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MOSCOW (AP) — An independent Russian journalist has been charged with funding an extremist organization over donating a small amount of money to a foundation started by imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Russian media reported Monday.
It is the first publicly known criminal prosecution for donating to Navalny’s organizations since they were declared extremist and outlawed last summer — an apparently new tactic that Russian authorities have chosen to deepen their crackdown on dissent.
Radio Liberty cited Andrei Zayakin’s colleagues as saying he was arrested in his Moscow apartment Sunday and brought before a court Monday. If convicted, he faces up to eight years in prison.
According to the Mass Media Defense Center, a rights group that’s helping defend Zayakin, the investigators accuse the journalist of donating 1,000 rubles (about $16) to Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption.
Zayakin, who wrote for the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and other publications, spent the night in a police holding cell. On Monday, a court approved investigators’ request to impose a curfew on him between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m., bar him from using the internet and phone and from communicating with other people implicated in the case, although it was not immediately clear if there were any.
Russian authorities have increasingly targeted critics and opponents in the last few years, especially after the country began what it calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine on Feb. 24. Navalny is in prison on a variety of charges that he calls politically motivated and continues to speak out via social media. A Russian court last year branded his Foundation for Fighting Corruption, as well as his network of regional offices, as extremist and banned its work in Russia.
Zayakin, who holds a degree in math and physics, co-founded a widely-known project called Dissernet, which seeks to expose corruption and plagiarism in Russian science by studying doctoral theses — especially those written by government officials.
Also Monday, Russian authorities detained another prominent Kremlin critic, Leonid Gozman, on charges of publicly comparing the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany. Gozman faces a fine or a 15-day administrative arrest.
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TITUSVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — NASA’s first attempt to launch Artemis I, the first mission in the program that will eventually send humans back to the moon, was scrubbed Monday morning after several hours of technical difficulties.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the agency’s most powerful rocket to date, were scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a two-hour launch window that opened at 8:33 a.m. ET. The launch countdown was put on hold at T-40 minutes around 7:30 a.m., and the attempt was eventually scrubbed at 8:34 a.m. by the launch director.
Before the scrub, teams had spent most of the morning troubleshooting different issues leading up to the launch window. The first hiccup happened just after 1 a.m. ET when the launch team had to press pause on loading propellant into the rocket due to weather. Propellant loading eventually got underway, but just before 4 a.m., NASA engineers had to troubleshoot another issue with a liquid hydrogen leak.
An engine conditioning issue was the problem that eventually halted the countdown and forced NASA to scrub the launch attempt.
“Launch controllers condition the engines by increasing pressure on the core stage tanks to bleed some of the cryogenic propellant to the engines to get them to the proper temperature range to start them. Engine 3 is not properly being conditioned through the bleed process, and engineers are troubleshooting,” NASA said around 6:30 a.m. “Teams also are assessing what appears to be a crack in the thermal protection system material on one of the flanges on the core stage.”
NASA confirmed after the scrub that both the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft were in “safe and stable configuration.”
What happens next?
NASA engineers are still gathering data on what went wrong during Monday morning’s launch attempt and will have to determine whether or not the problems can be resolved before the next launch window.
NASA’s earliest backup opportunity is Friday, Sept. 2 at 12:48 p.m. ET. That launch window is also two hours long but the mission would be shortened to 39 days instead of 42. NASA could also launch Monday, Sept. 5 between 5:12 p.m. ET and 6:32 p.m. ET. A launch in that window would lead to a 42-day mission.
Once Artemis I lifts off, the mission will travel a total of about 1.3 million miles.
What is Artemis?
Launch Pad 39B, the pad that Artemis I will launch from, is the same pad Apollo 10 launched from. The Apollo program was the last time humans stepped foot on the moon, more than 50 years ago. In Greek mythology, Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo.
Under the Artemis program, NASA plans to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon. NASA is looking to establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface and use what is learned to eventually send astronauts to Mars.
Artemis I is NASA’s first step when it comes to achieving those goals. It will launch the agency’s SLS rocket – also called the mega moon rocket – and send the Orion spacecraft on a test flight around the moon. The SLS rocket and Orion, along with the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center, make up NASA’s deep space exploration system.
Artemis I is an uncrewed mission, meaning there will be no humans on the flight. NASA calls it “the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to build a long-term human presence at the moon for decades to come.”
“The mission will demonstrate the performance of the SLS rocket and test Orion’s capabilities over the course of about six weeks as it travels about 40,000 miles beyond the moon and back to Earth,” NASA explained.
The SLS rocket is described by NASA as the world’s most powerful rocket. According to the agency, it is the only rocket that can currently send the Orion spacecraft to the moon safely.
“SLS is designed specifically for deep space missions with humans and will send the Orion spacecraft to the moon, which is nearly 1,000 times farther than where the International Space Station resides in low-Earth orbit,” NASA said. “The rocket will provide the power to help Orion reach a speed of 22,600 mph, to escape the pull of Earth’s gravity [and] send the spacecraft to the moon.”
Orion, the spacecraft that will launch atop the SLS rocket, was designed to carry humans to deep space, according to NASA. The agency says it was “specifically designed to sustain humans hundreds of thousands of miles from home.”
Artemis I is the first “integrated test” of NASA’s deep space exploration system. On its website, NASA explains that the main goals of the mission are to “demonstrate Orion’s systems in a spaceflight environment” and to “ensure a safe re-entry, descent, splashdown and recovery.”
This will help when it comes to future missions, including Artemis II which will be the program’s first crewed flight around the moon.
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(The Hill) — Comedian Billy Eichner slammed the U.S. Supreme Court and Justice Clarence Thomas at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, calling them “homophobes” who are stuck in the past.
Eichner teased an upcoming film he co-wrote and stars in called “Bros,” about a romantic relationship between two men, before he took a jab at the court.
“I need you all there on September 30 because we need to show all the homophobes like Clarence Thomas and all the homophobes on the Supreme Court that we want gay love stories,” said Eichner, who is gay. “And we support LGBTQ people, and we are not letting them drag us into the last century, because we are in the past and ‘Bros’ is the future.”
After the Supreme Court voted to overturned Roe V. Wade and the nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion, Thomas wrote a concurring opinion that backed the idea of revisiting other case precedents including Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark ruling that created a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
The request to reconsider those cases has not been picked up by any other justices on the conservative-leaning court. But some Republicans, including Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), have said states should have the right to decide their laws on same-sex marriage.
Over the summer, the House passed a bill that would enshrine same-sex marriage into law, with 157 Republicans voting against it.
After the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, Eichner tweeted: “GET YOUR FICTIONAL HATEFUL BIBLE STORIES AND YOUR FAKE FICTIONAL RELIGIOUS Bull—” out of our lives.
Eichner’s film, “Bros,” which is slated for a Sept. 30 theatrical release, is the first rom-com movie from a major studio with a cast that is entirely LGBTQ.
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PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (NEXSTAR) – A 4-year-old boy waiting to get a haircut was reportedly injured in a Sunday afternoon shooting at a Philadelphia barbershop. He was among multiple children getting haircuts before returning to school Monday, authorities say.
The shooting happened shortly after 5 p.m. at a barbershop in the city’s Olney neighborhood, police told KYW.
Numerous customers, including children, were in the store when a man entered, WTXF reported. He allegedly went to the back of the store where an argument started between him and another person.
Police say at least three shots were fired in the shop after the argument ended. The 4-year-old boy was caught in the crossfire and struck in the shoulder.
As his father tried to rush him to the hospital, police tell WPVI the man crashed his car. Another driver then brought the boy to the hospital.
The boy suffered additional injuries in the crash but was in stable condition at the hospital as of Sunday night.
Nobody else was injured in either the crash or the shooting.
Many of the children in the barbershop were likely getting a back-to-school haircut, with Monday being the first day of the school year, Philadelphia Police Inspector D.F. Pace told WPVI.
Philadelphia Police did not immediately return Nexstar’s request for information. They are still searching for a suspect, reports say.
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(NewsNation) — Contamination has left a northern New Mexico town with less than three weeks worth of clean water.
Wildfires that spread through the northern part of the state earlier this year tainted the water supply for the city of Las Vegas, forcing the town to distribute bottled water and cut consumption.
“We’re very fortunate in that the community has been very supportive through this crisis,” Mayor Louie Trujillo said Sunday on “NewsNation Prime.” “Everyone is doing a fantastic job in conserving the water that we do have.”
The city’s watershed was burned over in the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire, and now debris is running off into the Gallinas River. The current filtration system can’t handle the excess contaminants, leaving the city looking elsewhere for a clean water supply.
Residents have cut their usage by about 40% to 50% of typical levels, Trujillo said, and officials are investigating tapping into other nearby reservoirs, among other solutions.
“We’re relying now mostly on a temporary filtration system,” Trujillo said. He said there are fewer than 20 days worth of clean drinking water left.
The cleanup effort could take up to 10 years, Trujillo has been told. It could mean having to completely replace the city’s water filtration system.
“We’re told that we’re in this for quite some time,” Trujillo said. “Now we will have to design and pay for a huge improvement or replacement of our filtration system.”
As climate change results in hotter temperatures, drier air and more frequent wildfires, the economic costs of natural disasters are rising. Flooding in Dallas last week resulted in an estimated $6 billion in damages.
Economist Rebecca Ryan said the insurance market is facing higher claims than its ever had. Additionally, the White House has estimated climate change will cost the U.S. $2 trillion each year by the end of the century.
“This is more than the value of Google,” Ryan said. “Sometimes those numbers don’t include things like loss of life … so I think that’s probably a pretty conservative number.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) – The Dutch Ministry of Defense has confirmed one of three Dutch soldiers shot in downtown Indianapolis over the weekend has died.
According to Dutch officials, the man died on Sunday night in an Indianapolis hospital with his family and colleagues at his side.
The Marion County Coroner’s Office identified the deceased as 26-year-old Simmie Poetsema.
The soldier was shot early Saturday morning outside of a Hampton Inn. Two other soldiers from the Netherlands were also shot in the same incident.
The three servicemen were off-duty at the time. Dutch officials say they are members of the Korps Commandotroepen (Commando Corps).
The other two soldiers are conscious and able to speak, however, the Dutch Ministry of Defense says their conditions are “unchanged.”
No arrests have been made in the shooting. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department says the shooting likely stemmed from an altercation outside of the hotel.
The servicemen were visiting Indianapolis on their day off from training in southern Indiana. The Indiana National Guard said the Dutch special forces were training at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center near Butlerville, Indiana. That facility is used for training by the U.S. Department of Defense as well as NATO allies.
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CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines canceled about 18 flights this week when it realized that some of its Boeing 777-200 planes had not undergone required inspections of the front edges of the wings.
The airline canceled flights Monday night and Tuesday morning, and said it’s trying to rebook stranded passengers.
The Federal Aviation Administration said United grounded 25 of the jets after discovering it had failed to inspect slats on the wing edges that are used during takeoffs and landings.
The FAA said United reported the issue, and the FAA is reviewing circumstances that led to the missed inspections.
United said late Tuesday afternoon that it had inspected 10 of the planes and was working with the FAA to return the others to flying in the next two weeks without causing additional flight cancellations.
The matter was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
United’s Boeing 777-200s had been grounded until earlier this year by the failure of a Pratt & Whitney engine on one that caused parts of the housing to fall on the Denver area.
The planes seat between 276 and 364 passengers, according to United’s website, and are mostly used on long international flights.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Water.org announced a $1 billion plan Tuesday to help 100 million people in Africa, Asia and Latin America get lasting access to water and sanitation.
The Water.org Water & Climate Fund, unveiled at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York, plans to use $50 million in philanthropic money to create a billion-dollar investment portfolio to help bring new water delivery and wastewater treatment projects to underserved communities, then use those communities’ utility bills to fund further projects. Amazon donated the first $10 million of philanthropic money needed for the fund.
It was the day’s largest proposal at the conference, which convened world leaders from politics, business and philanthropy for the first time since 2016. And it showed how the conference encourages nonprofits to take on increasingly ambitious projects to tackle the world’s toughest problems.
Actor and water access activist Matt Damon said he and his water.org co-founder Gary White are “CGI OGs,” because of their long ties to the conference, and that he worried about making his first commitment in 2009 because he was afraid to let people down.
On Tuesday, he encouraged attendees not to worry about that. “Please don’t be afraid to engage,” he said.
It’s a message that echoed throughout the two-day conference.
“The world needs heroes,” said Joseph Deitch, founder of the Elevate Prize Foundation. Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai won the foundation’s $250,000 Elevate Prize Catalyst Award, which the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner said she will use to support alternative schooling and advocate for the reopening of girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan that have been closed since the Taliban takeover last year.
“Afghanistan girls have seen what it means to be educated,” she said. “They will fight.”
Carolina García Jayaram, CEO of the Elevate Prize Foundation, said in an interview that the purpose of the award is to amplify the message of advocates like Yousafzai. “It’s how we inspire the world to feel more agency to do good,” she said.
Sasha Fisher, co-founder and executive director of nonprofit Spark MicroGrants, came to CGI seeking partners to provide $25 million to expand training and support programs in villages across Africa. The additional funding would be used to bring its community-building work to between three and five more countries.
“The things that are most scalable are also the most decentralized, so governments love the approach of getting small grants to villages to launch local projects and local businesses to accelerate economic development in their area,” Fisher said. “They know that it’s going to work if it’s started by people in that village.”
Villages that received funds from Spark MicroGrants weathered the pandemic better than those that didn’t, according to the nonprofit. Those villages have also seen an increase in female leadership and a decrease in domestic violence.
CGI also saw the launch of numerous new philanthropic ventures.
Dr. David Fajgenbaum’s new nonprofit Every Cure hopes to match generic drugs with rare diseases that currently have no treatment. It’s a process that he knows has potential because he used it to treat his Castleman’s Disease, a rare ailment where the immune system attacks vital organs.
“This is a huge issue,” Fajgenbaum said. “There are drugs at your neighborhood pharmacy that could cure you or someone you love, but the system is not built to uncover them.”
He chose to announce his nonprofit at CGI because it lets him tell his story with “the right people in the room.”
“I can share about how I’m alive because of one of these drugs and hopefully inspire people to want to support this work,” Fajgenbaum said.
His presentation was certainly effective. Fajgenbaum received a standing ovation from the full CGI crowd. And former President Bill Clinton had already been won over.
“What I think could be great is if the president’s cancer program could do this for peanuts compared to what it costs to launch major medical research,” Clinton told The Associated Press in an interview. “They might save a lot of lives.”
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PROVO, Utah (KTVX) – A Brigham Young University fan has been banned for repeatedly calling a Duke player a racial slur and threatening her during Friday night’s women’s volleyball game at Smith Fieldhouse.
BYU released a statement on Saturday saying, “To say we are extremely disheartened in the actions of a small number of fans in last night’s volleyball match…is not strong enough language. We will not tolerate behavior of this kind. Specifically, the use of a racial slur at any of our athletic events is absolutely unacceptable. We wholeheartedly apologize to Duke University and especially its student athletes.”
The statement went on to say that although the fan was sitting in the BYU student section, he was not a student.
Lesa Pamplin of Fort Worth, Texas, originally tweeted about the incident, saying her goddaughter, Rachel Richardson, the only black starter on the Duke team, was called the N-word every time she served, and was threatened by the fan, as well.
“She was threatened by a white male that told her to watch her back going to the team bus,” Pamplin tweeted. “A police officer had to be put by their bench. You allowed this racist behavior to continue without intervening. Apologizing to her parents after the fact is not enough. She will soon be sharing her story.”
BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe told USA TODAY Sports that he spoke with Richardson and Duke volleyball coach Jolene Nagel and the decision was made to move Saturday’s match against Rider to an alternate site in Provo.
Both said they were hurt and disappointed at the incident not being stopped and also expressed they had no issues with the BYU players.
Holmoe said the school is looking into the incident and says no further discipline is expected except for the fan that was banned and anyone else identified in making the slurs.
“My concern is for Rachel and her well-being, and the school has investigated up to this point,” Holmoe said. “The bottom line is that we are going to have to do more. We are going to have to be vigilant and continue to say that this is not to be tolerated in any way.”
Holmoe also addressed the crowd at Smith’s Fieldhouse before Saturday night’s match against Washington State.
Duke’s game Saturday against Rider was moved to Mountain View High School, and was played without any fans in attendance.
“First and foremost, our priority is the well-being of Duke student-athletes,” said Duke athletic director Nina King in a statement from the school. “They should always have the opportunity to compete in an inclusive, anti-racist environment which promotes equality and fair play. Following extremely unfortunate circumstances at Friday night’s match at BYU, we are compelled to shift today’s match against Rider to a different location to afford both teams the safest atmosphere for competition.
“We are appreciative of the support from BYU’s athletic administration as we navigate this troubling situation. I have been in touch with the student-athletes who have been deeply impacted, will continue to support them in every way possible and look forward to connecting further upon their return from Provo.”
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BERLIN (AP) — A girl who was on vacation from Italy with her parents has died after a stone statue fell on her at a hotel in Munich, German police said Sunday.
The 7-year-old was hit by the roughly 440-pound statue in the courtyard of the hotel on Friday evening, police said.
People at the scene were able to free the child and call emergency services, but she died later at a Munich hospital.
It wasn’t clear why the statue toppled over. Police said an investigation was ongoing.
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(The Hill) – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday warned of “riots in the streets” if former President Trump is prosecuted for his handling of classified materials found when the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home.
“If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, after the Clinton debacle… there’ll be riots in the streets,” Graham told former South Carolina congressman Trey Gowdy, who now hosts Fox News’ “Sunday Night in America.”
Trump shared a clip of the interview on Truth Social later Sunday evening.
Gowdy was chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which probed the 2012 terror attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead and uncovered a private email server used by Clinton.
Graham expressed concern that Trump is treated with “a double standard” and repeated his warning of riots regarding the Georgia special grand jury investigating attempts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.
Graham himself has been subpoenaed in that probe in connection with phone calls made to Georgia election officials seeking to change the election results in the state.
The South Carolina senator on Sunday also talked about claims that the FBI was told to “back off” investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop to keep stories about the president’s son out of headlines ahead of the 2020 election.
“Most Republicans, including me, believes when it comes to Trump, there is no law. It’s all about getting him,” Graham said.
“I’ve never been more worried about the law and politics as I am right now,” he added.
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(The Hill) – For seven weeks, Harry Dunn sat in the same seat before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.
Cameras pointed in his direction snapped photos of his every reaction as details of the insurrection were shared with the public.
Dunn looked on, not paying the photographers any mind. He was there for one reason: to hear the truth.
Dunn, who is Black, was thrown into the spotlight in the weeks following the attack.
The Capitol Police officer’s testimony before Congress detailed the horrors he faced on Jan. 6, 2021, from facing down the mob’s deluge of racial hatred to wondering if he’d make it home alive that night.
“What people have to realize is that I’m not only a police officer, but I’m a victim,” Dunn told The Hill. “I’m an American citizen who cares about this country and wants to see it do right. I’m a patriot. I’m a voter. I’m a taxpaying citizen. This is my country and I deserve to know the truth and make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
As Congress prepares to reconvene in September Dunn said he’ll be back in the chamber to watch, listen and wait for that truth as the Jan. 6 panel heads toward its conclusion.
An imposing figure standing at 6 foot 7, Dunn, 38, speaks passionately but kindly. He’s unafraid to share his opinion and occasionally, when especially fired up, he’ll let an f-bomb or another swear word slip. But he’s also quick to laugh and keep things lighthearted.
After working as a club bouncer and security officer, Dunn began his career with the U.S. Capitol Police nearly 15 years ago — a surprising move for someone who didn’t know much about politics.
“I wasn’t a big follower of politics,” Dunn said. “I didn’t know what the certification of an election was and all that stuff when I first started. As I got older and went along in making this my career, I started learning more.”
He’d never imagined something like Jan. 6 would happen, something he admits with an incredulous laugh.
Dunn was no stranger to protest, as handling them was just part of a Capitol Police officer’s job
But he’d never had to fear for his life at one before.
“While it was going on, [officers] were thinking about survival, and keeping everybody else safe and doing our job effectively,” he said. “I wasn’t focused on politics.”
Dunn was wearing a steel chest plate weighing about 20 pounds and carrying an M-4 rifle during the attack. But in an interview with The New York Times, he recalled how being armed almost didn’t matter.
“I got my gun pointed at these guys, and I can’t concentrate on one person,” Dunn said. “But 100 people could concentrate on me. And they could take me out right here on this stage. How long is it before I get shot?”
It wasn’t just the sense of physical harm that hovered over Dunn’s mind. He and other police also had to face down unbridled racism.
In his testimony before Congress, Dunn said he had never been called the N-word while wearing his Capitol Police uniform. That changed on Jan. 6.
When Dunn told people in the mob that he had voted for Joe Biden, he said a “torrent” of racial epithets rained down.
“One woman in a pink ‘MAGA’ shirt yelled, ‘You hear that, guys, this n—– voted for Joe Biden,’ Dunn testified. “Then the crowd, perhaps around twenty people, joined in, screaming ‘Boo! Fucking n—–!’”
He went on to recount how, in the following days, he heard similar stories from other Black officers, including one who told Dunn that in his 40 years of life he had never been called the N-word to his face until Jan. 6.
Some members of the crowd carried “Blue Lives Matter” flags and told Dunn they “didn’t want to hurt” him. They claimed they were actually there to support him and his fellow officers.
“I don’t think their objective was to hurt police officers, but they knew that we would be trying to stop them from their ultimate goal and we were in their way,” Dunn told The Hill. “We were collateral damage.”
It’s these memories that have resurfaced for Dunn over the last few months as he watched the Jan. 6 committee investigate the attack.
Dunn has sat in the same seat at every hearing to serve as “a reminder to [the committee] that my job is to hold them accountable, to get justice, to get the truth about what happened that day and make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”
“It’s never easy hearing f—ed-up things that happened to you,” Dunn added. “But it’s necessary.”
The hearings have been a “vindicating” experience for Dunn, who said he knew many of the details, like Trump’s alleged confrontation with Secret Service officers in an SUV, before they became public based on what he saw and heard from his fellow officers.
For details he didn’t know — such as Trump watching his supporters’ violence from inside the White House — Dunn said he wasn’t surprised, but it still felt like a “betrayal … knowing that this person, whose job is to protect you and protect this country, just sat by.”
Dunn commended media outlets for broadcasting and reporting the hearings and keeping the public informed but said he’s now looking toward what the repercussions of those details could be.
“The January 6 committee is doing a fantastic job of just laying out facts,” said Dunn, who wants to see some of those involved in the attack behind bars. “They’re laying out everything that the former president did and I think it’s laying a roadmap for the Justice Department to go forward with.”
Since sharing his experience with the Jan. 6 committee, Dunn has become something of a celebrity. He has over 141,000 followers on Twitter. His feed is interspersed with moments of levity and inspiring quotes. He tweets about the investigation, speaks out against police brutality and advocates for mental health awareness and treatment. His tweets receive anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand likes and retweets.
While a hero to his supporters, he has also come under attack. Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson called Dunn an “angry left-wing political activist.”
Dunn is dismissive of such criticism and says he’s not concerned with his critics.
“I am angry. I am left-wing because I’m a registered Democrat, and if an activist is somebody who brings about attention to change then … I’ll be that,” he said.
Dunn has never wavered in his commitment to the police force. To him, remaining on the job is the ultimate win against the insurrectionists.
“I believe what I’m doing is right and what I did is right,” said Dunn. “I’m not being persuaded into quitting or stepping down because they felt a certain kind of way. I’m not letting them win.”
Dunn added he’s focused on speaking his truth and the “humbling” support he receives from hundreds of others every day.
“I know what it’s like for individuals to feel like they don’t have a voice,” he said. “If my message, my voice, my fight, inspires them, I’m more than honored to continue to keep doing it.”
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(NewsNation) — A compound in psilocybin, or psychedelic “magic” mushrooms, can help heavy drinkers cut back or even quit drinking entirely, a new study suggests, although experts say more research is needed.
Researchers at New York University recently conducted the first-ever placebo-controlled trial exploring the treatment of alcohol addiction with psilocybin. The new research was published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.
“There had been promising research on the use of psychedelics to treat alcohol use disorder going back to the 1950s and ’60s, but it was abandoned mostly due to the bad reputation that psychedelics developed due to widespread misuse and countercultural associations in those days,” Dr. Michael Bogenschutz, director at NYU Langone Center for Psychedelic Medicine and one of the authors of the study, said on NewsNation’s “Morning in America.” “But when I saw the research on psilocybin, in normal volunteers without any particular disorder, starting to come out in the early 2000s, I became very interested in trying to see if we could harness these effects to treat alcohol use disorder.”
During the study, 93 patients took a capsule containing psilocybin or a dummy drug, then lay down on a couch with their eyes covered and listened to music. They received two of these sessions, one month apart, and 12 sessions of talk therapy.
While many who took a dummy drug instead of psilocybin also succeeded in drinking less, in the eight months after their first dosing session, patients taking psilocybin did better than the other group, the study found. Those who took the real drug drank heavily on about 1 in 10 days on average compared to 1 in 4 days for the dummy pill group.
Bogenschutz said it appears that treating a person’s alcohol use disorder with psilocybin and related compounds shakes up the established patterns of brain activity and thought and behavior, creating a new window of opportunity in which people may be more likely to learn new behaviors, new patterns of thought and responding.
“So in the case of alcohol use disorder, finding new ways to live rather than habitually drinking and damaging their lives in that way,” Bogenschutz said.
Talk therapy was a very important component of the treatment, Bogenschutz said.
During the drug administration sessions, he said people are in a “highly altered state of consciousness,” and are unable to carry on a conversation. In addition, they are given relatively large doses of the drug that are highly mind-altering.
“Most people experience pretty strong effects and require support from trained clinicians in order to safely navigate the experience and benefit,” Bogenschutz said.
Giving people therapy during the study helped provide support and allowed people to see what they could learn from the psilocybin experience.
There are still at least a few years to go before this treatment becomes available for consumers, Bogenschutz said, as there’s a need to replicate this study’s findings and demonstrate to the Food and Drug Administration that psilocybin is a safe and effective medication.
The next study, he said, will be a larger, multi-site trial with 15 sites and over 200 participants.
Currently, only three conventional drugs — disulfiram, naltrexone and acamprosate — are approved to treat alcohol use disorder.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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(The Hill) – Marijuana use reached a record high in new polling, as for the first time more Americans said they smoke marijuana than reported smoking cigarettes in the last week.
Sixteen percent of Americans in a new Gallup poll reported smoking marijuana, up from 12 percent last year and more than double the all-time low of 7 percent.
Fewer Americans, at 11 percent, reported smoking cigarettes in the past week, down from 16 percent last year and a far fall from a peak at 45 percent in the 1950s.
It’s the highest percentage of reported marijuana use and the lowest percentage of past-week cigarette use since Gallup started asking those questions in 2013 and 1944, respectively.
Nearly half of U.S. adults now report having tried marijuana, up from 4 percent when Gallup first surveyed about its use in 1969.
Despite increasingly common use of the drug, Americans remain evenly split on whether marijuana is having a negative or positive effect on society.
Yet more than two-thirds of Americans, at 68 percent, think the drug should be legal, a record-high maintained from last year’s polling.
Six states could vote on ballot measures legalizing marijuana in the November midterm elections, and should they pass, will join 19 others in legalizing recreational marijuana.
Conducted July 5-26, the surveys on marijuana and tobacco use polled 1,013 U.S. adults and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.
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(The Hill) – The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) announced on Monday that it is launching a campaign to unionize Minor League Baseball players.
“Minor Leaguers represent our game’s future and deserve wages and working conditions that befit elite athletes who entertain millions of baseball fans nationwide,” MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark said in a statement.
“They’re an important part of our fraternity, and we want to help them achieve their goals both on and off the field,” he said.
MLBPA’s campaign, reported earlier by ESPN, garnered the support of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, a nonprofit that sought to bring attention to minor league players’ working conditions and wages since early 2020.
Advocates for Minor Leaguers said it will suspend its day-to-day operations until further notice, as each of its staff members resigned to accept a new role at the MLBPA.
“We are thrilled by this development and have no doubt that joining the MLBPA is the best possible outcome for every Minor League player,” the group said in a statement.
The Hill has reached out to the MLB for comment.
Working conditions and wages for players in the minor leagues have garnered attention among lawmakers in recent months as MLB owners in late 2021 voted unanimously to begin a lockout after a contract with MLBPA expired for unionized Major League players.
Soon after the lockout ended in March, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a bill that targeted the league’s antitrust exemption.
In late June, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the MLB requesting more information about the league’s antitrust exemption on its minor league players and teams.
“We are grateful to the many people who have spoken up to demand better treatment for Minor Leaguers over the past two years,” Advocates for Minor Leaguers said in its statement.
“Without their courage, passion and advocacy, none of this would have been possible,” the statement continued. “Though there is much work left to be done, one thing is clear: better days lie ahead for Minor League baseball players.”
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(NEXSTAR) – As the cost of higher education rises, it may be even more important to you to know you’re getting your money’s worth.
After updating its methodology, Niche released a new ranking Monday of the “best value” colleges in the country. This year, Niche says it dropped outdated data sets and adopted new ways to evaluate whether a school is considered a good value, such as earnings one year after graduation, percent of graduates employed two years post-graduation, and how quickly alumni’s wages are growing.
Niche’s new calculations land elite colleges at the top of its “best value” list, including several Ivy League schools and prestigious technology institutes.
While these schools may be a “good value” for graduates who land high-paying jobs, none of the top schools are considered cheap. The California Institute of Technology in Southern California, which ranks No. 1 on Niche’s list, has a stunningly high estimated cost of attending per year: $83,598 when you factor in tuition, room and board, and books. (The school reports about half of undergraduate attendees are receiving some amount of need-based financial aid.)
Few public colleges rank among the list of best value schools despite their typically lower prices. Georgia Institute of Technology is the highest ranking public school in the country on the list at No. 15. In-state tuition at the school is $10,258, but jumps up to $31,370 for non-Georgians.
Below are the top 25 schools on Niche’s list of “Best Value Colleges in America.”
Find Niche’s full ranking of schools on their site.
With the cost of attending school so high, it’s easy to see why so many end up with hefty student loans. Tens of millions of Americans are about to see their bills drop by $10,000 or $20,000 after President Joe Biden announced his long-awaited student loan forgiveness plan last week.
When exactly the loan forgiveness will be issued is still a work in progress, but the Biden administration says it will be made available before the payment pause ends at the end of the year.
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NEW YORK (NewsNation) — The rising cost of living and the impact of inflation have left millions of households across the U.S. with outstanding utility bills — an issue that could get worse with power shutoffs on the horizon and cooler weather looming.
The National Energy Assistance Directors Association, which collects national data on energy assistance programs, says 1 in 6, or more than 20 million households, are behind on their power bills.
A primary source behind the utility debt is a surge in energy prices. Natural gas prices have jumped since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. The cost of natural gas was up 30.5% year-over-year in July, according to the U.S. Labor Department. The average rate for electricity was up about 15% in July — the largest increase since 2006.
Across the country, millions more are over 60 days behind and in danger of losing their service as the bill is coming due.
In March, the Office of the New York Comptroller said 1 in 8 New Yorkers hadn’t paid their utility bills. That’s 1.2 million people owing a combined $1.8 billion to utilities, and since then, not much has improved.
