suit in March 2020, according to the Democrat-Gazette.
The case was reopened after he requested changes to the child support payments.
In June, Hunter settled his Arkansas child support case with Navy Joan's mother. A court filing showed Hunter agreed to give his daughter some of his paintings, and the child's mother agreed to withdraw her counterclaim to change their child's last name to "Biden."
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Live call and webcast will occur on August 1 at 9:00 a.m. ET
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc., (NASDAQ:TRUE) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023 in a stockholder letter, which is available HERE and on the TrueCar investor relations website at ir.truecar.com.
The company will host a call to discuss its second quarter results on Tuesday, August 1 at 9:00 a.m. ET/6:00 a.m. PT. A live webcast of the call will be available through TrueCar's Investor Relations website and the link below.
TrueCar Second Quarter 2023 Live Call and Webcast Details:
An archived version of the call will also be available upon completion on the Investor Relations section of TrueCar's website at ir.truecar.com.
TrueCar has used and intends to continue to use its Investor Relations website (ir.truecar.com), LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter as means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
About TrueCar
TrueCar is a leading automotive digital marketplace that lets auto buyers and sellers connect to our nationwide network of Certified Dealers. With access to an expansive inventory provided by our Certified Dealers, we are building the industry's most personalized and efficient auto shopping experience as we seek to bring more of the process online. Consumers who visit our marketplace will find a suite of vehicle discovery tools, price ratings and market context on new, used and Certified Pre-Owned vehicles. When they are ready, shoppers in TrueCar's marketplace can connect with a Certified Dealer in our network, who shares our belief that truth, transparency and fairness are the foundation of a great auto shopping experience. As part of our marketplace, TrueCar powers auto-buying programs for over 250 leading brands, including AARP, Sam's Club, Navy Federal Credit Union and American Express.
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Re: “I am privileged, indeed: I’m a Washington farmer” [July 29, Opinion]:
Pam Lewison makes some valid points about the hard work of farming but errs when she implies it was her family’s efforts that transformed that desert land.
It took a massive government intervention called the Columbia Basin Reclamation Project to irrigate our arid lands and create opportunities for farmers.
Somehow authors often seem to overlook that government aid in these opinion pieces.
Scott Crain, Seattle
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TOKYO, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") today announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted the Biologics License Application (BLA) for zolbetuximab, a first-in-class investigational Claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2)-targeted monoclonal antibody, for first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-negative gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma whose tumors are CLDN18.2-positive. If approved, zolbetuximab would be the first CLDN18.2-targeted therapy available in China for these patients.
Moitreyee Chatterjee-Kishore, PhD, MBA, Senior Vice President and Head of Immuno-Oncology Development, Astellas
"China accounts for nearly half of the world's new cases of gastric cancer, with more than 478,000 new cases diagnosed and more than 373,000 deaths in 2020. The CDE's acceptance of our BLA for zolbetuximab brings us one step closer to having a new therapy available for Chinese patients with advanced-stage disease and in need of treatment options."
The BLA is based on results from the Phase 3 GLOW and SPOTLIGHT clinical trials. The GLOW study evaluated zolbetuximab plus CAPOX (a combination chemotherapy regimen that includes capecitabine and oxaliplatin) compared to placebo plus CAPOX. In the GLOW study, 145 patients were randomized in mainland China. The SPOTLIGHT study evaluated zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 (a combination regimen that includes oxaliplatin, leucovorin and fluorouracil) compared to placebo plus mFOLFOX6. In the SPOTLIGHT study, 36 patients were randomized in mainland China.
In both GLOW and SPOTLIGHT, approximately 38% of patients screened for the trials had tumors that were CLDN18.2-positive (≥75% of tumor cells with moderate-to-strong membranous CLDN18 staining intensity), as determined by a validated immunohistochemistry assay.1,2
Astellas has already reflected the impact from this acceptance in its financial forecast of the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.
About Locally Advanced Unresectable or Metastatic Gastric and Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer
Gastric cancer, also commonly known as stomach cancer, is the fifth most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide.3 In China, gastric cancer ranks third among incidences of all cancer, with more than 478,000 cases diagnosed and more than 373,000 deaths in 2020.4 Signs and symptoms can include indigestion or heartburn, pain or discomfort in the abdomen, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, bloating of the stomach after meals, loss of appetite, and sensation of food getting stuck in the throat while eating.5 Signs of more advanced gastric cancer can include unexplained weight loss, weakness and fatigue and vomiting blood or having blood in the stool.6 Risk factors associated with gastric cancer can include older age, male gender, family history, H. pylori infection, smoking and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).5,7 Because early-stage gastric cancer symptoms frequently overlap with more common stomach-related conditions, gastric cancer is often diagnosed in the advanced or metastatic stage, or once it has spread from the tumor's origin to other body tissues or organs.5 The five-year relative survival rate for patients at the metastatic stage is 6.6%.8 Gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma is a cancer that starts at the area where the esophagus joins the stomach.9
About Zolbetuximab
Zolbetuximab is an investigational, first-in-class chimeric IgG1 monoclonal antibody (mAb) that targets and binds to Claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2), a transmembrane protein. Zolbetuximab acts by binding to CLDN18.2 on the cancer cell surface of gastric epithelial cells. In pre-clinical studies, this binding interaction then induces cancer cell death by activating two distinct immune system pathways — antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC).10 Zolbetuximab has not been approved by any regulatory bodies for the treatment of patients with gastric and GEJ cancers, and there is no guarantee the agent will receive regulatory approval or become commercially available for the uses being investigated.
INVESTIGATIONAL STUDIES
About GLOW Phase 3 Clinical Trial
GLOW is a Phase 3, global, multi-center, double-blind, randomized study, assessing the efficacy and safety of zolbetuximab (IMAB362) plus CAPOX (a combination chemotherapy regimen that includes capecitabine and oxaliplatin) compared to placebo plus CAPOX as a first-line treatment in patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-negative gastric or GEJ adenocarcinoma whose tumors were CLDN18.2-positive. The study enrolled 507 patients at 166 study locations in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, South America and Asia, including China. The primary endpoint is progression-free survival (PFS) in participants treated with the combination of zolbetuximab plus CAPOX compared to those treated with placebo plus CAPOX. Secondary endpoints include overall survival (OS), objective response rate (ORR), duration of response (DOR), safety and tolerability and quality-of-life parameters.
Data from the GLOW study were initially presented at the March 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Plenary Series with an updated oral presentation at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting on June 3.1
For more information, please visit clinicaltrials.gov under Identifier NCT03653507.
About SPOTLIGHT Phase 3 Clinical Trial
SPOTLIGHT is a Phase 3, global, multi-center, double-blind, randomized study, assessing the efficacy and safety of zolbetuximab (IMAB362) plus mFOLFOX6 (a combination regimen that includes oxaliplatin, leucovorin and fluorouracil) compared to placebo plus mFOLFOX6 as a first-line treatment in patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-negative gastric or GEJ adenocarcinoma whose tumors were CLDN18.2-positive. The study enrolled 565 patients at 215 study locations in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia, including China. The primary endpoint is PFS in participants treated with the combination of zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 compared to those treated with placebo plus mFOLFOX6. Secondary endpoints include OS, ORR, DOR, safety and tolerability and quality-of-life parameters.
Data from the SPOTLIGHT clinical trial were presented during the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers Symposium in an oral presentation on January 19 and were subsequently published in The Lancet on April 14.2
For more information, please visit clinicaltrials.gov under Identifier NCT03504397.
Investigational Pipeline in CLDN18.2
An expanded Phase 2 trial in metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma is in progress. The trial is a randomized, multi-center, open-label study, evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational zolbetuximab in combination with gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel as a first-line treatment in patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma with CLDN18.2-positive tumors (defined as ≥75% of tumor cells demonstrating moderate-to-strong membranous CLDN18 staining based on a validated immunohistochemistry assay). For more information, please visit clinicaltrials.gov under Identifier NCT03816163.
In addition to zolbetuximab, ASP2138 is under development in our Primary Focus Immuno-Oncology. ASP2138 is a bispecific monoclonal antibody that binds to CD3 and CLDN18.2, and it is currently in a Phase 1 trial for people with gastric, GEJ or pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The safety and efficacy of the agent under investigation have not been established for the uses being considered. For more information, please visit clinicaltrials.gov under Identifier NCT05365581.
There is no guarantee that the agent will receive regulatory approval and become commercially available for the uses being investigated.
About Astellas
Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are promoting the Focus Area Approach that is designed to identify opportunities for the continuous creation of new drugs to address diseases with high unmet medical needs by focusing on Biology and Modality. Furthermore, we are also looking beyond our foundational Rx focus to create Rx+® healthcare solutions that combine our expertise and knowledge with cutting-edge technology in different fields of external partners. Through these efforts, Astellas stands on the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.astellas.com/en.
Cautionary Notes
In this press release, statements made with respect to current plans, estimates, strategies and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements about the future performance of Astellas. These statements are based on management's current assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) changes in general economic conditions and in laws and regulations, relating to pharmaceutical markets, (ii) currency exchange rate fluctuations, (iii) delays in new product launches, (iv) the inability of Astellas to market existing and new products effectively, (v) the inability of Astellas to continue to effectively research and develop products accepted by customers in highly competitive markets, and (vi) infringements of Astellas' intellectual property rights by third parties.
Information about pharmaceutical products (including products currently in development) which is included in this press release is not intended to constitute an advertisement or medical advice.
References
1 Xu RH, Shitara K, Ajani JA, et al. Updates on Abstract 405736: Zolbetuximab + CAPOX in 1L claudin-18.2+ (CLDN18.2+)/HER2− locally advanced (LA) or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction (mG/GEJ) adenocarcinoma: Primary phase 3 results from GLOW. Presented at: 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting. Abstract 405736.
2 Shitara K, et al. Zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 in patients with claudin-18 isoform 2-positive, HER2-negative, untreated, locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastrooesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (SPOTLIGHT): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, phase 3 trial. The Lancet. Published online April 14, 2023; S0140-6736(23)00620-7.
3 Sung H, et al. Global cancer statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin. 2021;71(3):209-49.
4 World Health Organization. Cancer Today. Available at: https://gco.iarc.fr/today/. Last accessed July 18, 2023.
5 American Cancer Society. Signs and symptoms of stomach cancer (01-22-2021). Available at https://www.cancer.org/cancer/stomach-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/signs-symptoms.html. Last accessed July 18, 2023.
6 National Cancer Institute. Gastric cancer treatment (PDQ®): patient version (08-24-2021). Available at https://www.cancer.gov/types/stomach/patient/stomach-treatment-pdq. Last accessed July 18, 2023.
7 American Cancer Society. Esophageal cancer risk factors (06-09-2020). Available at https://www.cancer.org/cancer/esophagus-cancer/causes-risks-prevention/risk-factors.html. Last accessed July 18, 2023.
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10 Sahin U, et al. FAST: a randomised phase II study of zolbetuximab (IMAB362) plus EOX versus EOX alone for first-line treatment of advanced CLDN18.2-positive gastric and gastro-oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Ann Oncol. 2021;32(5):609-19.
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After years of fighting multifamily development, banning micro-housing, fining new construction and adding regulatory hurdles to existing homes, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant has exacerbated a housing shortage in Seattle. It would be hard to tailor-make a set of policies better suited to decrease the housing stock.
Renters are rightfully mad at the result. Rents have increased drastically since Sawant’s tenure began. Most of the new housing that has been created is luxury, the only type that pencils out. Her solution? Further barriers to the housing supply. Sawant is the sole sponsor of a policy initiative to cap rents at current rates for all time, which is not legal in Washington at this time. Under her proposal, rents would be allowed to move with inflation, but could not increase to cover expenses, improvements or most emergencies.
Rent control has been discredited by economists again and again, leading Assar Lindbeck, former chair of the Nobel Prize in Economics Committee, to assert, “In many cases, rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city — except for bombing.” It is one of the only things some economists agree on since the law of supply and demand shows that price ceilings result in shortages. Not what most growing cities want.
Without an incentive to provide a superior product, the housing stock will deteriorate and the motion inherent in cities will calcify. In Berlin, a rent-control measure was quickly rolled back after active apartment listings dropped by half. In San Francisco, Stanford researchers found a loss to renters of $2.9 billion. New York City consumers lose $500 million annually according to a 2004 Harvard paper.
The final hypocrisy of Sawant’s plan is Seattle will become a less welcoming place, increasing the commute time and carbon footprint of newcomers as builders move to more lucrative locales outside the city. Whether housing should be a government service can well be debated, but instead of offering a new way to provide housing, this policy shuts down the one we have and would ensure Sawant’s legacy of depressed housing stock remains long after she departs in December.
If price controls aren’t the solution, what is?
∙ Rental subsidies: Expand existing housing voucher programs without distorting market dynamics.
∙ Zoning reform: Upzone urban spaces to increase density.
∙ Permitting reform: Reduce the 18-to-24-month wait time on building permits.
