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PARIS (AP) — New wildfires raging in southwestern France have torn through over 1,000 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of residents amid record temperatures for September.
Fires that began to rage Monday caused the evacuation of over 500 people in the Gironde region, as a smaller blaze burned south of Bordeaux, near Dax, where temperatures reached 39C (102F).
Strong winds hampered the efforts of hundreds of firefighters, who struggled to extinguish the flames throughout the night into Tuesday with little success. The fires are still uncontained.
Two Canadair aircraft specialized in firefighting — that already saw considerable work over the hot summer months in southern France — have been deployed to help, alongside helicopters and a Dash plane.
French weather agency Meteo France announced Monday it had recorded record temperatures for the month of September — especially in the southwest due to a heatwave rising up from Morocco. Mercury hit 39.1 degrees Celsius (102.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the southwestern Landes region.
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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian politician who made waves by questioning Russia’s strategy in Ukraine on national television said Tuesday he spoke the truth and does not fear punishment under harsh laws against discrediting soldiers and spreading fake news about the conflict.
The remarks by Boris Nadezhdin, a former liberal national Parliament member, came as Russian forces retreated from much of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
During a talk show on state-controlled NTV on Sunday, Nadezhdin said President Vladimir Putin had been misled by intelligence services that apparently told him Ukrainian resistance would be brief and ineffective. Nadezhdin also called for fighting to end and negotiations to begin.
Russian officials in recent weeks have repeatedly accused Ukraine of being unwilling to negotiate, but they have also put forth draconian terms. Former President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday said Russia would demand total capitulation in order to negotiate.
In an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, Nadezhdin said negotiations on a ceasefire “are possible always and everywhere.” But he said resolving issues such as the status of the eastern separatist regions and of Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, would be far more difficult.
“Negotiations on these issues? They are now absolutely unrealistic, because there is a position like this: ‘We will defeat you, no we will defeat you’,” he said.
Nadezhdin’s televised comments were notable because of Russia’s moves to stifle criticism of its sending troops into Ukraine. Days after the operation started, Parliament approved legislation that outlawed alleged disparaging of the Russian military or the spread of “false information” about the operation in Ukraine.
OVD-Info, a legal aid group that tracks political arrests in Russia, has counted 90 criminal cases on charges of spreading false information about the Russian military since Feb. 24.
“I have definitely not violated any Russian laws,” Nadezhdin told the AP. “There was not a single fake at all, not a single fake in what I said. There was a statement of absolutely obvious facts.”
The pullback of troops from the Kharkiv region and Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Russian-held parts of the southern Kherson region have raised concerns that Russia is faltering in what officials insist be called a “special military operation.”
The leader of the Communist Party, the country’s second-biggest political grouping, on Tuesday called both for a general mobilization to boost the military’s manpower and for the conflict to be openly called a war.
“War and a special operation are fundamentally different. You can stop the special operation, you cannot stop the war, even if you want to,” Gennady Zyuganov was quoted as saying by Russian news media.
“Maximum mobilization of forces and resources is required.” he said.
Mild criticism of Putin is also emerging.
Seven members of a local council in St. Petersburg last week called on the national Parliament to bring treason charges against Putin because of the Ukraine conflict; five of them have been charged with discrediting the army.
A local council in Moscow last week passed a resolution calling on Putin to resign, saying “The rhetoric that you and your subordinates are using has been riddled with intolerance and aggression for a long time, which in the end effectively threw our country back into the Cold War era. Russia has again begun to be feared and hated.”
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CHICAGO (AP) — A 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II.
Members of Herbert “Bert” Jacobson’s family waited all their lives to attend a memorial for the young man they knew about but never met. Jacobson was among the more than 400 sailors and Marines killed on the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The casket containing his remains was carried Tuesday morning on a horse-drawn caisson led by a military escort before his burial at Arlington National Cemetery, said Amber Vincent, a cemetery spokeswoman.
“This has kind of been an unsolved mystery and it gives us closure to finally know what happened to Bert, where he is and that he’s being finally laid to rest after being listed as an unknown for so long,” said Brad McDonald, a nephew.
The service at Arlington was the latest chapter in the story of the man from the small northern Illinois town of Grayslake, for the family that never had a body to bury when he was killed and the scientific quest to put names to the remains of hundreds of personnel from the battleship who lay buried anonymously for decades in a dormant volcanic crater near Pearl Harbor.
It is a story of waiting.
The battleship remained submerged for two years before it was refloated and bodies were recovered. A few years later, the graves of men on the Oklahoma were reopened in the hopes that dental records might lead to their names. But 27 sets of remains were not identified and had to be reinterred at the crater, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, commonly known as the Punchbowl.
Another effort to identify about 100 sets of remains came up empty in 2003.
In 2015, the Department of Defense announced plans to exhume the remains again.
“We now have the ability to forensically test these remains and produce the identifications,” Debra Prince Zinni, a forensic anthropologist and laboratory manager at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Hawaii, told The Associated Press at the time.
That gave new hope to Jacobson family members, who had been disappointed by each failed effort. They told the AP that Jacobson’s mother cried every Dec. 7, at least in part because she never knew where he was.
“She always had the hope the phone would ring and it would be Bert,” McDonald said.
The 2015 effort, Project Oklahoma, has led to the identification of 355 men — including Jacobson — who were killed when their ship was hit by at least nine torpedoes. That leaves 33 sets of remains still to be identified. To mark the 80th anniversary of the attack, those unidentified remains were reinterred, said Gene Hughes, a public affairs officer with Navy Personnel Command. He has worked with the families of those killed on the Oklahoma, including Jacobson’s relatives.
For Jacobson’s family, any hope they would know exactly what happened on Dec. 7, 1941, faded long ago. All they knew from talking to Jacobson’s shipmates was that he had just come off duty after spending several hours ferrying men to shore.
McDonald said a good friend of his uncle from the Navy said he was pretty sure Jacobson “was asleep in his bunk and died before he even knew a war was going on. But we don’t really know.”
That left one final question: What happened to Bert Jacobson’s body?
The answer came in 2019, when McDonald said the family was notified that Jacobson’s remains had been identified. Hoping the burial could take place the next year, they were forced to wait, in large part because the COVID-19 pandemic delayed most gatherings, funerals included.
Now, they have gotten the closure that Jacobson’s parents and other family members never had.
“I wish they could have seen this,” McDonald said of his grandparents, parents and others.
For him, seeing the funeral for the uncle he never met take his place at Arlington is especially significant.
“When Bert joined the Navy, he ran into a fella from South Dakota who was an orphan,” McDonald said. “When they got a weekend pass, Bert took him home and the orphan met his (Bert’s) younger sister.”
Orville McDonald and Norma Jacobson dated and later married, giving McDonald a favorite ending to that story.
“That orphan was my dad, and Bert’s sister was my mom,” he said. “So, I wouldn’t be here without Bert.”
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Find past coverage of Pearl Harbor and efforts to identify remains at https://apnews.com/hub/attack-on-pearl-harbor
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s police on Tuesday banned a Pride march planned amid pan-European LGBTQ events being held this week in Belgrade, citing a risk of clashes with far-right anti-gay activists. Organizers vowed to appeal the ban.
Pro-Serbian Orthodox Church conservative groups, who have been marching unhindered for weeks on the Serbian capital’s streets to protest the LGBTQ events, had scheduled a new demonstration for Sept. 17 — the day of the Pride parade. Police also banned that anti-gay protest.
“After the security assessment, it was determined that there is a high risk the safety of participants in both (marches) on the announced routes will be endangered, as well as the safety of other citizens,” police said in a statement.
Serbia’s populist president had earlier warned the gay Pride march would be banned.
Organizers of EuroPride, the largest annual Pride event in Europe — which includes a week of festivities — said they hoped their legal appeal against the ban will be accepted and that they would hold the festivities as planned.
“Belgrade Pride will use all available means to overturn this decision,” their statement said.
After the ban was announced, gay activists booed and jeered Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, who is openly lesbian but has been accused by the Serbian gay community of doing nothing to improve their status. She attended a human rights conference that was a part of the weeklong LGBTQ events.
The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Dunja Mijatovic, said Serbian authorities should withdraw the ban on the march and protect participants. The CoE is Europe’s top human rights body.
“It is highly regrettable that the Serbian authorities have decided to ban the EuroPride march scheduled for 17 September,” Mijatovic said in a statement. “Weeks of uncertainty concerning the holding of this march have sent a wrong message to the public and made space for hateful rhetoric and more threats against LGBTI people, including from religious leaders”
Members of the European Pride Organizers Association chose Serbia’s capital three years ago to host the annual event, hoping it would represent a major breakthrough for a Slavic country that is traditionally conservative and strongly influenced by the Orthodox Church.
Serbia’s rights groups have urged supporters to join the Pride march as part of a struggle for democracy that they say is under threat from President Aleksandar Vucic’s autocratic regime. Serbia is formally seeking European Union membership — and has pledged to boost LGBTQ rights — but has for years been moving closer to Russia’s political orbit.
Several EU officials have said they will join the LGBTQ events, while those calling on the Serbian government to reverse the previously heralded ban included U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Vucic, who has for weeks warned the Pride march would be banned, said police can’t cope with possible riots by right-wing groups against the Pride march amid a crisis over relations with Serbia’s breakaway province of Kosovo as well as the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
“In the current geopolitical situation and tensions in the region, senseless clashes on the streets of Belgrade would make the position of our country more difficult, (and) endanger the safety of participants in the marches, as well as other citizens,” Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When Don Cox was looking for a reliable place to build a family farm in the 1950s, he settled on California’s Imperial Valley.
The desert region had high priority water rights, meaning its access to water was hard for anyone to take away.
“He had it on his mind that water rights were very, very important,” said his grandson, Thomas Cox, who now farms in the Valley.
He was right. Today the Imperial Valley, which provides many of the nation’s winter vegetables and cattle feed, has one of the strongest grips on water from the Colorado River, a critical but over-tapped supply for farms and cities across the West. In times of shortage, Arizona and Nevada must cut first.
But even California, the nation’s most populous state with 39 million people, may be forced to give something up in the coming years as hotter and drier weather causes the river’s main reservoirs to fall to dangerously low levels. If the river were to become unusable, Southern California would lose a third of its water supply and vast swaths of farmland in the state’s southeastern desert would go unplanted.
“Without it, the Imperial Valley shuts down,” said JB Hamby, a board member for the Imperial Irrigation District, which holds rights to the largest share of Colorado River water.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
A century ago, California and six other states — Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — created a compact that split the water into two basins and set rules for how much water each would get. A series of deals, laws and court cases that followed led California to get the most water and made it the last to lose in times of shortage.
Fear and frustration over California’s use of the river has driven the compact since its early days. In western water law, the first person who taps the source gets the highest right, and California cities and farmers have relied on the river for more than a century.
Other western states worried California would lay claim to all the river’s water before their own populations grew. The compact and the series of deals that followed attempted to find a balance to protect California’s supply while ensuring other states got some too. California, meanwhile, benefitted when the federal government began building the Hoover Dam to help control the river’s flow.
Today, the states are now gearing up for a 2026 deadline to renegotiate some of the terms to better deal with drought and protect two major reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. But before that, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has demanded the states find a way to cut their use by roughly 15% to 30% to stave off a crisis. The states failed to meet a mid-August deadline to reach a deal, but negotiations are continuing and no new date for an agreement has been set.
All eyes are on California and its major water rights holders — namely the Imperial Irrigation District and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California — to see if they will give up some of their share. Both districts say they’re willing to use less water or pay others to do so — especially if cooperating means they can avoid challenges to their senior rights.
But they’re playing coy about what exactly they’re willing to give.
The river is the only water supply for the Imperial Irrigation District, whose farmers grow broccoli, onions, carrots and other winter vegetables as well as alfalfa and other feedstock. The limited water underneath the ground in the region, near California’s border with Arizona and Mexico, is not usable, and it does not have access to state water supplies.
The irrigation district was historically entitled to more water than either Arizona or Nevada, though it’s given some up over the years in exchange for payment from cities like San Diego and Los Angeles. In 2019, its board rejected a drought contingency plan signed by other water users in Arizona, Nevada and California.
This time around, officials say the district would be open to leaving fields unplanted to save water on a temporary, emergency basis. But neither Hamby nor board spokespeople would say how much.
State officials are looking to the $4 billion approved by Congress for the Colorado River as a possible source of money that could be used to pay the district and, in turn, farmers, to use less water.
The farmers aren’t privy to all of the district’s negotiating tactics, but are trying to organize among themselves to avoid having cuts foisted on them, Cox said. Many farmers have already installed drip irrigation lines that use less water, but they would be willing to adopt more conservation tactics if they’d be paid to do so.
Already, Cox said he’s making decisions about whether to plant on all of his vegetable fields this fall because he’s getting less water than normal under a new system adopted by the board.
“With water uncertainty, there’s going to be more uncertainty on food supply,” he said.
And it’s not just farmers who rely on the Imperial Irrigation District’s water. Runoff from the farms feeds the Salton Sea, a massive inland lake created in the early 1900s when the Colorado River flooded. It’s now rapidly drying up, exposing surrounding communities to toxic dust and killing the habitat that birds and fish rely on. The state and federal government are now looking for other ways to support the sea in the absence of river water, and its being eyed as a possible site for lithium extraction.
“We’re talking about a body of water surrounded by communities who have been marginalized for so (long), that don’t have the infrastructure or capacity to protect themselves from climate change, from less availability of water, from more dust,” said Silvia Paz, executive director for Alianza Coachella Valley, an organization fighting to improve the economy and health outcomes in the region.
Behind the irrigation district, the Metropolitan Water District is the state’s second largest user of the river’s water. The Colorado makes up about one-third of the water supply the district uses to provide water for drinking, bathing, landscaping and recreating to roughly half the state’s population. Los Angeles County, the nation’s largest, is one of the many areas in Southern California that relies on the river’s water.
It’s allowed to store some of the water it doesn’t use in Lake Mead, which California officials say has actually helped stave off a river crisis in recent years. But this year, short on other supplies, the district may actually try to pull some of that water out if needed, a move that would likely cause friction with other states in the basin.
The district also gets water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the state’s main source of water supplies. But the Delta is suffering from drought, too, and the state only approved 5% of requested supplies this year. As it looks to stabilize its water supply for the future, the district is spending billions on a water recycling plant and urging people to use less water for their lawns.
Still, ensuring the Colorado River is available in dry years when other supplies aren’t available is the district’s priority, said Bill Hasencamp, the district’s Colorado River manager.
Farm-heavy water districts in the Coachella Valley and Riverside County also get Colorado River water, which they use for crops like citrus, melons and barley. The Fort Mojave Indian Reservation and Colorado River Indian Reservation are among the tribes in California with river rights.
Looking to the future, both climate change and politics are at play as California’s water users debate what it will take to keep the river alive.
“What they really want is reliability and predictability,” said Michael Cohen, a Colorado River expert with the Pacific Institute. “What they don’t want is Arizona screaming that Phoenix and Tucson are dried up and California doesn’t take a drop of reductions.”
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LONDON (AP) — A police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black man in London has been suspended from duty, the British capital’s Metropolitan Police force said.
Chris Kaba, 24, was killed in south London on Sept. 5 after police pursued his car and tried to stop it. His vehicle was hemmed in by two police cars in a narrow residential street in the Streatham Hill neighborhood, and one round was fired from a police weapon.
Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Amanda Pearson said Monday the firearms officer was suspended partly because of the “significant impact on public confidence.”
“We understand how concerned communities are, particularly Black communities, and thank those who are working closely with our local officers,” she said.
The police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, launched a homicide investigation last week into Kaba’s death.
The office said the shooting came after the activation of an automatic number plate recognition camera, which indicated that the vehicle Kaba was driving was linked to a firearms incident in previous days. It said the car that Kaba was driving wasn’t registered to him.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military claimed Tuesday for the first time that it encountered an Iranian-supplied suicide drone used by Russia on the battlefield, showing the deepening ties between Moscow and Tehran as the Islamic Republic’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers hangs in the balance.
U.S. intelligence publicly warned back in July that Tehran planned to send hundreds of the bomb-carrying drones to Russia to aid its war on Ukraine. While Iran initially denied it, the head of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has boasted in recent days about arming the world’s top powers.
The Ukrainian military’s Strategic Communications Directorate published images of the wreckage of the drone. It resembled a triangle, or delta-shaped, drone flown by Iran known as the Shahed, or “Witness” in Farsi.
The military official and the website both said Ukrainian troops encountered the drone near Kupiansk amid Kyiv’s offensive that has punched through Russian lines around Kharkiv on the eastern front.
The image suggested the Shahed drone had been shot down by Ukrainian forces and hadn’t detonated on impact as designed, though little other information was immediately released by Kyiv. An inscription on the drone identified it as an “M214 Gran-2,” which didn’t immediately correspond to known Russian weaponry.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Iran has multiple version of the Shahed, which have overflown a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, been used by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen, attacked oil depots in Saudi Arabia and allegedly killed two sailors aboard an oil tanker off Oman in 2021. The triangle-shaped Shahed is believed to have a range of around 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles), though Iran has offered few details.
Experts refer to such bomb-carrying drones as “loitering munitions.” The drone flies to a destination, likely programmed before its flight, and either explodes in the air over the target or on impact against it.
Iran has drawn closer to Russia as it faces crushing sanctions over the collapse of the nuclear deal in 2018 after then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the accord. Negotiations over the deal, which saw Iran limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for sanctions being lifted, again appear deadlocked.
Ukraine and Iran also have tense relations, stemming from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet in 2020, killing all 176 people on board.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A white Philadelphia police officer became distraught when he learned that a Black motorist he fatally shot after a high-speed chase was unarmed, his lawyer said as the ex-officer’s third-degree murder trial began Tuesday.
Prosecutors said that former Officer Eric Ruch Jr. shot and killed Dennis Plowden Jr. less than six seconds after arriving on the scene — even as other officers held their fire. A grand jury investigation found that Plowden, 25, was dazed after crashing the car and had his left hand raised as he tried to follow commands on a city sidewalk.
However, defense lawyer David Mischak told jurors that Plowden’s right hand remained hidden near a pocket. Only later, he said, did Ruch learn what was inside.
“As soon as my client discovered it was heroin and not a gun, he was upset. He was distraught,” Mischak said.
He urged jurors to consider not just what happened in the six seconds at the scene, but the two-minute chase beforehand. Police thought the car was linked to a recent homicide. Plowden, who had borrowed the car and was not involved in that case, drove at high speed for several blocks through a city neighborhood before crashing.
“It was a tragedy,” Mischak said of Plowden’s death. “To call my client a criminal really compounds that tragedy.”
Ruch is one of three city police officers facing murder charges filed by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner over their on-duty actions. In his case, the jury will also weigh voluntary manslaughter and a weapons charge.
The bullet from Ruch’s gun went through Plowden’s raised left hand before hitting him in the head. He died at a hospital the following day, according to testimony from his widow, Tania Bond, who briefly took the stand. She won a $1.2 million wrongful death settlement from the city.
Krasner brought dozens of lawsuits against police as a civil rights lawyer and has battled with city police since taking office in 2018.
Ruch was fired about 10 months after the Plowden shooting.
In a key pretrial ruling, Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Barbara McDermott barred prosecutors from telling jurors about a series of complaints filed against him during his 10-year police career because he was mostly cleared of wrongdoing by internal affairs, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
And she limited Bond’s testimony to a few basic facts on Tuesday. However, in an interview with The Associated Press after the charges were filed in 2020, the widow wondered whether Ruch felt any remorse.
“I just want to know, has Ruch ever thought about my family?” she asked.
___ Follow AP Legal Affairs Writer Maryclaire Dale on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Maryclairedale
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PERTH, Australia (AP) — A man who may have been keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet was killed by the animal in southwest Australia, police said Tuesday. It was reportedly the first fatal attack by a kangaroo in Australia since 1936.
A relative found the 77-year-old man with “serious injuries” on his property Sunday in semirural Redmond, 400 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of the Western Australia state capital Perth.
It was believed he had been attacked earlier in the day by the kangaroo, which police shot dead because it was preventing paramedics from reaching the injured man, police said.
“The kangaroo was posing an ongoing threat to emergency responders,” the statement said.
The man died at the scene. Police are preparing a report for a coroner who will record an official cause to death.
Police believe the victim had been keeping the wild kangaroo as a pet.
There are legal restrictions on keeping Australian native fauna as pets, but the police media office said Tuesday they had no information to make public regarding whether the victim had a permit.
Tanya Irwin, who cares for macropods at the Native Animal Rescue service in Perth, said authorities rarely issue permits to keep kangaroos in Western Australia.
“This looks like it was an adult male and they become quite aggressive and they don’t do well in captivity,” Irwin said.
“We don’t know what the situation was; If he was in pain or why he was being kept in captivity and unfortunately … they’re not a cute animal, they’re a wild animal,” Irwin added.
Irwin said her rescue center always rehabilitates native animals with the aim of returning them to the wild, particularly kangaroos.
“You do need a special permit to be able to do that. I don’t believe they really give them out very often unless you’re a wildlife center with trained people who know what they’re doing,” she said.
Western gray kangaroos are common in Australia’s southwest. They can weigh up to 54 kilograms (119 pounds) and stand 1.3 meters (4 feet 3 inches) tall.
The males can be aggressive and fight people with the same techniques as they use with each other. They use their short upper limbs to grapple with their opponent, use their muscular tails to take their body weight, then lash out with both their powerful clawed hind legs.
In 1936, William Cruickshank, 38, died in a hospital in Hillston in New South Wales state on the Australian east coast months after he’d been attacked by a kangaroo.
Cruickshank suffered extensive head injuries including a broken jaw as he attempted to rescue his two dogs from a large kangaroo, The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported at the time.
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(WGHP) — Chick-fil-A is apologizing after a tweet over the weekend raised eyebrows — with many alleging it was racially insensitive.
A Twitter user named Don tweeted at Chick-fil-A on Sept. 9, saying “grilled spicy deluxe but still noooo spicy nuggets…………”
“Your community will be the first to know if spicy items are added to the permanent menu, Don!” the fast food chain’s official Twitter account replied. The reply has been retweeted over 1,700 times and quote-tweeted over 7,000 times, with many users voicing their disapproval.
“Wym [what do you mean] by “your community”? one user replied.
Some others pointed out Chick-fil-A may have been replying in reference to the user’s physical location, as menu items vary — in addition to saying the company uses the term “community” to respond to users in other contexts.
“All jokes aside, they reply like this frequently,” replied user @FactsinatedbyTV, who showed a reply from August using the same verbiage.
In a statement to TODAY, a Chick-fil-A spokesperson said: “The response was a poor choice of words but was not intended in any way to be insensitive or disrespectful. We often use the term ‘community’ in a broader sense to talk about places where we operate and serve the surrounding community.”
The fast food giant is no stranger to controversy, however.
Chick-fil-A as an organization has faced allegations of anti-LGBT sentiment and actions as long ago as 2012, according to the Washington Post. This incident involved chief executive Dan Cathy saying he was opposed to same-sex marriage. In 2019, Chick-fil-A announced a shift in its charitable focus, which was widely reported as the company pledging to stop giving to anti-LGBT organizations, USA Today explains. While the shift did include a stop to donations for controversial groups, there were 80 other organizations with no LGBT-issue ties that lost funding.
In 2020, Chick-fil-A was in the news again after social media rumors it had “resumed” giving to anti-LGBT groups, though USA Today notes the claim was debunked after Chick-fil-A verified tax documents being shared were from 2018.
Nevertheless, the chain has remained controversial for some. In July, a former Georgia employee who is transgender filed a lawsuit against Chick-fil-A, claiming her complaints about sexual harassment in the workplace were ignored. According to the lawsuit, the former employee, Erin Taylor, says she was instead told by the store’s owner that she should consider it as an “honor” that as a transgender woman “someone liked her enough to hit on her.”
The Washington Post reports Taylor is asking for damages related to “mental and emotional suffering,” in addition to lost wages and benefits.
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BOSTON (AP) — A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday, and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries.
The parcel that blew up was one of two that were reported to police early in the evening. Boston’s bomb squad neutralized a second package near the city’s Museum of Fine Arts, which is on the outskirts of the Northeastern campus.
NBC Boston reported that the package that exploded went off as it was being opened near the university’s Holmes Hall, which is home to the university’s creative writing program and its women’s, gender and sexuality studies program. It said the FBI was assisting in the investigation.
Authorities declined to elaborate, but Northeastern spokesperson Shannon Nargi said in a statement that an unidentified university staff member suffered minor injuries to his hand in the explosion.
Police converged on the campus shortly before 7:30 p.m., and the university asked students who had gathered for an evening journalism class at the hall to evacuate the building.
Northeastern is a private university in downtown Boston. WCVB said one of its reporters, Mike Beaudet, was teaching a class there at the time. Beaudet told the station his class was moved outside but that neither he nor his students heard an explosion.
Michael Davis, chief of Northeastern’s police force, told reporters the campus was secure. Boston police didn’t say whether any other suspicious packages were found.
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both on the other side of the Charles River separating Boston from Cambridge, said they were increasing patrols on their campuses as a precaution and urging students and faculty to report anything suspicious.
Tuesday’s packages marked one of the first big scares in Boston since 2013, when two bombs planted near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three spectators and wounded more than 260 others.
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(Storyful) Mourners formed a long, snaking line through the Meadows in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Monday, September 12, waiting to see the coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II as it lay in rest at St Giles’ Cathedral.
Footage recorded by Ian Simpson shows the line, as mourners were told they could expect to wait around 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Simpson wrote that the line when he was there was “well over a mile” to the wristband collection point and another mile and a half from there to the cathedral.
The coffin was set to be flown to London on Tuesday evening, ahead of a period of lying in state at Westminster Hall. The public was being warned of potential wait times in London of up to 35 hours.
Credit: Ian Simpson via Storyful
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(NEXSTAR) – At least 50% of the U.S. workforce is currently made up of “quiet quitters,” according to a recent Gallup data — meaning workers do just enough to keep jobs they’re unsatisfied with. But a new “anti-quiet quitting” workplace trend is now gaining attention online. It’s called “FatFIRE.”
Unlike quiet quitting and its encouragement of disengagement, the concept of FatFIRE (which includes an acronym standing for “Financial Independence, Retire Early”) encourages workers to engage harder with jobs they may not necessarily like, to earn as much money as possible before “retiring” with an investment nest egg. Essentially, just grin and bear the job, stash as much money into stock options (like index funds) as you can, and then live off of the money.
The /FatFIRE subreddit, which currently boasts over 328,000 members, explains that there isn’t a set amount of money one must amass, but members of the group are generally considered “on the path” if they have enough to cover anticipated living expenses of at least $150,000 per year. This is known as the “FIRE number.”
The group’s subreddit even includes the concept’s mantra, “Retire with a fat stash” — hence the “fat” part in the name.
It’s important to note the concept is likely much harder for people in some industries to accomplish than others. Additionally, because FatFIRE aims for retiring “at an overabundant or luxurious level,” nest eggs needed to do it are dependent upon your area and living situations.
According to Forbes, someone pursuing a FatFIRE endeavor would need around $2.5 million in a portfolio to eventually have around $100,000, per year, to live off during retirement. FatFIRE goals may include being able to pay your bills but also having excess money to live in areas with higher costs, or to travel frequently — in addition to eventual costs of aging, as Time reports.
In addition to the challenges of stashing away enough for a nest egg, Forbes senior contributor Jack Kelly explains there are some significant downsides to FatFIREing, including potential major stock market disruptions, expensive personal catastrophes, and the possibility of needing to re-enter the job market after years away.
So even though FatFIRE presents an alternative to quiet quitting — albeit one that only a certain segment of the workforce can hope to achieve — the actual concept doesn’t remedy job satisfaction, which Gallup data shows is steadily declining. Gallup found the percentage of workers under age 35 who felt engaged with their jobs dropped 6 percentage points from 2019 to 2022. Meanwhile, the percentage of remote or hybrid employees (under age 35) who said they felt supported at work dropped 12 percentage points.
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(NEXSTAR) – Finally, a whole new generation of gamers will be exposed to the frustrations of playing against an opponent who keeps choosing Oddjob during multiplayer modes.
Nintendo and Xbox have announced that an HD remaster of “GoldenEye 007” — the widely beloved first-person shooter (FPS) based on the 1995 James Bond film “GoldenEye” — will soon be available to play on Nintendo Switch and Xbox consoles, just over 25 years since its 1997 debut on Nintendo 64.
The re-release is significant for the gaming community not only because “GoldenEye 007” is among the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful FPS titles of all time, but also because an HD remaster has long been teased, but ultimately never came to fruition due to licensing disputes, The Verge had previously reported. (A reimagined version of the game was released for the Nintendo Wii in 2010, albeit from a different game developer, and featuring the likeness and voice of Daniel Craig rather than Pierce Brosnan.)
Rare, the company that developed the game, also announced on Tuesday that the remastered Xbox release will include 4K resolution, a “smoother” frame rate and a local multiplayer mode. Craig Duncan, the studio head at Rare, also teased in a press release that the remaster will support all the “havoc-inducing cheats” that fans had used in their N64 days.
It’s unclear if the version released for Nintendo Switch will include the same features. But Nintendo has announced that its Switch version will support online play — a feature seemingly absent from the Xbox version.
The remastered “GoldenEye 007” will be available for gamers who subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online and Xbox Game Pass, the respective subscription services offered by Xbox and Nintendo.
The exact date of the remaster’s release was not announced.
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NEW YORK (NewsNation) — The skyrocketing cost of tuition at higher education institutions has led many students to question whether college still is worth it or if there are cheaper options out there.
This has led to a growing trend of young adults temporarily moving back in with their parents after graduating due to the economy — labeled as “boomerang kids” or the “boomerang generation,” according to the Pew Research Center.
So, as college students pay more for tuition, where is all that money going?
During move-in day at Boston University, students prepare for the unknown, but one thing they know is that it’s costing them big — $82,000 a year with room and board.
Michael and Frechell Leachman’s daughter is a freshman who applied to multiple schools, but BU was her favorite, a top-dollar choice.
“Well, I can tell you that a lot went into it for us,” Michael Leachman said. “Even though I think the college here did a good job of breaking down tuition, room and board, those sorts of things — you still look at those costs as individual costs, and you’re like, ‘Wow, that’s an exorbitant amount of money.'”
In a recent financial disclosure, for example, BU claimed to have made more during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Boston University faced unprecedented uncertainties in fiscal year 2021 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and responded to the challenge. The financial result was another successful year with total assets growing to $8.3 billion,” the school said.
BU said it increased revenue in 2021 by 46% — an astonishing $143 million in extra revenue.
Across the country, as tuition rises, administrators are getting richer — even at public universities supported by taxpayer dollars.
NewsNation found the president of Arizona State University got an 8% pay raise in 2021, taking his salary up to $1.1 million. The salary for the president of The Ohio State University comes to $1.2 million; Texas Tech University’s president makes $1.3 million, and the University of Kentucky’s president’s salary ballooned to $1.5 million.
So, what does college tuition pay for? A recent study reveals this breakdown:
- 26% instruction
- 20% academic support, student services, instructional support
- 16% for hospital services
- 4% net grant aid to students
There are also sports. Currently, the highest-paid coach is the University of Alabama’s football coach, Nick Saban, making $11.7 million a year.
Meanwhile, Michael Hicks, a professor of economics at Ball State University, says the goal is still to put the money into the classroom.
“It’s going to go to pay professors, to keep classrooms small. If you have a university that has a high proportion of Ph.D.’s teaching classes instead of graduate students or adjunct professors, that’s going to be more expensive,” Hicks explained.
Between 1980 and 2020, the average price of tuition, fees, and room and board for an undergraduate degree jumped by 169%.
In 1980, the price to attend a four-year public institution full-time was $10,231 annually — including tuition, fees, room and board, and adjusted for inflation, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. By 2020-21, the total price increased to $25,700.
While student loans, scholarships and grants are often awarded to students to help with college funding, there’s another option many might not have considered: negotiating a discount on college tuition. It’s something most universities don’t advertise, but it may be possible to negotiate a bargain for a better financial aid package.
“I’m not sure parents know, but an economist knows it; everybody at the university knows it. There are scholarships for students, particularly out-of-state students,” Hicks said.
Private universities led the way with discounted tuition rates for the 2018-19 academic year, according to a study from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).
Tuition discounts are often used as a way to attract students and boost enrollment.
The college and university dropout rates are near 40%. While colleges and universities are in business to make money, the leading reason students are leaving is they can’t afford to pay their tuition.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, died Tuesday at age 76, his family said.
In 2020, he was recruited to the legal team representing President Donald Trump in the nation’s third presidential impeachment trial.
For many years, Starr’s stellar reputation as a lawyer seemed to place him on a path to the Supreme Court. At age 37, he became the youngest person ever to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where Chief Justice John Roberts and justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia also had served. From 1989-93, Starr was the solicitor general in the administration of President George H.W. Bush, arguing 25 cases before the Supreme Court.
Despite his impressive legal credentials, nothing could have prepared him for the task of investigating a sitting president.
In a probe that lasted five years, Starr looked into fraudulent real estate deals involving a long-time Clinton associate, delved into the removal of documents from the office of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster after his suicide and assembled evidence of Clinton’s sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern. Each of the controversies held the potential to do serious, perhaps fatal, damage to Clinton’s presidency.
As Clinton’s legal problems worsened, the White House pilloried Starr as a right-wing fanatic doing the bidding of Republicans bent on destroying the president.
“The assaults took a toll” on the investigation, Starr told a Senate committee in 1999. “A duly authorized federal law enforcement investigation came to be characterized as yet another political game. Law became politics by other means.”
In a bitter finish to his investigation of the Lewinsky affair that engendered still more criticism, Starr filed a report, as the law required, with the U.S. House of Representatives. He concluded that Clinton lied under oath, engaged in obstruction of justice and followed a pattern of conduct that was inconsistent with the president’s constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws. House Republicans used Starr’s report as a roadmap in the impeachment of the president, who was acquitted in a Senate trial.
In 2020, he was recruited to help represent Trump in the nation’s third impeachment trial. In a memorable statement to Congress during the Trump impeachment trial, Starr said “we are living in what I think can aptly be described as the ‘age of impeachment.’” He said that “like war, impeachment is hell, or at least presidential impeachment is hell.”
Clinton’s legal problems began during the 1992 presidential campaign. Questions arose over the candidate’s ties to the owner of a failed Arkansas savings and loan. The issue faded quickly. But it caught the attention of federal regulators, who began looking into whether money from the S&L had been diverted to a real estate venture called Whitewater in which Bill and Hillary Clinton and the S&L’s owner, Jim McDougal, shared a financial interest.
Bowing to intense political pressure from Republicans and some members of his own party, Clinton called for appointment of a special counsel to investigate Whitewater. A three-member appeals court for independent counsels selected Starr.
On the Whitewater front, Starr’s prosecutors investigated Mrs. Clinton’s legal work for Jim McDougal’s S&L. Both she and the president were questioned by Starr’s prosecutors and their videotaped depositions were played for juries in criminal trials of McDougal and his ex-wife Susan. Neither of the Clintons was ever charged in connection with Whitewater.
The investigation of Clinton’s intimate relationship with Lewinsky was a Washington spectacle.
In 1995, Lewinsky went to work at the White House as an intern. During the government shutdown late that year, she and Clinton had a sexual encounter in a hallway near the Oval Office, the first of 10 sexual encounters over the next year and a half. Lewinsky confided the affair to a co-worker, Linda Tripp, who tape recorded some of their conversations and brought the tapes to Starr’s prosecutors. Lewinsky was granted immunity from prosecution and became Starr’s chief witness against the president, who had denied having sexual relations with Lewinsky.
Putting the investigation behind him, Starr embarked on a career in academia, first as dean of the law school at Pepperdine University where he taught constitutional issues and civil procedures, then as president of Baylor University in his home state of Texas. He also became an author, writing “First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life.”
Born in Vernon and raised in San Antonio, Starr earned his B.A. from George Washington University in 1968, his M.A. from Brown University in 1969 and his J.D. degree from Duke University Law School in 1973. He was a law clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger from 1975 to 1977.
As a young attorney at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles, Starr worked with William French Smith, who became attorney general in the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Starr became counselor to Smith, and from there was nominated by Reagan to the federal appeals court.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — King Charles III was flying to Northern Ireland Tuesday on the latest leg of his tour of the nations that make up the United Kingdom, as thousands of people lined up through the night to pay their last respects to his mother’s coffin in Edinburgh.
On Monday night, Charles and his siblings, Anne, Andrew and Edward, their heads bowed, briefly stood vigil around their mother’s flag-draped coffin in St. Giles’ Cathedral as members of the public filed past.
Early Tuesday, a man wearing a suit adorned with medals stood silently, bowed his head and moved on. A woman dabbed away tears with a handkerchief. Another woman with two young children in their school uniforms walked slowly past the coffin.
Some people even paid their respects and then rejoined the end of the line to get a second view of the coffin of the only monarch most people in the United Kingdom have ever known.