In New Orleans, some residents carry four-figure utility bills. On Saturday, Entergy New Orleans hosted its first energy fair to learn more about payment options, energy-efficient education, electric vehicles and hurricane preparedness.
“This is a great opportunity, providing that we have the money to go ahead and assist our residents.”
In Indiana, Duke Energy, the state’s largest power provider, is considering a 7% price hike or $11 more on each bill starting in October.
Utility companies blame inflation and the high cost of natural gas for inflated prices.
“This is a temporary rate increase. again, fuel cost fluctuates,” said Angeline Protogere, a Duke Energy spokesperson.
With “pandemic” utility moratoriums expiring, power companies are preparing for shutoffs, meaning it could be a long cold winter for many families.
“We are continuing that moratorium until September 1st,” said Patrick Stella of National Grid, a power company providing service in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
For those drowning in utility debt, all 50 states received nearly $5 billion in federal funding for home energy assistance programs to help low-income families pay their high utility bills.
It’s usually first come, first served, and with millions of people in the same predicament, waiting to ask for help could leave people in the dark.
This has been a very hot summer for many parts of the country, which left people running their air conditioners longer, only adding to their outstanding unpaid balances.
Without the federal protections in place to prevent shutoffs like those that existed early in the pandemic, utility companies are seeing customers rack up debt at an unprecedented pace.
While late and unpaid bills for utilities are common and have always been, it’s the amount of utility debt that Americans have racked up that’s leading to calls for more federal assistance to pay down these balances.
Before the pandemic, the National Energy Assistance Directors Association reported that overall, Americans had about $8 billion in utility debt.
As payment moratoriums kicked in, the number began to grow to more than 13 billion. Then, in the first six months of this year, utility companies hiked rates and more Americans fell behind on their bills, adding $3 billion in utility debt in 180 days.
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(The Hill) – A pregnant Texas woman says she has received a second traffic ticket within a month after claiming that her unborn child allows her to drive in the high-occupancy lane (HOV).
In an interview, Plano resident Brandy Bottone told The Dallas Morning News that authorities ticketed her for the same offense at the same location, after a previous citation was dropped.
Bottone gained massive attention last month after claiming that Texas’s new anti-abortion laws mean her fetus should count as a person for HOV reasons, according to the Morning News.
The Dallas County District Attorney’s office decided to dismiss Bottone’s first ticket, agreeing that legally the situation is unclear.
The Morning News reports the Texas legislature is set to clarify the issue of when a fetus counts as a person in its next session.
“Nobody is answering whether it’s right or wrong,” Bottone, who has since given birth to a baby girl, told the Morning News. “They dismissed it. Why do I have to change my belief? … It doesn’t answer the question. Did I get it right or did I get it wrong?”
In a statement, Texas Department of Transportation (TDOT) spokesperson Tony Hartzel told the newspaper that it doesn’t have the control to make decisions on “law enforcement or prosecution decisions.”
“TxDOT has no role in law enforcement or prosecution decisions,” Hartzel added. “The dismissal of one citation has not affected the department’s relationship with law enforcement.”
Bottone did have a baby girl, who is now about one month old.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Too few U.S. kids with sickle cell anemia get a needed screening for stroke, according to a study released Tuesday.
The study found fewer than half get the screening and only about half or fewer get a treatment that can help with pain and anemia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the study, and called for more screening and treatment.
One type of sickle cell disease, called sickle cell anemia, is a leading cause of stroke in children. The disease can shorten life expectancy by more than 20 years and lead to complications, said the CDC’s Dr. Karen Remley.
“These complications are preventable — not inevitable,” she said in a statement.
Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited disorders in which red blood cells — normally round — become hard, sticky and crescent shaped. The misshapen cells clog the flow of blood, which can lead to problems like infections, pain and other complications. More than 90% of the estimated 100,000 Americans with sickle cell disease are Black people.
The research involved 3,300 children with sickle cell anemia in 2019. It found 47% of children aged 2–9 years and 38% of those aged 10–16 received an ultrasound scan to check blood flow and assess their risk for stroke. Blood transfusions can help those at high risk.
The study also found 38% of the younger kids and 53% of the older ones used hydroxyurea, a drug that can reduce periods of severe pain and other complications.
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The Associated Press Health & Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams is not ready to say goodbye just yet.
With Spike Lee on the court for the coin toss and Queen Latifah narrating a tribute video, there was far more hype than the usual first-day match. Williams emerged from the locker room wearing a glittery jacket and long skirt after being introduced as the greatest of all time.
In her first match at what is expected to be the last U.S. Open — and last tournament — of her remarkable playing career, Williams overcame a shaky start to overwhelm Danka Kovinic 6-3, 6-3 on Monday night in a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium with an atmosphere more akin to a festival than a farewell.
Early, Williams was not at her best. There were double-faults. Other missed strokes, missed opportunities. She went up 2-0, but then quickly trailed 3-2. Then, suddenly, Williams looked a lot more like someone with six championships at Flushing Meadows and 23 Grand Slam titles in all.
She rolled through the end of that opening set, capping it with a service winner she reacted to with clenched fists and her trademark cry of “Come on!” The more than 23,000 in attendance rose for a raucous standing ovation. There would be more, as Williams carried that terrific level into the second set against Kovinic, a 27-year-old from Montengero.
Williams will continue to play now, facing No. 2 seed Anett Kontveit of Estonia on Wednesday.
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Transportation of Venezuelan Migrants to Martha's Vineyard Under Investigation
A Texas sheriff's department is investigating the unplanned incident, in addition to organizations and states urging the federal government to be involved.
A Texas county sheriff's office on Monday announced it would investigate the unplanned transportation of Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard last week, according to reports.
According to CBS News, the Bexar County Sheriff's Office in Texas has launched a probe into the operation and told the outlet in a statement that around 50 Venezuelan migrants who'd been housed at a shelter in San Antonio were then transported to Florida and again to Martha’s Vineyard, located in Massachusetts.
"The Bexar County Sheriff's Office has opened an investigation into the migrants that were lured from the Migrant Resource Center, located in Bexar County, TX, and flown to Florida, where they were ultimately left to fend for themselves in Martha's Vineyard, MA," the office said in the statement.
According to the outlet, the transport of the migrants to Martha's Vineyard — which Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has taken credit for — resulted in local officials on the island scrambling to find shelter, food, and other necessary accommodations.
According to CBS, the plan to transport migrants to the island is part of a larger, long-term effort by some Republican governors as a response to how President Biden's handled the reported border arrests. Republican's negative responses to Biden sending migrants to Democratic-controlled states and cities for over a year has ultimately reignited the national debate over U.S. border policy.
DeSantis has said he would continue sending migrants released from federal border custody to Democratic-led jurisdictions with "sanctuary" policies, limiting local cooperation with federal immigration authorities, according to the outlet.
Massachusetts officials, the Biden administration, and Democrats have accused Florida of using the asylum-seekers’ desperation in a political stunt, according to the outlet.
Because of this, some Democrats and advocates have encouraged the federal authorities to launch a criminal investigation into the incident, and the sheriff’s office says it is prepared to collaborate with federal authorities, per the outlet.
In response to the investigation, Taryn Fenske, DeSantis' communications director, said in a statement to CBS, "Immigrants have been more than willing to leave Bexar County after being abandoned, homeless, and 'left to fend for themselves.' Florida gave them an opportunity to seek greener pastures in a sanctuary jurisdiction that offered greater resources for them, as we expected.
"Unless the MA national guard has abandoned these individuals, they have been provided accommodations, sustenance, clothing and more options to succeed following their unfair enticement into the United States, unlike the 53 immigrants who died in a truck found abandoned in Bexar County this June," continued Fenske.
Under operations authorized by Republican governors Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey, Texas and Arizona have sent roughly 13,000 migrants by bus to Washington, D.C., New York, and Chicago, angering the cities' Democratic mayors, who have expressed concerns about their ability to accommodate the new arrivals.
On Friday, Massachusetts officials transported the Venezuelan asylum-seekers from Martha's Vineyard to Joint Base Cape Cod — a military installation on the U.S. mainland, according to the outlet.
According to CBS, Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker converted this area into a temporary shelter for the migrants.
According to the outlet, the authorities said they were in communication with lawyers representing the affected migrants, referring to them as "victims,” saying their clients were misled by the people who transported them.
The attorneys shared that the migrants were originally told they were going to Boston, and a place with jobs and refugee services, according to the outlet.
Over the weekend, Lawyers for Civil Rights — the Boston-based group representing migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard — also asked federal prosecutors to launch criminal investigations about the incident, according to the outlet.
The group also reached out to the Massachusetts attorney general, and California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, made a similar request, urging the Justice Department to investigate whether migrants were targeted by state officials due to their national origin, as that would be a violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause, according to CBS.
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Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday before she closed out the show with a surprisingly big announcement: Her new album.
“I thought it would be a fun moment to tell you that my new album comes out Oct. 21,” said Swift after she won video of the year for her project “All Too Well: The Short Film” (10 minute version), which claimed best long form video and direction. “I will tell you more at midnight.”
Swift said on social media that her upcoming 10th studio album would be called “Midnights,” which she says will involve “stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life.” Her upcoming album comes after she released “Folklore” and “Evermore.” Both projects came out five months apart two years ago. “Folklore” won album of the year at the 2021 Grammy Awards.
The pop star’s reveal came at the end of her acceptance speech where she praised the other women in the category – which included Doja Cat and Olivia Rodrigo.
“I know with every second of this moment that we wouldn’t be able to make this short film if it weren’t for you – the fans,” she said. “I wouldn’t be able to re-record my albums if it wasn’t for you. You emboldened me to do that.”
Swift spoke earlier about creating her first short film, giving thanks to several including actors Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien who starred in the project.
“We put our entire hearts into this,” Swift said.
Rapper Jack Harlow made his mark throughout the entire show. He kicked off the show with a performance inside a mock airplane walking down aisle while performing his hit song “First Class,” which was sampled by Fergie’s “Glamorous.” The rapper joined Fergie onstage – who wore a sparkling silver dress with the red words “First Class” – while she sang her 2006 jam.
“Thank you to Fergie for coming out with me tonight and clearing this song,” said Harlow after “First Class” won the award for song of the summer later in the show. “The beauty of this song is that people don’t realize it’s so hip-hop because of the sampling. To bring Fergie into the mix in this way means the world to me. It’s truly full circle. ‘Glamorous’ was one of the most important songs of my childhood.”
During the show, Depp made a surprise appearance as the Moon Man nearly three months after the verdict in his defamation trial with his former wife Amber Heard. The 59-year-old actor appeared to float from the ceiling while wearing the iconic astronaut outfit with his face digitally inserted into custom’s helmet.
“And you know what? I needed the work,” Depp told the audience at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Lizzo had Taylor Swift dancing out of her seat while she performed her new single “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready).” Lizzo won an award for video for good for “About Damn Time.”
Harlow’s name was called to come right back onstage to collect the show’s first award for his guest appearance on Lil Nas X’s song “Industry Baby,” which won for best collaboration, art direction and visual effects. Harlow, Lil Nas X and Kendrick Lamar each entered the awards tied for leading nominees with seven apiece.
“This one is for the champions,” said Lil Nas X before Harlow thanked him for the collaboration on the chart-topping single.
Harlow, in addition to performing and winning awards, joined LL Cool J and Nicki Minaj as the show’s hosts.
Minaj performed a medley of her career’s biggest hits from “Roman’s Revenge,” “Chun-Li,” “Moment 4 Life,” “Beez in the Trap,” “Anaconda” and “Super Bass.” After her set, the rapper accepted the show’s Video Vanguard award, which MTV has said she’s receiving for her artistry, barrier-breaking hip-hop and status as a global superstar. The honor is named after Michael Jackson.
During her acceptance speech, Minaj paid tribute to other music icons such as Jackson, Whitney Houston and Lil Wayne. She spoke about the importance of mental health.
“I wish people took mental health seriously, even when you think they have the perfect lives,” said Minaj, who later won best hip-hop for her song “Do We Have a Problem?” featuring Lil Baby.
Harry Styles won album of the year for “Harry’s House.” He was unable to attend the awards due to his show at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Bad Bunny performed his hit “Titi Me Pregunto” from Yankee Stadium after he won artist of the year.
“I have been saying it and I always believed from the beginning that I could become great,” he said. “That I could become one of the biggest stars in the world without having to change my culture, my language, my jargon. I am Benito Antonio Martínez from Puerto Rico to the whole world, thank you!”
Eminem and Snoop Dogg brought the metaverse to the VMAs as the duo performed “From the D 2 The LBC,” which was featured on Eminem’s greatest hits album “Curtain Call 2.”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers took the stage as the recipients of the Global Icon award after being introduced by Cheech & Chong as their “favorite band of all time.” The band – which consists of Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante – performed several songs including their classic “Can’t Stop” from the the group’s 2002 album “By the Way” and their recent hit “Black Summer,” which won best rock.
Flea made a speech about his love for human beings along with cockroaches, trees and dirt. Smith, the band’s drummer, dedicated the award to Taylor Hawkins, the late Foo Fighters drummer who died early this year.
“I dedicate this to Taylor and his family,” he said. “I love them and I miss him every day.”
Madonna, who is the most awarded artist in MTV history with 20 wins, became the only artist to receive a nomination in each of the VMAs five decades. She earned her 69th nomination for her 14th studio album “Madame X.”
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A video taken Saturday shows a group displaying Nazi symbols on a bridge in Pinellas County, Florida.
In the video, a group of six people can be seen holding the Nazi flag and anti-abortion banners.
One of the banners said “End abortion, Save white babies.” Another had the word “problem” with the Star of David, a Jewish symbol, on it while the rest was obscured by the Pinellas Trail bridge sign.
“Another Nazi display, right here in Pinellas,” wrote Eric Lynn, Democratic candidate for Florida’s 13th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. “We must all condemn these acts of Antisemitism as hate must have no home in Pinellas, Florida, or in USA. If you don’t speak out against hate, antisemitism, & Nazis, they will keep coming back.”
This is the second appearance of white supremacists in the Tampa Bay area in recent weeks.
On July 22, a group of men also held Nazi symbols and pro-DeSantis flags outside Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, a conservative event for students, in Tampa. They also made racial remarks against a Black counterprotester.
The group eventually left after students attending the event confronted them.
The actions have continuously drawn sharp responses from state politicians. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is Jewish, wrote Saturday that white supremacists and Nazis “have no place in Florida” and called on Gov. Ron DeSantis to denounce the demonstrations.
“Hate must not be met with silence,” Fried said.
Two other gatherings happened in central Florida earlier this year with people carrying anti-Semitic propaganda in Orange County.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico politician and Trump supporter who was removed and barred from elected office for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, is attempting to appeal that decision to the state Supreme Court.
Cowboys for Trump cofounder and former county commissioner Couy Griffin on Tuesday notified the high court of his intent to appeal.
The ruling against Griffin this month from a Santa Fe-based District Court was the first to remove or bar an elected official from office in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol building that disrupted Congress as it was trying to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
Griffin was previously convicted in federal court of a misdemeanor for entering the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, without going inside the building. He was sentenced to 14 days and given credit for time served.
Griffin has invoked free speech guarantees in his defense and says his banishment from public office disenfranchises his political constituents in Otero County.
He was barred from office under provisions of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which holds that anyone who has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution can be barred from office for engaging in insurrection or rebellion. The provisions were put in place shortly after the Civil War.
A flurry of similar lawsuits around the country are seeking to use the provision to punish politicians who took part in Jan. 6.
Griffin says he continues to act as his own legal counsel in the case.
“Honestly I have felt very abandoned by many,” Griffin said.
Conservative activists aligned with Griffin have urged supporters to file disciplinary complaints against the judge who barred Griffin from office.
Griffin, a 48-year-old former rodeo rider and former pastor, helped found Cowboys for Trump in 2019. The promotional group staged horseback parades to spread President Donald Trump’s conservative message about gun rights, immigration controls and abortion restrictions.
This year, Griffin voted twice as a county commissioner against certifying New Mexico’s June 7 primary election, in a standoff over election integrity fueled by conspiracy theories about the security of voting equipment in the Republican-dominated county.
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MERRYVILLE, La. (AP) — Search crews found the body of a little boy Monday miles from the Louisiana sandbar where he was swept away by the Sabine River while playing in shallow water and three men drowned trying to save him, the sheriff said.
Beauregard Parish Sheriff Mark Herford did not release the boy’s name or age but described him as very young.
He identified the men who drowned trying to save him as Troy M. McCollough, who lived nearby in the Junction community, Kelly Bailey of Hornbeck, and Austin Scott of DeRidder. Bailey was engaged to the boy’s mother, the sheriff said, and Scott was his best friend. McCollough just happened to be there, Herford said.
“They’re heroes and should be remembered that way,” Herford said.
Herford says the child was playing in shallows by a sandbar near Merryville and was swept away by the river. His body was found Monday at a spot Herford estimated was several miles downriver.
The sheriff said he is working with the parish police jury to get warning signs posted.
“I’ve been with the sheriff’s office since ’92. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stood in this exact same spot and worked drownings,” he said, adding: “That spot is deadly.”
The current and depth vary widely with power generation from Toledo Bend, and a week of rains made the current even stronger than usual, Herford said.
He said one man’s body was found late Saturday and the other two Sunday morning.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday called the leaders of two U.S. veterans groups assisting Afghans who have fled from the country on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Biden spoke to the leaders of the veterans-led #AfghanEvac and Honor the Promise groups to express his appreciation for their work resettling Afghan allies in the United States since the U.S. ended the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
“They discussed the substantial efforts that have been undertaken by the U.S. government, veterans, and by so many Americans of all stripes to welcome nearly 90,000 Afghans to our country over the past year and the U.S. government’s ongoing efforts to build a sustainable model to support relocation efforts and honor our commitments,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said.
Tuesday marks the one year anniversary of Biden declaring an end to the war. The final weeks of America’s longest war were chaotic as the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed, a grisly bombing killed 13 U.S. troops and 170 others, and thousands of desperate Afghans descended on Kabul’s airport in search of a way out before the final U.S. cargo planes departed.
Biden continues to face criticism from immigrant refugee advocates that the administration has fallen short in resettling Afghans who assisted the U.S. war effort.
As of last month, more than 74,000 Afghan applicants remained in the pipeline for special immigrant visas that help military interpreters and others who worked on government-funded contracts move to the United States and pave the way for them to receive a green card. That total counts only the principal applicant and does not include spouses and children. More than 17,000 of that pool of applicants had received a critical chief of mission approval, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Monday.
John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, said the administration is continuing efforts to approve the visa process.
“We understand the frustration by many,” Kirby said. “Quite frankly, we share that frustration and we try as hard as we can to to streamline the process.”
Shawn VanDiver, a Navy veteran and founder of #AfghanEvac, said in statement that “Biden shared his enduring commitment to welcoming our Afghan allies to the United States.”
“The President pledged to maintain and expand the relocation and resettlement program for Afghan allies, and it’s clear he recognizes how big of an impact this will have on people’s lives, particularly Afghan women and girls,” VanDiver said.
Days after the unexpected fall of Kabul last year, national security adviser Jake Sullivan promised the White House would “conduct an extensive hot wash” and “look at every aspect” of the withdrawal from top to bottom.” The administration has not said when the review might be released to the public.
Biden last week issued a statement honoring 13 U.S. troops who were killed in the final days of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan at Kabul International Airport as they assisted with the evacuation of Afghans who assisted the American war effort.
Jean-Pierre said she did not have any details on how Biden would mark Tuesday’s anniversary. The president is scheduled to travel to Wilkes Barre, Pa., on Tuesday to deliver a speech on his efforts to reduce gun crime in the U.S.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver a prime-time address “on the continued battle for the soul of the nation” Thursday outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the White House announced Monday.
Billed as a major address just over two months before the midterm elections, Biden, the White House said, will discuss how the nation’s standing in the world and its democracy are at stake.
“He will talk about the progress we have made as a nation to protect our democracy, but how our rights and freedoms are still under attack,” the White House said. “And he will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms, and fighting for our democracy.”
Biden has increasingly sought to portray the November elections as a choice for voters between “ultra-MAGA Republicans” — a reference to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — and Democrats. He told supporters last week that they had “to vote to literally save democracy once again” — and labeled some Republican ideology as “semi-fascism.”
NBC News was first to report on Biden’s plans for the address.
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The NBA fined Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards $40,000 for making anti-gay comments in a video posted on Instagram.
In the video, he rolls down the window of his vehicle and makes derogatory comments about a group of men standing on a sidewalk.
Edwards issued an apology on Twitter, where he has 179,000 followers.
"What I said was immature, hurtful, and disrespectful, and I’m incredibly sorry," Edwards said. "It’s unacceptable for me or anyone to use that language in such a hurtful way, there’s no excuse for it, at all. I was raised better than that!"
The Timberwolves also apologized for Edwards' comments.
“We are disappointed in the language and actions Anthony Edwards displayed on social media. The Timberwolves are committed to being an inclusive and welcoming organization for all and apologize for the offense this has caused to so many," said Tim Connelly, president of basketball operations for the Timberwolves.
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President Joe Biden will address the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday on the same day Russian President Vladamir Putin announced he is calling up reservists.
Putin’s announcement came after Ukraine retook eastern parts of its nation back as Russian troops retreated.
Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said much of the president's speech to the U.N. will focus on the body’s response to the war.
“He'll offer a firm rebuke of Russia's unjust war in Ukraine and make a call to the world to continue to stand against the naked aggression that we've seen these past several months,” Sullivan said. “He will underscore the importance of strengthening the United Nations and reaffirm core tenets of its charter at a time when a permanent member of the Security Council has struck at the very heart of the charter by challenging the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty.”
Russia is one of five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and has the ability to veto any measure the body considers.
Sullivan suggested that Biden's address will be aimed at U.N. members that "have stood on the sidelines" in supporting Ukraine against Russia.
While Ukraine will be a major talking point for Biden, he’ll also address global food insecurity, global health, climate change and other issues, Sullivan said.
Following his address, Biden will meet with new British Prime Minister Liz Truss, two weeks after she replaced Boris Johnson.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — As the parents of children killed when a school collapsed during Mexico’s 2017 earthquake celebrated a Mass in their memory, the ground began to shake again.
“No, not again! My God, not again!” they shouted when a magnitude 7.6 earthquake rattled the capital Monday, killing two people in the Pacific coast state of Colima.
Three powerful earthquakes have struck Mexico on Sept. 19 — in 1985, 2017 and now 2022. The unlucky coincidence has driven anxiety high for many. The last two quakes also came very shortly after the annual earthquake drill conducted every Sept. 19 to commemorate the devastating 1985 temblor.
Mexico’s national Civil Defense Coordinator Laura Velázquez said Tuesday that the two deaths in Colima were due to parts of buildings collapsing. Ten people were injured — nine in Colima and one in neighboring Michoacan.
More than 200 buildings were damaged, including dozens of schools and health centers, she said. Most of the damage was in those Pacific states, close to the Michoacan epicenter. Some 20 Mexico City buildings were damaged, but it was minor, she said.
On the morning of Sept. 19, 1985, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the center, south and west of the country, leaving some 9,500 dead.
“It’s really strange, but a lot of people already don’t like that day,” said Jorge Ornelas, a call center coordinator. He said a lot of his acquaintances begin to worry about an earthquake come September.
“If we keep thinking that every Sept. 19 it’s going to shake, it’s going to continue happening every year, because what you think is always what happens,” the 35-year-old Ornelas said.
Xyoli Pérez-Campos, a researcher in the seismology department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Geophysical Institute, said there was no physical reason for the coincidence of major earthquakes on a single day. Monday’s earthquake was the result of the “interaction of the Cocos plate with the North America plate,” which also generated the 1985 earthquake.
Five plates — the North America, the Pacific, the Rivera, the Caribbean and the Cocos — all run under Mexican territory.
“The plates break when it’s their time to break,” Pérez-Campos said. “What are they going to know about the calendar?”
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday railed against the “MAGA Republicans in Congress” who have refused to condemn the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and now are targeting the FBI as he tried to portray Democrats as the true pro-law enforcement party ahead of the November midterms.
In remarks initially billed as a crime-prevention speech, Biden seized on comments from allies of former President Donald Trump who have called for stripping funding from the FBI since it executed a search warrant at Trump’s Florida residence. Biden’s remarks were the first substantive defense he has made of the FBI since the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, which triggered not just withering criticism of the agency but threats of violence against its employees.
“It’s sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI, threatening the life of law enforcement and their families, for simply carrying out the law and doing their job,” Biden said before a crowd of more than 500 at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. “I’m opposed to defunding the police; I’m also opposed to defunding the FBI.”
It was a notably different tack for Biden, who has steered clear of extensively commenting on any element of the Justice Department’s investigation since federal agents conducted the search at Trump’s estate. Biden also appeared to call out — without naming him — recent comments from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who warned of “riots in the streets” should Trump ultimately face prosecution.
“The idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressmen saying, ‘If such and such happens there’ll be blood on the street’?” Biden said. “Where the hell are we?”
The speech Tuesday continued Biden’s aggressive rhetoric against the GOP ahead of the midterms, as Democrats enjoy a slightly brighter political environment buoyed by significant legislative accomplishments and a presidential approval rating that has trended slightly upward. During a political rally in the Washington suburbs last week, Biden likened Republican ideology to “semi-fascism.” He is set to deliver a democracy-focused speech on Thursday in Philadelphia that the White House has said “will make clear” who is fighting for democratic values.
As he has done before, Biden on Tuesday criticized GOP officials who have refused to denounce the pro-Trump rioters who breached the U.S. Capitol nearly 20 months ago. Referencing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, Biden said, “Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress: Don’t tell me you support the law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th.”
The campaign-style speech near Biden’s birthplace was the first of three visits by the president in less than a week to the state that is home to a competitive governor’s race and a U.S. Senate contest that could help determine whether Democrats will keep their majority in the chamber. Trump is hosting his own rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Democrats believe Pennsylvania is their strongest opportunity to flip a Senate seat currently held by Republicans. Meanwhile, the open race for governor will give the winner power over how 2024’s presidential election is run in a battleground state that is still buffeted by Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats fraudulently stole the 2020 election from him.
Biden’s comments on the FBI come as his son Hunter faces a federal investigation for tax evasion. He has not faced any charges, and he’s previously denied wrongdoing.
The president also used his remarks Tuesday to promote his administration’s crime-prevention efforts and to continue to pressure Congress to revive a long-expired federal ban on assault-style weapons. Democrats and Republicans worked together in a rare effort to pass gun safety legislation earlier this year after massacres in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. They were the first significant firearm restrictions approved by Congress in nearly three decades, but Biden has repeatedly said more needs to be done.
“We beat the NRA. We took them on and beat the NRA straight up. You have no idea how intimidating they are to elected officials,” an animated Biden said. “We’re not stopping here. I’m determined to ban assault weapons in this country! Determined. I did it once before. And I’ll do it again.”
As a U.S. senator, Biden played a leading role in temporarily banning assault-style weapons, including firearms similar to the AR-15 that have exploded in popularity in recent years, and he wants to put the law back into place. Biden argued that there was no rationale for such weapons “outside of a war zone” and noted that parents of the young victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde had to supply DNA because the weapon used in the massacre rendered the bodies unidentifiable.
“DNA, to say that’s my baby!” Biden said. “What the hell is the matter with us?”
Democrats are trying to blunt Republican efforts to use concern about crime to their advantage in the midterms. It’s a particularly fraught issue in Pennsylvania, a key swing state.
The Republican candidate for governor, Doug Mastriano, accuses Democrat Josh Shapiro of being soft on crime as the state’s twice-elected attorney general, saying Shapiro “stands aside” as homicides rise across Pennsylvania.
Homicides have been increasing in Pennsylvania, but overall crime seems to have fallen over the last year, according to state statistics.
“The real heroes here are the people who put on the uniform every single day,” said Shapiro, who spoke shortly before Biden’s remarks at Wilkes University. “We know that policing is a noble profession, and we know that we need to stand with law enforcement.”
In the U.S. Senate race, heart surgeon turned television celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee, has tried to portray the Democratic candidate, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, as extreme and reckless on crime policy.
Fetterman has endorsed recommendations that more geriatric and rehabilitated prisoners can be released from state prisons without harming public safety. Oz and Republicans have distorted that into the claim that Fetterman wants to release “dangerous criminals” from prisons or that he’s in favor of “emptying prisons.”
Fetterman’s campaign on Tuesday released a new 30-second ad emphasizing that Fetterman — as mayor of the tiny, impoverished western Pennsylvania steel town of Braddock from 2006 through 2018 — has dealt with street-level crime, and Oz hasn’t. In the ad, Fetterman said he ran for mayor “to stop the violence” after two of his students in an afterschool program were murdered and “I worked side by side with police.”
Fetterman was not in Wilkes-Barre with Biden on Tuesday, but he’s expected to march in Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade when the president visits Sept. 5. Biden also will be in Pennsylvania on Thursday for a prime-time speech that the White House said will address “the continued battle for the soul of the nation” and defending democracy.
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Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pa., and Kim reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Emily Swanson contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Monday and will return to Washington on Tuesday, nearly a week after she came down with a “rebound” case of the coronavirus.
Her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, announced the negative test in a statement Monday night.
Jill Biden had been isolating at her family’s house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, since testing positive on Aug. 24, and at the time, her spokesperson said she was not experiencing any symptoms. She first tested positive for the virus on Aug. 15, when she and President Joe Biden were vacationing in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
The president, who had his own back-to-back cases of COVID-19, was identified as a close contact of his wife and the White House said he was undergoing more frequent testing for the virus as a precaution. While Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines called for Biden to wear a face covering in close proximity to others indoors, he was seen without a mask hugging and taking selfies with supporters during an indoor rally on Thursday in the Washington suburbs.
Jill Biden, 71, and her husband, 79, have been twice-vaccinated and twice-boosted with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. She had been prescribed the antiviral drug Paxlovid, which has proven to be highly effective at preventing serious disease and death among those at highest risk from COVID-19. A minority of those prescribed the drug have experienced a rebound case of the virus a few days after their initial recovery.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Ga. election probe judge delays Gov. Kemp’s testimony until after midterms, possibly setting back investigation timeline.
Ga. election probe judge delays Gov. Kemp’s testimony until after midterms, possibly setting back investigation timeline
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A Maryland man affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Monday to more than four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where he encountered Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer as his armed security detail led the New York Democrat to safety.
Joshua Pruitt, 40, was one of the few Capitol rioters to come face-to-face with a member of Congress during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of Donald Trump supporters, according to federal prosecutors.
“One look at Pruitt, and the leader of Senator Schumer’s security detail immediately saw the threat and hustled the 70-year-old senator down a hallway, having to change their evacuation route on a dime,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexis Loeb wrote in a court filing ahead of Monday’s hearing.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Pruitt to four years and seven months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, according to Bill Miller, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.
Prosecutors had recommended a five-year prison sentence for Pruitt, a Silver Spring, Maryland, resident who has worked as a bartender and personal trainer. They described him as an aspiring Proud Boys member whose intimidating figure made him an “ideal recruit” for the group on Jan. 6.
The leader of Schumer’s security detail told the FBI that their encounter with Pruitt was a harrowing, unforgettable moment. Pruitt was advancing and only seconds from reaching Schumer when the security detail turned and ran with the senator away from an elevator and back down a ramp, detail members said.