∙ Tax reform: Remove taxes on beneficial things like development. Tax harmful things like carbon emissions.
∙ Public housing: In 2007, Helsinki, Finland, launched a “housing first” initiative to build public housing. Finland’s homeless population subsequently fell by 35%.
The bill now sits with the eight other council members (a vote is expected Tuesday, Aug. 1, or Aug. 8). Will we position ourselves for growth, or capitulate to debunked populist policy? In an attempt to achieve immortality, the first emperor of China drank mercury. Sawant prescribes the same remedy. Shiny, alluring and toxic.
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Hundreds in Richfield left jobless following Yellow Trucking closure
RICHFIELD, Ohio (WOIO) - The trucking company Yellow Corp. shutting down operations carries ripple effects across the country, from job losses to revenue dropping out of small communities.
“Well, we were hoping the union and management at Yellow could come to an agreement; we knew that Yellow had not made a contribution to the union’s medical and pension funds,” said Richfield Mayor Michael Wheeler.
A post on the Teamsters Union’s page said it was notified the company would close shop and file for bankruptcy.
Yellow trucking suffered years of financial trouble, accruing $1.5 billion in debt, including $700 million in federal ARPA money received in 2020.
Now, the fallout will land in places like Richfield and the now former employees of the company.
The Richfield mayor said roughly 200 people who worked at the YRC Freight location in town were informed Wednesday they would need to gather their things ahead of the closure.
“I was told by some of the employees that they were given notice to take their stuff and go home and that they would be shutting down,” said Wheeler. “A lot of the drivers live here in Richfield, and neighbors are sympathetic; we’re sympathetic, and we’ll help whoever needs help, we really will.”
He is hopeful some can find jobs at other trucking companies in the area.
As for the village of Richfield, this is not the first bout with a trucking closure.
“This has happened in Richfield about three times in the last 40 years,” said Wheeler. “It’s not good, and the impact, we don’t know the full impact yet.”
Wheeler adds the next time he meets with the city council; he will call for a hold on projects until they have a true look at the budget without Yellow in Richfield.
The mayor said the end-of-the-year budget will offer a clearer view of the impacts of Yellow’s departure.
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OutKick columnist Mary Katharine Ham called out President Biden for finally acknowledging his seventh grandchild, Hunter's daughter Navy, during the "Friday night news dump" in a statement to People Magazine. Ham noted the timing of the long-awaited statement came when there would be the "least amount of news coverage" during "The Faulkner Focus."
BIDEN FINALLY SPEAKS OUT ON GRANDDAUGHTER HE REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE FOR YEARS
MARY KATHARINE HAM: That was a Friday night news dump during the summer, which is the least amount of news coverage you're possibly going to get for acknowledging the granddaughter that you have not in the past. Second, when they say this is a private matter, the reason that this became public, and I followed it for a while before I wrote that column, is that Hunter Biden went to court proactively paying much, much money many, many thousands of dollars to lawyers and many and taking many private jet excursions to Arkansas to fight the mother of his child, who we knew we had DNA, that that was the that was his child, to deny her child support. He was fighting this really, really hard in court. That's how it became a story. And it does seem to me that this is an unforced error from the Bidens. The Bidens could have easily from the beginning said, I know that this is a little bit complicated, but we welcome all children. She's a gift to us. That was not what they did. For three years, they didn't deal with this, even though we knew that she definitely was Hunter Biden's child. This is not a question and this is one of those 'Am I taking crazy pills' moments for me with the press where I was looking around like, is no one going to talk about this? Because I feel like this is verified, and maybe we should talk about it. So I'm glad that they've come to this conclusion, but it's not in the most elegant way possible, to say the least.
BIDEN FACES POTENTIAL NEW CHALLENGE FROM FELLOW DEMOCRAT IN 2024 PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Biden spoke out publicly for the first time about his granddaughter, Navy Joan Roberts, the estranged daughter of his son Hunter Biden who he had previously not acknowledged.
"Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward," Biden said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter," he added. "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy."
Biden and First Lady Jill Biden had repeatedly refused to acknowledge Navy, frequently omitting her by claiming they only have "four granddaughters."
December 2022 marked the second Christmas season in a row that the White House left Navy out of a Christmas stocking display, and before that, in 2020, Biden incorrectly said he and First Lady Jill Biden had five grandchildren, forgetting about then-newborn Beau Biden, but completely leaving out Navy.
At a White House "take your child to work day" event in April, Biden claimed to only have six grandchildren. "I have six grandchildren, and I’m crazy about them. And I speak to them every single day. Not a joke," he said.
Earlier this month, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shut down a reporter's question concerning Navy, saying she didn't "have anything to share."
In June, Hunter settled his Arkansas child support case with Roberts' mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts, ending a years-long paternity dispute. A court filing showed Hunter agreed to give his daughter some of his paintings, and the mother of the child agreed to withdraw her counterclaim to change their child's last name to "Biden."
Fox News' Brandon Gillespie and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The deadline for the group working against the Arkansas LEARNS act is officially here.
The Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students or CAPES has been working to get enough signatures to get the education reform plan to a statewide vote before their deadline of 5 p.m. today.
Earlier today, CAPES shared that they turned in over 50,000 signatures to be validated. That’s still under the number they need to put the LEARNS Act on the ballot in 2024.
No matter the end result of the signature validation, the group emphasized that they're not giving up.
“We stayed up all night counting. I still have signatures coming from Northwest Arkansas in Texarkana and in Ouachita County,” said CAPES Executive Director Steve Grappe.
It’s been all hands on deck for CAPES as they work to get voters' signatures that are rejecting the LEARNS Act.
“We've done 21,000 signatures in 7 days,” said Grappe.
A total of 55,000 signatures is needed from 50 Arkansas counties. To reach that goal, Grappe said they need extra votes from larger cities.
“Little Rock and Fayetteville and Jonesboro really come through with not 3% not 6% but 10% and 12% and Pulaski County has come through,” said Grappe.
Monday morning the group met outside the state capitol, which is where supporters from across the state joined to help in the final push.
“There's a whole bunch of us that haven't even been asleep for about 48 hours,” said Grappe.
Mae Lee Callahan is a notary and made the long drive Sunday from Hope to help finalize CAPES paperwork.
“I get emotional because I have three grandchildren growing up in this state,” said Callahan. “I want them to have the best education possible and I don't believe that the LEARNS Act is going to provide that.”
CAPES members said that the signatures speak for themselves and they're not giving up.
“We're going to fight everything that's unjust for our public-school systems,” said Grappe.
All signatures will need to be validated, so we don't know a final tally just yet.
As the LEARNS Act is set to go into effect August 1, this push from CAPES is to give voters a choice in November of 2024.
THV11 reached out to Gov. Sarah Sanders' office for comment on the LEARNS opposition.
In a statement, her communications director said: "What concerns the governor is the radical left playing politics with our kids' futures."
We also reached out to the Attorney General's office but have not heard back.
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Cava, a Democrat elected on promises of hardening the city for climate change, says she will come up with a solution soon. She’s proposed piling trash higher atop the landfills and building a $1 billion incinerator and power plant, in part to replace an incinerator used to process 1 million tons of trash a year that burned down over four weeks in February and March.
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Keeping the toilets flushing is a more complex and expensive challenge. There are 108,000 homes and businesses with septic tanks in Miami-Dade County. Many bathe the ground with human waste within two feet above drinking water aquifers, falling short of minimum limits to avoid contamination. There are 50,000 more in neighboring Broward County, part of the city’s sprawl. Under Cava, the county has spent $1 billion on water and sewer lines, and has allocated another $160 million.
But ridding the county of septic tanks will cost at least $4 billion, according to government estimates. Residents will likely have to pay higher taxes and fees to fund those efforts, as well as the expansion of landfills and other trash collection costs. They already pay more than $500 a year for garbage collection, and could be charged another $36 in pickup fees per Cava’s $10 billion proposed 2023 budget. Homeowners must also cover the cost of connecting their properties to sewer lines — $20,000 on average.
Other cities have their share of problems. In San Francisco and Los Angeles, heavy rains routinely overwhelm sewer systems. Houston’s aging water system is so fragile that on some days it springs more than 1,000 new leaks. And New York’s sewer system frequently overflows when it rains.
Until Miami fixes its woes, infrastructure problems could stymie the development Cava needs to attract more wealthy residents like Griffin, who moved his financial empire, Citadel, from Chicago to Miami in 2022. “We say, ‘Be like Ken Griffin,’” Cava said.
There are already problems. On Belle Meade Island, a waterfront neighborhood on Biscayne Bay where homes cost $10 million or more, sewage pumps run 16 hours a day to keep up. That’s almost double the allowed maximum operating time, so there’s a county moratorium on new construction there. “Right now, if we do not have sewerage pumping capacity, it stops development,” said Cava.
These are crises decades in the making, exacerbated by the complexities of governing the mishmash of 34 municipalities that make up greater Miami and putting off expensive solutions. As Miami-Dade County Mayor, Cava oversees an annual budget of about $10 billion and nearly 30,000 employees.
For years, Miami failed to address warnings of a sewage calamity, even since the federal government levied massive fines and ordered a fix. There’s a long history of leaky septic tanks sickening people by contaminating groundwater with deadly E. coli bacteria and killing fish when the muck reached the ocean. In 2020, 27,000 fish died in Biscayne Bay due to septic tank runoff, and there have been multiple massive kills since.
In 2018, Miami-Dade County, in one of its many studies over the last decade, warned: “Improperly functioning septic systems can pose an immediate public health risk.” But Cava, a former sociologist, has struggled to find a way to fix it.
“We are not in a crisis,” Cava said almost four years later, at a July 17 news conference. “Not on my watch.”
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"Euphoria" has lost a beloved star.
Actor Angus Cloud—who played Fezco on the HBO drama—died at his family's home in Oakland, California, his family told E! News July 31. He was 25.
"It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today," his family shared. "As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways."
His loved ones said Cloud had been mourning the recent death of his dad.
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"Last week, he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss," the statement continued. "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."
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His family added, "We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone. We ask for privacy at this time as we are still processing this devastating loss."
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His cause of death was not shared.
In the wake of his death, HBO released a tribute to the star. "We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud," it 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 was expected to star in season three, after his character Fez narrowly survived a shooting at the end of season two.
"I can't wait to get back to work with everyone," Cloud told E! News in October. "I feel like it's been way too long. I just can't wait to see everyone and working on set again. Definitely not sure what to expect for Fezco, but knowing ["Euphoria" creator] Sam [Levinson], it will be good."
After growing up in Oakland, Cloud was discovered on the streets of Brooklyn and cast in "Euphoria," his breakout role. "I was with some friends," he told Variety last year. "We were just hanging out."
While he quickly became a fan favorite on the high school-set show—which also stars Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Maude Apatow and more—he emphasized that he's not exactly like his stoner onscreen persona.
"It does bother me," Cloud said, "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. I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain't got nothing to do with me."
He explained that acting was actually more difficult than he originally thought.
"It surprised me," he said, "because I'm not in there sweating and busting my ass, but mentally, I get off work, get in the car and go, ‘S--t! What the f--k? I'm tired as f--k, and not even doing s--t!' I'm a pretty easygoing, goofy guy. But Fezco doesn't laugh or smile too much."
A decade before his death, Cloud survived another near-death experience when he fell into a construction pit while he was walking at night. "I woke up 12 hours later at the bottom," he told Variety. "I was trapped."
Cloud, who was 15 at the time, eventually climbed out and took a bus to his mom's house.
"It was hella hard to climb out," he said, "because my skull was broken, but my skin wasn't, so all the bleeding was internal, pressing up against my brain."
The actor wanted to simply go to sleep when he got home, but he credits his mom for thinking on her feet.
"I would have died," he shared. "She gave me some water, and I started throwing up hella mouthfuls of crimson red blood. Shit was crazy. So then my mama took me to the children's hospital, and they saved my life. That's what the scar's from. They cut my head open, they put some screws and a plate over where I broke my skull and—s--t, sealed me back up, and that was that."
In addition to "Euphoria," Cloud appeared on "North Hollywood" and "The Line," as well as music videos for Becky G, Karol G and Juice WRLD.
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MEXICO CITY, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBRA Prologis (BMV:FIBRAPL 14), a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico, today announced that after having served as a member of the Technical Committee for the past years, Gimena Peña Malcampo, will step down as an independent member.
"We appreciate the time and effort that Gimena put on our Technical Committee meetings. Her perspective, in particular on the ESG initiatives, was highly valued," said Luis Gutiérrez, CEO, Prologis Property Mexico.
"Serving on the FIBRA Prologis Technical Committee has been a rewarding experience. I have always admired the company's commitment to innovation and sustainability, and I'm particularly proud of the progress that has been made toward advancing our sustainability-centered goals. It has been my privileged to serve as a board member of this impactful organization," said Mrs. Peña Malcampo.
FIBRA Prologis Manager will announce a replacement to Gimena Peña Malcampo as an independent member of the Technical Committee.