In the line of mourners outside St. Giles’ Cathedral in the historic heart of Edinburgh, Sheila McLeay called the queen “a wonderful ambassador for our country.”
“She was such an example for every single one of us. She was dignified. She was just, she was beautiful inside and out. And I have known her all of my life. And I miss her very much,” she added.
Scotland, where the queen died Thursday at her beloved Balmoral estate in the Highlands after a 70-year reign, has been almost universal in its praise for the queen.
The British monarchy draws more mixed emotions in Northern Ireland, where there are two main communities: mostly Protestant unionists who consider themselves British and largely Roman Catholic nationalists who see themselves as Irish.
That split fueled three decades of violence known as “the Troubles” involving paramilitary groups on both sides and U.K. security forces, in which 3,600 people died. The royal family was touched personally by the violence: Lord Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of the queen and a much-loved mentor to Charles, was killed by an Irish Republican Army bomb in 1979.
A deep sectarian divide remains, a quarter century after Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement.
But in a sign of how far Northern Ireland has come on the road to peace, representatives of Sinn Fein — the main Irish nationalist party, linked during the Troubles to the IRA — are attending commemorative events for the queen and meeting the king on Tuesday.
Sinn Fein’s president, Mary Lou McDonald, paid tribute to the 96-year-old monarch following her death last Thursday, calling her “a powerful advocate and ally of those who believe in peace and reconciliation.”
The president and prime minister of the neighboring Republic of Ireland are also due to attend the memorial service in Belfast, despite tense relations between Dublin and London over Brexit. Since Britain left the European Union in 2020, the U.K. and the EU have been wrangling over trade rules for Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with a member of the bloc.
After lying in the cathedral through most of Tuesday, the queen’s coffin will be flown back to London and driven to her official London home, Buckingham Palace.
The Royal Air Force C-17 Globemaster plane that will carry the coffin has in the past been used to evacuate people from Afghanistan and to take humanitarian aid and weapons to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.
In the early hours of Tuesday, scores of workers were seen cleaning litter and weeds from the road between the air force base where the plane carrying the queen’s coffin will land and central London.
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CHALMETTE, La. (WGNO) – Fans of the New Orleans Saints are celebrating a big win after defeating the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday afternoon, and an area supermarket is showing its team spirit with something both sweet and a little bit petty.
On Monday, the Chalmette location of local supermarket chain Breaux Mart debuted a “Fail Cake” in honor of the Saints’ 27-26 comeback victory over the Falcons on Sunday. The top of the cake features a design meant to replicate the scoreboard about 11 minutes prior to the end of the game, when the Falcons were up 26-10.
This isn’t the first time Breaux Mart has found success by offering “Fail Cakes” from its bakery department. When the Falcons blew their 28-3 lead over the New England Patriots at Super Bowl LI, Breaux Mart celebrated the Falcons’ loss with similar cakes.
“Hi yes I’d like to place a preorder, thanks @BreauxMart I love you,” wrote one Saints fan on Twitter, in response to this week’s cakes.
“The level of pettiness in this tweet is epic!!!!” another said.
The Breaux Mart location in Chalmette is baking the custom “Fail Cakes” for football fanatics throughout the season. Prices vary based on the size and the flavor, according to the shop.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation slowed for a second straight month on a sharp fall in gas prices, yet excluding energy most other items got more expensive in August, a sign that inflation remains a heavy burden for American households.
Consumer prices surged 8.3% in August compared with a year earlier, the government said Tuesday, down from an 8.5% jump in July and a four-decade high of 9.1% in June. On a monthly basis, prices rose 0.1%, after a flat reading in July.
But excluding the volatile food and energy categories, so-called core prices jumped 0.6% from July to August — up sharply from 0.3% the previous month and dashing hopes, for now, that core prices might be starting to moderate. In the 12 months ending in August, core prices jumped 6.3%, up from 5.9% in July. Rents, medical care services and new cars all grew more expensive in August.
Core prices typically provide a clearer read on where costs are headed than overall inflation does. Stock index futures tumbled on the worse-than-expected core figures, with many investors fearful that the Federal Reserve will now raise interest rates even faster in its drive to curb inflation.
Inflation remains far higher than many Americans have ever experienced and is keeping pressure on the Fed. The central bank is expected to announce another big increase in its benchmark interest rate next week, which will lead to higher costs for many consumer and business loans.
Inflation has escalated families’ grocery bills, rents and utility costs, among other expenses, inflicting hardships on many households and deepening gloom about the economy despite strong job growth and low unemployment. Groceries continue to rise rapidly, jumping 0.7% from July to August. In the past year, they have soared 13.5% — the biggest 12-month increase since 1979.
Even if inflation peaks, economists expect it could take two years or more to fall back to something close to the Fed’s annual 2% target. The cost of rental apartments and other services, such as health care, are likely to keep rising in the months ahead.
Republicans have sought to make inflation a central issue in the midterm congressional elections. They blame President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed last year for much of the increase. Many economists generally agree, though they also say that snarled supply chains, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and widespread shortages of items like semiconductors have been key factors in the inflation surge.
Yet the signs that inflation might have peaked — or will soon — could bolster Democrats’ prospects in the midterm elections and may already have contributed to slightly higher public approval ratings for Biden. In his speeches, Biden has generally stopped referring to the impact of high prices on family budgets. He has instead highlighted his administration’s recent legislative accomplishments, including a law enacted last month that’s intended to reduce pharmaceutical prices and fight climate change.
Nationally, the average cost of a gallon of gas has dropped to $3.71, down from just above $5 in mid-June. Many businesses are also reporting signs that supply backlogs and inflation are beginning to fade.
General Motors has said the pandemic disruptions to overseas production of semiconductors, which have reduced auto output, have significantly dissipated and that supply chain disruptions overall have improved about 80% from the worst days of the pandemic.
Over the past year, prices of meat, milk and fruits and vegetables have soared by double-digits. But executives at Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery chain, said that falling prices for farm commodities like wheat and corn could slow cost increases for food.
Next week, most Fed watchers expect the central bank to announce a third straight three-quarter-point hike, to a range of 3% to 3.25%. The Fed’s rapid rate increases — the fastest since the early 1980s — typically lead to higher costs for mortgages, auto loans and business loans, with the goal of slowing growth and reducing inflation. The average 30-year mortgage rate jumped to nearly 5.9% last week, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac, the highest figure in nearly 14 years.
Chair Jerome Powell has said the Fed will need to see several months of low inflation readings that suggest price increases are falling back toward its 2% target before it might suspend its rate hikes.
Wages are still rising at a strong pace — before adjusting for inflation — which has elevated demand for apartments as more people move out on their own. A shortage of available houses has also forced more people to keep renting, thereby intensifying competition for apartments.
Rising rents and more expensive services, such as medical care, are also keeping inflation high.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KTVX) – A professional bull rider was killed Monday in a shooting in Salt Lake City that police say was a domestic violence incident.
Demetrius Omar Lateef Allen, also known by his riding name Ouncie Mitchell, was found with a gunshot wound by responding officers outside of an apartment complex. Officers immediately provided emergency medical care until the 27-year-old Allen was transported to a local hospital where he died from his wounds.
The suspect, 21-year-old LaShawn Denise Bagley, was taken into custody.
Police said Allen and Bagley knew each other and had been in a on-again off-again relationship. Allen came to Salt Lake City to attend the Utah State Fair as a professional bull rider and was staying with Bagley, according to police.
Professional Bull Riders CEO Sean Gleason confrimed Allen’s death on Monday: “Ouncie got his name because he was born small. He grew up to compete with a huge heart. The PBR organization sincerely extends our own heartfelt condolences to Ouncie’s cousin Ezekiel Mitchell and the entire Mitchell family.”
Police say Allen and Bagley got into an argument at a bar in downtown Salt Lake City after attending the fair. When Allen went to Bagley’s apartment to collect his things, shots were fired.
Bagley has been booked into the Salt Lake County Metro Jail on charges of Murder and Felony Discharge of a Firearm.
“We encourage anyone who has experienced Domestic Violence to call us at 799-3000 and ask to speak with a Victim Advocate or call their 24-hour hotline directly at 801-580-7969,” Salt Lake City Police Department officials said. “All services are free, and callers can get information anonymously.”
Survivors of domestic violence in Utah can find support resources by visiting the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition website at udvc.org or by visiting the Utah Department of Human Services website.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – The City of San Francisco is facing a lawsuit from a sexual assault victim whose rape kit DNA was used to charge her with a property theft, according to the victim’s attorney.
The suit was filed on behalf of Jane Doe – an alias used to protect the identity of the sexual assault victim – in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Civil rights attorney Adanté Pointer is representing Doe in the case.
“This is government overreach of the highest order, using the most unique and personal thing we have – our genetic code – without our knowledge to try and connect us to crime,” Pointer said in a statement.
During a search of a San Francisco Police Department crime lab database, the woman’s DNA was tied to a burglary in late 2021. Her DNA had been collected and stored in the system as part of a 2016 domestic violence and sexual assault case, then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin said in February in a shocking revelation that raised privacy concerns.
The revelation prompted a national outcry from advocates, law enforcement, legal experts and lawmakers. Advocates said the practice could affect victims’ willingness to come forward to law enforcement authorities.
Federal law already prohibits the inclusion of victims’ DNA in the national Combined DNA Index System. There is no corresponding law in California to prohibit local law enforcement databases from retaining victims’ profiles and searching them years later for entirely different purposes.
In 2016, Doe gave a DNA sample to members of the San Francisco Police Department for an investigation into her sexual assault. According to the lawsuit, the state’s patient consent form used when collecting samples from sex crime victims doesn’t include language that grants permission for the DNA to be used for unrelated investigations.
SFPD kept Doe’s DNA in the police database for over six years. According to the lawsuit, the crime lab routinely ran crime scene evidence through the database where her DNA was held without asking for her consent. “Her DNA was likely tested in thousands of criminal investigations, though the police had absolutely no reason to believe that she was involved in any of the incidents,” the lawsuit states.
California lawmakers last month approved a bill that would prohibit using the DNA profiles collected by police from sexual assault survivors and other victims for any purpose other than aiding in identifying the perpetrator. Local law enforcement agencies would also be prohibited from retaining and then searching victim DNA to incriminate them in unrelated crimes under the legislation, which is pending before Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Boudin said the report was found among hundreds of pages of evidence against a woman who had been recently charged with a felony property crime. After learning the source of the DNA evidence, Boudin dropped the felony property crime charges against the woman.
The police department’s crime lab stopped the practice shortly after receiving a complaint from the district attorney’s office and formally changed its operating procedure to prevent the misuse of DNA collected from sexual assault victims, Police Chief Bill Scott said.
Scott said at a police commission meeting in March that he had discovered 17 crime victim profiles, 11 of them from rape kits, that were matched as potential suspects using a crime victims database during unrelated investigations. Scott said he believes the only person arrested was the woman who filed the lawsuit Monday.
The woman filed the lawsuit under the alias of Jane Doe to protect her privacy, Pointer said The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they choose to be named.
California allows local law enforcement crime labs to operate their own forensic databases that are separate from federal and state databases. The law also lets municipal labs perform forensic analysis, including DNA profiling, and use those databases — without regulation by the state or others.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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(NewsNation) — A simple blood test can help screen for cancers, in most cases detecting the disease before any clear symptoms develop, according to a new study.
The results of the Pathfinder study from health care company GRAIL show the possibilities of what’s called multi-cancer early detection screening, which finds cancers in early stages.
“The PATHFINDER study is an exciting first step towards fundamental change in the approach to cancer screening. The study demonstrated the feasibility of this paradigm and solid test performance,” said Deb Schrag, MD, MPH, chair of the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
“Although continued public health efforts to optimize adherence to existing screening strategies that have been proven effective are critical, this study provides a glimpse of what the future may hold — the opportunity for screening using blood tests to detect various types of cancers at their earliest and most treatable stages.”
The study included 6,662 participants aged 50 years or older whose blood was tested to look for what GRAIL calls cancer signals, which were found in 92 participants. Of those, 35 were diagnosed with 36 cancers. Cancer cells send out signals to regulate growth or initiate apoptosis (the death of cells), according to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
“When added to standard-of-care screening, MCED testing more than doubled the number of cancers detected compared to standard screening alone,” said Jeffrey Venstrom, MD, chief medical officer at GRAIL.
Known as the Galleri test, the blood draw has been hailed as a “game changer” by the National Health Service in England, which is conducting a trial of its own.
The blood test can also identify where in the body the cancer is likely to have originated, which can help doctors confirm a diagnosis more quickly. The Pathfinder study was the first time Galleri test results were returned to health care providers to help them with follow-up diagnostic work.
Among the confirmed cancers diagnosed in the study, 71% were cancer types that currently do not have a routine screening test, and nearly half were in either Stage I or Stage II. Less than 1% of study participants received a false positive.
The results of the study were presented this past weekend at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress in Paris. GRAIL is currently enrolling for its Pathfinder 2 study, which will follow participants over three years.
“This study was a prelude to a larger study. We needed to see how physicians would approach workup, what diagnostic odysseys we’d send patients down, and whether they’d be upset,” Schrag said at the Paris conference, as reported by Cancer Network. “People were a little anxious, but it was manageable, and it was transient. People understood the ramifications of this test, and they were a little anxious, but they managed very well.”
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(The Hill) — Twitter shareholders on Tuesday approved a $44 billion merger agreement with Elon Musk, though the deal remains in limbo as a lawsuit between the social media company and the SpaceX CEO moves through a Delaware court.
During the special meeting, the shareholders also approved a measure relating to compensation for Twitter executives resulting from the merger agreement.
After the meeting concluded, an official said more details would be provided publicly in the near future.
A form will also be filed with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ahead of the meeting, Twitter’s board of directors recommended the shareholders approve the merger and the financial compensation agreement, which the board has already unanimously approved of.
“We are committed to closing the merger on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk,” the board wrote in a letter to shareholders. “Your vote at the special meeting is critical to our ability to complete the merger.”
In July, Musk abandoned his plan to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share and take it private, reneging on an announcement that he made in the spring. Twitter then sued the billionaire in the Delaware Court of Chancery to force him to complete the merger agreement.
A five-day trial in the Delaware court is scheduled to begin next month.
Twitter, which has expressed confidence in winning the lawsuit against Musk, said in the Tuesday letter that the shareholder approval was instrumental to completing the merger and the “only remaining approval or regulatory condition” left in the process.
Musk, who has countersued and pressed for a dismissal of the lawsuit, said he sought to terminate the agreement with Twitter because the company had not been honest about the number of fake and spam accounts on the social media site.
Twitter has rebuffed that argument in court filings and said they gave the billionaire access to a stream of data about the platform.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Mary Peltola was sworn in Tuesday night to finish out the remaining months of the term of the late Rep. Don Young, making her the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress and the first woman to hold the seat.
“To have a seat at the table is different,” Peltola told The Associated Press in an interview Monday. “But I am just always reminding people that I’m not here to represent just the 16% of Alaskans who are Alaska Natives. I’m here to represent all Alaskans.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a ceremonial swearing-in with Peltola and the two other new members of the House, Democrat Pat Ryan and Republican Joe Sempolinski of New York, on the chamber floor.
Peltola, who is Yup’ik, was donning Alaskan Mukluks, traditional boots, as the other two members of her delegation, GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, sat behind her applauding at her historic victory. Peltola previously served as a state lawmaker for 10 years representing the rural hub community of Bethel, Alaska.
The 49-year-old made history last month when she won the special election to finish out Young’s term, besting a field of candidates that included Republican Sarah Palin, who was seeking a political comeback in the state where she was governor.
The day before her swearing-in ceremony, Peltola stood outside what was once Young’s office, swarmed by the local and national press, and marveled at the moment.
“I really hope that Don is getting a kick out of this,” Peltola told the AP. “I can’t help but think that some things broke my way on account of his great sense of humor.”
The kicker is that 50 years ago, right before Peltola was born, her parents worked on Young’s first campaign for the only congressional seat in Alaska. Young won and went on to hold it for 49 years before his death in March.
Peltola’s campaign has emphasized her dedication to “fish, family and freedom.” Fish are a staple in Alaskan life, and salmon holds particular cultural significance to Alaska Natives. A subsistence lifestyle — relying on fish, wildlife and berries — is essential in rural Alaska, including in many Native communities, where goods must be flown or barged in and costs for basic necessities can be exorbitant.
Peltola said she sees her few weeks in office as an homage to Young’s service as a more moderate force in an increasingly polarized Congress. Like the often gruff Young, Peltola said she is bringing a sense of humor to the job, along with a history of being a consensus-builder with even the most conservative of colleagues.
After Palin came in second to Peltola in the special election last month, the two women shared a cordial back-and-forth. In a text message, Palin congratulated her and wrote that she was a “real Alaskan chick! Beautiful & smart and tough.”
Peltola replied, “Your text means the world to me … We really are in this together.”
The newly elected congresswoman’s time in the Alaska Legislature overlapped with Palin’s time as governor, and the women have remained cordial. Peltola has said that one of the most “unsavory” parts of American politics is negative campaigning.
But staying above the fray could prove difficult. Peltola is on the ballot in November to serve a full two-year term, again facing off against Palin, Republican Nick Begich and Libertarian Chris Bye, all of whom advanced from last month’s open primary.
That’s partly why Peltola said she doesn’t plan to get too comfortable in her new office, which Young, a Republican, adorned with the heads of bucks and bears and large rifles in a nod to his love of hunting. Now those walls are bare.
“It didn’t make sense to really become too entrenched, or decorate, or set up shop,” Peltola said. “I really just feel like I’m camping here until the term is over. And then being open and seeing what happens next.”
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Associated Press reporter Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska, contributed to this report.
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden made a quick jaunt to his home state on Tuesday evening to vote in Delaware’s primary, one of the last round of contests ahead of the November elections.
Biden is well known for taking any excuse to escape the White House for his family home, but most of his trips are during weekends. This time he and first lady Jill Biden were gone for only a few hours, which still required the usual assortment of security and motorcades, plus a flight on Air Force One.
The president didn’t say why he declined to cast a mail ballot, which is allowed in Delaware, a voting strategy that Democrats have emphasized to increase turnout.
Biden voted at the Laird Performing Arts Center at the Tatnall School before making a quick stop at his house in Wilmington. During the last election, when he was the Democratic presidential candidate, he cast an early ballot at the Carvel State Office Building in October 2020.
Presidents often look for opportunities to return to their home states to vote in person. In October 2020, Donald Trump voted early at his West Palm Beach, Florida, precinct before a full day of campaigning in key swing states for his failed reelection bid. Barack Obama did the same in Illinois during the 2014 midterms as he campaigned for the state’s incumbent governor and Democratic senator.
Rhode Island and New Hampshire also are holding primary contests on Tuesday.
The sole competitive statewide contest in heavily Democratic Delaware is for state auditor, where incumbent Kathleen McGuiness is running for reelection despite being convicted of conflict of interest and other misdemeanor charges in July. Under Delaware law, McGuiness — who is awaiting sentencing — was allowed to stay on the ballot.
The conviction, stemming from the hiring of McGuiness’s daughter in her office, made the auditor the first statewide elected official in Delaware’s history to be convicted of criminal charges while in office. She is being challenged by Lydia York, a lawyer who has the backing of the state’s Democratic Party and would be the first Black person in that role if elected.
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This story has been corrected to show that McGuiness is the first statewide elected official in Delaware’s history to be convicted of criminal charges while in office, not first ever convicted.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden gathered a crowd of thousands at the White House Tuesday to celebrate last month’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, even as a new government report showed how hard it could be to bring surging prices down near prepandemic levels.
Despite its name, the law’s impact on inflation is expected to be modest at best.
Tuesday’s economic report — inflation at 8.3% year-to-year, though just 0.1%. from July to August — was a harsh reminder of how difficult it might be to hit the Federal Reserve’s inflation target of 2% a year. Even as gasoline prices have declined since June, the costs of housing and food remain especially high in a way that suggests further Fed rate hikes and more economic pain to bring down prices.
U.S. stock indices fell sharply on the inflation report, with the benchmark S&P 500 down more than 4.3% on Tuesday.
Still, Biden and congressional Democratic leaders hailed the new law, with the president raising his voice and taking off his jacket in campaign style at the event on the White House South Lawn.
“With this law the American people won and special interests lost,” Biden said, taking a victory lap for legislation that rounded out the last piece of his domestic agenda for his first two years in office.
The legislation, which passed with only Democratic votes in Congress, also included the most substantial federal investment in history to fight climate change — some $375 billion over a decade — and will cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 out-of-pocket annually for Medicare recipients. It also would help an estimated 13 million Americans pay for health care insurance by extending subsidies provided during the coronavirus pandemic. The measure is paid for by new taxes on large companies and stepped-up IRS enforcement on wealthy individuals and entities.
Biden in his remarks criticized Republicans for voting against the measure, contending they opposed a bill that would lower prices.
“I believe Republicans could have and should have joined us on this bill as well,” Biden said. “After all, this bill cut costs for families to help reduce inflation at the kitchen table.”
The law may help lower prescription drug prices, but outside analyses suggest it will do little to immediately bring down overall inflation. Last month, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office judged it would have a “negligible” effect on prices through 2023. The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model went even further to say “the impact on inflation is statistically indistinguishable from zero” over the next decade.
In theory, the law could reduce inflationary pressures because it would lower annual budget deficits by $300 billion over 10 years.
But by partially forgiving student debt and changing the repayment structure in an August executive order, Biden likely has wiped out those deficit savings, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. An analysis by the fiscal watchdog estimates that the president’s executive order on student debt would cost roughly $500 billion over 10 years, “completely eliminating any disinflationary benefit.”
Still, voters are especially sensitive to gasoline, which declined 10.6% in August. The Biden administration has repeatedly cited relief at the pump as gas costs have fallen since June —when average U.S. prices crested above $5 a gallon. AAA estimates that gas prices nationwide averaged $3.71 a gallon on Tuesday.
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Democratic lawmakers intent on making sure that unprecedented efforts by the Trump administration to politicize the 2020 census never happen again are moving forward with plans for safeguards they say will help the U.S. head count stay free of future interference.
Democratic House members are preparing this week to send legislation to the House floor that would put in place roadblocks against political meddling in the U.S. census, which determines political power and federal funding.
The House legislation getting a hearing this week in front of the Committee on Rules would require new questions on a census form to be vetted by Congress and mandate that a U.S. Census Bureau director couldn’t be fired without cause. The proposed legislation vests the Census Bureau director with all technical, operational and statistical decisions and says a deputy director has to be a career staffer with experience in demographics, statistics or related fields. If approved by the committee, it will be sent to the House floor for a vote later this week.
The Biden administration on Tuesday said it supported the legislation but indicated it may want changed provisions in the bill requiring that the Census Bureau’s annual budget include estimated costs over five years. Those provisions were added after preparations for the 2020 census faced budget cuts and funding delays. The Biden administration wants to make sure the bill doesn’t circumvent the Office of Management and Budget’s role in formulating budget requests and avoids “impinging on the President’s authority over Executive Branch agencies,” the office said in a statement.
The legislation’s goals overlap with recommendations made Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice that would limit interference from the executive branch and increase congressional oversight of the census. The think tank, which opposed the Trump administration’s efforts to end the U.S. head count early, recommends making the U.S. Census Bureau more independent.
The once-a-decade census determines how many congressional seats each state gets and the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending each year. Its results are used for redrawing political districts. The 2020 census was one of the most challenging in recent memory not only because of the attempts at political interference but also because of the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters.
In the years leading up to the 2020 census, the Trump administration unsuccessfully tried to add a citizenship question to the census questionnaire, a move that advocates feared would scare off Hispanics and immigrants from participating, whether they were in the country legally or not. The Supreme Court blocked the question.
The Trump administration also unsuccessfully tried to get the Census Bureau to exclude people in the country illegally from population figures used for divvying up congressional seats among the states, also called the apportionment numbers.
Critics claimed the citizenship question was inspired by a Republican redistricting expert who believed using citizen voting-age population instead of the total population for the purpose of redrawing of congressional and legislative districts could be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites.
“Existing law leaves too much room for political actors to override the best statistical science and manipulate the census,” the Brennan Center report said.
The Brennan Center was among several groups and local governments that sued in 2020 to prevent the Trump administration from ending door-knocking operations a month earlier than planned under a revised schedule put out by the Census Bureau in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Critics feared the Trump administration wanted to end data collection and processing early to make sure President Donald Trump was still in office during the release of apportionment figures. The apportionment numbers were released in April 2021, four months after President Joe Biden took office and Trump left.
The Brennan Center report recommends making the Census Bureau entirely independent of the Commerce Department and giving the Census Bureau director, rather than political appointees at Commerce, final decision-making power over the census. The current director, Robert Santos, was appointed by Biden.
“Pulling the Census Bureau out from under the Commerce Department would be a major first step toward insulating the bureau against executive interference,” the report said.
The Brennan Center also recommends a change that’s not in the House legislation — creating permanent House and Senate committees or subcommittees dedicated to keeping track of the census. The current congressional committees that provide oversight have broad portfolios and can’t dedicate the time needed on the census, according to the report.
Even though many of the Trump administration’s political efforts ultimately failed, some advocates believe they did have an impact, with significantly larger undercounts of most racial and ethnic minorities in the 2020 census compared to the 2010 census.
The Black population in the 2020 census had a net undercount of 3.3%, while it was almost 5% for Hispanics and 5.6% for American Indians and Native Alaskans living on reservations. Those identifying as some other race had a net undercount of 4.3%.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden has the same authority to impose a COVID-19 vaccine requirement on federal workers that private employers have for their employees, an administration lawyer told a federal appeals court Tuesday.
A lawyer for opponents of the vaccine requirement, which has been blocked nationwide by a federal judge in Texas, said the requirement imposes an “unconstitutionally intolerable choice” for executive branch workers — taking a vaccine they don’t want or losing their jobs.
Judges on the appeals court meanwhile questioned how far the chief executive’s authority goes, asking, theoretically, whether the president could require employees to meet certain healthy body weights or forbid them from smoking at home.
It was the second time arguments on the issue were heard before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel of the same court had upheld the Biden requirement for executive branch workers, overturning the Texas judge.
But the full appeals court, currently with 16 active members, vacated the panel ruling and agreed to rehear the case. There was no indication when the court would rule.
Administration lawyers argue that the employees opposing the mandate should have taken their objections not to federal court but to a federal review board, in accordance with the Civil Service Reform Act. The administration also argues that the president has the same authority, under the Constitution, as the CEO of a private corporation to require that employees be vaccinated.
Arguing for the government, Charles Scarborough of the Department of Justice, said the statute provides employees with “robust” remedies if they successfully challenge the requirement through the review board, including back pay if they are dismissed for not complying.
Addressing whether the president could impose body weight requirements on federal employees, Scarborough said the vaccine requirement is part of a mainstream effort to reduce the incidence of serious COVID-19 cases in the workplace, while a body weight requirement would be among “hypotheticals at the extremes.”
Opponents say the policy is an encroachment on federal workers’ lives that neither the Constitution nor federal statutes authorize. And they argued that a case involving a policy that could cost some workers their jobs if they don’t agree to a medical procedure is not the type of work policy that belongs before a civil service review board.
Biden issued an executive order Sept. 9 ordering vaccinations for all executive branch agency employees, with exceptions for medical and religious reasons. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed to the District Court for the Southern District of Texas by then-President Donald Trump, issued a nationwide injunction against the requirement in January.
There came a series of varying rulings at the 5th Circuit.
One three-judge panel refused to immediately block the law.
But, a 2-1 ruling on the merits of the case by a different panel upheld Biden’s position. Judges Carl Stewart and James Dennis, both nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton, were in the majority. Judge Rhesa Barksdale, a senior judge nominated by President George H.W. Bush, dissented, saying the relief the challengers sought does not fall under the Civil Service Reform Act cited by the administration.
A majority of the full court voted to vacate that ruling and reconsider the case, resulting in Tuesday’s hearing.
Twelve of 16 active judges at the 5th Circuit were nominated to the court by Republicans, including six Trump appointees. Senior judges do not routinely take part in full-court hearings but Barksdale participated in the hearing Tuesday because he had been on the earlier panel.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Upending the political debate, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide abortion ban Tuesday, sending shockwaves through both parties and igniting fresh debate on a fraught issue weeks before the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
Graham’s own Republican Party leaders did not immediately embrace his abortion ban bill, which would prohibit the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy with rare exceptions, and has almost no chance of becoming law in the Democratic-held Congress. Democrats torched it as an alarming signal of where “MAGA” Republicans are headed if they win control of the House and Senate in November.
“America’s got to make some decisions,” Graham said at a news conference at the Capitol.
The South Carolina Republican said that rather than shying away from the Supreme Court’s ruling this summer overturning Roe v. Wade’s nearly 50-year right to abortion access, Republicans are preparing to fight to make a nationwide abortion ban federal law.
“Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, we’re going nowhere,” the senator said while flanked by female advocates from the anti-abortion movement. “We welcome the debate. We welcome the vote in the United States Senate as to what America should look like in 2022.”
Reaction was swift, fierce and unwavering from Democrats who viewed Graham’s legislation as an extreme example of the far-right’s hold on the GOP, and as a political gift of self-inflicted pain for Republican candidates now having to answer questions about an abortion ban heading toward the midterm elections.
“A nationwide abortion ban — that’s the contrast between the two parties, plain and simple,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington who is in her own fight for reelection, said Republicans “want to force” women to stay pregnant and deliver babies.
“To anyone who thought they were safe, here is the painful reality,” she said. “Republicans are coming for your rights.”
The sudden turn of events comes in a razor-tight election season as Republicans hoping to win control of Congress are struggling to recapture momentum, particularly after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision sparked deep concerns among some voters, with signs of female voters peeling away from the GOP.
In a midterm election where the party out of the White House traditionally holds an advantage, even more so this year with President Joe Biden’s lackluster approval ratings, the Democrats have regained their own momentum pushing back the GOP candidates in House and Senate races.
Tuesday’s announcement set up an immediate split screen with Biden and Democrats poised to celebrate their accomplishments in a ceremony at the White House after passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and Republicans forced to answer for Graham’s proposed abortion ban.
“This bill is wildly out of step with what Americans believe,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
“While President Biden and Vice President Harris are focused on the historic passage of the Inflation Reduction Act to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, health care, and energy – and to take unprecedented action to address climate change — Republicans in Congress are focused on taking rights away from millions of women,” Jean-Pierre said.
Graham’s legislation has almost zero chance of becoming law, but it elevates the abortion issue at a time when other Republicans would prefer to focus on inflation, border security and Biden’s leadership.
The Republican bill would ban abortions nationwide after 15 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of rape, incest or risk to the physical health of the mother. Graham said it would put the U.S. on par with many countries in Europe and around the world.
In particular, Graham’s bill would leave in place state laws that are more restrictive. That provision is notable because many Republicans have argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling leaves the abortion issue for the states to decide. But the legislation from the Republicans makes it clear states are only allowed to decide the issue if their abortion bans are more stringent.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who is one seat away from majority control, declined to embrace Graham’s legislation.
“I think every Republican senator running this year in these contested races has an answer as to how they feel about the issue,” McConnell said. He said most GOP senators prefer having the issue dealt with by the states, rather than at the federal level. “So I leave it up to our candidates who are quite capable of handling this issue to determine for them what their response is.”
The Democratic senators most at risk this fall and other Democratic candidates running for Congress appeared eager to fight against Graham’s proposed nationwide abortion ban.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a Nevada Democrat, tweeted that Graham “and every other anti-choice extremist can take a hike.”
Her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt, has during his campaign insisted that abortion is protected in the state constitution, which it may no longer be under this bill.
In Colorado, another Democrat up for reelection, Sen. Michael Bennet, tweeted: “A nationwide abortion ban is outrageous. “
Bennet pledged “to defend a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions, no matter what ZIP code she lives in. We cannot afford to let the Republicans take back the Senate.”
His opponent in Colorado, Republican Joe O’Dea, who supports putting abortion access that had been guaranteed under Roe v. Wade into law, agreed, in part: “A Republican ban is as reckless and tone deaf as is Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer’s hostility to considering any compromise on late term abortion, parental notification or conscience protections for religious hospitals.”
The races for control of Congress are tight in the split 50-50 Senate, where one seat determines majority control, and in the House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi can afford to lose only a few seats.
Pelosi called Graham’s bill the “clearest signal of extreme MAGA Republicans’ intent to criminalize women’s health freedom in all 50 states and arrest doctors for providing basic care. Make no mistake: if Republicans get the chance, they will work to pass laws even more draconian than this bill.”
Republican leaders on Capitol Hill tried to hold the party together amid the differences.
“I think that what it’s attempting to do is probably change the conversation a little bit,” said Sen. John Thune, a South Dakota Republican and second-ranking party leader.
“Democrats are implying that all Republicans are for a ban without exceptions, and that’s not true,” Thune said. “There are Republicans who are in favor of restrictions. And I think this is an attempt to at least put something out there that reflects the views of a lot of Republicans who are in favor of some restrictions.”
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking in Washington and Nick Riccardi in Denver contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge Tuesday unsealed additional portions of an FBI affidavit laying out the basis for a search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, showing that agents earlier obtained a hard drive after issuing a subpoena for surveillance footage recorded inside Mar-a-Lago.
A heavily redacted version of the affidavit was made public last month, but the Justice Department requested permission to show more of it after lawyers for Trump revealed the existence of a June grand jury subpoena that sought video footage from cameras in the vicinity of the Mar-a-Lago storage room.
“Because those aspects of the grand jury’s investigation have now been publicly revealed, there is no longer any reason to keep them sealed (i.e. redacted) in the filings in this matter,” department lawyers wrote.
The newly visible portions of the FBI agent’s affidavit show that the FBI on June 24 subpoenaed for the footage after a visit weeks earlier to Mar-a-Lago in which agents observed 50 to 55 boxes of records in the storage room at the property. The Trump Organization provided a hard drive on July 6 in response to the subpoena, the affidavit says.
The footage could be an important piece of the investigation, including as agents evaluate whether anyone has sought to obstruct the probe. The Justice Department has said in a separate filing that it has “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”
The Justice Department has been investigating the holding of top-secret information and other classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House. FBI agents during their Aug. 8 search of the home and club said they recovered more than 11,000 documents and 1,800 other items, including roughly 100 with classification markings.
Separately Tuesday, the Justice Department again urged U.S. District Aileen Cannon to lift her hold on core aspects of the investigation. Cannon last week granted the Trump team’s request for an independent arbiter to review the seized documents and weed out from the investigation any records that may be covered by claims of executive or attorney-client privilege.
She also ordered the department to halt its review of the records pending any further court order or the completion of a review by the yet-to-be-named special master. The department urged Cannon last week to put her order on hold and told the judge Tuesday that its investigation would be harmed by a continued delay of its ability to scrutinize the classified documents.
“The government and the public unquestionably have an interest in the timely enforcement of criminal laws, particularly those involving the protection of highly sensitive information, and especially where, as here, there may have been efforts to obstruct its investigation,” the lawyers wrote.
The Trump team on Monday urged the judge to leave her order in place. His lawyers raised questions about the documents’ current classification status and noted that a president has absolute authority to declassify information, though they pointedly did not say that Trump had actually declassified anything.
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Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment and put Starr at the center of one of the country’s most polarizing debates of the 1990s, has died at age 76, his family said Tuesday.
Starr died at a hospital Tuesday of complications from surgery, according to his former colleague, attorney Mark Lanier. He said Starr had been hospitalized in an intensive care unit in Houston for about four months.
For many years, Starr’s stellar reputation as a lawyer seemed to place him on a path to the Supreme Court. At age 37, he became the youngest person ever to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where Chief Justice John Roberts and justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia also had served. From 1989-93, Starr was the solicitor general in the administration of President George H.W. Bush, arguing 25 cases before the Supreme Court.
Roberts said Tuesday: “Ken loved our country and served it with dedication and distinction. He led by example, in the legal profession, public service, and the community.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell remembered Starr Tuesday as “a brilliant litigator, an impressive leader, and a devoted patriot.”
Despite his impressive legal credentials, nothing could have prepared him for the task of investigating a sitting president.
In a probe that lasted five years, Starr looked into fraudulent real estate deals involving a long-time Clinton associate, delved into the removal of documents from the office of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster after his suicide and assembled evidence of Clinton’s sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern. Each of the controversies held the potential to do serious, perhaps fatal, damage to Clinton’s presidency.
In a Tuesday tweet, Lewinsky expressed mixed emotions on the news of Starr’s death. “As I’m sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelings,” she tweeted. “But of more importance, is that i imagine it’s a painful loss for those who love him.”
As Clinton’s legal problems worsened, the White House pilloried Starr as a right-wing fanatic doing the bidding of Republicans bent on destroying the president.
“The assaults took a toll” on the investigation, Starr told a Senate committee in 1999. “A duly authorized federal law enforcement investigation came to be characterized as yet another political game. Law became politics by other means.”
In a bitter finish to his investigation of the Lewinsky affair that engendered still more criticism, Starr filed a report, as the law required, with the U.S. House of Representatives. He concluded that Clinton lied under oath, engaged in obstruction of justice and followed a pattern of conduct that was inconsistent with the president’s constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws. House Republicans used Starr’s report as a roadmap in the impeachment of the president, who was acquitted in a Senate trial.