“At the end of the ramp, officers closed and locked the doors. The security detail and (Schumer) pursued a secondary evacuation route. Once the doors were being closed, Pruitt turned around and retraced his steps,” Loeb wrote.
Pruitt and other prospects and recruits of the local Proud Boys chapter often used encrypted communications to discuss storming the Capitol, civil war and confrontations with police, according to prosecutors. They said Pruitt wanted to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6.
“He personally forced a 70-year-old Senator to run and find another path to safety. Among all the rioters who stormed the Capitol, it is a notorious distinction,” Loeb wrote.
Defense attorney Robert Jenkins Jr. said Pruitt saw the security detail but didn’t recognize Schumer, now Senate Majority Leader, at the time of the encounter.
“It’s not as though that Mr. Pruitt ran toward the detail or made any threatening posture toward them. He noticed that they were there. They went down a hallway. Mr. Pruitt went in a different direction,” Jenkins said after the sentencing hearing.
Jenkins had sought a three-year prison sentence for Pruitt. The defense lawyer said he believes the 55-month sentence is disproportionately higher than other Capitol rioter cases, given that Pruitt wasn’t armed and didn’t assault any police officers.
More than 240 riot defendants have been sentenced, mostly for misdemeanor offenses. Only four of them have received longer prison sentences than Pruitt, and all four of those had been convicted of assaulting or obstructing law enforcement officers.
“He thought that the court would be far more lenient on him,” Jenkins added.
Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes founded the Proud Boys in 2016. Before the Capitol riot, the group was best known for street brawls with antifascist activists at rallies and protests.
Dozens of Proud Boys leaders, members and associates have been charged with Capitol riot-related crimes. Some have been charged with seditious conspiracy for what authorities say was a plot to forcibly oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power.
Prosecutors called Pruitt a “one-man symbol of the angry mob at the Capitol that day.” Many of the police officers guarding the Capitol on Jan. 6 remembered him as an instigator, according to prosecutors.
“Wearing a tactical glove with knuckle pads and a cut-off t-shirt with the logo of the ‘Punisher’ — an antihero known for dispensing violent vigilante justice — Pruitt made a calculated choice to use his thickly muscled appearance to communicate to the police that they faced a dangerous person,” Loeb wrote.
Pruitt was on probation and wearing an ankle monitor on the day of the riot. He initially was arrested on the night of Jan. 6 for violating a curfew imposed by the mayor of Washington, D.C. He has been jailed since a judge ordered his pretrial detention in January 2022.
Pruitt pleaded guilty in June to a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump, the Republican incumbent.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As attorney general, Josh Shapiro went to court repeatedly to defend Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration against legal challenges to his pandemic-era mandates and shutdowns.
Now, as he’s running to succeed Wolf as governor, Shapiro says he is against some of the same COVID-19 containment measures that his fellow Democrat used to help manage the nation’s worst pandemic in over a century.
On the campaign trail in the presidential battleground state, Shapiro’s Republican opponent, Doug Mastriano, makes Wolf’s COVID-19 policies — and Shapiro’s defense of them in court — a source of derision.
But disavowing Wolf’s COVID-19 policies while facing headwinds for his party may be a politically painless way for Shapiro to tack to the middle against Mastriano, who even some top Republicans say is too far to the right to win the November general election.
“This is an area where I think folks got it wrong,” Shapiro said of school and business shutdowns. On mask and vaccine mandates, Shapiro said he opposed them and instead talked about a need to “educate and empower” the public, business owners, school leaders and others to protect themselves and others.
“And to me, that’s the approach we need to take more broadly as a public, which is to educate, empower and respect people’s personal decisions and respect their personal freedom to make those choices,” Shapiro told The Associated Press in an interview.
It is unusual, if not unprecedented, for a Democrat to go against some of the core measures that Democratic governors — and some Republican governors — used to contain COVID-19.
And Shapiro is doing it as incumbent Democratic governors in other presidential battleground states, such as Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, are defending their records as they run for reelection this year.
It follows Republican Glenn Youngkin’s victory last year in the Virginia governor’s race as he differentiated himself from his Democratic opponent by pledging to end vaccine and mask mandates and vowing to keep schools open.
Shapiro, the state’s two-term elected attorney general, is also running against decades of precedent: If he wins, he would be the first governor to succeed a two-term governor of the same party in Pennsylvania.
Since the pandemic began, Wolf has battled Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature over his orders requiring masks and shutdowns of schools and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 46,000 people in Pennsylvania.
Wolf also ordered about 25,000 employees of Pennsylvania’s prisons and care facilities to get vaccinated or take weekly tests for the virus. President Joe Biden ordered farther-reaching vaccine mandates, including one on private companies blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Shapiro said that, as attorney general, his office is required to defend the state in court, and it did so numerous times in state and federal court during the pandemic.
In one filing in 2020, Shapiro’s office wrote that a federal judge’s decision to block Wolf’s orders shutting down non-life-sustaining businesses and putting size limits on gatherings “will undoubtedly cost lives.”
In another last fall, the office argued that Wolf’s school mask mandate was necessary “to protect the health and lives of Pennsylvania’s school children and their families, and to prevent schools in the Commonwealth from becoming COVID-19 super-spreader sites.”
A mainstay of Mastriano’s stump speeches is castigating Shapiro’s defense of Wolf’s policies and arguing that a Shapiro governorship would be the equivalent of a third term for Wolf.
“When the shutdown happened, Josh Shapiro sued to keep the businesses shut down,” Mastriano said on a conservative online broadcast show Thursday. “When the shutdown happened, he kept the kids masked up in a lawsuit.”
At a rally in Lancaster last Wednesday, Mastriano cast the November election as a choice between “tyranny and freedom” and said he was appalled that anyone would abide by the mantra “Stay home, stay calm and stay safe.”
“Are you kidding me?” he said. “We’re Americans. We don’t do that.”
Shapiro said that he didn’t require vaccines or masks in his offices, although he said that he tried to educate his workforce and foster an understanding culture.
He himself appeared careful about mask-wearing in public during the pandemic and said he tried to make an example of himself by getting the vaccine to encourage others to do so.
Mastriano, a retired Army colonel who became a state senator in 2019, has opposed COVID-19 restrictions since the early weeks of the pandemic, leading anti-shutdown rallies, belittling masking and other containment measures and spreading misinformation online about the vaccine, which studies have shown is safe and effective.
Wolf’s office has called Mastriano a “science denier” who “put lives in danger throughout the pandemic by openly downplaying the crisis and opposing vaccines and other mitigation efforts.”
COVID-19 policies aren’t the first time Shapiro has broken with Wolf.
Since he announced that he was running for governor, Shapiro has opposed Wolf’s key climate change and transportation funding pursuits.
Last year, for instance, Shapiro came out in opposition to the centerpiece of Wolf’s plan to fight climate change — charging power plants for planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions — amid the strong and sustained pushback it received from building trades unions and the business sector.
Shapiro has said he worries that Wolf’s plan will hurt the state’s energy industry, drive up electric prices and do little to curtail greenhouse gases.
The plan is currently held up in court, but it rates prominently in stump speeches by Mastriano, who says he’d put a stop to it on his first day in office.
AP-NORC polls in 2021 and earlier this year have shown more approval than disapproval among U.S. adults for various kinds of mask mandates or vaccine mandates, but it also shows that concern over getting infected has fallen over time as treatments improve and more people get vaccinated.
Shapiro is not completely distancing himself from Wolf and Biden. He appeared recently with Wolf at a news conference on abortion rights and will appear with Biden twice in the coming days.
But a little distance may be helpful if the midterm elections end up being a referendum on the party in power.
“Let’s face it, this would be a very rare thing to have a third term for the same party, so that and the fact that the general election this time around looks to be favorable to Republicans, I don’t think it hurts to create distance from a Democratic officeholder,” said Berwood Yost, a pollster and director of the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on climate change could have implications for a range of other issues, including a case involving nuclear waste storage and a proposal requiring companies to disclose how climate risk affects their businesses, advocates across the political spectrum say.
Two Republican attorneys general — including the West Virginia official who successfully challenged Environmental Protection Agency rules restricting greenhouse gas emissions by power plants — say the Supreme Court ruling applies more broadly to other executive branch actions. And in at least one case, environmental groups appear to agree.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the court’s June 30 ruling, which limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, can be used to block a federal license issued to a private facility to store radioactive waste in his state.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, fresh off a win in the climate case, says he will challenge a proposal by the Securities and Exchange Commission to require companies to report on their climate risks, including those related to the physical impact of storms, drought and higher temperatures caused by global warming.
The court’s 6-3 ruling said EPA violated the “major questions” doctrine in regulating greenhouse gas emissions by power plants. The decision held that Congress must speak with specificity when it wants to give an agency authority to regulate on an issue of major national significance.
Several conservative justices have criticized what they see as the unchecked power of federal agencies.
Some legal experts suggested the Supreme Court ruling also might be cited in challenges to President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that the administration would provide $10,000 in student debt cancellation for millions of Americans — and up to $10,000 more for those with the greatest financial need.
Jay Duffy, an attorney for the environmental group Clean Air Task Force, said the ruling in the West Virginia case “set an exceptionally high bar’’ for executive-branch agencies to act on a variety of issues without triggering the major questions doctrine.
That’s problematic, Duffy wrote in a blog post, “because Congress generally writes laws in broad terms such that they can be adapted to changing problems and solutions by the technical experts working at agencies to address public health, safety and the environment.’’
In the Texas case, Paxton contended in a court filing soon after the high court ruling that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacked specific direction from Congress when it licensed a private company to temporarily store spent, radioactive waste in west Texas near the border with New Mexico.
The ruling in West Virginia v. EPA “confirms that this case implicates the major questions doctrine,” Paxton’s office said in a letter to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing the state’s challenge in the nuclear case.
In a political twist, environmental groups that oppose the waste-storage plan also invoked the West Virginia case.
“No federal agency is above the law,” said Diane Curran, a lawyer for Beyond Nuclear, an advocacy group that opposes nuclear power.
The group argues in a separate case before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that a license issued to Texas-based Interim Storage Partners to store thousands of metric tons of spent nuclear fuel for up to 40 years is invalid because “it ignored the unambiguous mandates of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act” to store nuclear waste at a now-abandoned site at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.
“Only Congress can decide whether to abandon one of its primary strategies for ensuring the completion of a federal repository” for nuclear waste, Curran said.
Like Paxton and Morrisey, Curran said federal agencies appear to be going beyond their authority delegated by Congress.
“I do think there are policy issues here that are enormous,” she said in an interview. “It’s disturbing that the NRC put its oar in on a policy decision that belongs to Congress,” namely, where to store nuclear waste.
Wallace Taylor, a lawyer who represents the Sierra Club on nuclear issues, said he appreciates the irony that environmental groups are siding with staunch conservatives such as Paxton and Morrisey in the nuclear dispute.
“My enemy is my friend” when interests coincide, he said with a chuckle.
“It’s certainly a major question,” Taylor added, referring to nuclear waste storage. “Tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste” must be disposed of “and there’s no authority in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act to license interim storage,” he said. “All they can license is a permanent repository” at Yucca Mountain, a project that has been mothballed for more than a decade and faces strong bipartisan opposition.
The NRC, in a legal filing in the 5th Circuit case, said the Texas license is not an example of overreach because the agency has “longstanding” authority on the issue, including in the 1954 Atomic Energy Act.
“The materials license issued here reflects a conventional exercise of NRC’s longstanding and exclusive authority over a matter that lies at the core of its expertise,” the agency wrote.
Congress has “clearly and expressly” granted authority to the NRC to license offsite nuclear fuel storage facilities, including in the 1954 law, the agency added.
Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said Paxton’s argument that the NRC lacks authority to license nuclear waste storage is dangerous. “While we have concerns about consolidated spent fuel storage safety and security, if @NRCgov were stripped of ALL authority to regulate #nuclear waste there would be utter chaos,” Lyman tweeted.
In formal comments filed with the SEC, meanwhile, 21 Republican attorneys general led by Morrisey argue that the securities agency is trying to transform itself from a financial overseer “into the regulator of broader social ills,” including climate change
“The woke left is going full throttle in their mission to change every facet of American life, businesses and erode our democratic institutions to suit their liberal agenda,” Morrisey said. “The Biden administration wants to radically transform the SEC and other agencies run by unelected bureaucrats and make them champions of climate change, regardless of what those agencies’ functions are.”
Biden, he added, “is creating a federal bureaucracy to suit his agenda.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The large fencing that has encircled the U.S. Supreme Court for months has now been removed.
The non-scalable fencing was gone Monday morning, leaving only small barricades blocking off the plaza and steps in front of the high court.
Court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe would say only that the fence came down sometime during the weekend. “The Court as a matter of policy does not discuss security arrangements,” McCabe said in an email.
The building, closed in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, remains off-limits to the public.
The fence had been installed in May as protests erupted outside the court and outside the homes of some Supreme Court justices after a leaked opinion signaled the justices were planning to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets outside the court in June after the court handed down its ruling, overturning a landmark case making abortion legal throughout the United States nearly 50 years ago.
The justices also faced increasing threats. A California man was arrested in June near the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh carrying a gun, knife and pepper spray after telling police he was planning to kill the justice.
The fencing that had been installed outside the court was similar to the fence put up for months around the U.S. Capitol in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack when supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the building.
Protests at the court have waned in recent weeks. Still, law enforcement officials have warned about the potential for attacks on police, judges and government buildings after the FBI searched Trump’s estate in Florida as part of an investigation into the potential mishandling of classified records.
While the court building has been closed to the public since March 2020, the justices heard arguments in-person for the past year, but only reporters, lawyers and court employees could attend.
The new term begins Oct. 3.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones acquired from Tehran this month for use in its war with Ukraine, according to Biden administration officials.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the U.S. intelligence assessment, did not detail the “numerous failures.” They added that the U.S. assesses that the delivery of Mohajer-6 and Shahed-series unmanned aerial vehicles over several days this month is likely part of a Russian plan to acquire hundreds of Iranian UAVs.
The Associated Press reported last week that Russia had recently obtained hundreds of Iranian drones capable of being used in its war against Ukraine despite U.S. warnings to Tehran not to ship them. The Washington Post first reported that Russia has faced technical problems with the Iranian drones.
Russian operators continue to receive training in Iran on how to use these systems, which can conduct air-to-surface attacks, electronic warfare and targeting, on the battlefield in Ukraine, the officials said.
The Biden administration last month released satellite imagery indicating that Russian officials visited Kashan Airfield on June 8 and July 5 to view the Iranian drones. At the time, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan asserted that the administration has “information that the Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with several hundred UAVs.”
Facing economic sanctions and limits on its supply chains due to its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is turning to Iran as a key partner and supplier of weapons. Russian aircraft was loaded with the UAV equipment at an airfield in Iran over several days this month before the weaponry was flown to Russia, the officials said.
White House national security council spokesman John Kirby told reporters earlier Monday that the administration had “no update” on whether the drones had been delivered. He added that the U.S. has has “seen nothing that that gives us a sense of comfort” and that “the procurement, and delivery is still looming, is still in the offing.”
Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein-Amir Abdollahian, said last month that Tehran had “various types of collaboration with Russia, including in the defense sector.”
“But we won’t help either of the sides involved in this war because we believe that it (the war) needs to be stopped,” he said.
The administration officials confirmed details of Iran supplying Russia with drones at a moment when the White House is also trying to prod Tehran to resume its compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal.
The administration last week c ompleted its review of Iran’s comments on a European proposal to restart the agreement that was brokered during President Barack Obama’s administration and scrapped by in 2018 by then-President Donald Trump in 2018.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate this month and has identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,” according to a court filing Monday.
The filing from the department follows a judge’s weekend order indicating that she was inclined to grant the Trump legal team’s request for a special master who would oversee the review of documents taken during the Aug. 8 search of the Mar-a-Lago estate and ensure that any that might be protected by claims of legal privilege be set aside.
In revealing that the department had completed its review of potentially privileged communications, law enforcement officials appeared to be suggesting that the appointment of a third-party special master might now be moot. The department had been relying on a specialized team to filter out potentially privileged communications and said Monday that it had completed its review of those materials before the judge’s order.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said on Saturday that it was her “preliminary intent” to appoint a special master — which would be an early procedural win for the Trump legal team — but gave the department an opportunity to respond and scheduled a Thursday hearing to discuss the matter further.
The judge also directed the Justice Department to submit under seal a more detailed description of the materials that were seized from Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, something the department on Monday said it would do.
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(The Hill) – The acting head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) pushed back on accusations that the agency is corrupt or conspiring against former President Trump in its actions over his presidential records.
“The National Archives has been the focus of intense scrutiny for months, this week especially, with many people ascribing political motivation to our actions,” Debra Steidel Wall, the acting archivist, wrote in a memo to employees sent Wednesday.
“NARA has received messages from the public accusing us of corruption and conspiring against the former president, or congratulating NARA for ‘bringing him down,’” she continued. “Neither is accurate or welcome.”
The memo was made public under the Freedom of Information Act and was previously reported by The Washington Post.
The National Archives had attempted to recover presidential records stored at Trump’s Florida home for months, dating back to last year. Officials retrieved 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago in January, including at least 700 pages of classified materials, and asked the Justice Department to examine the former president’s handling of records.
The investigation ultimately led the FBI to execute a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this month, when agents seized 11 sets of classified documents. The DOJ is probing whether Trump violated the Espionage Act or two other federal statutes.
The search led to a flurry of criticisms against the involved agencies by Trump and his allies, who allege the probe and related actions are politically motivated.
Wall’s memo references some of those criticisms, including Trump’s unfounded claim on his social media platform that former President Obama “kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified.”
The Archives debunked that claim in a statement, saying it keeps classified Obama records in a government facility outside of Obama’s control.
“Our fundamental interest is always in ensuring that government records are properly managed, preserved, and protected to ensure access to them for the life of the republic,” Wall wrote. “That is our mission and what motivates us as we seek to uphold the public trust.”
Wall also thanked employees for their professionalism and integrity. “We will continue to do our work, without favor or fear, in the service of our democracy,” she wrote.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – NASA was forced to delay the launch of its moon rocket after some technical issues on Monday. The highly-anticipated flight is still expected to happen eventually.
Before the Artemis I launch window officially opened, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket had issues with fuel leaks and engine cooling. That led to engineers and officials making the call to postpone the launch.
“We don’t launch until it’s right,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. “It’s just part of the space business and it’s part of, particularly, a test flight.”
Engineers are working on fixing the problems. The plan is to try the launch again soon, potentially as early as this Friday.
“They’re going to work it. They’ll get to the bottom of it. They’ll get it fixed and then we’ll fly,” Nelson said.
Vice President Kamala Harris was there for the planned launch. She says that despite the delay, she’s excited about the project and what it could accomplish in the future.
“This is with the goal of humans being able to live and work on the moon and with the next step being to travel to Mars,” Harris said.
If NASA can successfully launch the test flight, the next step will be getting astronauts on board a flight around the moon. They they hope to send astronauts on a third mission to land on the moon in 2025.
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(WFLA) — An Alabama deputy faced an unusual obstacle Friday morning when he found that his patrol car was taken over by a few goats.
Deputy Casey Thrower in Madison County, Alabama, was serving civil papers when some hungry goats decided to check if there was anything to eat in his vehicle.
“Get out of there!” Thrower said after finding the goats. “Are you kidding me?”
According to the sheriff’s office, Thrower would sometimes leave his patrol vehicle open because he would sometimes have to run from dogs, which required a way for him to escape.
Instead, he dealt with couple hungry goats munching on the paper work in his vehicle.
“Quit eating that! Get out of here!” Thrower shouted as he tried to scare the goats off his vehicle.
Eventually, he managed to get the goats off his vehicle. The sheriff’s office decided to share the video to make people laugh.
“Deputy Thrower has been serving the citizens of Madison County for about 40 years and is considered one of our G.O.A.T deputies,” the sheriff’s office said. “We got a huge kick out of this today and hope it brought a smile to your face as well.”
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(NEXSTAR) – In case we didn’t have enough viruses to worry about, reports of a “tomato flu” outbreak in India started to surface this month. The virus, named for the bursting red blisters it causes, has infected at least 100 children.
The virus was first identified in Kerala in May, where it infected 82 children – all under the age of 5 – by the end of July, according to The Lancet medical journal. At least 26 more cases were also confirmed in neighboring states of India.
The most common symptoms appear to be fever, joint pain and the rash that gives the virus its new nickname. “Tomato flu gained its name on the basis of the eruption of red and painful blisters throughout the body that gradually enlarge to the size of a tomato,” The Lancet reported.
News outlets started to report on the disease as a “new” virus, but new testing out of the United Kingdom seems to indicate the tomato flu isn’t new at all – nor is it a type of flu.
Viral swabs were taken from two children — who had recently returned from India — showing the bright red rash, reports the British medical journal BMJ. The test came back positive for Coxsackie A16, a pathogen commonly associated with Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (or HFMD).
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HFMD is very common among children, even here in the United States, because of how contagious it is. The symptoms – including fever, mouth sores and skin rashes – last seven to 10 days for most kids.
When there is a rash with HFMD, “the rash usually is not itchy and looks like flat or slightly raised red spots, sometimes with blisters that have an area of redness at their base,” says the CDC.
This common disease may have been initially mistaken as a new “tomato flu” virus because the blisters observed in India were larger.
Doctors in Kerala told BMJ that even in the cases they have seen over the past few months, they have yet to admit any children to the hospital. All of the patients have recovered on their own thus far.
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Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise the global sea level by at least 10 inches on its own, according to a study released Monday.
Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That’s because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow. Meanwhile, the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
“It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet,” Colgan said in an interview. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.”
The unavoidable ten inches in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scientists had previously expected from the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet. The study in the journal Nature Climate Change said it could reach as much as 30 inches (78 centimeters). By contrast, last year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected a range of 2 to 5 inches (6 to 13 centimeters) for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year 2100.
What scientists did for the study was looking at the ice in balance. In perfect equilibrium, snowfall in the mountains in Greenland flows down and recharges and thickens the sides of glaciers, balancing out what’s melting on the edges. But in the last few decades, there’s less replenishment and more melting, creating imbalance. Study authors looked at the ratio of what’s being added to what’s being lost and calculated that 3.3% of Greenland’s total ice volume will melt no matter what happens with the world cutting carbon pollution, Colgan said.
“I think starving would be a good phrase” for what’s happening to the ice, Colgan said.
One of the study authors said that more than 120 trillion tons (110 trillion metric tons) of ice is already doomed to melt from the warming ice sheet’s inability to replenish its edges. When that ice melts into water, if it were concentrated only over the United States, it would be 37 feet (11 meters) deep.
This is the first time scientists calculated a minimum ice loss — and accompanying sea level rise — for Greenland, one of Earth’s two massive ice sheets that are slowly shrinking because of climate change from burning coal, oil, and natural gas. Scientists used an accepted technique for calculating minimum committed ice loss, the one used on mountain glaciers for the entire giant frozen island.
Pennsylvania State University glaciologist Richard Alley, who wasn’t part of the study but said it made sense, said the committed melting and sea level rise is like an ice cube put in a cup of hot tea in a warm room.
“You have committed mass loss from the ice,” Alley said in an email. ”In the same way, most of the world’s mountain glaciers and the edges of Greenland would continue losing mass if temperatures were stabilized at modern levels because they have been put into warmer air just as your ice cube was put in warmer tea.”
Although 10 inches doesn’t sound like much, that’s a global average. Some coastal areas will be hit with more, and high tides and storms on top of that could be even worse, so this much sea level rise “will have huge societal, economic and environmental impacts,” said Ellyn Enderlin, a geosciences professor at Boise State University.
Time is the key unknown here and a bit of a problem with the study, said two outside ice scientists, Leigh Stearns of the University of Kansas and Sophie Nowicki of the University of Buffalo. The researchers in the study said they couldn’t estimate the timing of the committed melting, yet in the last sentence, they mention “within this century,” without supporting it, Stearns said.
Colgan responded that the team doesn’t know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt, but making an educated guess, it would probably be by the end of this century or at least by 2150.
Colgan said this is actually all a best-case scenario. The year 2012 (and to a different degree 2019 ) was a huge melt year, when the equilibrium between adding and subtracting ice was most out of balance. If Earth starts to undergo more years like 2012, Greenland melt could trigger 30 inches (78 centimeters) of sea level rise, he said. Those two years seem extreme now, but years that look normal now would have been extreme 50 years ago, he said.
“That’s how climate change works,” Colgan said. “Today’s outliers become tomorrow’s averages.”
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What’s the best Buzz Lightyear costume?
Whether for Halloween or a costume party, the Buzz Lightyear costume is a good choice for “Toy Story” fans searching for a fun, adventurous character to dress up as. And with Buzz as its star, the recent movie “Lightyear” provides a reason Buzz Lightyear costumes are likely to be especially hot this year.
The Disney Pixar Buzz Lightyear Light-Up Costume is the best to take you to infinity and beyond.
What to know before you buy a Buzz Lightyear costume
Who is Buzz Lightyear?
Buzz is a space ranger superhero action figure come to life, debuting in the classic 1995 Pixar-Disney animated movie, “Toy Story.” Since then, he’s appeared in three more “Toy Story” movies, a direct-to-video film in which he starred and its spinoff TV series, and this year’s movie “Lightyear.” First voiced by Tim Allen, he has also been voiced by Patrick Warburton and Chris Pratt.
Size and fit
Some Buzz Lightyear costumes are tailored for children while some are made for adults.
- Kids: Look for the actual measurement in inches rather than sizes indicated by age (for example, zero to 18 months).
- Adults: The regular size charts will suffice. If you’re not sure of your size, measure yourself with a measuring tape and compare it with an online size chart.
Comfort
If you’re buying a Buzz Lightyear costume or any other Halloween costumes for kids, keep in mind that they will most likely be running around or playing in it. So buy a costume that’s comfortable and easy to move around in. This often depends on the material used and of course, the size.
Detachable accessories
Some Buzz Lightyear costumes come as a complete set, while some come in different parts with detachable accessories that are sometimes sold separately. These detachable parts help you put the costume together to your own taste, depending on if you are going for the complete look or just as a resemblance to the character. It is best to go for a costume with more accessories, as it gives your appearance more life and authenticity.
What to look for in a quality Buzz Lightyear costume
Safety
Pick a costume that’s safe to wear when accidents are prone to happen, such as Halloween. It should be made of a material that’s flame-resistant — for instance, nylon or polyester. A well-made costume shouldn’t have loose threads hanging out, as that also increases the chances of an accident. And look out for smaller detachable parts in baby costumes, as they might be choking hazards.
Durability
You should be able to wear a good costume several times without signs of wear and tear. Durable costumes are often somewhat thick and heavy, not made of thin, frilly material that’s likely to tear. Also, look for stitches that hold well — they’ll keep the costume from unraveling when it’s worn.
Adjustability
A good-quality costume can be easily adjusted or altered to give you a more comfortable fit. Buckles, straps, Velcro patches or extra buttons can help with this, but they shouldn’t affect the costume’s overall design.
How much you can expect to spend on a Buzz Lightyear costume
Expect to spend about $25-$80, based on the costume’s materials, accessories and elaborateness.
Buzz Lightyear costume FAQ
Can I wash my Buzz Lightyear costume?
A. You probably can. However, be sure to check the washing instructions on each costume as this may vary.
Can I reuse my Buzz Lightyear costume?
A. Most costumes are reusable depending on how well they are made.
What’s the best Buzz Lightyear costume to buy?
Top Buzz Lightyear costume
Disney Pixar Buzz Lightyear Light-Up Costume
What you need to know: This authentic-looking costume made from polyester has detachable wings and a light-up feature.
What you’ll love: It is a cute costume that comes with a bodysuit, chest plate, wings, gloves and a hat. The wings have a self-stick fabric that you can easily attach or detach from the chest plate of the body suit. The knees, waist and leg cuff areas are padded with extra material to look more authentic and also provide more comfort and safety for you.
What you should consider: This costume only has a hat and does not have a helmet included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Buzz Lightyear costume for the money
Disney Pixar “Toy Story” and Beyond Buzz Lightyear Adult Costume Kit
What you need to know: This is a costume kit with a pull-on closure that comes with a hood, gloves and a jetpack with wings.
What you’ll love: The jetpack and wings are made of inflatable material and have a little plastic plug you can blow into to inflate. Also, the hood has a little bit of stretch and Velcro fasteners at the back to help you adjust it to the preferred fit for your head.
What you should consider: It is not a complete costume — it does not come with a shirt, pants or a body suit.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Toy Story Kids Buzz Lightyear Inflatable Costume
What you need to know: This is a cute, safe inflatable costume for children that’s easy to wear.
What you’ll love: It’s well made and comes with an inflatable jumpsuit, hood and a battery-powered fan that keeps the costume inflated. Though it can’t be washed, it can be cleaned easily with a damp rag and will stay durable for a good length of time.
What you should consider: You must use batteries to keep this costume inflated.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Get a good night’s sleep on one of these top-rated mattresses
Bed bugs are some of the worst pests that can find their way into your home. Not only do they bite, but as their name implies, they usually make their home in your bed, a place where you should be able to relax.
These insects can show up any time of year, but August and September are the prime months because so many people are returning from summer vacation, where they pick up these nasty critters. If you’re struggling with a bed bug problem, a new mattress can give you peace of mind once you’ve banished them from your home.
But you don’t have to have bed bugs to decide that a new mattress is in order. Whether it’s pests, damaged coils or compressed foam, your mattress can take a beating over time, so it’s typically time for a new mattress every seven to 10 years.
Are you in the market for a new mattress? Check out these comfortable, supportive mattresses for every budget that can be the perfect replacement for a bed that needs updating.