ABOUT FIBRA PROLOGIS
FIBRA Prologis is a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico. As of June 30, 2023, FIBRA Prologis was comprised of 228 logistics and manufacturing facilities in six industrial markets in Mexico totaling 44.2 million square feet (4.1 million square meters) of gross leasable area.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana asked the state’s high court Monday to keep Indiana’s near-total abortion ban on hold while it pursues a narrower preliminary injunction in a trial court to address the scope of the ban’s exemption allowing women facing serious health risks to obtain abortions.
The petition seeking a rehearing will delay the ban from taking effect as soon as Tuesday while the Indiana Supreme Court considers the matter. The ACLU of Indiana’s request comes after the high court ruled on June 30 that Indiana’s Republican-backed ban doesn’t violate the state constitution.
The ACLU of Indiana, representing Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinic operators, had challenged the constitutionality of the ban. A county judge later ruled that the ban likely violated the state constitution’s privacy protections.
But in its June ruling, the high court struck down the county judge’s injunction that has blocked a 2022 law’s restrictions banning the vast majority of abortions in the state since September.
In its decision, the court said that while the state constitution’s liberty clause “protects a woman’s right to an abortion that is necessary to protect her life or to protect her from a serious health risk, the provision does not protect a fundamental right to abortion in all circumstances.”
An exemption under the ban states that it is limited to circumstances in which an abortion is necessary “to prevent death or a serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”
In Monday’s petition for rehearing, the ACLU of Indiana wrote that the high court’s ruling had “left open the possibility that this constitutionally protected right ‘may be broader than the current statutory exception.’”
Gavin Rose, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Indiana, said the group is asking the high court to pause its order striking down the trial court’s preliminary injunction to give it time to file a motion with the trial court seeking “a more limited injunction targeted to the breadth of the serious health risk exemption.”
The rehearing petition suggests that the court keep the previous injunction on hold for 60 to 90 days.
The ACLU of Indiana filed its petition for a rehearing on behalf of abortion providers hours before Monday’s deadline for it to do so.
Rebecca Gibron, CEO of the Planned Parenthood division that includes Indiana, said in a statement about the rehearing request that the state’s ban “will prevent pregnant Hoosiers from making decisions about their own bodies, and prevent their providers from giving them the care they need.”
Following the court’s June ruling, Indiana’s abortion ban was expected to take effect as soon as Tuesday — or within days afterward once the ruling is certified and entered into the court docket — if no party sought a review by Monday’s deadline.
Now that the ACLU of Indiana has filed a petition for review, that means the court’s decision cannot be certified while the justices consider whether to grant or deny that petition, “thus considering the case or disposing of the rehearing petition,” said Kathryn Dolan, a court spokesperson.
It’s unclear how long it may take the high court to decide the matter, but after rehearing petitions are filed, the opposing party — in this case the state’s attorneys — have 15 days to file a response to that request.
Indiana became the first state to enact tighter abortion restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated federal protections by overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
The state’s ban will eliminate the licenses for all seven abortion clinics in the state and ban most abortions, even in the earliest stages of a pregnancy. It includes exceptions allowing abortions at hospitals in cases of rape or incest before 10 weeks post-fertilization. It also allows abortions up to 20 weeks to protect the life and physical health of the mother or if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly.
Current Indiana laws generally prohibit abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy and tightly restrict it after the 13th week.
Indiana’s abortion ban also faces a separate court challenge over claims it violates the state’s 2015 religious freedom law signed by GOP then-Gov. Mike Pence. The state’s intermediate Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments in that case Dec. 6.
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Jewish parents are fighting over a California law they say explicitly prevents students with disabilities from receiving equal access to education funding and benefits at religious schools in the state.
Oral arguments were heard in Loffman v. California Department of Education earlier this month at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California over the case brought by a group of orthodox Jewish parents and schools fighting what they believe is a discriminatory law that hurts the educational goals of their children with special needs.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, with the support of the Orthodox Union, the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, are fighting on behalf of the parents' religious liberty, which they believe is protected under the federal law, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which ensures funding for children with disabilities so they are able to receive an education that meets their unique needs.
"It’s outrageous that California politicians are using religion as an excuse to deny special education benefits to kids with disabilities," Becket council, Nicholas Reaves, told Fox News Digital. "Excluding religious schools from programs which help these children reach their full potential is just plain wrong."
"All children with disabilities deserve a quality education that is designed to help them thrive—even if they go to a religious school," he added. "We asked the Court last week to strike down California’s unconstitutional rule and ensure that safe, compassionate learning environments are available to all."
SPECIAL NEEDS TEEN WAS REPEATEDLY ABUSED BY BY SC BOARDING SCHOOL EMPLOYEE, ACCORDING TO LAWSUIT
The federal law funds provided for students with disabilities help pay for services like the cost of staff training and special education programs and assistive technology so they are afforded a free and appropriate education at a private school if public schools are not suited to their needs.
NEVADA DISTRICT APPROVES SEX-ED WITH PHRASES ‘BOYS AND PEOPLE WITH A PENIS,’ ‘GIRLS AND PEOPLE WITH A VULVA’
As members of the Orthodox Jewish community, plaintiffs Chaya and Yoni Loffman, Fedora Nick and Morris Taxon, and Sarah and Ariel Perets argue their faith compels them to send their children with disabilities to Orthodox Jewish schools, but they say the California law prevents them from even applying to participate in the program to receive IDEA funds at private religious schools.
The parents argue that their children should be able to receive an education that is in line with their Jewish traditions and beliefs while also providing a quality education that allows them to reach their full learning potential, which they believe can be provided at Shalhevet High School and Yavneh Hebrew Academy in Los Angeles.
ILLINOIS COLLEGE ORDERED TO PAY CHRISTIAN STUDENT $80K FOR SILENCING CONSERVATIVE VIEWS
"We want to educate our son in a safe, supportive learning environment that meets his unique needs and upholds our shared religious beliefs," Chaya and Yoni Loffman, Jewish parents of a child with disabilities in Los Angeles, said. "Unfortunately, California is forcing our family to choose between raising our son in our faith tradition and providing him the help he needs to reach his full potential."
In February, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty conducted polling to analyze how both Americans and Californians believe children with disabilities are best served and 59 percent of Californians and 62 percent of Americans said government should provide money for children with disabilities to attend whichever school is best equipped to serve each child, regardless of the school’s religious or secular identity.
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The California federal district court is expected to come to a decision in the coming months. The California Department of Education did not return Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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A man from Long Island is recovering from hypothermia after treading water for about five hours in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday.
Police in Suffolk County said a 63-year-old from Copiague went for a swim at Cedar Beach in Babylon around 5 a.m. When he went out into the open water, police said, he was pulled out by the current.
For the next five hours, the swimmer fought to stay above water without a flotation device to assist him. The department said he managed to recover a broken fishing pole and tie his shirt to it in an effort to flag down any passing watercraft.
The swimmer was eventually spotted some 2.5 miles down the coast from where he got into the water, police said. Two men aboard a vessel spotted the 63-year-old, pulled him aboard, and called for assistance over the radio.
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The police department's Marine Juliet vessel responded to the good Samaritans and recovered the swimmer, who they said was unable to stand and needed aid for hypothermia. Officers brought the man to shore, where he was treated by a medic from the U.S. Coast Guard and then taken to a hospital in West Islip.
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Results Show an Alternative Twice as Effective Compared to Antidepressant Medications
LONDON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Flow Neuroscience, the creators of the Flow tDCS headset that provides at-home non-invasive brain stimulation to treat depression, today announced the results of its FDA pivotal clinical trial. The trial results show that the Flow headset was twice as effective as the most commonly-prescribed antidepressants in the treatment of depression.*
In July 2022, Flow received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation, demonstrating the innovative nature of the platform and the significant advantages it offers over existing approved or cleared alternatives. It was the first medical device in the category to achieve this status. Flow is now being reviewed for full FDA approval, which would make this device available as an at-home treatment option in the U.S.
In a study of patients in the US and the UK, the largest-ever clinical trial of its kind, 56% of the participants using the Flow tDCS headset were relieved of all depressive symptoms within 10 weeks**. Daily use of Flow was confirmed to be safe with minimal side effects.
Flow has already been granted regulatory approval in Europe where it is available over the counter via Flow's website and in major UK pharmacies. More than 12,000 people and 100 clinics/hospitals in Europe use Flow today, including NHS partnerships.
Preliminary results include:
- The trial sites at the University of Texas and the University of East London measured the effectiveness and safety of the tDCS headset designed by Flow Neuroscience.
- 173 patients were taken through the at-home treatment program, completely remotely and with minimal supervision, over a 10-week period. This was the largest ever US/UK tDCS study for the treatment of depression.
- 56% of patients in the treatment group went into remission (complete relief from depression symptoms), and 62% had a clinical response (more than 50% improvement in depressive symptoms.)**
- The study showed that participants had greater than three times higher odds of getting substantially better if they got the active treatment vs if they got placebo/sham stimulation, approximately double the average effect size witnessed in the trials for the 21 best-selling antidepressants reviewed by the FDA.
- No major side effects were reported from the treatment group.
Flow's study results come at a time when depression is at an all-time high among U.S. adults, but with nearly half of Americans in 2021 reporting they did not seek help for clinical-level mental health issues, citing an increased desire for self-help options. The Flow tDCS headset and treatment is conveniently administered at home five times a week, creating an effective, safe, and accessible treatment option for depression.
How Flow works:
- The Flow headset uses a brain-stimulation technique called tDCS to target the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which is the area of the brain associated with depression.
- Depression is associated with lowered activity in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC). This area of the brain helps regulate mood, and focus, and can even impact sleep and appetite. When this area of the brain has lower activity, these functions are affected.
- By delivering a weak electrical current (2 mA) to the DLPFC via electrodes placed on the forehead, activity increases in this part of the brain. This addresses what some researchers believe is one of the physical causes of depression.
- Since Flow can target specific brain areas involved in depression directly, users experience little to no side effects compared to antidepressants.
Allan Young (Chair of Mood Disorders, Director of Centre for Affective Disorders in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King's College London) said: "These exciting and encouraging new data raise the prospect of a real advance in the treatment of depression. Major depression is undertreated throughout the world, and all of the currently widely used treatment modalities have significant limitations. The nature of this treatment, being both effective and well tolerated, means that it is a treatment which may be widely adopted and should be a helpful intervention for many people suffering from major depression."
Azhar Zafar (GPA Director of Research, NHS GP, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Buckingham) said: "These findings are incredibly promising and align with the valuable insights gained from utilizing Flow in primary care. Flow has gained significant popularity among our NHS patients, and a considerable number of them willingly opt for Flow when presented with the choice for the treatment of depression with or without pharmacotherapy. This positive reception speaks volumes about the effectiveness and patient satisfaction associated with Flow."
Flow Neuroscience co-founder Daniel Månsson said: "Depression is one of the most common mood disorders, and unfortunately, it is also one of the hardest to treat. Our core mission was to create a treatment that is effective and accessible to as many people as possible in their own homes, with little to no side effects. The results of this clinical trial show how effective this treatment has become and how breakthroughs are still possible in the treatment of depression."
Corey Keller (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University) said: 'These results show clear separation of active and sham treatment arms in a large, multisite, randomized controlled trial for at-home low-intensity brain stimulation for depression. Flow's novel brain stimulation approach could offer valuable opportunities for individuals to manage their depression from home effectively, signaling a very promising development in mental health treatment.'
Visit www.flowneuroscience.com to find out more information about Flow's first at-home depression treatment.
Key Stats about Flow Neuroscience:
- 12,000+ real-world users in UK and Europe
- Live in 100+ clinics and hospitals in UK and Europe
- 8 million minutes of stimulation using the Flow headset and over 260,000 stimulation sessions
- Flow attracts users from all ages and walks of life, with over one-third of users above 50 years of age
More About Flow Neuroscience
Founded in 2016, Flow Neuroscience's mission is to develop new ways to combat mental health issues with science and technology. The Flow headset is a medication-free treatment for depression, the leading cause of disability in the world. It combines a brain stimulation wearable and an app-based therapy program to create a new effective, safe, and affordable way to treat depression, at home. The Flow headset offers a treatment you can take with you from your home to your office to your everyday. On average, the majority of Flow headset users see significant improvements within 4 to 6 weeks of treatment.
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*Based on a comparison of odds ratios, a standardized way of comparing clinical trials and a form of measurement for the difference in effect between treatment and placebo. The study showed that participants had greater than three times higher odds of getting substantially better if they got the active treatment vs if they got placebo/sham stimulation, approximately double the average effect size witnessed in the trials for the 21 best-selling antidepressants reviewed by the FDA.
**Measured by the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS). The trial was also measured by the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS-17), and results demonstrated 45% clinical remission and 55% had an improvement of at least 50%.
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A federal appeals court is allowing Kentucky to enforce a recently enacted ban on gender-affirming care for young transgender people while the issue is being litigated.
The 2-1 decision Monday from the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati is not unexpected. The same three-judge panel ruled the same way earlier this month on a similar case in Tennessee.
