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As the country awaits a vote that may confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, students and faculty at the University of Kansas School of Law reflect on the historical nature of the occasion. Jackson would be the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the United States if confirmed.
Justice Stephen Breyer announced his resignation from the Supreme Court on Jan. 27, kickstarting the process to fill his seat by the time the court takes its summer recess. In a 2020 debate, Biden pledged to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court, a promise with which he’s followed through.
Jordan Carter, a University visiting assistant professor of law and director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, said efforts to diversify the legal system are slow-going, but she’s encouraged by Biden’s actions when it comes to federal judge appointments.
“[Biden] has nominated people who look different and have different backgrounds at a record rate, especially when it comes to women and women of color,” Carter said. “So to me, he has made that a priority."
According to the Federal Judicial Center, about 70 Black women have served as federal judges in the U.S., fewer than 2% of the overall number of judges.
Carter said diversifying the legal system has many benefits, among them is an increase in public trust.
“I think that there are large swaths of our population who don't see themselves reflected in our courts, and don't see their experiences being taken into consideration,” Carter said. “That degrades trust in the court as an institution.”
Donald Pinckney II is a second-year student at KU’s law school, as well as president of the Black Law Students Association. He said BLSA is an affinity organization that provides resources for minority students.
Pinckney said he’s paid some attention to Jackson's confirmation process, and added that her record is important when it comes to representation on the highest court of the land.
“It’s super important that we have someone who has done criminal defense work on the Supreme Court,” Pinckney said. “Historically, Supreme Court justices have either had zero or very little criminal procedure knowledge.”
Pinckney added he is hopeful that Jackson’s potential confirmation encourages other Black people across the country to pursue law.
“I’m hopeful, but I’m also aware of all the obstacles to getting there. Just getting a clerkship to work for a federal judge is intense and very difficult,” Pinckney said. “I’m hopeful that’s a path more Black people in general take, but I’m also very aware of the obstacles ahead.”
As Breyer prepares to leave the court, many will examine his legacy as a justice. Breyer has served since 1994 when he was appointed by then-President Bill Clinton. He has largely been associated with the liberal side of the court.
University Professor Stephen McAllister had the opportunity to meet Breyer several times, including when he visited campus and when McAllister argued nine cases in front of the Supreme Court.
“[Breyer] was always very engaged,” McAllister said. “He tended to have what we call hypothetical questions, so he liked to ask the ‘what ifs’ and spin up facts and see where things might go. [He was] just very engaged and interested in really trying to get answers.”
McAllister said Breyer may have received pressure from various sources to retire, due to the political situation in D.C., where Democrats hold a slim majority in the U.S. Senate.
“Particularly in light of Justice Ginsburg not retiring while President Obama was in office, and then not being able to hold on until there was another Democratic president,” McAllister said. “So I'm sure he was getting pressure to do it.”
McAllister said the nomination of Jackson is historic, however, the move is unlikely to change the voting patterns of the court.
“In terms of actual voting patterns, it's probably not likely to make a lot of difference because you're basically replacing the moderate-to-sometimes-liberal justice with someone who's going to be similar,” McAllister said. “Although, [Breyer’s] more pragmatic and sometimes, particularly in the criminal cases, might even vote with the moderate to conservative folks, whereas I would expect his replacement not to do so.”
After a week of hearings with the Senate Judiciary Committee, the committee will meet this week to review Jackson’s nomination. The full Senate will vote after the committee makes its decision, and is not expected to vote until next week.
Caroline Zimmerman contributed reporting.
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This week marks the 20th episode of the Kansan Sports podcast “Wave the Wheat”, and this episode, hosted by Jaxson Reed, featured freshman journalism students Emily Baldwin and Sydney Clark.
The episode began with the Kansas City Chiefs being the topic of conversation, as Baldwin and Clark are both fans of the NFL team, after the Chiefs dealt away Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins for five draft picks.
“This one hurts my heart a little bit,” Clark said about living with the absence of Hill. “I loved Tyreek, he was on the Super Bowl team. I just wish we could have hung onto him a little longer, but for what we got for him, I’ll take it I guess.”
The trio then moved into talking about how they met, as all three are freshman journalism students at the University of Kansas.
“I remember the first time I ever saw Jaxson, he had a toy microphone in front of the Bucks stadium, and I was like, this is the most annoying kid ever,” Baldwin said as she recalled seeing Reed for the first time.
Baldwin and Clark capped off the show in traditional “Wave the Wheat” fashion as they listed which stadiums are on their bucket lists.
“I think I still need to get to Iowa for a football game,” Baldwin said as she awaits a chance to visit Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa. “I want to participate in the wave, and it looks like such a good time.”
The 20th episode of “Wave the Wheat” is now available on Spotify.
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Superbrands East Africa celebrated 40 of the region’s top brands at a Tribute Awards Ceremony held on Thursday 31st March 2022 at the Trademark Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya.
The evening was a celebration of the leading brands that persevered and broke boundaries despite the COVID19 pandemic. Brand representation came from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
This year, and for the first time since its 2006 inception in East Africa, the program introduces the ‘Superbrands Personality of The Year Award’. The accolade was presented to leading Kenyan sporting hero Kipchoge Keino.
Receiving the award, the esteemed Keino noted that his hard work and focus made him a world-class competitor and urged brands to come together and support sports in the country.
Kipchoge Keino, had this to say, “Let us work and improve sports in this country. Sports unite the youths of this country and the world and I’m sure we have a lot of talents in this country. Let us prepare and build facilities in various schools to support our youth. We can do it if we’re united and build facilities for our youths.”
Brands recognized in this 7th edition were derived from a 100% consumer insights survey conducted by TNS Kantar. Insights from the survey reflect current consumer sentiment of:
- Opting for more affordable brands because of budget constraints brought about by job losses or pay cuts related to COVID19. More than 60% opting to go out of their way in search of best prices.
- 77% of consumers were driven towards brands ‘with purpose’. Those that were committed to supporting communities in a meaningful capacity.
- Gravitation towards betting and gambling in search of ‘quick money’ despite local industry turmoil and crackdown.
The sixth bi-annual Tribute Awards ceremony hosted over 150 captains of industry, CEO’s, decision makers and influencers. Amongst those attending included: Dr Vimal Shah of Bidco, Patricia Ithau of WPP Scangroup, Abbas Gullet of Red Cross and Darshan Chandaria of Chandaria Industries. The evening was hosted by MC personality Sheila Mwanyigah.
Jawad Jaffer, Project Manager Superbrands East Africa noted “The brands we pay tribute to in this 7th East African edition have shown resilience and fortitude through the uncertainty of the pandemic. They have found focus in these extraordinary times to emerge as industry and category leaders through the lens of their consumers. They evolved with their customers without getting left behind and today they stand as examples of best practice. Superbrands is glad to recognize those embracing change. We salute you’.
The 2022 lists is as follows;
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Tom Hanks will help launch a new era of Cleveland baseball.
The Oscar-winning actor will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Guardians’ home opener against the San Francisco Giants on April 15. It will be Cleveland’s first home game since dropping Indians, the team’s name since 1915.
Hanks, who famously said “There is no crying in baseball” while portraying the manager of an all-female team in “A League of Their Own,” has backed Cleveland’s major league team since the late 1970s, when he was an intern in the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival before going to Hollywood.
“I’ve had Guardians fever since 1977 when I caught my first game in Section 19 of Cleveland’s Lakefront Municipal Stadium,” Hanks said. “I’m honored to return to Cleveland and Progressive Field for the first home game of the Cleveland Guardians era.”
When the team made its name change in July, Hanks was the narrator for a video to announce the switch to Guardians.
Hanks won consecutive Academy Awards for best actor for roles in “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump.”
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Judds, one of the most successful duos in country music in the 1980s, are reuniting to perform on the CMT Music Awards, their first major awards show performance together in more than two decades.
The mother-and-daughter duo of Naomi and Wynonna will perform their hit “Love Will Build a Bridge” on the awards show on April 11, airing on CBS and Paramount+, during an outdoor shoot in front of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.
It’s a fitting backdrop for the five-time Grammy winners, who will be inductedinto theCountry Music Hall of Fame in May.
“It feels both surreal and what a thrill it is. What a thrill to finally get her back on the stage because she’s been waiting for 20-plus years,” Wynonna told the AP of her mother, Naomi. “As a daughter and as an artist, it’s a win-win.”
Originally from Kentucky, Naomi was working as a nurse in the Nashville area when she and Wynonna started singing together professionally. Their unique harmonies, together with elements of acoustic music, bluegrass and blues, made them stand out in the genre at the time.
The Judds won nine Country Music Association Awards and seven from the Academy of Country Music and had more than a dozen No. 1 hits, including “Mama, He’s Crazy” and “Grandpa (Tell Me ’bout the Good Old Days).”
In 1990, Naomi Judd announced her retirement from performing due to chronic hepatitis. Wynonna has continued her solo career and they have occasionally reunited for special performances.
“To have all the incredible opportunities that I have had, being reminded of all that, just makes me very humbled and I just want to bask in the moment,” Naomi Judd told the AP.
This is also their first ever performance together at the CMT Music Awards. Country star Kacey Musgraves will introduce the pair prior to the performance.
“Music is the bridge between mom and me, and it it bonds us together. Even in the not easy times,” said Wynonna Judd. “We show up and we sing because that’s what love is about, right? So what a beautiful celebration.”
Hosted by country singer Kelsea Ballerini and actor Anthony Mackie, the fan-voted awards show will also feature performances by Ballerini, Kane Brown, Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris, Cody Johnson, Little Big Town, Keith Urban, Carly Pearce and more.
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This story has been corrected to remove Luke Combs from performance lineup.
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NEW YORK (AP)In addition to ”Play ball!” and ”Yer Out!”, big league umpires will be heard saying ”Overturned!” and ”Upheld!” for the first time this season.
Major League Baseball said Friday that umpires will conduct in-park announcements during the replay reviews this season. The decision was delayed two seasons because of the coronavirus pandemic.
”We discussed the possibility of doing this with the umpires during their most recent CBA negotiation,” MLB executive vice president Morgan Sword said, ”and then COVID got in the way our planning. We finally were able this year to give them the appropriate training and get everybody ready for opening day.”
A crew chief will have a wireless microphone and first announce the call being challenged and which team initiated the challenge. After the review, the crew chief will announce the result.
Audio will go over ballpark public-address systems and be made available to broadcasters.
MLB was the last major pro sport in North America to institute replay when it began late in the 2008 season for home run calls. Video reviews were vastly expanded for the 2014 season.
Until now, umpires had revealed their decisions such as safe and out with hand signals.
Of 1,305 calls challenged by clubs last year, 655 calls were overturned (50.2%), 221 were confirmed (16.9%) and 429 were allowed to stand (32.9%) when there was insufficient evidence to overturn or confirm. There were 159 additional crew chief reviews initiated by an umpire.
NFL referees were given wireless microphones in 1975 to explain penalty decisions. The NFL had an initial replay system from 1986-91, abandoned it, then reinstalled it for the 1999 season. The NHL added a replay system in 1991 and the NBA in 2002.
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Wilfred Tebah doesn’t begrudge the U.S. for swiftly granting humanitarian protections to Ukrainians escaping Russia’s devastating invasion of their homeland.
But the 27-year-old, who fled Cameroon during its ongoing conflict, can’t help but wonder what would happen if the millions fleeing that Eastern Europe nation were a different hue.
As the U.S. prepares to welcome tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing war, the country continues to deport scores of African and Caribbean refugees back to unstable and violent homelands where they’ve faced rape, torture, arbitrary arrest and other abuses.
“They do not care about a Black man,” the Columbus, Ohio, resident said, referring to U.S. politicians. “The difference is really clear. They know what is happening over there, and they have decided to close their eyes and ears.”
Tebah’s concerns echo protests against the swift expulsions of Haitian refugeescrossing the border this summer without a chance to seek asylum, not to mention the frosty reception African and Middle Eastern refugees have faced in western Europe compared with how those nations have enthusiastically embraced displaced Ukrainians.
In March, when President Joe Biden made a series of announcements welcoming 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, granting Temporary Protected Statusto another 30,000 already in the U.S. and halting Ukrainian deportations, two Democratic lawmakers seized on the moment to call for similar humanitarian considerations for Haitians.
“There is every reason to extend the same level of compassion,” U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, of Massachusetts, and Mondaire Jones, of New York, wrote to the administration, noting more than 20,000 Haitians have been deported despite continued instability after the assassination of Haiti’s president and a powerful earthquake this summer.
Cameroonian advocates have similarly ratcheted up their calls for humanitarian relief, protesting in front of the Washington residence of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the offices of leading members of Congress this month.
Their calls come as hundreds of thousands in Cameroon have been displaced in recent years by the country’s civil war between its French-speaking government and English-speaking separatists, attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram and other regional conflicts.
The advocacy group Human Rights Watch, in a February report, found many Cameroonians deported from the U.S. suffered persecution and human rights violations upon returning there.
Tebah, who is a leading member of the Cameroon American Council, an advocacy group organizing protests this month, said that’s a fate he hopes to avoid.
Hailing from the country’s English-speaking northwest, he said he was branded a separatist and apprehended by the government because of his activism as a college student. Tebah said he managed to escape, as many Cameroonians have, by flying to Latin America, trekking overland to the U.S.-Mexico border and petitioning for asylum in 2019.
“I will be held in prison, tortured and even killed if I am deported,” he said. “I’m very scared. As a human, my life matters too.”
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees TPS and other humanitarian programs, declined to respond to the complaints of racism in American immigration policy. It also declined to say whether it was weighing granting TPS to Cameroonians or other African nationals, saying in a written statement only that it will “continue to monitor conditions in various countries.”
The agency noted, however, that it has recently issued TPS designations for Haiti, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan — all African or Caribbean nations — as well as tomore than 75,000 Afghans living in the U.S. after the Taliban takeover of that Central Asian nation. Haitians are among the largest and longest-tenured beneficiaries of TPS, with more than 40,000 currently on the status.