Best mattresses 2022
Under $1,000
Zinus Green Tea Memory Foam Mattress
This memory foam mattress is infused with green tea and activated charcoal to help you feel fresh and clean all night. It features a breathable knitted cover over three layers of foam to provide comfortable support. Best of all, it comes in four heights, so you can choose the firmness you need. Sold by Amazon
This foam mattress is designed for sleepers who want adequate support and cooling action. The perforated foam allows for better airflow while you sleep, while the base layer prevents sinking and sagging. It also has a zippered, eco-friendly cover that’s easy to take off when it’s time to wash. Sold by Amazon and Wayfair
This foam mattress features a quilted cooling cover and gel-infused memory foam to keep you cool while sleeping. It also minimizes motion transfer, so you won’t wake up when your partner rolls over. It’s backed by a 365-night home trial, too. Sold by Nectar
This memory gel foam mattress provides excellent support for all sleeping positions. It also reduces motion transfer, so it’s an ideal option for couples. The gel-infused foam helps keep you cool during the night, too. Sold by Amazon
$1,000-$1,500
This organic, natural latex mattress doesn’t contain any polyurethane foam or other harmful chemicals, making it one of the most eco-friendly models on the market. It also provides medium-firm support ideal for side, back and stomach sleepers. It’s backed by a 25-year warranty, too. Sold by Birch Living
This comfortable, medium-firm mattress features a combination of gel memory foam and non-allergenic aerated-latex foam, so even warm sleepers stay cool. The foam cushioning can help relieve hip and back pain and ease joint stiffness. Sold by Amazon
This hybrid mattress offers six support layers, including four layers of foam and a contour-adapt coil base. It provides pressure relief throughout the body, so it’s an excellent option if you have back pain. The stain-resistant cover is also removable, so it’s easy to clean. Sold by Puffy
This unique memory foam mattress has over 1,400 air channels built in, so it keeps you at a comfortable temperature all night long. It’s also made of safe hypoallergenic materials. The GelFlex grid design offers excellent support and readjusts instantly when you move. Sold by Amazon
With medium firmness that isn’t too hard or too soft, this mattress is perfect for couples with different preferences. It provides targeted pressure point relief to make you more comfortable while you sleep. Its middle layers also offer excellent support for side sleepers and those who tend to toss and turn. Sold by Helix
Dreamcloud Luxury Hybrid Mattress
Featuring individually wrapped coils, this mattress can support any body shape and sleeping style. It also has a pressure relief gel memory foam layer and a soft, quilted cover. Best of all, it works with multiple bed frame types, so you can use it with your existing frame. Sold by Dreamcloud
With three zones of high-quality foam, this mattress helps your body maintain a neutral position throughout the night. That allows it to relieve pressure on your shoulders and hips, so you can fall asleep faster and stay asleep. It’s protected by a lifetime warranty, too. Sold by Level Sleep
$1,500-$2,000
This mattress offers a combination of premium cooling and contouring foams, so you’re comfortable and supported all night. It also features more than a thousand pocket springs that respond easily to movement and provide additional support. It works for back, side and stomach sleepers, too. Sold by Leesa
Casper Sleep Wave Hybrid Mattress
This luxurious mattress has ergonomic zones with gel pods that keep your spine perfectly aligned while sleeping. The base also contains resilient springs that increase airflow and support. The eco-friendly cover is made from recycled bottles, too. Sold by Amazon
This hybrid innerspring mattress provides plush cushioning that relieves pressure and enough support to keep your back aligned. It also has a breathable, organic cotton cover and dual-coil design to help direct heat away from your body. You can even choose from multiple firmness levels, depending on your preference. Sold by Saatva
Nectar Premier Copper Mattress
If you’re never cool enough while you sleep well, this copper-infused mattress is for you. It offers a dual-action cooling cover and gel-infused memory foam that reacts to your body temperature to ward off the heat. It also provides effective support for stomach, back and side sleepers. Sold by Amazon
$2,000-plus
This luxury mattress is designed to keep you up to 8 degrees cooler when you sleep. It also features special foam material that helps relieve pressure on the shoulder, back and hips. It’s an excellent option for couples, too, because it offers advanced motion-absorbing abilities to ensure your sleep isn’t disturbed. Sold by Tempur-Pedic
Tuft and Needle Hybrid Mattress
Featuring adaptive foam and bouncy springs, this mattress offers both superior support and comfort. The pocketed springs target your pressure points and help limit motion when your partner turns. The cooling ceramic gel, heat-conducting graphite and layered coils improve airflow and keep you from getting hot, too. Sold by Amazon
This mattress uses proprietary materials to provide top-notch support and pressure relief. It offers a medium-firm feel and responds to your weight, shape and temperature to ensure you’re always comfortable. It’s backed by a 10-year warranty, too. Sold by Tempur-Pedic
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Which fishing shirt is best?
The best fishing shirts are comfortable, breathable and nonrestrictive, so you can move about as needed throughout the day. They should also be quick-drying and, ideally, able to wick away water and sweat. For fishing trips that involve a lot of exposure to the sun, the shirt should also have a high enough UPF rating to protect your skin from potential burns. A top fishing shirt is the Columbia PFG Terminal Tackle UPF 50 Long-Sleeve Fishing Shirt.
What to know before you buy a fishing shirt
Comfort, flexibility and breathability
Whether you enjoy fishing for recreation or commercial purposes, your clothes should be comfortable for the activity and environment. One advantage of fishing shirts is that they are usually lightweight and somewhat stretchy. This keeps them from getting in the way as you cast the line, reel in the fish and more. It also sets these shirts apart from standard T-shirts, which are sometimes designed more with style than practicality in mind.
Unlike regular shirts, fishing shirts are also typically more breathable than others. Most are made to let air through them, which is often essential for those who fish in hotter climates. Many of these shirts have built-in vents or perforated holes strategically placed throughout the shirt, such as in the back or under the arms. These vents let air circulate more freely and prevent heat and moisture from getting trapped against the skin.
Moisture-wicking
Most athleticwear has moisture-wicking properties, which can move moisture from the skin to the outer layer of the fabric. Once the moisture reaches the outer material, it can dry more quickly than if it was trapped against the skin. This prevents you from feeling clammy, hot or sticky.
Moisture-wicking does not mean the shirt is waterproof, though. For example, if the garment is soaked in water or sweat, it can still take time to dry fully.
Protection
Most fishing shirts offer at least basic protection from environmental factors such as the sun. Some of this is achieved with long sleeves, thicker materials and full coverage, but many modern shirts also have built-in ultraviolet protection.
Certain high-performance fishing shirts have an ultraviolet protection factor rating of at least 50. The higher the number, the greater the percentage of the fabric blocking the sun’s rays and protecting the skin.
Even if you choose a shirt with ultraviolet protection, it’s still wise to wear sunscreen if you plan to be outdoors for a while. You can also wear a sun hat, sunglasses and a lightweight undershirt for additional protection.
Besides sun protection, some fishing shirts also are water-resistant, which can help keep your skin dry longer. This is especially helpful when wading into waist-deep water or reeling in larger fish that tend to splash.
What to look for in a quality fishing shirt
Material
Many fishing shirts, including performance ones, are made from synthetic materials such as polyester. These fabrics are great for outerwear and athleticwear because they are usually:
- Moisture-wicking
- Stretchy
- Lightweight
- Breathable
- Tear-resistant
- Shrink-resistant
- Quick-drying
- Long-lasting
- Resistant to pilling
Some fishing shirts consist of other materials, such as:
- Wool: Wool is breathable, moisture-wicking and easy to clean. It’s usually found in warmer, heavier garments.
- Cotton: Low-maintenance, breathable and hypoallergenic, cotton is a good choice for casual activities, especially in cooler temperatures. It doesn’t wick away moisture well, though. Depending on the shirt’s thickness, it could also tear more easily than other materials.
- Nylon or spandex blends: Some athletic attire uses a blend of materials, such as nylon or spandex, to make the clothes stretchier. These garments are often less restrictive and more resistant to tearing.
Consider the environment, temperature and type of fishing you’re going to do when choosing the right clothes.
Size and fit
When choosing the right shirt for fishing, look at the size and fit. In terms of fit, there are several options, including:
- Slim fit
- Classic fit
- Regular fit
The fit mainly determines how the shirt conforms to the wearer’s body. It can also affect the garment’s comfort in key areas, such as around the upper back, chest and under the arms. Not every manufacturer lists the fit, so keep this in mind.
As for size, fishing shirts come in virtually every size, including:
- Extra-small
- Small
- Medium
- Large
- Extra-large
- Extra-extra-large
Most shirts come with a sizing chart you can use to compare different options and find the best one for you. If you’re not sure which size to select, measure around the widest part of your:
- Shoulders
- Arms (run the tape measure across the top of your shoulders, ending at the wrist or where you want the shirt cuff to be)
- Chest
- Waist (start about an inch below the belly button)
Sleeves
There are short-sleeved and long-sleeved fishing shirts. Choose longer sleeves if you want more environmental protection or if it’s chilly out. If you’d prefer something nonrestrictive or expect to get your arms wet frequently, go with shorter sleeves.
Pockets
A few shirts for fishing come with two to six pockets. These are usually water-resistant and can hold important accessories such as a cell phone, wallet or keys. Some have zippers or buttons.
Style
Some of these shirts are button-ups, while others are pullovers. You can also find shirts with larger or smaller collars, which can affect coverage at the neck and serve an aesthetic purpose.
Color and pattern
These shirts come in many colors and prints, such as:
- Bright, dark, neutral or pastel colors
- Solid colors
- Patterns, such as stripes or checkers
How much you can expect to spend on a fishing shirt
Fishing shirts cost $15-$45, on average. Those on the higher end are typically made with performance and protection in mind.
Fishing shirt FAQ
What other accessories should I get for fishing?
A. Besides having the right outerwear, such as the shirt and pants or shorts, wear closed shoes, sunglasses and a sun hat. Consider wearing wader pants with closed pockets if you plan on getting wet.
How long do fishing shirts last?
A. This depends on material and environment. Fishing in saltwater, for example, can cause the garment to deteriorate more quickly than if you were to fish in freshwater. A high-quality performance shirt should last for months or even years with proper care.
What is the best fishing shirt to buy?
Top fishing shirt
Columbia PFG Terminal Tackle UPF 50 Long-Sleeve Fishing Shirt
What you need to know: This heavy-duty shirt is durable and offers excellent protection from the sun, making it perfect for all-day fishing trips.
What you’ll love: It features Omni-Shade, which blocks UVA and UVB rays, and Omni-Wick technology, which can remove moisture and keep the skin cool. With a UPF 50 rating, it can also help prevent sunburns. It comes in 18 sizes ranging from extra-small to 6XL.
What you should consider: The shirts run large.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top fishing shirt for the money
Baleaf Long-Sleeve Shirt UPF 50+ Quick-Dry Fishing Shirt
What you need to know: Lightweight, stretchy and durable, this shirt can last a long time for recreational fishing.
What you’ll love: It’s available in 25 colors and comes in seven sizes, from extra-small to 3X-large. It’s polyester, making it moisture-wicking, fast-drying and reliable for athletic wearers. It also has UPF 50 sun protection. Design options include pullovers and zippers.
What you should consider: The shirt is not shrink-resistant.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Paramount Outdoors Eag Elite Short-Sleeve Button-Down Performance Fishing Shirt
What you need to know: With a UPF 50 rating, this performance shirt is ideal for anyone who wants all-day comfort in any environment.
What you’ll love: It has laser perforated holes in the back and sides for maximum breathability. Plus, it’s polyester and spandex, so it’s quick-drying, stretchy and moisture-wicking. With a button-down style, you can wear this shirt when not fishing as well. It comes in coastal blue and silver.
What you should consider: It has limited pockets.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which canopy tent is best?
When the weather outside is frightful but outdoor activities are calling, a canopy tent can provide shelter from the storm. These covered open tents are great for keeping rain and sun out and are portable enough to go where you need them.
If you’re looking for the best canopy tent to provide a large area of coverage and a company that stands behind its gear, the Coleman Instant Beach Canopy is a good place to start.
What to know before you buy a canopy tent
Type of canopy
Canopies come in camping, beach or wedding styles.
- Camping: Camping canopies are meant to provide shelter from the sun but can also be used as screen tents against biting, stinging insects. They range from sturdy shelters meant to provide more permanent cover to lightweight, portable options for a day in the woods.
- Beach: Beach canopies are usually lower to the ground and feature a built-in ground cloth. The fabric is lightweight and protected against the sun’s ultraviolet rays, and most have walls on three sides.
- Wedding: When weather threatens on that special day, wedding tents can help. They are usually white and come with options for interior configurations plus sidewalls with windows.
Straight vs. slant legs
The square footage of the canopy tent is influenced by the style of the leg.
- Straight: Straight legs provide a smaller footprint than slant legs. These are more stable than slant-leg canopies, but they also tend to be heavier.
- Slant: Lightweight and more modern in style, these are better when portability is important. These may be less durable, and they take up more space without providing additional protection.
Material
Consider the material of both frame and canopy .
- Frame: Frames are made of lightweight aluminum or heavy-duty steel. Aluminum is lighter and more affordable but also prone to dents and dings. Steel is more durable, but it’s heavy and expensive.
- Canopy: Both canopy and sidewalls are available in polyester or canvas. Polyester and polyester-blend canopies are lighter, but canvas is built to last through years of use and weather.
What to look for in a quality canopy tent
UV protection
UV protection is valuable when camping, but it’s critical at the beach. Look for fabric that blocks the sun’s most harmful rays.
Easy setup
Some canopy tents are set up at the push of a button, while others simply unfold and snap into place. Whichever you choose, setup should be easy and fast.
Waterproof and seam-sealed
Waterproof, seam-sealed canopies keep you dry when the clouds open up. These qualities may fade over time, but you can easily use waterproofing spray to refresh your canopy.
Roof vents
Roof vents in camping and wedding canopies release heat. This is important especially for wedding canopies because a larger number of people are likely to gather.
Wheeled case
No more running back and forth to the car for supplies. A wheeled case makes it easy to transport your tent right where you need it.
Sidewalls
Sidewalls are available in most types of canopy tents. These are perfect for blocking sun and rain from any direction. For wedding tents, moveable sidewalls mean you can easily change the configuration as needed.
Windows
Beach and wedding canopies with windows let more light in while still keeping you dry during sudden downpours. These are usually clear plastic inserts in the walls that can be removed.
How much you can expect to spend on a canopy tent
The price varies depending on the type of tent and the accessories it comes with. Expect to spend from $60 for a beach canopy tent to well over $200 on an elaborate wedding canopy.
Canopy tent FAQ
How do you care for a canopy tent?
A. Although you should follow the manufacturer’s suggestions for care, there are a few general rules to care for a canopy tent.
- Brush off loose dirt before packing your tent away.
- If there is extensive dirt, use mild soap and water to spot clean, then rinse it completely.
- Remove dirt from the legs of the frame.
- Make sure your tent is completely dry before storing.
What’s the best way to keep a canopy tent secured?
A. For the most secure wedding or camping canopy, long stakes driven deeply into the ground work well. These can be reinforced with sand bags too.
Beach canopies don’t stay as secure in the sand with stakes. Guy wires or spiral stakes buried in the sand are a good option here.
For the strongest winds, err on the side of safety and use a combination of methods to keep your canopy in place.
What’s the best canopy tent to buy?
Top canopy tent
What you need to know: This large structure is great for a day at the beach or a week of car camping in the woods.
What you’ll love: It provides 169 square feet of shade and UPF 50+ sun protection. The canopy sheds water away from the sides to keep you dry. The legs lock into place, and the frame folds into one piece for easy setup and storage. Its 9-foot center height accommodates the tallest campers, and it comes with a one-year limited warranty.
What you should consider: The poles are not strong enough for for really strong winds.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top canopy tent for the money
What you need to know: If lightweight portability is important for you, this is a good choice.
What you’ll love: It weighs 31 pounds but comes in a case with wheels. It sets up in just seconds and has two height settings. The canopy is fire resistant and sheds water. Legs are angled for a bigger footprint, and it provides 64 square feet of shade.
What you should consider: It is good for an afternoon drizzle, but isn’t meant for use in prolonged or severe weather.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Quictent Easy Pop-Up Canopy Wedding Tent with Sidewalls
What you need to know: This offers lots of room and sidewalls to protect wedding guests from wind gusts.
What you’ll love: The sidewalls are removable and can make a variety of configurations as needed. It has two doors and clear windows for plenty of light. The included sandbags mean it can hold up to gusty winds. It comes with a lifetime warranty on the stakes and poles, but a six-month warranty on the tent.
What you should consider: Setup is not as easy as advertised, and tall people will need to duck to navigate the periphery of the tent.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which bill counter is best?
If you need to deal with large amounts of cash quickly, you need a bill counter. Using one can save you hours of work if you’re in the right job or own the right business, but that doesn’t mean you can use just any counter. You need one that moves with the right mix of speed and capacity.
The best bill counter is the Teraputics Money Counter Elite. It can go through over 1,000 bills in a minute, can run for six hours continuously and can detect counterfeit bills.
What to know before you buy a bill counter
Hopper
The hopper is what holds the bill to be counted. They can hold as few as roughly 100 or up to 500-plus. Most hoppers require you to place your bills as neat and evenly as possible to avoid jams and other issues, but better hoppers give you some wiggle room. Additionally, some hoppers can be added to while a count is in progress, whereas others need to finish the load first.
Speed
The speed of a bill counter is self-explanatory — faster counters count more bills in a shorter time frame. The slowest can count roughly 500 bills a minute, or about eight bills a second, while the fastest can count 2,000-plus bills a minute, or about 33-plus bills a second.
Don’t forget to consider the hopper size. You don’t want a fast counter with a small hopper.
What to look for in a quality bill counter
Mixed bills
Most bill counters can only count the total number of bills that pass through it and not the value of those bills. If you regularly have a large number of mixed bills to go through, you should prioritize a counter that can differentiate between them. Otherwise, you waste too much time separating them. You’ll also have a permanent risk that the wrong denomination gets counted in the wrong pile.
You do have to pay extra for this feature, but your savings in time is incalculable.
Foreign currency
If you deal with multiple forms of currency, you can find bill counters that handle more than just U.S. dollars. Low-cost counters with foreign currency detection still only count the total quantity. High-cost counters can count the value, but you might need to manually input said value and only count like-denomination bills at once.
Run time
Considering the high speeds of bill counters, it’s only natural that they’re prone to overheating. However, to overheat even a basic counter takes running it for at least an hour or two without stopping while the very best find ways to mitigate heat generation entirely. If your job or business uses a bill counter continuously and all day, triple-check that it’s rated for continuous and constant use.
Self-testing and error detection
Bill counters are more complex than they look and many issues can arise. As such, the best counters will automatically perform a self-test at certain times to see if anything is amiss and can tell you specifically what the problem is. Those with specific error detection are also able to give you more details if they detect a counterfeit bill.
How much you can expect to spend on a bill counter
They can cost as little as $50 or as much as $1,000. Small counters for at-home use shouldn’t cost more than $100 while the average counter costs $100-$300. Anything more than $300 is for serious business.
Bill counter FAQ
Can a bill counter only count bills?
A. Depending on the hopper, no. They might be able to count just about anything that has the same rough size, shape and material as most currencies, such as various kinds of tickets and cards.
Can bill counters detect counterfeit bills?
A. The best can, using one or more methods to catch them.
- Ultraviolet light, or black light, detection is used to check for watermarks that can’t be seen by the naked eye.
- Infrared light detection is also to check for watermarks that can’t be seen by the naked eye, but on a different spectrum than ultraviolet light.
- Magnetic detection checks whether the bills have magnetic properties, something U.S. dollars have due to the special kind of ink they use.
What’s the best bill counter to buy?
Top bill counter
Teraputics Money Counter Elite
What you need to know: This is perfect for businesses that need to go through big piles of cash quickly.
What you’ll love: Its counterfeit detection uses ultraviolet, magnetic and infrared sensors. It runs quietly at no more than 60 decibels. It counts up to 1,200 bills a minute and can run continuously for six hours. It has a 45-day money-back guarantee.
What you should consider: It only counts the total number of bills, not their value. Some consumers had issues with bills jamming. Others reported a smell of burning tires in operation.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top bill counter for the money
HFS Worldwide Currency Cash Counting Machine
What you need to know: This is good for those that find themselves awash in multiple currencies.
What you’ll love: It can count bills of various shapes and sizes, not just U.S. dollars. The hopper can hold up to 300 bills, and it counts at a speed of 90 bills a second. It has counterfeit detection through ultraviolet, magnetic and infrared sensors.
What you should consider: It doesn’t count the bills’ value, only the quantity. Some customers had issues with bills flying out of the counter once counted.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is a solid counter for those needing one for noncommercial use.
What you’ll love: It counts up to 1,000 bills a minute. It comes with a set of spare parts and a cleaning brush. There’s a carrying handle and it has a rotatable top display and a separate, optional wired display. It runs no louder than 60 decibels.
What you should consider: Only the total number of bills is counted, not the bills’ value. Wrinkled and crumpled bills can get jammed. The hopper can catch your fingers; don’t load it while it works.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which hernia belt is best?
A hernia is a painful condition where an internal organ pushes through your muscle and tissue. At times they can go away without intervention, but a hernia belt helps speed this process along and can prevent you from requiring a surgical fix. They can even be used to help with back pain or to help heal from a C-section.
The best hernia belt is the Uriel Meditax Inguinal Groin Hernia Belt. Its small size makes it easy to wear underneath your clothes, and it can cover the left, right or both sides.
What to know before you buy a hernia belt
Hernia belt coverage
Hernia belts are designed to cover one of two locations where hernias pop up.
- Abdominal belts look like any other belly wrap and cover the area from just below your rib cage to just above the hips. Abdominal belts are helpful for more than just hernias and are commonly used to help with back pain and postpartum issues. They can even be used like Spanx.
- Inguinal belts cover only the groin area and come in many forms while still serving the same function. They typically come in left-only, right-only and double-sided coverages.
Compression
All hernia belts provide some form of compression, but where and how strong that compression is depends on the belt. For example, abdominal belts usually provide moderate compression over the entire abdomen while inguinal belts typically place higher compression on the exact spot of the hernia.
Male vs. female hernia belts
Most hernia belts, especially abdominal belts, are unisex but others are designed to better fit a specific body type. Double-check that the belt is meant to cover your body type before you buy.
What to look for in a quality hernia belt
Fastening
Most hernia belts use hook-and-loop fasteners to make them easy to wear and adjust. Other belts, especially inguinal ones, include straps or hook-and-eye closures to keep them better situated and comfortable.
Ostomy bag
Some abdominal hernia belts have a slot for holding an ostomy bag. These slots are typically protected by multiple layers of foam or gel and are placed over the belly so you can be sure that it’s safe and won’t affect your daily life.
Boning
Some hernia belts have boning, which are pieces of plastic that help retain shape and provide extra support.
How much you can expect to spend on a hernia belt
They can cost as little as $15 to as much as $50. Basic belts shouldn’t cost more than $25 while better belts cost up to $40. Anything more is specialized to tackle specifically located hernias.
Hernia belt FAQ
Can I wear a hernia belt before and after surgery?
A. Yes, though you should wear different types of hernia belts based on what stage of the process you’re in. An average off-the-shelf belt with good support is best to help manage your condition while you’re waiting for your surgery. Afterward, the type of belt you need should be chosen by your doctor. For example, you don’t want a belt with too much compression if that could interfere with your healing process.
Can a hernia belt get wet?
A. No, hernia belts aren’t designed to get wet, not counting any dampness that may come from absorbing sweat. If you’re trying to protect bandages that can’t come off in the shower, you’ll need to buy a special film or just use plastic wrap. If you’re wanting to swim you can get a compression bathing suit, though you should check with your doctor to see if it’s safe to get in the pool at all.
What can I do to stop my hernia belt from itching?
A. If your belt is itching and it just won’t stop, you can try one of these methods to save yourself.
- Get a new belt: Some hernia belts may contain materials you’re allergic to such as latex. As long as you wear a belt like this, it won’t ever stop itching.
- Change your detergent: If you’re trying a new detergent or soap and that’s what you used to wash your belt, it’s probably the culprit. If your other clothes itch too you’ll know for sure.
- Use lotion: This can help soothe current itching and prevent more. If you’re post-surgery then lotion can get inside your wounds, meaning it isn’t an option.
- Wear it over your clothes: This may not be an option depending on the belt or if you desire privacy, but it can solve most itching fast.
What’s the best hernia belt to buy?
Top hernia belt
Uriel Meditax Inguinal Groin Hernia Belt
What you need to know: This belt is as small as possible to help you without hindrance.
What you’ll love: It’s small enough to be worn underneath your clothes but can be worn above your underwear to prevent skin irritation. There’s no effect on your range of motion. It comes in four sizes and each size has a left, right and double coverage option.
What you should consider: The small size also means it only covers hernias in one location. A few consumers had issues with the hook-and-loop straps suddenly coming undone.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top hernia belt for the money
Ortonyx Abdominal Binder for Men and Women
What you need to know: This is a great budget wrap that helps the abdominal area.
What you’ll love: It can be worn above your shirt or below it and a plush inner side helps prevent irritation when worn against the skin. It uses hook-and-loop straps that can attach anywhere on the band, making fine-tuning the fit easy. It comes in two sizes.
What you should consider: The small size isn’t small enough for the especially petite. People recovering from surgery found it irritated their wounds when worn directly against them.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
BraceAbility Abdominal Stomach Binder
What you need to know: This belt is good for providing as much support as possible.
What you’ll love: There’s no latex to be allergy-free. It uses four panels so it can conform to any body type and the hook-and-loop straps make it easy to adjust the fit. It comes in multiple sizes and 9- or 12-inch heights.
What you should consider: It can feel bulky when worn underneath your clothing. A few purchasers had issues with it stretching out after prolonged use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which soy protein powder is best?
Getting enough protein in your diet can be more challenging than it seems, especially if you live an active lifestyle. Soy protein powders can supplement your diet with essential amino acids, protein and other nutrients.
For anyone following a strict diet, soy protein powder is an excellent way to bolster your protein intake. If you want a high-quality soy protein powder, consider Now Sports Soy Protein Isolate Protein Powder. You’ll get 20 grams of protein per scoop, and it mixes easily with other juices and smoothies.
What to know before you buy a soy protein powder
Diet
If you follow a regular diet, you have the freedom to take other kinds of protein powders. However, for those following a strict diet such as vegan or keto, a soy protein powder is a great way to get a healthy dose of protein. Soy protein powders usually contain only two ingredients, soy protein and soy lecithin, so you don’t need to worry about consuming animal byproducts or foods that go against your diet.
Soy protein vs. whey protein
Soy protein powders have soy protein isolate, which is derived from soybeans. Soy protein isolate is high in protein, but low in carbohydrates, so it doesn’t naturally have a pleasant taste or texture.
Whey protein isolate is derived from dairy, usually cow’s milk. And both soy and whey protein have a thorough essential amino acid profile. However, if you’re looking to build lean muscle mass or lose weight, whey proteins have a higher concentration of amino acids that facilitate these things, making them ideal.
Side effects
If you have a weak stomach, you might experience side effects when taking protein powders. Since soy protein powders don’t contain any animal byproducts, the chances of experiencing side effects such as diarrhea, nausea, indigestion, acne breakouts or bloating are significantly lower, but they’re still possible.
If you experience unpleasant symptoms after drinking soy protein, stop immediately and consult your physician before trying another one.
What to look for in a quality soy protein powder
High protein
The whole point of consuming soy protein powder is to get a good protein fix, so it’s best to find one offering a high amount per serving. Generally, most whey protein powders provide 18-30 grams, but soy protein powders usually have less, roughly 15 to 24. Usually, the less protein, the easier a powder is on your stomach and digestive system. If you need an additional boost, you can always increase the volume of your servings.
Low carbohydrates
Many people who take protein diet supplements do so to get enough nutrients while lowering their daily caloric intake. This is done to facilitate weight loss, but it’s not as effective if carbohydrates are prevalent in the diet. A protein powder with a low amount of total carbohydrates, typically under 2 grams, is ideal if you want to lose weight.
No artificial sweeteners, colors or additional flavors
Flavorless protein powders can be a drag, but if you can’t find one with a low concentration of natural sugars, you’re better off going with a pure flavorless powder. Artificial sweeteners act as a substitute for natural sugars, and while that may sound appealing, they can increase sugar cravings and promote weight gain.
How much you can expect to spend on soy protein powder
It depends on the size, but for a container of 1 to 2 pounds, expect to pay $10-$25. However, some can cost up to $40, depending on their ingredients and nutrient profile.
Soy protein powder FAQ
Is soy protein powder safe during pregnancy?
A. Yes. However, like everything else, it’s best to monitor your soy protein intake and consume it in moderation.
Is soy protein a complete protein?
A. Yes, it contains nine essential amino acids.
Are there any health benefits of soy protein?
A. Soy protein can promote a healthier digestive system. Also, a meta-analysis of 46 studies reviewed by the FDA found that soy protein can reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels.
What’s the best soy protein powder to buy?
Top soy protein powder
Now Sports Soy Protein Isolate Protein Powder
What you need to know: This powder offers an excellent vegetable source of high-quality protein and is suitable for all kinds of diets.
What you’ll love: This powder contains just 90 calories and half a gram of total fat per serving. It has a thorough amino acid profile, contain 20 grams of protein, and has naturally occurring proteins and enzymes for efficient muscle recovery. Also, since it’s flavorless, you can mix it with sports drinks or smoothies.
What you should consider: It doesn’t blend easily with soy milk, and some customers find the taste and texture unpleasant.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Top soy protein powder for the money
Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free Soy Protein Powder
What you need to know: This plant-based protein powder has a mild taste and a texture that easily blends into smoothies.
What you’ll love: This protein powder packs just 70 calories and 1 gram of total fat per serving and offers 16 grams of protein. It doesn’t have any additional flavors, artificial sweeteners or colors, and only contains isolate soy protein and soy lecithin, making it easy to digest.
What you should consider: It has a bland taste, doesn’t contain as much protein as other powders and doesn’t mix well with cold smoothies.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb
Worth checking out
Puritan’s Pride Soy Protein Isolate Powder
What you need to know: This protein powder is low in fat and carbohydrates, making it great for those who want a healthy snack between meals.
What you’ll love: This powder contains 110 calories and just 1 gram of fat per serving. It’s available in natural, chocolate and vanilla, and has an extensive amino acid profile, making it ideal for athletes and casual weightlifters. Plus, it’s cholesterol free and can be mixed with juices.
What you should consider: It’s lumpy when mixed by hand with water or juices, and some customers found the natural flavor too bland.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Several thousand people rallied in the Slovak capital on Tuesday to protest the government amid soaring energy prices and to demand an early election.
The protest was organized by the opposition leftist Smer-Social Democracy party of former populist Prime Minister Robert Fico and included supporters of other groups, including the far right.
Fico blamed the coalition government led by Prime Minister Eduard Heger and President Zuzana Caputova for being partially responsible for the high inflation now hitting the EU nation, claiming that was due to their firm support of Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
Most speakers attacked the European Union’s sanctions against Russia and praised Hungary for how it is dealing with the energy crisis.
Hungary is heavily dependent on fossil fuels from Russia, and last year signed a 15-year agreement with Russian energy company Gazprom for the purchase of natural gas. Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán has fought vigorously against EU sanctions imposed on Russia for invading Ukraine.
The Slovak government has been weakened after a junior coalition partner withdrew from the governing four-party coalition earlier this month, leaving Heger without a parliamentary majority.
The parliament is debating possible changes to the constitution to allow an early election either called by a decision by lawmakers or by a nationwide referendum.
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Which bone broth protein powder is best?
Bone broth protein powder is a great choice when you need a boost of protein in an easy-to-take form. Animal bones and connective tissue are simmered in water for up to 48 hours to access the protein, collagen and amino acids locked inside. The resulting brew is dehydrated and packed with minerals and vital joint-supporting compounds.
For a powder that tastes as good as it makes you feel, try the Ancient Nutrition Bone Broth Protein Powder. It’s easy on the stomach and loaded with protein.
What to know before you buy a bone broth protein powder
Unflavored vs. flavored
If you are treating bone broth protein powder like a shot, there’s no sense in worrying about the flavor. This could backfire, though, and make you less likely to stick with a daily serving. In this case, choosing an unflavored option could be preferable. An unflavored powder is also better if you plan to add it to already-flavored smoothies or juices.
However, if you plan to mix your bone broth protein powder and water, milk or coffee, a little flavor might go a long way. Some powders have an unpleasant taste, and vanilla, chocolate or coffee can mask that.
Ingredients
Take a careful look at bone broth protein powder labels, and you’ll find a variety of ingredients, many of which are not actual bone broth. Regardless of whatever else it contains, at a minimum, the first ingredient should be bone broth.