In 2020, he was recruited to help represent Trump in his first impeachment trial. In a memorable statement to Congress, Starr said “we are living in what I think can aptly be described as the ‘age of impeachment.’” He said that “like war, impeachment is hell, or at least presidential impeachment is hell.”
In a post to his Truth Social account, Trump paid tribute to Starr as “a true American Patriot who loved our Country and the Law. I so appreciated his support and his thoughts that our cause against fascists and other mentally sick people in our Country is just.”
Clinton’s legal problems began during the 1992 presidential campaign. Questions arose over the candidate’s ties to the owner of a failed Arkansas savings and loan. The issue faded quickly. But it caught the attention of federal regulators, who began looking into whether money from the S&L had been diverted to a real estate venture called Whitewater in which Bill and Hillary Clinton and the S&L’s owner, Jim McDougal, shared a financial interest.
Bowing to intense political pressure from Republicans and some members of his own party, Clinton called for appointment of a special counsel to investigate Whitewater. A three-member appeals court for independent counsels selected Starr.
On the Whitewater front, Starr’s prosecutors investigated Mrs. Clinton’s legal work for Jim McDougal’s S&L. Both she and the president were questioned by Starr’s prosecutors and their videotaped depositions were played for juries in criminal trials of McDougal and his ex-wife Susan. Neither of the Clintons was ever charged in connection with Whitewater.
The investigation of Clinton’s intimate relationship with Lewinsky was a Washington spectacle.
In 1995, Lewinsky went to work at the White House as an intern. During the government shutdown late that year, she and Clinton had a sexual encounter in a hallway near the Oval Office, the first of 10 sexual encounters over the next year and a half. Lewinsky confided the affair to a co-worker, Linda Tripp, who tape-recorded some of their conversations and brought the tapes to Starr’s prosecutors. Lewinsky was granted immunity from prosecution in the case that brought Starr celebrity and thrust a presidential sex scandal into America’s living rooms. She became Starr’s chief witness against the president, who had denied having sexual relations with her.
Putting the investigation behind him, Starr embarked on a career in academia, first as dean of the law school at Pepperdine University where he taught constitutional issues and civil procedures, then as president of Baylor University in his home state of Texas. He also became an author, writing “First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life.”
Starr was demoted from the presidency at Baylor in 2016 amid a sex assault scandal that rocked the Big 12 school and its football program, as women alleged campus leaders at the nation’s largest Baptist school bungled or ignored their assault complaints. Baylor eventually settled with several women who filed a cascade of lawsuits, including a case where the victim of a 2015 attack accused Baylor of fostering a “hunting ground for sexual predators.”
The school’s board of regents allowed Starr to stay on as chancellor and law school professor, jobs that carried no “operational” duties at Baylor. He resigned altogether a few months later. Football coach Art Briles also was fired.
A review commissioned by the school found that under Starr, school administrators discouraged students from reporting or participating in student conduct reviews, and even contributed to or accommodated a “hostile” environment against the alleged victims.
In a statement, Starr apologized to “those victims who were not treated with the care, concern, and support they deserve.”
Starr also drew scrutiny for his role helping defend Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire who killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges that he sexually abused multiple underage girls. Starr was part of a team that helped Epstein reach a controversial plea agreement in 2008 that led to him receiving a 13-month sentence instead of facing more serious federal charges for sex abuse.
Starr was born in Vernon, a small Texas town near the Oklahoma state, and raised in San Antonio. He earned his B.A. from George Washington University in 1968, his M.A. from Brown University in 1969 and his J.D. degree from Duke University Law School in 1973. He was a law clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger from 1975 to 1977.
As a young attorney at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles, Starr worked with William French Smith, who became attorney general in the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Starr became counselor to Smith, and from there was nominated by Reagan to the federal appeals court.
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Bleiberg reported from Dallas. Associated Press writers Jim Vertuno in Austin, Terry Wallace in Dallas and the late Pete Yost contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Monica Lewinsky had a tempered, compassionate response to the death of Ken Starr, the former independent counsel whose investigation of Bill Clinton helped reveal her affair with the president and, she once wrote, made her life a “living hell.”
“As I’m sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelings,” she tweeted Tuesday after reports that Starr had died at age 76. “But of more importance, is that i imagine it’s a painful loss for those who love him.”
Lewinsky was a White House intern in the mid-1990s, in her early 20s, when she began a relationship with Clinton, one that Starr would document in exhaustive, explicit detail. Starr had initially been retained to look into an Arkansas real estate deal Bill and Hillary Clinton were involved in, but his investigation shifted after he learned of allegations about the president’s private behavior. Lewinsky denied their affair in a sworn affidavit, but did not know that her former colleague, Linda Tripp, had been taping their phone conversations about Bill Clinton and would turn them over to Starr.
Lewinsky would recall with horror being interrogated for hours in 1998 by Starr’s prosecutors — but not Starr himself — and threatened with prison if she didn’t cooperate with their investigation, a demand she initially refused. Months later, she agreed to testify about the affair, and turned over to prosecutors a dress stained with the president’s semen, in return for immunity.
Lewinsky later wrote that she was diagnosed with “post-traumatic stress disorder, mainly from the ordeal of having been publicly outed and ostracized,” and was for years subjected to crude jokes. But starting with a Vanity Fair essay in 2014 and a TED talk she gave in 2015 on “The Price of Shame,” she has become a widely respected anti-bullying activist. David Letterman and John Oliver are among those who have apologized for once mocking her.
Writing in Vanity Fair in 2018, Lewinsky remembered finally encountering Starr in person, at a Greenwich Village restaurant the previous Christmas Eve. Starr stepped forward with a “warm, incongruous smile,” and introduced himself to Lewinsky, who was dining with her family.
“Ken Starr asked me several times if I was ‘doing O.K.’ A stranger might have surmised from his tone that he had actually worried about me over the years. His demeanor, almost pastoral, was somewhere between avuncular and creepy. He kept touching my arm and elbow, which made me uncomfortable,” she wrote.
“I turned and introduced him to my family. Bizarre as it may sound, I felt determined, then and there, to remind him that, 20 years before, he and his team of prosecutors hadn’t hounded and terrorized just me but also my family — threatening to prosecute my mom (if she didn’t disclose the private confidences I had shared with her), hinting that they would investigate my dad’s medical practice, and even deposing my aunt, with whom I was eating dinner that night.”
Starr would write about Lewinsky in his 2018 memoir “Contempt,” describing how “Monica screamed, she cried, she pouted, and complained bitterly about her scheming, no-good, so-called friend (Tripp).” But their threats, and the urging of Lewinsky’s mother to accept the prosecutors’ terms, did not change her mind.
“Monica overruled her mother. She would fall on her sword rather than implicate the president of the United States,” Starr wrote. “It was becoming increasingly clear: in thinking she was a naive, starstruck young woman in love who would quickly cooperate, we underestimated her. In her determination to protect the president, Monica kept a team of experienced FBI agents and career prosecutors twiddling their thumbs for much of the day.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent commission is recommending that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be dismantled and taken down, as part of its final report to Congress on the renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy.
Panel members on Tuesday rolled out the final list of ships, base roads, buildings and other items that they said should be renamed. But unlike the commission’s recommendations earlier this year laying out new names for nine Army bases, there were no suggested names for the roughly 1,100 assets across the military that bear Confederate names.
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, vice-chair of the commission, said the final cost for all of its renaming recommendations will be $62,450,030. The total for the latest changes announced Tuesday is $40,957,729, and is included in that amount.
The latest group of assets includes everything from the Arlington memorial, two Navy ships and some Army vessels to street signs, water towers, athletic fields, hospital doors and even decals on recycling bins, according to the panel.
The bulk of the remaining costs — or $21,041,301 — would cover the renaming of nine Army bases, and about $450,000 for recommended new names at the U.S. Military at West Point in New York.
Seidule said the panel determined that the memorial at Arlington was “problematic from top to bottom.” He said the panel recommended that it be entirely removed, with only the granite base remaining.
The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a Biblical inscription at her feet that says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”
The pedestal features 14 shields, engraved with the coats of arms of the 13 Confederate states and Maryland, which didn’t secede or join the Confederacy. Some of the figures also on the statue include a slave woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.
And the Latin inscription translates to: “The victorious cause was pleasing to the gods, but the lost cause to Cato,” and was meant to equate the South’s secession to a noble “lost cause.”
Seidule said the panel decided early on to propose new names only for the nine Army bases. It said that the Navy secretary has the authority to rename the two ships, which are the USS Chancellorsville and USNS Maury. The Chancellorsville was named for the Civil War battle and the Maury was named after a Confederate soldier.
He said the service secretaries can find new names for the handful of Army ships and the Air Force’s Fort Fisher Recreation Area in North Carolina. The panel recommended that the defense secretary rename Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
The panel’s most sweeping recommendations were released in May, and laying out new names for nine U.S. Army bases that commemorated Confederate officers: Fort Bragg in North Carolina; Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia; Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort Pickett in Virginia; Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Polk in Louisiana and Fort Rucker in Alabama.
The recommendations are the latest step in a broader effort by the military to confront racial injustice, most recently in the aftermath of the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
For years, U.S. military officials had defended the naming of bases after Confederate officers. As recently as 2015 the Army argued that the names did not honor the rebel cause but were a gesture of reconciliation with the South.
But in the aftermath of the Floyd killing, and the months of racial unrest that followed, the Pentagon and Congress pushed for a comprehensive plan to rename the military posts and hundreds of other federal assets such as roads, buildings, memorials, signs and landmarks that honored rebel leaders.
The secretary of defense is expected to implement the commission’s plan no later than Jan. 1, 2024.
The panel also is recommending that the department set up a process to try and save money and efficiently change the names. And it said the secretary of defense should authorize the military service secretaries and other leaders to remove smaller items —- such as portraits, plaques and awards — that honor the Confederacy or those who served in it.
Created in 2020, the Naming Commission first met in March 2021 and began taking name recommendations from the public in September. Overall, the commission received more than 34,000 potential names for the nine Army bases.
Seidule said that some of the names that were not used can be used by the service secretaries as they determine new names for roads and other base locations and assets.
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With area school terms well underway, students and families alike are enjoying the extracurricular activities, academics, and sports that a new school year brings.
School districts throughout Otter Tail County employ a large number of professionals across numerous departments to provide the best education experience possible, and one of these crucial roles is that of the substitute teacher.
Shari VerDorn of Pelican Rapids Public Schools is the substitute teacher coordinator and explains how subs are a vital component to a healthy school system: “Last year we utilized a substitute teacher every single school day – we’re always looking for qualified subs.”
Pelican Rapids Schools has a current student enrollment of approximately 900 students K-12 and employs numerous substitute teachers for filling in for both planned and unforeseen teacher absences. Fully certified substitute teachers earn $140 for a full day of filling in, and they are not to exceed 15 consecutive days replacing the same classroom teacher.
Substitute teachers in Minnesota must have a short-call substitute license and hold a minimum of a bachelor’s degree. In lieu of a BA, a candidate may provide evidence of five years of work experience, an associate’s degree or a professional certification from an approved certifying organization that is directly assigned to a Career and Technical or Career Pathways licensure field.
Short-call licenses are valid for three years, expiring on June 30 of the expiration year and may be renewed an unlimited number of times; first time application cost is $90.25 which includes the fingerprint card fee, with renewals costing $57.
More information on position requirements and application processes can be found at the following: mn.gov.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives is still not certain that it has custody of all Donald Trump’s presidential records even after the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago club, a congressional committee said in a letter Tuesday.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform revealed that staff at the Archives on an Aug. 24 call could not provide assurances that they have all of Trump’s presidential records. The committee in the letter asked the Archives to conduct an assessment of whether any Trump records remain unaccounted for and potentially in his possession.
“In light of revelations that Mr. Trump’s representatives misled investigators about his continued possession of government property and that material found at his club included dozens of ‘empty folders’ for classified material, I am deeply concerned that sensitive presidential records may remain out of the control and custody of the U.S. Government,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the chairwoman of the Oversight Committee, wrote in the letter.
The House committee has jurisdiction over the Presidential Records Act, a 1978 law that requires the preservation of White House documents as property of the U.S. government. The request is the latest development in a monthslong back-and-forth between the agency and the committee, which has been investigating Trump’s handling of records.
The request also comes weeks after the FBI recovered more than 100 documents with classified markings and even more than 10,000 other government documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The search came after lawyers for Trump provided a sworn certification that all government records had been returned.
Maloney and other Democratic lawmakers on the panel have been seeking a briefing from the National Archives, but haven’t received one due to the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation into the matter.
But the letter notes a call between Archives staff and the committee on Aug. 24, where lawmakers were informed that documents could still be missing.
As a result, Maloney wrote, the committee is asking the agency to conduct an “urgent review” of all of the government records that have been recorded from the Trump White House to determine whether any additional records remain unaccounted for and potentially in the possession of the former president.
In addition, the committee also asked for the Archives to get a personal certification from Trump “that he has surrendered all presidential records that he illegally removed from the White House after leaving office.”
The committee is asking the Archives to provide an initial assessment of this review by Sept. 27.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night.
The visit came as American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in July that the U.S. had made a “substantial proposal” to Russia to facilitate a swap. Though he did not detail the terms, a person familiar the matter said the U.S. had offered to release convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
In in interview with The Associated Press last month, Richardson said he was hopeful about the chances of a two-for-two prisoner swap. In cases like this, Richardson said at the time, “it’s proportional — two-for two.”
The person who confirmed Richardson’s visit insisted on anonymity to discuss private negotiations. The Richardson Center for Global Engagement, which Richardson founded, issued a statement declining to comment on his visit. The nature of the dialogue and any outcome were not immediately clear.
CNN was first to report Richardson’s visit.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a show of support for keeping a Democratic Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is transferring $15 million from his campaign account to his party’s candidates, incumbents and political committee for the fall election.
That’s according to a Democrat familiar with the situation who insisted on anonymity to discuss it.
Schumer is sending $1 million each to nine candidates — four incumbent Democratic senators and five Democratic challengers in battleground states.
That includes $1 million to the most contested senators — Raphael Warnock in Georgia, Mark Kelly in Arizona, Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada and Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire.
And it includes $1 million to the victory funds of newcomers Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin, John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, Cherie Beasley in North Carolina, Tim Ryan in Ohio and Val Demings in Florida, the Democrat familiar with the situation said.
“Keeping and growing the Democratic majority in the Senate is my top priority,” Schumer said in a statement.
Schumer, who is expected to return as majority leader if Democrats keep the Senate, is shoveling the funds to his candidates in a vote of confidence in them as the split 50-50 chamber hangs in the balance this fall.
Republicans are working to wrest control of the chamber in a midterm election that would traditionally favor the party that’s not in the White House, but the races have narrowed after a brutal primary season. Schumer’s show of support for his party’s candidates stands out after Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell recently voiced the view that his own party’s “candidate quality” could pose challenges.
Notably, Schumer is also giving $500,000 each to incumbent colleagues Michael Bennet in Colorado and Patty Murray in Washington, both seasoned senators, in a sign of how competitive the Senate map is becoming weeks from the November election. The Democrat familiar with the situation said Schumer thinks both those candidates are in great shape for their reelection bids.
Besides the money being sent directly to the candidates, Schumer is transferring $5 million to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, the party’s campaign arm for senators, from his own account.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia voters will see at least one fall debate between Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
Warnock on Tuesday evening accepted Walker’s proposal for an Oct. 14 debate in Savannah, but the senator renewed his call for an additional debate in either Macon or Atlanta. Walker has yet to accept a second matchup and did not directly respond to the senator’s latest pitch.
The announcement continues weeks of jockeying between the two men, who are deadlocked in one of the nation’s marquee Senate contests that will help settle control of the chamber that is now divided 50-50 between the two parties.
Warnock’s decision is a concession to Walker after the challenger refused to accept any of three traditional Georgia debates that the incumbent senator had committed to attend months ago. Walker instead countered with a fourth option.
That Oct. 14 debate will be hosted by WSAV-TV, owned by Nexstar Media Group. It will be shown on Nexstar and other stations across Georgia. Nexstar has promised a live audience.
Warnock last week had said he’d agree to Walker’s preferred Savannah debate only if the Republican committed to a second debate and also agreed not to receive questions or topics ahead of time for the Savannah matchup. WSAV-TV had originally said candidates would get topics in advance. Walker, a first-time candidate, accepted that condition, and his aides insisted the debate hosts had proposed such an arrangement.
Quentin Fulks, Warnock’s campaign manager, said the senator “remains hopeful Herschel Walker will do right by Georgians, get on a debate stage at least one other time.”
Walker answered with a statement saying he was “glad to see that Raphael Warnock has agreed to face the voters,” a framing that overlooks the fact that Walker had been the original holdout on debates generally.
Warnock capitalized on Walker’s initial reluctance earlier this summer. The Democrat used paid advertising to suggest Walker, a former college and professional football star, was afraid of the debate stage.
In recent weeks, Walker has taken the offensive. “If you see him, tell him to put his big man pants on” and agree to a debate, Walker said at a recent campaign stop, to the delight of his supporters.
Walker added that Warnock should be eager to “embarrass me,” a sarcastic nod to the negative attention he’s received after flubbing some policy matters as he campaigns.
Georgia’s Senate race is one of the most closely watched in the country as Republicans try to wrest back control of Congress. Concurrent 2021 runoff victories by Warnock and Jon Ossoff gave Democrats control of the Senate thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote, but Warnock has to run again this November to win a full six-year term.
In the Republican primary, Walker refused to participate in debates with GOP rivals as he cruised to victory. But Walker also repeatedly proclaimed his eagerness to face off with Warnock in the fall.
Any debate could force the two to face questions they’ve either avoided or largely deflected during the campaign.
For Warnock, that means being pressed anew on his relationship with President Joe Biden and an administration that remains broadly unpopular in Georgia less than two years after Biden narrowly won the state. Walker has hammered Warnock as a White House lackey and said the contest is about who best represents Georgia.
For Walker, it means facing a range of policy questions and broader inquiries about his fitness for high office. Warnock has hit Walker as unqualified and framed the race as being about “who’s ready to represent Georgia.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge Tuesday unsealed additional portions of an FBI affidavit laying out the basis for a search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, showing that agents earlier obtained a hard drive after issuing a subpoena for surveillance footage recorded inside Mar-a-Lago.
A heavily redacted version of the affidavit was made public last month, but the Justice Department requested permission to show more of it after lawyers for Trump revealed the existence of a June grand jury subpoena that sought video footage from cameras in the vicinity of the Mar-a-Lago storage room.
“Because those aspects of the grand jury’s investigation have now been publicly revealed, there is no longer any reason to keep them sealed (i.e. redacted) in the filings in this matter,” department lawyers wrote.
The newly visible portions of the FBI agent’s affidavit show that the FBI on June 24 subpoenaed for the records in June after a visit weeks earlier to Mar-a-Lago in which agents observed between 50 to 55 boxes of records in the storage room at the property. The Trump Organization provided a hard drive on July 6 in response to the subpoena, the affidavit says.
The footage could be an important piece of the investigation, including whether anyone has sought to obstruct the probe. The Justice Department has said in a separate filing that it has “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”
The Justice Department has been investigating the holding of top-secret information and other classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House. FBI agents, during their Aug. 8 search of the home and club, said they recovered more than 11,000 documents, including over 100 with classification markings.
Separately Tuesday, the Justice Department again urged U.S. District Aileen Cannon to lift her hold on core aspects of the investigation. Cannon last week granted the Trump team’s request for an independent arbiter to review the seized documents and weed out from the investigation any records that may be covered by claims of executive or attorney-client privilege.
She also ordered the department to halt its review of the records pending any further court order or the completion of a report by the yet-to-be-named special master. The department urged Cannon last week to put her order on hold and told the judge Tuesday that its investigation would be harmed by a continued delay of its ability to scrutinize the classified documents.
“The government and the public unquestionably have an interest in the timely enforcement of criminal laws, particularly those involving the protection of highly sensitive information, and especially where, as here, there may have been efforts to obstruct its investigation,” the lawyers wrote.
The Trump team on Monday urged the judge to leave her order in place. His lawyers raised questions about the documents’ current classification status and noted that a president has absolute authority to declassify information, though it pointedly did not say that Trump had actually declassified anything.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — California recently approved a new law that will require all new cars sold in the state to have zero emissions.
Now, the states that follow California’s standards must decide if they too will implement that rule.
The move to make all new vehicles electric or hydrogen-powered in California will begin in 2035.
“California has been the state that’s been leading the charge on fighting climate change and for good reason because they’re facing a lot of the brunt of climate change,” said Trevor Higgins from the Center for American Progress.
Seventeen other states that follow California’s standards will have to decide whether to follow the standard or revert to federal emission rules.
“Some states have said we’ll adopt everything that California does, including Virginia,” Higgins said.
Virginia made their decision to follow California’s lead before Republican Governor Glenn Younkin took office, and Younkin vowed to fight the zero emissions rule.
Robert Glicksman, an environmental law professor at George Washington University, says for some states, opting out will be tough.
“It would take adoption by the state legislature and approval by the governor to opt-out,” he said.
Experts say federal emissions rules may eventually catch up to California’s laws, but it’s unlikely to happen by 2035.
Instead, the Biden administration is offering incentives to car manufacturers and consumers. Higgins says the incentives should cause a natural shift to electric vehicles.
“They’re fun to drive, they are affordable, they help the grid to be more resilient, they let you charge your own house if the grid will be able to fail,” he said.
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MADDOCK, N.D. (AP) — A woman walked into a North Dakota bar carrying a raccoon, leading health officials to warn those who had contact with the animal about possible rabies exposure.
Bartender Cindy Smith said she was serving drinks at the Maddock Bar last week when a local resident brought in the animal during happy hour. There were about 10 people in the saloon at the time, she said.
Smith said she immediately asked the woman to leave but instead she took the raccoon around the bar to show another customer. The woman eventually departed with the animal after about five minutes.
“We finally got her out with it, and that’s all that happened,” Smith told The Bismarck Tribune. “It never left her arms one time, and there was absolutely no biting.”
Maddock is town of about 500 people located about 85 miles (137 kilometers) from the Canadian border.
Rabies is a viral infection that affects mammals, including humans. In an alert issued Tuesday, North Dakota’s Health and Human Services Department is asking anyone who may have been bitten or had contact with the raccoon’s saliva to seek medical care.
“Because rabies is such a serious disease with a nearly 100% fatality rate, we are making this information available to the public as a precautionary measure,” epidemiologist Amanda Bakken said in a statement.
Six rabid animals have been reported in North Dakota this year, including two bats, two cats, one bovine and one skunk.
Said Smith, “I had no idea what she was thinking.”
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Which window bird feeder is best?
Window bird feeders bring birds right up to your home, giving you an insight into their everyday lives. They’re great additions to other backyard feeders but can also let people who live in apartments and don’t have yards feed birds more easily.
At first glance, all window feeders look similar, but some subtle differences set them apart. If you’re looking for a durable, well-designed feeder, the Homebird Window Bird Feeder is a top choice.
What to know before you buy a window bird feeder
Capacity
Some window feeders hold more seeds than others. Compact feeders hold around 0.5 pounds, while large versions can hold upward of 2 pounds. Some manufacturers list the seed capacity, but you can also take an educated guess based on the overall dimensions of the feeder. Generally speaking, larger feeders hold more seed, but the depth of the seed trays is also a factor.
Bear in mind that a larger capacity isn’t always better. If you don’t have enough birds come to your feeder, you can end up having to throw away moldy seeds from a large or over-filled feeder.
Entrance size
The size of the entrance of your bird feeder dictates the size of birds that can comfortably fit inside to feed. Those with pitched roofs generally have bigger entrances at their largest point, so larger birds, such as cardinals, can eat. However, if the entrance is too big, you may attract nothing but wood pigeons and squirrels.
Rear window
Although a window feeder is made from clear acrylic, it can still somewhat obstruct your view of feeding birds, especially as it gets dirty over time. As such, most feeders have a window cut into the rear to provide a perfectly clear view. The size of this window varies between models. Some are designed so that the whole back is open for the best view possible, while others have smaller windows.
What to look for in a quality window bird feeder
Drainage holes
Even though window feeders have roofs, there’s still a chance that rain will get in, depending on the angle at which it’s falling. The seed tray should have drainage holes to stop rainwater from waterlogging the seeds and causing them to overflow.
Removable seed tray
It’s much easier to refill the seed tray if it’s removable. Otherwise, you’ll need to bring the seed to the feeder and pour it in or remove the whole feeder from the suction cups to fill it. You’ll also be able to clean the seed tray more easily, but remember that regularly cleaning the whole feeder is also important.
Strong suction cups
Not all suction cups are equally good. It’s essential to choose a feeder with strong suction cups because, without them, the feeder is basically useless.
How much you can expect to spend on a window bird feeder
Basic feeders start at around $15-$20, while particularly large, strong or well-made versions can cost as much as $35-$45.
Window bird feeder FAQ
How can I attract birds to my window feeder?
A. A common problem when people first place window feeders is that no birds come to them and they quickly get disheartened and give up. While some are lucky enough to have birds feed at their windows right away, it’s quite normal for them to take more than a month to discover a new feeding spot, so it can take time and a little coaxing.
Try filling your feeder with high-value seed rather than a generic seed mix. Sunflower hearts are popular with most birds. You can also try sprinkling some seeds on the ground close to the feeder to draw in the birds. Removing any other feeders from your yard can also encourage birds to come closer. Once they discover the feeder, don’t sit too close to watch them or make sudden movements at first, as this may scare them off.
Are window bird feeders safe?
A. It might seem counterintuitive, but it’s safer for feeders to be positioned close to windows or fixed to them. If a bird hits a window while taking off or landing, it’ll be traveling at a slower speed than if the feeder was further from the window. This makes it more likely to escape serious injury.
What’s the best window bird feeder to buy?
Top window bird feeder
What you need to know: While it’s pricier than some models, the quality is impressive.
What you’ll love: This feeder is well-constructed from thick, durable acrylic. It has extra-strong suction cups and a large viewing window. The wide-angled perch platform lets birds feed more comfortably.
What you should consider: It claims to be squirrel-proof, but it isn’t.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top window bird feeder for the money
What you need to know: With a 1-pound seed capacity, it offers excellent value.
What you’ll love: The pitched roof increases the entrance size at the apex, giving larger birds, such as cardinals, easier access. The seed tray is removable for easier refilling and has holes in it for drainage.
What you should consider: The suction cups were missing from some buyers’ orders, though this is an error that the manufacturer will rectify.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Nature’s Hangout Clear Window Bird Feeder
What you need to know: This large window feeder is perfect for small and medium-sized garden birds.
What you’ll love: The seed trays have drainage holes to prevent waterlogging. The rear window lets you see birds more clearly. The extra-strong suction cups keep it in place effectively.
What you should consider: The drainage holes can get clogged with small seeds.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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What we learned at NYFW
A fashion week brings together designers, brands, buyers, media and fans to create an event that serves as the wind and rudder for the current and upcoming seasons. It influences trends and guides the industry to a destination that was unknown before the event. One of the biggest, most important fashion weeks in the world is New York Fashion Week.
Trends that emerged at NYFW
The focus is on the waist
This week, the focus was on the waist — particularly the belt. Some models wore broad, oversized belts that covered from the hips to the bottom of the ribs. However, there were just as many outfits that were drawing attention to the midsection with chains and glittering ropes.
Browns and pinks are in
We’re not talking about subdued pastels. The browns at this fall event were rich and chocolatey, while the pinks were a vibrant candy color.
Space dyeing is trending
Another popular trend on the runway was space dyeing. Space dyeing gives yarn a multicolored effect that’s vaguely reminiscent of tie-dye. However, the overall effect is much different because of the texture of the yarn and the random way the colors line up.
Sparkles are looking bright this season
One popular trend in this week’s clothing was reflective material. Glitter, sequins, sparkles and more — the flashier the clothing, the better.
Maxi dresses are still in
Long dresses have not gone out of style. If anything, they’re more flamboyant than ever. Looks ran the gamut, including puffy, slinky and sparkling, in hot pinks and rich browns.
Ribs and shoulders, anyone?
Tastefully revealing a little skin is a timeless fashion trend. On the runway, earth-toned, off-the-shoulder dresses were big. For those with a little more daring, tops that revealed the lower ribs were popular.
Corsets and bustiers, courtesy of ‘Bridgerton’
We don’t really know if “Bridgerton” was the inspiration, but bustiers and corsets worn as outer garments were prevalent at this fall’s event.
Tweed gets a reboot
A reboot is something normally reserved for movies and TV, but after this year, tweed will get a fresh start. Many designers repurposed the fabric, moving it from elbows to flirty, revealing tops, pants and skirts.
9 trending pieces you can buy now
Michael Michael Kors Leather Stretch Faux Snakeskin Belt
This faux snakeskin leather belt is 2.75 inches wide, making it a fashionable, attention-getting cinch that provides a stylish accent to your ensemble.
Sold by Macy’s
Steve Madden Women’s Resin Dangling Charm Chain Belt
When worn with a mocha top and bottom, this chic chain belt will give your fall look a bold pop that lets people have a glimpse of your edgy personality.
Sold by Macy’s
BCX Juniors’ Space-Dyed Tie-Hem Top
This cozy cranberry space-dyed top is perfect for family gatherings or a casual date night to an autumn event.
Sold by Macy’s
PrettyGuide Women’s Sparkly Sequin Tank Top
According to NYFW, sparkles are in. The gorgeous gold, coffee and black blend in this top is a fun and flashy option.
Sold by Amazon
Betsy and Adam Ruched Cutout Bodycon Dress
This stunning off-the-shoulder, ruched, bodycon dress would make Elle Woods envious with its monochromatic vibrant pink color.
Sold by Macy’s
Verdusa Women’s O Ring Cutout Maxi Dress
This strikingly elegant maxi dress checks all the right Fashion Week boxes. It’s long, chocolate brown and has tantalizingly tasteful cutouts just under the ribs.
Sold by Amazon
Parthea Satin Spaghetti Strap Bustier Top
If a racier look is more your style, this brown satin top has a bold bustier style that would make it perfect for an event or special night out.
Sold by Amazon
Calvin Klein Women’s Tweed Pencil Skirt
This tweed pencil skirt is smart and stylish. It pairs well with earthy tones and is appropriate for office attire or a friendly date.
Sold by Macy’s
SweatyRocks Hot Pink Tweed Mini Skirt
This hot pink tweed mini skirt is the definition of fun and flirty. You can wear it to work and head right out to happy hour without needing to change.
Sold by Amazon
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Which ‘House of the Dragon’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ content is best?
With “House of the Dragon” roaring onto TV screens one episode at a time rather than being bingeable from start to finish, you’re probably looking to find a way to soothe impatience as you wait. What better way to do that than to take in more content from Westeros, the world of the show? There’s no shortage of options. You can watch old “Game of Thrones” episodes, learn more about Westeros’ history or even take the time to fill out an adult coloring book.
‘House of the Dragon’ vs. ‘Game of Thrones’
‘House of the Dragon’
“House of the Dragon” is a prequel to “Game of Thrones,” taking place hundreds of years before the characters in “Game of Thrones” were born. It’s loosely based on “Fire and Blood,” a history of the Targaryen empire written by “A Song of Ice and Fire” author George R.R. Martin, published in 2018.
‘Game of Thrones’
The cultural juggernaut “Game of Thrones” is based on the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series and originally aired on HBO from April 17, 2011, to May 19, 2019. Martin has released five novels in the series: “A Game of Thrones” published in 1996, “A Clash of Kings” in 1998, “A Storm of Swords” in 2000, “A Feast for Crows” in 2005 and “A Dance with Dragons” in 2011. Two books remain unfinished: “The Winds of Winter” and “A Dream of Spring.”
The best ‘Game of Thrones’ content to buy
If you can’t wait for another second to see what happens next in “House of the Dragon” then grab a copy of the book it’s based on. It even includes a full family tree so you can track the Targaryens throughout history. Sold by Amazon
“The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Volume One”
This illustrated version of the first part of “Fire and Blood” contains over 180 new illustrations of the Targaryens and their dragons. It releases two days after the conclusion of “House of the Dragon” to help you wait for season two. Sold by Amazon
“The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones”
If you’re already a big fan of “Game of Thrones” and love learning about Targaryen history, you’ll devour this illustrated text focusing on the history of Westeros as a whole. It also includes full family trees of Houses Stark, Lannister and Targaryen. Sold by Amazon
“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”
This novel is a collection of the first three Dunk and Egg novellas — “The Hedge Knight,” “The Sworn Sword” and “The Mystery Knight” — that take place between “House of the Dragon” and “Game of Thrones.” There are excellent if you prefer history told as tales rather than as textbooks. Sold by Amazon
If you’re loving “House of the Dragon” but haven’t yet seen the series that started it all, it doesn’t hurt to give the first season a try. It comes in standard DVD, Blu-ray and 4K formats. Sold by Amazon
“Game of Thrones”: The Complete Series
Whether you’ve seen it or not, the complete collection of “Game of Thrones” is the most economical way to watch it all. It contains over 80 hours of content — not counting a second of bonus material — and comes in standard DVD, Blu-ray and 4K formats. Sold by Amazon
“Game of Thrones”: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition — Blu-ray
The collector’s edition packages each season and a disc of bonus content inside special slipcovers that combine inside the series’ case to make a gorgeous shadowbox-like image ready-made for prominent display. Sold by Amazon
This is the book that started it all, released back in 1996. Compare the differences between this, the source, and the HBO adaptation to appreciate both on a new level. Sold by Amazon
“A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition”
This illustrated version of the debut “A Song of Ice and Fire” novel contains full-age artwork and black-and-white illustrations in every chapter. It’s a perfect gift for the “Game of Thrones” fan in your life. Sold by Amazon
“A Song of Ice and Fire” Paperback Box Set
This collects all five of the currently released “A Song of Ice and Fire” books which cover the events of “Game of Thrones” seasons one through six. Between all five novels, there are a staggering 4,272 pages. Sold by Amazon
“A Song of Ice and Fire” Leather-Bound Box Set
These beautifully bound versions of the five currently released “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels are excellent additions to any fantasy lover’s bookshelf and make for an excellent and surprisingly affordable gift. Sold by Amazon
“A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One”
Experience the beginning of “Game of Thrones” in a new medium. It includes a preface by George R.R. Martin and a step-by-step walk-through of the creative process of this graphic novel. Sold by Amazon
“The Hedge Knight: The Graphic Novel”
The first prequel novella featuring Dunk and Egg is reborn as a graphic novel. It includes 15 pages of supplemental material such as variant covers and sketches not found anywhere else. Sold by Amazon
“The Sworn Sword: The Graphic Novel”
The second prequel novella featuring Dunk and Egg gets its own graphic novel treatment, but this one has over 25 supplemental pages of bonus material to feast your eyes on. Sold by Amazon
“A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook”
This cookbook has over 100 recipes split between six regions of Westeros, all of which are accompanied by full-color photographs so you can get your presentation just right. It also contains a guide to entertaining and dining in the style of the world so your next dinner party can be stepped up a notch. Sold by Amazon
“The Official ‘A Game of Thrones’ Coloring Book: An Adult Coloring Book”
Coloring books aren’t just for kids. This 96-page coloring book has 45 intricate illustrations not found in any other illustrated “Game of Thrones” book, perfect for the artist in the family. It comes spiral-bound or in paperback. Sold by Amazon
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How to use smart home routines
Smart home devices are more popular than ever, but many underestimate what you can do with them. Voice assistants let you create routines that make your life easier, especially when used in tandem with other smart devices. We interviewed our tech expert, Jaime Vazquez, to learn more about smart home routines.
Everything you need to know about smart home routines
What is a smart home routine?
These routines are a series of actions that happen in response to a specific command or event. You can trigger them at a particular time or when you say a certain phrase.
In many cases, they rely on other smart home devices to carry out the actions necessary for the routine. For example, you can use smart bulbs to turn your lights on each morning.
What can you do with smart home routines?
Smart home routines often control lighting, but the sky is the limit when you have numerous smart devices in your house.
According to Vazquez, “some fun ones are specific greetings for video doorbells; when someone rings it, you can have it deliver a particular greeting message and turn on a light. If you have a smart garage door opener, it can determine your proximity, open the garage, turn on some lights and let your family know you’re home.”
If you have kids, you can create routines to help them go to bed or get ready for school. For example, you may have the lights blink or dim when it’s close to bedtime.
How to set up a smart home routine
The process varies depending on the voice assistant you use. Still, in most cases, you begin by navigating to your device’s settings and clicking on “routines.”
Most voice assistants have numerous preset routines. If you want to design your own, simply follow the on-screen prompts and select the devices you want to use, the things you’d like those devices to do and the command you’ll use to trigger the routine.
Alexa devices have several options to trigger routines; these options can be found in the “when this happens” menu. If you select the “voice” option, you can use a particular voice command to start your routine, whereas the “schedule” option starts it automatically at a specified time. You can use the schedule option to create recurring routines.