Other TPS countries include Burma, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, and the majority of the nearly 320,000 immigrants with Temporary Protected Status hail from El Salvador.
Lisa Parisio, who helped launch Catholics Against Racism in Immigration, argues the program could easily help protect millions more refugees fleeing danger but has historically been underused and over-politicized.
TPS, which provides a work permit and staves off deportation for up to 18 months, doesn’t have limits for how many countries or people can be placed on it, said Parisio, who is the advocacy director for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network.
Yet former President Donald Trump, in his broader efforts to restrict immigration, pared down TPS, allowing designations for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in West Africa to expire.
Although programs like TPS provide critical protections for vulnerable refugees, they can also leave many in legal limbo for years without providing a pathway to citizenship, said Karla Morales, a 24-year-old from El Salvador who has been on TPS nearly her whole life.
“It’s absurd to consider 20 years in this country temporary,” the University of Massachusetts Boston nursing student said. “We need validation that the work we’ve put in is appreciated and that our lives have value.”
At least in the case of Ukraine, Biden appears motivated by broader foreign policy goals in Europe, rather than racial bias, suggests María Cristina García, a history professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, focused on refugees and immigrants.
But Tom Wong, founding director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at the University of California, San Diego, said the racial disparities couldn’t be clearer.
“The U.S. has responded without hesitation by extending humanitarian protections to predominately white and European refugees,” he said. “All the while, predominately people of color from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia continue to languish.”
Besides Cameroon, immigrant advocates also argue that Congo and Ethiopia should qualify for humanitarian relief because of their ongoing conflicts, as should Mauritania, since slavery is still practiced there.
And they complain Ukrainian asylum seekers are being exempted from asylum limits meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19 while those from other nations are being turned away.
“Black pain and Black suffering do not get the same attention,” says Sylvie Bello, founder of the D.C.-based Cameroon American Council. “The same anti-Blackness that permeates American life also permeates American immigration policy.”
Vera Arnot, a Ukrainian in Boston who is considering seeking TPS, says she didn’t know much about the special status until the war started and wasn’t aware of the concerns from immigrants of color. But the Berklee College of Music sophomore hopes the relief can be extended to other deserving nations.
Arnot says TPS could help her seek an off-campus job with better pay so she doesn’t have to rely on her family’s support, as most in Ukraine have lost their jobs due to the war.
“Ukrainians as a people aren’t used to relying on others,” she said. “We want to work. We don’t want welfare.”
For Tebah, who is staying with relatives in Ohio, TPS would make it easier for him to open a bank account, get a driver’s license and seek better employment while he awaits a decision on his asylum case.
“We’ll continue to beg, to plead,” Tebah said. “We are in danger. I want to emphasize it. And only TPS for Cameroon will help us be taken out of that danger. It is very necessary.”
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As Moscow’s forces bog down in Ukraine, many young Russians of draft age are increasingly jittery about the prospect of being sent into combat. Making those fears particularly acute is an annual spring conscription that begins Friday and aims to round up 134,500 men for a one-year tour of military duty.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu pledged at a meeting of the military brass this week that the new recruits won’t be sent to front lines or “hot spots.”
But the statement was met with skepticism by many in Russia who remember the separatist wars in the southern republic of Chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s, when thousands of poorly trained young men were killed.
“I don’t trust them when they say they won’t send conscripts into combat. They lie all the time,” said Vladislav, a 22-year-old who is completing his studies and fears he could face the draft immediately after graduation. He asked that his last name not be used, fearing reprisals.
All Russian men aged 18-27 must serve one year in the military, but a large share avoid the draft for health reasons or deferments granted to university students. The share of men who avoid the draft is particularly big in Moscow and other major cities.
Even as President Vladimir Putin and his officials say that conscripts aren’t involved in what Russian authorities call “the special military operation in Ukraine,” many appeared to have been taken prisoner during its initial days. Videos emerged from Ukraine of captured Russians, some being shown calling their parents, and were put on social media.
The mother of one of the prisoners said she recognized her 20-year-old draftee son in a video even though he was shown blindfolded.
“I recognized him by his lips, by his chin. You know, I would have recognized him by his fingers,” said the woman, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Lyubov, for security reasons. “I breastfed him. I raised him.”
The Defense Ministry was forced to walk back its statements and acknowledge that some conscripts were sent to Ukraine “by mistake” and were taken prisoner while serving with a supply unit away from the front.
There have been allegations that before the invasion, some conscripts were forced to sign military contracts that allowed them to be sent into combat — duty that is normally reserved only for volunteers in the army. Some of the captured soldiers said they were told by their commanding officers that they were going to a military exercise but suddenly found themselves fighting in Ukraine.
Lyudmila Narusova, a member of the upper house of the Russian parliament, spoke in early March about an entire company of 100 men who were forced to sign such contracts and were sent into the combat zone — and only four survived. Military officials did not comment on her allegation.
Svetlana Agapitova, the human rights commissioner in St. Petersburg, said Wednesday that relatives of seven soldiers had written to her to complain the men had been forced to sign the contract and sent to Ukraine against their will. She said two of them already had been brought back to Russia.
In recent years, the Kremlin has emphasized increasing the share of volunteer contract soldiers as it sought to modernize the army and improve its readiness. The force of 1 million now has over 400,000 contract soldiers, including 147,000 in the infantry. If the war drags on, those numbers could be insufficient to sustain the operations.
The Kremlin could eventually face a choice: Keep fighting with a limited number of troops and see the offensive stall, or try to replenish the ranks with a broader draft and risk public outrage that could fuel anti-draft sentiment and destabilize the political situation. Such a scenario occurred during the fighting in Chechnya.
Dmitry, a 25-year-old IT expert, has a deferment that should keep him out of the draft for medical reasons. But he’s still nervous like many others, fearing authorities could abruptly waive some deferments to bolster the military.
“I hate the war. I think it’s a total disaster,” said Dmitry, who also asked that he not be identified by has last name, fearing reprisals. “I fear that the government could change the rules and I could face the draft. They also were saying for months that they wouldn’t attack Ukraine, so why should I trust what they say about the draft now?”
Proposed legislation would facilitate the draft by allowing military recruiters to call up conscripts more easily, but the bill has been put on hold for now.
Still, it added to the public’s anxiety.
Alexei Tabalov, a lawyer who advises conscripts, said medical panels at recruitment offices often admit youths who should be exempt from service because of illness. Now, he added, their attitudes could grow even tougher.
“It’s quite probable that doctors may shut their eyes to conscripts’ illnesses and declare them fit for military duty,” Tabalov said.
In addition to lowering the medical standard for draftees, there are fears that the government could try to impose some sort of martial law that would ban Russian men from leaving the country and, like Ukraine, force them to fight.
“We have received a lot of calls from people fearing mobilization,” Tabalov said. “People now are afraid of everything in this situation. No one even thought before about the need to analyze the law on mobilization.”
The Kremlin has strongly denied any such plans, and military officials insist the army has enough contract soldiers to serve in Ukraine. Still, many Russians remain skeptical of the officials’ denials, given their track record.
“What kind of trust could there be if Putin says one day that conscripts will not be sent there … and then the Defense Ministry recognizes that they were there?” Tabalov asked.
An existing law allows for a 21-month alternative civil service in hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities for those who view military duty as incompatible with their beliefs, but military conscription offices often broadly ignore requests for such service.
After the war began, Tabalov said his group saw a large increase in inquiries about the alternative service law, which is vaguely phrased and allows military officials to easily turn down applications.
“We are worried that in the current militarist mood, military conscription offices can take a tougher attitude and reject appeals for the alternative civil service,” he said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump last year of inciting the Capitol insurrection. But neither Trump nor any of his top advisers have faced charges over the attack in a court of law, and it’s uncertain if they ever will.
But increasingly, lawmakers on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault are pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump and his associates. They’ve been laying out possible crimes in at least one court filing and openly discussing others, all related to that day’s violent attack by Trump supporters looking to disrupt Congress’ formal certification of his reelection defeat.
Here’s a look at some of the suggested crimes floated by the House panel:
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES
After floating possible crimes for several months, lawmakers on the panel put it on paper for the first time in a March court filing. The filing was in response to a lawsuit from John Eastman, a lawyer and law professor who was consulting with Trump while attempting to overturn the election and who tried to withhold documents from the committee.
The committee argued that it has evidence supporting the idea that Trump, Eastman and other allies of the former president “entered into an agreement to defraud the United States.” The panel says Trump and his allies interfered with the election certification process, disseminated misinformation about election fraud and pressured state and federal officials to assist in that effort.
OBSTRUCTION OF AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING
Late last month, U.S. District Court Judge David Carter appeared somewhat swayed by the panel’s arguments. In ordering Eastman to turn over the materials, Carter wrote that the court “finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021.”
In the filing, the committee argued that Trump either attempted or succeeded at obstructing, influencing, or impeding the ceremonial process on Jan. 6 and “did so corruptly” by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results as he presided over the session. Pence declined to do so.
“President Trump and members of his campaign knew he had not won enough legitimate state electoral votes to be declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential election during the January 6 Joint Session of Congress, but the President nevertheless sought to use the Vice President to manipulate the results in his favor,” the committee wrote.
COMMON LAW FRAUD
The committee has also floated a charge of “common law fraud,” or falsely representing facts with the knowledge that they are false. Trump embarked on a wide-scale campaign to convince the public and federal judges that the 2020 election was fraudulent and that he, not Biden, won the Electoral College tally. Election officials and courts across the country, along with Trump’s attorney general, rejected those claims.
As an example of such fraud, the committee noted in the Eastman filing that a Justice Department official told Trump directly that a Facebook video posted by his campaign “purporting to show Georgia officials pulling suitcases of ballots from under a table” was false, yet the campaign continued to run it. Georgia officials also repeatedly denied the claim.
“The president continued to rely on this allegation in his efforts to overturn the results of the election,” the committee said.
DERELICTION OF DUTY
Though they didn’t lay it out in the Eastman filing, leaders of the House panel suggested earlier this year that they believe Trump could also be liable for “dereliction of duty,” or inaction as his supporters violently broke the windows and doors of the U.S. Capitol.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the committee chairman, said in January that “the harm that I see is the president of the United States seeing the Capitol of the United States under siege by people he sent to the Capitol and did nothing during that time.”
The committee’s vice chairwoman, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, noted that same month that the panel knows from “firsthand testimony” that Trump watched the attack happen on television. “We know that he did not walk the very few steps to the White House briefing room, get on camera immediately, and tell the people to stop and go home,” she said.
Cheney said it was hard “imagine a more significant and more serious dereliction of duty“ than Trump’s failure to quell the insurrection.
FINANCIAL CRIMES
While the committee hasn’t floated specifics, it has created an internal task force to investigate financing for the massive rally on the National Mall the morning of Jan. 6 and any donors who might have backed transportation or other costs that could have helped foster the violence.
Asked earlier this year on CNN if they have any evidence of financial fraud, Thompson said members of the committee “have some concerns, but we have not made those concerns public at this point.”
“We do think it’s highly concerning on our part that people raised monies for one activity, and we can’t find the money being spent for that particular activity,” Thompson said. “So, we will continue to look at it. And the financing is one of those things that we will continue to look at very closely.”
UNCERTAINTY AHEAD
More than 775 rioters have been arrested for crimes related to the insurrection. Yet legal consequences have been elusive for Trump and the other top officials who told lies about election fraud and laid the groundwork for their actions.
Congress has no authority to prosecute, but can send so-called criminal referrals to the Justice Department. Garland can then decide whether to act.
Justice Department action would be far from guaranteed. And it’s uncertain whether any charges against the oft-investigated president would hold up in court. It could be difficult for prosecutors to craft a winning case against Trump.
The presodemt urged on his massive crowd of supporters that morning and returned to the White House and watched them break into the Capitol on television. The rioters beat police, sent lawmakers running and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
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DETROIT (AP) — New vehicles sold in the U.S. will have to average at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2026, up from about 28 mpg, under new federal rules unveiled Friday that undo a rollback of standards enacted under President Donald Trump.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its new fuel economy requirements are the strongest to date and the maximum the industry can achieve over the time period. They will reduce gasoline consumption by more than 220 billion gallons over the life of vehicles, compared with the Trump standards.
They’re expected to decrease carbon dioxide emissions — but not as much as some environmentalists want — and raise new vehicle prices in an industry already pressed by inflation and supply chain issues.
For the current model year, standards enacted under Trump require the fleet of new vehicles to get just under 28 miles per gallon in real-world driving. The new requirements increase gas mileage by 8% per year for model years 2024 and 2025 and 10% in the 2026 model year.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose department includes NHTSA, said the rules also will help strengthen national security by making the country less dependent on foreign oil and less vulnerable to volatile gasoline prices. Gasoline nationwide has spiked to an average of more than $4.22 per gallon, with much of the increase coming since Russia, a major oil producer, invaded Ukraine in late February. It cost $2.88 per gallon just a year ago, according to AAA.
Gas prices also have helped to fuel inflation to a 40-year high, eating up household budgets and hitting President Joe Biden’s approval ratings.
“Transportation is the second-largest cost for American families, only behind housing,” Buttigieg said. The new standards, he said, will help keep the U.S. more secure and preserve “the freedom of our country to chart its future without being subject to other countries and to the decisions that are being made in the boardrooms of energy companies.”
But auto dealers say more stringent requirements drive up prices and push people out of an already expensive new-car market. NHTSA projects that the new rules will raise the price of a new vehicle in the 2029 model year by $1,087.
Trump’s administration rolled back fuel economy standards, allowing them to rise 1.5% per year, which environmental groups said was inadequate to limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change. The standards had been rising about 5% per year previously.
But the new standards won’t immediately match those adopted through 2025 under President Barack Obama. NHTSA officials said they will equal the Obama standards by 2025 and slightly exceed them for the 2026 model year.
The Obama-era standards automatically adjusted for changes in the type of vehicles people are buying. When they were enacted in 2012, 51% of new vehicle sales were cars and 49% SUVs and trucks. Last year, 77% of new vehicle sales were SUVs and trucks, which generally are less efficient than cars.