The Kentucky law, enacted this year over the veto of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, prevents transgender minors from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
At least 20 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Most of those states face lawsuits. A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ ban as unconstitutional. In other states, judges have issued disparate rulings on whether the laws can be enforced while the cases are being litigated.
In Kentucky, U.S. District Judge David Hale had initially blocked Kentucky from enforcing the ban. But he lifted that injunction July 14, after the Sixth Circuit issued its ruling in the Tennessee case.
Seven transgender children and their parents have sued to block the Kentucky law. They argue that it violates their constitutional rights and interferes with parental rights to seek established medical treatment for their children.
In Monday’s ruling, judges Jeffrey Sutton, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, and Amul Thapar, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said that the issues in the Kentucky case are essentially identical to those in Tennessee.
In the Tennessee case, the judges wrote that decisions on emerging policy issues like transgender care are generally better left to legislatures rather than judges. They offered a similar rationale Monday in the Kentucky case.
“The people of Kentucky enacted the ban through their legislature,” the judges wrote. “That body — not the officials who disagree with the ban — sets the Commonwealth’s policies.”
The dissenting judge, Helene White, noted that Kentucky’s ban does not include a grace period for patients who are already receiving care to continue treatment, as Tennessee’s law did.
As a result, White said the need for an injunction blocking the ban in Kentucky is even greater than it was in Tennessee.
“It seems obvious that there is a tremendous difference between a statute like Tennessee’s that allows flexibility regarding treatment decisions and time to explore alternatives and one like Kentucky’s that forces doctors to either discontinue treatment immediately or risk losing their license,” wrote White, who was first nominated by former President Bill Clinton and later nominated by Bush.
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Bottega’s planned relocation represents another blow for North Michigan Avenue, the city’s most famous shopping strip. The Mag Mile is struggling to recover from the COVID pandemic and an uptick in downtown crime, with a vacancy rate hovering around 30%. An exodus of retailers including Gap, Macy’s, Uniqlo, Banana Republic and T-Mobile have left big holes on the boulevard. Recent leases with brands like Aritzia and Alo have filled some of the vacant space, but they haven’t been enough to offset all the losses.
But Oak Street — the Chicago home of the world’s most expensive fashion brands, including Hermes, Prada and Armani — has flourished the past few years amid a strong luxury retail market. The retail vacancy rate for the stretch of Oak Street from Michigan Avenue to Rush Street is 8.3%, according to Stone Real Estate, a Chicago retail brokerage.
In the past several years, retailers including Chanel, Van Cleef & Arpels and Cartier have left North Michigan Avenue for Oak Street. Now, Bottega is joining them. The store will fit right in. The retailer’s women’s handbags cost as much as $9,900, and a pair of its men’s leather flip-flops run for $2,100, according to its website.
Bottega is moving into space at 41 E. Oak formerly occupied by Italian jeweler Pomelatto, which moved in 2020 to a smaller store at 37 E. Oak St. The Bottega space totals 5,000 square feet, about half the size of Bottega’s Mag Mile store, according to real estate information provider CoStar Group.
It’s unclear how the Bottega lease will affect Latsko’s lawsuit against Goyard. Latsko declined to discuss the case.
A Bottega representative did not respond to a request for comment. Bottega’s broker, Sharon Kahan, senior vice president at Odyssey Retail Advisors, declined to comment.
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Cardi B could be in trouble with the law after launching a microphone into her audience over the weekend.
The rapper is being accused of battery, as a victim headed to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Sunday alleging she was struck by an item thrown from the stage. Authorities confirmed to Fox News Digital that a report had been filed, but no citations or arrests had been issued.
Cardi B threw her microphone allegedly at a fan who seemingly splashed a drink at the rapper while she was on stage Saturday at Drai’s Beachclub in Las Vegas. In footage from the moment, a fan can be seen splashing a drink in Cardi's direction.
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The "Bodak Yellow" rapper then took aim at the audience member while security stepped in to handle the situation. The microphone allegedly bounced off the first woman and struck another, but it's unclear which one filed the police report.
"The district attorney for Las Vegas could make an example of Cardi B by charging her with simple assault due to Vegas being a tourist destination," criminal defense attorney David Gelman explained to Fox News Digital. "Having people injured at a performance in Vegas is a bad look and their proofs are strong for a conviction."
A representative for Cardi B did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Meanwhile, Kelly Clarkson gave fans a clear warning not to throw things at her during the opening weekend of her Las Vegas residency. The "Because of You" singer performed at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino's Bakkt Theater on July 29 and 30, where she explained to fans what they could throw.
"Whatever you do, don't throw it at me, people. If you're gonna throw s---, throw diamonds," Clarkson quipped in a video of the moment.
The rise in items being thrown at artists began in June when Bebe Rexha was rushed to the hospital after being hit in the face with an iPhone thrown by a fan. Days later, she shared photos of her injury to social media showcasing a cut near her eyebrow and a black eye. "I'm good," she assured fans.
When she returned to the stage to continue her tour, Rexha begged fans not to throw phones at her face.
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"Are we going to have a good show tonight? Yes, we f---ing are. Can we let people slow us down, Philly? No. Just no phones at my face tonight please, I beg of you. Thank you, Philly," she said.
Adele has also warned fans about throwing objects at her during her performances.
"Have you noticed how people are like forgetting f---ing show etiquette at the moment because [they're] throwing s--- on stage? Have you seen them?" Adele asked during her expletive-filled warning while onstage during her Las Vegas residency.
"I f---ing dare you. Dare you throw something at me and I'll f---ing kill you," the pop star continued.
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Harry Styles, Kelsea Ballerini and Ariana Grande have also all been hit with items thrown onstage during their performances.
Foreigner's frontman Kelly Hansen explained to Fox News Digital what makes throwing objects "very dangerous."
"When you're standing on stage, and you have a spotlight on you, what it does is it blinds you," Hansen said. "You can't see the audience. So, you can't see anything that's coming at you. It's very, very dangerous."
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Hansen recalled having full unopened cans of beer thrown at him while on stage. "It's tough because… at the best, I can see something right at the last minute when it crosses the spotlight." He called the trend a "bandwagon" that people just want to get on without thinking about the artist they're hurting, "supposedly somebody… they're there to see."
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HOUSTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (NYSE: SCM) will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023 on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, after the close of the stock market.
Stellus Capital Investment Corporation will host a conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM, Central Time. The conference call will be led by Robert T. Ladd, Chief Executive Officer, and W. Todd Huskinson, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary.
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Via Phone: Dial 888-506-0062 (domestic). Use passcode 810825. Starting approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call, a replay will be available through Thursday, August 24, 2023 by dialing 877-481-4010 and entering passcode 48865.
Via Live Webcast: Connect via the Public Company (SCIC) section of our website at www.stelluscapital.com, under the Events tab. A replay of the conference will be available on our website for approximately 90 days.
About Stellus Capital Investment Corporation
The Company is an externally-managed, closed-end, non-diversified investment management company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Company's investment objective is to maximize the total return to its stockholders in the form of current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in private middle-market companies (typically those with $5.0 million to $50.0 million of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)) through first lien, second lien, unitranche and mezzanine debt financing, and corresponding equity investments. The Company's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, Stellus Capital Management, LLC. To learn more about Stellus Capital Investment Corporation, visit www.stelluscapital.com under the Stellus Capital Investment Corporation link.
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Mayor Bruce Harrell is asking Seattle City Council members who voted against adopting the state’s new drug possession and public use law to reconsider, offering a plan that includes additional treatment resources and guidelines to assuage enforcement concerns.
In a 5-4 vote in June, the City Council decided against adopting the state law that makes both the possession and public use of illegal drugs gross misdemeanors.
Noting a 72% increase in Seattle overdose deaths from 2021 to 2022, Harrell on Monday called for the council to pass a new bill, which would:
- Codify the state law that was originally rejected, giving the city attorney authority to prosecute these misdemeanors;
- Commit $27 million toward enhanced treatment facilities, new addiction services and improved overdose response;
- Instruct the Seattle Police Department to adopt policies stating that “diversion and referral to services is the preferred response to possession and public use while acknowledging that arrests are warranted in some situations.”
“Success will not — and cannot — be measured on how many people cycle through jail; instead, our focus is on improving connections to lifesaving treatment and expanding program options to better meet the needs of those with substance use issues,” Harrell said in a statement Monday.
Harrell’s announcement comes after about a month of deliberation by his appointed 24-member Fentanyl Systems Work Group, a task force of local officials and public safety experts charged with, among other things, making a passable version of the failed bill.
“Today’s announcements represent important steps forward toward a safer, healthier Seattle, as we continue to act with urgency to build out a bold health-first approach, help those in need, curtail impacts of public drug consumption, and hold dealers and traffickers accountable,” Harrell added.
The original bill was introduced to the council at the request of City Attorney Ann Davison in June and would have adopted a state law that criminalizes public drug use, and makes it a gross misdemeanor along with drug possession. By adopting the state law into city code, the City Council would give Davison’s office the authority to prosecute these charges like other misdemeanors.
The state’s effort to replace its old possession law — which made possession a felony and was deemed unconstitutional by the Washington Supreme Court in the 2021 State v. Blake decision — had similar theatrics, as conflicting desires to address public safety concerns around public drug use and possession, without being overly punitive, forced the gridlocked Legislature into a May special session, where the new law was passed.
With a temporary statewide stopgap drug possession law set to expire in July, both the city and state felt pressure to pass something this summer.
The council rejected the original bill in June, with Councilmember Andrew Lewis making the 11th-hour decision to oppose adopting the state law. Lewis, a former city prosecutor, cited concerns with the city attorney’s capacity for diversion in a tearful explanation of his decision delivered to a council chamber largely full of opponents to the bill.
Councilmembers Sara Nelson, Alex Pedersen and Dan Strauss and Council President Debora Juarez voted for the bill, arguing it was necessary for public safety.
Councilmembers Lisa Herbold, Tammy Morales, Teresa Mosqueda and Kshama Sawant joined Lewis in opposition, noting that the bill could result in harsher enforcement, and elevating concerns from the public about a revitalized “war on drugs.”
Harrell and the task force’s new proposed legislation includes the original adoption but also gives SPD a clear edict on when and how to enforce the law.
The bill directs police to follow a set of rules when enforcing drug-related charges, noting that “diversion, treatment, and other alternatives to booking are the preferred approach,” and instructing officers to consider “whether the individual, through their actions and conduct, presents a threat of harm” to themselves or others before making arrests on either charge.
SPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. The department has a policy of not commenting on pending legislation. However, Chief Adrian Diaz seemingly aligned with Harrell’s proposal.
“We are committed to aggressively targeting the supply chain of fentanyl and other deadly drugs, and to support those struggling with addiction,” Diaz said as part of Harrell’s statement. “It’s a dual approach to a complex problem; one that involves not just enforcement, but prevention, education, and treatment.”
Harrell’s proposal also beefs up the city’s investments into treatment and diversion, putting $27 million toward harm reduction, overdose response and post-overdose care — about $20 million will come from settlements from pharmaceutical companies involved in recent opioid lawsuits.
Since July 1, the state law has been in effect without city adoption, meaning that it is still illegal to publicly use or possess illegal drugs, and you can be arrested and charged by Seattle police — but the city could not prosecute. With misdemeanor charges typically under the purview of the city attorney, these charges would fall to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which is designed to handle felony cases and would be unlikely to pursue prosecutions.
Herbold, who chairs the Public Safety and Human Services Committee, would not comment on the legislation Monday, but said she will include it in the committee’s discussion before the council goes on break Aug. 21.
Every year the council goes on a two-week hiatus at the end of August before returning to begin the budget process in September, which consumes most of the last quarter of the year. As such, most major policy changes are made by mid-August.
Lewis noted that there’s another deadline that compelled the task force to move quickly: an implementation delay that requires police departments statewide to follow the previous state possession law until Aug. 15. In the meantime, officers are required to offer a referral to diversion for the first two arrests and are prohibited from booking someone into jail on the third arrest.
“We did want to make sure that we were moving to meet the August deadline and pair some of what we’ve been working on that was ready to go with that release,” Lewis said.
But the release does not cover all of Lewis’ initial concerns, namely the absence of a new therapeutic court to replace the now-defunct Community Court, a misdemeanor diversion court that Davison abruptly ended just days before the initial drug vote.
Lewis said he still wants to see an improved version of Community Court, which was designed to “hook people up” with treatment-based diversions if they have been charged by the prosecutor.
“We should have a court that provides easy access to treatment-based diversions. And that is what community court was aspiring to do,” Lewis said.
“But the executive order really is aimed at pre-arrest diversion — so keeping people out of the court system entirely,” Lewis explained.
According to Lewis, the task force’s plan is focused on pre-arrest diversion that would prevent people from ever facing prosecution, but the task force is still “working in good faith” to build a replacement therapeutic court.
“At this point, I don’t have a solid timeline yet,” Lewis said. “But I’ll just say this: You know, a week ago I would have said I don’t have a solid timeline on this announcement.”