If you choose the “smart home” option, you can trigger the routine in response to one of your device’s smart sensors. For example, you can use this option to turn on a fan or air conditioner if your smart thermostat determines your home exceeds a specific temperature.
Alexa devices also have a “sound detection” option that can trigger routines in response to everyday sounds, such as a baby crying or a dog barking. This feature is ideal for notifying you when your child or pet needs you.
Which devices do you need to optimize your routines?
Smart plugs are the most versatile addition to your routines. These devices let you turn lamps, appliances and other devices on and off. If you want to incorporate your home’s lighting, you may want to consider a few smart bulbs throughout your home.
Smart thermostats can detect temperature changes in your home for routines, and Amazon’s Echo Show device can trigger routines in response to detecting a particular person.
If you incorporate your smart coffee maker into your routine, you can wake up to a hot pot of coffee every morning. Additionally, if you have a smart lock, you can use it to ensure your doors are locked after you leave for work.
Smart light strips can add ambiance to your entertainment room when you sit down to relax for the day. You can use your robot vacuum in your smart home routine to ensure you come home to a clean house.
Smart home routine FAQ
Is there a particular voice assistant that’s best for smart home routines?
A. According to Vazquez, ”they’re all good at it. In general, Alexa is the best for ease of use, Google is the best for voice recognition and Apple is the best for privacy.”
How many routines can you have on Alexa?
A. Currently, you can have up to 99 routines on your Alexa device.
Smart home devices our expert recommended
TP-Link Kasa Smart Plug Four-Pack
These can be paired with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. You can group separate outlets when creating routines, making them work more efficiently. You can use the Kasa app to track each device’s power consumption.
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This features an 8-inch HD touch screen display. It has a built-in camera you can use to enhance your smart home routines. It has a cover you can use to protect your privacy when you don’t need the camera.
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MyQ Chamberlain Garage Door Sensor
Installation and setup are quick and easy. You can use this to open and close your garage door via your phone, voice command or smart home routine. It’s a great way to determine whether you’ve left your garage door open while away from home.
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You can lock and unlock your door via your smartphone or Apple HomeKit. It can use geofencing technology to unlock your door when you get home. Its discreet design doesn’t let others know you have a smart lock.
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Philips Hue Bluetooth Smart Lightstrip
These lights can produce numerous colors to create an ideal environment for entertainment, get-togethers or studying. It’s easy to set up and can be used as a night light. It’s compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit and Microsoft Cortana.
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This can play videos, help your kids with homework or enable kid-centric smart home routines. It features a fun chameleon design.
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Which TCL TV is best?
If you’re shopping for a new TV, it’s natural to want to go with the best-looking one. However, you want to ensure you get a high-quality TV and the features you want.
TCL probably isn’t the first brand that pops into your head when thinking about smart TVs, but it offers models with a high-quality image and premium features. For example, the TCL 85-Inch Class 4K UHD QLED Roku Smart TV is a big-screen TV with dazzling visuals, vibrant colors and a user-friendly interface.
What to know before you buy a TCL TV
Screen size
The size of your new TV should correspond to the room you’re planning on placing it in and the space you have to work with.
For example, a TV with a smaller display of 27 to 37 inches is ideal for kitchens and small-to-medium-sized bedrooms. Any TV 37 to 55 inches is suitable for a primary bedroom, a family room or a basement. If you want a full-fledged home theater or entertainment hub, you’ll need ample room since TVs over 55 inches take up a lot of space.
A big-screen TV can be a worthwhile investment if you have a basement or a large living room where you can ensure there would be a significant distance between yourself and the TV for a comfortable viewing experience.
Resolution
4K TVs are the most popular, and for a good reason. 4K TVs look excellent when streaming ultra high-definition content. However, they’re usually more expensive than full high-definition and quad high-definition.
Full HD and Quad HD TVs look excellent, and although the clarity isn’t as crisp as an Ultra HD TV, they reproduce vibrant colors and deep contrast, and some users can’t even tell the difference.
Series
TCL TVs are categorized into one of four Series groups.
- Series 3 TVs are usually 32 to 40 inches wide and have an integrated Roku platform.
- Series 4 TVs range from 43 to 75 inches and have Roku or Android operating software.
- Series 5 TVs usually have HDR and Dolby Visual technology to reproduce a high-quality image and improved contrast.
- Series 6 TVs are the newest and use quantum light-emitting diode displays to deliver a 4K ultra high-definition resolution.
What to look for in a quality TCL TV
Refresh rate
Refresh rate refers to how often a display loads and refreshes the frame. Most TVs have a standard refresh rate of 60 hertz, but if you want a smooth gaming experience or watch HD sports, look for a TV with at least a 120-hertz refresh rate.
Roku and Android TV interface
Most TCL smart TVs have a built-in Roku or Android TV interface. Roku is easier to use and more user-friendly than Android TV, but both give users access to thousands of streaming apps where they can listen to music and watch live TV and movies. Less tech-savvy users are more likely to enjoy a Roku smart TV, but Android TV is more versatile and lets users download and install third-party apps.
High-dynamic range
HDR technology tweaks a TV’s displays to provide better contrast during bright or dark scenes in movies or games. It boosts brightness, makes colors more vibrant, and delivers improved picture quality. HDR10 is an improvement of the base HDR and offers even more clarity.
How much you can expect to spend on a TCL TV
The cost of any TV depends primarily on its size and resolution. TVs under 50 inches can cost anywhere between $200-$1,000. However, for TVs between 50 to 85 inches, you can expect to pay $1,000-$2,000.
TCL TV FAQ
Are TCL TVs as reliable as those offered by top brands?
A. Although TCL TVs aren’t as well-built or feature-packed as TVs by top brands such as Samsung and LG, they offer a high-quality image, are excellent for casual TV-watching and are more affordable.
Do TCL TVs support HDR10+?
A. No, most TCL TVs only support HDR and HDR10 technology.
What’s the best TCL TV to buy?
Top TCL TV
TCL 85-Inch Class 4K UHD QLED Roku Smart TV
What you need to know: This big-screen TV looks fantastic and is perfect as the central piece for a home theater or entertainment hub setup.
What you’ll love: This QLED TV uses Dolby Vision and HDR10 to deliver stunning visuals and lets you use voice commands. The contrast is individually optimized for a high-quality image, and the THX Game Mode reduces input lag and increases the response time for a smooth gaming experience.
What you should consider: It’s a large TV, so it might not be suitable for some rooms in your home. Also, the image quality during dark scenes can be mediocre.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top TCL TV for the money
TCL 43-Inch Class 4-Series 4K UHD Smart Android TV
What you need to know: This TV offers excellent value for its size and access to the top music and TV streaming apps.
What you’ll love: This TV has a sleek, modern design, supports HDR, and displays vivid colors for a high-quality picture. The interface is super fast, users can browse through Google Photos and it has a built-in Chromecast and Google Assistant for launching apps, movies and other functions.
What you should consider: The virtual remote control from the Google Home app can only adjust the volume, and some users reported having trouble getting some preloaded apps to work.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
TCL 65-Inch 5-Series 4K UHD QLED Roku Smart TV
What you need to know: This TV offers stunning clarity and is excellent for basement home theater setups.
What you’ll love: It has a built-in Roku interface for downloading and launching music and TV streaming apps, and the image contrast is optimized across localized zones for improved depth. It supports Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10, and has a broad color spectrum for a vivid and immersive picture.
What you should consider: There’s no built-in Bluetooth, and the color temperature can’t be adjusted. Also, some customers complained about it randomly rebooting.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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What you need to know about COVID-19 tests
If you haven’t been following the news, when you click to order your next set of free COVID-19 tests, you might find an unexpected message: “This program is not currently accepting orders for free at-home COVID-19 tests.” This doesn’t mean you can no longer get at-home tests. It simply means you’ll have to buy them.
In this article: iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test, Clinitest Rapid Covid-19 Antigen Self-Test and DxTerity COVID-19 Saliva At-Home Collection Kit
Are at-home COVID-19 tests effective?
According to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), an at-home COVID-19 test “detects proteins, called antigens, from the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.” When these proteins are detected, the test results are positive. If no antigens are detected, the test results are negative.
If you have a positive test, you can be fairly certain you have the virus. However, if the test results are negative, it could mean no antigens were collected during the swabbing. In other words, you might still have the virus.
Because of this, the FDA advises repeating the test in 48 hours if you have symptoms and your initial results were negative. If you were just exposed and do not have symptoms, repeat the test in 48 hours. If you have a negative result, repeat the test again in 48 hours.
How to use an at-home COVID-19 test
While collecting the sample is often the same — swabbing the inside of each nostril for a designated amount of time — every at home COVID-19 test is performed differently. It’s important to read through all of the instructions so you understand the entire process before you tear anything open, as some may be time-sensitive and all are easily contaminated.
Will my insurance reimburse me for the purchase of an at-home COVID-19 test?
Coverage for OTC COVID-19 tests began on Jan. 15, 2022. However, to get reimbursed for your purchase, you must follow all instructions offered by your insurer. There may be limits on how many tests you can purchase or other stipulations that could cause your claim to be denied if you don’t follow all instructions.
Where to buy COVID-19 tests
iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test
This best-selling test is simple to perform and can be completed in 15 minutes. You get two tests per package and the results are easy to read and interpret.
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BD Veritor At-Home COVID-19 Test Kit
BD Veritor’s test is unique because you use your smartphone to scan the results of the test. Your phone converts the image into words so there’s no way to misinterpret the results. BD Veritor can detect multiple variants, including Delta and Omicron.
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Clinitest Rapid Covid-19 Antigen Self-Test
Like other options, the Clinitest can be performed in about 15 minutes. The benefit to purchasing this option is it comes with five tests instead of the typical two.
Sold by Amazon
Celltrion DiaTrust COVID-19 Ag Home Test
As of May 20, 2022, the FDA granted a six-month extension to the shelf life of the Celltrion DiaTrust COVID-19 Ag Home Test. There are two tests in each pack and you get results in 15 minutes.
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DxTerity COVID-19 Saliva At-Home Collection Kit
If you prefer a lab test, DxTerity is a solid option. This convenient kit collects a saliva sample that you can ship out to get confidential results in 48 hours.
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What is the best banker’s lamp?
Banker’s lamps were invented over a century ago to soften the harsh light of the lightbulbs of that time. They are versatile, stylish and employ attractive lampshades to capture and redirect the light. They make desk work easier on the eyes without taking up much space.
Most banker’s lamps are made with a brass base and green glass shade, but there are modern styles that use other materials and colors. You can find a banker’s lamp that fits your office or home decor. For its attractive curved design and easy assembly, the best banker’s lamp is the Catalina Traditional Bankers Lamp with Glass Shade.
What to know before you buy a banker’s lamp
Styles of banker’s lamps
Banker’s lamps come in three distinct styles.
- Traditional banker’s lamps have a thin metal base — usually brass— that supports a green shade, although there are other colors available.
- Modern banker’s lamps have curved and carved base designs with a variety of shade styles.
- Tiffany-style banker’s lamps are topped with stained glass lampshades reminiscent of the art style from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This style can be expensive.
How tall are banker’s lamps?
Banker’s lamps range in height from 12 to 20 inches. Most are 14 to 16 inches tall. The bottom of the lampshade should be at your eye level when sitting at your desk. Some lamps are adjustable to the size of your desk and as your lighting needs change.
What kind of lightbulbs work in banker’s lamps?
Each banker’s lamp uses a specific lightbulb. Most modern lamps use LED bulbs that last 20,000 hours or more. Other lamps use incandescent bulbs. Review the manufacturer’s information to ensure you are using the right kind.
What to look for in a banker’s lamp
Lampshade
There are three main aspects of a lampshade to consider.
- Color: This is not only important for matching your decor, it also affects how light is filtered, which can affect the overall illumination. Green is the traditional shade color, but there are many other colors to choose from.
- Material: It’s most often frosted glass, but clear glass, plastic and mica are also used.
- Thickness: Each lampshade is meant to be thick enough to protect the lightbulbs but not cause the lamp to become top-heavy.
Base material
Traditional banker’s lamps have a brass base. Modern designs may have a brass coating that looks like a traditional base. Some have artistic designs, while others are plain and smooth.
Number of lightbulbs
Banker’s lamps either have room for one or two lightbulbs. The size and overall ambiance of your office or home determine how much illumination is required.
Switch or pull cord
Most banker’s lamps use a metal pull cord that emulates the traditional design, but some use a switch on the lightbulb holder similar to those on table and floor lamps. Tug a pull cord gently, since some tend to snap upward and could crack the shade if pulled too hard.
How much you can expect to spend on a banker’s lamp
Lamps priced from $30-$40 are typically single-bulb, shorter and feature a green shade made from inexpensive glass or plastic. For $40-$60, you’ll find taller lamps with more design features. Tiffany-style lamps are often priced between $60-$100.
Banker’s lamp FAQ
Will I need an extension cord for my banker’s lamp?
A. If your desk or table is positioned close to a wall outlet, you should not need an extension cord since most banker’s lamp cords are 5 to 6 feet. Extension cords may be needed if your wall outlets are far away from where the lamp will be.
How do you clean a banker’s lamp?
A. A simple dust cloth used every two months should be enough to keep it clean. Brass polish and glass cleaner for brass bases and glass lampshades also can be used if the lamp gets extra grimy.
What is the best banker’s lamp to buy?
Top banker’s lamp
Catalina Traditional Banker’s Lamp with Glass Shade
What you need to know: This easy-to-assemble stylish lamp has a curved body and bronze finish with a metal pull chain.
What you’ll love: The lamp stands over 17 inches tall with an amber frosted glass shade. It has a 5-foot power cord and can be connected to smart home devices. It uses a 60-watt lightbulb. A one-year warranty is included.
What you should consider: A few reviewers complained that the lamp isn’t adjustable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top banker’s lamp for the money
Newhouse Morgan Banker’s Desk Lamp
What you need to know: This traditional-style banker’s lamp has a rectangular harp shade that looks great in any room.
What you’ll love: The antique brass base is stylish and comes with a pull cord. The LED lamp lasts 25,000 hours and saves up to 90% on energy costs. It provides flicker-free light for all desk activities. No assembly is required.
What you should consider: Some customers said the pull chain can be hard to operate.
Where to buy: Amazon
Worth checking out
OttLite LED Pivoting Banker’s Lamp
What you need to know: This innovative banker’s lamp has a flexible neck and swing shade to adjust to your work area.
What you’ll love: The lamp neck moves between 12 and 21 inches with an LED lamp that lasts up to 40,000 hours. It has three brightness levels that alternate with a touch-sensitive switch. It is engineered to reduce glare and promote natural daylight.
What you should consider: Some consumers wished the base pivoted along with the arm for different setups.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which Le Creuset braiser is best?
If you’re looking for one cooking item to upgrade your kitchen, many home chefs would tell you a quality braiser is a safe bet. Braisers, coming from the French word for “embers” or “hot coals,” are a multiuse cookware piece that’s sure to enhance your cooking. Le Creuset, a bakeware company based out of France, has garnered worldwide appreciation for its wares, including its high quality braisers. For a top-of-the-line Le Creuset braiser, you can’t go wrong with the Le Creuset Signature Enameled Cast Iron Five-Quart Round Braiser.
What to know before you buy a Le Creuset braiser
Benefits of a Le Creuset braiser
Le Creuset braisers are simply the best of the best. With lifetime warranties, high quality stainless steel or enameled cast iron makes and a rainbow of color and design choices, each braiser carries the high quality expected from this upscale cookware company.
What can I cook in a Le Creuset braiser?
Similar to cast iron skillets, braisers can handle high heat, so they are great for searing meats, roasting vegetables in the oven (make sure the lid is oven-safe) and crisping or browning any type of food. Beyond that, braisers use both wet and dry heat, so they’re especially good for making fall-off-the-bone stews and roasts. The tight-fitting lid seals in heat and moisture, ensuring your food will be cooked thoroughly and stay juicy.
What to consider
Braisers are an expensive cookware item with some maintenance required to keep them in prime condition. While Le Creuset braisers tend to be pre-seasoned and enameled, some of its stainless steel may be harder to clean. Even pre-seasoned enameled cast iron braisers do need to be treated carefully; avoid harsh chemicals or leaving them soaking in water.
What to look for in a quality Le Creuset braiser
Material
Le Creuset offers two materials for its braisers: stainless steel and enameled cast iron. Stainless steel is cheaper, is less intimidating for those who have never taken care of cast iron cookware and offers a sleek and modern look. Enameled cast iron, on the other hand, is more durable, retains heat better and longer and does not need to be seasoned regularly like normal cast iron. It does tend to be very heavy, though, and can be cumbersome or even dangerous if dropped.
Color
Le Creuset has made a name for itself with high quality, colorful kitchenware, and its braisers are no exception. They come in many of the company’s signature colors, such as Caribbean Blue, Marseille and Oyster, as well as other fun colors, such as Flame and Cerise Red.
Size
While all braisers have the same domed top and shallow bottom, the circumference and depth of the braiser you choose determines how much you’ll be able to cook in one go. They range from 3 to 6 quarts. For a family of four or more, a 5-quart (or larger) braiser would be a wise choice.
How much you can expect to spend on a Le Creuset braiser
A Le Creuset braiser will cost $200-$400, depending on the materials and the size. The larger the braiser, the more expensive it will be. Stainless steel costs less than enameled cast iron braisers. Special color or design options also cost more.
Le Creuset braiser FAQ
Will cooking with a Le Creuset braiser add iron to my diet?
A. If it’s an enameled cast iron braiser, then yes. This material transfers a small amount of healthy iron to your food, which could be a blessing to those suffering from anemia. However, stainless steel braisers will not add iron to your dishes.
Are Le Creuset braisers dishwasher-safe?
A. Unfortunately, no. For best results, it is recommended that you always wash your braiser by hand, and don’t let it soak in water or soap for long periods of time.
What’s the best Le Creuset braiser to buy?
Top Le Creuset braiser
Le Creuset Signature Enameled Cast Iron 5-Quart Round Braiser
What you need to know: Aesthetics and ergonomics go hand in hand for this high quality, elegant enameled cast iron braiser.
What you’ll love: With 5 quarts, this braiser is big enough to serve a whole family or party of four, or you can cook a meal with plenty of leftovers for you and your partner. Its lovely design makes it a centerpiece at any table or on your stovetop. Nine color options are available.
What you should consider: It should be handled with care and is a high-price investment.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Wayfair and Sur la Table
Top Le Creuset braiser for the money
Le Creuset Enameled Cast Iron 2.25-Quart Signature Braiser
What you need to know: If you’re cooking for a smaller crowd, this enameled braiser offers all the benefits of the bigger model at a fraction of the price.
What you’ll love: It’s available in nine bold color options and features the same tight-fitting lid and shallow base as the larger models. The stain-resistant, nonstick enamel comes pre-seasoned and can braise, sear or fry any food you’d like. It won’t dull or crack even with daily use.
What you should consider: It also requires gentle treatment and hand-washing. It would not be practical for making large portions or liquid-heavy dishes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Wayfair and Sur la Table
Worth checking out
Le Creuset Toughened Nonstick PRO Shallow Braiser
What you need to know: If you want to invest in a braiser without worrying about the upkeep of cast iron, this nonstick braiser with glass lid is a lightweight and practical option.
What you’ll love: It is dishwasher-safe and holds 4 quarts. It’s oven-safe up to 500 degrees (the lid, up to 425 degrees).
What you should consider: It is not available in other colors.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A’ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum provided all the offense Las Vegas needed to move the Aces one win away from the franchise’s first WNBA title.
Wilson had 26 points and 10 rebounds to lead Las Vegas to an 85-71 victory over the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday night in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals.
The Aces had been 0-6 in the Finals before taking the first two games of the series with Connecticut. Las Vegas, which was swept in the championship in 2008 when the franchise was still in San Antonio and also in 2020, will look to secure the title on Thursday night in Connecticut.
“It’s going to take every bit of everybody,” said Gray, who added 21 points. “You can see the stats, it’s the toughness, it’s the little things that will get it done We have been a good road team this year. So we might as well go win on the road.”
Plum rebounded from a poor Game 1 to score 20 points.
“A’ja cussed me out before the game. That’s all I needed,” Plum said. “About time I joined the party. They carried us all week. It’s good to hit some shots, but we have one more.”
After being held to a season-low 67 points in Game 1, the Aces found their offensive prowess to hit 33 of 64 (51.6%) from the floor.
Connecticut, which finished 27 of 64 (42.2%) from the field, had four players in double digits, led by Courtney Williams with 18.
Jonquel Jones also had a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds, Alyssa Thomas finished with 13 points.
Looking to establish an offensive presence, both teams pushed the pace early, trading buckets to a 10-10 tie until the Aces seized momentum and used an 11-4 run to open a seven-point advantage. Las Vegas hit 55% (10 of 18) from the floor in the first quarter while the Sun struggled to a 35% clip, hitting just 7 of 20.
The Aces continued to apply offensive pressure in the second, led by Plum, who contributed 11 in the quarter.
“I thought Kelsey’s drives opened us up,” Hammon said. “I mean, the other day we got good looks again from three. We didn’t want to knock them down but you have to believe the worm will turn there eventually. The important thing is we are getting good looks once she gets in there.”
Connecticut was down 14 when coach Curt Miller went big with his lineup, and the Sun responded with a 12-4 run to cut their deficit to six before a Wilson bucket provided the Aces with a 45-37 halftime lead.
“Get to my spots, my teammates are putting me in a situation where I’m comfortable,” said Wilson, who made 10 of 13 shots.
Las Vegas’ offensive balance continued into the third, with five different scorers helping the Aces push the lead to 14, outscoring Connecticut 23-17, taking a 68-54 lead into the final period.
“We felt like we were playing catchup all night since we couldn’t string together consecutive stops,” Miller said. “Trying to keep this high-powered offense out of rhythm and tonight we struggled to do that.”
PAINTING EFFICIENCY
While the teams each came away with 34 rebounds, the Aces outrebounded the Sun 6-2 with offensive boards and had better overall efficiency in the paint by outscoring Connecticut 46-28.
LET’S GET PHYSICAL
The third quarter saw both teams with bumps and bruises. Gray and Natisha Hiedeman left the game with twisted ankles early in the third quarter. Gray went back to the locker room but later returned. Jackie Young suffered a busted lip. Williams left late in the third with what appeared to be a lower leg injury. Hiedeman and Williams returned to start the fourth quarter. Young returned early in the final period.
BACKS AGAINST THE WALL
Connecticut is 3-0 in elimination games in the playoffs so far this season.
“We are taking it one game at a time,” Jones said. “That’s all we can do. We are going to go back home, we are going to have our fans behind us, who have been with us all season, and we are going to use that to propel us to a win and that’s all we can do.”
WATCHING THE W
ABC registered the most-viewed WNBA Finals Game 1 in five years, with 555,000 viewers, and a peak viewership of 872,000. It was an 18% increase over Game 1 of the 2021 WNBA Finals.
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Not many people get to be a pioneer at 77 years old, especially in sports broadcasting.
That will be the case, though, when Al Michaels calls Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs on Prime Video.
The matchup between AFC West rivals kicks off an 11-year agreement between Amazon and the NFL and marks the first time the league has sold a package of games to a streaming service.
“It wasn’t that long ago I had no idea what streaming was, as did a lot of us. I find it exciting because all of my friends, my kids, and grandkids all think this is about the coolest thing in the world,” said Michaels, who will team up with Kirk Herbstreit and sideline reporter Kaylee Hartung.
“I said to somebody, ‘They think we’re coming over the Rockies in a covered wagon.’ I said, ‘We’re coming over the Rockies in broadband. We are the pioneers.’”
Amazon won the rights to the prime-time package last March. It was initially supposed to begin in 2023, along with the rest of the league’s broadcasting contracts, but two months later, the NFL announced that Amazon would take over the Thursday night package from Fox a year earlier.
That left Amazon with 15 months to get everything up and running. It marks the first time since Fox in 1994 that a new broadcasting partner has been brought into the NFL framework.
For Marie Donoghue, Amazon’s vice president of Global Sports Video, Thursday’s game marks a rewarding end of a four-year quest to bring the NFL to the company.
Donoghue was an executive VP at ESPN for 19 years and saw what the NFL could do for Prime Video much as it did when ESPN and Fox began carrying games.
While this is Prime Video’s first significant U.S. sports package — it carries some New York Yankees, Seattle Storm, and Seattle Sounders games regionally — it has a robust international resume.
In the United Kingdom, it carries 20 Premier League games and the U.S. Open tennis tournament. It will also carry a package of Champions League games in the UK beginning in 2024. Prime Video already streams the European club soccer competition in Italy and Germany.
The biggest concern about any event that is streamed live is video quality, along with making sure the infrastructure can handle the demands. Jared Stacy, Prime Video’s director of Global Live Sports Production, was already in the production truck at Arrowhead Stadium Tuesday afternoon going over final preparations, including covering all contingencies.
Amazon and the NFL also have a prior working history. Amazon Web Services has partnered with the league for Next Gen Stats since 2015, while Prime Video has simulcast Thursday night games since 2017.
The 15-game package averages $1.2 billion per season. That could go up slightly beginning next year when the NFL is expected to schedule a game for the day after Thanksgiving since “Black Friday” unofficially kicks off the Christmas shopping season.
Jon Christian, the EVP for OnPrem, a technology consulting firm specializing in media and entertainment, said the Thursday night package is a great test case for the NFL.
“This is the first time an NFL game will be locked behind a streaming subscription service,” he said. “This will eliminate a portion of the audience that doesn’t have this capability or Amazon Prime. It will be interesting to see how much they gain from the ‘cord-cutters’ and how much this deal spurs new Amazon Prime subscribers.”
Those watching on the Prime Video app on their TVs, phones, or tablets can access on-demand statistics and highlights to enhance the second-screen experience.
When it comes to the actual game broadcasts, don’t expect Amazon to reinvent the wheel with executive producer Fred Gaudelli calling the shots. It will be Gaudelli’s 33rd season as the lead producer for an NFL prime-time package. He worked on ESPN’s Sunday night package from 1990-2000 and ABC’s “Monday Night Football” from 2001-05 before going to NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” for the past 16 seasons.
Gaudelli and his production crew have state-of-the-art equipment, including an ergonomic production truck that allows him to call the game standing up. The production crew did two run-through sessions in Los Angeles before the preseason game between the San Francisco 49ers and Houston Texans on Aug. 25.
Many lauded the preseason presentation, saying it appeared that Prime Video had been carrying games for a couple of years instead of it being its first.
“I think the quality of the game coverage, and obviously the announcing, will be as good as there is in the NFL. That’s my goal, that’s why I’m here, and that’s what we intend to do,” Gaudelli said.
Gaudelli has worked with Michaels since 2001 while Herbstreit emerged as the analyst after Troy Aikman decided to go to ESPN. Hartung, previously an ESPN sideline reporter, returns to sports after five years with ABC News and CNN.
The area where Prime could stand out is its pregame show. Amazon has established veterans in Charissa Thompson and Tony Gonzalez, but it also hired Richard Sherman, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Andrew Whitworth. Having three television rookies coming straight off the football field could make things entertaining.
While the NFL and Prime Video would like to draw big viewer numbers immediately, both parties realize the transition will take some time, even though there has been extensive promotion about where to find the games. While everyone focuses on the first game, the bigger picture is down the road.
“This is the start of an 11-year deal. Of course, we want the biggest audience possible, but this is a big change for fans,” Donoghue said. “We’re very comfortable with that. We are overly focused on our production and what we deliver for fans. We’ve got an incredibly high bar that we set for ourselves. So we know this will evolve over time.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Rodrigo Blankenship’s three-year run with the Indianapolis Colts ended Tuesday when he was waived two days after slicing a 42-yard field goal to the right in overtime and sending two fourth-quarter kickoffs out of bounds.
The Colts wound up settling for a 20-20 tie at Houston — the franchise’s first in 40 years.
Blankenship will be replaced by either Chase McLaughlin or Lucas Havrisik on Sunday in Jacksonville The two kickers were signed to the practice squad and will spend this week fighting for the job Blankenship lost.
“I always tell our players and specialists it’s OK — everyone is expected to make a mistake,” special teams coordinator Bubba Ventrone said Tuesday before the move was announced. “You’re going to have ups and downs in a game. It’s how fast can you respond and how fast can you self-correct it.”
The bespectacled Blankenship won’t get that chance — at least with the Colts.
He won the kicking job as an undrafted rookie out of Georgia in 2020, but after scoring 139 points in a strong rookie season, Blankenship struggled.
He hurt his hip before last year’s game at Baltimore and the ensuing kicking woes that day proved costly in an overtime loss. Blankenship never returned to the field afterward, missing three of 14 field-goal attempts and an extra point in five games before finishing the season on injured reserve.
Michael Badgley had the job for the rest of 2021, going 18 of 21 on field goals and making all 39 extra points. But Indy didn’t re-sign him in the offseason and Badgley instead wound up in Jacksonville. He was eventually cut and re-signed to the practice squad.
Blankenship then fended off a training camp challenge from undrafted rookie Jake Verity, who spent most of last season on Baltimore’s practice squad.
“To Rod’s credit, as we’ve brought the heat and brought competition, he’s kind of won those battles. That’s to his credit,” coach Frank Reich said Monday before meeting with general manager Chris Ballard. “Chris and I will sit down and have a long discussion about that and see where we’re at.”
Blankenship’s victory didn’t last long and now, for the third time in four seasons, Indy’s placekicking job has been in flux.
Longtime kicker Adam Vinatieri struggled mightily in 2019 before finishing a long, illustrious career on injured reserve.
Blankenship temporarily solidified matters in 2020. But his continued struggles, especially after he was handed kickoff duties following the loss of longtime punter, holder and kickoff specialist Rigoberto Sanchez in training camp led to a change. Sanchez tore his Achilles tendon and will miss the rest of the season.
McLaughlin replaced Vinatieri at the end of 2019 and made five of six field goals and all 11 extra points in four games. Havrisik is an undrafted rookie out of Arizona, who tried out with the Colts during May’s rookie minicamp.
Indy also promoted cornerback Tony Brown from the practice squad to the active roster and added cornerback Darrell Baker Jr. and safety Henry Black to the practice squad. The Colts released guard Arlington Hambright, safety Will Redmond and cornerback Chris Wilcox from the practice squad.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch will move to Richard Childress Racing next season, ending a 15-year career with Joe Gibbs Racing because the team could not come to terms with NASCAR’s only active multiple Cup champion.
Busch will drive the No. 8 Chevrolet for Childress in an announcement made Tuesday at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. He wore the two Cup championship rings he won driving for Gibbs on his middle fingers.
“I’ll be taking my talents to Welcome, North Carolina to drive the No. 8 car starting in 2023,” Busch said of moving to the team based about an hour north of Charlotte.
Tyler Reddick, who is currently competing for the Cup championship in the No. 8 Chevrolet, will remain under contract at RCR and drive for the team next season. Reddick in July told Childress he was moving to 23XI Racing in 2024.
Richard Childress said he informed Reddick he’d be out of the No. 8 next season one hour before Busch’s announcement. Childress said he’d obtain a third charter for Reddick’s car, but gave no other details except that Reddick’s current crew chief will be paired with Busch next season.
When Childress joined Busch at the announcement, the Hall of Fame team owner presented Busch’s 7-year-old son, Brexton, with a contract option to someday drive for RCR. But before that, Childress handed Busch his “signing bonus,” which was a boxed watch.
Childress in 2011 tussled with Busch after a Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway. The car owner removed his watch and handed it to someone, saying ‘Hold my watch’ before the altercation. Childress was fined $150,000 by NASCAR afterward.
Childress and Busch, now 37 years old, long ago made amends, which helped make RCR a landing spot for Busch during his excruciatingly long free agency period. JGR learned longtime partner Mars Wrigley was leaving the sport at the end of 2022, and Gibbs had been searching for a deep-pocketed sponsor to keep Busch in the No. 18 Toyota.
Busch even said he’d drive for below his market value to get a deal done.
But as the year went on and no progress was made on Busch’s 2023 plans, he was forced to look elsewhere for both his own Cup seat and a landing spot for Kyle Busch Motorsports, his Truck Series team. KBM will now be a Chevrolet organization, but Busch said all details on KBM and how many trucks it fields next year is still being decided.
“Kyle has been a major part of our history and success here at Joe Gibbs Racing. We are thankful for all his contributions to our organization over the years,” Joe Gibbs said in a statement. “When you look at all that he has accomplished already, it is truly remarkable, and we know someday we will be celebrating his Hall of Fame induction.”
The move to RCR and rival Chevrolet is a tremendous blow to Toyota, which has been with Busch since he joined JGR and powered him to all but four of his 60 career Cup wins. Busch is also the winningest driver in the lower-level Xfinity Series and Truck Series, and his KBM truck team is a massive part of Toyota’s dominance in that series.
But Toyota could do nothing to find Busch a slot in its small fleet — JGR and 23XI combine for a Cup Series low six full-time entries — and Busch was able to move to Chevrolet. The manufacturer lauded the driver it considers a future Hall of Famer for all that “one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history” has accomplished for Toyota.
“We’re disappointed and saddened that his future won’t continue to be with Team Toyota,” the manufacturer said in a statement. “Kyle has been an ambassador for Toyota since joining the program in 2008. He’s gone on to accumulate some of the most prestigious milestones possible for the Toyota brand. He will undoubtedly hold the record for the most wins in a Toyota across all three Championship Series for decades to come.
“But more than that, Kyle has been a friend, part of our family and has played a key role in the development of many of our drivers through his ownership of Kyle Busch Motorsports. We wish nothing but the best for Kyle and his entire family as he moves into the next chapter of his Hall of Fame career. We’re thankful to have been along for the ride.”
Childress said the atmosphere at his shop in Welcome has been electric since rumors started that Busch might move to the organization. He also said when he looks in Busch’s eyes, he sees the same fiery look of competition he once saw in the late Dale Earnhardt.
Earnhardt won six of his seven Cup championships driving for Childress. RCR has not won a Cup title since Earnhardt, but has both Reddick and Austin Dillon, Childress’ grandson, in this year’s playoff field.
But RCR has not won a title since Earnhardt’s final championship in 1994. Reddick, a two-race winner this season, is currently 11th in the playoff standings. Austin Dillon, who won the regular-season finale to snag the final playoff spot, is 14th in the standings as the Cup Series heads into Saturday night’s elimination race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
It was Dillon, Childress said, who encouraged his grandfather to speak to Busch after Reddick blindsided RCR with his plans to leave in 2024. Busch goes into Bristol ranked 13th in the standings.
The move to RCR returns Busch to Chevrolet, the manufacturer he began with when he signed a development driver contract with Hendrick Motorsports when Busch was a teenager. He made his Cup debut as a 19-year-old for Hendrick and won four races over three seasons driving the No. 5 Chevrolet — the number currently used by champion Kyle Larson.
Busch was released from Hendrick at the end of 2007 when Dale Earnhardt Jr. became available and Hendrick could no longer tolerate Busch’s volatile behavior. Gibbs gave Busch a longer leash — Gibbs won three Super Bowls with the Washington Redskins and also employed Hall of Fame driver Tony Stewart — and Busch thanked Gibbs on Tuesday for “being patient with me.”
“You guys took a chance at a kid 15 years ago to let me drive a race car, and we hit the ground running,” Busch said of Gibbs, who allowed “me to be a kid and grow into a man, most days.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It’s sometimes difficult to believe that Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, for all that he’s accomplished during his young but brilliant NFL career, would carry such a considerable chip on his shoulder.
He thrives on the doubters. The naysayers. The critics who try to diminish everything he’s done.
It was that way when he was coming out of high school, and Texas Tech was among the only schools that gave the baseball player a football scholarship. And coming out of Texas Tech, when so many NFL teams pegged him as a system quarterback who would flounder like so many other “Air Raid” products as a professional.
It was that way this past offseason, too, when detractors tried to argue that Mahomes would take a step back without the game-breaking ability of Tyreek Hill, who was shipped to the Dolphins for a package of draft picks.
So much for that.
Mahomes merely responded by throwing for 360 yards and five touchdowns without an interception on Sunday in Arizona, a performance that was so nearly flawless that the Chiefs built a big enough lead that he could ride the bench at the end.
“That’s just Pat. That’s just who he is,” Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy said this week, after they had turned their attention from the 44-21 blitz of the Cardinals to a Thursday night showdown against the Los Angeles Chargers.
There was one point during the game when Mahomes, after throwing his fourth touchdown pass, put up four fingers at a woebegone defender, as if to say: “How ‘bout that?” It was done in the heat of the moment, and Mahomes said Tuesday that he didn’t even remember doing it. But it spoke volumes about his competitive fire.
“There’s always that behind-the-scenes moment he’s going to create that keeps him fired up and energized,” Bieniemy said. “The kid is a tremendous football player. I love the energy and excitement he brings. And he’s the ultimate competitor.”
It’s something that Chiefs coach Andy Reid identified a half-decade ago, when they traded up in the first round to make Mahomes their quarterback of the future. They were traits similar to those Reid saw while coaching Brett Favre in Green Bay, Donovan McNabb and Michael Vick in Philadelphia, and Alex Smith in Kansas City.