Some environmental groups said the new requirements from NHTSA under Biden don’t go far enough to fight global warming. Others supported the new standards as a big step toward reducing emissions, with the American Lung Association calling for even stronger standards to drive a transition to all new vehicles having zero-emissions by 2035.
“Climate change has gotten much worse, but these rules only require automakers to reduce gas-guzzling slightly more than they agreed to cut nine years ago,” said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Transport Center at the Center for Biological Diversity.
Officials said that under the new standards, owners would save about $1,400 in gasoline costs during the lifetime of a 2029 model year vehicle. Carbon dioxide emissions would drop by 2.5 billion metric tons by 2050 under the standards, the NHTSA said.
Automakers are investing billions of dollars to develop and build electric vehicles but say government support is needed to get people to buy them. The companies want government tax credits to reduce prices as well as more money for EV charging stations to ease anxiety over running out of juice.
John Bozzella, CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a large industry trade group, said increased regulations will require supportive government policies. Regulators should consider safety, consumer buying preferences, improved fuel economy and the transition to electric vehicles, he said in a statement.
NHTSA sets fuel economy requirements, while the Environmental Protection Agency develops limits on greenhouse gas emissions. NHTSA officials said their requirements nearly match rules adopted in December by the EPA, so automakers don’t have to comply with two rules.
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This story has been corrected to show the current real-world mileage requirement under the Trump administration rules is 28 mpg, not 24 mpg.
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BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have charged a former German military reserve officer with spying for a Russian intelligence service for several years.
Federal prosecutors said Friday that the indictment against the suspect, identified only as Ralph G. in line with German privacy rules, was filed March 16 at the state court in Duesseldorf.
They said that, in addition to his position in the German military, the suspect was a member of several German business committees thanks to his civilian job. They didn’t elaborate.
The suspect allegedly was in contact with Russian intelligence “via various people” by October 2014 and passed on information connected to his military and business activities until March 2020.
Prosecutors said that included information on the German Bundeswehr’s reserves and on civilian-military cooperation, as well as insights on the effect of sanctions imposed against Russia in 2014 on Germany, the European Union, and on the now-suspended Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.
The suspect also allegedly provided his handlers with private contact details for high-ranking military and business officials. He also provided an “overview” of the security and defense policy of the U.S. and its Western allies, according to prosecutors.
In return for his efforts, he received invitations to Russian official events, they said.
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VIENNA — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says that Russian forces’ departure from the decommissioned Chernobyl power plant is “a step in the right direction” and the U.N. nuclear watchdog plans to be there “very, very soon.”
IAEA director-general Rafael Mariano Grossi says he will head a support mission to Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, and that further nuclear safety missions to Ukraine will follow.
Grossi spoke Friday after visits to Ukraine and Russia. He said Russian nuclear and foreign ministry officials didn’t discuss with him why Russian forces left Chernobyl.
Of the overall situation in the area, he said: “The general radiation situation around the plant is quite normal. There was a relatively higher level of localized radiation because of the movement of heavy vehicles at the time of the occupation of the plant, and apparently this might have been the case again on the way out.”
Ukraine’s state power company said Russian troops received “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches in the exclusion zone around the plant. But Grossi said “we don’t have any confirmation” that soldiers were contaminated.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Ukraine top of agenda as China, EU prepare to meet at summit
— Russians leave Chernobyl; Ukraine braces for renewed attacks
— UK, Russia foreign ministers visit India amid Ukraine crisis
— Kremlin decree says foreign currency can still buy natural gas
— War in Ukraine fuels fears among draft-age Russian youths
— African refugees see racial bias as US welcomes Ukrainians
— Go to https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine for more coverage
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
MOSCOW — Russian officials say their demand that natural gas be paid for in rubles doesn’t mean supplies will be immediately interrupted.
Gas used for heating and electricity was still flowing from Russia to Europe on Friday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “payments on shipments in progress right now must be made not this very day, but somewhere in late April, or even early May.”
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia would start accepting ruble payments Friday and gas supplies would be cut off if buyers don’t agree to the new conditions.
A decree he signed gave Russian authorities and Gazprombank 10 days to make arrangements. It also says countries could pay foreign currency to the bank, which would convert it to rubles in a second account.
The European Commission’s energy chief tweeted that the European Union was coordinating “to establish a common approach.” Western leaders have said they will keep paying in euros and dollars.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s general staff says the country’s armed forces have retaken control over 29 settlements in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, where Russia has pulled back some of its troops.
The Russian military in the northeast continues to block and shell Chernihiv and Kharkiv, the general staff said Friday.
In the southeast of the country the Russians are trying to seize the cities of Popasna, Rubizhne and Mariupol in order to expand the territory of separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, according to the Ukrainian military.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Authorities in Mariupol say it is not possible to enter the besieged Ukrainian city and that it is dangerous for people to try and leave it on their own.
“We don’t see a real desire from the Russians … to provide an opportunity for Mariupol residents to evacuate to territory controlled by Ukraine,” Petro Andryushchenko, adviser the mayor of the city, said Friday on the messaging app Telegram.
“Since yesterday, the occupiers have categorically not allowed any humanitarian cargo, even in small volumes, to enter the city,” he added.
Russian officials on Friday allowed 42 buses with Mariupol residents to depart from the neighboring occupied city of Berdyansk, which Mariupol residents were able to reach on their own.
A convoy of about 2,000 refugees, escorted by the Red Cross, on Friday afternoon was heading to the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is under Ukrainian control.
The Mariupol city council on Friday said Russia’s actions in Ukraine and in their bombed-out city amounted to genocide.
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WARSAW, Poland — Ukraine’s foreign minister says that now his country’s government is back in control of the Chernobyl nuclear site, it will work with the U.N. atomic agency to determine what the occupying Russians did there and mitigate any danger.
Russian troops left the heavily contaminated nuclear site early Friday after returning control to the Ukrainians.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the Russians behaved irresponsibly at the site during the more than four weeks that they controlled it, preventing staff at the plant from performing their full duties and digging trenches in contaminated areas.
Kuleba told a news conference in Warsaw that the Russian government had exposed its soldiers to radiation, endangering their health.
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ROME — Venice is preparing special material to send to Lviv’s National Art Gallery and other museums in the Ukrainian city so artworks can be better protected during the war.
Mariacristina Gribaudi, head of the Venice Civic Museums Foundation, said in a statement Friday that some 65,000 artworks and 2,000 sculptures have been placed in Lviv storerooms as a precaution, but the objects aren’t adequately protected.
The Venice foundation will oversee a shipment of special fabric that can cover paintings and graphic art as well as furniture, costumes and materials made from glass or marble to protect the objects from the majority of solvents and gasses. The fabric also impedes mold and fungus growth while the works are in storage.
Also being sent are polyethylene foam shock-resistant panels.
Venice museums experts also gave advice in a video call with the Lviv gallery’s management about how to best store artworks.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says that new sanctions against Russia are needed “to force (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to end this crazy aggression.”
Le Drian, who was in Estonia and spoke through an interpreter, also said Friday that “Russia cannot expect to win this war.”
Le Drian was to travel later in the day to Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
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ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated that he would like to host a meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian leaders in Istanbul, in the hope that it would “turn the negative course of events into a positive one.”
Erdogan made the comments on Friday hours before he was scheduled to hold a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the call, he was expected to renew an offer to host a leaders’ meeting.
Erdogan told reporters that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with whom he spoke on Thursday, had a “positive outlook” toward such a meeting in Turkey and that Putin’s attitude had been positive in the past.
Russian and Ukrainian delegations held a face-to-face meeting in Istanbul earlier this week during which Ukraine presented a list of proposals, including that it would have neutral status guaranteed by a range of foreign countries.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Talks between Russia and Ukraine have resumed via video link.
Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky published a picture of the talks under way Friday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office confirmed to The Associated Press that the negotiations had resumed.
Friday’s talks came three days after the last meeting, in Turkey, between Russian and Ukrainian delegations.
Medinsky, the Russian lead negotiator, said “our positions on Crimea and the Donbas are unchanged.”
Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in southern Ukraine in 2014. The Donbas is the predominantly Russian-speaking industrial region where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014.
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BRUSSELS — The European Union’s executive arm is proposing that the 27-nation bloc’s countries allow the millions of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine to exchange their hryvnia banknotes into the currencies of host member nations.
The European Commission said Friday its proposal aims at promoting a coordinated approach within the region.
“This approach was necessary in light of the fact that the National Bank of Ukraine had to suspend the exchange of hryvnia banknotes into foreign cash in order to protect Ukraine’s limited foreign exchange reserves,” the commission said.
“As a consequence, credit institutions in EU Member States have been unwilling to carry out the exchanges due to the limited convertibility of hryvnia banknotes and exposure to exchange rate risk.”
According to EU figures, more than 3.8 million of people fleeing the war have arrived in the European Union. More than 4 million have fled Ukraine.
The Commission proposed a maximum limit of 10,000 hryvnias (306 euros) per person, without charges, at the official exchange rate as published by the National Bank of Ukraine.
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BERLIN — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says he will head a team to the decommissioned Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine “as soon as possible.”
Rafael Mariano Grossi wrote on Twitter that the International Atomic Energy Agency “assistance and support” mission to Chernobyl “will be the first in a series of such nuclear safety and security missions to Ukraine.”
Grossi’s comments followed his visits to Ukraine and then to Russia this week. He didn’t elaborate on his plans or give a more precise timeframe. He was due to hold a news conference in Vienna later Friday.
Russian forces took control of Chernobyl, the site of a 1986 nuclear disaster, at the beginning of the war. But authorities say the troops have now left after returning control to the Ukrainians.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Norwegian government is proposing a national 14.4 billion kroner ($1.7 billion) crisis package for the war in Ukraine, including spending on refugees and national defense.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told a press conference Friday, “We should take good care” of the Ukrainian refugees while they are in Norway. “This will demand the best of us,” he said.
If the proposal is passed by parliament, as expected, some 7.1 billion kroner ($815 million) will be spent on the refugees, police and the Norwegian immigration agency. Norway expects to receive 35,000 refugees this year.
Money is also going to strengthening the country’s military and civilian defense. Earlier the government has said it wants an extra allocation of 3.5 billion kroner ($402 million) for 2022 to strengthen NATO member Norway’s Armed Forces and civilian preparedness.
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MOSCOW — The Kremlin says reports that Ukrainian helicopter gunships attacked a fuel depot inside Russia, setting it ablaze, are not conducive to talks between the two sides in the war.
Asked if the reported incident could be viewed as an escalation of the conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “Certainly, this is not something that can be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for the continuation of the talks.”
Russia-Ukraine talks were expected to continue Friday via video link.
The governor of the Russian border region of Belgorod accused Ukraine of flying helicopter gunships into Russian territory early Friday morning and targeting the oil depot, in what if confirmed would be the first attack of its kind.
It was not immediately possible to verify the report.
Peskov said President Vladimir Putin had been informed about the reported fire. He told a daily conference call with reporters that Russian authorities were taking measures to ensure fuel supplies in the region were not disrupted.
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BEIJING — China is accusing the United States of instigating the war in Ukraine and says NATO should have been disbanded following the break-up of the Soviet Union.
“As the culprit and leading instigator of the Ukraine crisis, the U.S. has led NATO to engage in five rounds of eastward expansion in the last two decades after 1999,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters at a daily briefing Friday.
“The number of NATO members increased from 16 to 30, and they have moved eastward more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to somewhere near the Russian border, pushing Russia to the wall step by step,” Zhao said.
While China says it is not taking sides in the conflict, it has declared a “no limits” partnership with Moscow, has refused to condemn the invasion, opposes sanctions on Russia and routinely amplifies Russian disinformation about the conflict, including not referring to it as an invasion or a war in keeping with Russian practice.
Zhao’s comments came as Chinese and European Union leaders were meeting virtually for a summit at which Ukraine was expected to dominate discussions. EU officials say they are looking for a commitment from China not to undermine sanctions and assist in efforts to halt the fighting.
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GENEVA — The International Committee of the Red Cross says it’s not sure that a planned delivery of aid into Mariupol and an evacuation of civilians out of the besieged Ukrainian city will happen Friday.
Spokesman Ewan Watson told a U.N. briefing in Geneva that the humanitarian group has sent three vehicles toward Mariupol and a frontline between Ukrainian and Russian forces, but two trucks carrying supplies for the city were not accompanying them.
Dozens of busses that have been put together by Ukrainian authorities to take people out also have not started approaching the dividing line, he said Friday.
Watson called it an “extremely complex” operation, adding that “not all details are in place to ensure that this happens today.”
He said the hope was that “thousands” of people could be ferried out, and their destination would be into parts of Ukraine less affected by the fighting that has been ongoing since Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Europol, the European Union police agency, has sent teams to countries bordering Ukraine in an effort to protect refugees from criminals.
The Hague-based agency said Friday its teams are supporting local authorities by running secondary security checks and seeking to “identify criminals and terrorists trying to enter the EU in the refugee flow and exploit the situation.”
The Europol teams are operating in Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Moldova and are planning to deploy to Romania, too.
The agency says they also are gathering intelligence to feed into criminal threat assessments across Europe.
The United Nations says that more than 4 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Police in Norway say they have intensified information and intelligence gathering as a result of the security situation in Europe.
The move is to help “prevent and detect crime as a result of the migration flow and the tense security policy situation,” National Police Commissioner Benedicte Bjørnland said in a statement Friday.
She added that “we are particularly aware of the crime challenges that may arise as a result of the migration flow.” She did not elaborate.
More than 7,800 Ukrainians have sought asylum in Norway.
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TOKYO — Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi says he is heading to Poland later Friday to assess the need for the war-displaced Ukrainians in that country and assist those who seek refuge in Japan.
Hayashi, during his five-day trip through Tuesday, is set to meet with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and other top officials, as well as international organizations. Officials are still making arrangements for a possibility of his government plane bringing some Ukrainians on his way back, Hayashi said.
“In order to support the Ukrainian people facing the difficulty and to show our solidarity with Ukraine, Japan is pursuing our effort to accept those who fled to a third country,” Hayashi said.