Lewis also said he will introduce an amendment to the proposed supplemental budget this month to expand the city’s pre-filing diversion — the step after an arrest, but before a charge is filed — to add about 200 new slots to diversion programs by allocating an extra $200,000 to city partners.
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Guard your pets and ears. The U.S. Navy Blue Angels are back this week, and with it comes the roar of the F/A-18 Super Hornets.
Genesee Park and Lake Washington will host the weekend’s Seafair Weekend Festival, featuring live music, hydro races and, at the end of each day, an aerial performance of the jets doing rolls, loops and turns at up to 700 mph.
And yes, the Interstate 90 bridge will be open. While the bridge has closed in years past, it’s stayed open during the show since 2019, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
Here’s when you might catch a glimpse of the blue and yellow planes.
According to the Museum of Flight, located near where the jets will take off, the Blue Angels will arrive by 1 p.m. Wednesday, with some media flights occurring that morning.
Practice with take place over Lake Washington on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and on Friday, the Blue Angels will take off around 2:40 p.m. for a 3:30 p.m. Boeing Seafair Air Show.
The Blue Angels shows on Saturday and Sunday are also scheduled for between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Other planes like a PBY Catalina and a B-17 will take off beforehand.
Residents may be most likely to notice the planes during the times immediately before and after the show, when the planes fly from the north end of Boeing Field at the King County International Airport to the show over Lake Washington.
Though the Blue Angels are not authorized to do so during an air show, the Super Hornet aircraft can surpass the speed of sound, creating a sonic boom. The top speed they reach during a show is 700 mph, with the volume falling somewhere between level of noise from a motorcycle and a rock concert.
Viewing of the Blue Angels’ takeoffs and landings will take place at the main parking lot along Boeing Field’s fence line. Access on Saturday and Sunday requires Museum of Flight admission. Visitors may bring in blankets or low-back folding chairs for viewing.
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Disgruntled CNN employees believe "the grass is greener" at NBC News, according to a new report.
Puck media reporter Dylan Byers, who has worked at both CNN and NBC News, put a spotlight on an ongoing mass exodus of CNN staffers who have bolted for the Comcast-owned news operation in his Sunday night column.
Byers noted that longtime CNN anchor Christine Romans is expected to join NBC, and reported that CNN entertainment reporter Chloe Melas will make a similar move.
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"Romans and Melas will join a small diaspora of CNN talent and executives who have recently left Hudson Yards for 30 Rock, including Laura Jarrett, now NBC’s senior legal correspondent, and Ana Cabrera, now an MSNBC anchor. Off camera, Rebecca Kutler, the former head of programming for CNN+ who was once a treasured part of the Jeff Zucker inner circle, is now MSNBC’s senior vice president of content strategy; longtime CNN producer David Gelles is now the executive producer for NBC’s ‘Meet The Press,’" Byers wrote.
"And, even as NBC adds CNN alumni to its ranks, CNN has added CNBC’s Kayla Tausche as a White House correspondent," Byers continued. "But for many, it seems, the grass is greener over at 30 Rock."
Romans did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Melas directed Fox News Digital to her agent, who did not immediately respond.
Byers wrote that "much of this is due to CNN’s own struggles," because the network has struggled in the ratings department and "seems to be suffering an identity crisis under a quadrumvirate leadership team that has not articulated a bold vision for the post-Licht future."
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He then quoted an MSNBC insider who bashed the liberal network’s competitor.
"It always helps when your competition sets themselves on fire," an MSNBC source told Byers, referring to CNN’s ongoing issues.
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
During the second quarter of 2023, CNN averaged a meager 463,000 total day viewers compared to 1.2 million for Fox News and 796,000 for MSNBC. During primetime, CNN managed only 573,000 average viewers while Fox News nearly tripled that total with 1.7 million. But ratings aren’t the network’s only issue.
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Beloved former boss Jeff Zucker was forced out last year ahead of a long-planned merger that put CNN under the control of Warner Bros. Discovery. The new regime immediately eliminated CNN’s much-publicized stream service, and that was just the start of post-Zucker chaos.
Chris Licht, who was hand-picked by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav "tamp down spectacle" that was rampant during the Zucker era, was fired in June after just over a year on the job after completely losing the newsroom. Licht was regularly attacked by liberal media critics for such moves as doing a town hall with former President Trump, with much of the criticism coming from his own employees.
In recent memory, CNN has also fired Don Lemon, rearranged anchor timeslots several times to no avail, went over a year without a permanent 9 p.m. ET host, and fired top media relations executives after an unflattering profile of Licht embarrassed the network. CNN employees have also been plagued with low morale while rank-and-file staffers question the direction of the network.
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President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama. The choice ended months of thorny deliberations, but an Alabama lawmaker vowed to fight on.
U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Monday that Biden was convinced by the head of Space Command, Gen. James Dickinson, who argued that moving his headquarters now would jeopardize military readiness. Dickinson's view, however, was in contrast to Air Force leadership, who studied the issue at length and determined that relocating to Huntsville, Alabama, was the right move.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details of Biden’s rationale for the decision.
In announcing the plans, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, said the decision was based on an “objective and deliberate process informed by data and analysis.” He said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin supported the president’s decision.
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Reaction to the decision came fast and was sharply divided, as Colorado lawmakers praised it and Alabama officials slammed it as a political maneuver. “This fight is far from over,” warned Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Biden, said the U.S. officials, believes that keeping the command in Colorado Springs would avoid a disruption in readiness that the move would cause, particularly as the U.S. races to compete with China in space. And they said Biden firmly believes that maintaining stability will help the military be better able to respond in space over the next decade. Those factors, they said, outweighed what the president believed would be any minor benefits of moving to Alabama.
Biden's decision enraged Alabama lawmakers and is sure to fuel accusations that abortion politics played a role in the choice. The location debate has become entangled in the ongoing battle between Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville and the Defense Department over the move to provide travel for troops seeking reproductive health care. Tuberville opposed the policy is blocking hundreds of military promotions in protest.
The U.S. officials said the abortion issue had no effect at all on Biden's decision. And they said the president fully expected there would be different views on the matter within the Defense Department.
Tuberville, in a statement, said the top three choices for Space Command headquarters were all in Republican-leaning states — Alabama, Nebraska and Texas — and bypassing them “looks like blatant patronage politics.”
Formally created in August 2019, the command was temporarily based in Colorado, and Air Force and Space Force leaders initially recommended it stay there. In the final days of his presidency Donald Trump decided it should be based in Huntsville.
The change triggered a number of reviews.
Proponents of keeping the command in Colorado have argued that moving it to Huntsville and creating a new headquarters would set back its progress at a time it needs to move quickly to be positioned to match China’s military space rise. And Colorado Springs is also home to the Air Force Academy, which now graduates Space Force guardians, and more than 24 military space missions, including three Space Force bases.
Officials also argued that any new headquarters in Alabama would not be completed until sometime after 2030, forcing a lengthy transition.
Huntsville, however, scored higher than Colorado Springs in a Government Accountability Office assessment of potential locations and has long been a home to some of earliest missiles used in the nation’s space programs, including the Saturn V rocket. It is home to the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command.
According to officials, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who ordered his own review of the matter, leaned toward Huntsville, while Dickinson was staunchly in favor of staying put. The officials said Austin presented both options to Biden.
In a statement Monday, Kendall said the service will work to quickly implement Biden's decision, adding that keeping the command in Colorado will “avoid any disruption to its operational capability.”
The decision was hailed as a victory in Colorado lawmakers and condemned in Alabama.
“For two and a half years we’ve known any objective analysis of this basing decision would reach the same conclusion we did, that Peterson Space Force Base is the best home for Space Command," Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said in a statement. “Most importantly, this decision firmly rejects the idea that politics — instead of national security — should determine basing decisions central to our national security.”
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., said the decision “restores integrity to the Pentagon’s basing process and sends a strong message that national security and the readiness of our Armed Forces drive our military decisions.”
Rogers, meanwhile, vowed that his committee will continue an investigation into the matter, calling it a “deliberate taxpayer-funded manipulation of the selection process.” He added, “It’s clear that far-left politics, not national security, was the driving force behind this decision.”
Republican Alabama Sen. Katie Britt echoed his sentiment, saying it was irresponsible for Biden to “yank a military decision out of the Air Force’s hands in the name of partisan politics.” She said an Air Force evaluation of the potential locations ranked Huntsville first, adding that the decision ”should have remained in the Air Force’s purview.”
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Associated Press writer Kim Chandler in Montgomery, Ala., contributed to this report.
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The US firm is buying the entire 45% stake in IMA owned by BC Partners in a deal that values the whole company at between €6.5 billion ($7.2 billion) and €7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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IMA, which is majority-owned by the wealthy northern Italian Vacchi family, makes machinery for processing and packaging of cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food and beverages. In 2020, BC Partners invested in the firm and end up with a 45% stake, in a deal valuing the company at about €2.9 billion.
“We believe BDT & MSD’s long-term view and deep expertise in supporting family enterprises makes it an ideal partner to help us reach these goals and accelerate global growth, including in the U.S. market,” said Alberto Vacchi, chairman and chief executive officer of IMA.
The exit marks the BC Partners’ second sale in less than a week after it agreed to dispose of a minority stake in US pet care retailer PetSmart to Apollo Global Management.
The transaction was led by IMA’s management team and by Poggi & Associati as lead financial adviser. Mediobanca and BofA Securities also acted as financial advisers to IMA. JPMorgan Chase & Co. provided financial advice to BC Partners.
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Live call and webcast will occur on August 1 at 9:00 a.m. ET
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc., (NASDAQ:TRUE) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023 in a stockholder letter, which is available HERE and on the TrueCar investor relations website at ir.truecar.com.
The company will host a call to discuss its second quarter results on Tuesday, August 1 at 9:00 a.m. ET/6:00 a.m. PT. A live webcast of the call will be available through TrueCar's Investor Relations website and the link below.
TrueCar Second Quarter 2023 Live Call and Webcast Details:
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard Amir Coffey was arrested early Sunday on a firearms misdemeanor in Hollywood, authorities said.
Coffey, 26, was a passenger in a vehicle that police pulled over for speeding shortly before 2 a.m., according to Los Angeles Police Officer Tony Im, a department spokesperson.
Coffey was cited for carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle, Im said. He was released on his own recognizance from a county jail on $10,000 bail.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 24, jail records show.
The driver was cited for speeding, and another passenger received a misdemeanor for possession of marijuana, Im said.
Coffey has been with the Clippers for four seasons.
“We’re aware of a legal situation involving Amir Coffey and are looking into it,” the team said in a statement on Monday.
It’s possible that Coffey could face sanctions from the NBA. The league typically reviews all matters of personal and criminal conduct and can issue a fine or suspension when it deems appropriate.
The 6-foot-7 guard/forward has been primarily a bench player and is averaging 5.5 points per game.
He played in 50 games last season, including nine starts, and averaged 3.4 points per game. His best season came in 2021-22, when he played in 69 games with 30 starts and averaged 9.0 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.
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EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: A Georgia woman charged in the Bahamas for an alleged plot to assassinate her estranged husband, Robert Shiver, was in the midst of a vicious divorce battle over child custody and the family's multimillion-dollar fortune, Fox News Digital has learned.
Former beauty pageant contestant Lindsay Shiver, 36, her lover, 28-year-old Terrance Bethel, and alleged hitman Faron Newbold, 29, are accused of trying to murder the ex-Auburn football player, according to local outlets.
The couple, who live in Thomasville, appeared to have the perfect marriage, frequently vacationing with their three sons on the Caribbean islands, where they posed for photos on yachts and poolside at the exclusive Baker's Bay Golf and Ocean Club.
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In 2020, Lindsay praised her husband on Instagram on their 10-year wedding anniversary in a caption accompanying a photo of the pair on their big day.
"The key to a perfect marriage is having two imperfect people, who refuse to give up on each other," she wrote. "So thankful for that fitness class 13 years ago that brought us together and all of the love, laughter, and life we have created ever since! I love you babe."
But the couple's 13-year marriage took a turn when Robert, 38, allegedly caught his wife having an affair and filed for divorce in April on grounds of "adulterous conduct," according to court papers obtained by Fox News Digital.
She responded with accusations of "physical and mental cruel treatment," including domestic violence.
As the pair ruthlessly sparred in legal filings, they continued to live together with their children in their 8,000-square-foot Thomasville mansion.
In the petition for divorce, Robert seeks primary physical custody of their children, sole use of their $2.5 million home and argues that his wife isn't entitled to alimony.
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Lindsay graduated from Auburn University with a marketing degree and is capable of supporting herself, the filing says.
After playing football at Auburn and briefly for the Atlanta Falcons in 2009, Robert transitioned to a career in business. He's now executive vice president of the Senior Life Insurance Company, according to the agency's website.
His father, Allen Shiver, served as CEO of Flowers Foods for four decades, before stepping down in 2019 from the bakery company that's worth more than $5 billion.
In response to the divorce filing, Lindsay denied an illicit affair. "Any extramarital relationship defendant has had was during the parties' separation and legally condoned by husband," her lawyers wrote.