“The way he approaches football is important,” Reid said. “If you ask him, family and football are right at the top of the things he does. Whether he does a commercial or whatever, he’s going to put football at the front. It’s not going to disrupt what he’s doing. And as you know, he’s extremely smart. His recall is exceptional. His attention goes with that.
“You tell him something once,” Reid said, “and he’s got it.”
The same goes if you slight him once. He’s going to remember it.
“I mean, you always feel like you have more to prove,” Mahomes said. “I promise, Tom Brady’s feeling like he has more to prove, and I think that just comes with any sport, any competitor. If you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse. And they build you up to tear you down, and you got to kind of know that. For me, it’s all about, ‘How can I make myself better?’ Not what other people say. ‘How can I make myself better so we can go out there and win football games?’”
That’s rapidly becoming a difficult question to answer.
Mahomes is coming off his sixth career game with at least five TD passes, joining a club that includes Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino and Ben Roethlisberger. Each of them played at least 240 games; Mahomes has played 64.
He’s also closing on 20,000 yards for his career — he needs 649 more — a number that Mahomes could reasonably achieve in two games. That would mean reaching the threshold in 66 games, five fewer than the NFL record.
“I’m glad that he’s on our side,” Bieniemy said, “and just looking forward to watching him do work from here on out.”
NOTES: CB Trent McDuffie was placed on injured reserve with a hamstring injury, meaning he will be out at least four weeks. … K Harrison Butker (ankle sprain) did not practice Tuesday and appear unlikely to play Thursday night. The Chiefs signed former Jets K Matt Ammendola to their practice squad to provide insurance. “We’ve got the Plan B. We’re working on it,” Reid said. “We’ll see if that’s where we go with it.” … OL Trey Smith (ankle) and WR Justin Watson (chest) are expected to play. … The Chiefs activated practice squad LBs Jack Cochrane and Elijah Lee. They also signed CB Dicaprio Bootle and WR Corey Coleman to the practice squad and released FS James Wiggins.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs coach Andy Reid criticized the field inside State Farm Stadium on Tuesday after two Kansas City players slipped on the turf and sustained injuries during their 44-21 win over the Arizona Cardinals last week.
First-round pick Trent McDuffie hurt his hamstring when the young cornerback slipped during an otherwise impressive NFL debut. He was placed on injured reserve Tuesday, meaning he will miss at least the next four games.
Harrison Butker’s plant foot also slipped awkwardly during a kickoff early in the game, forcing the Chiefs to use safety Justin Reid for most of their kickoffs and extra points. Butker was diagnosed with a sprained ankle and, because the Chiefs play the Chargers on Thursday night, it’s unlikely he will be available for Week 2.
The Chiefs signed former Jets kicker Matt Ammendola to the practice squad and could elevate him for the game.
“It was a little loose. That’s what happens sometimes when you re-sod,” Reid said of the turf. “It’s part of the Butker injury and the McDuffie injury, and that’s unfortunate. The turf picked up, and I would tell you that did have something to do with it. If it didn’t, I’d tell you that, too. It’s not an excuse by any means. But you all see it when you watch the tape.”
The Cardinals have a unique natural grass field that essentially sits on a tray, allowing it to be slid out under the roofed stadium when it’s used for concerts and other events. It also gives the surface an opportunity to be in the sun.
The stadium is maintained by ASM Global, which manages six other NFL stadiums, including Soldier Field. The home of the Chicago Bears was re-sodded earlier this month after it was roundly criticized following their preseason opener.
The new turf in Chicago fared well during heavy rains for the Bears’ game against the San Francisco 49ers last weekend.
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Jimmy Walker quietly stepped away from the PGA Tour in April, not sure whether it was lingering effects of Lyme disease or mounting frustration — probably both — that led to the decision. He just knew he needed to get away for the rest of the year, maybe two, maybe longer.
And then LIV Golf came along.
The Saudi riches didn’t land at his door in San Antonio, and Walker isn’t sure he would have been interested. “History is powerful and it’s what that doesn’t have yet,” he said.
Walker watched from the sidelines, not begrudging anyone who chose to go to the rival league. What he didn’t realize was that for each player who signed up for LIV Golf — and was suspended by or resigned from the PGA Tour — it only helped him.
The phone call on Labor Day surprised him.
Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman were among the latest to leave, allowing Walker to move up nine spots to No. 50 in career earnings on the PGA Tour. That gave him access to a one-time exemption for the new season that starts Thursday.
Walker was happy at home behind a grill, on his lawn mower, going to the gym or chasing after his two boys. He still played golf with friends, the show-up-and-swing-it variety. That was fun.
“I’ve been running and gunning at this professional sports job for 20 years,” he said. “I just needed time to not do a damn thing.”
Walker also knew this chance wouldn’t be around next year if he didn’t take it.
“I had no plans to play and I didn’t know when I would play again. I might have been done,” Walker said. “Is it fate that this is happening? I don’t know.”
Leave it to the words of a child.
Walker figures he could have retired and been satisfied with a career that brought him a major championship and two Ryder Cup teams. He is 43 and still feels he can do more. So he asked his sons, 12-year-old McClain and 9-year-old Beckett, if they wanted him to go on the road again.
“The youngest, Beckett, said to me: ‘Can you be great again? If you think you can do that, I want you to go.’ That was a real tear-jerk moment,” Walker said.
Beckett was 3 when Walker scooped him into his arms on the 18th green at Baltusrol after his one-shot victory in the 2016 PGA Championship. Can he deliver another moment like that? He figures it’s worth a shot, especially when the decision was made for him.
Walker is one example of how LIV Golf has provided a path that players weren’t expecting.
Another former PGA champion, Jason Dufner, moved into the top 50 in career money to get his card. Rory Sabbatini landed in the top 25 in career money because of LIV suspensions.
And that’s what had Walker on a commercial flight Monday from San Antonio to Oakland, California, and then a short drive — no courtesy car this week — to Napa for the Fortinet Championship and the start of a season he wasn’t planning to play.
He was so determined to make a clean break from golf that Walker stayed home instead of playing the PGA Championship at Southern Hills, where he made his pro debut in the 2001 U.S. Open. That would be coming full circle. He preferred full stop.
“I’ve had a great career,” he said. “I can hang my hat on that.”
It took Walker 178 starts on the PGA Tour before he finally won the season opener at CordeValle in 2013 by beating Brooks Koepka, a sponsor exemption who had earned his European tour card that year. Koepka was one of the players who signed with LIV and enabled Walker to move up the career earnings list.
Walker still holds the Sony Open record with a nine-shot win in 2015. He peaked a year later when he captured his lone major and played on his second straight Ryder Cup team, this one a U.S. win at Hazeltine.
A hunting trip to King Ranch that fall is where he suspects he got Lyme disease, though it took months of symptoms and uncertainty before he received the diagnosis on the Wednesday before the Masters.
The road back seemed to get longer the harder he worked.
He felt fine one week, terrible the next. Medication made him sensitive to the sun. He started struggling with chipping and putting, the hallmark of his game. He was happy at home in San Antonio, increasingly grumpy on the road.
Now it feels like a fresh start. Walker has played long enough to know what’s ahead.
Golf is getting younger and better. Only the top 70 keep their cards in this new season of big prize funds, another change brought on by LIV Golf.
“I had mixed emotions leaving,” Walker said during a layover Monday in San Diego. “I know what it entails, the hard work and all that. I’m nervous. Honestly, I don’t feel super prepared. But there’s not a better way than to jump right back into it.
“It could be amazing, or it could be a disaster.”
Either way, it’s something Walker wasn’t expecting. He has LIV Golf to thank for that.
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys are not putting quarterback Dak Prescott on injured reserve after surgery on his right thumb, leaving open the possibility that he could return within the next four games.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Tuesday during his weekly appearance on the team’s flagship radio station that the team wants Prescott “to be a consideration for playing within the next four games.” That is the minimum number of games a player has to miss if placed on injured reserve.
“We feel very good after surgery, after listening to the medical people, that Dak has a real chance to be back out there throwing the ball real quick,” Jones told 105.3 The Fan.
Prescott had surgery Monday, a day after he got hurt in the fourth quarter of a season-opening 19-3 loss at home to Tampa Bay. He was following through after releasing a pass when his right hand bent awkwardly after making hard contact with the raised hands of rushing linebacker Shaq Barrett.
“We think he can come in and play. So, we don’t want to not have him out there practicing. We want him getting prepared,” Jones said. “We’ll see how he handles this thing, how it heals, mainly his strength, how he can grip the ball, what his status is. That’s not being an optimist. The proof is we got a good surgery, got good technique, and feel better about it than we did the other night.”
Cooper Rush finished the game in Prescott’s place and is expected to start Sunday’s home game against defending AFC champion Cincinnati. Jones said it was “unlikely” that the Cowboys would add a veteran quarterback, and instead would stick with backup quarterbacks Rush and Will Grier.
“Those guys know the offense well. They’ve had a lot of reps in it and consequently give us our best shot,” Jones said. “It’s unlikely that you have a veteran quarterback that could get back in here and be ready to play as well as those guys can play, even if you thought you might have a talent advantage.”
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SEATTLE (AP) — Hearing his name chanted as he left the field as a winner for the Seattle Seahawks wasn’t validation for Geno Smith.
It was gratification that eight years after he last was a starting quarterback on the opening weekend of the NFL season he again had the opportunity.
“As far as worrying about naysayers, anything like that, I don’t get into that type of stuff,” Smith said. “People can write you off, but life is about what you make it and so I’ve just been blessed enough to be in the NFL for 10 years, and been working my butt off, and it’s a team game and we got to win tonight as a team.”
With most of the attention on Russell Wilson’s return to Seattle on the other side of the field, it was Smith and the Seahawks celebrating a 17-16 win on Monday night.
Wilson had the more memorable evening, from the boos that cascaded down on him from Seattle fans, to Denver’s decision not to go for it on fourth-and-5 and instead attempt a 64-yard field goal in the closing seconds.
But it was Smith that was in the celebratory locker room afterward, the one that Wilson called home for a decade.
“He’s had it in his whole time. He just hasn’t had the perfect opportunity for him to go out there and showcase what he really is able to do when he’s in full control of a football team or of an offense,” Seattle wide receiver DK Metcalf said.
Smith was spectacular in the first half and perhaps more of what was expected in the second half as Seattle was shut out. He finished 23 of 28 for 195 yards, but was 17 of 18 for 164 yards and two touchdowns in the first half.
Smith threw a 38-yard touchdown to Will Dissly on Seattle’s first possession of the season. He added a 25-yard strike to Colby Parkinson in the second quarter that gave Seattle a 17-7 lead at the time. He jogged off the field at halftime to chants of “Geno, Geno.”
That big half proved to be enough, but barely.
“He was so poised and so calm in this game. It was just fun playing with him,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. “And we’re talking as the game is going on, he’s having fun and laughing and enjoying it. The moment came to him and he was ready for it.”
Smith’s second season in the NFL, in 2014, was the last time he started on the opening weekend of the season. It was the first time since 1971 there had been that large of a time gap for a quarterback between opening week starts.
Smith appeared to relish his opportunity. He played fearless and the Seattle crowd — already amped by Wilson’s return — roared its approval. When Smith lowered his shoulder on a 14-yard scramble late in the third quarter rather than sliding, the Seahawks fans followed with more chants of his name.
For all Smith did right, Seattle’s offense was inefficient in the second half. The Seahawks had just 34 total yards and five first downs after halftime. Seattle had less than 10 minutes time of possession in the third and fourth quarters.
It made for a nervy final few moments for Smith as he watched Denver try to rally. It created flashbacks to the past three seasons serving as Wilson’s backup and watching him lead the Seahawks in games and practices down the field in those late-game situations.
“For so long, I watched Russ go down and win those games,” Smith said. “It was a surreal moment seeing him on the other side, up against our defense, going for one of his vintage comeback wins, and we stood up tonight and I was happy about that.”
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BOSTON (AP) — It’s a rare thing for a Red Sox fan to cheer for a member of the New York Yankees.
Aaron Judge caused some of Boston’s faithful to make an exception on his latest visit to Fenway Park
Judge hit his major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs, Gleyber Torres had a go-ahead three-run double in the 10th inning and the Yankees held on to beat the Red Sox 7-6 on Tuesday night.
Playing in New York’s 142nd game, the Yankees slugger’s second drive of the night brought fans from both sides of the rivalry to their feet in applause as he moved four from tying the American League home run record Roger Maris set with the Yankees in 1961.
“(Red Sox fans) were wearing me out on deck, I don’t know if they were cheering or not,” Judge said. “They were wearing me out. But nah, it’s all of baseball fans. Just fans all over. Red Sox, Yankees — it doesn’t matter. They came here to see a good game and to see a show. Both teams I think put on a good show for them.”
After going homerless in five games, Judge had a pair of of tying solo homers, off Nick Pivetta in the sixth and Garrett Whitlock in the eighth.
“I’m out of adjectives,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Just really impressive what he did.”
Judge has 10 multi-homer games this season, one shy of the AL record Hank Greenberg set in 1938, and 26 in his career. Judge’s three hits raised his average to .310, and he leads the major leagues in home runs and with 123 RBIs. Judge has a 1.105 OPS this season and 32 RBIs in his last 38 games.
Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber is second in the major leagues with 37 homers, making this the first time a player finished a day with a 20-homer lead since the final day of the 1928 season, when Babe Ruth was 23 ahead of Jim Bottomley and Hack Wilson, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
New York, which came from behind three times, reopened a six-game AL East lead, its largest since Sept. 1.
Torres broke a 4-4 tie in the 10th against Jeurys Familia (2-3). He has eight RBIs in his last three games after getting just three in his previous 14.
“I was telling myself: ‘Just be simple. Hit the ball the other way because I know second base is in the shift,'” Torres said. “Don’t try to do too much, just put the ball in play.”
Clay Holmes (6-3) hit Reese McGuire with a pitch and got one out in the 10th, and Alex Verdugo had an RBI single that put runners at the corners.
Xander Bogaerts popped out to shallow left, and Peralta bounced a fastball for a run-scoring wild pitch. Wandy Peralta struck out Devers on the seventh pitch of the at-bat, his first slider of the night, for his fourth save.
“It’s been like that the whole season, you know? The guys are putting in effort, putting good at-bats but we haven’t been able to put them away,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said.
Rookie Triston Casas, McGuire and Bogaerts homered for Boston, which has lost eight of 14 to the Yankees this season.
Marwin Gonzalez hit the first of three tying homers for New York, a two-run drive in the third.
Pivetta allowed three runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings, walked two and struck out five.
New York’s Gerrit Cole struck out 10 over six innings, but was tagged for all three of Boston’s home runs over six innings.
Casas hit his first home run at Fenway Park, and McGuire hit his first home run this season.
Cole called what everyone is getting to witness with Judge “special.”
“I feel very fortunate to be able to play on the same team with him,” Cole said. “It’s one of the most historic offensive seasons of all-time. … I’m humbled to be a part of it.”
BACK IN
Aaron Hicks pinch hit for Jose Trevino to open the 10th and drew a walk in Hicks’ first appearance since he was pulled midgame of the the Yankees loss Friday to Tampa Bay.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Anthony Rizzo (headaches from epidural injection) took some swings during batting practice and could return for New York’s next series at Milwaukee, or at home next week when the Yankees host Pittsburgh. … LHP Aroldis Chapman (infected wound) pitched an inning in a rehab appearance for Double-A Somerset, giving up a hit, with two strikeouts and a walk. CF Harrison Bader (planter fasciitis in right foot) went hitless in three at bats and struck out twice.
Red Sox: RHP Nathan Eovaldi (right shoulder inflammation) threw batting practice. He has been on the injured list since Aug. 19.
MAKING MOVES
Yankees IF/OF Tyler Wade was at Fenway on Tuesday as part of the taxi squad. . … OF Jasson Dominguez was promoted to Double-A Somerset and went 0 for 5. He hit .306 with six homers, 22 RBIs and 17 steals in 40 games at High-A Hudson Valley. The 19-year-old started the season at Class A Tampa.
UP NEXT
Yankees LHP Nestor Cortes (9-4, 7.73 ERA) will make his 25th start of the season. He is 4-3 with a 3.72 ERA over his last 14 starts. Red Sox rookie RHP Bryan Bello (1-5-5.79) will make his first career appearance against New York. He has a 3.55 ERA in his last six outings, including four starts.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Last year, the Los Angeles Dodgers went all the way to the last day of the regular season, won a whopping 106 games, and still lost the NL West title to the San Francisco Giants.
This time, Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers left no doubt.
Kershaw pitched seven dominant innings and the Dodgers won the NL West for the ninth time in 10 seasons, blanking the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-0 Tuesday night.
The Dodgers walked from the dugout when it was over to congratulate each other, much like they did after most of their wins in a runaway season, and posed for a team photo on the field.
Then, it was back to the clubhouse at Chase Field for a spirited, spraying celebration. Clearly, the near-miss last year, beaten by the Giants by a game for the division title, was on their minds.
“We weren’t defending National League West champions. That was first on our list,” manager Dave Roberts said.
“It’s something we should enjoy and be proud of, and get back to work (Wednesday), but it’s quite the accomplishment,” he said.
Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy and Joey Gallo homered as the Dodgers boosted the best record in the majors to 98-43. They lead second-place San Diego by a whopping 20 1/2 games.
Roberts’ team will have plenty of time to get set for its 10th straight year in the postseason. The Dodgers’ first playoff game is almost a month away, on Oct. 11.
A crowd of 21,143, mostly clad in Dodger blue, watched the clincher. It’s the Dodgers’ 20th NL West crown since the majors split into divisions in 1969.
Kershaw (8-3) was sharp throughout, allowing just two singles and one walk while striking out five. He threw just 82 pitches, 55 for strikes. He lowered his season ERA to 2.44.
Kershaw missed three weeks with a back issue that has plagued him through the second half of his decorated career. Since then, he has started three times, allowing just three runs in 18 innings with 19 strikeouts.
“That three-week kind of hiatus gave him a chance to reset, and just to know that even tonight, there was some more in there. He’ll make three or four more starts and be ready for the postseason,” Roberts said.
Caleb Ferguson and Craig Kimbrel finished the combined three-hit shutout.
Gallo’s home run, his 17th, cleared the center-field wall and gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead in the second. The homer was measured at 438 feet. Muncy led off the inning with a single off Merrill Kelly — literally— as it bounced off the pitcher to the vacated left side of the infield.
Freeman led off the third inning with his 20th homer, a 442-foot drive to right-center into the swimming pool area.
Last year, the Dodgers beat the Giants in the NL Division Series, but lost to Freeman and the eventual champion Atlanta Braves in the NLCS.
Freeman saw how much more difficult it was for his current teammates to win with very little rest last October. He’s played in every game this year and refused to consider clinching too early as a problem.
“There is no downside,” Freeman said. “You come to the yard and expect to win every single day. If you don’t have that expectation, I don’t know what you’re doing as a professional athlete.”
Mookie Betts agreed.
“You just keep playing,” the All-Star right fielder said. “It’s not like we’re going to start throwing away at-bats or pitches. We just continue to play the same game.”
Muncy’s homer, also his 20th, came against Taylor Widener in the seventh.
Kelly (12-6) lasted five innings, losing for the first time in 14 starts. He gave up five hits, walked five and struck out eight. He threw 96 pitches — 30 in the long second inning and 29 more in the third.
It was the second straight shutout by the Dodgers in Arizona. Tyler Anderson and two relievers handled the Diamondbacks 6-0 on Monday.
GOT THEIR NUMBER
After Tuesday’s win, the Dodgers are 27-5 against Arizona in the last two seasons.
WEB GEMS
Betts, back in his usual spot in right field, made a sliding catch in the corner after a long run to take an extra-base hit from Jake McCarthy in the seventh inning. Betts started at second base on Monday.
In the eighth, McCarthy returned the favor, grabbing Betts’ drive down the line in foul territory.
NOT TONIGHT
Diamondbacks 1B Christian Walker entered Tuesday with a .318 average against Kershaw with four home runs in 22 at-bats, but he struck out twice and grounded out against the All-Star lefty.
BACK IN TIME
The Dodgers activated RHP Tommy Kahnle from the 60-day injured list on Tuesday and designated RHP Heath Hembree for assignment.
Kahnle, 33, missed three months with forearm inflammation. He has pitched just four games for the Dodgers this season but has postseason experience with the New York Yankees in 2017 and ’19.
“To get a guy who’s pitched in high leverage, pitched in big games, to have him back is huge,” Roberts said. “The timing is good. He hasn’t pitched a whole lot this season, so having a few weeks to get him re-acclimated is a good thing.”
Roberts said 2B Gavin Lux (back), sidelined since Sept. 1, will have a simulated game Wednesday. Roberts said he’s close to returning.
NEXT
RHP Michael Grove (4.82) makes his third start of the season for the Dodgers against Arizona RHP Zach Davies (2-4, 4.09) Wednesday in the finale of the three-game series at Chase Field.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year, plus fined him $10 million, after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies.”
The findings of the league’s report, published Tuesday, came nearly a year after the NBA asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogynistic and hostile incidents over his nearly two-decade tenure overseeing the franchise.
Sarver said he will “accept the consequences of the league’s decision” and apologized for “words and actions that offended our employees,” though noted he disagreed with some of the report’s findings.
The report said Sarver “repeated or purported to repeat the N-word on at least five occasions spanning his tenure with the Suns,” though added that the investigation “makes no finding that Sarver used this racially insensitive language with the intent to demean or denigrate.”
The study also concluded that Sarver used demeaning language toward female employees, including telling a pregnant employee that she would not be able to do her job after becoming a mother; made off-color comments and jokes about sex and anatomy; and yelled and cursed at employees in ways that would be considered bullying “under workplace standards.”
The $10 million fine is the maximum allowed by NBA rule.
“I take full responsibility for what I have done,” Sarver said. “I am sorry for causing this pain, and these errors in judgment are not consistent with my personal philosophy or my values. … This moment is an opportunity for me to demonstrate a capacity to learn and grow as we continue to build a working culture where every employee feels comfortable and valued.”
Sarver, the league said, cannot be present at any NBA or WNBA team facility, including any office, arena, or practice facility; attend or participate in any NBA or WNBA event or activity, including games, practices or business partner activity; represent the Suns or Mercury in any public or private capacity; or have any involvement with the business or basketball operations of the Suns or Mercury.
The league said it would donate the $10 million “to organizations that are committed to addressing race and gender-based issues in and outside the workplace.”
“The statements and conduct described in the findings of the independent investigation are troubling and disappointing,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “We believe the outcome is the right one, taking into account all the facts, circumstances and context brought to light by the comprehensive investigation of this 18-year period and our commitment to upholding proper standards in NBA workplaces.”
It’s the second-largest penalty — in terms of total sanctions — ever levied by the NBA against a team owner, behind Donald Sterling being banned for life by Silver in 2014. Sterling was fined $2.5 million, the largest allowable figure at that time, and was forced to sell the Los Angeles Clippers as part of the massive fallout that followed him making racist comments in a recorded conversation.
The allegations against Sarver were reported by ESPN last year, which said it talked to dozens of current and former team employees for its story, including some who detailed inappropriate behavior. He originally denied or disputed most of the allegations through his legal team.
On Tuesday, Sarver’s representatives said the investigation’s findings “confirmed that there was no evidence, whatsoever, to support several of the accusations in ESPN’s reporting from November 2021.”
“While it is difficult to identify with precision what motivated Sarver’s workplace behavior described in this report, certain patterns emerged from witness accounts: Sarver often acted aggressively in an apparent effort to provoke a reaction from his targets; Sarver’s sense of humor was sophomoric and inappropriate for the workplace; and Sarver behaved as though workplace norms and policies did not apply to him,” read the report from the New York-based investigating firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Sarver will have to complete a training program “focused on respect and appropriate conduct in the workplace” during his suspension, the league said.
Sarver, through his attorney, continued denying the allegations as recently as June in a letter to the league and insisted the claims against him were “demonstrably false.”
The attorney, Thomas Clare, wrote that Sarver’s record shows a “longstanding commitment to social and racial justice” and that it attests to his “commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
“Mr. Sarver is one of few NBA owners who continues to support and advance the development of women’s professional basketball,” Clare wrote, citing upgrades to the Mercury team facilities, how the Suns claim a league-best rate of 55% employment of minorities within its front office and how more than half of the Suns’ coaches and general managers in Sarver’s tenure — including current coach Monty Williams and current GM James Jones — are Black.
Among the league’s findings:
— That Sarver engaged in “crude, sexual and vulgar commentary and conduct in the workplace,” including references to sexual acts, condoms and the anatomy, referring to both his own and those of others.
— The investigation also found that Sarver sent a small number of male Suns employees “joking pornographic material and crude emails, including emails containing photos of a nude woman and a video of two people having sex.”
— Sarver, the investigation found, also exposed himself unnecessarily to a male Suns employee during a fitness check, caused another male employee to become uncomfortable by grabbing him and dancing “pelvis to pelvis” at a holiday party, and standing nude in front of a male employee following a shower.
— He also made comments about female employees, the investigation found, including the attractiveness of Suns dancers, and asked a female Suns employee if she had undergone breast augmentation.
The league also will require the Suns and Mercury to engage in a series of workplace improvements, including retaining outside firms that will “focus on fostering a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace.”
Employees of those organizations will be surveyed, anonymously and regularly, to ensure that proper workplace culture is in place. The NBA and WNBA will need to be told immediately of any instances, or even allegations, of significant misconduct by any employees.
All those conditions will be in place for three years.
The league said the results of the investigation were based on interviews with 320 individuals, including current and former employees who worked for the teams during Sarver’s 18 years with the Suns, and from the evaluation of more than 80,000 documents and other materials, including emails, text messages and videos.
Sarver and the Suns and Mercury “cooperated fully with the investigative process,” the league said.
“Regardless of position, power or intent, we all need to recognize the corrosive and hurtful impact of racially insensitive and demeaning language and behavior,” Silver said. “On behalf of the entire NBA, I apologize to all of those impacted by the misconduct outlined in the investigators’ report. We must do better.”
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MADRID (AP) — It was a quick turnaround for tennis’ new No. 1.
Hours after celebrating his first Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open, Carlos Alcaraz arrived back home to try to help Spain in the Davis Cup Finals.
“I’m very proud to arrive as No. 1 and do my bit for the team,” Alcaraz said Tuesday. “Playing the Davis Cup is always special. It’s a unique atmosphere and I’m looking forward to being with the team.”
Alcaraz made it to Valencia the day before Spain was to debut against Serbia in the group stage on Wednesday.
It wasn’t yet clear in which condition Alcaraz arrived after having to play a grueling series of matches on his way to the title in New York.
“Hopefully he can recover as soon as possible,” Spain captain Sergi Bruguera said. “We don’t know yet if he will be able to play on Wednesday.”
Many expected Alcaraz to skip the Davis Cup after defeating Casper Ruud in Sunday’s U.S. Open final, which allowed him to become the youngest man to lead the ATP computerized rankings since they began in 1973.
The 19-year-old Alcaraz said following Monday’s traditional Times Squad photo shoot that he “woke up dead” after the four-set final against Ruud.
“We will see how he is feeling, we will discuss it with him,” Bruguera said. “The sooner he can play, the better.”
Before the final, Alcaraz had three consecutive five-set victories, including a 5-hour, 15-minute quarterfinal match against Jannik Sinner.
“We all knew it was going to happen sooner or later,” Bruguera said. “But the way he won three matches in five sets is an incredible effort mentally as well as physically. Being the youngest No. 1 in the world, there aren’t any words.”
After facing Serbia, which is without Novak Djokovic, Spain takes on Canada on Friday and South Korea on Sunday in Group B. The top two teams in each of the four groups will advance to the quarterfinals, which will be played in November in the southern Spanish city of Málaga.
Alcaraz made it to Spain’s Davis Cup team for the first time last year, but had to withdraw from the tournament after testing positive for the coronavirus just before the competition was to start.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota rookie Joe Ryan and reliever Jovani Moran combined to pitch no-hit ball until Bobby Witt Jr. doubled with one out in the ninth inning as the Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Tuesday night.
Ryan was pulled after seven innings and 106 pitches, four shy of his big league high. There has never been a no-hitter at Target Field and the Royals hadn’t come close to getting one against him.
The crowd of 19,005 booed when Twins manager Rocco Baldelli sent Moran to the mound to start the eighth.
“I’m not worried about that,” Baldelli said . “I want what’s best for this team and I want to go to the playoffs and I want to win games in the playoffs, and that’s the priority for me right now.”
Ryan tried to plead his case.
“He said, ‘Listen, I’ve thrown like 156 pitches in a game,’ which is fantastical, but I think true,” Baldelli said. “But all that said, it doesn’t really affect what goes on here and the fact that we need him to go pitch against the Guardians later on this week.”
In fact, when he was a senior at Cal State Stanislaus, Ryan did throw 142 pitches in a game against Cal Poly Pomona in 2018.
Ryan said he understood Baldelli’s rationale.
“The pitch count obviously comes into play. We’re trying to win some games and I’m throwing in five days again, too,’ Ryan said.
Moran worked a perfect eighth. He struck out Drew Waters to begin the ninth before walking pinch-hitter Hunter Dozier and MJ Melendez.
The Royals hadn’t come close to a hit until Witt lined a 1-2 fastball for a clean drive to deep left for an RBI double, setting off more boos from the fans.
“I wanted to help and be part of that no-hitter, but that’s part of the game,” Moran said. “And of course I’m going to get mad because I wanted to do my best and get that out, but it happens.”
Sebastian Rivero followed with an infield hit that drove in another run and Vinnie Pasquantino had a sacrifice fly.
The Twins’ last no-hitter was by Francisco Liriano against the White Sox on May 3, 2011 in Chicago.
Carlos Correa, Jose Miranda and Gio Urshela hit home runs as the Twins snapped a three-game skid. They remained five games behind Cleveland in the AL Central.
Ryan (11-8) struck out nine, walked two and set down his last 12 batters. He has never gone past seven innings in his career and had lost three of his previous four decisions.
The 26-year-old righty had never gone past seven innings in his career. He has a big league high of 110 pitches, done Aug. 9 at the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Ryan was a member of last year’s U.S. Olympic team and was traded to Twins by Rays while he was in Japan.
The Royals avoided being no-hit for the first time since 2008 when Jon Lester shut them down in Boston.
“What’s going on in the dugout is frustration,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said. “Guys realizing that it’s embarrassing when you get no-hit. Going up there fighting through their at-bats, but it’s not something you want to have them finish off.”
“So it was good to put a couple runs on, get some positive things going, and hopefully it’ll translate into more offense tomorrow.”
Kris Bubic (2-12) allowed 10 hits and five runs with six strikeouts in five innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Twins: RF Max Kepler (right leg) was not in Tuesday’s lineup but Baldelli was hopeful he’d be available off the bench. Meanwhile, Baldelli said OF-INF Jorge Polanco and RHP Bailey Ober could potentially return this week. The manager also said OF Byron Buxton is slightly behind Polanco.
UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Zack Greinke (4-8) makes his 23rd start of the season on Wednesday night. He is 0-3 against Minnesota this season with a 4.20 ERA in those outings. He’s 0-6 on the road this season.
Twins: RHP Sonny Gray (7-4) will look to go 3-0 against the Royals this season when he takes the mound on Wednesday night.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins’ bid to pitch a combined no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals ended when Bobby Witt Jr. doubled with one out in the ninth inning.
Witt’s hit came against reliever Jovani Moran on Tuesday night.
Twins starter Joe Ryan was taken out after throwing 106 pitches in seven innings. The crowd at Target Field booed when Twins manager Rocco Baldelli sent Moran to the mound to start the eighth.
Moran issued a pair of one-out walks in the ninth before Witt pulled a clean double to left field.
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MADRID (AP) — Less could be more for Antoine Griezmann going into the World Cup.
The France forward has been getting few minutes with Atlético Madrid because of a unique contractual dispute with Barcelona, but with his World Cup spot not really in danger, he may end up being one of the few players arriving fresh for the tournament in November.
Griezmann has been on the bench at Atlético while the Spanish club reportedly tries to avoid having to pay Barcelona 40 million euros ($40.5 million) if he plays more than 45 minutes on average in a number of matches during his loan. Atlético coach Diego Simeone has used the forward only after the 60-minute mark in all six of the team’s matches this season.
The 31-year-old Griezmann, a World Cup champion with France four years ago, is in the second of his two-year loan from Barcelona. He was a star at Atlético from 2014-19 before moving to the Catalan club for two disappointing seasons.
“It is what it is, it’s not up to me,” Griezmann said. “Of course, I want to play more, but I will give everything I have in the minutes that I get. I am a team player, I am happy here and I just want to play and give it all for the club, for Simeone and for the fans.”
And Griezmann has certainly made the most of his time on the field so far, performing well whenever he comes off the bench. He has scored three goals already, including a stoppage-time winner in Atlético’s victory over Porto in the team’s Champions League opener last week.
“At this point in the season, he is helping us this particular way, and it shows in the quality of the minutes he plays, and in his hierarchy,” Simeone said. “What we know is that in 30 minutes he has been playing very well. We don’t know how it would be in 60. I can only go by what we know.”
If Griezmann keeps playing well while not getting too overworked, he could arrive at the World Cup in great physical condition while the majority of players will be coming off a schedule of non-stop games prompted by the tight calendar of a World Cup year.
Griezmann would be in good position to be the third starter in a France attack that is expected to be spearheaded by Kylian Mbappé and Karim Benzema. France coach Didier Deschamps’ other choices up front include Wissam Ben Yedder, Kingsley Coman, Moussa Diaby, Ousmane Dembélé, Olivier Giroud and Christopher Nkunku.
And the good thing for France if Griezmann does arrive in top form, there will be no limit on his playing time.
LA DEFENSE
Just 10 weeks before France begins its title defense against Australia, Paris Saint-Germain said central defender Presnel Kimpembe will miss the next six of them with a left hamstring injury.
Competition for places has heated up with William Saliba emerging at Arsenal and both Samuel Umtiti and Clément Lenglet leaving Barcelona on loan — for Lecce and Tottenham, respectively — to seek more playing time and also cut the Spanish club’s salary bill.
SANÉ’S TIMING
Just in time, Leroy Sané is finally starting to live up to expectations at Bayern Munich.
The Germany forward has endured a frustrating spell in Munich since his big-money return to Germany from Manchester City in 2020. He was even booed by Bayern’s fans last year.
But the 26-year-old Sané seems like a new player this season. He has been producing impressive performances in the Bundesliga and was “man of the match” in Bayern’s 2-0 win at Inter Milan in the Champions League last week, scoring one goal and setting up the other.
That’s good news for Germany coach Hansi Flick, who has also played Bayern midfielder Jamal Musiala on the left wing. Sané has 11 goals in 45 appearances for Germany but is not yet an undisputed starter.
“When he’s in the mood and brings his qualities to the field,” Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidžić said, “he can be one of the best players in Europe.”
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BOSTON (AP) — Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs of the season on Tuesday night.
Judge, playing in New York’s 142nd game, is four from tying the American League record Roger Maris set with the Yankees in 1961.
Judge’s opposite-field solo drive to right field off Nick Pivetta in the sixth inning tied the game at 3-3. Xander Bogaerts answered on Boston’s next at-bat with his own solo shot to put the Red Sox back on top.
But Judge tied again in eighth, crushing a hanging slider from Garrett Whitlock over the Green Monster in left field.
Judge’s homers were his first in six games. It also marked the 10th multi-homer game of the season, one shy of the AL record Hank Greenberg set in 1938, and 26th of Judge’s career.
He is hitting .310 with a 1.105 OPS. He has 32 RBIs in his last 38 games.
New York opened the two-game series with a 5½-game lead in the AL East.
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RUSTON, La (KMSS/KTAL) – In Louisiana Tech’s 52-17 win against Stephen F. Austin, a bright spot was quarterback Parker McNeil.
After FBS stops at Troy and Texas Tech, the Austin, Texas native earned his first career start on Saturday night and didn’t disappoint, throwing for 197 yards and 3 touchdowns in the win.
Now a redshirt senior, McNeil lost the starting quarterback battle to fellow FBS transfer Matthew Downing prior to the Bulldogs’ season opener. After a solid performance off the bench against Missouri, McNeil is thankful for the opportunity to play. He’s also thankful for the opportunity to play at one of college football’s toughest venues on Saturday when Louisiana Tech travels to Clemson.
“It meant a lot that they trusted me to put me in that position,” McNeil said on the decision to have him start against SFA. When asked about the energy inside a power-5 stadium McNeil said, “during warm ups you definitely do feel it. You feel the stadium buzz a little bit. The energy is extremely high and you know, typically after the first drive or two it kind of dies off.”
McNeil began his collegiate career at Navarro Junior College and signed with Troy as the number 2 pro-style quarterback in the Junior College class of 2017. Prior to arriving at Tech, McNeil appeared at one game, attempting two passes. He’s thrown for 5 touchdowns and just one interception in his two games as a Bulldog.