Japan’s government last month launched a taskforce to prepare accepting Ukrainian war-displaced as part of humanitarian support — a rare move for a country known for its strict and reluctant refugee policy. Several municipalities, including Tokyo, Kanagawa, Ibaraki and Osaka, have offered to be their host towns and provide support for medical needs, education, jobs and housing.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky told reporters Friday that some 300 relatives of Ukrainian residents in Japan have been granted entry, and more arrivals are expected from next week.
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BRUSSELS — The president of the European Parliament says she is traveling to Kyiv.
Roberta Metsola announced the trip to the Ukrainian capital city on her Twitter account late Thursday, posting a picture of her standing in front of a railcar.
Metsola is the first president of an EU institution to travel to the Ukrainian capital since the war began on Feb. 24. Details about her travel plans and who she will meet have not been announced.
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SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that his country will be sending armored Bushmaster vehicles to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyyaddressed the Australian Parliament on Thursday and asked for the Australian-manufactured four-wheel-drive vehicles and other aid.
Morrison told reporters the vehicles will be flown over on Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport planes, but he didn’t specify how many Bushmaster vehicles would be sent or when.
“We’re not just sending our prayers, we are sending our guns, we’re sending our munitions, we’re sending our humanitarian aid, we’re sending all of this, our body armor, all of these things and we’re going to be sending our armored vehicles, our Bushmasters as well,” Morrison said.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has stripped two generals of their military rank.
Zelenskyy said “something prevented them from determining where their homeland was” and they “violated their military oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people.”
According to Zelenskyy, one of the generals had headed internal security at the SBU, the main intelligence agency.
He said the other general had been the SBU head in the Kherson region, the first major city to fall to the Russians.
Zelenskyy didn’t say anything about the fates of the two generals other than them being stripped of their rank.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian government said Russian forces blocked 45 buses that had been sent to evacuate civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol, and only 631 people were able to get out of the city in private cars.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said late Thursday that 12 Ukrainian buses with humanitarian aid left Melitopol for Mariupol, but the Russian forces stopped the buses and seized the 14 tons of food and medicines.
According to Ukrainian officials, tens of thousands of people have made it out of Mariupol in recent weeks along humanitarian corridors, reducing the prewar population of 430,000 to about 100,000 by last week.
Vereshchuk said about 45,000 Mariupol residents have been forcefully deported to Russia and areas of eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The last Russian troops left the Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, according to the Ukrainian government agency responsible for the exclusion zone around the plant.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Russian troops who dug trenches in the forest were exposed to radiation, but that could not be confirmed.
The Ukrainian nuclear operator company Energoatom said Thursday that Russian troops were headed toward Ukraine’s border with Belarus.
Energoatom said that the Russian military was also preparing to leave Slavutych, a nearby city where power plant workers live.
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BEIJING (AP) — About 16 million residents in Shanghai are being tested for the coronavirus during the second stage of the lockdown that shifted Friday to the western half of China’s biggest city and financial capital.
Meanwhile, residents of Shanghai’s eastern districts who were supposed to be released from four days of isolation have been told their lockdowns could be extended if COVID-19 cases are found in their residential compounds.
The lockdown in Shanghai, being done in two phases over eight days to enable testing of its entire population, has shaken global markets worried about the possible economic impact. China’s manufacturing activity fellto a five-month low in March, a monthly survey showed, as lockdowns and other restrictions forced factories to suspend production.
For four days starting Friday, residents of Puxi on the west side of the Huangpu River dividing Shanghai cannot leave their neighborhoods or housing compounds. The gates at some compounds were locked from the outside, with groceries and meals delivered to collection points.
Government workers and volunteers wearing full protective equipment went door-to-door with megaphones in the city with 26 million people, calling on residents to report for testing at designated sites where they were met by long lines and waits of more than 90 minutes.
Veronica Wang, a resident of Pudong, as Shanghai’s eastern half is known, said she and many she knows were still under lockdown, with no word on when normal life will be restored.
Wang’s compound had been closed off even before the lockdown began. She said a large part of her days is now spent on trying to hop on to large group orders for groceries and items from soy sauce to toothpaste obtained through personal connections.
“For example, we have one (group order) set up for vegetables, one for eggs, one for bread,” she said.
Shanghai had not previously experienced a sweeping lockdown, although many residents chose to stay at home even without formal orders to do so.
This time, the “whole environment is rather tense,” Wang said, citing a neighbor who waited hours for an emergency call to be answered.
“The mood is different,” she said.
China’s National Health Commission said another 1,787 domestic cases of COVID-19 had been recorded on Thursday, including 358 in Shanghai. Another 5,442 tested positive for the virus without becoming ill, 4,144 of them in Shanghai.
People who tested positive without symptoms are being taken to temporary isolation centers, including gymnasiums and exhibition centers.
Public transport has been suspended and roads closed, bringing the normally bustling metropolis to a standstill. While city residents are being told to stay put, airports and train stations remain open.
The lockdown reflects China’s continuing adherence to its “zero-COVID” approach despite restrictions being eased elsewhere. China set the hard-line tone at the start of the pandemic in 2020 with the 76-day lockdown on the city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected.
The measures have been decried by some Chinese as excessive, although there has been little open defiance. Amid the grumbling, Shanghai authorities have conceded shortcomings in their handling of the surge driven by the omicron variant, after panic buying stripped store shelves of necessities.
“We didn’t prepare sufficiently enough,” Ma Chunlei, a senior Shanghai official said at a news conference Thursday. “We sincerely accept the criticisms from the public and are making efforts to improve it.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Preventionannounced Friday that it is ending a policy that limited asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The use of public health powers had been widely criticized by Democrats and immigration advocates as an excuse for the United States to shirk its obligations to provide haven to people fleeing persecution. The policy went into effect under President Donald Trump in March 2020. Since then, migrants trying to enter the U.S. have been expelled more than 1.7 million times.
The policy, known as the Title 42 authority, named for a 1944 public health law to prevent communicable disease, will end on paper, but it will not take effect until May 23, to allow border officials time to prepare. The Associated Press first reported the change earlier this week.
The policy was increasingly hard to justify scientifically as restrictions ended across the U.S.
The federal order says efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to provide vaccines to migrants at the border will step up in the next two months.
“After considering current public health conditions and an increased availability of tools to fight COVID-19 (such as highly effective vaccines and therapeutics), the CDC director has determined that an order suspending the right to introduce migrants into the United States is no longer necessary,” the CDC said in a statement.
The decision is expected to draw more migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border.Even before it was officially announced, more than a dozen migrants excitedly ran out of their dormitory at the Good Samaritan shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, asking about it.
DHS said this week that about 7,100 migrants were coming daily, compared with an average of about 5,900 a day in February — on pace to match or exceed highs from last year, 2019 and other peak periods. But border officials said they are planning for as many as 18,000 arrivals daily, and that seems certain to cause challenges for border-region Democrats in tight reelection races — with some warning that the Biden administration is unprepared to handle the situation.
Homeland Security said it created a Southwest Border Coordinating Center to respond to any sharp increases, with MaryAnn Tierney, a regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as interim leader and a Border Patrol official as deputy.
Officials also are working on additional ground and air transportation options and tents to house the expected influx, and the Border Patrol has already hired on civilians.
Instead of conducting patrols and uncovering smuggling activity, its agents spend about 40% of their time caring for people already in custody and administrative tasks that are unrelated to border security.
The agency hoped to free up agents to go back into the field by hiring civilians for jobs such as making sure that microwaved burritos are served properly, checking holding cells and the time-consuming work of collecting information for immigration court papers.
Still, administration officials acknowledged the fixes are only temporary measures.
“The Biden-Harris administration is committed to pursuing every avenue within our authority to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stay true to our values,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Yet a long-term solution can only come from comprehensive legislation that brings lasting reform to a fundamentally broken system.”
The limits went into place in March 2020 under the Trump administration as coronavirus cases soared. While officials said at the time that it was a way to keep COVID-19 out of the United States, there always has been criticism that the restrictions were used as an excuse to seal the border to migrants unwanted by then-President Donald Trump. It was perhaps the broadest of Trump’s actions to restrict crossings and crack down on migrants.
CDC officials lifted part of the order last month, ending the limits for children traveling to the border alone. In August, U.S. border authorities began testing children traveling alone in their busiest areas: Positives fell to 6% in the first week of March from a high of nearly 20% in early February.
Asylum limits have been applied unevenly by nationality, depending largely on costs and diplomatic relations with home countries. Many migrants have been spared from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and, more recently, Ukraine. Homeland Security officials wrote border authorities this month that Ukrainians may be exempt, saying Russia’s invasion “created a humanitarian crisis.”
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Which raised garden bed with cover is best?
Raised garden beds with covers are an excellent way to make gardening more comfortable and decrease the likelihood of your plants dying. These covered beds come in all shapes and sizes to fit whatever plants you plan on growing. Purchasing a raised garden bed and cover together saves money and saves you the hassle of trying to find a matching cover for a separate bed.
The best raised garden bed with a cover is the Palram Plant Inn Raised Garden Bed with Cover. It’s high enough to use while standing and includes a huge, protected storage area underneath.
What to know before you buy a raised garden bed with cover
The bed
Between the raised garden bed and a cover, the garden bed is the more important of the two. There are a few aspects to consider.
- Dimensions: You’ll want a garden bed with enough width, length and depth to plant everything you intend to grow. Some plants require equal depth to height, while others are tall due to wide roots and don’t need as much depth.
- Material: Gardening companies usually make garden beds out of plastic, fabric, metal or wood. Plastic is low-cost but offers less durability. Fabric is even cheaper and lower-quality, but it may be a good choice for those who don’t have a yard. Metal is the most durable but doesn’t have the best aesthetics. Wood is the most aesthetically pleasing and durable option. Keep in mind different types of wood have different levels of durability.
The cover
Most garden bed covers are sheets of thin, soft plastic. Some bigger beds may need thick, hard plastic instead. Thin sheets of plastic are the more affordable option. Most of these sheets have zip-open windows that fold up for easy access to the bed. Thick, hard plastic covers usually have hinges or slide open and closed.
Regardless of the material, the function is always the same: to provide protection from inhospitable weather, hungry animals and pesky insects. Many covers also offer a greenhouse effect to keep plants warm. Pay close attention to this aspect as some plants may or may not need this feature.
What to look for in a quality raised garden bed with cover
Assembly
Most raised garden beds with covers require some assembly and may require additional tools. A few of the smaller beds ship whole, but setting up the cover is still likely to require some assembly.
Self-watering
Some raised garden beds have automatic watering systems that keep your plants hydrated. Simply fill the water tank and let it work. These functions are perfect for gardeners who travel frequently. It can also benefit inexperienced gardeners by preventing over- and under-watering.
Wheels
If you plan on repositioning your raised garden beds for aesthetic reasons or changing seasons, pick a bed with wheels. Once you’ve filled a nonwheeled bed with soil and plant life, you won’t be able to move it.
How much you can expect to spend on a raised garden bed with cover
Raised garden beds with covers are more expensive than those without. At a minimum, they cost $100, though most cost $200-$300. Extra-large beds may cost up to $500.
Raised garden bed with cover FAQ
Should I buy a raised garden bed with cover or buy the cover later?
A. You don’t have to buy the bed and cover together, but it can be difficult to find a cover to match your bed after the fact. Plus, most included covers aren’t an optional extra; they’re specially designed for that bed. You could also build your own cover if you have the grit, tools and know-how.
Where should I place a raised garden bed with cover?
A. There aren’t many restrictions on where you can place your new garden bed. The bare minimum is a location with plenty of direct sunlight, preferably six hours worth throughout the day. Other than this, feel free to place it based on your preferences.
What kind of plants should I put in a raised garden bed with cover?
A. Whatever you’d like! Raised garden beds are capable of growing almost anything. If you’ve never gardened before, start small by planting some of your favorite flowers. Once you feel more comfortable with gardening, try planting fruits and vegetables.
What’s the best raised garden bed with cover to buy?
Top raised garden bed with cover
Palram Plant Inn Raised Garden Bed with Cover
What you need to know: This is a perfect gardening bed for the serious gardener.
What you’ll love: The bed is made of corrosion-resistant aluminum with plenty of storage space underneath. The cover is clear polycarbonate with sliding panels and four ventilation options. It’s 58.5-inches high and 46-inches wide and deep. It has built-in hoses for internal drainage.
What you should consider: This option is a bit expensive and takes up a lot of room. Some consumers had difficulty assembling it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top raised garden bed with cover for the money
Quictent Raised Garden Bed with Greenhouse Windows
What you need to know: This budget garden bed pick is excellent for first-timers who need a cover for their plants.
What you’ll love: The bed comes in two lengths: 4 feet and 6 feet. It’s 1 foot high and 3 feet wide. It’s made of galvanized steel, and the cover can be either clear or green. The cover has zipper openings on either side which you can roll up and secure out of the way.
What you should consider: The cover is thin and may not survive harsh winter conditions, such as heavy winds.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
CedarCraft Elevated Cedar Planter with Greenhouse Cover
What you need to know: This is one of the more aesthetically pleasing garden beds with a cover.
What you’ll love: The Canadian Western Red Cedar material is a lovely rustic addition to any garden. Alloy steel beams hold the cover aloft, and it has a convenient dual zipper. The cover applies a greenhouse effect when closed. It’s 2.5 feet tall, 6 feet wide and 2 feet deep.
What you should consider: It’s one of the priciest options. Some consumers felt the legs were a little wobbly and unsteady.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which potty chair is best?
While no one has ever described potty training a child as a fun endeavor, one of the biggest rewards once your child is potty trained is finally getting rid of diapers. If your child is approaching potty training age, keeping a potty chair on hand is convenient and will start preparing your little one for the transition.
One of the top potty chair choices is the Summer Infant My Size Potty. Since it’s modeled after a standard toilet, kids will have fun and love going potty just like an adult — they can even flush it like a real potty.