What to look for in a quality bone broth protein powder
Easily dissolves
Clumps of chewy powder aren’t a good incentive to take charge of your health, but collagen can be tricky to mix. Look for powders that dissolve easily into hot or cold liquids.
Pasture-raised bones
Grass-fed, pasture-raised animals produce a higher-quality bone broth protein powder than those crammed into an industrial feedlot. This way of raising animals also produces a grain-free product compatible with paleo diets.
Multiple types of collagen
At a minimum, bone broth protein powder contains type II collagen. If you want to cover all of your bases, look for powders that include types I and III.
Allergen-friendly
The best bone broth protein powder is free from most common allergens, including:
- Gluten
- Corn
- Soy
- Dairy
- Wheat
Naturally sweet
Flavored and sweetened protein powders can be packed with unwanted sugar. Use stevia or monk fruit to add natural sweetness without additional glucose.
How much you can expect to spend on bone broth protein powder
The prices range depending on the size of the container and the amount of protein and other beneficial ingredients. Expect to spend $20-$40 for a 30-day supply.
Bone broth protein powder FAQ
Are stock and bone broth the same?
A. No. Stock is made by simmering meat scraps and vegetables for a few hours. This is a great base for making soups and stews, but it does not have the same nutritional profile as bone broth.
The slow, long-simmering of bones extracts minerals, amino acids and other nutrients that the relatively brief cooking of stock cannot. This also helps the connective tissue break down to access collagen and gelatin.
What are the benefits of bone broth protein powder?
A. Although whole foods give you better nutrition than processed foods, bone broth protein powder is a great addition to a healthy diet. Its benefits include:
- Easily absorbable for optimal use in the body
- Higher levels of protein than actual bone broth (and more affordable)
- Included collagen for immune-boosting joint pain relief
- Gut-friendly formulation that decreases inflammation
- Additional essential minerals and amino acids
What is the best way to take bone broth protein powder?
A. The easiest and most popular way to take any protein is in a morning or post-workout smoothie.
If you’re looking for other ways to incorporate this form of protein into your diet, try:
- Adding it to pancakes: You might need to remove some of the flour to maintain a light and fluffy flapjack, but this is a great way to bump up your breakfast protein.
- Swirl it into coffee: This adds a burst of non-jittery energy to your morning.
- Use it as a snack: Mix it into water or iced tea between meals to reduce cravings and cut down on snacking.
What’s the best bone broth protein powder to buy?
Top bone broth protein powder
Ancient Nutrition Bone Broth Protein Powder
What you need to know: This works well for people who have experienced stomach upset with other bone broth protein powders.
What you’ll love: Each serving has 20 grams of paleo-friendly, allergen-free protein. In addition to protein, it also has collagen type II, glucosamine, chondroitin, hyaluronic acid and more. It is sweetened with stevia. It is available in five flavors.
What you should consider: Mixing is challenging, and it tends to clump.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Top bone broth protein powder for the money
Now Foods Sports Beef Bone Broth Protein Powder
What you need to know: Choose this if you need one of the highest amounts of protein.
What you’ll love: It has 28 grams of protein per serving. It also includes a mix of amino acids for building muscle. It has zero artificial ingredients and is batch tested.
What you should consider: The taste is very strong. It needs to be mixed into something equally strong.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb
Worth checking out
Peak Performance Coffee Store Hydrolyzed Bone Broth and Collagen Unflavored Protein Peptides Powder
What you need to know: This is a low-calorie choice that adds protein and collagen, too.
What you’ll love: It’s available in plain or chocolate flavor. Amino acids and collagen peptides improve skin, hair and nails. There are no fillers, and it is easy to digest.
What you should consider: At just 14 grams, the protein count is pretty low.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which pencil pouch is best?
The pencil pouch is a practical accessory designed to keep all your writing implements organized. It’s easy to carry around at work, school or home without fuss or fumbling. While “pencil” is in the name, you can also use the pouch for pens, erasers, scissors, art supplies and anything else you might need on hand. Take a look at the iDream365 Upgraded Hard Pencil Case for a pouch that is sleek, straightforward and made to last.
What to know before you buy a pencil pouch
Dimensions
Pencil cases come in a variety of shapes and sizes. A standard pencil is 7.5 inches long and so the most basic pencil pouch is at least 7 to 9 inches in length with a width of 1 to 2 inches and a height of 3 to 4 inches. Small pouches fit a few pens and pencils, maybe an eraser or pencil sharpener, and little else.
Larger pencil pouches are about 7 to 9 inches long, but larger in other ways to accommodate more items or to maximize organizational storage options. The width and height for these cases start around 4 to 6 inches.
Materials
There are lots of colors and styles from which to choose. Polyester, canvas and plastic are the most common but linen, felt and leather or faux leather are also viable exterior fabrics.
Remember that plastic and mesh are the only transparent or opaque options if you’re looking for something simple that can be examined without being opened.
Closure method
The shape and style dictate the closure method. Most pencil pouches use a zipper closure for convenience. The zipper can go entirely around the case, allowing it to open flat or the zipper can just go across the top in a straight line.
While less common, some pouches use a tie, snap or Velcro closure. These methods are most popular with pouches that roll up to close or have a small top flap that works like the top of an envelope.
What to look for in a quality pencil pouch
Multiple compartments
A pencil pouch designed with organization in mind features at least two to three compartments. Sometimes there are even four. These compartments help you to separate contents based on how often you use them or group things like colored pencils together away from your regular pencils.
The compartments are usually separated by zippers or mesh lining and sometimes contain loops or straps to keep pens and pencils secure.
Shell casing
Most pencil cases have cloth exteriors with no firm structuring to them but some have a hard or soft shell case that keeps the pouch’s shape from changing. These cases are great if you want something that will protect the contents against other things in your backpack or luggage. A shell case is also helpful if you’re carrying around sharp tools and you’re worried one will pierce the fabric.
Grommets vs. handles
Plenty of pencil pouches don’t come with an attachment method but those that do feature grommets or a handle.
- Metal grommets are great for academic environments where you want the pouch to fit easily in a binder. There are usually three grommets in a row but sometimes cases feature fewer.
- Handles or fabric loops are great If you don’t use a binder, but still want to hang or carry the pouch by one end. These handles usually aren’t very big but can be clipped to something such as a backpack.
How much you can expect to spend on a pencil pouch
A pencil pouch usually costs around $7-$15, but some pencil pouches designed for artists working with lots of pencils or charcoals can cost up to $30.
Pencil pouch FAQ
How do you wash a pencil case?
A. If the pouch starts to get dirty you can shake out the inside to loosen dirt or spot clean the exterior as needed. Do not machine-wash unless the tag confirms that this is safe to do.
How many pens or pencils can a case hold?
A. Depending on the size of the pouch and which additional items you carry in it, such as your phone or a calculator, the average pencil pouch holds anywhere from 10 to 250 pens.
What’s the best pencil pouch to buy?
Top pencil pouch
iDream365 Upgraded Hard Pencil Case
What you need to know: This polyester case has a semi-hard shell with rounded edges and a zipper closure. It measures 8.46 inches by 3.93 inches by 1.18 inches in size.
What you’ll love: It’s waterproof and shockproof. There are elastic straps and mesh compartments on both sides of the interior to keep writing instruments securely in place. It’s very durable and holds a lot of items. It comes in black or gray.
What you should consider: None of the interior compartments close separately.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pencil pouch for the money
What you need to know: This canvas pouch has a fabric exterior and a zipper closure. It measures 7.48 inches by 3.54 inches by 4.13 inches in size.
What you’ll love: It’s attractive, durable and comes in six colors including three pastel tones. It stands upright on its own and features a loop on the end for you to carry it by. It fits 30 to 50 pens or pencils and there are two interior pockets for organization. It can also be used as a makeup or tech accessory bag.
What you should consider: It’s smaller than it looks.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This wedge-shaped canvas pouch has a fabric exterior and two zipper closures. It measures 8.27 inches by 4.13 inches by 1.4 inches in size.
What you’ll love: The main compartment is spacious. There’s an exterior pocket with two sleeves for organization and a wide loop handle for carrying. It comes in 12 colors, giving you plenty of options from which to choose.
What you should consider: It’s not incredibly durable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The right grill tools will simplify your holiday cookout
You may be planning your Labor Day barbecue menu, looking for grilling tips and preparing to fire up your grill, but don’t forget the importance of having a grill set on hand when the celebration begins. Made specifically for grilling, these sets include essential tools for preparing, cooking and serving your favorite grilled foods.
Not all grill sets are the same. While some only include a few essential utensils, others come well-stocked with a large collection of tools and gadgets to fit your every barbecuing need. The best one for you will depend on factors such as how often you grill, how many grilling utensils you already have in your collection and the types of food you typically toss on your grill.
Items in a grill set
Spatulas, tongs, forks, basting brushes, skewers, corn holders and grill brushes are some of the most commonly used tools for grilling and are included in most grill sets. Quality sets contain durable stainless steel utensils. Because safety is key when working on a hot grill, the tools that are used on the grill feature handles that are approximately 16 to 18 inches in length.
Additionally, other items in larger, comprehensive sets include:
- Squeeze bottles for condiments or water for the grill
- Salt and pepper shakers
- Meat marinade injector
- Meat thermometer
- Knife
- Grill apron
- Grill mitt or silicone gloves for handling hot pots and pans
- Grill hat
- Grill cleaning pad
Number of items in a grill set
Some grill cooks only need a few grilling tools, while others prefer a large collection of items that come in handy for everything from cooking to cleanup. You’ll find grill sets with as few as two items, large sets with 25 or more pieces and everything in between.
Cases
Not all grill sets come with cases. When this feature is offered, it is often made of metal and has slots and compartments for each item. Although not as durable, other cases are made of soft materials that are lightweight and easy to carry. A case isn’t necessary, as there are well-made grill sets that don’t include them. However, having a case for your grill set comes in handy for transporting it when you are grilling away from home and for storing your grilling tools and gadgets when you aren’t using them.
Best grill sets for Labor Day
Cuisinart Deluxe 20-Piece Grill Set
This popular grill tool set comes with 20 pieces that are durable and made to last. It includes a wide spatula, tongs, a basting brush, corn holders and more. An aluminum storage case is included. Sold by Amazon, Macy’s and Home Depot
New Star Foodservice Four-Piece Stainless Steel Grill Set with Hard Wood Handles
This set is a good value if you only need a few tools for grilling. It includes a fork, spatula, tongs and grill cleaning brush, each with long, durable hardwood handles. Sold by Amazon
Aptoco 15-Piece Stainless Steel Grill Tool Set
In addition to classic grill tools such as a basting brush, fork, tongs and several spatulas, you’ll get a few unexpected items in this 15-piece set, such as egg rings, squeeze bottles and salt and pepper shakers. The cleaning brush comes in handy for keeping grill grates free of debris. Sold by Wayfair
Nexgrill Eight-Piece Grill Tool Set
If just a few grilling utensils are all you need at your next barbecue, Nexgrill’s eight-piece set comes with the essentials, including tongs, four skewers, a basting brush, fork and spatula. Sold by Home Depot
Oniva Six-Piece BBQ Apron Tote Pro Grill Set
Because this set includes a grill hat and apron, you’ll feel like a true chef every time you cook out. It also comes with a mitt, spatula, fork and tongs. Sold by Kohl’s
Grilljoy 24-Piece Grill Tool Set
With 24 pieces, Grilljoy’s grill tool set has everything you’ll need the next time you grill, including a spatula, meat injector, basting brush, salt and pepper shakers and more. You can keep them all organized in the included aluminum case. Sold by Amazon
OlarHike 25-Piece Grill Tool Set
This set is packed with well-made utensils and gadgets that come in handy for preparing your favorite grilled cuisine. It comes with 25 pieces total plus an aluminum storage case. Sold by Amazon
Weber Two-Piece Stainless Steel Grill Tool Set
Weber’s two-piece stainless steel set is perfect if you only need a pair of practical grilling tools. The dishwasher-safe spatula and tongs have soft handles that are comfortable to grip during use. Sold by Home Depot and Amazon
Eigno 27-Piece Stainless Steel Grill Tool Set
From the basic to the unique, the 27 pieces in this set will meet almost any need when cooking on the grill. The included apron keeps the tools organized and easily accessible, plus it doubles as a place to store them when not in use. Sold by Amazon
Alpha Grillers Four-Piece Heavy-Duty Stainless Steel BBQ Grill Tool Set
This grill set comes with tongs, a spatula, a basting brush and a fork made of durable stainless steel. The spatula has a serrated edge to cut meat while on the grill. Sold by Amazon
All-Clad Five-Piece Stainless Steel BBQ Set
Made by a top brand in cooking items, the four pieces in this set are made to last. You’ll get a fork, marinade brush, spatula, tongs and a tough metal carrying and storage case backed by a lifetime warranty. Sold by Macy’s
Home-Complete 16-Piece Stainless Steel BBQ Grill Tool Set
The 16 pieces in this set will be useful every time you grill. It includes a spatula, corn holders, a grill brush and more. The aluminum case makes them easy to transport and doubles as storage. Sold by Home Depot
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Which white volleyball shoes are best?
Volleyball shoes need to provide as much cushioning and stabilization as possible, supporting players’ feet as they jump and land repeatedly. The correct shoe keeps players healthy.
Having a safe shoe doesn’t mean players need to sacrifice style, though. And when you want a sharp-looking, traditional volleyball shoe, it’s hard to go wrong with white. The best white volleyball shoes are the comfortable, supportive Mizuno Wave Lightning Z6 Volleyball Shoes.
What to know before you buy white volleyball shoes
Height of cut
When you are wondering how to buy the perfect volleyball shoes, start with the cut at the top of the shoe.
- Low-cut: For volleyball players, low-cut shoes are rare. The top of the shoe rests below the anklebone, providing very little ankle support.
- Mid-cut: A mid-cut shoe is a popular style for volleyball players. It yields the best mix of ankle support and flexibility of movement for the foot and ankle.
- High-cut: A high-cut shoe is more a design made for basketball players than volleyball players. The top of the shoe rests over the anklebone, providing significant support but limiting flexibility of movement.
Accents on white shoes
White volleyball shoes don’t have to be completely white. They can have some colored accents. To maintain the focus on the white part of the shoe, some manufacturers use silver or gray accents rather than brightly colored ones.
Favorite brands
All of the top brands of volleyball shoes — including Adidas, Asics, Mizuno and Nike — carry white volleyball shoes. Some are all white, while others are primarily white with some other colors as accents. So you don’t have to sacrifice brand-name quality to buy white shoes.
What to look for in quality white volleyball shoes
Cushioning
Volleyball players place a lot of stress on their feet and ankles, whether jumping at the net or trying to make a quick movement to dig an attack. So it’s important for volleyball shoes of all colors to deliver a high level of cushioning.
The primary cushioning for the shoe occurs in its sole. Thick, lightweight soles are popular among players.
Traction
Volleyball shoes need to have a pattern on the sole that encourages traction. With good traction, players can jump quickly at the net and move quickly when diving for balls.
White volleyball shoes often have a gray or white sole to maintain the shoe’s white look, although a few use other colors.
Midsole
The midsole in a white volleyball shoe has a design similar to any other color of shoe. The midsole needs to support the balls of the player’s feet, as volleyball players often are leaning forward, preparing for quick movements. Additionally, the midsole’s design reduces the force and weight on the balls of the feet.
How much you can expect to spend on white volleyball shoes
They’re priced similarly to other volleyball shoes. Expect to pay $50-$150, depending on the manufacturer.
White volleyball shoes FAQ
Is it hard to keep white volleyball shoes clean?
A. Because volleyball is an indoor sport, volleyball players can keep their white shoes clean pretty easily. Just don’t wear them outdoors, and they should continue to look great.
Is it hard to break in new volleyball shoes?
A. Not really. Modern white volleyball shoes require a minimal break-in period. You can break them in by just wearing them for practice a few times. To avoid dirt and grass stains, don’t try to break them in by wearing them outdoors.
Do I have to wear white volleyball shoes?
A. Not necessarily. It really depends on your team’s rules. Some teams want players to wear white shoes and have the entire team match. Other teams let players pick their own shoe colors. White shoes are popular when teams are trying to have al the players match because they go with any color of home or away uniform.
What are the best white volleyball shoes to buy?
Top white volleyball shoes
Mizuno Wave Lightning Z6 Volleyball Shoes
What you need to know: These are highly comfortable and supportive, giving players the stability they need to make quick movements on the court.
What you’ll love: Even with a mid-cut fit, they provide a surprising amount of ankle support. The silver and gray accents look great. With a rounded heel area and grooves in the outsole, these shoes allows quick movements with good traction.
What you should consider: For players who have significant ankle problems, mid-cut shoes may not have quite enough support.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top white volleyball shoes for the money
Asics Gel-Rocket Indoor Volleyball Sport Shoes
What you need to know: Even with a thick sole that provides maximum cushioning, these shoes use a design that lets them weigh less than a typical volleyball shoe.
What you’ll love: The design includes larger grooves in the outsole that encourage the foot to flex, which is ideal for jumping. The upper layer uses breathable mesh to keep the foot feeling cooler, even toward the end of a long workout session.
What you should consider: If your foot wants to flex in an area different from the grooves in the outsole, this shoe may not be comfortable for you.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Adidas Crazyflight Volleyball Shoes
What you need to know: These are pricey, but are designed to maximize your energy on every jump and provide comfort on every landing.
What you’ll love: Lightweight materials help players feel fresher toward the end of a long match. The upper layer consists of at least 50% recycled materials. The shoe has a sharp-looking white design, but the three-stripe Adidas logo stands out nicely in a dark gray.
What you should consider: Their price is higher than average, so they’re better for more serious, higher-level players.
Where to buy: Sold by Adidas
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Which balance beam for kids is best?
A balance beam is an excellent, fun way for kids to improve their coordination, whether for everyday balance or if they’re taking their first steps toward gymnastic competitions. However, not every balance beam is right for every kid. For example, a gymnastics hopeful should have a competition-ready bar that the youngest kids might struggle on.
The best balance beam for kids is the Milliard Adjustable Balance Beam. Its lowest setting is perfect for any age, and it’s easy to raise the bar later.
What to know before you buy a balance beam for kids
Height
Balance beams for kids always begin resting on the floor, typically with beam heights not exceeding 4 inches. Once your child has grown taller and improved their skills, you can consider a beam that’s on legs and 6-12 inches off the floor. Older children with plenty of experience on a balance beam can use beams as high as 24 inches. Anything higher than this is used for competitions among the most experienced teenagers and adults.
Length
Balance beams for kids typically come in lengths of 4, 6 or 8 feet. Keep to beams of 4 or 6 feet for casual use by the youngest kids and especially for use at home. Beams 8 feet long are better for kids starting to get into gymnastics; just make sure you have the necessary space.
For reference, official competition balance beams are 16 feet long.
Design
Balance beams for kids come in a wide range of colors. Purple, tan and blue are some of the most common for standard beams, while plastic beams often come in a rainbow of bright colors. It shouldn’t be difficult to find one that matches your child’s favorite color.
What to look for in a quality balance beam for kids
Core material
A balance beam’s core material affects what level of gymnastics your child can perform.
- Plastic is common in balance beams aimed at those who’ve only recently learned to walk. It’s usually not sturdy enough to handle much more than 100 pounds. Many plastic beams come in pieces rather than as a whole, so you can adjust the challenge to the child or create funky shapes and courses to keep them entertained.
- Foam is common for beginner gymnastics. It’s just sturdy enough to provide some give, but soft enough not to hurt if the child falls. It also tends to cost less than wood or metal.
- Wood and metal are best for children who are ready to step up their game. They provide the best support and strength but also include a thin layer of foam for a little protection.
Adjustability
Children grow fast, which is why the best balance beams for kids let you adjust their heights. Some may only have one or two settings above floor height while others have multiple.
How much you can expect to spend on a balance beam for kids
They can cost as little as $30 or as much as $200-plus. Small, basic beams rarely cost more than $75 while the average beam costs $150-$200. Serious gymnastic beams for kids typically start around $200.
Balance beam for kids FAQ
What exactly does a balance beam for kids improve?
A. It improves your child’s coordination and core strength, with their balance improving as a result.
Why do most balance beams use suede covers?
A. Suede, either natural or synthetic, is typically thick and offers some extra grip for a gymnast. It’s also more durable.
How old should my child be before they start ‘professional’ gymnastics?
A. Every child is different. One might have a natural aptitude and be ready by as young as 4 or 5, while another child might need more time to mature and get the basics down. Regardless, there are plenty of classes available for children of all ages that teach those basics as long as they can comfortably walk. Remember to take your child’s interests and abilities into account when signing them up.
What’s the best balance beam for kids to buy?
Top balance beam for kids
Miliard Adjustable Balance Beam
What you need to know: The adjustable height lets it grow alongside your child’s skills and age.
What you’ll love: It’s 8 by 4 inches with five height settings between 7-24 inches. The legs are made of steel for durability and have anti-slip feet to keep them steady. The padded suede beam with a wooden core is competition grade.
What you should consider: A few consumers reported the 24-inch height setting as a little wobbly. Others reported the suede to be a little slippery.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top balance beam for kids for the money
OMNISAFE Upgraded Balance Beams
What you need to know: This balance beam is great for teaching the youngest kids a little balance.
What you’ll love: It’s made up of six connected “stepping stones” that measure 21 by 6 by 4 inches. They are lightweight with a rubberized base, plus the entire stretch can be made easier or harder by moving the logs closer together or farther apart.
What you should consider: Only six stepping stones are included. You will need to buy more if you want a longer balance beam.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
S&S Worldwide Figure Eight Balance Beam Set
What you need to know: These pieces let you create your own balance beam shapes.
What you’ll love: The set includes eight straight pieces, 18 curved ones and one cross-section. Every piece is connectable so you can make long, winding squiggly beams, a simple straight, circles and a figure 8. The pieces can hold up to 110 pounds.
What you should consider: Putting all the pieces together and taking them apart each time can be a hassle. The pieces take up a large amount of storage space.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Jimmy Garoppolo is staying in San Francisco after agreeing to a reduced contract to be the backup to Trey Lance on the 49ers.
A person familiar with the deal said on condition of anonymity Monday that the sides are finalizing a deal to reduce Garoppolo’s $24.2 million base salary for 2022. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal hadn’t been announced.
ESPN reported Garoppolo will receive a $6.5 million fully guaranteed base salary, $500,000 in roster bonuses and the chance to make nearly $9 million more in playing time bonuses. The deal also includes a no-trade clause and prevents San Francisco from using the franchise tag on Garoppolo next offseason.
The Niners had been unable to find a trade partner for Garoppolo and were facing a deadline with rosters being cut to 53 players on Tuesday.
They were unwilling to keep Garoppolo as a backup at his full salary, and with no chances at a starting job on another team, the two sides found a compromise.
Garoppolo had not taken part in a single practice or meeting with the team this training camp, working out on the side on his own as he works his way back from offseason shoulder surgery.
But after spending the past five years in San Francisco, he should have little problem getting back up to speed on coach Kyle Shanahan’s offense and he gives the Niners insurance if Lance struggles or gets hurt.
The other quarterbacks on the roster are seventh-round rookie Brock Purdy and Nate Sudfeld, who hasn’t started a game in the NFL.
Garoppolo arrived in San Francisco with plenty of fanfare in 2017 when he was acquired from New England before the trade deadline in San Francisco’s first season under Shanahan and general manager John Lynch.
The Niners lost their first nine games that season and were 1-10 when Garoppolo took over as starter and led the team to five straight wins. That led San Francisco to give him a five-year, $137.5 million contract that offseason.
But Garoppolo had a season-ending knee injury in the third game of the 2018 campaign and also missed 10 games with injuries in 2020. In the two seasons when he was mostly healthy, San Francisco had great success as a team even if Garoppolo had limitations at quarterback.
San Francisco went 31-14 in his starts, while going just 8-28 with other quarterbacks under Shanahan. The Niners made it to the Super Bowl in the 2019 season and the NFC title game last season.
San Francisco had set in motion the plan to move on from Garoppolo before the 2021 season when the 49ers traded three first-round picks to draft Lance third overall. Lance spent most of his rookie season on the bench adjusting to the NFL but was put in the starting role at the start of the 2022 offseason program.
Lance has started just three games the past two seasons in college and the pros after starting for one season at lower-level North Dakota State in 2019.
Lance bring elements that were lacking with Garoppolo with the ability to run and a stronger arm that should open up the offense for more deep passes to talented receivers like Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk.
Garoppolo completed 67.7% of his passes in five seasons in San Francisco, averaging 8.4 yards per attempt with 66 TDs, 38 interceptions and a 98.3 passer rating. Garoppolo’s strength was getting the ball to his playmakers in space and letting them make big plays after the catch.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans told three-time Pro Bowl punter Brett Kern on Monday that he will be released, going with an undrafted rookie to replace the man who had been their longest-tenured player.
The NFL deadline for teams to trim rosters to 53 is Tuesday afternoon. Titans general manager Jon Robinson said in a statement that Kern embodies everything they look for in a player for Tennessee.
“He has been at the top of his game for a long time in this league, has been an outstanding leader for us, and has been an excellent representation of the Titans in our community,” Robinson said. “I’m blessed to have worked with him, and on behalf of the entire organization, we wish him all the best moving forward.”
Kern spent 13 seasons with Tennessee after being picked up off waivers during the 2009 season. He joined former linebacker Derrick Morgan as the only players to play for each coach the Titans have had since the franchise moved to Tennessee in 1997.
The punter posted a message on social media, calling it an honor and privilege to play for the Titans the past 13 years.
“I will never forget watching two running backs rush for 2k, holding a game-winning kick in 0-degree weather, experiencing a playoff run that almost took us to the Super Bowl, going to 3 Pro Bowls with my family and teammate, jumping out of cardboard boxes in the hallway to scare the rookies …,” Kern wrote.
The 2019 All-Pro is just four punts shy of becoming the NFL’s 25th player with at least 1,000 punts. Since Kern signed with Denver out of Toledo in 2008, only Andy Lee (1,010) and the recently retired Sam Koch (1,004) have more punts in the NFL than Kern.
Kern leaves the Titans third in franchise history with 197 games played, trailing only Hall of Famers Bruce Matthews and Elvin Bethea. He tied Brad Hopkins for the third-most seasons in franchise history.
Kern, 36, lost his job to rookie Ryan Stonehouse out of Colorado State. Kern said he knew in April that there would be a competition, with the rookie hitting the ball like he had seen only three or four other players do in his lifetime.
The veteran had been in the final year of his contract and has only a $550,000 “dead cap” hit. He is from Grand Island, New York, and could be headed back to his home state with the Buffalo Bills needing a punter. The Titans visit Buffalo on Sept. 19.
Last season, Kern ranked third in the NFL of punts downed inside the 20 compared with touchbacks. He placed 59.5% of his punts (22 of 37) inside the 20 for the best results by any punter with at least 30 punts since 1991. Kern earned his third straight Pro Bowl nod in 2019.
Kern holds several career records for the franchise including most punts (923), a 45.9-yard average, net average of 40.8 and 373 punts inside the 20. He set both the single-season punting average at 49.7 and net average of 44.6 in 2017. He tied Jim Norton’s mark for the team’s longest single punt with a 79-yarder Dec. 28, 2014, against the Colts.
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington Commanders rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr. said Monday he underwent surgery a day after being shot in what the NFL team described as an attempted robbery or carjacking.
Robinson posted to social media from a hospital that surgery went well and thanked followers for their prayers, which the team passed along on its official Twitter account an update on his condition. Coach Ron Rivera after practice said doctors have been positive, but added there’s no timeline for Robinson’s return to the football field.
“He was in a really good place,” said Rivera, who visited Robinson at the hospital Sunday night along with owners Dan and Tanya Snyder, team president Jason Wright, running backs coach Randy Jordan and players.
“The doctors were very positive with him, and he was very positive, as well. We’re very fortunate. He’s very fortunate. It was a very unfortunate situation, but he’s doing well and it’ll be a matter of time before he’s back out here.”
A report by District of Columbia police indicated Robinson was shot in one of his legs by two suspects. The 23-year-old former Alabama player was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center with what the team called non-life-threatening injuries.
“It’s sad,” defensive captain and fellow Alabama product Jonathan Allen said. “Young guy. You never want to see something like that happen. By the grace of God, he’s OK. It’s not life-threatening, and he’s going to be OK, so that’s really what’s the most important thing right now.”
Rivera gathered players for a team meeting before practice Monday, 13 days before the start of the regular season. Robinson impressed since Washington drafted him in the third round and looked to have earned a starting job.
“He’s exactly the kind of guy that we want, and he’s exactly the kind of guy that we needed,” Allen said. “We’re really excited about him.”
Rivera wore an orange shirt to signify his support for measures to curb gun violence and spoke about the subject. He said Robinson was in the wrong place at the wrong time just trying to get a meal when the incident happened outside a popular Washington establishment.
The veteran coach, who was watching film of Robinson along with Jordan when he learned what happened, said Robinson “sounded pretty optimistic and positive, considering his circumstances.”
“Everything’s been very positive so far,” Rivera said. “It’s just about the healing process and once he’s well enough to get out on the field, then the doctors will have to clear him, obviously, and then we’ll go from there.”
The concern about Robinson extended beyond Washington to Tuscaloosa, where he played five seasons for Alabama.
“Obviously that’s something that’s really sad,” Crimson Tide quarterback Bryce Young said. “Me individually and us as a team, I think we’re just sending our prayers and our love to B-Rob and his family in a tough time like this.”
Alabama coach Nick Saban said he tried to call before then texting Robinson and relayed similar optimism as Rivera.
“We’re glad that this is not something that is critical to his future or putting his life in jeopardy in the short term,” Saban said.
“He’s doing well relative to the information that we have, even to the point where they think he may be able to come back and play at some point in the season. We’re hopeful for that and keep our fingers crossed.”
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MIAMI (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers put All-Star pitcher Tony Gonsolin on the injured list Monday because of a strained right forearm, making the move as a precaution hours before his scheduled start against the Miami Marlins.
Pitching more than he ever has in his career, Gonsolin is tied for the big league lead with 16 victories. His injury is the latest for a rotation that’s helped the Dodgers post the best record in the majors.
“It just felt kind of tight coming out of the last outing,” Gonsolin said. “I’ve dealt with a little bit of tightness early this year. Thought it was going to go away a couple of days and it lingered this time so we are going to push back.”
After splitting time between starting and relief his first three seasons, the 28-year-old Gonsolin (16-1) has emerged as one of the top pitchers in the major leagues. The right-hander leads the NL with a 2.10 ERA and is tied with Houston’s Justin Verlander and Atlanta’s Kyle Wright for the most wins in the majors.
With injuries to three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw and Walker Buehler, Gonsolin ascended in the Dodgers’ rotation and earned his first All-Star selection.
But Gonsolin’s workload also has increased, unlike his previous three seasons with the club. Gonsolin already has thrown 128 1/3 innings this season after a previous a major league high of 55 2/3 in 2021.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said this is new territory for Gonsolin.
“One part of it is, you do lose a little bit of momentum of the season that you’re having. But I think the most important part is you have to do everything we can to keep him healthy,” he said.
Gonsolin doesn’t expect to miss beyond the two starts during his IL stint. He said that an MRI wasn’t required after other tests revealed no structural damage.
“Every ligament test came out negative,” Gonsolin said. “Everything is feeling really good other than a little bit of tightness when I throw.”