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RUSTON, La (KMSS/KTAL) – Last week a total of seven teams in the top 25 lost, of those seven, four lost to unranked opponents and two of the three to lose in the top ten fell to teams in the group of six conferences.
Conference USA is one of those six and this weekend, unranked Louisiana Tech has a chance to join the club, and become the talk of college football with a successful trip to Clemson, South Carolina.
Saturday marks the first meeting between Louisiana Tech and Clemson since the Tigers defeated Tech 51-0 in 2006.
After picking up his first win at Tech a week ago, a 52-17 victory against Stephen F. Austin, Sonny Cumbie is fully aware of the opportunity his Bulldogs have this weekend.
“If you’re not excited to play this week then I don’t know if you have a pulse for it. I don’t know if this is the right locker room for you to be in,” Cumbie said. “I think everyone will be excited about playing there. I think everyone will have high emotions before the game but at the end of that your emotions settle in and your execution takes over.”
The Bulldogs have already experienced a hostile environment earlier this season, taking an early 3-0 lead against Missouri, ultimately falling to the Tigers 52-24.
Louisiana Tech has lost eight consecutive road games and nine consecutive games not played in Ruston, dating back to 2019. The Bulldogs haven’t defeated a Power-5 opponent since they beat Miami in the 2019 Independence Bowl 14-0.
Kickoff is set for 7:00 P.M. on Saturday night.
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NATCHITOCHES, La (KMSS/KTAL) – Thirteen days before the Northwestern State Demons opened the season against Montana, Offensive Coordinator Cody Crill resigned citing personal reasons.
On Tuesday, he got a new job.
Crill will be a the tight ends coach for yet to be named Washington D.C. franchise in the third installment of the XFL. The Head Coach of the team will be Reggie Barlow.
The Demon offense has struggled through two games this season. The team suffered its first shutout since 2011 in a 47-0 loss to Montana. They currently rank 95th in the FCS in points per game (10.5).
Northwestern State will face Southern Mississippi on Saturday. Beau Blair is serving as the team’s Offensive Coordinator.
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(Storyful) Multiple Vehicles Destroyed After Fire Breaks Out During Miami Dolphins Opening Game
Multiple vehicles were destroyed after a fire erupted outside the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
It happened during the Miami Dolphins’ season-opening game against the New England Patriots on September 11, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
Local media said at least eight vehicles were affected by the blaze, and no injuries were reported.
Footage captured by Instagram user @wladisalas305 shows smoke rising into the air outside the Hard Rock Stadium.
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FRISCO, TX (Silver Star Nation) – In a surprise move Tuesday morning Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced that quarterback Dak Prescott is not going on injured reserve status.
Prescott had surgery on his throwing hand on Monday afternoon and was expected to miss anywhere from six to eight weeks of the regular NFL season.
Tuesday’s move not to add Dak to the injured reserve list means the quarterback is expected to return within four weeks. Had he been placed on injured reserve league rules would have kept him off the field for a minimum of six weeks.
Jones made the announcement during his regular morning appearance on 105.3 The Fan radio in Dallas. The announcement suggests that Prescott’s injury might have been less serious than first thought.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The Louisiana House Ways and Means Committee met Tuesday to discuss reforms to the state’s tax system.
Specifically, the meeting discussed the elimination of the personal income tax. The Department of Revenue said there was a study commission in 2012 that looked at antiquated tax expenditures. Louisiana’s tax structure has been viewed by other study groups, however, not many of their recommendations have been adopted.
“It is no secret that our tax structure is broken, and it drives people and companies out of our state,” said Rep. Richard Nelson of Mandeville ahead of the meeting. “We have long been dependent upon our abundant resources to prop up failed policies. If we want Louisiana to compete in a modern economy, we need a fundamental restructuring of our tax system.”
In the meeting, Nelson points out that the state’s sales tax is one of the highest in the nation and asks the department how much corporate income tax isn’t collected due to exemptions and credits.
Officials said the committee anticipates hearing from local government, business and nonprofit stakeholders in multiple meetings.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Summer and Fall are in a battle and we will feel both seasons each day for the remainder of the week.
This will be our coolest morning in 108 days: Temperatures will be in the 50s in most areas at sunrise making this the first time we have dropped into the 50s since May 28th. If you’re only spending a few minutes outside it will feel refreshing, but if you plan on spending a few extra minutes in the cool air you may want a pullover or something with long sleeves through 9 a.m.
While it may feel like Fall this morning, Summer will win out this afternoon as highs will be in the mid to upper 80s, and a few areas may reach 90 degrees. Humidity is expected to stay very low today, so it should remain comfortable for any outdoor activities this afternoon if you can find some shade. It will be sunny throughout the day. Wind will remain light, turning to the southeast today at 5 to 10 miles per hour.
Cool mornings and warm afternoons through Friday: We will have one more night with temperatures falling into the 50s tonight. High pressure will keep our daytime weather pattern running warm and dry through Friday. High temperatures will reach the low 90s in most areas Wednesday through Friday which is near average for the middle of September.
Mornings will stay cool in the 60s for most of the late week period, but we will start to feel an increase in humidity by Thursday and Friday.
Warm and humid weekend: The humidity will continue to build this weekend and that will take away the cooler nights and mornings. Morning temperatures will be in the 70s over the weekend.
There remains an outside chance that a few isolated rain showers may develop in the more humid weather pattern over the weekend, but I’m still not convinced so the entire 7-day forecast remains dry for now.
Look for a slightly higher chance for rain to arrive by the middle of next week.
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HS Roundup: John Glenn golf stays perfect
ZANESVILLE -- John Glenn will enter the Muskingum Valley League tournament undefeated after beating Philo 160-187 on Tuesday at Fuller's Fairways.
Owen Van Fossen took medalist honors for the Muskies, shooting a 37 on the par-35 back nine, while Noah Dever carded a 39 and Braden Rice and CJ Dolan shot 42s.
AJ Harper led the Electrics (12-13, 10-12 MVL) with a 42, Addison Mershon shot 45, Josh Gooden had 47 and AJ Layton, Blake Hiles and Derek Randolph 53s.
West Muskingum 165, Coshocton 198: Jack Porter earned medalist honors with even-par 36 to pace the Black Bears in an MVL dual at River Greens.
Coby Moore paced Coshocton with 44, while Gavin Mathias posted 47, Nic Commarata 53 and Carter Summers 54.
Jacob Allen added 39, Reid Lemity 42 and Nick Anton 48 for West (17-6, 16-6 MVL).
Maysville 166, River View (NS): Connor Larimer carded a 39 for medalist honors, as the Panthers won at EagleSticks.
Hoyt Dodson and Owen Lutz had 42s and Mat Harper a 43 for Maysville; Thad Cox carded a 47, Caleb Kline a 49 and Isaiah Carpenter a 59 for River View.
Volleyball
Sheridan 25, 25, 25, 25, Morgan 6, 12, 27, 14: The visiting Generals picked up a MVL crossover win behind 23 kills from Jamisyn Stinson and 24 digs by Regan Davis
Alyssa Ward collected 15 kills with six digs; Payton Powell passed out 30 assists with five digs and five aces; Alexis Bradley collected 20 assists, 15 digs and eight kills; Stinson also had 12 digs and four aces; and Davis also went 16-of-17 serving.
Jensen Payton's 14 kills and four digs and Ashtyn Filkins' 13 digs paced the Raiders. Evelyn Newton added five digs, Chloe Baker had 16 assists and 11 digs, Montana Pettet made 10 digs with Odessa Smith chipping in seven digs and Blair Clawson six for the Morgan defense.
Josie Ramey tallied eight kills and 13 digs, Lilly Talbot had 20 assists with six digs and Maddie Bishop went 17-of-17 from the service line with 13 digs, as Sheridan reserves won 25-18, 25-21. Paige Lanning had eight digs, six assists and four kills, Riley Cunningham 10 digs, Jacee Wallace nine digs and Klaire Cain six digs and three blocks for Morgan.
Meadowbrook 25, 25, 25, John Glenn 17, 10, 15: Aleea Musselman hit six kills with three digs and two aces and Emma Dolan added five kills and four digs for the Muskies (5-8, 4-5), who were swept by the Colts.
Emma Briggs tallied four kills and 11 digs, while Lauren Blair added 17 assists and 13 digs, Kara Fields three kills and two blocks, Hannah DeMattio two kills and two blocks, Graceann Hitchcock 10 digs and Sydney White six digs.
John Glenn reserves lost 25-23, 18-25, 17-25, as Lily Robinson had four kills and five digs, Brelynn Barr four assists, four aces and five digs and Alaiah Johnson two kills and five digs.
Tri-Valley 25, 25, 25, West Muskingum 13, 15, 20: Eva Dittmar collected 13 kills and went 11-of-11 from the service line to pace the Scotties' offense in a sweep of the Tornadoes.
Lexi Howe totaled 11 kills and eight digs, Caity Journey made a team-high 13 digs, Eva Dittmar had two blocks, Ingrid Dittmar passed out 28 assists and Annika Collet was 16-of-17 serving with two aces for the winners.
Leaders were not available for West M.
New Lexington 25, 25, 25, Philo 17, 9, 12: Jerilynn Koehler totaled 13 kills, seven digs, three blocks and two aces and Lizzie Ellis had 34 assists with four aces to lead the Panthers in a sweep.
Nora Duperow hit nine kills with three digs, Trinity Cook had five kills and three digs and Gracie Newlon added three aces and three digs in the win.
Aleigha Busse had six kills with 100% serving to pace the Electrics, while Brooklyn Ferrell chipped in four kills and seven digs, Addyson Khune six assists and three digs, Megan Tom five digs, Olivia Winland eight digs with 100% serving and Briannah Wolfe three kills.
New Lex reserves won 25-14, 25-17, as Jorja Burkhart had 10 assists and three digs, Makenzy McCoy four aces and four digs and Addison Wycinski nine digs. Olivia Fink had 12 digs, Parker Hina four digs and three kills, Lauren Morehouse nine digs and two kills with 100% serving and Makenna Staker 10 digs, three kills and 100% serving.
Maysville 25, 27, 25, Crooksville 17, 25, 20: Bella Pfeifer hit five kills and Rachel Jarvis and Olivia McPeek made 19 digs each to lead the Panthers past the Ceramics.
McPeek also had 26 assists, McPeek and Jarvis had two aces apiece, Jarvis and Bekah Scott each hit three kills and Scott made five digs for Maysville.
Ellie Ferguson hit eight kills with two blocks, Brynn Lundell added eight digs and six kills with 5-of-5 serving, Maelee Collins set up 15 assists with four aces, Taisia Riggs had 12 assists, six digs and three kills, Julianna Locke made eight digs, Mylee Moorehead had six digs and Khirra Wilson went 10-of-10 serving for the Ceramics.
Madison Rambo had three kills, Alexia Van Meter made six digs and Erica Flood went 9-of-10 serving with seven assists and five digs, as Crooksville reserves won 25-13, 25-23. Laikyn Clark had nine digs and Kaitlyn Clark eight digs for Maysville.
Boys Soccer
Sheridan 2, Coshocton 2: The Generals rallied from a two-goal deficit, as Josiah Hamilton scored goals off assists by Luke Carpenter and Elijiah Jones to forge the tie.
No leaders were available for the Redskins.
West Muskingum 2, New Lexington 1: The visiting Tornadoes scored the game-winner in the second half, but no other information was available.
River View 8, Morgan 0: The Black Bears downed the visiting Raiders in league action, but no other details were available.
Tri-Valley 9, Philo 1: Sam Schott had three goals and Yuvi Bastola added two goals and two assists in the Scotties' rout of the Electrics.
Gael Oseguera also scored twice, while Gage Hindel and Christopher Garbrandt also had goals in the win.
Girls Golf
Lakewood 164, John Glenn 189: Avery Thompson fired a 34 to lead the Lancers past the Muskies at EagleSticks.
Lexi French shot 40, Abigail Colley 43 and Lauren Griffith 47 for Lakewood, while Addy Burris led John Glenn with a 43, while Carlie Ellsworth and Abby McCullough had 48s and Elise Abrams a 49.
Girls Soccer
West Muskingum 6, Ridgewood 0: Claire Smith scored twice and assisted another goal, as the Tornadoes shut out the visiting Generals in non-league action.
Laney Johnson also had two goals, one was a penalty kick, with an assist, Jayden Thornton also converted a penalty kick, Zoie Settles added a goal and Debra Grace Allen chipped in two assists.
Gracie Settles posted the shutout in goal.
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John Glenn rallies past Maysville in first-place clash
NEWTON TOWNSHIP — There was a different type of energy permeating throughout Maysville Athletic Complex on Tuesday.
John Glenn and Maysville were playing for control of the Muskingum Valley League.
The match lived up to the anticipation, and Will Nicolozakes notched a hat trick, propelling the Muskies into first place with a 3-2 victory.
Having the sophomore come through with two goals in a six-minute stretch, which flipped a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead, did not surprise coach Will Hess. Players like him are why the Muskies are sitting at 10-1-1 after Tuesday's win.
"Players (like Will) mean everything. They show up every day, ready to outwork everyone. That flows over to the rest of the team as players want to outwork each other," Hess said. "They have a level of commitment that has blessed our program, and it rubs off on the younger players."
John Glenn struck first when Nicolozakes was found open just over two minutes into the match, knocking the ball past Maysville keeper Shepp Cosgrave for an early 1-0 lead.
Muskie keeper Josiah Townsend came up with a key save at the 23:30 mark, while Maysville (9-1) was wide on another opportunity before Wyatt Mynes converted a penalty kick at 7:20 of the first half to tie it at 1 for the Panthers.
Cosgrave made a stop with 3:30 left in the first half to keep the game tied, while Mynes scored on a free kick with 26:17 left in the second half. Mynes curved the ball into the back of the net from about 20 yards out, giving the Panthers a 2-1 lead and the momentum.
But, it was short-lived. Nicolozakes lobbed a loose ball just over Cosgrave's arms about six minutes later to tie it at 2, then the sophomore outran a Maysville defender before hitting the ball into the corner for the game-winning goal with 14:50 remaining.
Maysville nearly answered about a minute later, as a rebound opportunity went wide. The Panthers tried to make some last-minute pushes but were unable to convert a potential tying goal.
Nicolozakes felt the deficit played into the Muskies' favor.
"We turned it into a positive. We looked at the moment as a challenge," he said. "It showed we had each other's backs and played together."
The play of Townsend and the defense, led by center back Riley West, also gave John Glenn a boost.
"We all have a passion for the game. Those plays fueled us from the bottom up and gave us motivation," Nicolozakes remarked. "(Josiah) got a big save on a free kick, and we wanted to go back down and score. Those plays were the difference."
Hess added, "When your keeper makes plays like that, it adds to your confidence. It's vice versa when your offense comes through. The defense can feed the offense, and the other way around. Those moments were key in getting this win."
John Glenn has not clinched the league title with three MVL games remaining. Hess reminded his squad of that, while also noting other goals remain for his Muskies.
"You want to play in games like this. Our players have a real passion for the game from the starters and seniors to the guys on the bench and the freshmen," Hess said. "There was a great energy around this game, and it's nice to get the win. We have work to do, and we still need to perform to our abilities for each match."
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Kathreen Friend is a pediatric registered nurse based in Doniphan, Missouri — a small town of about 1,800, just 15 minutes north of the Arkansas border. As the lone pediatric specialist in her county, it’s not unusual for her days to fill up with appointments.
“I see a large volume of kids every single day,” Friend said. “It makes for long hours and long days, but we try to get people taken care of.”
Friend’s clinic is housed in the county’s former hospital, which closed in 2018.
It’s a one-stop shop for a range of ailments, from broken bones to ear infections to COVID-19. And according to Friend, most of her patients are Medicaid recipients. More than 2,200 children in the county of 10,000 receive some sort of public health coverage.
Millions of children across the U.S. rely on federal services, including the children’s health insurance program and Medicaid, for health coverage. Since the start of the pandemic, a federal emergency declaration has allowed them to receive continuous coverage — without jumping through the usual bureaucratic hoops.
Medicaid enrollment in Missouri has grown by more than 400,000 since the start of the pandemic. That’s one of the biggest per-capita increases in the country, largely driven by the state’s decision to expand Medicaid eligibility last year.
Normally, Medicaid recipients have to regularly prove they still qualify for the program, a process called redetermination that involves a lot of paperwork. Thanks to a federal emergency declaration, new recipients haven’t had to worry about that.
But some experts say Missouri’s track-record is cause for concern when the public health emergency declaration ends.
Concerns about coverage gaps
Dr. Maya Moody, president of the Missouri chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, worries about history repeating itself.
She remembers in 2019, some 100,000 children lost health coverage.
“I mean, we were turning away kids left and right and it just broke our hearts,” Moody said.
The state had recently started redeterminations after a long pause, and many children who still qualified were taken off the rolls.
“These are kids that we needed to see and they were our routine patients,” Moody said. “These are families that we know really well, and so … one of the true blessings of the public health emergency is we haven’t had to turn anyone away.”
The state later said there was an error, where if parents in a household lost coverage, their children did as well, despite children’s coverage having a much higher income threshold than that of adults. State officials say they’ve fixed this error. Nevertheless, Moody is concerned, and she’s trying to get ahead of any possible issues.
“We have already started to talk to folks about making sure they’re getting their documents together and they’re ready to reapply” once the emergency declaration expires, Moody said.
Complicating matters is that until recently, Missouri was taking months to process Medicaid applications.
According to a July report, the Missouri Department of Social Services had more than 40,000 pending applications, and it was taking more than 100 days to process each one, on average.
That’s more than double the time the federal government allows.
Avoiding the worst-case scenario
While officials say Missouri has cut down its backlog of Medicaid applications, the state has not disclosed information about its processing time except to say that it is now within the 45-day federal requirement.
Long processing times can mean long waits for children to get care. And avoiding that scenario means work on the front end for state agencies.
Sara Collins, a senior scholar with the Commonwealth Fund, said that’s an uphill battle. Collins focuses on insurance coverage in her research, and she’s been watching the emergency declaration closely.
“States are going to be faced at the end of the public health emergency with a gargantuan task of redetermining eligibility for people who have stayed on Medicaid over this two-year period,” Collins said.
According to Collins, states like Missouri that have faced staffing issues during the pandemic are worse off.
Because of that, the federal government has recommended a gradual approach for states to take on their caseload in chunks.
A spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Social Services said in an email the agency is currently working on verifying recipients’ addresses to make sure people get the eventual paperwork.
All that paperwork concerns Friend, the pediatric nurse in Doniphan. She worries especially about her patients who got covered during the state of emergency and have never had to go through redeterminations.
“And so now that it’s just easy … then they’re going to think they just keep getting coverage,” Friend said.
Educating her patients will be key to making sure the end of the public health emergency doesn’t keep kids from getting the care they need.
The public health emergency declaration is currently set to expire in October, but experts expect it to be renewed. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has said his agency will give 60 days notice before ending the declaration. HHS gave no such notice in mid-August, likely signaling the agency plans to renew the declaration for another 90 days next month.
This story comes from a reporting collaboration that includes KBIA and Side Effects Public Media — a public health news initiative based at WFYI. Follow Sebastian on Twitter: @sebastiansings.
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A pristine tallgrass prairie in northern Missouri is home to hundreds of wildflower species and birds.
Herds of cattle help keep these 3,000 acres a sanctuary for diverse plants and wildlife — just by wandering around and munching on a tallgrass buffet. The cows eat invasive cool season grasses, while their hoof traffic pounds seeds into the ground.
“You got that benefit from the grazing side of things, but also I think one of the things that people don't really look at is the hoof traffic benefit,” said Kent Wamsley, the grasslands and sustainable agriculture manager at Dunn Ranch Prairie.
The Nature Conservancy owns this prairie land and entered into contracts three years ago with two local ranchers. It allows them to graze their cattle on the conservancy's land for a few months out of the year, while the ranchers’ pastures rest. The partnership has worked so well that the conservancy will offer to renew the contracts for another three years.
“We're getting great benefit from the cows in the early season months, getting on the fescue and grazing that,” said Wamsley. “They're getting great benefit at that time of stockpiling some stuff, giving some rest on some of their pastures.”
Grasslands are disappearing
According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, one-third of the state used to be covered in native prairie; today less than 0.5% of that prairie remains. As conservationists work to restore grassland in the Midwest, it’s clear that it is not enough to simply fence off the land.
According to Laura Paine, the outreach coordinator for Grassland 2.0, a sustainable agriculture project based at the University of Wisconsin, research shows that management practices such as controlled burns and grazing have become necessary.
“The natural processes that kept the prairies healthy in the past before our current agriculture system, they're not as influential now,” Paine said. “If we just let a grassland grow and not do any management, we're as likely to get a lot of weeds and invasive species as we are of getting the natural species that we want to come back.”
Historically the prairie wasn’t left alone. Native tribes in the region used controlled burns to hunt bison and restore grasses that attracted them. The burning and grazing worked in tandem to keep the grassland healthy.
In addition to cattle, the Dunn Ranch Prairie benefits from its own bison herd. And as prairie land gains from bison and cattle grazing on grasses and pounding their hooves into the soil, other ranch land is allowed to rejuvenate.
John Lueken, one of the ranchers The Nature Conservancy has partnered with, said that his land is seeing native warm season grasses such as milkweed and Indiangrass returning, as well as some wildlife. He also thinks resting his land has helped it through the drought affecting the region.
“We're capturing more water and building root mass. So we've noticed it this summer more than anything, we've gotten below average rainfall, but we don't get no runoff,” Lueken said. “A lot of people’s pastures look pretty brown and we're still growing grass.”
‘A working landscape’
While larger grassbanks exist out West where the concept was invented in the 1990s, the Dunn Ranch Prairie was the first in the Midwest.
Yet when it was first proposed, the grazing program met with resistance from some environmentalists. Some at The Nature Conservancy did not want to risk cattle destroying the pristine prairie they had worked so hard to conserve.
“Some people within our own organization could look at it and say, ‘Wow, you're grazing that versus leaving it out there for the wildlife,’” said Wamsley. “And what I appreciate from our leadership and our supporters here in Missouri is looking at it in a sense of our land here is within a working landscape.”
Grassland 2.0’s Paine said the idea that prairie should remain untouched is a challenge to creating grassbanks elsewhere.
“There are enough people in the natural resources community that aren't thinking that way, that we have some barriers to using grazing effectively,” she said.
For grassbanks to work well, Paine said ranchers and conservationists need to be on the same page and potentially make compromises.
“It all comes down to how you manage those animals, and making sure that the person who is managing them knows both what they need for their livestock’s health and growth, and what the resource needs to be protected and improved through the grazing,” she said.
Rancher John Lueken said his cattle are healthier on a more diverse and plentiful diet that the grassbank is providing. He hopes that the program shows that conservationists and ranchers who use pasture can work together, not against each other.
“A lot of negativity has been put on cattle, because people see feed lots or confined things,” he said. “And that is part of the system, but people don't realize we're still learning how to graze cows. We're trying to do rotational grazing, but the benefit to the environment of having cows out there is a lot more than what people realize.”
Eva Tesfaye covers agriculture, food systems and rural issues for KCUR and Harvest Public Media and is a Report For America corps member. Follow Eva on Twitter @EvaRTesfaye.
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HAYS, KANSAS — This dry, hot summer has claimed its share of victims in Marc Ramsey’s cornfields.
Fewer than seven inches of rain have fallen this year in the area he farms between Dighton and Scott City — nearly one foot below the historical average.
“This is a year unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” Ramsey said. “There are lots of times this year I’ve just kind of been at a loss for words.”
Across western Kansas, vast swaths of brown, shriveled corn plants succumbed to the oppressive weather before reaching more than a couple of feet tall. Others grew ears with no kernels or no ears at all. Some of Ramsey’s stalks that stretched to six-feet-tall on July rains withered down to nothing under the late summer sun.
The harvests from these western Kansas cornfields typically fuel billion-dollar industries, such as feeding cattle. But with so little corn to go around this year, those industrial customers are paying a premium to ship grain in from other states just to keep their operations running.
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Even during the region’s last big drought a decade ago, Ramsey said, his cornfields still had a decent number of bushels to harvest. This year, he estimates roughly half of the corn he planted won’t yield a single piece of grain.
“Just saying ‘zero yield’ is a painful thing to say,” Ramsey said. “It’s hard not to be disappointed.”
The ripple effects of this year’s poor corn harvest in Kansas will extend well beyond stressing farmers and their livelihoods.
As it becomes more difficult and expensive for cattle feedlots — where animals are fattened up for slaughter — and ethanol plants to get the corn they need, people across Kansas could face higher prices at the grocery store and the gas pump.
The corn crunch
Historically, it’s been common to see corn sell in western Kansas for about $4 a bushel.
Dan O’Brien, a Kansas State University agricultural economist based in Colby, said that number has roughly doubled. Prices had already been creeping up since Russia invaded Ukraine — another major corn exporter — and now thanks to the drought-fueled shortage, the price in western Kansas is around $8 per bushel.
“The reason that we built those grain-using industries out here had to do with availability of grain, and now they’re crunched,” O’Brien said. “That sets off a whole series of responses … all of them not good.”
The lack of local corn supply is already pushing Kansas cattle and ethanol companies to bring in grain by rail from places like Iowa, Illinois and Ohio. That’ll inflate corn prices across the Midwest, as local corn-dependent industries in those states suddenly have to compete with more buyers from Kansas.
But it’ll especially hurt Kansas. O’Brien estimates it’ll cost Kansas industries an extra $1 per bushel to ship in corn from other states.
Each steer at a feedlot can eat up to 60 bushels of corn before it gets turned into beef. Kansas feedlots have 2.35 million bovine mouths to feed. So paying an extra dollar to ship in those bushels could add up quickly.
In the short term, O’Brien expects the corn crunch to push meat and ethanol prices up. Beef prices had fallen recently as the drought forced livestock owners to sell off more of their cattle.
But even those higher prices might not be enough to keep corn-dependent companies profitable in western Kansas.
“Is that enough to offset the major increase in the cost of corn?” O’Brien said. “Whether it’s livestock feeders or ethanol plants, they all operate on the margin.”
Feedlots that can’t afford to pay a premium for getting corn from out of state may have to send some animals to slaughter early. And if the drought continues and corn prices remain high for months, it could start to reshape the future of those industries in western Kansas.
There might not be enough corn in western Kansas to keep ethanol plants going here for the long term, O’Brien said, when they could shift operations to the other parts of the Corn Belt where the grain is more readily available. Likewise, some Kansas feedlots may buy less cattle next year because of the rising cost of grain.
Cattle ranching and feeding has the largest economic impact of any agricultural sector in Kansas, contributing roughly $9 billion to the state economy. Ethanol production contributes another $850 million.
“If things get rough enough out in the west,” O’Brien said, “it affects the economic livelihood of everybody in the whole state.”
Breaking the drought
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that Kansas farmers will harvest 628 million bushels of corn this year. That would be 122 million bushels less than last year.
If you multiply those 122 million missing bushels by the elevated $8-per-bushel prices, it means the state’s agricultural economy is missing out on nearly $1 billion due to the drought.
“If you just look at the typical annual Kansas corn and sorghum production,” Kansas State University agronomist Lucas Haag said, “and then figure the reductions that are going to be due to drought, we’re talking huge sums of money.”
The USDA says more than half of the state’s corn is in poor or very poor condition. That’s up from around 20% at this point last year.
It’s a similar story for sorghum, which is typically considered a more drought-tolerant alternative to corn. More than half of Kansas sorghum is in poor or very poor condition — up from just 15% last year.
While irrigation has helped some farms avoid the worst, Haag said, many fields with center pivot sprinklers will still be abandoned because farmers just couldn’t pump enough water to save them.
“There's very few areas of the state where we actually have wells that have the capacity to match up for when we're this short of precipitation,” Haag said.
Water levels in the Ogallala aquifer — the primary water source for most of western Kansas — have been declining for decades since the dawn of irrigated farmland. Estimates show that if pumping trends continue, more than two-thirds of the water under Kansas will be gone within 40 years.
And it’s unclear when farmers in western Kansas will feel some relief.
It’s the first time in a century that a La Niña weather pattern, which fueled droughts across the West and Great Plains in 2022, will show up for a third consecutive winter. And the National Drought Mitigation Center expects drought to persist across Kansas through at least the end of this year.
To make matters worse, a poor crop this season will likely leave fields with less residue — the pieces of plant matter that remain on the ground to help soil store moisture. And with so much of western Kansas already in a deep precipitation deficit, Haag said, it’ll take more than a few rains here and there to get the region back on its feet.
“We can really end up in one of these death spirals,” Haag said, “until we get a really above-average year in terms of precipitation and crop yields that then kind of pulls us back out of it.”
Marc Ramsey has heard from other western Kansas farmers who consider him lucky for having anything to harvest at all. Lots of folks who planted dryland, or nonirrigated, corn this year won’t even bother taking a combine into their fields.
“I guess they get to relax a little bit more in the next couple of weeks,” Ramsey said. “But, you know, that's the kind of relaxation none of us want.”
Last year was dry too, Ramsey said, but his soil still had enough residual water to produce more than 50 bushels of corn per acre. This year, one of the hottest, driest summers on record has rung that dirt dry — the USDA reports that 86% of the soil across Kansas doesn’t have enough moisture.
And just a couple of weeks from now, Ramsey and farmers across western Kansas will be planting their winter wheat crop into that same dry ground.
“Hopefully we've taken care of it, and it'll give us another shot.”
David Condos covers western Kansas for High Plains Public Radio and the Kansas News Service. You can follow him on Twitter @davidcondos.
The Kansas News Service is a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio focused on health, the social determinants of health and their connection to public policy.
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In 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court determined that the state constitution guaranteed the right to an abortion. Now, six of those justices are up for retention. Steve Kraske asked Carol Beier, a former justice on the Kansas Supreme Court and Steve Leben, a former Kansas judge and professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, how the current fight over reproductive rights could figure into the retention election.
Kansas prisons have struggled to offer quality medical care in recent years. The state says it’s satisfied with a new health contractor, but inmates say the medical care is so poor it threatens their health. Blaise Mesa of the Kansas News Service reports.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Mortgage rates have jumped, home sales have slumped and credit cards and auto loans have gotten pricier. Savings rates are slightly juicier, though.
Yet as the Federal Reserve has rapidly increased interest rates, many economists say they fear that a recession is inevitable in the coming months - and with it, job losses that could cause hardship for households already hurt worst by inflation.
Even before the Federal Reserve acts again Wednesday to sharply raise its key short-term rate - a third straight three-quarter-point hike is likely to be announced – its previous rate hikes are being felt by households across the economy.
The Fed's latest move is expected to raise its benchmark rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level in 14 years. Its steady rate increases are making it increasingly costly for consumers and businesses to borrow - for homes, autos and other purchases. And more hikes are almost surely coming. Fed officials are expected to signal Wednesday that their benchmark rate could reach as high as 4.5% by early next year.
Here's what to know:
HOW DOES RAISING INTEREST RATES REDUCE INFLATION?
If one definition of inflation is “too much money chasing too few goods,” then by making it more expensive to borrow money, the Fed hopes to reduce the amount of money in circulation, eventually lowering prices.
WHICH CONSUMERS ARE MOST AFFECTED?
Anyone borrowing money to make a large purchase, such as a home, car, or large appliance, will take a hit, said Scott Hoyt, an analyst with Moody's Analytics.
“The new rate pretty dramatically increases your monthly payments and your cost," he said. "It also affects consumers who have a lot of credit card debt - that will hit right away."
That said, Hoyt noted that household debt payments, as a proportion of income, remain relatively low, though they have risen lately. So even as borrowing rates steadily rise, many households might not feel a much heavier debt burden immediately.
“I'm not sure interest rates are top of mind for most consumers right now," Hoyt said. "They seem more worried about groceries and what’s going on at the gas pump. Rates can be something tricky for consumers to wrap their minds around.”
HOW WILL THIS AFFECT CREDIT CARD RATES?
Even before the Fed's decision Wednesday, credit card borrowing rates have reached their highest level since 1996, according to Bankrate.com, and these will likely continue to rise.
And with inflation raging, there are signs that Americans are increasingly relying on credit cards to help maintain their spending. Total credit card balances have topped $900 billion, according to the Federal Reserve, a record high, though that amount isn’t adjusted for inflation.
John Leer, chief economist at Morning Consult, a survey research firm, said its polling suggests that more Americans are spending down the savings they accumulated during the pandemic and are using credit instead. Eventually, rising rates could make it harder for those households to pay off their debts.
Those who don’t qualify for low-rate credit cards because of weak credit scores are already paying significantly higher interest on their balances, and they'll continue to.
As rates have risen, zero percent loans marketed as “Buy Now, Pay Later” have also become popular with consumers. Yet longer-term loans of more than four payments that these companies offer are subject to the same increased borrowing rates as credit cards.
For people who have home equity lines of credit or other variable-interest debt, rates will increase by roughly the same amount as the Fed hike, usually within one or two billing cycles. That’s because those rates are based in part on banks’ prime rate, which follows the Fed’s.
WHAT IF I WANT TO BUY A CAR?
Auto loans are at their highest levels since 2012, according to Bankrate.com’s Greg McBride. Rates on new auto loans are likely to go up by nearly as much as the Fed's rate increase. That could knock some lower-income buyers out of the new-vehicle market, said Jessica Caldwell, executive director at Edmunds.com.
Caldwell added that the entire increase isn’t passed on to consumers; some automakers are subsidizing rates to attract buyers. Bankrate.com says a 60-month new vehicle loan averaged just over 5% last week, up from 3.86% in January. A 48-month used vehicle loan was 5.6%, up from 4.4% in January.
Many lower-income buyers have already been priced out of the new-vehicle market, according to Caldwell. Automakers have been able to get top dollar for their vehicles because demand is high and supply is low. For more than a year, the industry has been grappling with a shortage of computer chips that has slowed factories worldwide.
HOW ARE SAVERS AFFECTED?
The rising returns on high-yield savings accounts and certificates of deposit (CDs) have put them at levels not seen since 2009, which means households may want to boost savings wherever possible. You can also now earn more on bonds and other fixed-income investments.
Though savings, CDs, and money market accounts don’t typically track the Fed’s changes, online banks and others that offer high-yield savings accounts can be exceptions. These institutions typically compete aggressively for depositors. (The catch: They sometimes require significantly high deposits.)
In general, banks tend to capitalize on a higher-rate environment to boost their profits by imposing higher rates on borrowers, without necessarily offering juicer rates to savers.
WILL THIS AFFECT RENTS? HOME OWNERSHIP?
Last week, the average fixed mortgage rate topped 6%, its highest point in 14 years, meaning that rates on home loans are about twice as expensive as they were a year ago.
Mortgage rates don't always move perfectly in tandem with the Fed increase, instead tracking the expected yield on the 10-year Treasury note. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note has reached nearly 3.6%, its highest level since 2011.
Asking rents are up 11% from last year, said Daryl Fairweather, an economist with the brokerage Redfin. But price growth has slowed, and some renters are moving to more affordable areas.
WILL IT BE EASIER TO FIND A HOUSE IF I'M STILL LOOKING TO BUY?
If you’re financially able to proceed with a home purchase, you’re likely to have more options than at any time in the past year. Sales of both new and existing homes have dropped steadily for months.
HOW HAVE THE RATE HIKES INFLUENCED CRYPTO?
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have dropped in value since the Fed began raising rates. So have many previously high-valued technology stocks. Bitcoin has plunged from a peak of about $68,000 to under $20,000.
Higher rates mean that safe assets like Treasuries have become more attractive to investors because their yields have increased. That makes risky assets like technology stocks and cryptocurrencies less attractive, in turn.
Still, bitcoin continues to suffer from problems separate from economic policy. Two major crypto firms have failed, shaking the confidence of crypto investors.
WHAT’S PROMPTING THE RATE INCREASES?
The short answer: Inflation. Over the past year, inflation has clocked in at a painful 8.3%. So-called core prices, which exclude food and energy, also rose faster than expected.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned last month that, “our responsibility to deliver price stability is unconditional” - a remark widely interpreted to mean the Fed will fight inflation with rate increases even if it requires deep job losses or a recession.
The goal is to slow consumer spending, thereby reducing demand for homes, cars and other goods and services, eventually cooling the economy and lowering prices.
Powell acknowledged that aggressively raising interest rates would “bring some pain.”
WHAT ABOUT MY JOB?
Some economists argue that widespread layoffs will be necessary to slow rising prices. One reason is that a tight labor market is fueling wage growth and higher inflation. In August, the economy gained 315,000 jobs. There are roughly two job openings advertised for every unemployed worker.
"Job openings continue to exceed job hires, indicating employers are still struggling to fill vacancies,” noted Odeta Kushi, an economist with First American.
As a result, some argue higher unemployment might cool wage pressures and tame inflation. Research published earlier this month by the Brookings Institution stated that unemployment might have to go as high as 7.5% to reduce inflation to the Fed’s 2% target.
WILL THIS AFFECT STUDENT LOANS?