What to know before you buy a potty chair
Types of potty chairs
Whether to use a potty seat for the toilet or an independent potty chair is one of the first decisions you need to make when potty training. If you choose to use a potty chair, there are a few types.
- One-piece potty chair: If you want a simple option, a one-piece potty chair is ideal. It doesn’t have many pieces that need to be cleaned and is usually the most affordable type of potty chair. However, since there isn’t a separate chamber, it’s cumbersome to empty and clean the entire chair.
- Two-piece potty chair: The most common potty chair is a two-piece, including the chair and a removable chamber for convenient emptying and cleaning.
- Three-in-one potty chair: Many potty chairs are called a two-in-one, three-in-one or four-in-one. As a result, those options usually convert into several things. For example, it could start as a standard potty chair and transform into a stool and potty seat to be used with a big toilet.
How to know if your child is ready to potty train
Between 18 and 30 months, it’s time to start paying attention to readiness signs since most children are physiologically ready to potty train. If you can answer yes to most of these questions, it might be time to start potty training.
- Does your child have the motor skills to pull their pants up and down independently?
- Is your child showing signs they’re cognitively mature, including completing small tasks without getting distracted and moving onto something else?
- Does your child tell you when they’re going potty in their diaper?
- Does your child hate having a dirty diaper and ask you to change it?
What to look for in a quality potty chair
Fit and size
Potty training often requires long periods of sitting on a potty with books and toys, waiting for something to happen. To keep your little one comfortable, it’s essential to find a potty chair of the right height and with an appropriately sized seat. For example, tall children will be most comfortable on a taller potty chair, so their knees and legs sit at the correct angle.
Splash guard
A splash guard sits on the front of the potty chair to stop the pee from spraying all over the place. While it’s a must-have for potty training boys, it’s helpful for any child.
Ease of cleaning
Hopefully, if all goes well, you’ll be cleaning the potty chair often. For this reason, it’s essential to consider the steps required to clean a potty seat. For example, is it a one-piece chair that must be carried entirely to the toilet, or is there a convenient emptying chamber?
How much you can expect to spend on a potty chair
Depending on the number of features and size of a potty chair, you can expect to spend between $10-$40.
Potty chair FAQ
What’s the difference between a potty seat and a potty chair?
A. A potty seat looks like a smaller toilet seat, and it sits on top of a big toilet. A potty chair is a separate training chair that sits on the floor. While a potty seat helps children learn to go on the big toilet and doesn’t take up space on the floor, it can be intimidating for some children. The ability to take a potty chair on the go while training is also convenient.
Can I bring my potty chair in the car?
A. Potty training is a sensitive and time-consuming endeavor. To ensure your child doesn’t have an accident when traveling, it’s a smart idea to bring your compact potty chair in the car, and pull into a discreet location when they have to go potty. However, you might want to consider investing in potty liners for easy on-the-go disposal if you plan to go this route.
What’s the best potty chair to buy?
Top potty chair
What you need to know: Since it’s modeled after a traditional toilet, kids will have fun learning how to use the potty on this chair.
What you’ll love: Enjoy potty training without the mess thanks to a built-in wipe compartment, integrated splash guard and an easy-to-clean flip-up, removable lid. Plus, the handle makes a realistic flushing sound.
What you should consider: The splash guard is removable and easily falls off when sitting down or using the potty.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top potty chair for the money
What you need to know: Simple and affordable, this potty chair makes it convenient to potty train anywhere.
What you’ll love: This chair is the ideal size for toddlers to go potty but compact enough to fit in small bathrooms or take on the go. It also features rubber edging along the bottom to prevent slipping and sliding.
What you should consider: Since it’s on the small side compared to other potty chairs, it works best for younger children.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and BuyBuyBaby
Worth checking out
The First Years Training Wheels Racer Potty System
What you need to know: This themed potty chair is a convenient way to get children excited about potty training.
What you’ll love: The race car design is kid-friendly and fun to use. It has high back support for comfort, a tall pee shield to avoid messes and handles to help kids feel secure. Plus, the lift-out pot makes it simple to clean.
What you should consider: This chair sit sits lower to the ground than comparable models and might not be ideal for tall children.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which high-end portable monitor is best?
Computer users know the feeling of wishing they had more screen space. It might be doing research for school or watching multiple videos or playing online games. Whether it’s business, entertainment, education or gaming, high-end portable monitors take your mobile device or laptop and provide a larger viewing space.
There are many options for high-end portable monitors and many features to consider. For its overall versatility and built-in battery life, the top choice is the Asus ZenScreen Portable Touch Monitor.
What to know before you buy a high-end portable monitor
Bigger is not always better
High-end portable computer monitors come in different sizes. Larger monitor sizes may be helpful for gamers or someone making a presentation, while smaller displays make more sense for students, people who travel often, or someone who bounces around offices. We are prone to think that larger displays are better, but it depends on your intended use. The most common sizes are 15.6 to 17.3 inches. Displays in this size range tend to have good quality viewing and are easy to transport.
High resolution is better
With many high-definition display options available, you should look for a high-end portable monitor with at least 4K resolution. This resolution level is ideal for basic work that doesn’t require ultra-clear graphics. There are HD displays for gamers and other entertainment purposes, but they will cost more.
Connecting your display and device is essential
Perhaps the most important consideration is ensuring that your mobile device or laptop can properly connect to the high-end portable monitor. Not having the right ports will require an adapter, or you could run the risk of the monitor not working correctly. Today, most high-end portable monitors have USB ports known as Type A and Type C. Type C is more powerful and faster than Type A, but both do a good job.
What to look for in a quality high-end portable monitor
Portability
It may seem obvious, but a high-end portable monitor needs to be just that- portable. Many high-end portable monitors today are less than a half-inch thick and weigh two pounds or less. Some models may be wider or heavier, so make sure to check the manufacturer’s specifications. If you are on the go a lot, having a high-end portable monitor that can easily be grabbed and carried will be important.
Battery
High resolution requires optimal power, so make sure your high-end portable monitor has a built-in battery. The best batteries are lithium-ion, which are very powerful but small in size. Ideally, your battery should have a minimum power of at least 5000 milliamperes per hour.
Integrated speakers
Having built-in speakers can make a big difference for your high-end portable monitor since you won’t have to carry an external speaker with you. Many integrated speakers have excellent sound quality, which is especially important for gamers or watching videos or movies. Make sure that there are easy-to-use volume controls too.
Adjustable stand
Depending on your workstation or how you intend to use your high-end monitor, look for models with adjustable stands that allow you to tilt the screen at different angles. This can reduce eye strain and also help when your external setting has poor lighting.
Touchscreen
If you are used to touchscreen displays on your mobile device or laptop, you may want to consider a high-end portable monitor with touchscreen capabilities. This will increase the overall cost and limit your selection, but touchscreen models are available.
How much you can expect to spend on a high-end portable monitor
High-end portable monitors vary in price based on the display size, resolution and overall features. For the most common display size of 14 to 16 inches, basic models start at $150, with the most popular models costing $200-$400. Some drawing boards and other specialized monitors run $400-$600, with larger displays approaching $1,000.
High-end portable monitor FAQ
Are refurbished high-end portable monitors worth buying?
A. A refurbished high-end portable monitor will likely cost less than a new one. The risk is that you don’t know why the original monitor was returned or how well it was repaired. If you need to save money and purchase a refurbished monitor, ensure that the retailer’s warranty and return policy are clearly outlined and understood.
Should I have a high-end portable monitor repaired?
A. Usually, the cost to repair a broken high-end portable monitor exceeds the cost of buying a new one. There may be exceptions, so you will want to get an estimate from the repair retailer. If you know how to repair a monitor yourself, it may be cost-effective, but that is a rare skill set among consumers.
What are the best high-end portable monitors to buy?
Top high-end portable monitor
Asus ZenScreen Portable Touch Monitor
What you need to know: A great option for beginners and experts, this Type-C portable touch monitor offers versatility while meeting most of your display needs.
What you’ll love: With an award-winning design, this portable monitor is only 0.3 inches slim and weighs two pounds. A built-in battery and integrated speakers compliment the touch functionality. Flicker-free backlighting lessens eye fatigue.
What you should consider: This portable touch monitor has difficulty working with Apple products.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Best Buy
Top high-end portable monitor for money
What you need to know: This affordable portable monitor has an FHD screen and an accompanying stand for convenience.
What you’ll love: The mini HDMI and USB C ports allow connection to laptops, game systems, smartphones and PCs for extending use for business and entertainment. Built-in speakers and leather smart cover provide additional value and versatility.
What you should consider: The screen colors are not as sharp as they appear on some other portable monitors.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is an excellent drawing tablet that can serve as a portable monitor with many quality features.
What you’ll love: As a drawing tablet, it has excellent sensitivity. The screen is scratch-resistant with great clarity. It comes with foldable and adjustable legs that provide the perfect angle. A 3-in-1 HDMI connection cable is included.
What you should consider: It requires two computer ports to connect, which doesn’t work for all laptops.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Best Buy
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ENFIELD, Conn. (WWLP) – It was the first day of the gas tax holiday in Connecticut, reducing gas prices by roughly 25 cents. However, you may not have saved money if you decided to cross the state line Friday.
22News was in Enfield Friday morning and saw gas prices at one location was $4.15 but that price dropped down to $3.94 in less than an hour. In between that time, 22News was in Longmeadow at a gas station where it was a lot busier and many of the drivers were from Connecticut, including Ahmed Omar from Enfield. He said the price of gas has been tough, especially since he’s a pizza delivery driver.
“With these recent gas prices, it’s been really difficult to afford gas in the first place, especially working delivery. Like most of my tips go to gas, so even some of my checks go to gas as well,” said Omar.
A representative from the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association told our affiliate, WTNH, the reason we’re not necessarily seeing the price change is because gas stations bought that gas with the tax. So they had to decide whether or not to pass that price onto the consumers or lose profits.
The gas tax will be suspended until the end of June.
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LAS CRUCES, NM (KTSM) — As of Friday, recreational marijuana is now legal in New Mexico, bringing sales of cannabis right to the doorstep of Texas.
People began waiting in long lines at R. Greenleaf dispensary that opened at midnight in Las Cruces. Some waited as many as six hours in line.
Las Cruces resident Jeremy Sandoval became the first person in the store at midnight; he’d been waiting outside since 6:30 p.m. to be the first to buy recreational marijuana after the clock struck midnight.
“Definitely a part of history. It’s a milestone we’ve all been waiting for, and we finally crossed it,” Sandoval said.
The line stretched around the building and lasted long after the doors opened to sales.
“There’s four or five hundred people out there, it’s midnight, and there’s more coming…. that’s exciting,” Steve Pear, President of Shwazze New Mexico Division, told KTSM.
Cannabis retailers say they brought in three times what they sell in a typical week in Las Cruces just for the weekend.
“That’s a lot, but we’re also prepared to bring product down here if we need to, to get through the weekend,” Pear explained.
The R. Greenleaf in Las Cruces was the first dispensary to open its doors at 12:01 a.m. due to Las Cruces not having established operational hour time restrictions for selling cannabis.
“We found out that there weren’t operating hours set, and we wanted to take advantage of being able to sell at midnight,” Manuel Martinez, a Las Cruces resident, told KTSM early Friday morning. “It’s amazing that this is actually happening. Nobody thought this day would come.”
The Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department reminds the community that the only place you can consume cannabis is in your home if you are 21 or older.
“You want to make sure you’re not sharing it with youngsters under the 21,” Peter Skowronski with the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department explained. “No different than giving alcohol to someone under the age of 21 also, understand that there’s going to be edibles and other issues like that and were a little concerned about youngsters having that type of stuff too.”
Store owners in Las Cruces say they’re prepared to stay open until 9 p.m. Friday, depending on demand.
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After making history on Thursday night, Giannis Antetokounmpo will look to continue his offensive onslaught when the Milwaukee Bucks host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night.
Antetokounmpo became Milwaukee’s all-time points leader after going for 44 on 14-of-21 shooting in the Bucks’ 120-119 overtime victory against the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday in New York. He added 14 rebounds and six assists.
“To have a front-row seat for the last 3 3/4 years, almost four years, I just feel incredibly fortunate,” Milwaukee coach Mike Budenholzer said. “His teammates are beyond happy for him, giving him all the love and everything that he deserves.”
Jrue Holiday added 19 points, eight rebounds and six steals for Milwaukee, and Khris Middleton chipped in 16 points and nine rebounds.
The Bucks trailed by nine with 3:52 remaining in regulation, but they were able to force overtime thanks to Antetokounmpo’s game-tying 3-pointer with 18.7 seconds left.
In OT, Antetokounmpo sank a pair of free throws with three seconds remaining to give Milwaukee a one-point edge before Kevin Durant missed a potential game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer.
March was kind to the Bucks, as they went 11-3. They have won four of their past five and also have rattled off six consecutive wins at home.
Conversely, the Clippers have been sliding lately. They have dropped six of their past seven games after falling 135-130 to the host Chicago Bulls on Thursday.
Los Angeles led by seven with just under three minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, but DeMar DeRozan took over, scoring nine points in the final 1:36 tie things up by the end of regulation. He then scored 10 points in overtime to finish with 50 on the night, handing the Clippers their fourth straight road loss.
“They picked their defensive intensity up,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said. “I thought they did a good job with that. We took some bad shots, I thought, during that stretch instead of just continuing to keep playing the way we were playing.”
The Clippers’ Reggie Jackson finished with a team-high 34 points on 12-of-23 shooting, including a 6-of-9 performance from 3-point range, and added seven assists. Paul George supplied 22 points, Marcus Morris Sr. had 20 and Nicolas Batum notched 17 as all five starters scored in double figures.
Los Angeles welcomed back George on Tuesday. He had been sidelined since late December due to an elbow injury.
George’s play has been one of the few bright spots for the Clippers, as the seven-time All-Star is averaging 28 points and 5.5 assists since making his return.
Los Angeles still will be without Norman Powell, who could resume practice next week after sustaining a foot injury. Kawhi Leonard (knee) also has not yet been cleared to take contact, and Brandon Boston Jr. could miss the Milwaukee game because of an illness.