The Dodgers, who began the day with a 19 1/2-game lead over San Diego in the NL West, recalled Michael Grove from Triple-A Oklahoma City. The right-hander will start against the Miami.
The Dodgers begin a three-game set at the NL East-leading New York Mets on Tuesday.
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PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are investigating allegations that World Cup winner Paul Pogba was targeted by extortion attempts by his brother and childhood friends.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday it opened an investigation earlier this month into attempted organized extortion, which is being handled by anti-corruption police. It would not provide further details involving an ongoing investigation.
Public broadcaster France-Info reported that Pogba told police that a group of childhood friends demanded 13 million euros from him and repeatedly intimidated him, claiming he didn’t support them after he became an international soccer star.
When the group approached Pogba about their demand at the Juventus training center in Turin, he said his brother Mathias Pogba was among them, according to France-Info.
The case became public after Mathias Pogba posted a video and tweets this weekend threatening to share “explosive revelations” about his brother and France star Kylian Mbappe.
In response, Paul Pogba issued a statement through his lawyer that said his brother’s claims were “in addition to threats and extortion attempts by an organized gang against Paul Pogba.”
A 29-year-old midfielder, Paul Pogba won the World Cup with France in 2018 and returned this summer to Juventus after six seasons at Manchester United.
The 32-year-old Mathias Pogba is also a soccer player who spent most of his career with lower-tier teams in England and other European countries.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his 50th home run of the season Monday night, connecting in the eighth inning for the New York Yankees against the Los Angeles Angels.
With his parents in the stands, the California-born slugger sent a 434-foot solo drive to left-center off reliever Ryan Tepera to trim New York’s deficit to one in a 4-3 loss.
Judge became one of 10 players in major league history with multiple 50-homer seasons. He smashed 52 long balls in 2017, setting a rookie record that was broken two years later when Pete Alonso hit 53 for the New York Mets.
The 6-foot-7 Judge is chasing the single-season Yankees record of 61 home runs established by Roger Maris in 1961.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Rory McIlroy walked toward the stage in the media room at East Lake, the FedEx Cup silver and shiny on the table, when he raised his arm and declared with a smile, “Super Bowl champ!”
That was more another dig at LIV Golf than sizing up his season.
The reference was banter he had exchanged with a reporter at the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs when asked if it was the hardest trophy to win. McIlroy would know better than anyone now that he’s a three-time winner, who also twice failed to win as the No. 1 seed.
“Is the Super Bowl the hardest trophy to win in football?” he asked on Aug 10.
Few things are lost on McIlroy. The lead attorney for LIV Golf had argued in a court hearing the day before that the FedEx Cup was the “Super Bowl of golf” in his unsuccessful bid for three players from the Saudi-funded league to play the postseason.
McIlroy rarely resists trolling LIV Golf or Greg Norman.
There also was plenty of truth to his eventual answer — McIlroy is not big on “yes” or “no” — on the difficulty of winning the FedEx Cup.
“It’s a weird one,” he said, and no one would dispute that when it comes to any playoff system in golf. “You have to play consistently good golf over the course of a 30-week season and then you have to get hot at the end of it again, as well.”
And that’s what he did. He wasn’t as good as Scottie Scheffler or Cameron Smith, but he was good enough to have a chance at the end. He was a long shot at the start and going into the final round, but he played his best on Sunday — with a lot of help from Scheffler and a little from Sungjae Im — to rally from six shots down and claim the $18 million prize.
Super Bowl champ? Sure.
Before he laid his hands on the trophy, however, McIlroy was quick to point out that Scheffler was the MVP.
“Firstly, there’s only thing I want to say: I feel like Scottie deserves at least half of this today,” McIlroy said at the trophy presentation. “He had an unbelievable season. I feel sort of bad that I pipped him to the post, but he’s a hell of a competitor. He’s an even better guy.”
He ended his praise by keeping score, and that also was telling.
“I told him we’re 1-all in Georgia,” McIlroy said. “He got the Masters. I got this.”
McIlroy was runner-up to Scheffler at Augusta National, though he was never seriously in contention. And it’s foolish to even ask which one McIlroy or any player would rather have. There are the majors. And there is the FedEx Cup.
At this stage in his career, money is not as meaningful as winning. McIlroy spoke of the three “Calamity Jane” putters in his trophy case — the prize for winning the Tour Championship.
He is the only three-time winner of the FedEx Cup. Left unsaid is that those “very cool” trophies all were won since he last captured a major. That remains the ultimate measure.
McIlroy was the only player to finish in the top 10 at all the majors this year. Of the three times he was in the mix, none crushed him more than the British Open at St. Andrews, where Smith simply outplayed him.
“I’ve been knocking on the door so much this year. St. Andrews was really hard for me,” McIlroy said. “This softens the blow a little bit. It doesn’t make it that much easier to get over, but it’s great to end the season on a high note like this.”
Perhaps that’s why his best friend and caddie, Harry Diamond, said to McIlroy when they finished, “All the good golf you played this year, you deserve this.”
There was a lot to unpack from McIlroy winning the Tour Championship and the symbolism of the strongest voice in the fight against LIV Golf winning what the PGA Tour describes as its “ultimate prize.” It was about more than money.
For McIlroy — and the entire FedEx Cup playoffs, for that matter — it was a reminder that while winning starts with having a chance, it can require a little more.
Will Zalatoris hit a tee shot in Memphis that nearly went out-of-bounds. Patrick Cantlay hit a drive in Wilmington that landed in just the right spot to bounce over a bunker and into the fairway. McIlroy hit a chip in Atlanta that should have gone off the green on the 70th hole except the pin got in the way.
McIlroy knows what it’s like to be the MVP without winning the Super Bowl. He won two majors in 2014 and lost to Billy Horschel on the final day at East Lake in 2014. He won two playoff events in 2012 and lost the FedEx Cup to Brandt Snedeker.
“The more times you just put yourself in the position, the law of averages suggests that you’re going to get it done at some point,” McIlroy said. “And that’s sort of what I’ve done in this tournament.”
Tiger Woods once said it can’t be considered a great year without a major. That’s still true. It was a great year for Scheffler.
All things considered — three wins, a third FedEx Cup and his role in helping to reshape the PGA Tour — McIlroy’s year wasn’t too far behind.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Major League Baseball Players Association is attempting to unionize minor leaguers, reversing decades of opposition.
The players’ association said Monday it is circulating union authorization cards among players with minor league contracts to form a separate bargaining unit from the big leaguers.
While the average major league salary is above $4 million, players with minor league contracts earn as little as $400 a week during the six-month season.
“The working conditions facing these players have been nothing short of offensive,” union head Tony Clark wrote in a letter Sunday to player agents. “Poverty wages, oppressive reserve rules, discipline without due process, ever-expanding offseason obligations, appropriation of intellectual property, substandard attention to player health and safety, and a chronic lack of respect for minor leaguers as a whole (to name just a few) — these cancers on our game exist because minor league players have never had a seat at the bargaining table. It’s time for that to change.”
The union’s executive board unanimously approved the minor league initiative on Friday.
Clark was not available to respond to questions, spokesman Chris Dahl said.
Signed cards from 30% of minor leaguers in the bargaining unit would allow the union to file a petition to the National Labor Relations Board asking for an union authorization election. There are 5,000 to 6,500 U.S.-based minor leaguers at any given time, MLB estimates, the number increasing when new players sign each summer.
An authorization election would be decided by majority vote. MLB also could voluntarily recognize the union representing the bargaining unit, a process that typically can occur if a majority of the unit signs cards.
The staff of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, which formed two years ago, quit and will work for the MLBPA. The union gave the minor league group $50,000 last November.
“This generation of minor league players has demonstrated an unprecedented ability to address workplace issues with a collective voice,” Harry Marino, the executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, said in a statement. “Joining with the most powerful union in professional sports assures that this voice is heard where it matters most — at the bargaining table.”
Players with major league contracts, of which there are approximately 1,200, are represented by the union, which since the 1981 strike settlement also has negotiated terms for those on option to the minor leagues.
MLB raised weekly minimum salaries for minor leaguers in 2021 to $400 at rookie and short-season levels, $500 at Class A, $600 at Double-A and $700 at Triple-A. For players on option, the minimum is $57,200 per season for a first big league contract and $114,100 for later big league contracts.
In addition, MLB this year began requiring teams to provide housing for most minor leaguers.
Prodded by the minor league advocacy group, leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee said last month they planned a hearing on the sport’s antitrust exemption.
Unionizing could limit the minor leaguers’ ability in future lawsuits. The Supreme Court ruled in the 1996 case Brown v. Pro Football Inc. that unionized industries are exempt from antitrust challenges.
The big league union had long declined to represent minor leaguers, though its labor contract specifies terms for the amateur draft and signing bonuses for amateur players. There were 128 draft picks this year who agreed to signing bonuses of $500,000 and up, including 82 for at least $1 million.
The players’ association negotiated its first collective bargaining agreement in 1968 and has gone through nine work stoppages, the latest a 99-day lockout that delayed the start of this season.
Major League Baseball and lawyers for minor leaguers agreed this year to a $185 million settlement of an 8-year-old federal lawsuit alleging violations of minimum wage laws. An early estimate is that perhaps 23,000 players could share roughly $120 million with an average payment of $5,000 to $5,500, and their lawyers will split $55.5 million.
U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero in San Francisco granted preliminary approval to the settlement on Friday and scheduled a Feb. 17 fairness hearing ahead of possible final approval.
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With an additional wild card in each league, we could have expected the following this year:
1. Teams at the top of the standings would be even more secure in their postseason chances down the stretch.
2. More teams overall would be able to stay in contention.
So far, however, the impact of baseball’s expanded postseason is marginal.
According to the playoff chances tracked by Fangraphs.com, six teams — the Dodgers, Mets, Astros, Yankees, Braves and Cardinals — have at least a 95% chance to make the postseason. At this point last year — after each team had played at least 126 games — there were actually seven teams above the 95% mark. And that was with two fewer spots available.
Over the past five full seasons — not counting the shortened 2020 campaign — there have been an average of 5.2 teams with at least a 95% chance of making the playoffs at this point in the season. So this year hasn’t been much of a change, even with the postseason expanding to 12 teams.
It’s a similar story at the other end of the spectrum. Right now, 14 teams have postseason chances of below 5%. The average over the past five seasons? 14.4.
In other words, even under the new playoff system, the number of teams within striking distance isn’t significantly different than usual. Perhaps that’s because adding a third wild card in each league hasn’t really lowered the bar for making the postseason.
There was concern that teams at or near .500 would be able to qualify, but at least this year, it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. The Toronto Blue Jays, currently on pace for 87 wins, hold the third wild card in the American League at the moment. In the National League, that spot belongs to the San Diego Padres, who are on pace for 88 victories.
Another way in which the new format was expected to change the regular season was by creating an interesting race for the top two seeds in each league, since they receive byes to the Division Series round. That’s shaping up to be an anticlimactic pursuit in the AL, where the Astros and Yankees have separated themselves from everyone else.
In the NL, however, the NL East champion is likely to be the No. 2 seed, meaning that race — the Mets lead the Braves by three games — could be quite suspenseful.
TALE OF TWO SEASONS
Josh Hader is still tied for the NL lead with 29 saves, but his season has fallen apart of late.
Hader did not allow a run through his first 19 appearances, and after a scoreless inning at Pittsburgh on July 3, he had a 1.05 ERA in 27 outings. Since then, he’s allowed 25 runs in 13 innings, and his ERA for the season is up to 6.52. The Padres, who acquired him in a recent trade with Milwaukee, have given him a break from the closer role.
TRIVIA TIME
If there had been a third wild card in each league last year, which teams would have qualified?
LINE OF THE WEEK
Justin Verlander threw six no-hit innings and struck out 10 before being lifted in Houston’s 4-2 victory over Minnesota on Tuesday night. Verlander was pulled because he’d thrown 91 pitches.
An honorable mention to Seattle’s George Kirby, who set a major league record with 24 consecutive strikes to begin Wednesday’s game against Washington. He did not throw a ball until the third inning, although the Nationals hit enough of those strikes to score an early run on Kirby.
COMEBACK OF THE WEEK
Charm City’s team has lived a charmed life at times this year. The Baltimore Orioles have played their way into contention after dropping 110 games in 2021. Their most dramatic victory may have come Thursday night.
Down by a run with two outs in the ninth and nobody on, rookie Kyle Stowers homered to tie the score against the White Sox. It was his first career home run — and it was made possible by an error earlier in his at-bat when he hit a foul fly that wasn’t caught.
The Orioles won the game 4-3 in 11 innings.
TRIVIA ANSWER
The Blue Jays (91-71) and Reds (83-79).
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NEW YORK (AP) — Daniil Medvedev had an easy start to his U.S. Open title defense, beating Stefan Kozlov 6-2, 6-4, 6-0 on Monday.
Simona Halep had another early exit, this one coming in a memorable first tour-level win for Ukrainian Daria Snigur.
Snigur upset the No. 7 seed 6-2, 0-6, 6-4, then struggled through tears to explain what the victory meant to her family and her country, which is at war with Russia.
On the same Arthur Ashe Stadium court where Serena Williams began what could be the final tournament of her career with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Danka Kovinic on Monday night, the top-seeded Medvedev looked just as strong as he did in sweeping past Novak Djokovic in last year’s final for his first major title.
Medvedev advanced to face Arthur Rinderknech of France. The Russian is trying to become the first repeat champion at the U.S. Open since Roger Federer won five straight from 2004-08.
“I need to be at my best on Wednesday and I’m going to try to make it,” Medvedev said.
Andy Murray was another early winner, 10 years after winning the first of his three Grand Slam titles in Flushing Meadows. He had one of the first upsets of the tournament by beating No. 24 seed Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina 7-5, 6-3, 6-3.
“It seems like a long time ago,” Murray said of his victory over Djokovic in 2012. “A lot’s happened since then in my career.”
Djokovic couldn’t travel to the tournament this year because he isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19.
Fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas won’t be staying in it after dropping the first 11 games to qualifier Daniel Elahi Galan before falling 6-0, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5.
Many fans arriving for the day session at the final Grand Slam event of the season were focused on the match that would lead off the action at night. Williams, the 23-time major champion, has said she is preparing to end her tennis career.
Coco Gauff wasn’t going to miss it, saying she was going to change plans and attend instead of watching on TV in her hotel room.
“As I thought about it, I was, like, I have to watch,” the 18-year-old American said after her straight-sets victory. “I’m excited and, you know, it’s not often we watch live matches, to be honest.”
Last year’s women’s finalist, Leylah Fernandez, and this year’s Wimbledon runner-up, Nick Kyrgios, were winners in night matches, with the Australian saying he watched Williams’ ceremony on TV before following her onto the court.
They faced more comfortable conditions after a hot start under a sunny sky in Flushing Meadows. Leading 3-0 in the third set, Medvedev told the chair umpire he wanted a bag of ice so he could put it on his head.
“It was pretty hot today and humid,” Medvedev said. “I see the other guys coming from five-setters in the locker room, pretty red faces. That’s also fun in a way sometimes to get through these conditions. Even today, the match was maybe not that intensive and long, but, yeah, I sweated a lot and it was not easy.”
Taylor Fritz, the No. 10 seed, said he he struggled with the windy conditions in his four-set loss to qualifier Brandon Holt, the son of two-time U.S. Open women’s champion Tracy Austin.
Snigur was playing her first match in the main draw of a Grand Slam. The 20-year-old wore a ribbon in the blue and yellow colors of Ukraine’s flag on her chest, and she put her hands around it after finishing off the victory.
She played last week in the “Tennis Plays for Peace Exhibition” to raise money to aid Ukraine. That was on Louis Armstrong Stadium, which may have calmed her nerves a bit when she was sent back out onto the same court Monday.
“I think it helped me because I was here in ‘Tennis Plays for Peace’ and I think it helped me a little bit,” Snigur said as she fought through tears during an on-court interview.
Halep had won 19 of her last 22 matches and recently returned to the top 10, but the U.S. Open has been the most challenging major for the two-time Grand Slam champion. She is 21-11 in New York and has lost in the first round of three of her last five appearances.
Bianca Andreescu, the 2019 U.S. Open champion, needed three sets to get past Harmony Tan, the French player who beat Williams in the first round at Wimbledon.
Two other past champions had short stays. Dominic Thiem, the 2020 champion who missed last year because of injury, fell to Pablo Carreño Busta in four sets. The 2016 winner, Stan Wawrinka, retired from his match against Corentin Moutet after losing a second-set tiebreaker. He has been plagued by injuries in recent years.
No. 29 seed Tommy Paul overcame the heat to outlast Bernabe Zapata Miralles 4-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-0, 7-5 in 3 hours, 10 minutes. Fellow American Sebastian Korda also got his first win at his home Slam, beating Facundo Bagnis in four sets.
Another American advanced in an upset, with J.J. Wolf ousting No. 16 seed Roberto Bautista Agut in straight sets.
Also, Wu Yibing became the first Chinese man to win a U.S. Open match in the professional era, upsetting No. 31 seed Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3, 6-4, 6-0. He had played his way into the field through the qualifying tournament, joining countryman and fellow qualifier Zhang Zhizhen as the first Chinese men in the U.S. Open main draw since the open era began in 1968.
Zhang lost his first-round match.
Third-seeded Maria Sakkari and No. 17 Caroline Garcia were among the early winners on the women’s side, with Sakkari overcoming Wimbledon semifinalist Tatjana Maria in three sets.
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NEW YORK (AP) — They came from far and wide for Serena — no last name required, befitting someone as much an icon as superstar athlete — to see her practice and play and, it turned out, win a match at the U.S. Open on Monday night, turning out in record numbers to fill Arthur Ashe Stadium and shout and applaud and pump their fists right along with her.
Serena Williams is not ready to say goodbye just yet. Nor, clearly, are her fans. And she heard them, loud and clear.
In her first match at what is expected to be the last U.S. Open — and last tournament — of her remarkable playing career, even if she insists that she won’t quite say so, Williams overcame a shaky start to overpower Danka Kovinic 6-3, 6-3 amid an atmosphere more akin to a festival than a farewell.
What memory will stick with her the most from the evening?
“When I walked out, the reception was really overwhelming. It was loud and I could feel it in my chest. It was a really good feeling,” said the owner of six U.S. Open championships and 23 Grand Slam titles overall, numbers unsurpassed by any other player in the sport’s professional era.
“It’s a feeling I’ll never forget,” she added. “Yeah, that meant a lot to me.”
This opening outing against Kovinic, a 27-year-old from Montenegro ranked 80th, became an event with a capital “E.” Spike Lee participated in the pre-match coin toss. Former President Bill Clinton was in the stands. So were Mike Tyson and Martina Navratilova, sitting next to each other. And sitting with Dad and Grandma was Williams’ daughter, Olympia, who turns 5 on Thursday, wearing white beads in her hair just like Mom did while winning the U.S. Open for the first time at age 17 back in 1999.
Williams is now 40, and told the world three weeks ago via an essay for Vogue that she was ready to concentrate on having a second child and her venture capital firm.
Asked after her victory Monday whether this will definitively be her final tournament, Williams replied with a knowing smile: “Yeah, I’ve been pretty vague about it, right?”
Then she added: “I’m going to stay vague, because you never know.”
The night session drew 29,000 folks, a high for the tournament — more than 23,000 were in Ashe; thousands more watched on a video screen outside the arena — and the place was as loud as ever. Certainly louder than any other first-round match in memory.
Both players called the decibel level “crazy.” Kovinic said she couldn’t hear the ball come off Williams’ racket strings — or even her own.
Early, Williams was not at her best. Maybe it was the significance of the moment. There were double-faults. Other missed strokes, missed opportunities. She went up 2-0, but then quickly trailed 3-2. Then, suddenly, Williams, looked a lot like the champion she’s been for decades and less like the player who came into this match with a 1-3 record since returning to action in late June after nearly a year off the tour.
“At this point, honestly, everything is a bonus for me, I feel,” Williams said. “It’s good that I was able to get this under my belt. … I’m just not even thinking about that. I’m just thinking about just this moment. I think it’s good for me just to live in the moment now.”
She rolled through the end of that opening set, capping it with a service winner she reacted to with clenched fists and her trademark cry of “Come on!” That was met with thunderous cheers and applause — as was the ending of the 1-hour, 40-minute contest, as if another trophy had been earned.
Instead, there is plenty more work to be done. Williams will play in the second round of singles on Wednesday against No. 2 seed Anett Kontveit of Estonia. And there’s also doubles, too: Williams and her sister, Venus, are entered together in that competition, with their initial match slated for Wednesday or Thursday.
“Just keep supporting me,” Williams told the spectators, “as long as I’m here.”
They surely will. They were there to honor her and show appreciation for what she’s done on the court and off. After watching the victory over Kovinic, spectators held up blue, white or red placards that were distributed at their seats to spell out “We (Heart) Serena.”
After Kovinic was introduced simply by name, making clear to even her what an afterthought she was on this muggy evening, Williams’ entrance was preceded by a tribute video narrated by Queen Latifah, who called the American the “Queen of Queens.” The arena announcer called Williams “the greatest of all time,” and intoned: “This U.S. Open marks the final chapter of her storied tennis history.”
She means a lot to a lot of people. As a tennis player. As a woman. As an African American. As a mother. As a businesswoman.
“When she started out, female athletes weren’t getting recognized. She’s done so much,” said Quintella Thorn, a 68-year-old from Columbus, Georgia, making her eighth trip to the U.S. Open. “And now, she’s …”
“Evolving,” chimed in Thorn’s friend, Cora Monroe, 72, of Shreveport, Louisiana, using the word Williams says she prefers to “retirement.”
Which is why Monday mattered more than the usual Day 1 at a major tournament. And why the daily program did not make mention of any other of the dozens of athletes in action, showing instead a montage of six images of Williams holding her six U.S. Open trophies above the title: “Serena Williams, A Legacy of Greatness.” And why there was a sense of less importance for matches involving wins for other elite players such as past U.S. Open champions Bianca Andreescu, Andy Murray and Daniil Medvedev, or French Open finalist Coco Gauff, an 18-year-old American.
After her own 6-2, 6-3 victory over Leolia Jeanjean earlier in the day, Gauff looked forward to sitting in Ashe herself to watch Williams, someone she credits with inspiring her to play tennis. Gauff’s original plan was to tune in on TV, but then she decided this was too important to miss.
“Everybody is going to be on her side. I’m going to be cheering for her,” Gauff said. “It’s going to be probably one of the most electric matches that will ever happen in tennis.”
Lived up to the billing.
Now there is more to come for Williams and her supporters.
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More AP coverage of U.S. Open tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/us-open-tennis-championships and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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NEW YORK (AP) — When Serena Williams won the 1999 U.S. Open for her first Grand Slam title at age 17, she wore white beads in her hair. On Monday night, when Williams won her first match of the 2022 U.S. Open at age 40, her daughter, Olympia, was courtside, sporting a hairstyle paying homage to Mom’s from all that time ago.
“It was either her wear beads or me, so …” Williams said after beating Danka Kovinic 6-3, 6-3, finishing that thought with a smile. “I wanted to do it, but I just didn’t have the time.”
Williams was pregnant with Olympia while playing in, and winning, the 2017 Australian Open for her 23rd Grand Slam title. Olympia was born later that year and turns 5 on Thursday.
“Yeah, she likes, actually, wearing them. She asks to wear beads a lot,” Williams said. “It actually wasn’t my idea, but I was so happy when she had them on. It’s perfect on her.”
On Monday, Olympia sat in Williams’ player guest box in Arthur Ashe Stadium, at one point snapping pictures with a camera. She was with her father — Williams’ husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian — and her grandmother — Williams’ mom, Oracene Price.
After the match, Williams’ long and influential career was celebrated during an on-court ceremony that included a video narrated by Oprah Winfrey and a speech from Billie Jean King. At the end, Ohanian carried Olympia down on to the court.
“Tonight was all a surprise, actually, towards the end. I didn’t know any of that was happening,” Williams said. “I was just ready to do the on-court interview and leave.”
She has said she is ready to move on from her playing days to focus on having another child and pursuing her business interests.
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More AP coverage of U.S. Open tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/us-open-tennis-championships and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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The talk of tennis — and beyond — for most of the past three weeks has been about Serena Williams and her announcement that she is planning to stop playing professional tennis.
That all leads up to the U.S. Open, the year’s last Grand Slam tournament, which began Monday, with Williams scheduled to play her first-round match in Arthur Ashe Stadium at night.
The Associated Press has chronicled the leadup to her departure in words and photos since her revelation earlier this month that she is preparing to “evolve” away from her career as a professional athlete. This guide offers a look at Williams the player and Williams the person, her accomplishments and her influence, as the 40-year-old American gets ready to shift her focus from serves and forehands to expanding her family and pursuing business interests.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Williams revealed her plans in an essay in Vogue magazine that was published Aug. 9. She didn’t give a timeline and didn’t even say she was retiring, but that she was “evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.”
Along with her business interests, Williams said she wanted to expand her family. She and her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, have a daughter, Olympia, who turns 5 on Thursday.
“Believe me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don’t think it’s fair,” said Williams, who was pregnant when she won the 2017 Australian Open for her last Grand Slam trophy. “If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.”
THE ON-COURT ACHIEVEMENTS
Williams’ 23 Grand Slam singles titles are the most in the professional era of tennis, which began in 1968. She won 73 tour-level singles titles and was ranked No. 1 for more than six years’ worth of weeks.
Her greatest success came at the U.S. Open, where her 106 victories were a tournament record. She has reached at least the semifinals in her last 11 appearances.
Williams also combined with older sister Venus for 14 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles and has won four Olympic gold medals.
THE OFF-COURT INSPIRATION
Williams’ impact on the Black community is indelible. Raised in Compton, California, she learned tennis on the public courts that are far from the privileged private clubs that nurtured most U.S. players. She was outspoken on issues such as gun violence.
Williams is also a fashion icon. She has appeared everywhere from magazine covers to red carpets, and “What’s Serena wearing?” was sometimes as big a question as “Who’s Serena playing?” at a tennis tournament.
She launched a fashion collection in 2018 after collaborations with HSN and Nike.
Many women thought of their own choices they faced in balancing family and career when Williams made her announcement. She was two months pregnant when she won her last major title but said she couldn’t be expectant and playing again.
THE RECENT MATCHES
Williams earned her only singles victory of the year on the day before her announcement, beating Nuria Parrizas-Diaz 6-3, 6-4 at the women’s National Bank Open in Toronto. She hadn’t won a singles match since the 2021 French Open.
Williams then was beat 6-2, 6-4 by Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic in her next match.
Williams had been off the tour since an injury in the first round of Wimbledon in 2021 and didn’t return until this year’s tournament, where she fell 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) to Harmony Tan in the first round.
After the Toronto tournament, Williams went on to lose 6-4, 6-0 to U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu in the Western & Southern Open.
THE PREPARATION
Williams has been working with Rennae Stubbs, who won four Slam titles in women’s doubles, alongside coach Eric Hechtman, since last week. She practiced for about an hour inside Ashe on Saturday.
Later that day came news that even if she lost on Monday, Williams’ U.S. Open career wouldn’t be over quite yet. She and Venus accepted a wild card into the women’s doubles tournament.
The Williams sisters will play the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova in the first round. They have won the U.S. Open twice and this will be their first tournament together since the 2018 French Open.
THE FIRST OPPONENT
Danka Kovinic said she is “honored” to be facing Williams under the bright lights of Ashe. The 27-year-old from Montenegro said she was happy to learn the news of the matchup after the U.S. Open draw was unveiled last week.
Ranked 80th in the world, Kovinic said she’s never gotten the courage to ask Williams to practice, nor had she ever even hit in the stadium that holds more than 23,000 fans before the tournament.
Kovinic is only 2-4 at the U.S. Open but she scored an impressive Grand Slam victory earlier this year when she beat Raducanu in the second round of the Australian Open.
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More AP coverage of U.S. Open tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/us-open-tennis-championships and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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NEW YORK (AP) — Daria Snigur raised her arms in celebration, then lowered them to wrap her hands around the blue-and-yellow ribbon on her chest.
This win — her first on the WTA Tour — was for Ukraine.
Snigur pulled off the first big upset of the U.S. Open, knocking off No. 7 seed Simona Halep 6-2, 0-6, 6-4 on Monday.
Days after taking part in an exhibition to raise money for her country that is fighting a war against invading Russia, Snigur fought through tears as she tried to explain what the victory meant to her family and her home.
“No comment, I think, because it’s impossible for me now,” Snigur said.
The 20-year-old was making her first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam after emerging through the qualifying rounds last week.
On Wednesday, she joined tennis superstars such as Rafael Nadal, Coco Gauff, John McEnroe, Iga Swiatek and 2021 U.S. Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez in the “Tennis Plays for Peace Exhibition,” an event organized by the U.S. Tennis Association that raised $1.2 million.
It took place in Louis Armstrong Stadium, which may have calmed Snigur’s nerves when she was sent back out there Monday.
“I think it helped me because I was here in ‘Tennis Plays for Peace’ and I think it helped me a little bit,” Snigur said during an on-court interview.
Snigur won the Wimbledon girls singles title in 2019, but failed in her first eight attempts to qualify for the main draw of a Grand Slam before finally breaking through. She was 0-2 on tour and was facing a top-20 opponent for the first time.
And in Halep, it was one of the hottest players in women’s tennis. The two-time Grand Slam champion had won 19 of her previous 22 matches and recently returned to the top 10.
But Snigur responded nicely after Halep won the second set, racing to a 5-1 lead in the third. Halep fought off a couple match points while taking the next three games before Snigur finally closed it out when Halep sailed a backhand long.
Snigur then dropped her racket and covered her face as she fought back tears.
Elina Svitolina’s run to the 2019 semifinals is the best performance by a Ukrainian in the U.S. Open. One of five of them in this year’s draw, Snigur will face Canadian Rebecca Marino on Wednesday.
First, she was going to savor a stunner.
“I want to say thanks to all the fans who watched our match today,” she said.
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More AP coverage of U.S. Open tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/us-open-tennis-championships and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An explosion in the early hours of Sunday rocked an entire city block in downtown Portland, destroying a food cart that shattered windows and scattered debris in a wide swath.
Multiple calls about the explosion at the food cart pod near SW 5th Avenue and Harvey Milk Street were reported around 3:40 a.m., Portland Fire & Rescue said. Emergency crews scoured the area for anyone who may have been hurt by the blast but no injuries were reported.
Investigators from the PPB Explosive Disposal Unit swept the area looking for any potential explosive devices but found none. Sunday afternoon PFR said they found no indication at this time this incident was a device and it is being investigated as a fuel gas explosion consistent with something like propane.”
Portland Fire & Rescue spokesperson Katia Minor said it’s “an ongoing investigation. They are just investigating it as a fuel explosion for right now.”
The explosion also damaged several windows of the Multnomah County Mead Building that houses offices for the Department of Community Justice.
“We got a call at about 5 a.m that there had been some sort of explosion form the food carts so we just came down and started cleaning right away,” said Jennifer Tomasko, a facilities specialist with Multnomah County. “And our first floor was fine, but our second, third, and fourth floors broke. So we’ve been cleaning up ever since.”
At least one person was spotted on camera taking advantage of the broken doors on the carts and looting.