Borrowers who take out new private student loans should prepare to pay more as as rates increase. The current range for federal loans is between about 5% and 7.5%.
That said, payments on federal student loans are suspended with zero interest until Dec. 31 as part of an emergency measure put in place early in the pandemic. President Joe Biden has also announced some loan forgiveness, of up to $10,000 for most borrowers, and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients.
IS THERE A CHANCE THE RATE HIKES WILL BE REVERSED?
Stock prices rose in August based on hopes that the Fed would reverse course. But it looks increasingly unlikely that rates will come down anytime soon. Economists expect Fed officials to forecast that the key rate could reach 4% by the end of this year. They’re also likely to signal additional increases in 2023, even to 4.5%.
WILL THERE BE A RECESSION?
Short-term rates at these levels will make a recession likelier by increasing the cost of mortgages, car loans, and business loans. While the Fed hopes that higher borrowing costs will slow growth by cooling the hot job market and capping wage growth, the risk is that the Fed could weaken the economy, causing a recession that would produce significant job losses.
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Forecast Updated on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at 3:40am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs: 85-90. Winds: SW 5-15 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows: 70-75. Winds: S 5-20+ mph.
Thursday: Partly to mostly sunny with PM showers and storms possible. Windy. Highs: 82-88. Winds: SW-NW 5-25+ mph.
Thursday Night: Chance of a shower or storm early. Otherwise, it turns mostly clear by morning and windy. Lows: 48-56. Winds: NW 15-40+ mph.
Friday: Mostly sunny and windy. Highs: 68-74. Winds: NW 15-35+ mph.
Saturday: Sunny. Highs: 68-74. Winds: NW-W 5-20+ mph.
High pressure settles on Wednesday bringing our temperatures up into the mid and upper 80s and a bit more humidity as the wind turns out of the south and starts to pick up a bit. It will be windy tonight as the warmer and more humid air continues to rush over the region. A second front will be pushing into our region by Thursday afternoon bringing our best chance of some showers and storms over the next 7 days. These showers and storms could pack a punch if we get more sunshine earlier in the day on Thursday with the biggest concerns being gusty winds, very heavy rain, and lots of lightning. As the front clears overnight, the wind turns out of the north and west and the wind will stay up all night long and linger into Friday.
This is the only hiccup for Firefly weekend as the forecast looks fantastic for all weekend plans. Lots of sunshine and cooler temperatures as high pressure from Canada settles into control of the forecast. High temperatures will be in the 60s and 70s on Friday and low to mid 70s on Saturday with morning temperatures on Saturday morning in the 40s and our coolest communities could fall into the upper 30s…nice and crisp. Another shot of showers and storms are going to be possible Sunday night into early Monday with another front arriving.
Fiona is doing a number on the islands in the Caribbean this morning. This storm will turn to the north over the next few days. It will not reach the mainland US, but it will come close enough to us that the swell will be significantly kicked up heading toward the weekend and waves will be massive at our beaches starting on Thursday through the weekend. This will also drive our rip current up heading into the weekend. Also, watching a second system that is going to develop in the Caribbean over the weekend as there are some big indications that the lower 48 will need to keep an eye on this developing storm. Stay tuned….
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Atlantic Ocean:
Wednesday: SW 5-15 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Thursday: Small Craft Advisory Likely. SW 15-30 knots. Seas: 4-6 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Wednesday: SW 5-10 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Thursday: Small Craft Advisory Likely. W-NW 10-20 knots. Waves: 1-3 feet.
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Wednesday: S 5-10 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
Thursday: Small Craft Advisory Likely. SW-NW 10-20 knots. Seas: 1-3 feet.
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(Our Auto Expert) — The brand-new 2023 Lexus RX is the bread and butter vehicle for Lexus. Without the RX, there would be no Lexus. They’ve sold 2.3 million of these in the United States. This vehicle is in its fifth generation, and it’s been all reformed 100% brand-new on a new platform altogether. It makes us pretty excited about this as it’s very different from the last generation of RX.
The signature Grill is still spindle-shaped, but the grill doesn’t end, and the hood doesn’t begin. They sort of mold together. Many people are saying this looks an awful lot like a sea creature. The new headlights are LED bi headlights that come standard on every single trim level.
There are four different powertrains and six different trim levels that come to market. There’s only one gas model for those four powertrains, three electrified. Later, a plug-in electric version will come to the Market, which is exciting because electrification is the new Lexus. In fact, by 2030, all Lexus will be electrified in some way or another.
So how does this match up to the previous RX? It is all new from front to back. It’s about the same length, but the driving is where we will find out where it handles. I can tell you already it’s completely different. There is a 500H that is a hybrid and has a turbo. No six-cylinder option, only four.
Lots of improvements to the interior, you have the new infotainment system from Lexus. Over fourteen inches of infotainment screen space, over seven inches of the gauge cluster, and over 10 inches of heads-up display. I drove this car on a rough road, and the interior cabin noise was hushed. Lots of improvements to the interior.
Because of the new rear axle, you can accelerate and not be thrown back into your seat due to the intelligent AWD, dispersing to both axles simultaneously. Giving you power exactly where you need it. Better fuel economy improved cornering and overall drive.
I will tell you this vehicle is absolutely masterful.
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The redesigned 2022 Toyota Tundra pickup truck and redesigned 2022 Lexus NX compact crossover are being recalled for a faulty sensor that could prevent the electronic parking brake from being engaged, the NHTSA disclosed on Monday. If the parking brake can’t be engaged, and the driver ignores or disregards the warning lights in the cluster, the vehicle could roll away when parking on an incline.
The electronic control unit in the electronic parking brake system could falsely detect an overcurrent, which would trigger the system to shut down so as not to lead to a short circuit and possible fire. In this false state, the failsafe prevents the electronic parking brake from engaging or disengaging. The false read triggers a “Parking brake malfunction, visit your dealer” message in the instrument cluster, and/or it illuminates a malfunction indicator light in the cluster.
If the driver ignores these warnings, and if the driver parks on an incline and thinks they have engaged the parking brake and everything is fine, it is not. The truck or crossover can roll away.
The issue affects 83,725 vehicles total, but no hybrid models are included in the recall. The bulk of the volume—64,330 units—is of the 2022 Toyota Tundra. This is the fourth recall for the redesigned pickup truck since it went on sale at the end of last year. Two of the recalls involved the surround-view camera system, while the most significant recall pertained to a rear-axle housing that could separate from the shaft.
Owners will receive notification by mail as early as October 31, 2022. Toyota and Lexus dealers will reprogram the control unit at no cost to owners. For more information, contact Toyota’s customer service at 1-800-331-4331 or visit Toyota’s recall site.
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An electric successor to the Audi R8 supercar based on a Porsche platform is being readied for launch by mid-decade, Autocar reported on Monday.
Citing Audi insiders, the British publication reported the new car won’t be a direct successor to the R8 and as a result will feature a new name. As for the R8, it will reportedly bow out next year, with the nameplate’s run to be marked by a special model.
Autocar reported Audi is likely to go with one of two Porsche-developed platforms for the R8 successor. One option is the electric sports car platform being developed for Porsche’s electric 718, which is also due around the middle of the decade.
An alternative could be a sport-focused version of Volkswagen Group’s upcoming SSP platform. While the SSP platform will be used by numerous models across the VW Group portfolio of brands, Porsche has been tasked with developing a specific version for high-performance applications.
News of an electric successor to the R8 is hardly a surprise. In an interview with Roadshow last year, Linda Kurz, head of product marketing for Audi Sport, the division responsible for the R8 and RS-badged cars, said future R-badged cars will be electric.
Audi is committed to launching only electric vehicles from 2026, and that commitment extends to the Audi Sport division.
Audi has also made several strong hints the R8, or any future halo product like the R8, would go down the electric route. Audi first hinted at an electric R8 as early as 2009, when it rolled out an R8 E-Tron concept car based on the original R8 platform.
There have been a handful of subsequent R8 E-Tron concepts, and Audi even claims to have sold a handful of R8 E-Trons based on the current-generation R8 platform. The car was offered briefly in 2015 with a seven-figure price tag but with performance outmatched by a Tesla. Not surprisingly, it was quickly pulled from the market.
Perhaps the best representation of what an electric R8 successor might be like is Audi’s PB18 E-Tron concept rolled out in 2018. The concept featured solid-state batteries, which are lighter than current liquid-type batteries, and quicker to charge. It’s a technology VW Group is preparing for the second half of the decade.
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Two plug-in models will be among the first to get an updated version of Ford’s Bluecruise hands-free driver-assist system when it launches this fall.
Adding an automated lane-change feature and other updates, the new version is dubbed Bluecruise 1.2 and will launch on the 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E, the automaker confirmed Friday. Lincoln will get its own version, called Activeglide 1.2, which will debut on the 2023 Corsair Grand Touring plug-in hybrid, the Ford luxury brand then confirmed early Monday.
With the updated versions of Bluecruise and Activeglide, drivers will be able to initiate lane changes with a tap of a turn-signal stalk, according to Ford. Vehicles will also suggest lane changes to get around slower traffic.
Other new features include predictive speed assist, which will automatically slow vehicles in anticipation of sharp curves, and in-lane repositioning, which can adjust the vehicle’s position when traveling next to wider vehicles, such as semi trucks, according to Ford.
As before, Bluecruise and Activeglide can control acceleration, steering, and braking on pre-mapped stretches of highway—Ford claims to have more than 130,000 miles mapped—and still require drivers to keep their eyes on the road.
Ford’s rival to Tesla’s Autopilot and General Motors’ Super Cruise, Bluecruise was announced in 2020, with the Mach-E one of the first models to offer it. Since then, 75,000 Ford and Lincoln owners have enabled Bluecruise and Activeglide, respectively, with more than 16 million hands-free miles logged through the end of August, Ford claims.
GM’s Super Cruise has a more advanced hardware set, however—with an even more advanced Ultra Cruise system due to debut next year. Both automakers see their systems as a driver-assist convenience, as opposed to the way Tesla has marketed its misleadingly named Full Self-Driving system.
The Mach-E gets a price increase of up to $8,300 for the 2023 model year, but does at least get more standard driver-assist tech. Ford’s Co-Pilot 360 suite of features is now standard across the lineup, and even base Select versions come with a 90-day trial period of Bluecruise.
The Corsair Grand Touring gets a handful of other changes, including a 13.2-inch touchscreen and Sync 4 infotainment system, an automatic air refresh system, and exterior and interior styling changes.
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Rugged, off-road-oriented SUVs like the Ford Bronco, Jeep Wrangler, and Land Rover Defender may soon face competition from a formidable contender developed by the newly minted automotive arm of British chemical giant Ineos.
That contender is the Grenadier, a boxy, go-anywhere SUV modeled after the previous-generation Land Rover Defender, and in production at a plant in France since the summer. The vehicle starts deliveries in Europe and other markets in the fourth quarter of the year, and Ineos is in the process of establishing a U.S. dealer network.
From the onset of the vehicle’s development, Ineos has insisted the U.S. market is part of the plan, and last summer the company hired Greg Clark, a former marketing executive at both Jaguar Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz, to help launch local sales.
In an interview with Automotive News (subscription required) published last week, Clark said Ineos already has 5,000 reservations for the Grenadier from U.S. residents, and that the company was in the process of signing up dealerships to convert those reservations to sales. He said Ineos doesn’t want to go with a direct sales model like many rival startups, but rather the more traditional dealership model.
Clark told Automotive News Ineos plans to have around 35 dealerships across the U.S. and Canada, and that a number of BMW dealerships and European import dealerships have expressed interest. Many of the Grenadier’s mechanicals are common to modern BMWs, including the powertrain and transmission.
Clark has previously said the Grenadier could start U.S. sales before 2023 is out, and that to keep things simple the company plans just one powertrain for this market, a 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-6. In the Grenadier, the engine is mated to an 8-speed automatic and a four-wheel-drive system with a 2-speed transfer case. A diesel is offered in other markets.
Further down the track, a pickup body style and possibly even a hydrogen-electric powertrain may be offered. Ineos has also hinted at a smaller electric SUV.
There’s no word on pricing but rumors point to a base sticker of around $75,000. Pricing in Europe starts at 68,990 euros (approximately $69,800).
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What separates a crossover from an SUV? In the old days, a body-on-frame design along with a 2-speed transfer case for low gearing used to be the litmus test. Now, except for truck-based full-size SUVs, most vehicles in this most popular segment are based on unibody construction. Yet automakers continue to hark back to those days with trim lines they all call rugged.
To distinguish the crossovers that have supplanted cars on American roads, automakers have introduced so-called rugged grades that bundle popular features such as standard all-wheel drive, bigger black wheels, black trim garnishes, roof rails, some exhaust tips, and some cross-stitching on the inside.
Then there’s the badging. Trailsport. Timberline. Trailhawk. Wilderness. Rock Creek. All the badging, lest you forget the upcharge. It is truly surprising that there is no Rugged trim line. The all-new rugged Rugged SUV could get confusing.
The $1,000-$4,000 upcharge for such packages promises owners they can hit the trail without having to skip the on-road comfort of their SUV—crossover— and without having to rough it with a rough-and-tumble Jeep Wrangler.
Jeep might have started it with a Trailhawk trim that codified its own Trail Rated designation. But even that trim has been diluted on some models away from standard four-wheel drive with a 2-speed transfer case and off-road suspension bits. Some Jeep Trailhawk crossovers merely look the part.
Which of these trim levels are off-roaders or soft-roaders? Which are off-road pretenders and which are off-road intenders worth the upcharge? We’ve tested them all, and here’s what we’ve found.
Jeep Trailhawk
Available models: 2022 Cherokee, Grand Cherokee, Compass, Renegade
Added price: The Cherokee Trailhawk costs $2,650 more at $39,140, including $1,595 destination.
Cosmetic differences: LED fog lights, black grille surround, black hood decal, black cladding, wider wheel flares, and more black accent bits.
Standard mechanicals: A 3.2-liter V-6 makes 271 hp and 239 lb-ft of torque and connects with a more durable 9-speed automatic and four-wheel drive.
Added equipment: Jeep equips the Cherokee Trailhawk with its uprated 9-speed automatic and Active Drive II, which has rear-axle disconnect ability to improve efficiency on the highway. It’s similar to Active Drive I, but it also adds a low-range gear, a mechanical locking rear differential, and a Rock mode for bona fide crawling. Also helping the crawl and overall off-road performance is a 1.0-inch higher suspension lift, a heavy-duty engine cooling system, skid plates, and 17-inch wheels wrapped in Firestone Destination all-terrain tires.
Off-road intender or pretender? The Cherokee Trailhawk is one of the more capable Jeeps that is not a Wrangler. It’s an Intender and then some. The Grand Cherokee embraces some of the mechanical upgrades and follows in the Cherokee’s imprints, but the Compass and Renegade are more for show.
Toyota TRD Off-Road
Available models: This one is confusing. There are four TRD offerings in the Toyota lineup. The Camry TRD builds off the XSE for beefier suspension and brakes, as well as black exterior accents. The TRD Sport does similar on the Tacoma and Sequoia. Those full-size SUVs and trucks can be had with the full TRD Pro treatment, and include the 4Runner and Tundra as well as Tacoma and Sequoia. Then there’s the TRD Off-Road available on Tacoma, Sequoia, and the RAV4. We’re limiting this to the Toyota RAV4 TRD Off-Road.
Trim basis: RAV4 Adventure
Added price: At $38,130, the RAV4 TRD Off-Road costs $3,685 more than the RAV4 Adventure.
Cosmetic differences: The Toyota RAV4 TRD Off-Road carries LED fog lights, sharper running lights, all-weather floor mats, a front skid plate, and orange accent stitching inside. Same as the Adventure, it has a transmission cooler, 150-amp alternator, roof rails, and a different grille.
Standard mechanicals: It uses the same 203-hp 2.5-liter inline-4 (183 lb-ft) with an 8-speed automatic transmission and torque-vectoring AWD.
Added equipment: TRD-tuned front strut suspension and multilink rear with stabilizer bars front and rear, 18-inch black alloy wheels wrapped in Falken off-road tires.
Off-road intender or pretender? Compared to the TRD Pro models, it’s a pretender. But compared to the RAV4 Adventure, it’s an intender. It gives shoppers the option to take its bestseller off-road without having to upgrade to a much larger truck or SUV.
Subaru Wilderness
Available models: 2022 Forester, 2022 Outback
Trim basis: Forester Premium, Outback Onyx Edition XT
Added price: At $38,120, the Outback Wilderness costs $1,850 more than the Onyx XT. At $33,945, the 2022 Forester Wilderness costs $4,625 more than the Forester Premium.
Cosmetic differences: The Wilderness models sport a skid plate up front, more cladding on the wheel arches, a new fog light design, and a black hood decal that deflects sunlight. Inside are water-resistant seat surfaces and copper badging and contrast stitching.
Standard mechanicals: A 260-hp 2.4-liter turbocharged flat-4 that makes 277 lb-ft of torque with a CVT, all-wheel drive, and a limited-slip rear differential. Subaru softened the suspension tuning to account for the greater ride height and modified the final drive ratio for better low-end torque when climbing.
Added equipment: Ground clearance increases from 8.7 inches to 9.2 inches (Forester) or 9.5 inches (Outback); raised bumpers; increased approach and departure angles; black 17-inch black alloy wheels with Yokohama Geolandar all-terrain tires; water-resistant upholstery.
Off-road intender or pretender? Intender. The Wilderness grade enhances what was already an off-road-capable car. The Forester’s compact package, good low-end torque, and extra grip makes it even more like a rallycross car, and up the fun factor where the pavement ends. The only downside is it lacks the surround-view camera system of rivals, which helps with rocky paths and narrow trails.
Ford Timberline
Available models: 2022 Explorer, 2022 Expedition
Trim basis: XLT
Added price: At about $72,000, the Expedition Timberline is $10,000 more than an Expedition XLT with 4WD and a less potent engine.
Cosmetic differences: The Expedition Timberline wears an orange-rimmed grille with black cladding and different bumpers that increase the approach angle from 23.3 degrees to 28.5 degrees and departure angle from 21.9 degrees to 23.7 degrees. LED headlights are standard.
On the Explorer Timberline, higher bumpers increase the approach angle from 20.1 degrees to 23.5 degrees, and the departure angle from 22 degrees to 23.7 degrees. It also comes with standard steel skid plates to protect the engine, transmission, and rear-end components. Ford says the steering and stabilizer bars have been specially tuned.
Standard mechanicals: The Expedition shares the F-150 Raptor’s twin-turbo V-6 rated at 440 hp and 510 lb-ft of torque, and a 10-speed automatic transmission. The Explorer Timberline uses a 300-hp 2.3-liter turbo-4 mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission. It has standard all-wheel drive that can split the 310 lb-ft of torque between the front and rear axle.
Added equipment: Expedition Timberline comes standard with four-wheel drive and a 2-speed transfer case and black 18-inch wheels wrapped in 33-inch Wrangler all-terrain tires. Steel skid plates protect the increased exposure from the bumpers, and the knobby tires as well as new springs and other suspension upgrades raise the ground clearance nearly an inch more than the standard Expedition, to 10.6 inches. A limited-slip rear differential helps it churn through the muck, and a Trail Turn Assist function locks the inside rear wheel and drags it through a turn to help this big beast navigate tight corners. Orange front tow hooks can lend a helping hand.
The Explorer Timberline has a limited-slip rear differential that shuttles torque to the rear wheel with the most grip and keeps the other wheel from spinning, and ground clearance increases from 7.9 inches to 8.7 inches. It rides on 18-inch wheels with high-profile Bridgestone Dueler all-terrain tires, and has heavy-duty shocks that Ford uses on the Explorer Police Interceptor. A standard Class III trailer tow package with a 5,300-lb towing capacity enhances the do-it-all capability.
Off-road intender or pretender? Pretender, at least in the mud. Testing the Expedition Timberline off-road in the rain resulted in more slip over rocks than in smaller models, even with all-terrain tires. We could expect similar results with an Expedition XLT with 4WD. The lighter-weight Explorer Timberline does it better.
Honda Trailsport
Available models: 2022 Honda Passport
Trim basis: Built off EX-L grade.
Added price: At $44,265 (including $1,295 destination), it’s $4,600 more than the EX-L, and about $3,000 less than the top Elite.
Cosmetic differences: A new rear bumper with a “skid garnish” meant to look like a silver skid plate; an orange logo and other orange accents; orange contrast stitching on leather seats; black roof rails.
Standard mechanicals: All-wheel drive, a 280-hp 3.5-liter V-6 making 262 lb-ft, and a 9-speed automatic transmission.
Added equipment: 18-inch wheels with 245/60R18 Firestone “highway terrain” tires and chunky sidewalls, and a 10-mm wider track.
Off-road intender or pretender? The Trailsport sports the look, regardless of the trail. It’s a pretender only because any AWD Passport has a good enough system and 8.1 inches of ground clearance for mild off-roading on well-established trails.
Hyundai XRT
Available models: 2023 Palisade, 2022 Tucson, 2022 Santa Fe
Trim basis: SEL with Convenience Package
Added price: $2,300 more on the Palisade SEL AWD to $41,545; add $2,150 on Tucson SEL to $33,145; and $1,600 more on the Santa Fe SEL to $34,045 (includes $1,295 delivery).
Cosmetic differences: 20-inch black alloy wheels (19-inch on Tucson, 18-inch on Santa Fe), different lower bumpers with fake skid plate molding, a black grille, black roof and cross rails, and black synthetic leather seats, as well as a sunroof. The Tucson and Santa Fe add black mirror covers. The AWD version adds a locking center differential and Snow and Tow modes.
Standard mechanicals: Palisade has a 291-hp 3.8-liter V-6 and can tow up to 5,000 lb. Santa Fe uses a 191-hp 2.5-liter inline-4, with a tow rating of 3,500 lb. The Tucson employs a 187-hp 2.5-liter inline-4. All models have an 8-speed automatic and front-wheel drive standard.
Added equipment: The AWD version of the Palisade adds a locking center differential, Snow and Tow modes, and hill descent control, but that applies to any AWD Palisade.
Off-road intender or pretender? Pretender.
Kia X-Line and X-Pro
Available models: 2023 Sportage, 2023 Telluride
Trim basis: EX for the X-Line and SX for X-Pro
Added price: For $32,085, the Sportage X-Line is $1,000 more than Sportage EX, and the loaded $38,085 Sportage X-Pro Prestige is $1,500 more than the SX Prestige. Telluride details haven’t yet been released.
Cosmetic differences: The Sportage X-Line wears distinct bumpers, fake skid plates, and gloss-black side mirrors, roof rails, window surrounds, and 19-inch wheels with all-season tires. A black roof with two-tone options distinguishes X-Pros, as well as LED fog lights and LED projector headlights on X-Pro Prestige grades. Inside, a mechanical gear shifter replaces the dial shifter in the console on other models.
The Telluride X-Line adds roof rails, 10 mm of extra ground clearance, 20-inch wheels, and a Tow mode with sway control and also adjusts the transmission’s shift program.
Standard mechanicals: The Sportage uses a 2.5-liter inline-4 that makes 187 hp and 178 lb-ft of torque with an 8-speed automatic. The Telluride has the same 3.8-liter V-6 (rated at 291 hp and 262 lb-ft of torque) and 8-speed automatic as the Palisade.
Added equipment: Standard all-wheel drive for the Sportage X models, while the Telluride X comes in front-wheel drive. The X-Line has four drive modes—Normal, Sport, Smart, and Snow—but no more off-road functionality than other grades. Sportage X-Pro models add a locking center differential to fix torque 50/50 between the axles, hill descent control at speeds up to 15 mph, a surround-view camera system, and 17-inch wheels with off-road tires.
The Telluride X-Pro swaps out the X-Line’s 20-inch wheels for 18-inch wheels with Continental all-terrain tires, and it can to 500 lb more to 5,500 lb. It can be had with a self-leveling rear suspension.
Off-road intender or pretender? The X-Line pretends, while the X-Pro intends. We haven’t tested the 2023 Telluride X-Pro.
Nissan Rock Creek
Available models: 2023 Pathfinder
Trim basis: SV trim
Added price: $3,100 more than the SV with AWD
Cosmetic differences: The exterior gets black trim elements, and the interior flashes black synthetic leather upholstery with orange contrast stitching. A surround-view camera system comes standard, as does a tow hitch and wiring harness, second-row captain’s chairs, and LED fog lights.
Standard mechanicals: A 3.5-liter V-6 that makes 295 hp and 270 lb-ft of torque with premium fuel.
Added equipment: Standard all-wheel drive, an off-road suspension with a 5/8-inch lift that raises the ground clearance to about 7.7 inches. The 18-inch wheels pretend to be beadlock-capable, but the all-terrain tires are real, and a roof rack that’s totally tubular can hold 220 lb.
Off-road intender or pretender? Intender. When equipped with the available surround-view camera system, it helps see beyond the blocky rear end and bold front. The seven drive modes automatically adjust traction control, simplifying the transfer between mud and dirt and snow, for instance.
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Swiss electric vehicle startup Piech has hired some big guns to help bring its zero-emission performance cars to market.
The company last week announced the hiring of Manfred Fitzgerald as chairman and Tobias Moers as chief technology officer, both veterans of the industry. Both executives will also share the role of CEO at Piech.
Fitzgerald replaces Matthias Müller, a former Volkswagen Group CEO who was only with Piech for 11 months. Fitzgerald’s last role was as head of Genesis, but perhaps more important to Piech is his time spent at Lamborghini. Fitzgerald spent 12 years at Lamborghini as its head of brand and design, a role in which he helped turn Lamborghini into the globally successful brand it is today.
Moers joins Piech following a brief and somewhat rocky stint as CEO of Aston Martin. Moers’ greatest success has been with Mercedes-Benz AMG. Under his leadership, he helped to double AMG’s product portfolio and quadruple its sales, as well as lay the groundwork for the current expansion into EVs.
Piech, co-founded by a son of Ferdinand Piëch and backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, first made headlines in 2019 when it presented at the Geneva auto show the striking Mark Zero concept, an electric grand tourer with sultry lines reminiscent of classic Aston Martins. The Piëch family has been part-owners of VW and Porsche for decades.
The company last fall said the production version of the Mark Zero was on track for launch in mid-2024, after which a crossover and 2+2 coupe would be added. The cars would all use bespoke platforms developed in-house at Piech.
For the production Mark Zero, Piech promises a trio of electric motors generating 603 hp, and a 75-kwh battery good for a range approaching 300 miles on a charge. According to Piech, an 80% charge will be possible in just eight minutes using a DC fast charger.
“With Manfred Fitzgerald and Tobias Moers, two established authorities from the sophisticated and rapidly evolving world of sports cars and automotive luxury brands join the Piëch team,” Toni Piëch, Piech’s co-founder, said in a statement. “Both have a proven and enviable track record in this segment and possess extensive knowledge, an adept sense of how to communicate with exclusive customers and a distinct understanding of luxury brands.”
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The successor to the Pagani Huayra, codenamed C10, has finally been revealed. it’s called the Pagani Utopia, and it aims to live up to that lofty name by emphasizing driving purity.
The result of a six-year design process, the Utopia purposely minimizes the spoilers, ducts, and other aerodynamic devices seen on other supercars for a cleaner design, Pagani said in a press release. It’s also recognizably a Pagani, with the automaker’s signature quad headlights (in housings machined from solid aluminum) and centered quad exhaust tips.
Aero devices are subtly integrated with the bodywork. The Utopia has a front splitter, large intakes and vents that channel air through the grille and around the sides of the car, and active flaps at the rear. These combine to give the Utopia near-perfect aerodynamic balance at a wide range of speeds, while reducing the sensitivity to ground clearance for more predictable, safer, handling characteristics, according to Pagani.
Pagani once again turned to Mercedes-AMG for the Utopia’s engine. After ruling out electric and hybrid powertrains, Pagani went with a twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V-12 producing 852 hp at 6,000 rpm and 811 lb-ft of torque between 2,800 rpm and 5,900 rpm. The redline is 6,700 rpm.
The mid-mounted V-12 drives the rear wheels through an Xtrac 7-speed automated-manual transmission (a full-manual version will also be available, Pagani said). A dual-clutch transmission would be more efficient, Pagani noted, but the automaker claims the Xtrac gearbox is lighter and gives the driver more control, adding that its transverse arrangement reduces the polar moment of inertia to keep oversteer in check.
Pagani hasn’t published any performance figures, but with a claimed 2,822-lb dry curb weight, the Utopia should be pretty lively. A carbon-titanium monocoque (with chromium-molybdenum steel subframes) and aluminum suspension components help contribute to that relatively low curb weight. Pagani also claims a 10.5% increase in torsional rigidity over the Huayra monocoque.
The Utopia also gets independent double-wishbone suspension with helical springs and semi-active shocks, as well as a Brembo carbon-ceramic brake system. Wheels measure 21 inches in front and 22 inches in the rear, with standard Pirelli Zero Corsa tires. Pirelli SottoZero tires are also available in the unlikely event owners decide to take their cars out in winter conditions.
The interior features Pagani’s usual high level of craftsmanship, including a steering wheel machined from a single block of aluminum. Pagani also made a point of not including any screens, instead using the space for switches and dials that look right out of an aircraft cockpit.
Pagani plans to build 99 Utopia coupes at an undisclosed price. If the automaker follows the same pattern as the Zonda and Huayra, a Utopia Roadster will follow the coupe, as well as a series of special editions and hardcore track versions.
While the Utopia officially succeeds the Huayra, that car may not go away. After all, Pagani unveiled a new Zonda 760 Roadster in January—more than a decade after production of that car technically ended.
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Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen has all but guaranteed his second world title by taking the win on Sunday at the Italian Grand Prix, held at a packed Autodromo Nazionale Monza, which celebrated its 100th anniversary.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc came second, some 2.4 seconds behind Verstappen, in a race that finished with the safety car pacing the racers after a car had stopped on the track, while Mercedes-Benz AMG’s George Russell finished third, 3.4 seconds behind the winner.
Leclerc started the race on pole, with Verstappen back at seventh after taking a five-place grid penalty for use of a new power unit. Leclerc led immediately after the lights turned green, with Russell close on his tail. Meanwhile Verstappen was already up to fourth on the first lap and, with a brilliant move past McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo at the start of the second lap, already reached a podium position. He passed Russell on the start of the fifth lap, with the leader Leclerc at this point just two seconds ahead.
Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel came to a stop on lap 11, which meant the virtual safety car was released. Ferrari decided to pit Leclerc while Verstappen stayed out, now in the lead spot. Leclerc rejoined in third, behind Russell, but soon moved into second.
Verstappen eventually entered the pits for the first time at the end of lap 25 and rejoined in second, behind Leclerc. With his fresh tires, Verstappen was eating away at the gap until it was about five seconds, at which point Ferrari decided to pit Leclerc again. He rejoined the race in second with 19 seconds between him and Verstappen.
Little changed from this point but then on lap 48, Ricciardo came to a stop, requiring the safety car to be deployed. With Verstappen in the lead, followed by Leclerc and Russell, all three entered the pits to switch to fresh tires. However, Ricciardo’s car being stuck at the end of the track meant a lengthy extraction and thus the race finished under the safety car.
Notably, Dutch driver Nyck de Vries made his F1 debut on Sunday by filling in for Williams driver Alex Albon, who was out due to a case of appendicitis. The Dutch youngster qualified 13th but started the race at eighth thanks to the penalties for other drivers. He ended up finishing ninth, scoring two points in his maiden race. It means de Vries is now ahead of Williams’ Nicholas Latifi, who remains at zero points with most of the season behind him.
Following the weekend’s action, Verstappen’s points tally in the 2022 Drivers’ Championship has grown to 335 points. Leclerc is second with 219 points and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez is third with 210 points. In the Constructors’ Championship, Red Bull leads with 545 points, versus the 406 of Ferrari and 371 of Mercedes.
Following the conclusion of the Italian Grand Prix, the European rounds of the 2022 season are over. Teams now take a short break before returning in three weeks for the Singapore Grand Prix, the first time the race will be held there since 2019.
Based on the current standings, Verstappen could potentially take the title in Singapore if he wins the race and scores a bonus point for fastest lap, though Leclerc would have to finish ninth or lower.
Below are the full results from the 2022 Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix:
1) Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing
2) Charles Leclerc, Ferrari +2.446 seconds
3) George Russell, Mercedes-Benz AMG +3.405 seconds
4) Carlos Sainz, Ferrari +5.061 seconds
5) Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-Benz AMG +5.380 seconds
6) Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing +6.091 seconds
7) Lando Norris, McLaren +6.207 seconds
8) Pierre Gasly, AlphaTauri +6.396 seconds
9) Nyck De Vries, Williams +7.122 seconds
10) Zhou Guanyu, Alfa Romeo +7.910 seconds
11) Esteban Ocon, Alpine +8.323 seconds
12) Mick Schumacher, Haas +8.549 seconds
13) Valtteri Bottas, Alfa Romeo +1 lap
14) Yuki Tsunoda, AlphaTauri +1 lap
15) Nicholas Latifi, Williams +1 lap
16) Kevin Magnussen, Haas +1 lap
NC) Daniel Ricciardo, McLaren – DNF
NC) Lance Stroll, Aston Martin – DNF
NC) Fernando Alonso, Alpine – DNF
NC) Sebastian Vettel, Aston Martin – DNF
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Vinfast reported on Saturday that it has delivered the first 100 of its VF 8 electric SUVs in its home market of Vietnam, ahead of wider availability and international deliveries in the U.S., Canada, and Europe expected by the end of the year.
At a delivery event held at the company’s Hai Phong manufacturing complex the company said it delivered the vehicles to “pioneer customers who made the earliest reservations.”
Vinfast had said that it will make its first deliveries of both the VF 8 and the larger VF 9 by the end of the year, although it appears to have pushed the timeline forward into 2023 for the VF 9. It now says that the first US global delivery of the VF 8 is expected to happen in December 2022.
The VF 8 is 187.0 inches long by 76.1 inches wide and 65.6 inches high overall. It includes a dual-motor drive system and in its Eco version makes 349 hp and about 369 lb-ft of torque, while Plus versions make 402 hp and about 457 lb-ft of torque. On the European/global WLTP cycle, Vinfast is claiming a range of up to 260 miles for the Eco and up to 248 miles for the Plus. The company affirmed in a release announcing the first deliveries that the VF 8 includes a highway driving assist system with automated lane changes, plus remote parking assist, and a smart summon mode. It also details an app that offers more ways to remotely access and interact with the vehicle than most other automakers currently offer.
Vinfast’s timeline in the U.S. has indeed been very fast. It established its U.S. headquarters just last November, and that same month displayed early prototypes of the VF 8 and VF 9—then named VF e35 and VF e36. In July opened its first U.S. retail stores, in California, and announced $1.2 billion in incentives from North Carolina—the largest economic incentive package ever from the state, it claimed—in a planned factory in that state. The company said that it will expand its retail footprint to other states in the future.
Initial deliveries for the U.S. will be sourced from Vietnam, but the company says that the North Carolina plant will eventually build U.S.-bound VF 8 and VF 9 SUVs. Likewise, there are plans for a corresponding plant in Germany.
We’ve had a couple of advance looks at these models, but as recently as the New York auto show in April a VF 8 prototype didn’t yet look at a production level in the details. In an April preview drive, we also found the VF 8 to need some development and fine-tuning yet—surprising given the delivery target.
Vinfast says it will include a 10-year warranty on the SUVs, and pricing for Vinfast vehicles is different than any other automaker has attempted in the U.S. The company will sell its EVs for as little as $40,700 for the Eco and $47,700 for the Plus, but pricing is worked out around a battery subscription program that essentially replaces a battery warranty—and doesn’t include an extra monthly battery subscription of $35/month. How this affects retail and residual values, or basics like insurance costs, remains to be seen, as the battery pack remains a Vinfast asset. As an alternative, Vinfast this month announced a separate plan to all customers to buy the battery pack with the vehicle.
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Honda may no longer be in Formula 1 officially, but it’s still using reigning world champion Max Verstappen to show off the upcoming 2023 Civic Type R.
In an ad first spotted by Carscoops, the Red Bull Racing driver is let loose in the Type R at the Euroring, a 1.7-mile circuit near Budapest. The premise of the ad is that, after the 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix, Verstappen is called into a meeting by Red Bull team principal Christian Horner (who makes a voice cameo), and decides to take a detour. The add is titled “The Ultimate Detour.”
Ending up at the track, Verstappen drives the Type R for a few laps then, realizing he is now late, drives the hot hatch straight to the meeting.
Honda withdrew from F1 at the end of the 2021 season, but Red Bull still uses its power units. The team is now responsible for building its own power units under license from Honda, and does the same for sibling team AlphaTauri. Talks with Porsche recently ended without a deal, leaving Red Bull without an automaker partner for the time being.
Expected to arrive in the U.S. as a 2023 model, the new Civic Type R gets a more powerful version of the outgoing model’s 2.0-liter turbo-4. The engine now produces 315 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque, compared to the previous Type R’s 306 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque.
Power is sent to the front wheels through a revised 6-speed manual transmission. The 2023 Civic Type R also gets updated suspension and more restrained styling based on the 11th-generation Civic body shell.