Friday marks the second and final meeting between the Clippers and the Bucks this season. Milwaukee came away with a 137-113 road win back on Feb. 6, behind 28 points from Antetokounmpo and 27 from Holiday.
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Cardi B’s Latest Printed Hair Is Truly Next Level
When it comes to statement hairstyles, no one does it like Cardi B. For proof of that, look no further than the time she took logomania to the perfect level of extreme by printing her with the same design as her ensemble by Louis Vuitton. Two years later, the 29-year-old rapper has finally been upstaged—by none other than Cardi B herself. On Thursday night, she casually stepped onto the Dougie B’s “Shake It” music video with pin-straight red locks printed like a bandanna. Indeed, from a distance, you’d have thought she had draped one over her head.
How did Cardi achieve such a look? Hairstylist Elisha Michelle began by taking an originally platinum blonde full lace wig from the virgin hair company Kendra’s Boutique and dying it red. From the look of the similar wig listed on her website, Michelle next applied the paisley design with paint. (Hot tip: If you’ve ever wanted your hair to resemble, say, a bag of Cheeto’s, Michelle takes custom orders.) Celeb favorite Tokyo Stylez, who was also behind Cardi’s Louis Vuitton hair, took over what Kendra’s referred to as the “install” process from there.
This being Cardi, she didn’t stop there. The rapper also went all out with white talon-like nails, matching the bra she wore beneath a vest in the same shade of red as her wig. She completed the look with a baggy pair of distressed jeans folded over so as to reveal her matching red underwear. Sorry, Dougie, but between all that, Cardi truly stole the show.
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Inside Ana Benaroya’s Studio, Where the Women Have No Shame
Venus Over Manhattan’s first pick for its new downtown outpost showcasing younger artists would rather talk lesbian desire than the female gaze.
A few years ago, Ana Benaroya received what she considers the ultimate compliment. “Saw this young artist’s work recently,” the renowned painter Katherine Bradford wrote in an Instagram post about one of Benaroya’s paintings. “Now have to completely rethink nipples.” It was, Benaroya recalls when I stop by her studio in Jersey City, “the ideal validation.”
Technically, Benaroya’s paintings are female nudes. Unlike their historical counterparts, her figures are almost impossibly muscular, and colorful in both the literal and figurative sense. They project so much confidence that they’ll either give you a bounce in your step or make you blush. And on April 8, they’ll be on full display in “Swept Away,” the inaugural exhibition of Venus Over Manhattan’s new downtown outpost, which will focus on younger artists. (The Upper East Side mainstay is celebrating its 10th anniversary by expanding to 55 Great Jones Street, right next door to the stables that Andy Warhol converted into the home and studio of Jean-Michel Basquiat.)
“In many ways, I feel like my art is often the opposite of how I am as a person,” Benaroya, 36, says. “I’m pretty quiet, not in-your-face. I can be very shy. And these characters I paint, there’s nothing bashful about them. Their bodies exist exactly as they want them to. Their limbs have no limits; they have no shame.” This lack of what might be called civility has led to comparisons to Peter Saul, who has been celebrated for his colorful, cartoonish depravity; in fact, Benaroya’s works were paired with Saul’s in an exhibition at Ross + Kramer Gallery’s Hamptons space in 2019.
Born in Queens and raised in East Brunswick, New Jersey, Benaroya earned a BFA in illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art. After that, she spent nearly a decade doing graphic design for clients like ABC and the New Yorker. On the side she made drawings, which eventually led to small gouache paintings on fluorescent paper. “They were very graphic and similar to my illustrations, and I felt like this is really exciting,” she recalls. Except at the time, the figures weren’t of women. “I’ve never been attracted to men, so it was extra strange that I was doing that,” she says. “I think by not depicting women, ever, I never had to question or confront my attraction to them. I could just depict these macho dudes.”
Growing up, Benaroya loved comics and cartoons like The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which inform her work even now. The more her figures took on the pumped-up physiques of superheroes, the more confidence the artist gained. She always felt there weren’t enough depictions of women for young girls who didn’t identify with traditional femininity, so she set about correcting that. She applied to Yale in 2017, and while earning her MFA in painting, realized there was a way she could connect the cartoon characters of her childhood with her own adult experiences. The figures in her paintings are unclothed because she doesn’t want to place them in a particular time period, though only in part. “I want depictions of female nudes that have desire and passion, but because the women are the sex objects—because they see that in each other,” she says. “I feel like not many examples of that exist, from the perspective of someone like me.”
There are buckets and buckets of gesso in Benaroya’s studio. To start a painting, she applies seven layers’ worth to a canvas and sands it down until it’s just smooth enough, then paints an abstract backdrop with spray and oil paint. Completing a painting like the large-scale ones soon on view at Venus Over Manhattan takes up to two weeks. Thanks to her background in illustration, the drawings that make up the other half of the show take about half the time. By pairing oil-based India ink brush pens with solid-based markers, Benaroya can easily keep the black lines that characterize them clean. “As an illustrator, I was super quick,” she says. “Lots of deadlines and projects at once.”
The more we talk, the more I wonder what Benaroya thinks about a phrase frequently associated with her work: “the female gaze.” She’s ambivalent, but it prompts her to consider a more nuanced question. “What does lesbian desire look like?,” she asks. “That is a particular gaze. I'm not sure how to define it—it’s very indefinable, and often invisible. And that’s something that maybe can be encompassed in the female gaze. Maybe not, or maybe just a small part of it.” Benaroya guesses that men make up most of her collector base, but perhaps only by virtue of the fact that so many art collectors are male. Men make up a portion of those who regularly message her about her work on Instagram, but she thinks her paintings and drawings resonate most with “women, queer people, all sorts.”
As I’m about to head out, I ask Benaroya about some of her earliest artworks. Her parents saved them all; in fact, she has on hand a folder of drawings made when she was in elementary and middle school. After rifling through some boxes, she returns with a batch of loose-leaf papers and starts pulling them out at random. “I wanted to be a car designer,” she says, laughing, as we come across a colored pencil drawing of a vehicle, prominently signed “By Ana Benaroya” in cursive.
There are recognizable superheroes—her beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, rendered in marker, and a printout of Spider-Man timestamped 1999—as well as others of Benaroya’s own invention. As we admire the bulging physique of one of my personal favorites, a masked man with impressive abs named King Hair, Benaroya laughs, then says, “Really, I haven’t changed that much.”
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“I filter what’s on my mind through my art,” the artist Genevieve Gaignard says. “Whether something is upsetting me, moving me, or bringing me joy, I think, ‘How do I process that through art to elevate it?’” America’s relationship to racial violence was top of mind when Gaignard, whose father is Black and mother is white, conceived her latest solo exhibition, Strange Fruit, which borrows its name from Billie Holiday's 1939 protest song, and is currently showing at Vielmetter art gallery in Los Angeles. Gaignard was frustrated that “conversations about race had fallen off” after the impassioned unrest in 2020, due to the killings of George Floyd and Ahmaud Aubrey, had tempered. With Strange Fruit, Gaignard, whose work explores race, status, resilience, and accountability, aims to "stay in the conversation and continue the unlearning of white supremacy."
Gaignard’s amalgam of collage, installation, sculpture, and self-portraiture featured in the show began to take shape as the artist, who started making waves in the art world in 2013, eyed materials in her L.A. studio, particularly mammy and Royal Doulton figurines. When looking at the figurines, Gaignard remembers thinking, “‘I wish I had a bunch of these.’” So, she requested a fabricator reproduce 100 mammy statuettes. "When I saw them, all lined up, I was like, ‘Damn, they’re an army.’” Her new piece, “The American Dream is a Pyramid Scheme,” features 81 custom, headless figurines on tiers. “Someone could read it as dismembering, but the figurines weren’t something we Black people made for ourselves,” she says. “This was white people making a glorified image of what it was to serve them. I felt she was stronger without her head. Removing her head was a way to take her story beyond servant and focus on her stance, what she’s conquered, and what Black people continue to conquer.”
Also from Strange Fruit, a series of new portraits titled “Off With Their Heads” feature Gaignard in nostalgic Selkie dresses as she embodies Royal Doulton figurines. “I have collected many of these, and the white women in these figurines often hold a random rose in their hand and look like a damsel in distress—but I think she’s got the control in many ways,” the artist says. Gaignard regularly takes center stage in her photographs. By casting herself—a woman who can “pass” for white but identifies as Black—she challenges viewers to examine their preconceived notions about race. “To move this conversation, I needed to position myself as a body of privilege,” she says. “I also needed to take ownership of being part of the problem. White supremacy is instilled in almost all of us. Because whiteness is portrayed specifically everywhere, even Black and Brown people view themselves negatively. So it’s almost therapeutic to see [a white damsel] in a made-up way.”
Gaignard’s practice has grown into a largely collaborative effort, and Strange Fruit is no different. To add to the staging in the photographs, Gaignard called on florist Nemuel DePaula, who made it a point to include magnolias, which grow abundantly in the south and appear in the “Strange Fruit” lyrics. The artist also called upon singer Samantha Farrell to cover “Strange Fruit” especially for the show.
But Gaignard’s collaborative leanings are one thing—the immersive nature of her exhibition is another. The scent of magnolias emanating throughout the gallery space is by design. Farrell’s rendition of “Strange Fruit” plays on repeat from a vintage jukebox. Gaignard says that racial injustice “is a big issue, a big story. It’s everyone’s story. I can’t tell it on my own.” Arguably, one of the most provocative elements of the exhibition is figurines of white womens’ heads placed on red pillows. A pink ribbon is tied around the necks of the figures as “the symbol of lynchings,” says Gaignard, who calls these works “The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree.” “The head is not supposed to be white women only,” she adds. “That head is a representation of white privilege. What does it look like for white privilege to be in the position that they’ve put others through?”
Elsewhere, neon works featuring the show’s title and “Salt of the Earth” are placed on vintage wallpaper, which, for Gaignard, is reminiscent of the look in her childhood home in Orange, Massachusetts. While Strange Fruit “refers to whiteness,” says Gaignard, her use of the phrase “Salt of the Earth” speaks of Black folks. “That saying refers to the real, down-to-earth people,” she says. “My interpretation is to uplift and state that Blackness is the salt of the earth. That’s really the story of Blackness. After all this shit, it’s remarkable, the resilience of Black people.”
At the opening of Strange Fruit in mid-March, Gaignard says she was approached by multiple white women who said, “‘Your work is so beautiful,’” she recalls. The comment left Gaignard “slightly disturbed,” she says. “They didn't know what else to say.” Gaignard also remembers being asked how she feels now that her collection is done. “I’m like, ‘It’s interesting you think it's done.’ No, now we have to have the hard conversations. Now the work begins.”
Gaignard’s work has been collected by the Studio Museum in Harlem and the California African American Museum, as well as by prominent art collectors Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz, Jennifer Lopez, and Tina Knowles Lawson. Strange Fruit runs through May 7 at Vielmetter Los Angeles.
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How Elle Fanning Became The Girl From Plainville
The series’ costume designer, Mirren Gordon-Crozier, shares an exclusive look at the actress’s true-crime transformation.
In the first episode of The Girl From Plainville, Michelle Carter, played by Elle Fanning, is seen mourning the death of her boyfriend, Conrad “Coco” Roy III. She sobs inconsolably, her body heaving while she cries. Two friends attempt to calm her, but it’s no use—she can’t stop convulsing with emotion. That is, until she stops abruptly to leaf through her clothes in search of the perfect dress to wear to Coco’s funeral.
The series, now streaming on Hulu, is inspired by the true story of the so-called “texting suicide case” that resulted in Carter, then 17, being charged with involuntary manslaughter for encouraging Roy to take his own life. In order to portray the infamous real-life Carter, Fanning went through an extensive hair and makeup transformation that made the actress virtually unrecognizable. Running in tandem with the actress’s drastic beauty change was a compelling narrative told through Carter’s wardrobe. To craft the true crime tale through clothing, the series’ costume designer Mirren Gordon-Crozier spent weeks meticulously researching Carter’s story, discovering key details behind the dresses and blouses the teenager wore. Eventually, Gordon-Crozier arrived at an unexpected conclusion: “More than anything, Michelle wants to be loved,” she tells W. “And I found a way into her relationship with Coco via this loneliness and need for attention—whether it’s fitting in with her high school peers or fantasizing about dancing with Coco dressed as Lea Michelle in Glee.” Here, Gordon-Crozier shares her exclusive photo diary from the set of The Girl From Plainville and reveals how she carefully sourced each look.
“Michelle Carter and Coco Roy met in Florida in 2012 whilst visiting family members,” the costume designer says. “Michelle has a massive evolution throughout the series as she struggles with not only the case against her, but also with a severe eating disorder. Florida is one of the only times we see her being a carefree teenager. This is her playing tennis when she meets Coco for the first time.”
“We shot all of the Florida scenes in Tybee Island, which is a beach community off the coast of Savannah, Georgia,” Gordon-Crozier recalls. “In between setups, I took this photo of Elle and Colton [Ryan] and told them to give me Dawson’s Creek energy. They certainly know how to ham it up for the camera.”
“These bunny ears are a big theme in the show,” Gordon-Crozier said. “Michelle and Coco wear them on their first date in Florida and they pop up throughout the entire season.”
“This photo [depicts] Elle getting her prosthetics on in the hair and makeup trailer,” Gordon-Crozier says. “We call this look ‘Alien Angel.’ I spent a lot of time bothering Jules Holdren (hair) and Erin Monroe (makeup) who are responsible for Michelle’s incredible physical transformation throughout the show.”
“Glee was a big theme in Michelle Carter’s life—she often used quotes from the show as her own,” Gordon-Crozier says. “From what we know, Michelle looked up to Rachel and Finn’s infinite love for one another. We thought dressing them in similar digs might be something she might wear in her fantasy.”
“Elle and Colton posing for an iconic prom photo.”
“Purple Crocs were a big hit for comfort shoes in between takes for Elle and Colton,” she adds. “We even took the time to bedazzle them with their initials.”