Nicholas, who owns the Lord of the Wings cart next to the explosion, said he was “planning on going shopping and prepping food, and I got a phone call from the FBI, and my neighbor, and a ton of missed calls and text messages. I didn’t know what was going on.”
Nicholas said his cart was also damaged by the blast, which will be a major setback for his business.
“I mean, this is my baby. I work it myself 7 days a week. This is my life, this is my income,” he said.
Witnesses said anyone near the food cart pod would have heard or felt the blast. Patrick Nofield was staying at a nearby hotel when the blast happened.
“I heard a significant explosion, or a shatter. I didn’t know what it was,” Nofield told KOIN 6 News. “So I called down to the front desk at The Nines and I said, ‘Was that an earthquake?’” And they said, ‘No we don’t know what it was.'”
Police ask anyone with information about the explosion to contact the Portland Police Bureau at crimetips@portlandoregon.gov.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The American team room at Quail Hollow has photos of winning teams from the Presidents Cup over the years, and it’s a wonder there’s room for all of them.
The matches began in 1994. The Americans have lost just once.
Captain Davis Love III would be quick to point out one detail from the most recent picture at Royal Melbourne three years ago: Only four players from that team are at Quail Hollow this week — Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas and Tony Finau.
Go back to the last U.S. victory on home soil, at Liberty National, such a romp it almost ended before Sunday singles. The only players still around from that 2017 team are Thomas and Jordan Spieth.
“We come into these things wanting to win every time,” Love said Tuesday. “I tell them, ‘You don’t have a record.’ This 12 has never competed as a team before. This team understands. They want that picture next time.”
Odds are heavily stacked in their favor they will pose with gold trophy again on Sunday. It’s one thing to have captured the Presidents Cup the last eight meetings against the International team, and 10 out of 12 times (one ended in a tie).
Throw in the LIV Golf factor — it has depleted the International team far worse than it did the Americans, at least based on current form and health — and this has all the markings of another runaway.
Love has heard this story, too.
“We’re used to being called the favorite, even when we lose three Ryder Cups in a row,” said Love, who was on six “favored” teams that didn’t win a Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup. “Statistically, yes, we have a higher ranked team. But I know a bunch of those young guys on their team, and they’re going to come in with a chip on their shoulder.”
Tuesday was the first full day of practice for the 12-man teams on a Quail Hollow Club course that is familiar to most from hosting the Wells Fargo Championship most years, and the PGA Championship in 2017.
Adding to the confidence for the U.S. team is the Ryder Cup one years ago at Whistling Straits, a 19-9 victory against a European team that was aging and had no support from fans because of COVID-19 travel restrictions.
Seven Americans return from the team. Missing is LIV defector Dustin Johnson. Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau went to LIV, too, but both are still making their way back from injury and probably wouldn’t have been on this team, anyway.
This team is so young that the player with the most Presidents Cup experience is Spieth, who turned 29 this summer and is playing for the fourth time.
His idea to stay grounded was to compete individually among a team setting.
“It’s almost like we’re all going to compete against each other to get the most points we can on our team. We want the bragging rights on our own team,” he said. “And if we stay within ourselves, then I don’t think you get overconfident in the entire situation.”
International captain Trevor Immelman had a tougher time with LIV defections, with two top-20 players — British Open champion Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann — not announcing their departures for the Saudi-backed league until three weeks ago.
He has eight Presidents Cup rookies on this team. Only three of them are among the top 25 in the world (all 12 Americans are in the top 25).
But there’s something about youth and inexperience that has him encouraged.
“If you look at our record in this tournament and you look at our world rankings versus their world rankings, we have absolutely nothing to lose,” Immelman said. “So we can go out there and play absolutely as free as we want … and see if we can match up with crazy good skills the Americans have.”
Immelman is not willing to look back, whether it’s three years ago and the close call at Royal Melbourne or three weeks ago when the last of the players went over to LIV.
He said all of the players who left — starting with good friend Louis Oosthuizen in June right up until Smith and Niemann after the Tour Championship — were in touch with him about their thinking and their decisions. And he said they all knew the ramifications.
“I respect those guys making those decisions,” he said. “I also do respect them for keeping me in the loop and making sure that I understand exactly where we’re at at all times so I could try and be as prepared as I could. Am I disappointed that they’re not able to be here? Absolutely.
“But we have the 12 guys here that we love and wanted to be here, and now we get to go. We get to go up against a strong American team. So we’re looking forward.”
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(The Car Connection) — For the 2022 model year, more automakers built their cars to better withstand and avoid crashes, according to the latest ratings announced Thursday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
More than 70 models earned a 2022 Top Safety Pick+ designation, which is considered the most rigorous independent safety rating in the automotive industry. Last year at this time, 49 models earned the accolade. Another 37 models in 2022 testing earned the next highest rating of Top Safety Pick, bringing the total to 108 models out of about 223 tested.
Every 2022 Volvo and Genesis model earned a TSP+, marking a rare sweep for the brands, though it’s easier to accomplish with lineups that consist of only five key models. Hyundai Motor Group, the parent company of Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis, earned the most total safety picks, with 11 TSP+ and 10 TSP awards.
Only seven domestic models out of 71 earned a 2022 TSP+, while two pickup trucks, the Ram 1500 and Ford F-150, picked up TSP nods.
Much like the five-star NCAP safety ratings overseen by the NHTSA, the TSP designations are meant to streamline safety tests to give car shoppers a standardized baseline when assessing cars. The ratings also encourage automakers to make safer cars.
“Our awards make it easy for car buyers to find models that will protect them in a crash and increase the odds they’ll never be in one,” IIHS President David Harkey said in a statement. “By shooting for Top Safety Pick+, automakers are showing that they’re committed to the same goal.”
To earn a TSP+, vehicles must earn top “Good” ratings in all six crash tests, including the driver’s side and passenger’s side tests that simulate hitting a stationary object like a light pole head-on. Side impact, overall front impact, head restraints, and rollover tests round out that portion of testing.
IIHS Top Safety Pick testing
“Our tests are designed around the types of crashes happening in the real world that may not be reflected by the government’s crash tests,” Joe Young, director of media relations for the IIHS, explained in an interview. “The original IIHS side crash test was designed due to concerns that the government’s side crash test was not capturing all the side crashes that occur in the real world. A big part of that was the changing vehicle fleet, with taller vehicles becoming more popular. IIHS’s barrier was designed to replicate an SUV or pickup striking a vehicle, rather than a shorter car.”
The IIHS is a nonprofit agency funded by the insurance industry, which has a business case for minimizing the incidence and intensity of car crashes.
There are other distinctions in ratings between the two crash-test agencies. Unlike the NHTSA safety assessments, the IIHS rates the efficacy of automatic emergency braking systems and headlight visibility.
“The need for headlight testing emerged due to current regulations allowing too broad a range of headlight performance,” Young said.
Automakers initially had a tougher time meeting the headlight criteria launched in 2016, but compliance has increased even as the standards have become more rigorous. To qualify for a TSP+, cars must have standard headlights that rate at “Acceptable” or “Good” in IIHS testing.
IIHS Top Safety Pick testing
Additionally, a TSP+ car must earn either “Advanced” or “Superior” ratings in significantly slowing down or avoiding crashes with vehicles and pedestrians in 12-mph and 25-mph tests. An effective automatic emergency braking system minimizes impacts from rear-end collisions, the most common crash, and more sophisticated systems slow or stop cars from hitting objects peripherally, such as a child darting from between parked cars into a street or a car speeding through a perpendicular intersection.
The IIHS predicts the standard technology will prevent 42,000 crashes and cut in half the number of rear-end crashes by 2025. The major automakers made a voluntary commitment to equip at least 95% of new cars sold with AEB as standard by September of this year. To avoid penalizing automakers before the deadline, the IIHS doesn’t mandate AEB as standard equipment to earn a TSP+.
That’s changing next year, however. The IIHS will add a nighttime pedestrian crash prevention component to the AEB rating, and “Advanced” or “Superior” ratings will be required for a TSP+ designation. Pedestrian crash fatalities have increased 51% since 2009, according to the IIHS. Additionally, headlight ratings must be at least “Acceptable” across the board to earn any TSP award.
IIHS Top Safety Pick testing
The IIHS continually resets the safety bar as more automakers meet or exceed the requirements for TSP awards. In 2021, it updated the side crash test for the first time in nearly 20 years. Simulating a T-bone crash, the test is conducted at higher speeds and with a heavier barrier to reflect larger SUVs and trucks proliferating on roadways in the past two decades. Beginning in 2023, a “Good” rating on the new test will be required to earn a TSP+.
Expect some TSP growing pains in the name of ever-evolving safety standards.
“We expect to see a drop in the number of vehicles earning our awards in 2023,” Young said.
But it should make cars safer overall.
“Automakers have consistently responded when we introduce new tests and strengthen our award criteria,” Young said. “We expect to see them continue to improve crashworthiness, front crash prevention systems and headlight options as they strive to earn our safety awards under the tougher criteria in 2023.”
IIHS Top Safety Pick testing
The full list of 2022 winners is below, and will be updated throughout the year:
TSP+
Small cars and SUVs
Chevrolet Trailblazer
Ford Bronco Sport
Honda Civic sedan and hatchback
Honda Insight
Hyundai Tucson
Mazda 3 sedan and hatchback
Mazda CX-5
Mazda CX-50
Mitsubishi Outlander (built after June 2021)
Nissan Rogue
Toyota Corolla sedan and hatchback
Toyota Corolla Cross
Toyota RAV4 Prime
Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid
Subaru Forester
Volkswagen Tiguan
Volvo C40 Recharge
Volvo XC40 and XC40 Recharge
Cars
Honda Accord
Kia K5
Kia Stinger
Nissan Altima
Nissan Maxima
Subaru Legacy
Subaru Outback
Luxury cars
Acura TLX
Audi A6 and A6 Allroad
Audi A7
Genesis G70
Genesis G80
Genesis G90
Lexus ES 350
Lexus IS
Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Tesla Model 3
Volvo S60 and S60 Recharge
Volvo S90 and S90 Recharge
Volvo V60 Cross Country
Volvo V90 Cross Country
SUVs
Ford Explorer
Hyundai Palisade
Hyundai Santa Fe (built after July 2021)
Mazda CX-9
Nissan Murano
Subaru Ascent
Toyota Highlander
Volkswagen ID.4
Luxury SUVs
Acura MDX
Acura RDX
Audi E-Tron and E-Tron Sportback
Audi Q5 and Q5 Sportback
Cadillac XT6
Genesis GV70
Genesis GV80
Hyundai Nexo
Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class
Tesla Model Y
Volvo XC60 and XC60 Recharge
Volvo XC90 and XC90 Recharge
Minivans
Chrysler Pacifica
Honda Odyssey
Toyota Sienna
TSP
Small cars and SUVs
Buick Encore GX
Ford Escape
Honda CR-V
Hyundai Elantra
Hyundai Venue
Kia Seltos
Kia Soul
Kia Sportage
Lexus UX
Lincoln Corsair
Nissan Sentra
Subaru Crosstrek (with CVT)
Subaru Impreza (with CVT)
Toyota C-HR
Toyota RAV4
Toyota Venza
Cars
Hyundai Sonata
Toyota Avalon
Luxury cars
Audi A4
Audi A5 Sportback
BMW 2-Series Gran Coupe
BMW 3-Series
SUVs/Minivans
Ford Edge
Ford Mustang Mach-E
Hyundai Santa Cruz
Kia Carnival
Kia Sorento
Kia Telluride
Luxury SUVs
Audi Q8
BMW X5
Lexus RX
Lincoln Aviator
Lincoln Nautilus
Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class
Trucks
Ford F-150 extended and crew cabs
Ram 1500 crew cab
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(The Car Connection) — More 2023 models roll into dealer lots, and automakers this week disclosed the pricing on new and carryover models. Without exception and as news to no one, prices are up year over year, ranging from only $500 on the 2023 Ford Ranger to more than $7,000 on the 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning.
GM followed up the launch of the redesigned 2023 Chevrolet Colorado last week with the launch of the related 2023 GMC Canyon this week, positioning it as GM’s off-road mid-size pickup truck. Here’s what else we covered.
The redesigned mid-size pickup separates itself from the Chevy Colorado with a 310-hp turbo-4, one crew cab and short bed configuration, and an off-road attitude.
The three-row SUV with seats for seven is best with the V-6, which helps it earn a TCC Rating of 6.5 out of 10.
Cadillac’s smallest crossover has good acceleration and a comfortable ride that overshadows a dull interior design to earn a TCC Rating of 6.2 out of 10.
The quirky Cooper rolls on in two-door, four-door, hard top, convertible, and electric versions, but trimmed availability limit its TCC Rating upside to 6.0 out of 10.
GMC’s take on the heavy duty pickup truck adds up to nicer finishes in the cabin, and other available features. It earns a TCC Rating of 7.0 out of 10.
2023 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD review
Chevy’s heavy duty pickup trucks can be had in multiple cab and bed configurations, and tow enough in diesel form to qualify as a commercial work horse. It earns a TCC Rating of 6.3 out of 10.
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After a decade of research, Bridgestone is starting to create tires with a new, more sustainable source: a desert shrub called guayule.
Native to northern Mexico and southwestern U.S., guayule is a heat-tolerant source of natural rubber that can be used to make tires, according to Bridgestone. Natural rubber can be extracted from guayule’s branches, bark, and roots, and it can be farmed with existing crop-row equipment, according to the company.
Cultivating guayule helps diversify the world’s natural rubber supply, and allows Bridgestone to produce more of the material locally for the U.S. market. The company hopes to commercialize guayule rubber in tires by 2030, but has already undertaken some proof-of-concept steps.
In 2012 Bridgestone broke ground on a guayule processing and research center in Mesa, Arizona. The facility now sends rubber from plants grown at a Bridgestone-operated farm in Elroy, Arizona, to a facility in Akron, Ohio, where it’s made into tires. Racing tires, that is.
Firestone Firehawk tires from the Bridgestone-owned Firestone brand containing guayule rubber debuted at the Indianapolis 500 in May, and were used for the first time in racing conditions at the IndyCar Music City Grand Prix in Nashville earlier in August. Guayule rubber was used in the sidewalls of the alternate tire for that race. These are higher-grip, but faster-wearing tires teams have the option to use on street and road courses alongside primary and rain tires.
Bridgestone is looking at other possible uses for guayule rubber in both racing and passenger-car tires in 2023 as the company looks to commercialize the material. Bridgestone spokesman Davis Adams told Motor Authority the company isn’t ready to announce what kind of tire it will select for that first commercial application, noting Bridgestone’s catalog extends well beyond car tires. The company makes tires for everything from huge mining trucks to airplanes.
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China-based Zeekr announced Saturday that it will be the first global brand to take advantage of the Qilin battery and third-generation cell-to-pack technology from CATL, the largest EV battery supplier in the world.
It said that the battery tech will first be used in its Zeekr 009, which it calls “the world’s first electric luxury MPV,” with deliveries due in the first quarter of 2023. The battery tech will give the model, perhaps better described as a tall-riding crossover wagon with plenty of passenger space, a driving range in excess of 1000 km (621 miles) on a charge.
CATL first revealed the new version of cell-to-pack tech in April, claiming that it could deliver 13% more power by volume than the 4680-format cells Tesla is shifting to—as well as impressive energy density of 255 wh/kg with current-tech lithium-ion cells and 160 wh/kg with LFP cells.
Put simply, cell-to-pack tech skips a step. While usually EV cells are packed into modules, which are then laid into packs, the technology makes some technology leaps to ensure more monitoring and cooling and to make the modules unnecessary.
With lithium-ion cells, CATL said that the technology will enable EVs to simply pack more cells into a smaller volume, delivering more than a 1,000-km (621-mile) range “in a breeze,” and it hints that it’s looking ahead to other future cell chemistries with the layout, such as sodium-ion.
CATL previously announced a partnership and license agreement with Hyundai Mobis, potentially opening up the door for the tech to be used in future Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis models, but none of those brands have yet confirmed its use in production models.
The cell-to-pack tech isn’t the only innovation CATL has rolled out this year. Its new standalone Evogo battery-swapping technology enables one-minute swaps, according to the battery company. So far it’s planning to launch that technology in 10 Chinese cities. Geely might not be as likely to use that tech as it’s currently testing its own battery swapping as part of its CaoCao ride-hailing service and, perhaps, its budget Geometry EV brand.
Zeekr was formed in March 2021 as a “premium electric car company,” and it’s part of Geely, which is a massive industrial company in and of itself, with various automotive brands including Volvo, Polestar, and Lotus Cars, among others. While all those brands have their own engineering resources and manufacturing footprints, Geely’s aim for Zeekr is a bit different, in what it’s calling an “asset light operation strategy”—one that looks to suppliers for core tech, and perhaps to contract manufacturing partners for future assembly.
It has however, with its Zeekr 001 launched late last year, opted for its own “intelligent factory,” in Ningbo, China, that uses extensive robotics, automated ultrasonic inspection, and “intelligent self-adaptation.”
Another brand that comes to mind in the asset-light strategy is Fisker, which is looking to Magna for some of the technology and engineering in its Ocean EV, along with assembly, and to Foxconn for its future Pear urban EV.
In keeping with that way of doing business, Zeekr has previously announced collaborations with Waymo on a ride-hailing vehicle, and with Mobileye on a consumer-oriented Level 4 autonomous EV due in 2024. Its Zeekr 001 is based on Geely’s SEA architecture that will also underpin the Polestar 3 among others.
Geely has said that its plans for Zeekr are focused on the China market initially, but it will consider export opportunities.
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(Motor Authority) — Self-driving cars are part of an uncertain future, but automakers have signaled they are constantly moving to a day when at least some of us won’t drive at all.
Along the way, automakers will offer various levels of self-driving capability. Just what are those levels and how are they defined? We are here to help.
While the levels of self-driving sophistication can vary significantly from one brand to another, the defined bounds of those levels are relatively set.
In 2014, the Society of Automotive Engineers adopted a common taxonomy for self-driving cars that defined six levels—from Level 0 to Level 5—of automated driving. The boundaries are pretty obvious. Level 0 was no assistance and Level 5 was fully autonomous. The SAE updated their tiers in 2021, and while Level 5 remains fully autonomous, Level 0 has changed to include some active safety features that have become in the last few years.
It’s important to note that automakers have described some self-driving functions as being “fully autonomous” or “Level 5” (notably Tesla), but fully self-driving cars are outlawed on virtually every road in the U.S., and the terms and levels aren’t interchangeable. Most self-driving functions on cars hover around Level 2 or Level 3, but the road to Level 4 and Level 5 remains unclear. Fully autonomous, Level 5 cars are decade away at least—and it’s entirely possible that they won’t be initially available to consumers when they arrive, if ever.
So what do these levels mean?
Level 0: No self-driving functions at all. Drivers are responsible for controlling steering, throttle, and braking. They’re also responsible for monitoring everything around the car. Level 0 has been updated to include features that provide warnings and temporary assistance, including automatic emergency braking, blind-spot monitors, and lane-departure warnings. The vast majority of cars on the road today fall into this category.
SAE levels of driving automation, from none to fully self-driving
Level 1: Some driver assistance is allowed. In cars equipped with Level 1 automation, the car can take control of the steering or the throttle/brake in certain situations, but it relies on the driver to immediately take over if those systems fail. Many newer cars are equipped with adaptive cruise control that can slow the car to a stop, which falls into this category. Some cars are equipped with active lane control (also known as lane-departure prevention) systems that allow for limited periods of hands-off driving.
Cadillac’s Super Cruise system undergoing testing.
Level 2: More driver assistance. Level 2 automation differs from Level 1 automation in how many systems are used to assist drivers, but the two levels are identical in requiring drivers to immediately take over if those systems fail or stop operating. Level 2 allows for the use of adaptive cruise control and active lane control at the same time. Several automakers offer systems that will take control of the throttle/brake and steering for a limited time, but require driver interaction or those systems stop, usually with several warnings to the driver. (What happens when they shut off is important in distinguishing between Level 2 automation and higher levels.) Some of today’s most sophisticated systems can handle all the controls at full speed on the highway but still require the driver to monitor the road ahead. The best of them is GM’s Super Cruise. Ford’s Bluecruise and Tesla’s Full Self-Driving also qualify here.
Volvo Drive Me autonomous car pilot project in Gothenburg, Sweden
Level 3: Level 3 remains theoretical. It consists of conditional automation. Many automakers have said that they’ll skip Level 3 automation because it may be dangerous to immediately hand all driving functions back to a human that isn’t required to pay attention to the road. Level 3 automation can handle all driving situations in certain situations and constantly monitors the road, unlike Level 2 cars. Limited testing has shown that these systems may not be safer than no automation at all, but most experts stop short of saying Level 3 cars should be prohibited. While SAE’s chart says “traffic jam chauffeur” qualifies for this level, no car on the road has it, even cars with systems labeled traffic-jam assist. Those systems, which typically handle the controls in low-speed traffic-jam situations, still require the driver to monitor the system.
Level 4: Nearly self-driving. Most automakers are targeting Level 4 automation for several reasons. First, it’s likely to be cheaper because Level 4 self-driving cars may not require driver controls such as a steering wheel, throttle, or brake pedals—building a car with redundant controls for both the driver and autonomous systems would be costly and complicated. Second, Level 4 differs from Level 3 primarily because it doesn’t require human intervention if self-driving systems fail. GM’s Cruise Automation is one of several entities that operates limited local fleets of driverless cars that fall into this category.
Level 5: Fully self-driving. This may seem like a logical small step from Level 4, but for most automakers, Level 5 autonomy is a giant leap for self-driving cars. Level 5 cars would be self-driving, all the time, everywhere. Considering most of the nation’s roadways aren’t pencil-straight interstates on a sunny day, the final SAE level would require extensive testing for sensors that can’t yet read road lines in bad weather, low light, on dirt roads, or countless other variable circumstances. Although having a steering wheel and pedals wouldn’t preclude a car from being Level 5, to achieve the designation those controls would be useless: Level 5 cars aren’t driven by humans in any circumstance.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight Monday, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad.
The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. It’s poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA’s Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon.
Astronauts could return to the moon in a few years if this six-week test flight goes well. NASA officials caution, however, that the risks are high, and the flight could be cut short.
In lieu of astronauts, three test dummies are strapped into the Orion capsule to measure vibration, acceleration, and radiation, one of the biggest hazards to humans in deep space. The capsule alone has more than 1,000 sensors.
Officials said Sunday that neither the rocket nor capsule suffered any damage during Saturday’s thunderstorm; ground equipment also was unaffected. Five strikes were confirmed, hitting the 600-foot (183-meter) lightning-protection towers surrounding the rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The strikes weren’t strong enough to warrant major retesting.
“Clearly, the system worked as designed,” said Jeff Spaulding, NASA’s senior test director.
More storms were expected. Although forecasters gave 80% odds of acceptable weather Monday morning, conditions were expected to deteriorate during the two-hour launch window.
On the technical side, Spaulding said the team did its best over the past several months to eliminate any lingering fuel leaks. A pair of countdown tests earlier this year prompted repairs to leaking valves and other faulty equipment; engineers won’t know if all the fixes are good until just a few hours before the planned liftoff. If Monday doesn’t pan out, the next launch attempt would be Friday.
After so many years of delays and setbacks, the launch team was thrilled to finally be so close to the inaugural flight of the Artemis moon-exploration program, named after Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology.
“We’re within 24 hours of launch right now, which is pretty amazing for where we’ve been on this journey,” Spaulding told reporters.
The follow-on Artemis flight, as early as 2024, would see four astronauts flying around the moon. A landing could follow in 2025. NASA is targeting the moon’s unexplored south pole, where permanently shadowed craters are believed to hold ice that could be used by future crews.
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(NewsNation) — Dating someone who might be your doppelganger is all fun and games until you realize they might be your relative.
This fact may have to be in the back of the minds of mingling singles, as new research in the Aug. 23 edition of the Cell Reports journal shows a strong correlation between facial similarities and genetic variants.
“Our study provides a rare insight into human likeness by showing that people with extreme look-alike faces share common genotypes, whereas they are discordant at the epigenome and microbiome levels,” senior author Manel Esteller, of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, said in a statement. “Genomics clusters them together, and the rest sets them apart.”
Esteller and his team were able to reach this conclusion by using the work of François Brunelle, a Canadian photographer who has been collecting pictures of look-alikes worldwide since 1999.
Using these pictures, they narrowed the group of 32 look-alike pairs to the closest-looking pair of 16 based on three different facial recognition algorithms. The new group was asked to fill out biometric and lifestyle questionnaires and produce saliva DNA for multi-omics analysis.
According to Esteller, these sets of tests reveal to what extent these biological factors — from our blood to our guts and how they all work together — go into how we look.
“This unique set of samples has allowed us to study how genomics, epigenomics and microbiomics can contribute to human resemblance,” Esteller explained to EurekAlert!
After narrowing the research pool to 16 couples as test subjects, it was determined that they shared similar genotypes overall, even though they do not share the same DNA sequence.
Furthermore, it was concluded that nine out of the 16 pairs whom artificial intelligence determined bore the closest resemblance had 19,277 genetic variations in common that included shared physical behavior and traits, such as height, weight and smoking habits.
As one research study on understanding human genetic variation explains, ”out of every 1,000 base pairs, about one will be different between any two individuals.”
To put this into context, individuals rarely have identical characteristics. The most common variation amongst people occurs once in every 300 bases of DNA, of which we all share the same four instructions, including adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine (ACGT).
Because it’s hard to get a hold of “look-alike data,” as the study describes it, the sample size ended up being small, resulting in shortcomings such as skewed results. For example, any results from non-genetic data could relate to an underpowered study.
Furthermore, because the pictures are two-dimensional and in black and white, the study admits that “valuable” information, such as “subtle skin tones, and unique facial features” are lacking.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.
The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, on Sunday announced that Sept. 3 will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios. In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters. This year, the August lull has been especially acute for exhibitors. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in its recent plans to fill for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But, if successful, National Cinema Day could flood theaters with moviegoers and potentially prompt them to return in the fall. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal, and Warner Bros.
“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,”“Minions: Rise of Gru,”“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Jurassic World Dominion” pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore. That trails 2019 totals by about 20% but exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year.
Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S.
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Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday before she closed out the show with a surprisingly big announcement: Her new album.
“I thought it would be a fun moment to tell you that my new album comes out Oct. 21,” said Swift after she won video of the year for her project “All Too Well: The Short Film” (10 minute version), which claimed best long form video and direction. “I will tell you more at midnight.”
Swift said on social media that her upcoming 10th studio album would be called “Midnights,” which she says will involve “stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life.” Her upcoming album comes after she released “Folklore” and “Evermore.” Both projects came out five months apart two years ago. “Folklore” won album of the year at the 2021 Grammy Awards.
The pop star’s reveal came at the end of her acceptance speech where she praised the other women in the category — which included Doja Cat and Olivia Rodrigo.
“I know with every second of this moment that we wouldn’t be able to make this short film if it weren’t for you – the fans,” she said. “I wouldn’t be able to re-record my albums if it wasn’t for you. You emboldened me to do that.”
Swift spoke earlier about creating her first short film, giving thanks to several including actors Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien who starred in the project.
“We put our entire hearts into this,” Swift said.
Rapper Jack Harlow made his mark throughout the entire show. He kicked off the show with a performance inside a mock airplane walking down aisle while performing his hit song “First Class,” which was sampled by Fergie’s “Glamorous.” The rapper joined Fergie onstage — who wore a sparkling silver dress with the red words “First Class” — while she sang her 2006 jam.
“Thank you to Fergie for coming out with me tonight and clearing this song,” said Harlow after “First Class” won the award for song of the summer later in the show. “The beauty of this song is that people don’t realize it’s so hip-hop because of the sampling. To bring Fergie into the mix in this way means the world to me. It’s truly full circle. ‘Glamorous’ was one of the most important songs of my childhood.”
Johnny Depp made a surprise appearance as the Moon Man nearly three months after the verdict in his defamation trial with his former wife Amber Heard. The 59-year-old actor appeared to float from the ceiling while wearing the iconic astronaut outfit with his face digitally inserted into costume’s helmet.
“And you know what? I needed the work,” Depp told the audience at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Lizzo had Taylor Swift dancing out of her seat while she performed her new single “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready).” Lizzo won an award for video for good for “About Damn Time.”
Harlow’s name was called to come right back onstage to collect the show’s first award for his guest appearance on Lil Nas X’s song “Industry Baby,” which won for best collaboration, art direction and visual effects. Harlow, Lil Nas X and Kendrick Lamar each entered the awards tied for leading nominees with seven apiece.
“This one is for the champions,” said Lil Nas X before Harlow thanked him for the collaboration on the chart-topping single.
Harlow, in addition to performing and winning awards, joined LL Cool J and Nicki Minaj as the show’s hosts.
Minaj performed a medley of her career’s biggest hits from “Roman’s Revenge,” “Chun-Li,” “Moment 4 Life,” “Beez in the Trap,” “Anaconda” and “Super Bass.” After her set, the rapper accepted the show’s Video Vanguard award, which MTV has said she’s receiving for her artistry, barrier-breaking hip-hop and status as a global superstar. The honor is named after Michael Jackson.
During her acceptance speech, Minaj paid tribute to other music icons such as Jackson, Whitney Houston and Lil Wayne. She spoke about the importance of mental health.
“I wish people took mental health seriously, even when you think they have the perfect lives,” said Minaj, who later won best hip-hop for her song “Do We Have a Problem?” featuring Lil Baby.
Harry Styles won album of the year for “Harry’s House.” He was unable to attend the awards due to his show at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Bad Bunny performed his hit “Titi Me Pregunto” from Yankee Stadium after he won artist of the year.
“I have been saying it and I always believed from the beginning that I could become great,” he said. “That I could become one of the biggest stars in the world without having to change my culture, my language, my jargon. I am Benito Antonio Martínez from Puerto Rico to the whole world, thank you!”
Eminem and Snoop Dogg brought the metaverse to the VMAs as the duo performed “From the D 2 The LBC,” which was featured on Eminem’s greatest hits album “Curtain Call 2.”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers took the stage as the recipients of the Global Icon award after being introduced by Cheech & Chong as their “favorite band of all time.” The band — which consists of Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante — performed several songs including their classic “Can’t Stop” from the the group’s 2002 album “By the Way” and their recent hit “Black Summer,” which won best rock.
Flea made a speech about his love for human beings along with cockroaches, trees and dirt. Smith, the band’s drummer, dedicated the award to Taylor Hawkins, the late Foo Fighters drummer who died early this year.
“I dedicate this to Taylor and his family,” he said. “I love them and I miss him every day.”
Madonna, who is the most awarded artist in MTV history with 20 wins, became the only artist to receive a nomination in each of the VMAs five decades. She earned her 69th nomination for her 14th studio album “Madame X.”
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LONDON (AP) — The annual Notting Hill Carnival has returned to the streets of London for the first time since 2019, with more than 1 million people expected to take in the music, spectacular parades, dancing and food offerings at Europe’s largest street party on Sunday and Monday.
The carnival, which celebrates Caribbean culture at the end of August every year, had to take place online for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The carnival traces its history back to 1958, when Trinidadian human rights activist Claudia Jones began organizing a gathering to unify the community after a series of racially motivated attacks on West Indians in west London’s Notting Hill neighborhood.
The event has grown from a festival drawing several hundred people to a huge annual street party, with tens of thousands of performers in the colorful parade and more than 30 sound systems.