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She argued for primary custody, alimony and child support, as well as sole use of the home.
"Wife feels unsafe in the marital home and has installed locks on the interior doors of the home for protection," her attorney wrote, requesting a restraining order.
"Husband has abused the wife in the home in the children's presence on multiple occasions, not only physically but also mentally and emotionally," the filing alleges.
Lindsay, who was born and bred in Alabama, accused her husband of hiding money and cutting her off financially.
"The parties… have an overall expensive lifestyle in general," her lawyer wrote. "Suddenly husband is not permitting wife to use the jet or have access to funds."
AUBURN UNIVERSITY STUDENT'S REMAINS ID'D NEARLY 50 YEARS AFTER HE DISAPPEARED BUT MYSTERY CONTINUES
She also accused her husband of taking off with their children for a weekend and refusing to return them until the police got involved.
Lindsay was scheduled to be deposed in their divorce July 18 shortly before her arrest – but the hearing was pushed back to Oct. 31, court records show.
According to the Bahamas Court News, Bahamian police uncovered the alleged murder plot July 16 while searching WhatsApp messages on the phone of a suspected burglar.
A source told the Thomasville Times-Enterprise that the couple has a home in the Bahamas, where Lindsay met and began an affair with Bethel.
The Royal Bahamas Police did not immediately return a request for comment.
She was flown to Nassau and they made their first appearance in court Friday. They remain in jail pending an Oct. 5 hearing.
Lindsay, under her maiden name, was crowned Miss Houston County in 2005 and finished as the second runner-up in the National Peanut Festival pageant the same year, WDHN reported.
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(NewsNation) — As in decades past, the question of whether aliens exist continues to captivate Americans. Following Wednesday’s widely-watched Congressional hearing on UAPs and UFOs, people flocked to social media — many proclaiming the government confirmed aliens exist.
But that’s not actually what happened at the hearing. While witnesses and lawmakers discussed the issue of UFOs, the government has not issued any official confirmation of alien life and what was said at the hearing, by witnesses and even a lawmaker, remains unverified.
As lawmakers continue to probe the issue, join NewsNation’s Brian Entin at 9 p.m. ET Sunday night for a two-hour special report on the hearing, including analysis from UFO experts. Find out how to tune in to NewsNation on your local channel lineup.
Here’s what we do (and don’t) know after the hearing:
- Whistleblower David Grusch largely recounted second-hand testimony and provided no evidence to support his claims. Grusch is a former member of the UAP Task Force.
- Former Navy Commander and pilot David Fravor recounted a first-hand experience with the so-called Tic Tac UFO but said he was never briefed on the object or its potential origins.
- Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who founded the Americans for Safe Aerospace, also recounted an encounter he had with an object he described as a black sphere floating inside a clear cube. Graves indicated such encounters were extremely common among pilots. There was no evidence presented to support this claim.
- While lawmakers seemed largely accepting of the witness testimony, only Rep. Matt Gaetz, R.-Fla., said he had seen any evidence of alien life firsthand.
- Grusch was unable to answer a number of inquiries regarding specific evidence or proof in an open setting, though he indicated he would be willing to say more in a secure, classified briefing.
- All three witnesses agreed these unidentified objects constituted a potential national security threat.
- Official government bodies, including the White House, Pentagon, and NASA have all stated they have no reason to believe unexplained objects are extraterrestrial in nature.
- National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said after the hearing there are “no hard and fast” answers to the question but that the administration is taking it seriously.
This wasn’t the first time the U.S. government undertook investigations to address the question of UFOs, nor is it the first time the official response was that there was nothing “alien” going on.
However, at the heart of Grusch’s whistleblower complaint is his claim that the government, specifically the Department of Defense, is operating programs to retrieve material from crashes that are extraterrestrial in nature and are keeping those programs secret from the public while also operating without appropriate Congressional oversight.
Grusch spoke exclusively to NewsNation regarding his experiences, which he said include the U.S. government recovering the “non-human” pilots of downed craft.
In light of his claims, lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee have vowed to continue to hold more hearings, including classified briefings where Grusch could speak more freely. Members have also vowed to seek the power to subpoena documents and images that Grusch says back up his claims.
Lawmakers have also called for a centralized reporting system for both military and civilian reports of UFOs, to better analyze and understand the possible threat.
There is also the possibility of the creation of a new committee to specifically investigate UAPs/UFOs. It’s not entirely clear how Congress could compel the DoD or military to release information on any secret programs, should they exist, though, in the past, lawmakers have attempted to work UFO reporting into funding requirements for the Pentagon.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Nearly two weeks after Don Coryell died in 2010 at age 85, an impressive lineup of Hall of Famers gathered to remember the innovative coach whose “Air Coryell” offense produced some of the most dynamic passing attacks in NFL history.
John Madden, Dan Fouts and Joe Gibbs sat in the front row. Kellen Winslow and Charlie Joiner were also there.
They had either played for or coached under Coryell, and while remembering the coach’s genius and genuineness, the overwhelming sentiments were sadness and bewilderment that Coryell had yet to join them in Canton, Ohio.
It was enough to make Madden choke up as he began his eulogy.
“You know, I’m sitting down there in front, and next to me is Joe Gibbs, and next to him is Dan Fouts, and the three of us are in the Hall of Fame because of Don Coryell,” Madden said, his voice cracking. “There’s something missing.”
What many people have long considered a snub will be rectified Saturday when Coryell is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
“It’s wonderful because it’s so deserving,” said Fouts, the quarterback who made Air Coryell fly with the San Diego Chargers in the late 1970s and early 80s. “Unfortunately, it took this long, but it did. But he’s in and he’s going to be in forever and that’s the important thing.”
Fouts, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993, thinks Coryell kept missing the cut for Canton until now because of the lack of Super Bowls on his resume.
Coryell went 111-83-1 combined in five seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals and nine seasons in San Diego. The Chargers made it to the AFC championship game in consecutive seasons but lost both times, to the rival Oakland Raiders after the 1980 season and then to the Cincinnati Bengals in the infamous “Ice Bowl” the following season.
But his influence on the game remains unmistakable.
“You can just see when it changed and how it changed,” Fouts said. “I think Kellen Winslow put it best: Look at the television contracts.”
During the Air Coryell years, Fouts and the Chargers — who wore lightning bolts on their helmets, jerseys and pants — set records and led the NFL in passing almost every season while revolutionizing the game and thrilling fans.
“He made it fun,” Fouts said from his Oregon home. “Obviously when you’re having success, it’s fun. The system gave us success and knowing that, he was willing to be creative and innovative and trust his players. He let us give input and once you give a player input, that player plays harder to make that input work. He recognized that and he was so honest.”
At the height of Air Coryell, Fouts led the NFL in yards passing for four straight seasons and touchdown passes in consecutive seasons. Coryell would split Winslow, the tight end, and running backs out wide. Coryell’s schemes stretched the field and used motion, forcing defenses to play catch-up.
In 1979, Fouts, Winslow and John Jefferson posed for a Nike poster wearing bomber jackets, with footballs raining from the sky and the headline “Bombs Away.”
“Don once said, ‘If we’re asking Kellen to block a defensive end and not catch passes, I’m not a very good coach,’ ” former running back and special teams star Hank Bauer once recalled.
One of the lasting images of the Coryell years was an exhausted Winslow being helped off the field by two teammates after the Chargers’ epic 41-38 overtime victory in the playoffs over the Miami Dolphins on Jan. 2, 1982. Despite cramping up in the heat and humidity, Winslow caught 13 passes for 166 yards and a touchdown, and also blocked a potential game-winning field goal.
As an example of how Coryell’s passing innovations eventually spread throughout what had been a run-first NFL, Fouts pointed out that the 1972 Miami Dolphins clinched the only perfect season in NFL history by beating Washington in the Super Bowl with Bob Griese throwing just 11 passes, completing eight for 88 yards. The Dolphins were otherwise powered by running backs Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Mercury Morris. Twelve seasons later, Miami’s Dan Marino became the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 5,000 yards.
“So the thing is, Coryell believed in the passing game and he led the revolution,” Fouts said.
Coryell coached at San Diego State from 1961-72 and went 104-19-2. Gibbs played under Coryell and was on his staff with Madden for three years. Coryell left the Aztecs for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1973. With Jim Hart at quarterback, the Cardinals won division titles in 1974 and ’75 under Coryell.
Gibbs coached the Washington Redskins to three Super Bowl titles and reached a fourth, while Madden, who died in 2021, won one Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders.
The Chargers hired Coryell on Sept. 25, 1978, the same day a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet crashed into San Diego’s North Park neighborhood after colliding with a small plane, killing all 137 people on the two planes and seven people on the ground.
“You know what a horrible day that was for everybody,” said Fouts, who remembers seeing debris and smoke from the crash while driving from a radio appearance to the stadium that morning for the first team meeting with Coryell. “The day before was just a miserable game against the Packers and we were 1-3. So anyway, it turned out OK for the players.
“It was like this breath of fresh air came into the room and made everybody feel good,” Fouts said.
Alex Spanos, who bought the Chargers in 1984, fired Coryell midway through the 1986 season after a 1-7 start.
Coryell never coached again.
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That’s on top of $365 million Discover set aside last quarter for refunds to merchants in connection with misclassifying pricing tiers on the fees retailers pay the card company to process transactions.
Discover informed shareholders July 19 of the merchant-related issue, which had been ongoing since 2007 until the company discovered it recently. It also said it had received a proposed consent order from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on an unrelated but undisclosed enforcement matter relating to consumers.
The company said it was halting share buybacks while it worked to shore up compliance, risk management and corporate governance.
The flurry of compliance-related issues sent shares into a swoon. Discover’s stock was at $105.44 in early-afternoon trading today, down 13.5% from July 18, the day before the disclosures in Discover’s second-quarter earnings.
In the filing, Discover didn’t specify which legal and regulatory issues were tied to its $160 million estimate.
“The company believes the estimate of the aggregate range of reasonably possible losses (meaning the likelihood of losses is more than remote but less than likely), in excess of the amounts that the company has accrued for legal and regulatory proceedings, is up to $160 million as of June 30, 2023,” the filing stated. “This estimated range of reasonably possible losses is based on currently available information for those proceedings in which the company is involved and considers the company's best estimate of such losses for those matters for which an estimate can be made. It does not represent the company's maximum potential loss exposure.”
The $160 million isn’t related to the retailer overcharges, though, the filing said.
The $365 million set aside for those refunds may not be the end of it. “The company is in discussions with its regulators regarding this matter and corporate governance and risk management,” according to the filing. “The company expects these discussions will likely result in enforcement actions, which may include, among other remedies, monetary penalties, the amount of which cannot be estimated at this time.”
So, add that potential to the $160 million estimate.
A spokesman said he couldn’t comment beyond the filing.
A year ago, Discover surprised shareholders by temporarily halting share buybacks while it looked into student-loan servicing practices. In addition to being a large credit card issuer, Discover is one of the country’s largest private student lenders.
That news worried Wall Street, since Discover has been in regulatory hot water at various points since 2015 over its student-loan collection methods. The company, however, emphasized it was pausing repurchases on its own initiative and not at the demand or request of regulators. It resumed buybacks in November 2022.
That’s the case with this latest stoppage in buybacks as well, executives told analysts on Discover's July 19 earnings call.
CEO Roger Hochschild said Discover’s improvement of its compliance systems will be a “multi-year process.”
“As I look back, I do believe we underinvested (in compliance), and that’s something I take accountability for, but we are very focused on it now,” Hochschild said.
“I would not over-focus on the regulatory portion,” he said. “This is something where we as a team know we are not where we want to be, and it is our top priority. So it is aligned with the views of the regulators, but our focus is taking many forms, from simplifying our architecture, automating manual processes, streamlining and standardizing business processes, bringing on some great new talent. . . .And we know that the result will not just be better compliance but a better customer experience and more efficient organization.”
Discover’s struggles to keep on the right side of regulators belies a reputation as a tightly managed company. The company’s track record navigating the ups and downs of the credit cycle is among the best in the industry.
From 2019 to 2023, Discover added $250 million in annual costs for compliance purposes, Chief Financial Officer John Greene told analysts. It plans to hike that annual total to about $300 million in coming quarters, he said.
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Federal officials said Monday they are investigating a recent close call between an Allegiant Air plane and a private jet in which pilots of both aircraft received collision-threat warnings and took evasive action.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the incident happened July 23 near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida. It’s the latest in a series of close calls that led the FAA to convene a special safety summit earlier this year.
The FAA said an air traffic controller in Miami told the crew of Allegiant flight 485 that had taken off from Fort Lauderdale to turn east at 23,000 feet, and it crossed in front of a Gulfstream business jet that was heading north.
Pilots of the Allegiant Airbus A320 took evasive action after getting an automated alert about another aircraft at the same altitude. The pilot of the Gulfstream jet got a similar warning and also took evasive action.
The Allegiant plane returned to the Fort Lauderdale airport, and a flight attendant was treated for injuries, the FAA said.