“When Michelle finds out Coco has really died. It was Elle’s idea to smudge her mascara where she would have cried on her pillow.”
“One of the first things I did when I started this job was to try and find this pink floral shirt that Michelle Carter had worn to court,” Gordon-Crozier says. “Where does one find a seemingly generic floral top from 2017? After hours upon hours of scrolling through the Internet, I finally found it on Poshmark late at night. The best part about finding this shirt is it allowed me to understand the character more based on what brand it was (Ann Taylor Loft). From there, it became obvious that her mother had bought all her court clothes. The more we researched photos we started to see that often times Michelle and her mother, Gail, would share items of clothing.”
“Michelle, Gail (Cara Buono) and David Carter (Kai Lennox) entering the courthouse. Once again, we managed to find the exact outfit the real Michelle Carter wore to court,” Gordon-Crozier says. “The size of her clothes was a huge factor in dressing Elle; we wanted to make sure things were slightly baggy on her to show how much weight she had lost during the trial.”
“In June of 2017, Michelle Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and was sent to Bristol County Juvenile Court of Massachusetts,” says Gordon-Crozier. “This is exactly what she wore. She had lost a lot of weight at that point and chopped her hair.”
Mirren Gordon-Crozier with Elle Fanning on the set of The Girl From Plainville.
All photos courtesy of Mirren Gordon-Crozier.
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Breaking Down All the Fashion in Harry Styles’s “As It Was” Music Video
At midnight in the U.K. on April 1, Harry Styles sent his fans into a frenzy by dropping the music video for “As It Was,” the first single off of Harry’s House, his first album in three years. The 28-year-old musician announced its May 20 release by tweeting a photo of himself wearing head-to-toe Molly Goddard, and as expected, the looks that have followed also don’t disappoint. The video begins with Styles strolling backwards through a rush of commuters, standing out in a bright red coat by the rising menswear designer Bianca Saunders and a fuzzy black scarf by Dries Van Noten. It turns out the sequined jumpsuit he’s been wearing to promote the single is hiding underneath, and as he grabs the hand of a person wearing the same ensemble in blue, we see he’s matched it with red nail polish (which is no doubt courtesy of his beauty line, Pleasing).
The pair spins on a platform that has quickly been memed into a microwave, showing off each and every angle of their custom jumpsuits by the Paris-based designer Arturo Obegero, who takes inspiration from fashion and dance scene in his hometown in Spain. Back in clothes, Styles throws it back to his “Golden” video by wearing a crocheted pair of driving gloves, this time by the menswear designer Ernest W. Baker.
As it turns out, those jumpsuits actually aren’t jumpsuits. (Even though they apparently caused searches for “men’s jumpsuits” to surge 212 percent in the 12 hours after the video’s release.) It isn’t long before Styles removes the top half and strips down to his skivvies. Per the Hazza fanbase’s fashion archive account, stylist Harry Lambert’s assistant Ryan Wohlgemut dyed Styles’s originally ordinary Merz b. Schwanen boxers red specifically for the video. In case you’ve ever wondered what tattoos Styles has, well, go ahead and take them in in their full glory. The star is a large butterfly on his torso.
As for the song itself, well, it’s a bop. And a number of Hazza stans have convinced themselves that the lyrics are about Olivia Wilde, his girlfriend and director of his upcoming film Don’t Worry Darling. Decide for yourself by watching the full video, which was “made with love by a creative team from Ukraine,” below.
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Julia Fox is the New Meme Queen of TikTok
If you thought Julia Fox was going to fade quietly back to the underground without Kanye West at her side, you obviously haven’t been on TikTok lately. The woman is almost single-handedly keeping the meme engine on the video platform going. Not only have multiple Fox soundbites gone viral, there are now several new filters to help you get Fox’s now-signature smudged black eye makeup. That’s in addition to the proliferation of impassioned video essays explaining why Fox is the perfect post-modern celebrity, and the actresses’s own occasional viral content on the platform. In other words, Fox has made a mark on TikTok as thick and notable as her eye shadow, and in the process, demonstrated her cultural staying power.
Here, a breakdown of the many, many different ways in which Julia Fox-inspired content has wooed TikTok.
Unkah Jams
Ah, Fox’s first viral TikTok moment of which you’re, more than likely, already well aware. During a guest appearance on Alexandra Cooper’s incredibly popular Call Her Daddy podcast earlier this year, Fox fielded a question about whether or not she was a muse; she answered in her signature drawn-out inflection, “I mean, I was Josh Safdie’s muse when he wrote Uncut Gems.” For whatever reason, Fox’ pronunciation of the title of her breakthrough movie took TikTok by storm—it was soon elevated to near-surrealist audio art by the end of its meme cycle. For her part, Fox says she was a little bit stoned during the interview.
Fox, by the way, is in on the joke.
“I Did It Myself, Yeah ...Yeeeahhh”
It turns out “Unkah Jams,” was no one-time phenomenon. A soundbite of Fox telling a red carpet reporter at Vanity Fair’s Oscars after party that she actually did her own makeup for the event is now reaching similar levels of TikTok saturation.
“It’s So Far a Masterpiece, If I Do Say So Myself”
Proving she can provide multiple viral options in the same night, a second soundbite from an interview at the VF party blew up, in which Fox proclaims her upcoming book a masterpiece. Even Marvel star Simu Liu has gotten into it.
The Julia Fox Eye Makeup Filters
Yes, you may have noticed that TikTok now has filters to help you easily look like Fox, too.
The Julia Fox Video Essays
Lest you think everyone on TikTok is mercilessly making fun of Fox, she’s actually garnered a devoted fanbase on the platform—and they’re more than ready to explain to you her genius as a modern celebrity in three minutes or less.
...And Then There’s Fox’s Own Content
Fox actually joined TikTok all the way back in the summer of 2021, and hasn’t bothered to create new content since her fame skyrocketed. But this week, new clips from her account have surfaced—most notably, this video of her singing Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games.”
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Everything We Know About You Season 4
Though it’s only been about six months since season three of the hit stalker drama You premiered, we’re already picking up the hints that Netflix has been putting down about the production for season four. When we last saw him, our anti-hero Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) had left quite the mess behind in Madre Linda, where he and his wife Love Quinn-Goldberg (Victoria Pedretti) escaped after having a rough go of it in Los Angeles. But it was almost instantly clear that the series would have to return for a fourth season (and before the third season could even air, Netflix made the announcement that there would indeed be more Joe Goldberg going around and stalking people a fourth time). Now, as the updates on You’s fourth season start trickling in, we can start speculating about what’s going to happen, when the new episodes will drop, and where on earth Joe will travel to next. Spoilers ahead.
When will You season four be released?
There is no official release date yet for You season four. The third season aired in October 2021, and according to the Netflix social media accounts, production has only just begun for season four. While we can’t say for certain that the fourth season will be available to stream later this year, it’s likely that it might hit your accounts before 2023.
Where will season four take place?
Season three ended with Joe Goldberg killing his wife (in his defense, it was self defense) Love, setting their suburban Northern California home on fire, and making it look like a suicide. He also left his son, Henry, with his two neighbors who were looking to adopt (a decision which, for someone who was in the foster care system as a child, clearly weighed on Joe’s mind). We later see him in a cafe, looking for Marienne, the librarian and single mom he connected with (and did not kill!) in Madre Linda, but it’s not her. Then, he starts wandering the streets of Paris.
But according to a new update from the Netflix Twitter account, it looks like Joe Goldberg’s next victims will not be of the French variety (and for that, we are thankful, because we really could not handle his pretentious voiceovers about the correct pronunciation of croissant). Instead, it’s looking a lot like he may be taking the Eurostar to London, where he will probably inevitably have some sort of crisis about being the millennial Jack Ripper. How do we know he’ll be making his way through Great Britain instead of cruising along the Seine? Take a look at the books in this tweet from Netflix: Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are some of the British greats, so it’s likely Joe will get a job at a modest bookshop in London (though, it would have been fun to watch him deal with tourists at the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore in Paris—oh well, c’est la vie.)
Who’s coming back?
Well, it’s safe to say Joe Goldberg will be returning for season four. Love, on the other hand, is dead, so there’s no way she’ll be coming back—unless it’s in the form of flashbacks and dream sequences. Silicon Valley swingers Sherry and Cary Conrad (Shalita Grant and Travis Van Winkle) somehow survived being tortured in Joe and Love’s glass box of horrors underneath Love’s bakery, and, as a branded couple, they embark on a TEDx tour to talk about the importance of being a survivor and having open communication in a relationship, so it would be a delight to see them return (for us, obviously, not for Joe—it’s safe to say he probably never wants to see them again after that failed foursome). Marienne made an escape, and we still know that Ellie (Jenna Ortega), the kid that Joe sought to protect in season two, is still out there—though she’s probably not happy with being abandoned yet again. Matthew and Theo Engler (Scott Speedman and Dylan Arnold) didn’t die either, so there’s always the chance that Theo might want to get revenge on Joe for what happened with Love. While we can’t confirm the return of those characters, the possibility is still out there—and of course, there’s always going to be someone new for Joe to become obsessed with and set his sights on for stalking, all the way across the pond.
Who’s new in the cast?
Lukas Gage arrives in season four, as a wealthy kid named Adam who is a little too interested in partying and not so good at pleasing his parents, and Charlotte Ritchie will play Kate, the daughter of a single mom and art gallery director. It’s also been reported that Tilly Keeper, Amy Leigh Hickman, and Ed Speleers will join the cast of You season four. Keeper plays Lady Phoebe, a socialite with a strong social media presence, and we already know how much that will irk Joe (remember Peach Salinger? RIP). Hickman plays Nadia, a student of literature with aspirations to be a serious novelist, so it’s likely that she will catch Joe’s eye (remember Beck? RIP). And Speleers will play a character named Rhys, a rags to riches author who is considering veering into politics after his memoir brought him great success. It’s looking like he and Joe might vibe at first—humble beginnings and such—but we all know how much Joe can’t stand competition. Some other newcomers will be recurring cast members, ranging from powerful entrepreneurs, privileged professors, backpackers, and aristocrats.
It’s starting to look like Joe will be infiltrating the campus community at Oxford, which leaves us to ask, did he somehow get an adjunct teaching job? Is he sorting books in the university library? No matter what he reinvents himself as next, though, old habits die hard, and the university is a solid setting for a stalking scandal.
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Kick off April in the Twin Cities with art, pancakes and biking
It's officially April! Here are five ways to spend the first weekend of the month.
🥞 Shop local art and eat unlimited free pancakes at the Minneapolis Pancakes and Booze Art Show, an underground pop-up exhibit in Minneapolis this Saturday. $15.
🚴♀️ Hit the road with a two-hour social ride at the Spring Invitational on Saturday. Depart from Fire & Nice Alehouse and celebrate after with beer samples. Free.
🏀 Dribble through the streets of Minneapolis at the Women's Final Four Bounce, a parade for kids ages 18 and under (and their chaperones) this Sunday. The first 2,000 participants get a free T-shirt and basketball. Free.
👯♀️ Head to the Mall of America Friday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX at the "Throw Like A Girl NCAA Drag Show." Free.
🖼 Skip the gambling and browse Canterbury Park's annual Spring Festival arts and craft show this weekend. $10, kids under 10 get free admission.
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Fuel prices accelerate delivery companies' shift to EVs
Eye-watering gasoline and diesel prices are sending delivery companies into the waiting arms of the handful of vehicle-fleet managers that serve EVs.
Why it matters: Significant commercial interest in EVs will drive growth toward EV service providers.
- Startups like Inspiration Mobility and Amply Power have made serving commercial EV fleets their business, along with established players like Element, which has expanded its EV offerings.
Context: "The surge in gas prices has increased the urgency for all commercial fleets, but particularly the highest-mile applications, where the fuel price is really eating into their profitability," Inspiration Mobility CEO Josh Green tells Axios.
- Inspiration Mobility charged out of stealth in November with a $200 million commitment from ArcLight Energy Partners and a partnership with the EV rental company Revel.
Go deeper: The shift isn't total upheaval — delivery companies aren't crashing through the doors of EV fleet servicers. Rather, the shift is proceeding along two tracks, say EV providers.
- Companies that haven't taken EVs seriously are now engaging in deep conversations about making the shift or even launching pilot programs, Element Fleet vice president Avninder Buttar tells Axios.
- Meanwhile, companies that have started making the transition are now doing so with fresh urgency.
- Who's interested? "Every last-mile-delivery player," Green says, "whether it’s someone bringing you your dinner or something you ordered online from a vendor."
Between the lines: Electrification remains a relatively slow process. The vehicles remain pricey, parts are hard to find, installing charging infrastructure is expensive, and the enormous ecosystem of charging options can seem a tangled mess.
- "Across hundreds of fleets we have touched, we have yet to come across a single operator that standardizes one vehicle or even one charging product," Vic Shao, founder and CEO of Amply Power, tells Axios.
- Plus, he adds that factors like time-of-use schedules, demand charges, and the volume of utilities can spike electricity prices in a single day.
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PurpleLab's red-hot sales process
PurpleLab, a fast-growing health care data and analytics platform, is exploring a sale, five sources tell Sarah. What’s happening: A TripleTree-run sale process is underway for the Wayne, Pennsylvania-based business, sources say. Go deeper (2 min. read)
- PurpleLab has fielded significant inbound interest, one source says, while another adds that initial bids are due around the end of next week.
- The company is marketing forward ARR of around $35 million, sources say.
- Estimated GAAP revenue for 2022 is in the $20 million range, more than double the $10 million generated in 2021, they say.
State of play: This week saw large checks written at the intersection of data and health care.
- Thomas H. Lee Partners yesterday inked what Axios learned was a $1.5 billion-plus deal for Intelligent Medical Objects, a data insights company.
- Also this week, Sixth Street invested $150 million in ConcertAI, valuing the oncology-focused real-world data and SaaS startup at $1.9 billion.
- From Komodo to Datavant to MMIT, big funds are backing all types of players focused on unlocking value from health care data.