Honda hasn’t said how much the 2023 Civic Type R will cost when it goes on sale this fall, but it will be built at the automaker’s Yorii Plant in Japan.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Hannah Waddingham wore Dolce & Gabbana with bedazzled high top sneakers on her feet Monday while Elle Fanning went Old Hollywood in a gown designed by Sharon Long of her show, “The Great,” as glamour returned to the Emmys in sticky Los Angeles humidity.
Waddingham, from “Ted Lasso,” showed off her comfy white shoes beneath her corseted strapless pink look. Fanning, her hair in a pinned-back bob, said she wanted to honor the creatives on her show that provided her with her first Emmy nod. Fanning’s look was black and pink, embellished at the chest.
“I’ve always been inspired by the Old Hollywood glam of the ’50s,” Fanning said.
Sheryl Lee Ralph of “Abbott Elementary” had a fashion faux pas before arriving at the Emmys.
“A designer gave my co-star and me the same sketch for the same gown,” she said, having discovered it on set when Lisa Ann Walter showed Ralph what she was wearing to the awards.
“Up until five days ago I had no gown so Brandon Blackwood stepped up. He was in Japan and started rendering the gown on his Pacific flight,” Ralph said.
Ralph was resplendent in a black velvet strapless gown with an orange underside and a slit to her upper thigh. She carried a tiny orange purse.
The stars went all out.
Zendaya, working with her stylist Law Roach, was in a classic black strapless corset look with a full skirt and dainty bow at the waist. It was Valentino, and she was dripping in Bulgari jewels, including a fresh, young white diamond choker with a center, 4.45-carat stone at the center. She, too, had pockets.
Connie Britton was in a goddess gown by Monique Lhuillier in a soft pink, a cape like effect at the back. Britt Lower, from “Severance,” donned a Venetian beaded gown in gold with matching elbow-length gloves. There were cut outs up top and thin embellished straps.
“It felt like I wanted to wear outer space. I have an appreciation for fabrics, my mom was a home economics teacher. I feel great in it,” Lower told The Associated Press.
People’s style and beauty director Andrea Lavinthal, said pink carried the night, though lots of other colors brightened up the carpet.
“Pink seems to be continuing its dominance as the red carpet color of choice. There’s just a lot of stars who are gravitating towards different shades of pink,” she said.
Not Rachel Brosnahan. She stood out in a plunging Pamella Roland column gown in beautiful violet. It was adorned with tulle and pearl floral bow appliques from the designer’s fall 2022 collection.
Laverne Cox and Himesh Patel helped kick off the parade of fashion, she in a bold black armor-esque Jean Paul Gaultier Couture mini and he in a white print tuxedo jacket, eschewing the usual evening black. Royal blue on Sarah Thompson (a “Yellowjackets” writer), marigold yellow and more — color took the night.
“I’m quite warm, I’m in a three-piece suit. I love this suit, but I wasn’t expecting the heat,” Patel said.
Natasha Rothwell of “The White Lotus” chose red for a gown with balloon short sleeves and a hot commodity on fashion carpets — pockets! It was custom silk taffeta from Safiyaa. Megan Stalter also went for red in a sheer dress that celebrated her curves. Jen Tullock of “Severance” was in the red zone, a thigh high slit and structured sleeve number by Thierry Mugler, worn with drop pearl earrings.
“I’m such a fan of his line. It’s elegant but still has a sense of humor,” Tullock said.
Stalter, from “Hacks, was in burned out velvet by Norma Kamali. She had a faux red rose pinned between her breasts.
“It took my breath away and my words. It’s kind of a sexy dress. It’s wild like me,” she said.
Jung Ho-yeon, the it girl and Louis Vuitton ambassador from “Squid Game,” wore an all-around, multicolored figure-hugging look from the brand. It was custom in a tweed design with all-around sequins. Her jewels were Vuitton, too.
“I still can’t believe it. It hasn’t sunk in yet, but I’m just going to enjoy the day and cherish the moment,” she said of her nomination.
Reese Witherspoon went for blue and sunglass-worthy bling in blue sequins. Around her neck was a knockout aquamarine, blue zircon and diamond choker from Tiffany & Co. Amanda Seyfried wore a body hugger in pink from Armani Prive, paired with Cartier drop diamond earrings in platinum.
“I’m a mermaid tonight,” Seyfried said.
Another refreshing surprise for Lavinthal? The men who dismissed black for all-white tuxedos, including Nicholas Braun from “Succession” in a double-breasted tux from Christian Dior. Andrew Garfield also went for white, along with Seth Rogan. Speaking of white, Jean Smart decided on it, too, with an elegant collar that fell off one shoulder. Ellie Saab designed Kerry Washington’s short draped dress with a long overskirt and a riot of organza lilies on one shoulder.
Washington’s black tights had some scratching their heads. So did Kaley Cuoco’s high-low Dolce & Gabbana tutu style and Julia Garner’s Gucci bellybutton cutout on her dark brown velvet look with silver crystals.
“I thought we’d seen every kind of cutout on the red carpet, but a bellybutton cutout was something new,” Lavinthal said.
Among Lavinthal’s highlights was Lily James in coppery Versace.
“It was very much 2022, but it could have come right off a ’90s runway with the chainmail and the sculpted cups,” she said.
Smart’s gown was made by Christian Siriano, as was the white look of Laura Linney.
Robin Thede also wore Siriano (he landed eight gowns on the carpet) in stunning pastel blue, while Jerrod Carmichael went furry in a long, white fox fur coat. Carmichael laughed at the heat and humidity.
“This was Puff Daddy’s coat. He wore it in a video,” the “Saturday Night Live” comic said.
Carmichael was shirtless under the fur and wore a sunburst platinum necklace. His black satin pants were accented by the top of his white underwear peaking out. He was sockless in his black loafers.
Another Siriano fan? Melanie Lynskey from “Yellowjackets.” Hers was a mint green with sheer overlay that made her feel “half princess and half bad (expletive).” Of the designer, she said: “He’s the sweetest man alive and I adore him. I feel like he made something that was for me, for my body.”
Rachel Tashjian, fashion news director for Harper’s Bazaar, saw a different trend.
“The standout looks on this year’s red carpet declared a turning point in celebrity style hinted at by the recent Venice Film Festival: The craziest and loudest outfit is no longer the best. Instead, stars are gravitating towards real elegance, even classicism,” she said.
She pointed to Zendaya, who is often a risk taker.
“Here she was in a very traditional sweeping strapless Valentino gown and gorgeous late 1950s socialite coiffed hair,” Tashjian said.
Similarly, Fanning was in a “very classic 1950s-ish couture dress with an old school coiffure.” she said.
Another of her highlights was Issa Rae in a fitted, flattering Sergio Hudson look that was on his runway Sunday. But her absolute favorite was Lizzo in her “gorgeous red Giambattista Valli gown — a refined, glamorous statement that dazzles.”
Among other standouts was Ariana DeBose in Atelier Prabal Gurung. It was a lilac silk chiffon hand-draped with a cape.
Jodi Kahn, vice president of luxury fashion for Neiman Marcus, said pink — in its many shades — is something her shoppers are also drawn to and can easily wear.
“Pink is a universally flattering color that women can feel very beautiful and confident and happy in. It’s something we’ve noticed specifically with our clients,” she said. “It’s great for any skin color, any body type.”
Metallics, too, like that of James and the russet custom Dolce & Gabbana worn by Quinta Brunson, is another draw for Kahn’s customers.
“Specifically the textured metallics,” she said. “They’re something you can implement very easily from the red carpet into your every day life for occasion or evening dressing.”
Colman Domingo of “Euphoria” was already a winner as he walked the carpet. He earned an Emmy for guest actor in a drama series at the earlier creative arts awards.
“I’ve been celebrating all week long to the point where I had to wake up and take a couple of ibuprofen,” he said.
Domingo wore a gold brocade open jacket and matching pants.
“I want to feel like a king,” he said.
Domingo carried a platinum-studded battery-operated fan in an attempt to ward off the oppressive humidity, unusual for Los Angeles.
Stylist Holly Katz, host of the Fashion Crimes podcast, named Washington — black stockings and all — her best dressed.
“She killed it,” Katz said.
Katz called Waddingham’s sneakers the “best-kept fashion secret of the night!”
Mark Indelicato was in the red club, sort of. Indelicato’s hair was bright red and his black tux sported long split tails like a train. And more of the men? Phil Dunster of “Ted Lasso” went for burgundy tux with black lapels, though his Lasso co-star Brett Goldstein stayed with black.
Emily Heller, meanwhile, went in a different direction. She had a “Kick Me” sign on the back of her short floral dress, and a bit of toilet paper stuck to one shoe.
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Associated Press writer Beth Harris in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the Emmy Awards (all times local):
9:20 p.m.
Newly minted Emmy winners made their first party stop at the Governors Gala.
For the first time, the official Emmy Awards after party was held outdoors, outside the Los Angeles Convention Center next door to the Microsoft Theater where the ceremony was held earlier Monday night.
Geena Davis, who was honored during the ceremony with the Governors Award for her work with her institute on gender in media, wandered barefoot through the party carrying a plate of salmon.
Partygoers danced under the stars to a live band that kicked into Emmy winner Lizzo’s “About Damn Time,” and jammed the plaza’s bars awaiting champagne and cocktails.
Longtime “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels, whose show won best sketch series for the sixth year in a row, held court with an Emmy statuette on the table.
Salmon, rare beef and mini tacos were on the al fresco menu.
“Succession,” “Ted Lasso” and “Squid Game” were among the winners of the top awards at the ceremony hosted by Kenan Thompson.
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8:10 p.m.
The Roy family comes out ahead again.
“Succession” has won best drama series at the Emmys.
Season three of the HBO drama starring Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong about a media monarch and the children who seek to succeed him took the top prize on Monday night, just as season two did in 2020.
Matthew Macfadyen was the only “Succession” star to take home an acting Emmy Monday.
Netflix’s “The Crown” won best drama last year, when “Succession” was between seasons.
“Succession” beat out competitors “Better Call Saul,” “Euphoria,” “Ozark,” “Severance,” “Squid Game,” “Stranger Things” and “Yellowjackets.”
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HIGHLIGHTS AT THE EMMYS
— Goddess gowns, Old Hollywood glam and red rule Emmy carpet
— List of Emmy Award winners include Michael Keaton and ‘SNL’
— Sheryl Lee Ralph, 1st-time nominee, wins Emmy award and sings
— Emmys host Kenan Thompson predicts conflict-free ceremony
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/emmy-awards
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MORE EMMY BREAKTHROUGHS:
7:55 p.m.
“Ted Lasso” took a dark turn and ended up with another bright shining Emmy.
The show won its second straight Emmy Award for best comedy series on Monday night.
The Apple TV+ series starring Jason Sudeikis as the fish-out-of-water coach of an American football team managing a soccer club in England focused on mental health and its characters’ pain in its second season, and was rewarded for it by Emmy voters.
The series won four Emmys on Monday night, including best actor in a comedy series for Jason Sudeikis and best supporting actor for Brett Goldstein.
“Ted Lasso” beat out competitors including “Barry,” “Hacks,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Abbot Elementary,” “Only Murders in The Building,” and “What We Do in the Shadows.”
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7:50 p.m.
“The White Lotus” bloomed on Emmy night.
The black comedy from creator Mike White about a disparate group of people at a Hawaiian resort won the Emmy Award for best limited series on Monday.
It was one of 10 Emmys claimed by the show, including best supporting actor and actress in a limited series.
“The White Lotus” stars Jennifer Coolidge, Connie Britton, Steve Zahn, and Murray Bartlett as a concierge who takes out an especially scatological form of revenge on a pestering resort guest.
The victory gives HBO its seventh win in 11 years in the category.
“The White Lotus” beat out fellow nominees “The Dropout,” “Inventing Anna,” “Pam & Tommy,” and “Dopesick.”
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7:45 p.m.
Lee Jung-jae has scored a historic Emmy Award for best lead actor in a drama series for his role in “Squid Game.”
Lee becomes the first Asian man to win the award, and the first to win it for a non-English-speaking role.
“I’d like to thank god above,” Lee said in an acceptance speech delivered in both English and Korean. His clean-cut look on stage was a far cry from his shaggy appearance on “Squid Game.”
In the South Korean Netflix series, people in poverty are forced to compete for money and their lives by playing schoolyard games.
Lee beat out fellow nominees Brian Cox, Jason Bateman, Bob Odenkirk, Adam Scott and Jeremy Strong.
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7:40 p.m.
Jean Smart has shown she’s no hack.
For the second straight year, Smart has won the Emmy Award for best lead actress in a comedy series for her role in “Hacks” on HBO Max.
“I’m more nervous than I was, thank you for a second time honoring this show,” Smart said.
Smart was amid her own major career renaissance when she landed the role of Deborah Vance, a standup comic who revives her career with the help of a young writer played by Hannah Einbinder.
It’s the fourth Emmy overall for Smart, who won two for guest spots on “Frasier” in 2000 and 2001, and her third for a supporting role on the sitcom “Samantha Who” in 2008.
Smart beat out fellow nominees Quinta Brunson, Kaley Cuoco, Elle Fanning, Issa Rae and Rachel Brosnahan.
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7:20 p.m.
It was another euphoric Emmy night for Zendaya.
The actor who was a surprise winner of the best lead actress in a drama series for the first season of “Euphoria” two years ago has done it again, taking a second trophy for her second season as recovering teenage addict Rue Bennett on the HBO show.
“Anyone who has loved a Rue, or is a Rue, I want you to know that I am so grateful for your stories, I carry them with me and I carry them with her,” Zendaya said.
She beat out fellow nominees Laura Linney, Melanie Lynskey, Sandra Oh, Reese Witherspoon and Jodie Comer.
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7:10 p.m.
Ted Lasso has roped another Emmy.
Jason Sudeikis won the Emmy Award for best lead actor in a comedy series on Monday night for his role as the title coach on “Ted Lasso.”
After a first season of hyper-positivity that earned him his first Emmy for the role, Sudeikis’ Lasso, an American football coach tapped to manage an English soccer club, spent the second season dealing with the effects of divorce and depression.
“I’m truly, truly surprised and flattered,” Sudeikis said.
Sudeikis also won a best comedy series Emmy as a producer of the show in the first season.
Sudeikis beat out fellow nominees Bill Hader, Nicholas Hoult, Steve Martin, Martin Short and Jason Donald Glover.
Earlier, Sudeikis’ castmate Brett Goldstein won best supporting actor in a comedy.
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6:30 p.m.
Lizzo has an Emmy to go with her three Grammys.
“Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls,” the Amazon Prime Video series hosted by the singer, rapper and songwriter, won the Emmy Award for outstanding competition program on Monday night.
It ended a four-year winning streak in the category for “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
“The trophy is nice, but my emotion is for these people who are on the stage with me,” a hyped and crying Lizzo said from the stage. “The stories that they shared, they’re not that unique, they just don’t get the platform.”
“When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media, someone fat like me, black like me, beautiful like me,” she said.
“Where my big girls, are they here?” she shouted to cast members in the crowd, calling them “superstars.”
They shouted and waved back from distant seats as they filmed with their phones.
Lizzo’s three Grammy Awards include a win in 2020 for best pop solo vocal performance for her hit “Truth Hurts.”
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6:15 p.m.
The Emmy for best actress in a limited series goes to Amanda Seyfried for “The Dropout.”
It’s the first Emmy for Seyfried.
“This is a really nice feeling,” she said, near tears.
In the Hulu docudrama, she plays Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the ill-fated biotech company Theranos.
Jennifer Coolidge also won her first Emmy, taking best supporting actress in a limited series for “The White Lotus,” HBO’s dark comedy about guests at a Hawaiian resort.
It was the first time in a long acting career the 61-year-old Coolidge had been nominated for an Emmy.
“I took a lavender bath tonight just before the show, and it made me swell up inside my dress, I’m having a hard time speaking,” Coolidge said.
As the music played to get her to leave the stage, she shouted, “Hold on, this is a once in a lifetime thing,” then started boogieing as a livelier tune played, getting laughs and whoops from the audience. She finally took the hint and headed off.
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6:05 p.m.
For the seventh straight year, the Emmy for best variety talk series goes to “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.”
The HBO show has won the award for all but one year that the category has existed.
“We know how lucky we are to get to make the exact show that we want, exactly the way that we want to make it,” Oliver said from the stage Monday night.
Moments earlier, “Saturday Night Live” won the Emmy for best sketch series.
The NBC institution wins the award for the sixth straight year, and has won it for six of the eight years since the establishment of the category, which this year had just one other nominee, HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show.”
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5:50 p.m.
Sheryl Lee Ralph was so moved by her Emmy win, she had to respond in song.
Ralph took the Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a comedy series Monday night for her role as a devoutly religious kindergarten teacher on ABC’s “Abbott Elementary.”
It’s the first Emmy and first nomination for Ralph, who was in tears and had to gather herself after accepting the trophy.
She opened her speech with a powerfully delivered acapella version of the song “Endangered Species” by Dianne Reeves.
“I am an endangered species, but I sing a victim’s song, I am a woman, I am an artist, and I know where my voice belongs,” Ralph belted.
Her win, and reaction, were hugely popular inside the Microsoft Theater.
“We love you!” a man shouted from the rear seats as she arrived on stage. She was interrupted by cheers and multiple standing ovations.
Moments later, Brett Goldstein won his second straight Emmy Award for his role on “Ted Lasso.”
In the second season of the Apple TV+ show, Goldstein’s character Roy Kent went from cranky veteran player to angry television analyst to grouchy assistant coach of the English soccer team at the center of the show, on which he’s also a writer.
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5:40 p.m.
Julia Garner has won her third Emmy, taking best supporting actress once again for her role in “Ozark.”
In the Netflix series she plays Ruth Langmore, a young woman who is part of a criminal family in a Missouri town where the family of a financial adviser has come to launder money for a drug cartel.
“Thank you for writing Ruth, she’s changed my life,” Garner said from the stage in gratitude to the show’s writers.
Garner won Emmys for the same role in 2019 and 2020.
She could have four before the night’s over. She’s also up for best actress in a limited series Monday night for playing the title role in “Inventing Anna.”
Moments earlier, Matthew Macfadyen won his first Emmy, taking best supporting actor in a drama series for his role as the calculating son-in-law of a media magnate in HBO’s “Succession.”
“I must say really it’s such a pleasure and a privilege to play this bonkers gift of a role in this wonderful show,” Macfadyen said in a British accent much of the American audience has never heard.
The 47-year-old English actor was previously best known for playing Mr. Darcy in the 2005 film version of “Pride and Prejudice.”
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5:20 p.m.
The Emmy for best supporting actor in a limited series goes to Murray Bartlett for “The White Lotus.”
It’s the first Emmy and first nomination for the 51-year-old Australian actor.
In “The White Lotus” he plays an initially mild-mannered concierge at a Hawaiian Resort who is driven to drugs and madness by the guests he must cater to.
“Thank you for giving me one of the best experiences of my life,” Bartlett said from the stage to series creator Mike White, who was caught by the camera mid-gulp from a glass of wine.
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5:15 p.m.
The Emmy for best actor in a limited series goes to Michael Keaton for “Dopesick.”
The first award handed out Monday night was the first ever Emmy for Keaton, the 71-year-old former “Batman” actor who was nominated for an Oscar in 2015 for his role in “Birdman.”
“I’ve got to tell you, my face hurts so much from all the fake smiling I’ve been doing,” Keaton said after accepting the trophy from the first presenter, Oprah Winfrey.
“You’ve got about 90 of these, don’t you?” he asked her.
In Hulu’s “Dopesick,” Keaton plays Samuel Finnix, a doctor on the frontlines of America’s battle with opioid addiction.
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5:10 p.m.
Host Kenan Thompson has kicked off the 74th Emmy Awards in a top hat and tails.
“It is I, the mayor of television,” Thompson said as he walked among the nominees and other audience members seated at tables in a garden setting at the Microsoft Theater on Monday night in downtown Los Angeles.
“Tonight, we come together to honor the greatest invention in the history of mankind, television,” the longtime “Saturday Night Live” cast member said. “If it weren’t for television, what would we do with our time? Read books? No one in this room has read a book in the last 50 years.”
He then led a crew through a series of synchronized dance moves to TV theme songs including “Friends,” “Game of Thrones,” “The Brady Bunch” and “Law & Order.”
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5 p.m.
Nominees and the rest of the Emmy Awards audience are making their way into the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles with the show just minutes away.
The room is set up like a garden, with most of the theater’s orchestra seats removed and replaced by dozens of tables for nominees and their guests. Window panels provided a view of the LA skyline, and six large trees framed the perimeter of the room. From the ceiling hung tiny white lights, intermixed with ferns.
There is none of the social distancing that marked last year’s pandemic-limited show.
“This bar right here is not real. This is a set. Do night touch this,” producer-writer Chris Spencer told the audience as he announced the rules for the show before the telecast began. A full, and fake, bar ceiling high is set up behind one of the stages.
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4:30 p.m.
Ben Stiller isn’t worried about being banned from Russia.
“I’ll take it,” the actor-director told The Associated Press on the Emmys carpet ahead of Monday’s ceremony. “It’s all right.”
“I’m a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR,” Stiller said referencing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. “There’s over 100 million displaced people all over the world. So all of those people deserve a right to a home and be able to go back home and to be welcomed.”
Stiller was responding to a question about a move by Russia last week to sanction 25 Americans, including him and actor Sean Penn.
Penn and Stiller have been outspoken critics of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Penn is an activist involved in relief work, among other causes.
— Jill Dobson at the Emmy Awards.
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4:15 pm.
Nominee Sheryl Lee Ralph of “Abbott Elementary” had a fashion faux pas before ever arriving at the Emmys.
“A designer gave my co-star and me the same sketch for the same gown,” she said, having discovered it on set when Lisa Ann Walter showed Ralph what she was wearing to the awards.
“Up until five days ago I had no gown so Brandon Blackwood stepped up. He was in Japan and started rendering the gown on his Pacific flight,” Ralph said.
Ralph was resplendent in a black velvet strapless gown with orange underside and a slit to her upper thigh. She carried a tiny orange purse.
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3:50 p.m.
How hot is it on the Emmys gold carpet? So hot that suit-clad men are pushing a wheeled cooler full of bottled water along the carpet, moving deftly between the logjam of sweating stars and stopping frequently to grab and pass out the cool beverages. Stars are sipping the water through straws.
Kerry Washington wore a small dress but a long train, with her hair pulled up and away from her face. Emmys host Kenan Thompson moved quickly along the carpet, making his way inside the Microsoft Theater to prepare for the show. “Sorry, we can’t stop,” a handler called out as a somber Thompson strode by.
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” actor Cynthia Addai-Robinson is at her first Emmys. Masks aren’t required but COVID-19 testing was.
“I think people are hungry for celebration. I know I am. We’re still getting used to gathering and getting together,” she said.
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3:30 p.m.
A blast from TV’s past hit the Emmy Awards gold carpet.
Eve Plumb and Christopher Knight, who played siblings Jan and Peter on “The Brady Bunch,” walked the carpet together.
“We’re very surprised and very happy,” Plumb said of being asked to appear on the telecast.
“And honored,” Knight added.
Their show, which lives in reruns, was on TV in the early 1970s when there were only three channels, quite a contrast from today’s streaming services.
“I don’t think it just serves one audience. It speaks to many,” Knight said. “You have that much more opportunity to catch up 10 years later on something and become a huge fan. Because of streaming there’ll be huge successes of old content.”
— Beth Harris (@BethHarrisAP) at the Emmys
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3 p.m.
“Severance” star Britt Lower is among the early arrivals at the Emmy Awards, wearing a glittery venetian beaded gown with matching elbow length gloves.
“It felt like I wanted to wear outer space. I have an appreciation for fabrics, my mom was a home economics teacher. I feel great in it,” she said.
Stars are beginning to arrive in downtown Los Angeles on a sweltering afternoon. Temperatures are in the lower 80s but it’s unseasonably humid due to remnants of tropical storm that blew through over the weekend.
Early arrivals included actor and writer Natasha Rothwell, actor Tony Shalhoub and actor Laura Linney.
Comedian Emily Heller had fun posing for the cameras, turning her back to reveal she was wearing a “Kick Me” sign on her back and had paper stuck to her shoe.
— Beth Harris (@bethharrisAP) at the Emmy Awards
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1 p.m.
Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the ceremony’s producers are promising a feel-good event — a phrase not applicable to several of the top nominated shows.
The best drama contenders include the violently dystopian “Squid Game,” bleak workplace satire “Severance” and “Succession,” about a powerful and cutthroat family. Even comedy nominee “Ted Lasso,” the defending champ, took a storytelling dark turn.
But after several pandemic-constrained awards seasons, Monday’s 74th Primetime Emmy Awards (airing 8 p.m. EDT on NBC, streaming on Peacock) will be big and festive, executive producers Reginald Hudlin and Ian Stewart said.
They’re actually taking a page from last year’s scaled-down ceremony and its club-style table seating for nominees.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officials said Monday.
Mark David Chapman, 67, appeared before a parole board at the end of August, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Chapman shot and killed Lennon on the night of Dec. 8, 1980, as Lennon and Yoko Ono were returning to their Upper West Side apartment. Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a copy of his recently released album, “Double Fantasy,” earlier that day.
State officials have yet to make transcripts of Chapman’s latest board interview available, but he has repeatedly expressed remorse in previous parole hearings. Chapman called his actions “despicable” during his hearing in 2020, and said he would have “no complaint whatsoever” if they chose to leave him in prison for the rest of his life.
“I assassinated him … because he was very, very, very famous and that’s the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory. Very selfish,” Chapman said then.
Chapman is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility, north of New York City, according to online state corrections records.
He is next due to appear before the parole board in February 2024.
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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
— Twin brothers go to their mother’s house for a stay but find something is off about her in “Goodnight Mommy,” an English language remake of a cult Austrian horror from 2014. Naomi Watts plays the mother, an actress whose face is wrapped in bandages — presumably recovering from plastic surgery. She’s also quite on edge and suspiciously cruel and the boys, Elias (Cameron Crovetti) and Lucas (Nicholas Crovetti) start worrying that it is not, in fact, their mother, but an imposter. Directed by Matt Sobel, “Goodnight Mommy” arrives on Prime Video on Friday.
— A year after “Official Competition” premiered to raves at the 78th Venice Film Festival, it’s finally coming to a streaming service, AMC+, on Friday. The sharp satire skewering the movie business (and the art world in general) stars Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas as two egomaniacs who a billionaire hires to make a film together. By all accounts the Spanish language film, directed by Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat, is deliriously fun and funny and a great showcase for its leads Cruz and Banderas.
— Over on Disney+, the original documentary “Mija” tells the story of Doris Muñoz and Jacks Haupt, the daughters of Mexican immigrants who are trying to make their way in the music business in the U.S. It’s the directorial debut of Isabel Castro, also a Mexican American, and will be available to watch on Friday. In the Variety review out of the Sundance Film Festival, critic Lisa Kennedy wrote that, “Castro’s debut feature deals with heartache and vulnerability but also shimmers with joy and genuine insight.”
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
MUSIC
— After night must come light, right? Little Big Town’s album “Mr. Sun” drops Friday, the follow-up to the band’s last offering, “Nightfall.” Band member Karen Fairchild says: “‘Mr. Sun’ is focused on better days ahead, the value of friendships and family; it touches on heartbreak and letting go, but it’s full of sunshine and joy.” The 16-song album — with a member of the band writing or co-writing 13 of them — includes “Rich Man,” the hazy, addictive “All Summer” and “Hell Yeah.”
— Singer-songwriter Michelle Branch will release her new album “The Trouble with Fever” despite facing her own personal troubles. The album, out Friday, was co-produced with her husband, Patrick Carney, drummer for The Black Keys. Branch was arrested last month for allegedly slapping Carney, but prosecutors decided not to press charges. The album’s first single, “I’m A Man,” is a bluesy protest song that tackles such topics as women’s rights, toxic masculinity, reproductive rights and sexual harassment.
— Marcus Mumford releases his first solo album on Friday, but he’s tapped plenty of friends for help: Brandi Carlile, Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo, Monica Martin and Julia Michaels. The album, “(self-titled),” has produced the quiet yet powerful “Cannibal” (with a Steven Spielberg-directed video) and the superb “Grace,” a strummy cathartic tune with the lyrics: “I hear there’s healing just around this corner.” Blake Mills produced the album.
— Jessie Reyez had some bad luck when she released her debut album, “Before Love Came To Kill Us.” It came out in late March 2020, along with the pandemic, which wiped out her buzz. This week, she’s hoping for better luck with “YESSIE,” led by the spiteful kiss-off single “Mutual Friend,” with the line: “This heartbreak morphed into hate.” The Colombian-Canadian artist has had an exciting year, touring with Billie Eilish and performing at the 2022 Coachella music festival.
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— “The Handmaid’s Tale” returns with high stakes for June (Elisabeth Moss) and the future of Gilead, the totalitarian society that she and others have risked their lives to fight. The Emmy-winning series, adapted from Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, has become a touchstone for women’s rights advocates. In the fifth season that begins Wednesday with two episodes, June is dealing with the consequences of a killing, while Serena (Yvonne Strahovski), the woman she widowed, seeks her own path to power. Hulu announced the drama will end with season six.
— “The U.S. and the Holocaust” examines Nazi Germany’s Jewish genocide in the context of American society and the nation’s response. The three-part documentary looks at the 20th-century rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party amid racism and antisemitism elsewhere in the world, including in the United States. Directed and produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein and written by Geoffrey Ward, the six-hour docuseries airs Sunday through Tuesday, on PBS and will be available on PBS.org. Peter Coyote narrates.
— Looking for a break in your day? “The Jennifer Hudson Show” and “Sherri,” with comedian-actor Sherri Shepherd, are here to oblige, with both shows debuting Monday. Actor-singer and “American Idol” alum Hudson will welcome first-week guests including Simon Cowell, Magic Johnson and Hannah Waddingham. Among Shepherd’s debut week guests: Ricki Lake, Robin Thicke and Derek Hough. The hosts are looking to fill the void left by Ellen DeGeneres’ and Wendy Williams’ now-ended shows, with Kelly Clarkson and Drew Barrymore among the returning competition.
— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber
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Veteran actor Sheryl Lee Ralph, an ageless stalwart of the industry who won an Emmy as a first-time nominee at the age of 66, relished in her victory by bellowing powerful lyrics about being an “Endangered Species,” and imploring others to never give up on themselves no matter how long it takes to be seen.
Ralph took home television’s highest honor Monday night for best supporting actress in a comedy for her role as Barbara Howard, a beloved, matriarchal Kindergarten teacher on “Abbott Elementary,” the ABC “mockumentary” sitcom about high-spirited teachers in a woefully underfunded Philadelphia public school.
In tears before gathering herself to accept the trophy inside the Microsoft Theater, Ralph opened her acceptance speech with a powerfully delivered acapella version of the song “Endangered Species” by Dianne Reeves, belting: “I am a woman, I am an artist/And I know where my voice belongs.”
“To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like,” Ralph declared before pumping her fist. “This is what striving looks like!”
Ralph’s honor comes after decades in the business with multiple iconic roles – from “Dreamgirls” on Broadway in the 1980s, to stepmother to the title character on the 1990s sitcom “Moesha.”
In an interview with the Associated Press, Ralph relayed excitement about diversity at the Emmys, praising the Korean language “Squid Game” as well as her own show, “Abbott Elementary,” which has a majority-Black cast.
“The fact that this is the first time since the 1980s that people in a majority Black cast have all been nominated, the first time in 40 years,” Ralph said. “The fact that it is my first nomination, my first invitation to the awards and guess what? Nothing before its time. Everything is right on time. And I’m happy to be here because I’m sailing, baby. I’m loving it.”
Ahead of the award show, Ralph spoke on the red carpet about finally being appreciated in Hollywood, saying she initially thought the Mrs. Howard role would be a thankless gig.
“I was just doing my job because I felt like that. I thought that I was just going to be there collecting a check,” Ralph said in an interview with People magazine. “I had no idea that people would see the subtleties in the work. It’s very easy for people to miss the layers that you put in sometimes as an actor. And they saw it all.”
She also recalled how decades ago, legendary actor Robert De Niro advised her to keep going even though Hollywood was “not looking for the Black girls.”
“Thirty years later, I am seeing my nomination, and thank God I didn’t give up on me because it’s been a rough climb, but it’s worth every step,” Ralph said moments before her win.
Ralph was resplendent in a black velvet strapless gown with orange underside and a slit to her upper thigh and rocked a bedazzled high ponytail, with social media taking note of her sexy look that defied her age.
“You don’t make it at 30, you can make it at 50,” Ralph said in an interview with E! “You don’t make it at 50, you can make it at 60 and still give them goodness.”
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MADRID (AP) — Against the backdrop of Picasso´s iconic anti-war painting, “Guernica,” the culture ministers of France and Spain gathered Monday in Madrid’s Reina Sofía Museum to kick off a year of commemorative acts to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the death of the Spanish artist who revolutionized the world of art.
In “Picasso Celebration,” France and Spain will be organizing more than 40 exhibitions conferences and other events in museums in Madrid, Paris, Barcelona, Málaga and other cities in Europe and North America over the next 12 months.
Picasso was born October 25, 1881, in Málaga and died in Mougins, France, on April 8, 1973.
“Our aim is to revindicate the artistic legacy of Picasso and the relevance of his work,” said Spanish Culture Minister Miquel Iceta.
“If there is one artist that defines the 20th century, who presents it in all its cruelty, violence, passion, excesses and contradictions, that artist is Pablo Picasso.”
Although born in Spain. Picasso spent most of his adult life in France.
In a career spanning nearly eight decades. he is said to have created tens of thousands of paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics covering an incredible range of styles and movements that made him possibly the most influential and celebrated artist of the past 150 years.
Together with artist Georges Braque, he started the avant-garde Cubist movement that radically changed European painting and sculpture.
“The abundant, inventive and often radical work of Picasso continues to exert a genuine fascination throughout the world,” said French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak.
Picasso’s reputation for having mistreated many of the women in his life is not being ignored during the anniversary and will be the subject of more than one conference and exhibition during the year.
“We want to present Picasso as he was,” said Iceta. “Celebrate his work of course but not hide some of the aspects of his life that seen from today might be controversial.”
Abdul Malak said there was no denying there was a lot of debate about how Picasso should be perceived, particular in his relation with women and his sometimes violent nature but she said these topics needed to be debated, not covered up.
The anniversary was launched in front of “Guernica” — by far Picasso’s most famous painting. It was commissioned by the Republican government of Spain to represent the country at a Universal Exposition in Paris in 1937 when Spain was in the throes of a bloody civil war started by future dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.
The black and white canvas comprises tormented and distorted figures — human and animal — and represents the horrors of mechanized war.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rain gathered on the tin foil covered and spray-painted catwalk of Tommy Hilfiger’s New York Fashion Week show as guests huddled under umbrellas, waiting for the event to start. The Brooklyn outdoor venue promised a stunning skyline view of Manhattan — but with no covering, it made for a damp, albeit memorable evening.
Despite the wet stage, the show went on. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s New York City studio, The Factory, Hilfiger’s Tommy Factory emphasized multimedia expression — from the tin foil sculptures alongside the catwalk to the guest musical appearance of drummer Travis Barker during the show’s finale. Kate Moss, Shawn Mendes, Kris Jenner and Barker’s wife, Kourtney Kardashian, were among the guests sitting fronting row.
“The fact that (Warhol) brought all different people together from art, fashion, music, entertainment, celebrity is very similar to what I’ve done and what I’m doing,” said Hilfiger.
Hilfiger’s fall runway show debuted a new monogram for the designer and premiered his Tommy Hilfiger X Richard Quinn capsule. His first New York Fashion Week show in three years featured androgynous styles with bulky sweaters, bold patterns and oversized puffer jackets (a nod to Quinn’s signature style) as well as Hilfiger staples, such as preppy knits and plaids.
The brand’s typical color scheme of blue, red and white was ever-present: A baggy, rugby style dress in red and blue was styled over a button-down shirt, tie and red pleated shirt; another model wore a blue and red quilted varsity jacket over a large red scarf and blue sweatpants, tucked into boots.
Julia Fox, who walked in the show along with Winnie Harlow, Ashley Graham and Kate Moss’ daughter Lila Moss, wore a red and blue striped turtleneck bodysuit with black tights bearing the new interlocking T and H logo.
John Legend, who also sat front row, said he felt for the models walking and hoped they got hazard pay. When asked how his wife, model Chrissy Teigen, would feel about the conditions, he said, “She would have something to say about it.”
The show ended with edgier looks. Models wore head-to-toe denim, emblazoned with the new monogram — the same look Kardashian wore Sunday — and leather harness accents. Model Precious Lee even carried a black leather whip as she walked the runway.
Tommy Factory also played out as a virtual show on the online game platform Roblox, where gamers could buy Tommy Hilfiger digital skins and purchase physical products for themselves.
“We’re staying on the cutting edge,” said Hilfiger. “Because if you fall behind, catching up is an impossibility.”
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