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The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that it was gathering information about the incident before deciding whether to open an investigation.
The FAA and NTSB are investigating about a half-dozen incidents this year in which planes came closer together than they should. In many cases, one or both planes were still on the ground.
The closest occurred in February, when a FedEx cargo plane coming in to land passed over the top of a Southwest Airlines that had been cleared to take off from the same runway. The head of the NTSB said the planes came within about 100 feet of each other.
The number of close calls in rapid succession led the then-acting administrator of the FAA to convene a "safety summit" in March. The official, who has since left the FAA, defended the nation’s safety record, but he called for more data about the incidents and cautioned everyone in aviation to pay more attention to safety procedures.
The last fatal crash involving a U.S. airline was in 2009.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis police on Monday said officers shot a suspect after he attempted to enter a Jewish school with a gun and fired shots after he couldn’t get into the building.
Assistant Police Chief Don Crowe said the suspect, whose identity has not been released, approached Margolin Hebrew Academy-Feinstone Yeshiva of the South around 12:20 p.m. He fired several shots and then left in a maroon truck.
“Thankfully, that school had a great safety procedure and process in place and avoided anyone being harmed or injured at that scene,” Crowe said.
Officers soon found the suspect’s vehicle “shortly after that,” Crowe said, adding that officers then shot the suspect after he exited the truck with a firearm in hand. The suspect was sent to a hospital, where he is in critical condition.
It was not immediately clear if school was in session.
When asked if law enforcement believe the shooting was a hate crime, Crowe said officers were still on the scene and collecting information.
“It’s way too early for that. Again, we’re very early in this investigation,” Crowe said.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations is now handling the case.
Oscar Gomez said two of his teenage children were outside their house when the man was shot in their neighborhood. They told him about the shooting when he arrived home from work, he said.
“They heard the shooting, and they threw themselves on the floor trying to protect themselves,” said Gomez, 39.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, whose district includes Memphis, said in a statement that he was “shocked” to hear about the incident at the school and noted that acts of “violent antisemitism” are on the rise across the country.
Monday’s shooting comes nearly four months after a shooter opened fire at a private Christian school in Nashville and killed six people, including three nine-year-old children. That tragedy has sparked closer scrutiny of Tennessee’s relaxed gun laws and renewed calls to strengthen security at both public and private schools across the state.
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A Florida man was arrested for allegedly hitting and spitting on a woman holding a child last week, police said.
Key West resident Jeanty Falando Altenor, 33, has been charged with child abuse, battery and false imprisonment.
Monroe County Sheriff's Office reported that their officers responded to a call from Stock Island, Florida on Wednesday morning at around 7:30 a.m. An injured woman told them that the suspect assaulted her.
"[T]he 34-year-old female victim stated Altenor spit on her, and hit her in the face with his fists, feet, and child’s scooter," the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
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The woman also told police that she was holding an infant as she fell, and three other children were with her during the incident. The suspect allegedly threatened her before leaving the scene.
"She stated Altenor also threatened to kill her if she reported the incident to law enforcement," the sheriff's department added.
Police noted that the victim's injuries were consistent with her version of events. After obtaining a warrant for Altenor's arrest, the suspect was booked into jail Saturday.
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Monroe County Sheriff's Office records indicate that Alternor was previously arrested for aggravated battery against a pregnant victim on October 1. In September 2021, he was arrested for battery.
Altenor is currently held on a $500,000 bond. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office is actively investigating the incident.
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The state’s spending plan also included $8 million in additional training for reproductive health care providers and a specialty consultation program for at-risk patients.
And on Monday, Pritzker said the state’s Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity will open a $5 million grant program for reproductive health care providers in Illinois. That money comes from the non-transportation portion of Illinois’ $45 billion infrastructure program, Rebuild Illinois. It can be spent on improvements, repairs, new construction, security upgrades and equipment, including vehicles that can be turned into mobile care units.
Additionally, Pritzker announced a new collaborative meant to help patients who need more complex reproductive health care. The state’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services, along with IDPH, will join the University of Illinois at Chicago hospital, Rush University Medical Center and the Chicago Abortion Fund to launch a hotline aimed at these high-risk patients next month.
The hotline, dubbed the Complex Abortion Regional Line for Access, or CARLA, will be staffed by nurses who will aid patients through scheduling appointments within hospital systems and getting set up with any required pre-operative testing. Additionally, CARLA’s partnership with the Chicago Abortion Fund will help patients with funding for reproductive health services, plus any transportation and child care costs while getting and recovering from treatment.
Dr. Laura Laursen, an obstetrician-gynecologist and assistant professor at Rush, will be a co-director of CARLA, and said she’s seen a rise in the number of patients seeking “complex abortion care.” She cited a recent out-of-state patient who had anemia, and as a result, couldn’t be seen by the closest abortion provider to her home state.
Laursen said this patient had to travel more than eight hours to Chicago and figure out child care for her other three kids – on top of the stress of knowing that being seen by a hospital-based abortion provider would be more expensive than the clinic where she originally had an appointment.
“By the time she reached me weeks later, her pregnancy was more advanced and more complex, and she was extremely emotionally drained,” she said. “I’m so fortunate that I was able to take care of her at Rush, but the experience of reaching me didn’t have to be so dramatic.”
Chicago Abortion Fund Executive Director Megan Jeyifo said her organization has also seen an influx of patients who need complex abortion care as GOP-controlled states have clamped down on access to the procedure. In the last 13 months, Jeyifo said CAF has supported more than 250 abortion seekers who needed hospital care – up from 26 the prior year.
“No one should have to travel to a city they’ve never been in to access health care,” Jeyifo said. “No one should have to depend on strangers to access the things they need for that trip. But this is our reality in the fallout of this horrific decision. And it is up to us together to be creative and nimble and there for people who are denied agency over their bodies and lives in their own states.”
CARLA’s startup costs for the first year come from $600,000 that IDHFS already had in its budget, according to a spokesperson for Pritzker.
Also on Monday, the governor announced the creation of a family planning program for Medicaid recipients that will cover services including annual preventative exams, family planning counseling, basic infertility counseling, screenings for cancers related to reproductive organs and all FDA-approved methods of contraception, tubal ligation, vasectomies and abortion.
The program will be paid for with a mix of federal Medicaid funding and Title X funding, but a Pritzker spokesperson couldn’t provide an exact spending amount on Monday.
Pritzker also announced the state would reimburse travel costs for state employees and dependents who live out of state but seek abortion care in Illinois. The program is modeled after an existing state program for organ donation and adoption, according to the governor’s office.
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A Florida university has fired a professor after an investigation concluded he "demonstrated extreme negligence" in the data management of racial bias studies that could cause "unalterable" damage to the school's reputation.
In a scathing five-page termination letter penned by Florida State University's (FUS) Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, James Clark informed criminologist Eric Stewart that decades of his research "once thought to be at the forefront" of the profession were shown to contain "numerous erroneous and "false narratives."
"My specific concerns are related to the details of your behavior and the extreme negligence and incompetence that you demonstrated in the performance of your duties," Clark wrote.
"As outlined in the Notice of Intent to Terminate letter, you demonstrated extreme negligence in basic data management, resulting in an unprecedented number of articles retracted, numerous other articles now in question, with the presence of no backup of the data for the publications in question," he added.
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As reported by The College Fix and corroborated by the letter, Stewart had previously refuted the evidence of FSU's misconduct inquiry committee's lengthy investigation and stated the reports "indicate that the misconduct claims were rejected by multiple panel experts."
However, Clark's termination letter to Stewart suggested the criminologist did not take "any meaningful steps" to remedy the situation in the four years since the issues came to light and did not attempt to re-create any of the studies.
"You have not pursued any remedial action, and you have even refused to cooperate with your FSU colleagues and coworkers who requested to work with you on these matters," the letter continued.
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He had been at the school for 16 years at the time of his departure.
Stewart left his post in March following the lengthy investigation that began when six race-related studies he co-authored were retracted.
In one paper, Stewart, who made $190,000 per year at FSU, falsely claimed there was a correlation between a criminal's race and the public's desire to see harsher prison sentences for said criminal. However, an investigation revealed no correlation and that the sample size had been increased to yield Stewart's desired outcome.
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Justin Pickett, one of the study's co-authors, previously claimed that the "identified discrepancies" in Stewart's work could not be attributed to "researcher error."
"Scientific fraud occurs all too frequently….and I believe it is the most likely explanation for the data irregularities in the five retracted articles," Pickett said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Stewart, but his email sent an automated response saying he was "currently unavailable." FSU did not immediately return request for comment.
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A Georgia resident has died from a rare "brain-eating amoeba," the state’s health department confirmed last Wednesday.
The resident likely became infected while swimming in a freshwater lake or pond in Georgia, the health department said.
"Naegleria fowleri" is a rare infection that destroys brain tissue, causing brain swelling and usually death. The amoeba lives in soil and warm, freshwater lakes, rivers, ponds and hot springs. It is not found in salt water and is not found in properly treated drinking water and swimming pools.
Officials did not say where the victim was infected. Nor did officials release any additional information about the victim. This is the sixth case of the infection in Georgia since 1962.
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People can become infected when water containing the amoeba goes up a person's nose. It cannot infect people if swallowed and is not spread from person to person.
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"The amoeba is naturally occurring, and there is no routine environmental test for Naegleria fowleri in bodies of water; and because it is very common in the environment, levels of the amoebas that naturally occur cannot be controlled," health officials said. "The location and number of amoebas in the water can vary over time within the same body of water."
Symptoms of an infection include severe headache, fever, nausea and vomiting and progress to a stiff neck, seizures and coma that can lead to death. Symptoms start about five days after infection but can start anywhere from 1 to 12 days after infection. Symptoms progress rapidly and can cause death within five days.
People who choose to swim can reduce their risk of infection by limiting the amount of water that goes up their nose. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends not jumping or diving into bodies of fresh water, as well as holding your nose shut and keeping your head above water.
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Zachery Ty Bryan has been charged with domestic violence for a second time.
Bryan was arrested July 28 after authorities in Eugene, Oregon, were called regarding a physical domestic dispute between a male and female that had occurred earlier in the day, Fox News Digital can confirm. It's unclear who the female was, but the male was identified as Bryan.
He remained in jail as of Monday afternoon after being charged with assault in the fourth-degree.
A representative for Bryan did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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The former "Home Improvement" star was previously arrested in 2020 for an altercation with his girlfriend Johnnie Faye Cartwright.
Bryan downplayed the domestic violence charges he pleaded guilty to in 2021 during a recent interview, saying the incident was "blown out of proportion."
"We didn’t even really get that physical. We got really loud. We were screaming and because we were in a townhome that had [thin walls], everybody could hear," Bryan told The Hollywood Reporter. "Johnnie was, at the time, just really upset about my situation."
"At the end of the day, [the police] throw a bunch of counts at you because they ultimately want you to plead to something. I could’ve fought it… but that’s more stress and drama. I got two misdemeanors and called it a day," he said.
Police said at the time that Bryan "assaulted the victim, impeded her breathing, and [took] the victim's phone from her when she tried to call 911," according to "E! News." Bryan claimed in the police report at the time, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, that Cartwright attacked him and that she was setting him up to "ruin his career."
"I heard her tell dispatch, ‘This is the guy from ‘Home Improvement.' He’s this famous guy,'" Bryan claimed to officers at the time.
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He was originally charged with felony strangulation, fourth-degree assault, coercion, menacing, harassment and interference with making a police report. Police dropped the charges besides menacing and fourth-degree assault, and Bryan chose to plead guilty.
Cartwright and Bryan are still together as of June, according to the outlet. The two have welcomed three kids in the years since the 2020 arrest.
The couple first began seeing each other while Bryan was married to Carly Matros.
Bryan has also struggled with driving under the influence (DUI). The TV star was first arrested for DUI in 2004 at the age of 22. He was booked again in 2007, 2017 and 2020 – just months before the domestic assault occurred.
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In an emailed statement, Daley said the move was related to his wanting to focus on City Hall. "I left because I wanted to continue focusing on investigations and covering City Hall. I have nothing but respect and admiration for The Triibe and wish them the very best."
Daley joined The Triibe's newsroom back in February as digital news editor of the Chicago-based, Black-owned publication. Prior to his move to The Triibe, Daley served as news editor at the Chicago Reader.
Representatives with The Triibe did not respond to a request for comment.
Launched in 2017, The Triibe is a news organization "with a vision to reshape the narrative of Black Chicago through innovative and solutions-driven journalism." The award-winning publication has been the recipient of multiple Peter Lisagor awards, among other notable honors.
South Side Weekly is a nonprofit newsroom, founded in 2013. The publication merged with the Hyde Park Herald last year.
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Italy will pull out of the controversial Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in an interview Sunday.
"The issue today is: how to walk back (from the BRI) without damaging relations [with Beijing]. Because it is true that China is a competitor, but it is also a partner," Crosetto said in an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper, according to a report from Reuters.
Crosetto's comments come after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's visit with President Biden in Washington, D.C., last week, where the Italian leader said her government was still considering its options when it came to the deal with China.