Celebrations began on Saturday night, as more than 1,000 people gathered to watch a steel band competition in west London.
Crowds of young children blowing whistles danced down the streets with their parents on Sunday, traditionally a more family-friendly day than Monday. Some children stood on the doorsteps of their houses waving Jamaican flags.
Pepe Francis heads the Ebony Steelband Trust, which has been performing at the carnival for decades.
“Since the band has started, I’m on my fifth generation of people and there’s been a lot of changes,” he said. “But our members look forward to carnival every year and practice takes place regularly from year to year.”
“A lot of people have been waiting for it to come back,” Francis added.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The horror film “The Invitation” needed just $7 million to finish at the top of the weakest weekend of the summer at the North American box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Directed and co-written by Jessica M. Thompson and starring “Game of Thrones” actor Nathalie Emmanuel, “The Invitation” tells the story of a young woman who after her mother’s death discovers dark secrets at her family home in the English countryside.
It debuted on 3,141 screens for Sony and cost just $10 million to make.
Sony also had the No. 2 movie with the Brad Pitt vehicle “Bullet Train,” which brought in an estimated $5.6 million from 3,513 screens in its fourth week, bringing its domestic total to $78.2 million.
Universal’s “Beast,” starring Idris Elba, finished third with $4.9 million in its second week, after making $11.6 million and ranking second in its first.
Elba was also the star of the week’s other major debut, “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” the fantasy epic from “Mad Max” director George Miller, which brought in just $2.9 million on 2,436 screens and finished a distant and disappointing seventh.
The lagging results were no great surprise for this time of year.
“We’re in that what is often the typical August slowdown heading into Labor Day weekend,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. “This was to be expected given the lineup of films this weekend.”
Paramount’s “Top Gun: Maverick” remained in fourth in its 14th weekend in theaters with an additional $4.8 million. It has made over $691 million in North America to date, making it the sixth-highest grossing domestic release of all time.
Last week’s No. 1, “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” plunged to fifth in its second weekend with $4.6 million after bringing in $20.1 million in its debut.
The weekend overall saw about $52.7 million in North American ticket sales — the slowest in months. A strong summer has meant that the year-to-date box office is still up significantly from a tepid 2021, but a long drought lies ahead until another surge of expected big earners such as “Halloween Ends” and “Black Adam,” which will both be released in October.
Amid the quiet spell at the box office, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “ National Cinema Day ” on Saturday. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “The Invitation,” $7 million.
2. “Bullet Train,” $5.6 million.
3. “Beast,” $4.9 million.
4. “Top Gun: Maverick,” $4.8 million.
5. “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero,” $4.6 million.
6. “DC League of Super-Pets,” $4.2 million.
7. “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” $2.9 million
8. “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” $2.74 million.
9. “Thor: Love and Thunder,” $2.7 million.
10. “Where the Crawdads Sing,” $2.3 million
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(The Hill) – Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne said he is “fed up” with gun violence in America and plans to move back permanently to England.
Osbourne told The Guardian in a story published Sunday that he plans to sell his Los Angeles, Calif., home in Hancock Park and move to a 350-acre estate in southeast England by February.
The metal singer said he was making the move because “everything’s ridiculous” in the U.S.
“I’m fed up with people getting killed every day. God knows how many people have been shot in school shootings,” Osbourne said, explaining he does not want to “die” in America and that it was time to return to his home country.
Osbourne, who was born near Birmingham, England, has listed his Los Angeles home in Hancock Park for $18 million, according to recent reports.
In March, he said he would move to his estate in Buckinghamshire because of high California taxes, according to the Daily Mirror.
Osbourne, 73, has a host of health issues, including a struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He underwent a surgical operation this summer.
But Osbourne’s wife, Sharon, said their decision to move was not based on his health.
“America has changed so drastically,” she told The Guardian. “It isn’t the United States of America at all. Nothing’s united about it. It’s a very weird place to live right now.”
Extreme polarization has been highlighted by investigations into former President Trump and the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe V. Wade and the nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion.
Osbourne is a pioneer in the rock and metal world, having co-founded the band Black Sabbath in 1968 before launching a successful solo career.
The singer’s new album, Patient Number 9, is slated for a Sept. 9 release and features other musical legends, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Black Label Society’s Zakk Wylde, and the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
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(WHTM) – If you haven’t already ordered your three rounds of free COVID tests from the federal government, now is the time – the test kit ordering program is set to expire soon.
According to COVID.gov, ordering through the program will be suspended on September 2 “because Congress hasn’t provided additional funding to replenish the nation’s stockpile of tests.”
Through the program, U.S. households are able to order 16 free rapid antigen COVID-19 test kits that are shipped through the United States Postal Service. Three rounds of free COVID-19 test kits have been offered through the program: the first in January offering four test kits, the second offering another four in March, and the final round in May with eight.
The tests available are rapid antigen at-home tests, not PCR tests, that can be taken anywhere with results available in 30 minutes. These tests from various companies can also be used whether or not you have COVID-19 symptoms or are vaccinated against COVID.
Nexstar’s WHTM has reached out to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for comment on the pending suspension of the program.
If you haven’t claimed all 16 of the COVID tests you’re eligible for, you have less than a week to request them.
To order your tests, go to COVIDtests.gov and select “Order Free At-Home Tests.” You’ll be taken to a form where you can enter your name and residential address. (If you’re having trouble getting the website to recognize your address, check here for common issues.)
Once you’ve completed the form, and as long as you provided your email address, you’ll receive two confirmation emails from USPS, one for each of your packages. Delivery updates will later be sent to your email.
More than 20,000 no-cost antigen and PCR COVID-19 testing sites are available to everyone in the U.S., including the uninsured, at more than 20,000 sites nationwide.
If you decide to purchase an at-home test from a pharmacy, your insurance may cover up to eight tests each month.
Find more information on free COVID testing resources by calling 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 1-888-720-7489).
According to the CDC, there have been more than 93,800,000 COVID-19 cases in the United States, with more than 1 million deaths.
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KEITHVILLE, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Caddo Parish sheriff’s deputies are investigating after a 12-year-old boy last seen late Saturday night was found late Sunday afternoon, 11 hours after he went missing.
According to CPSO, the pre-teen was last seen near his home in the 6800 block of Colquitt Road around 11 p.m.
CPSO has not said where or how the boy was found, but they say deputies will conduct a follow-up investigation to make sure he is okay and thanked all those who helped in the search.
Louisiana State Police issued a Level II Endangered Missing Child Advisory early Saturday afternoon in order to help get the word out about the missing boy.
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(NEXSTAR) – Millions of federal student loan borrowers will soon receive thousands in debt relief under a new plan revealed by the Biden administration on Wednesday.
While many aspects of the plan remain unclear, there are a few questions we can answer. One of those is whether forgiveness will be considered taxable income.
It’s a reasonable concern – the maximum relief available of $10,000 or $20,000 (depending on if you received a Pell Grant while in college) could be enough to move some borrowers into a different tax bracket if it’s considered taxable income.
Thankfully, according to the White House, any relief you receive won’t be treated as taxable income for federal income tax purposes.
This is due to the American Rescue Plan.
When Congress passed the American Rescue Plan shortly after President Biden took office in 2021, it eliminated taxes on loan forgiveness through 2025.
Here are three other things you should know about Biden’s plan to forgive millions of dollars in student loan debt.
Payment pause to end
If your entire loan balance won’t be erased – which is likely for some 23 million borrowers – President Biden has extended the payment pause through the end of the year.
But, come January 1, 2023, interest will begin accruing again, and regular payments will resume. He has indicated the pause will not be extended again.
Made payments? You can get a refund
If you’ve voluntarily made payments since March 2020, when payments were paused, you can request a refund for those payments, according to the Federal Office of Student Aid.
Contact your loan servicer to request a refund.
When will you see relief?
When and how student loan forgiveness will be distributed hasn’t yet been made clear.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, nearly 8 million borrowers may qualify for relief automatically based on the income data the department already has. If the Education Department doesn’t have your income data, or you’re unsure if the agency has it, there isn’t much to do right now.
Instead, you’ll need to wait for the Biden administration to launch an application process, which will be available “in the coming weeks.” The application will be available before the student loan repayment pause ends on December 31.
You can register to be notified when the application is available through the Department of Education by filling out this form.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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(The Hill) – Approximately six in 10 Republican respondents in a new poll said that former President Donald Trump should be the GOP nominee in the 2024 election.
The USA Today/Ipsos survey found that 59 percent of Republican respondents favor Trump, who has said he has made up his mind about running again, and 41 percent believe that another candidate should represent their party.
By comparison, 44 percent of Democratic respondents said that President Biden should be the party’s nominee in 2024, while 56 percent of those surveyed believe that another candidate should represent their party.
When asked to list the former president’s positive traits, Trump’s willingness to use all tools at his disposal to get things done was cited by the most Republican respondents — 90 percent.
Eighty-two percent of Republican respondents also said they believe that Trump can win a reelection bid in 2024, pollsters noted.
The poll comes after a redacted affidavit used to convince a judge to approve this month’s FBI search of Trump’s Florida residence was released on Friday. Trump has denied any wrongdoing related to the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago.
The USA Today/Ipsos poll of 2,345 respondents was conducted from August 18 to August 22. Its margin of error is 4.2 percentage points.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight Monday, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad.
The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. It’s poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA’s Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon.
Astronauts could return to the moon in a few years, if this six-week test flight goes well. NASA officials caution, however, that the risks are high and the flight could be cut short.
In lieu of astronauts, three test dummies are strapped into the Orion capsule to measure vibration, acceleration and radiation, one of the biggest hazards to humans in deep space. The capsule alone has more than 1,000 sensors.
Officials said Sunday that neither the rocket nor capsule suffered any damage during Saturday’s thunderstorm; ground equipment also was unaffected. Five strikes were confirmed, hitting the 600-foot (183-meter) lightning-protection towers surrounding the rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The strikes weren’t strong enough to warrant major retesting.
“Clearly, the system worked as designed,” said Jeff Spaulding, NASA’s senior test director.
More storms were expected. Although forecasters gave 80% odds of acceptable weather Monday morning, conditions were expected to deteriorate during the two-hour launch window.
On the technical side, Spaulding said the team did its best over the past several months to eliminate any lingering fuel leaks. A pair of countdown tests earlier this year prompted repairs to leaking valves and other faulty equipment; engineers won’t know if all the fixes are good until just a few hours before the planned liftoff. If Monday doesn’t pan out, the next launch attempt would be Friday.
After so many years of delays and setbacks, the launch team was thrilled to finally be so close to the inaugural flight of the Artemis moon-exploration program, named after Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology.
“We’re within 24 hours of launch right now, which is pretty amazing for where we’ve been on this journey,” Spaulding told reporters.
The follow-on Artemis flight, as early as 2024, would see four astronauts flying around the moon. A landing could follow in 2025. NASA is targeting the moon’s unexplored south pole, where permanently shadowed craters are believed to hold ice that could be used by future crews.
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The 49ers are disapointed with their 1-1 record and the loss of Trey Lance through two weeks of the regular season. However, the swirling storylines have overshadowed some impressive performances from the Niners' defense. On Tuesday, Football Outsiders shared a wild graphic showing how far ahead of the pack San Francisco’s defense has faired in the first two games.
Top defenses vs. WR1s so far #NFL | #FTTB pic.twitter.com/rVGxzwazfB
— Football Outsiders (@fboutsiders) September 20, 2022
DVOA (which stands for Defense-adjusted Value Over Average) aims to calculate how much value a defense adds or subtracts from opposing offenses. Obviously, defenses want to post negative numbers, expressing how far below expectation an opposing offense performs against them. Football Outsiders uses this metric on an aggregate level but also in several specific situations. In their breakdown of how defenses have fared against top receivers on opposing teams, the 49ers are lapping the field.
The 49ers have an incredible -131.9% defense pass DVOA against opposing teams' top receivers, easily the best in the NFL. The Eagles, Jaguars, Broncos, and Commanders round out the top five, but none of them have a defensive pass DVOA better than -70%.
The sample is extremely small, and the 49ers have faced two offenses without standout quarterbacks. However, it’s still a stark contrast to the Niners’ struggles to slow down opposing receivers over the past few seasons. It’s even more noteworthy that they have performed so well without starting safety Jimmie Ward.
San Francisco’s impressive numbers reflect several factors, but it’s also a credit to recent free agent signing Moody Ward and the emergence of safety Talanoa Hufanga. Ward has 10 tackles, a pair of passes defended, and an interception in the first two games of the season.
Hufanga has taken a massive jump forward in his second NFL season and looks like one of the best defenders on the team. He has been all over the field through the first two games and already has 17 tackles, three tackles for loss, three passes defended, and an interception.
This week, the 49ers defense will face its biggest challenge slowing down an opponent’s top receiver against the Denver Broncos. Russell Wilson and Courtland Sutton are easily the most proven quarterback-wide receiver combo the Niners have seen this season. We’ll see if they can continue rising to the challenge.
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Britain's favourite baker lives a stones throw away from an idyllic Kent village on the outskirts of Ashford. His quiet country life there consists of being with his landlady girlfriend, his enormous cats and of course, baking.
Paul Hollywood's tenure as the iciest bread maker on British television began with the first series of the Great British Bake Off in 2010. Back then, it was rumoured that the chef earned £100,000 per series, but since the show moved to Channel 4 he reportedly gets £400,000 each year.
With this hefty pay check plus his cookbooks, his company HJP Media LLP and his line of baked goods in supermarkets, the 56 year old can afford to live in a grade-II listed farmhouse near Smarden. The village is located near Ashford which is home to “The Barn of Kent” according to The Express.
The home reportedly has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, several reception rooms, a large gravel driveway and stables. It also features orchards, rose beds, a Shepherd’s Nook and a poultry run, all surrounded by right acres of Kent countryside.
Hollywood's girlfriend, Melissa Spalding, is the landlady of the Chequers Inn in Smarden which is owned by her parents. The couple have been dating since 2019 and last year Spalding revealed that her partner had been picking up a few shifts at the pub by working as a pizza chef.
To attract more business to the inn, she posted an advert saying: "Delicious authentic Italian pizzas cooked fresh to order!! Our chefs for the night will be Scott Spalding and Paul Hollywood."
The landlady even named a pizza after her boyfriend turned staff member: Paul's Pizza. Alongside his girlfriend Paul Hollywood lives with two enormous Maine Coon cats.
The baker is known to be a big fan of the animals as he frequently posts pictures of them to Instagram and is even an ambassador for the Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent. In a recent interview with Ideal Home, Hollywood described his morning as: "I have two beautiful Maine Coons, so I normally feed them first thing and they come sit on my lap and give me a bit of attention being very cute.”
In a recent post, he shared a surprisingly cuddly picture of him and one of his felines with the caption "Cat again ! She’s soaked a brush and dry I think!" Paul Hollywood most recently appeared in this week's episode of the Great British Bake Off.
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(The Hill) – Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke (D) said he was pausing his campaigning on Sunday after he was hospitalized with a bacterial infection.
O’Rourke tweeted Sunday afternoon that he started to feel ill on Friday and checked into the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, where he was diagnosed with the bacterial infection.
“While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations,” the Democratic candidate wrote. “I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but promise to be back on the road with you as soon as I am able.”
O’Rourke is seeking to knock off Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who is seeking re-election.
The race is expected to be close; Abbott was leading O’Rourke by seven points in a poll released this month.
O’Rourke, who previously ran for a Texas Senate seat and narrowly lost to incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R).
Earlier this month, O’Rourke drew national headlines when he called out a heckler who laughed as the candidate discussed the recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 children and two adults dead.
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Players will tell you that all games are the same. For fans, there’s nothing better than getting a victory over your bitter rival. Last week Trey Lance’s injury took some of the sweetness out of stomping the Seahawks for just the third time since 2014. This week, their old nemesis Russell Wilson is on the docket. Putting aside Lance’s injury for a moment, what would be more enjoyable for you: beating Pete Carroll and Seattle, or beating Russell Wilson?
Russell Wilson has been an incredible quarterback in his career, both from a win-loss perspective and in terms of incredible plays on the field. Only the New England Patriots won games at a better clip than Russell Wilson did in his time with Seattle, and we can all remember the heart-wrenching individual plays Mr. Unlimited has made over the years against the 49ers.
But there’s also something about him that just annoys the hell out of you. Take this, for example:
Russell Wilson demanded the #Broncos sideline will yell "Run or Pass" to help the defense against the #Seahawks (@NFLFilms)pic.twitter.com/fce04dItvT
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) September 15, 2022
Yell run or pass? Does he think this is Pop Warner football? I think Joe Staley put it best during his appearance on KNBR on Monday:
“I hate Russ...We were talking about it last week, is it still a rivalry with the Seattle Seahawks? I’m like, ‘I don’t know, no?’ I feel like it’s more of a rivalry with the Broncos just because I don’t like Russ. I’d be more passionate and fired up when the Niners go out there on Sunday Night Football and dominate the Broncos. And Russ has a hundred yards passing on 10 of 32 throwing and Nick [Bosa] has six sacks, just dominating the game. I’ll be fired up for that.”
On the other hand, Seattle has been the source of some of our biggest defeats. There was the 42-13 game in 2012, 29-3 in 2013, and of course, the NFC Championship Game later that year. That Legion of Boom defense generally kicked the tar out of the 49ers, and Russ didn’t have anything to do with that.
So, vote in our poll and leave a comment below.
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PARIS (AP) — Fisticuffs in the cockpit, leaving a leaky engine running while cruising over Africa — Air France pilots are under scrutiny after recent incidents that have prompted French investigators to call for tougher safety protocols.
Two Air France pilots were suspended after physically fighting in the cockpit on a Geneva-Paris flight in June, an Air France official said Sunday. The flight continued and landed safely, and the dispute didn’t affect the rest of the flight, the official said, stressing the airline’s commitment to safety.
Switzerland’s La Tribune reported that the pilot and co-pilot had a dispute shortly after takeoff, and grabbed each other by their collars after one apparently hit the other. Cabin crew intervened and one crew member spent the flight in the cockpit with the pilots, the report said.
News of the fight emerged after France’s air investigation agency, BEA, issued a report Wednesday saying that some Air France pilots lack rigor in respecting procedures during safety incidents.
It focused on a fuel leak on an Air France flight from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to Paris in December 2020, when pilots rerouted the plane but didn’t cut power to the engine or land as soon as possible, as leak procedure requires. The plane landed safely in Chad, but the BEA report warned that the engine could have caught fire.
It mentioned three similar cases between 2017 and 2022, and said some pilots are acting based on their own analysis of the situation instead of safety protocols.
Air France said it is carrying out a safety audit in response. It pledged to follow the BEA’s recommendations, which include allowing pilots to study their flights afterward and making training manuals stricter about sticking to procedure.
The airline noted that it flies thousands of flights daily and the report mentions only four such safety incidents.
Air France pilots unions have insisted that security is paramount to all pilots and defended pilot actions during emergency situations.
The BEA also investigated an incident in April involving an Air France flight from New York’s JFK airport that suffered flight control problems on approach to its landing in Paris.
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The DWP has advised that payments for those on disability and other benefits will be arriving shortly. The payments have been delayed for some due to the Bank Holiday on Monday which took place for the Queen's funeral.
The Department of Work and Pensions ( DWP ) has issued a statement telling recipients there is no need to call, after many recently discovered that their usual payment had not been made. Universal credit, ESA payments and other benefits should have been sent out overnight on Tuesday, September 20 or last night, Wednesday September 21.
The money is usually received just after midnight each month however it should now be appearing in bank accounts at some point today. In a tweet, the DWP said: "People due payments on Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 September will be paid throughout the day of their expected payment date."
Read more: Don't Pay UK: What happens if you don't pay your energy bills, according to debt expert
It's thought that the delay has primarily affected people on ESA disability benefits. However those who were due their benefits this Monday should have received an early payment on Friday September 16.
Here is a list of the full payments affected:
- Attendance allowance
- Carer’s allowance
- Disability living allowance
- Employment and support allowance (ESA)
- Income support
- Industrial injuries disablement benefit
- Jobseeker’s allowance (JSA)
- Pension credit
- Personal independence payment (PIP)
- State pension
- Universal credit
- Child benefit/guardian’s allowance
- Working tax credits
- Child tax credits
The DWP has an online benefits checker which allows you to find out what you can claim for. You can find it here.
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Branch: Surgeon says 49ers’ Trey Lance could be fully healed before end of regular season (paywall)
“There could be a lot of non-medical factors that are playing a part in shutting him down — protecting their investment in the future,” said Jung, who works at the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles. “But usually this injury is about 10 to 12 weeks.”
49ers sign No. 3 quarterback, promote running back to active roster [report]
“Benkert, 27, was undrafted out of the University of Virginia and spent his first three seasons with Atlanta (2018-2020). He spent last season with Green Bay and made his only appearance in an NFL game, kneeling down twice. Benkert broke the school record for passing yards in a game (455) while at the University of Virginia.”
Maoicco: 49ers overreactions: Is team in worse shape after Lance injury?
“We think there’s a greater chance Shanahan will end up as the longest-tenured 49ers coach in franchise history than him being kicked out the door any time soon.”
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“Actually, a dropback play is riskier than a quarterback sneak, so those are the things that really confuse me,” Shanahan said. “I see guys get killed in the pocket on dropbacks. And I’ve never had a quarterback get hurt on the sneak before.”
Barrows: Jimmy Garoppolo’s future, Trey Lance’s timeline, new QB added: 49ers mailbag (paywall)
“Shanahan doesn’t want a gunslinger. He believes his system has an answer for nearly every defensive scenario and that there would be minimal ad libbing. Does this create a conflict? I don’t know. The 2017 season may have been fun, but the 2019 season — when Garoppolo had Shanahan’s full system in his head and was running it as well as he ever has — ought to have been more fun considering it ended in the Super Bowl.”
ESPN: 49ers believed Jimmy Garoppolo would be traded to Commanders
“After further consultation with doctors, Garoppolo and his representatives opted for surgery that set the beginning of training camp as a target date for a full recovery. By March 1, the plan became public knowledge, and eight days later, the Commanders moved on, trading for Indianapolis quarterback Carson Wentz.”
Brent Jones blasts those criticizing Shanahan over Lance injury: ‘That’s just such BS, it’s a joke’
“The reason they drafted Trey is because what he brings to the table as an athlete, not only in the pocket but outside the pocket with his legs. He can create tons of problems and nobody calls a play thinking ‘I better not call this play because the guy could blow out his ankle and be out for the year.’ It doesn’t enter into the mindset on game day, and that’s for fans to sit back and second guess. It’s just a bunch of crap to be honest with you.”
Donte Whitner thinks 49ers have chance to go undefeated with Jimmy Garoppolo
“The offensive line is playing better. The running game is starting to pick up,” Whitner explained. “You have weapons on the outside like Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk, the return of George Kittle...And Jimmy Garoppolo, who was motivated, accurate, efficient, and ready to lead this 49ers team back to the promised land.”
“Linebackers NaVorro Bowman, Patrick Willis, that list includes quarterback Jeff Garcia, running back Ricky Watters, wide receiver Anquan Boldin, defensive lineman Justin Smith, linebacker Takeo Spikes, and defensive backs Merton Hanks and Tim McDonald, and kicker Gary Anderson.”
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BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street fell following last week’s Federal Reserve pledge to fight inflation by keeping interest rates elevated.
Shanghai and Hong Kong fell while Tokyo and South Korea advanced. Oil prices retreated.
Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index lost 0.7% on Monday, adding to last week’s losses.
Stocks tumbled after Fed chair Jerome Powell indicated Friday the U.S. central bank will stick to a strategy of rate hikes to cool inflation that is running at multi-decade highs. That appeared to quiet speculation the Fed might ease off due to signs economic activity is cooling.
“Markets are still digesting Jay Powell’s hard-hitting message on inflation containment,” said Venkateswaran Lavanya of Mizuho Bank in a report, while the European Central Bank also is giving “more hawkish” signals.
The Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.6% to 3,220.47 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong tumbled 1.3% to 19,762.31.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo gained 1% to 28,162.52 after the official unemployment rate for July held steady and the labor participation rate, or the share of the working-age population that is in jobs, stayed at a record high.
The Kospi in Seoul added 0.7% to 2,443.90 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 gained 0.5% to 6,996.60.
New Zealand and Southeast Asian markets also advanced.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 fell to 4,030.61. On Friday, the benchmark index lost 3.4% in its biggest one-day drop in two months.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.6% to 32,098.99. The Nasdaq composite tumbled 1% to 12,017.67.
Selling was widespread. Tech and health care stocks were the biggest decliners. Energy and utilities stocks rose.
Investors worry rate hikes by the Fed and by central banks in Europe and Asia might derail global economic growth.
Fed officials point to a strong U.S. job market as evidence the biggest global economy can tolerate higher borrowing costs. Some acknowledge a recession is possible but say that might be necessary to extinguish surging inflation.
The Fed has raised interest rates four times this year. The latest two were by 0.75 percentage points, three times its usual margin.
Some investors had hoped that the Fed would ease up if inflation subsides. That sentiment led to a rally for stocks in July and early August.
Investors expect another large hike at the Fed’s September meeting, though the likelihood of such a big increase is smaller following weaker-than-forecast July retail sales.
The Fed’s preferred gauge of inflation decelerated last month, while other data shows consumer spending slowed. Wall Street will get several more updates on the economy this week.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude lost 39 cents to $96.62 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract soared $3.95 on Monday to $97.01. Brent crude, the price basis for international trading, shed 69 cents to $102.24 per barrel in London. It jumped $4.10 the previous session to $105.09.
The dollar declined to 138.55 yen from Monday’s 138.83 yen. The euro rose to 99.99 cents from 99.92 cents.
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ROME (AP) — Italian authorities scrambled on Sunday to relieve overcrowding in shelters after scores of boats carrying a total of about 1,000 migrants reached Italy’s southern shores and two of its tiny islands over the weekend.
Nearly 50 boats arrived between Friday night and Saturday on Lampedusa island off Sicily, according to state radio and other Italian media. Other boats carrying migrants reached Pantelleria, another tiny island favored by vacationers.
Hundreds of migrants stepped ashore from the virtual flotilla of smugglers’ vessels on those islands. Several of the vessels launched by migrant smugglers held as few as eight passengers. But others had around 100 passengers aboard, many of them from Tunisia, according to the reports.
Other boats reached the shores of the Italian mainland on Saturday, either unaided or assisted by Italian coast guard vessels.
The Italian news agency ANSA said that 92 migrants, most of them from Afghanistan, reached Puglia — the “heel” of the boot-shaped peninsula — in a sailboat on Saturday. Still other migrants sailed to Calabria in the “toe” of the peninsula, while other boats reached Sicily and Sardinia, Italy’s two biggest islands, in the last two days.
On Sardinia, Carabinieri paramilitary police spotted 29 migrants walking along a road, ANSA said.
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders tweeted that one of its rescue ships, Geo Barents, saved 25 migrants, including five minors, from a small boat in distress in international waters near Libya on Saturday night. Geo Barents already had other migrants abroad plucked to safety in other rescue operations, the group said.
With the disembarkation of hundreds of migrants from boats in the last days, the residence temporarily housing rescued migrants on Lampedusa quickly became overcrowded. Corriere della Sera said the residence housed 1,500 asylum-seekers, nearly four times its capacity.
Interior ministry authorities arranged for a commercial passenger ferry to sail from Sicily to Lampedusa, where it was expected to arrive on Sunday night, embark 250 migrants and take them to Sicilian migrant residences to lessen crowding on the tiny island’s facility.
While hundreds of thousands of migrants have set sail from Libyan shores aboard smugglers’ boats in the last decades, many also set out from Tunisia.
Italian media noted the Tunisian coast guard had thwarted at least a score of attempts by vessels filled with migrants to head toward Italy and rescued many others from boats in distress on Friday and Saturday.
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For 60 years, Cobham Hall, a renowned girls' day and boarding school near Gravesend, has been trusted by parents from across Kent, the UK and the world to provide the academic knowledge and skills their daughters need to flourish, and to inspire each to find her own individual path in life. From this year, the school is delighted also to be able to offer its outstanding sixth form programme to boys.
"We know from experience the tremendous benefits of a single sex education in a child’s formative years,” said Mrs Wendy Barrett, Head of Cobham Hall, “but we also understand the challenge that transfer to university life increasingly brings. While Cobham Hall will remain girls-only from years 7 to 11, we believe the co-educational bridge our Sixth Form offers will best prepare the students of today for the realities of 21st century life.
"Working together, learning together, socialising together, within the school’s safe, secure and supportive environment, Cobham Hall boys and girls will gain the skills and mutual understanding they need to thrive."
Outside the classroom, girls and boys will have the opportunity to develop teamwork skills as they take part together in co-curricular programmes such as the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme and Model United Nations. In sport, they will be able to pursue activities such as tennis, swimming, badminton, hockey, cricket, running, football and basketball in mixed teams. They will also benefit from the school’s stunning new Sixth Form Centre, housed in glorious rooms originally built to entertain Queen Elizabeth I, but with a modern layout and furnishings ideally suited to contemporary education.
An excellent academic record
In 2022, 79% of A Level grades achieved were A* to C; moreover, almost one-third of grades were at the highest level, A* to A. One-third of those students heading to university secured places at prestigious Russell Group institutions - a remarkable achievement for a non-selective school.
GCSE results were equally impressive, with 46% of grades overall reaching the exceptional 7 – 9 band, with 39% attaining these top grades in 50% or more of their results.
Life-changing learning
But a Cobham Hall education is about so much more than results; it is an education for life.
Alongside academic grades, students leave with the skills universities and employers look for: skills in complex problem-solving, project and time management, critical thinking, and creativity; resilience, teamwork, and compassion.
Thanks to the school’s innovative curriculum enrichment programme, whatever path in life they choose, all are empowered to be the best they can be, secure in the knowledge they are equipped for an ever-changing future and fully prepared to embrace the challenges ahead.
Cobham Hall is also one of only a handful of UK schools to introduce a pioneering leadership development course specifically for sixth form students, the Ivy House Award. This aims "to give promising young people the kind of life-changing learning that is normally only available to a handful of senior executives – at a time when it can really make a difference" (Elke Edwards, Founder).
Innovation, internationalism and a culture of kindness
Cobham Hall School has been in the vanguard of education since it opened in 1962: a place of innovation and challenge. The first UK girls’ school to join the global Round Square network, Cobham Hall has long stood for internationalism and modern Round Square values of democracy, environmentalism, adventure, leadership, and service. Its alumnae are at the forefront of the arts, science, medicine, politics, broadcasting and sport.
Happy young people learn, and the school places student wellbeing at the heart of everything it does, ensuring its core values of 'Trust, Respect, Honesty, Kindness and Tolerance' infuse every aspect of the educational experience. In its diverse and tolerant environment, students feel safe to challenge themselves, to develop their curiosity and creativity, and to discover there is more in them than they know.
Inspiring surroundings
In this idyllic rural setting, students enjoy space and security, yet excellent transport links mean London is just 30 minutes away. A network of mini-bus routes runs across Kent and south-east London, making day, weekly and flexi-boarding popular and practical options for families.
Join the sixth form information evening on Wednesday, October 5, from 6.30pm to 8.00pm or the whole school open morning on Saturday, October 8, from 9.30am to 12.30pm.
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