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"We'll take a decision before December," Meloni later told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo in an exclusive interview.
Italy was the only major Western country to join the agreement with China, a massive infrastructure spending project China envisions would result in a new Silk Road that can connect China with the rest of Asian and Europe, earning scorn from some European Union leaders and Washington at the time.
But the decision to join the initiative was made under the country's previous leadership, something Crosetto said was an "improvised and atrocious act."
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Critics of Italy joining the deal have argued it has done little to benefit the country's economy, Politico reported Sunday, noting that the pact did not improve Italy's trade deficit with China. Since the agreement was signed in 2019, Chinese exports to Italy increased 51%, while Chinese imports of Italian goods only increased by 26%, the report noted, citing the country's Trade Agency.
Crosetto's comments somewhat echoed those of Meloni's from earlier this year, when she expressed optimism that Italy's relationship with China could be strong without her country's participation in the initiative.
"Italy is the only G-7 member that signed up to the accession memorandum to the Silk Road, but it is not the European or Western country with the strongest economic relations and trade flows with China," Meloni said in May, according to Politico. "This means that it is possible to have good relations with Beijing, also in important domains, without them necessarily being part of an overall strategic plan."
Reuters contributed to this report.
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The family of a Manhattan architect charged in the Gilgo Beach serial killings is "enduring a profound and indescribable catastrophe," an attorney for his estranged wife said as she begged for privacy and "normalcy."
Macedonio & Duncan, the law firm representing Asa Ellerup in her divorce from Rex Heuermann, issued the statement in a news release on Friday. It also included a direct statement from Ellerup.
"On behalf of my family and especially my elderly neighbors, who have also had their lives turned upside down by the enormous police presence, in addition to the spectators, and news crews. They deserve to live peacefully; they should be able to walk their dogs and go to the grocery stores without cameras shoved in their faces," she said. "I am pleading with you all to give us space so that we may regain some normalcy in our neighborhood."
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La Spata, a cycling advocate, said he is “incredibly sad” Biagi is leaving city government, saying she was “an incredible collaborator and had such remarkable vision for where we need to go as a city.”
Despite the pace of the city’s expansion of protected bike lanes being criticized by the cycling community over the past four years, La Spata argued Biagi was not to be blamed.
"The commissioner is not the person who holds up this work,” he said. “We need (the City Council) to be more bought-in to a safe infrastructure network across the city for that work to succeed.”
Biagi, an urban planner who was a principal at Studio Gang Architects, joined the Lightfoot administration in 2019.
The city issued a press release Monday afternoon saying Biagi’s last day would be Aug. 11.
Johnson praised Biagi in a statement, saying he was “grateful for her service.”
Biagi was “instrumental in implementing transportation systems and critical public infrastructure that improves neighborhoods, connects residents and promotes safe and sustainable mobility,” the statement said.
Biagi said in the statement that “it’s been an honor to lead an agency committed to creating safer access to opportunities for all Chicagoans, whether they walk, bike, drive or take transit.”
Biagi’s anticipated departure comes just weeks after former Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara announced she was leaving her post earlier this month. Novara’s last day was Friday. The Chicago Community Trust announced today that Novara would join the nonprofit in September.
Johnson kept in place nearly all of Lightfoot’s commissioners, asking them to work with him through the summer as his administration gets its footing.
Jim Horan is serving as acting commissioner while Johnson searches for Novara’s replacement, Johnson spokesman Ronnie Reese said Monday. Horan previously served as deputy commissioner of the department’s bureau of construction and compliance.
Leigh Giangreco contributed.
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An inmate is suing one of the nation's largest private prison operators over his 2021 stabbing inside a now-defunct maximum security federal facility in Kansas.
Joshua Braddy, who is now incarcerated in Illinois, amended his suit Monday to add CoreCivic, alleging the company was negligent in how it ran the Leavenworth Detention Center, prioritizing "profit over safety." Also added were prison staff and the prison's health care contractor.
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The suit initially named as defendants three former Leavenworth detainees accused of stabbing Braddy.
Just a few weeks after the attack on Braddy, civil rights advocates and federal public defenders urged the White House in a letter to shutter the facility. The letter cited a host of other problems, including suicides and an attack on a correctional officer.
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CoreCivic responded at the time that the claims were "false and defamatory." But with President Joe Biden already calling on the U.S. Marshal’s Office to end its reliance on private prisons, the contract for the facility was ended in December 2021.
The private prison was separate from Leavenworth’s better-know federal penitentiary, where infamous mobsters and, more recently, former football star Michael Vick, were held.
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Iraq’s foreign minister called Monday for the Organization for Islamic Cooperation to form a committee for talks with the European Union over its member countries permitting the desecration of the Quran and to enlist volunteers to file lawsuits to halt the practice.
Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein also called on the United Nations to "take measures to prevent these incidents."
Hussein made his statement during an emergency online meeting of foreign ministers from the Jeddah-based organization to discuss recent incidents in which the Islamic holy book was burned or otherwise defaced at officially permitted protests in Sweden and Denmark.
The body did not issue any decision or official statement after Monday’s meeting.
Ahead of the meeting, two men who had previously burned a copy of the Quran in Sweden did so once again, in front of a crowd of a few dozen onlookers and about 20 counter-protesters.
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In both Sweden and Denmark, there is no law against blasphemy, and freedom of expression is generally held in high regard.
But as the recent Quran burnings have sparked angry demonstrations and diplomatic backlash in Muslim countries, officials in the Scandinavian countries have begun to consider whether there should be curbs on public defacement of holy books or other religious symbols.
Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said Sunday in an interview with Danish public broadcaster DR that the government is seeking a "legal tool" to prohibit such inflammatory acts without compromising freedom of expression.
In Sweden, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Sunday on Instagram that his government is analyzing the legal situation regarding desecration of the Quran and other holy books, given the animosity such acts are stirring up against Sweden.
Before Monday’s meeting, the OIC had already suspended the status of Sweden’s special envoy over the Quran burnings.
Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said in a statement that he spoke in recent days with counterparts in OIC countries to explain how Sweden's freedom of expression works and that police make independent decisions on protest applications. He added that "the government is very clear in its distance from the Islamophobic acts carried out by individuals at demonstrations in Sweden."
The Danish foreign minister said his "government condemned and denounced the insult" to the Quran and "that it is studying this issue with great interest."
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Kentucky's education commissioner is leaving to take a job at a university in Michigan.
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Commissioner of Education Jason Glass said Monday that he will step down on Sept. 29 to become an associate vice president of teaching and learning at Western Michigan University. Glass was appointed to the state education department's top job in 2020.
Glass arrived in the job six months into the COVID-19 pandemic "and made swift and strategic responses to ensure that learning continued and that the health and well-being of students and educators remained a top priority," a media release from the Department of Education said.
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Glass, who served under Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, was repeatedly criticized by Republican lawmakers and GOP gubernatorial candidates for his support for inclusive LGBTQ policies in schools. Glass had been looking for a new job out of the state since at least May.
Glass thanked the state at the Department of Education and said he has "a heart full of gratitude."
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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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It's an increase of nearly 38% from the same time a year ago and the largest number of sales in the second quarter in any year since 2008, according to the report.
“I’m not at all surprised to see this surge,” said Erik Doersching, CEO of Tracy Cross & Associates. “Sales would have been even higher if more developments were open, but supply is constrained because there’s not enough building going on.”
The second quarter was so strong that it compensated for a limp first quarter, when sales were down almost 30% from the same time in 2022. Together, one weak and one strong quarter totaled 2,643 new home sales in the region, off 2.4% from the first half of 2022.
The inventory of existing homes on the market is super low, largely because homeowners with sub-4% mortgages that predate the Federal Reserve's recent interest-rate hikes are reluctant to sell because they’d have to buy with an over-6% mortgage.
“Low inventory is definitely driving demand,” said Matt Dill, president of Beechen & Dill Homes, a Burr Ridge company that he’s the second generation to lead.
While low inventory may turn buyers’ heads from existing homes, when they start shopping the new homes, they’re easily convinced, Dill says, “because you get everything new. New roof, brand-new mechanicals, on-trend cabinets and flooring.”
In Lemont, Dill’s firm has a development called Copper Ridge, with a mix of singe-family houses and attached townhouses. When townhouse sales began in April, Dill says, he expected to sell about nine by the end of the second quarter.
Instead, “we had 15 sales,” Dill says. That’s about half the product, sold in a few months. “It’s going great,” he says.
The townhouses are single-story designs with prices starting at about $505,000. Seven of 19 single-family homes, with prices in the upper $700,000s, have sold since January.
In all, Copper Ridge is selling “almost twice as fast” as he expected, Dill says.
While building more homes could help fill this year’s gap in inventory, Dill says building faster isn’t really possible, given the time it takes to acquire lots and the requisite municipal approvals and permits.
“I’d say we’re going at a good pace and want to keep things going that way,” Dill says.
Lucy Mierop, who represents many small developers’ individually built homes, says they’re also hesitant about rushing to fill the inventory gap.
“I’m telling my guys all the time, ‘if you’ll build more, you’ll sell them,’ but they’re reluctant,” says Mierop, a Re/Max market agent based in Willow Springs. “They don’t want to get left holding the bag if things slow down. They saw that in the last bust” in the early 2000s.
Deep-pocketed national firms have not been quite so reluctant and, as a result, Doersching says, “they’re seeing proof of what we’ve been saying, that supply is holding back sales.”
National firms were behind most of the newly opened developments, Cross explained in its report and, in turn, newly opened developments reaped about 14% of the quarter’s total sales volume.
“We’ve been saying you need to get the product on the market because there’s demand,” Doersching says. “Now there’s proof. These national builders have been aggressive in getting new developments opened, and they’re performing.”
The top five sellers of new homes in the Chicago region are all nationals, from No. 1 D.R. Horton, based in Texas, to No. 5 Ryan Homes, based in Virginia. Each of them had 230 or more sales in the second quarter. These firms routinely decline to talk to Crain’s about their sales.
Privately owned Chicago-based builders are far smaller. The two largest are Lexington Homes, with 35 sales during the quarter, and Beechen & Dill, with 32.
In the second quarter, new home sales in the suburbs were up 46% from a year ago, to 1,368 sales, according to the Tracy Cross report. In the city, sales were down about 35%, to 70.
The figures are similar for the second half of the year. Suburban sales were up 1.3% from the first half of 2022, to 2,472 sales, and city sales were down about 41%, to 139.
The Cross data only includes homes built in developments of 10 or more, which means individually built homes do not appear.
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Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry was blasted on social media over the weekend by critics who accused him of trying to destroy the agriculture industry in order to achieve "net zero" emissions.
"Agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world depending a little bit on how you count it but it’s anywhere from 26 to 33 and we can’t get to net zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution," Kerry told a climate change summit in May.
"You just can’t continue to both warm the planet, while also expecting to feed it," Kerry added. "It doesn’t work. So we have to reduce emissions from the food system."
That clip was widely shared over the weekend after being posted by the Twitter account Wide Awake Media, which led to a new wave of criticism against the Biden administration's top climate envoy. Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller who called them an "attack on American farmers."
JOHN KERRY SCORCHED FOR MISLEADING ON PRIVATE JET USE: 'DEMOCRATS' STANDARD OF HYPOCRISY'
"Nothing to see here," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted. "Just hypocritical Dems wanting to bankrupt every farmer in America…."
"These people are sick bastards," GOP Rep. Chip Roy tweeted. "I introduced legislation to defund this clown. But that’s just for show unless Republicans as a whole decide to fight instead of laying down while the very freedom they campaign on is under assault."
WHITE HOUSE SILENT AFTER JOHN KERRY LAMENTS UKRAINE WAR'S CARBON EMISSIONS
Back in May, two dozen Republicans signed a letter calling on President Biden and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to disavow Kerry's comments\, calling them a "blatant slap in the face to the hardworking individuals that spend their lives sustainably producing our world’s food, fuel, and fiber."
Overall, the global food system — which includes land-use change, actual agricultural production, packaging and waste management — generates about 18 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent of 34% of total worldwide emissions, according to a March 2021 study published in the Nature Food journal.
In the U.S., though, agriculture generates about 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions, federal data showed.
A State Department spokesman responded to the criticism by saying Kerry is hoping to work with farmers to reduce their climate emissions.
"Secretary Kerry believes that addressing the climate crisis will require collaborating and partnering closely with America’s farmers – who are some of the most productive and efficient in the world and who are already facing the impacts of worsening extreme weather – by investing in technical and financial assistance, deploying innovative technologies, and expanding the reach of other tools that will help boost their resilience to climate impacts while reducing greenhouse gas pollution," the spokesman said.
"During his remarks at the AIM for Climate summit, Secretary Kerry celebrated the progress made in supercharging global investments in climate-smart agricultural innovation, including unlocking $13 billion in funds to empower farmers and ranchers as they address the rising risks and costs posed by the climate crisis," he added.
Fox News' Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report
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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 the blue supermoon 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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