Flashback: Edison Partners in August 2019 invested $3 million in growth financing in PurpleLab. How it works: PurpleLab collects, cleans up and stores clinical and claims data that is ultimately used by different health care stakeholders for various purposes.
- “The problem today is that clinical data that you pull from EMRs is basically unstructured and you just can’t run any analytics on it,” one source says.
- As a self-service model, life sciences customers can take PurpleLab's third-party data and make their own queries around it.
Yes, and: Today PurpleLab largely focuses on real-world data (RWD) insights for life sciences companies, but the payer and provider end-markets present opportunities.
- In life sciences alone, pharma companies are deploying big sums of capital for drug research, and data can be used to do everything from identifying new therapies to figuring out where to target spending for marketing purposes.
What we’re watching: There’s a big universe of strategic buyers attacking the health care data problem in different ways, many of which could be interested in PurpleLab, but is now the right time for a strategic sale?
- A number of growth-focused investors that play in data science and analytics might see a big runway to continue to turbocharge its growth as an independent company.
The bottom line: Whether you’re a life sciences organization, a provider or a health plan, data is power. PurpleLab and TripleTree did not return Axios’ requests for comment.
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Chicago White Sox trade Craig Kimbrel for Dodger's outfielder AJ Pollock
CHICAGO - The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired eight-time All-Star reliever Craig Kimbrel from the Chicago White Sox on Friday in exchange for outfielder AJ Pollock.
Kimbrel was 4-5 with 24 saves in a combined 63 games with the Chicago Cubs and White Sox last season. The Cubs shipped him across town at midseason in exchange for Codi Heaur and Nick Madrigal. Kimbrel was 2-2 with the White Sox with one save in 24 games.
Kimbrel rediscovered the form that made him one of the game’s best closers and was named to his eighth All-Star team last season.
The 33-year-old right-hander was the NL Rookie of the Year in 2011. He led the league in saves from 2011 to 2014. Kimbrel ranks ninth all-time in the majors with 372 saves as he begins his 13th season.
Kimbrel fulfills the Dodgers’ need for a shutdown option late in games, especially with the departure of 10-year closer Kenley Jansen, who signed a one-year deal with the defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves.
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Pollock hit .282 with 65 home runs and 199 RBIs in three seasons with the Dodgers. The 34-year-old outfielder’s best season came last year, when he batted. .297 with 21 homers and 69 RBIs in 117 games.
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Chicago's Navy Pier offers new, free activities this Spring
CHICAGO - Navy Pier is rolling out some new activities for spring break.
While old favorites like The Centennial Wheel and the Drop Tower ride are up and running, starting Friday, people can enjoy attractions like an artisan market with a lot of arts and crafts, clothing and jewelry.
Baking demonstrations from celebrity chef Art Smith are underway.
And there's a family focus, with activities for the kids like Ice cream sundae building, science funfairs with educational experiments, among others.
Navy Pier is the hottest tourist destination of the Midwest – with about 9 million visitors yearly.
Leah Foley, who's visiting from Michigan, said the Pier is definitely on her list.
"My mom and my seven-year-old son and I came in for a few days for his spring break and this morning we're going to the children's museum," said Foley. "I didn't know about any of the new activities, but that's great. We'll find out what's there when we get there."
Another tourist checking out the sunrise at the lakefront Friday morning said, "We were thinking about going to the Willis Tower, going to Navy pier checking the sites that Chicago has. The Navy pier is definitely one of the reasons we came over," said Paul Ray, of Columbus Ohio.
The Chicago architecture cruises are back as well today.
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You can board Chicago's First Lady near Wacker and the Michigan Avenue bridge.
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DNA evidence ties Cleveland man to sexual assaults in Chicago from 25 years ago
CHICAGO - A man was arrested in Cleveland, Ohio last month after prosecutors were able to match DNA evidence linking him to two sexual assaults that happened 25 years ago in Lake View and Portage Park.
Juan Roldan, 59, was taken into custody in Ohio on March 10 and charged with felony aggravated criminal sexual assault and home invasion for the attacks, which took place in 1997 and in 1998, according to Cook County prosecutors.
Roldan was extradited to Chicago on Tuesday and appeared in court the next day, where he was ordered held without bail. The crime news blog CWB Chicago first reported that Roldan had been arrested and charged.
In the 1997 case, a 28-year-old woman was half-asleep in her home on March 4 when Roldan broke in, entered her bedroom and sat at the edge of her bed, prosecutors said.
The woman couldn’t get a good look at him and, thinking it was one of her children, told the person to get in bed, prosecutors said. When Roldan stood up, she immediately realized that it was a strange man and she tried to get up.
Roldan grabbed the woman, pulled her to the floor put his hand over her mouth and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said.
The woman filed a police report and went to the hospital, where a rape kit was completed, prosecutors said. Weeks later, the woman picked a different man out of a lineup who was ultimately excluded as the attacker through DNA evidence. She was undergoing therapy and was on medication at the time.
Roldan attacked another woman less than a year later on Jan. 25, 1998, prosecutors said. The 22-year-old was walking near Sheffield and Wellington avenues about 1:40 a.m. when she heard a car with a loud muffler drive up, prosecutors said.
Roldan offered the woman a ride home but she declined and he drove off, prosecutors said, adding that at some point Roldan turned back around.
When the woman turned onto Wellington, Roldan was waiting for her in an alley, prosecutors said. He grabbed the woman by the arm and put her in his car. The woman tried to escape but Roldan kept locking the doors, prosecutors said. He sexually assaulted the woman twice.
The woman filed a police report the same day and went to a hospital for treatment, prosecutors said. She was able to identify Roldan in a photo lineup.
In 2014, authorities were able to match DNA found on the first victim to Roldan after his genetic profile was entered in the system due to a 2013 domestic battery arrest out of Cleveland, prosecutors said.
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Jen Psaki reportedly set to leave White House for MSNBC gig in May
WASHINGTON - White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is planning to leave her post from within the Biden administration to join MSNBC allegedly in May.
According to Axios media reporter Sara Fischer via Twitter, the papers have not yet been signed, but the offer purportedly would make Psaki the host of a show on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming platform, while allowing her the opportunity to appear as a voice on various cable shows. It was reported that she will not be replacing Rachel Maddow in the 9 p.m. slot.
Psaki has reportedly told senior officials about her exclusivity deal and planned departure, but has not yet formally told the White House press team, an administration source told Axios, according to a subsequent tweet.
Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich separately confirmed Psaki will leave the White House for MSNBC and reported the network beat out CNN in a bidding war, although the deal hasn't been signed yet.
The White House press secretary's deal is reportedly similar to that of Symone Sanders, a former senior spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris and White House adviser. Sanders signed a deal for a show with the network back in January, which will air on MSNBC and will stream Mondays and Tuesdays on Peacock, according to Deadline.
Recently, it was reported that Psaki had been in talks with CNN and other prominent networks.
CNN interim co-president Amy Entelis and CNN+ programming lead Rebecca Kutler traveled to Washington in early February to recruit Psaki, followed by NBC News Chairman Cesar Conde and MSNBC President Rashida Jones, Puck's Dylan Byers first reported on February 23.
According to Axios, MSNBC has been working with its compliance lawyers to ensure conversations with Psaki do not violate government regulations and codes of conduct.
Some on Twitter responded to the Axios report with questions about the ethics of Psaki negotiating a deal while still working at the White House. As Fox News contributor Byron York pointed out, "For past months, WH spokeswoman has been briefing news organizations that were vying to hire her."
Dan McLaughlin from National Review wrote, "Also, under no circumstance should members of the White House press staff be negotiating, *while employed by the White House* with media organizations that cover the White House."
Rory Cooper of the reputation management firm Purple Strategies tweeted, "Now that this is out there, I don't know how you stay on another day and continue taking questions from your new employer."
Others pointed that the potential new job wouldn't be much different from Psaki's current role. Substack writer Jim Treacher joked, "Going from a Democrat-controlled White House to MSNBC is a lateral move," while RealClearInvestigations deputy editor Benjamin Weingarten asked, "Isn't she already doing that [hosting an MSNBC show]?"
It was speculated that Psaki would leave her position for a television opportunity, as White House officials, especially communications staffers, often negotiate and take network jobs upon relinquishment of their duties.
CBS News hired Mick Mulvaney, a former Trump administration official, as an analyst and contributor for the channel earlier this week.
Both Kayleigh McEnany and Nicolle Wallace, two prominent women in Republican administrations, joined cable networks after leaving the White House. McEnany joined Fox News as a co-host and contributor in March 2021, while Wallace has been a host on MSNBC since 2017.
Fox News' Brian Flood and David Rutz contributed to this report.
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Lombard man abducted in Afghanistan appears in newly posted video: 'Please release me'
WASHINGTON - An American man kidnapped in Afghanistan two years ago is seen in a video pleading for his release so that he can be reunited with his family, according to a recording posted Friday by The New Yorker magazine.
The video of Mark Frerichs marks the first time that the Navy veteran and civilian contractor has been seen by the public since his abduction in Kabul on Jan. 31, 2020. Frerichs, of Lombard, Illinois, is believed to be held by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network, and U.S. officials across two presidential administrations have tried unsuccessfully to get him home.
Frerichs appears by himself in the video, sitting upright before a dark curtain and wearing what appears to be traditional Afghan clothing. In the video, which he says was recorded last Nov. 28, he says he has patiently awaited his release and adds: "I’d like to ask the leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: please release me. Release me so that I may be re-united with my family. Thank you."
Videos of hostages are sometimes released to show proof that they are alive and to facilitate negotiations for a release, though it was not immediately clear if that was the case here.
The video was posted Friday by The New Yorker, which says it obtained it from an unidentified individual in Afghanistan.
An FBI spokeswoman in Washington declined to comment on the video’s authenticity, but a sister of Frerichs, Charlene Cakora, said in a statement Friday that she was grateful to the Taliban for releasing the video and described it as "public confirmation of our family’s long-held belief that he is alive after more than two years in captivity."
She appealed to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to step up efforts to get Frerichs released.
"We consider this to be an important indicator of the Taliban’s interest in seeking to arrange for Mark’s immediate release. President Biden and Secretary Blinken, we urge you to take bold and decisive action to bring Mark home," she added.
The Taliban has made clear to U.S. officials that it seeks the release of a convicted drug lord named Bashir Noorzai, but the U.S. government has not moved forward on any sort of prisoner trade or exchange that could get Frerichs home.
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The video of Frerichs surfaced on the same day that the State Department announced the release from Afghanistan of U.S. citizen Safiullah Rauf and Anees Khalil, a lawful permanent resident. The State Department said that they were now in Qatar before traveling home but offered no additional details about their activities in Afghanistan.
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Man walking to work killed in Melrose Park hit-and-run
MELROSE PARK, Ill. - A man who was on his way to work was struck and killed in a hit-and-run Friday morning in Melrose Park.
Alfonso Parra, 61, was crossing Mannheim Road around 5:47 a.m. when he was struck by a dark-colored SUV that was driving southbound near the North Avenue intersection, according to Melrose Park spokesman Gary Mack.
Parra was transported to Gottlieb Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead, officials said.
Mannheim Road will be reopened in a few hours, Mack said..
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Teen shot during argument on Chicago's South Side
CHICAGO - A 15-year-old boy was shot on Chicago's South Side Friday morning, according to police.
Police said the boy was standing outside in the 5100 block of south Damen Avenue – Back of the Yards – shortly before 9 a.m., when an unknown offender driving a white car approached and a verbal altercation began.
The offender then began to fire shots in the teen, and the victim sustained a gunshot wound to his left thigh and abdomen, police said.
The teen self-transported to Mt. Sinai Hospital where he remains in stable condition, according to police.
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No one is in custody and Area One detectives are investigating.
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DETROIT, Mich. — Phil Sample’s life today is much different than it once was. He used to hustle on the streets of Detroit. Now, he's part of Ceasefire Detroit, a team of clergy members, community advocates, and former gang members who reach out to those who are at risk of gun violence.
"If you ride through my neighborhood, it's a mess and I was there— part of that mess and I survived. So the question is why, you know, why didn't I die with my homeboy," Sample said.
Bishop Daryl Harris is the faith-based coordinator of Ceasefire. He's helping hook young people up with resources to get them to break away from gun violence.
"We have to get persons involved in the work who are tried and true here to stay that people can know there is hope, and there is a way out of this. It may take us a while to figure it out, but there's a way out," he said.
Detroit police identify people on the street who are crime adjacent. They could be victims of a shooting or in a gang. Once they are identified, Ceasefire is called. The outreach team then meets the people where they're at, making it clear they are different from law enforcement. The people are given a choice: get help or risk getting arrested down the road.
"We're the ones that come in and say, 'Hey, you know, do you need another place to stay right now? Do you need food services right now? Do you need clothing right now? Do you need to get your family out of the city right now,'" said Harris.
Last year, the Gun Violence Archive recorded more than 20,000 gun deaths nationwide, the most since they’ve been keeping track. In Detroit, they saw a 27% increase in homicides and 44% increase in non-fatal shootings.
"The foundation of all the work we do is community. We are the community that we serve," said Chief James White of the Detroit Police Department.
He says he realizes that law enforcement can’t reverse the numbers alone. Along with several initiatives, like paying young people $15 per hour to get their GED, hiring officers from the community, and a five-point initiative to bring down crime, he says working with community partners like Ceasefire has helped them lower non-fatal shootings this year by 21% and homicides by 15%.
"Some people, when they don't have the economic means may choose to commit crime to take care of their families. So you've got to disrupt the pipeline to prison with a lot of innovative ideas and thinking through what drives crime, and I think Ceasefire is probably one of the most effective ways to do that," White said.
Distinguishing themselves from police is crucial to gaining the trust of the people they try to help, however, the symbiotic partnership between the two organizations is extremely important to reach the right people.
"To be frank, I'm not from a place where we were all buddy-buddy with the police or whatnot, but I'm working with anybody that's trying to save these babies," said Sample.
The Ceasefire initiative is in other cities like Boston, New York and Chicago. People, both nationally and internationally, have gotten in touch with the team in Detroit to learn from them.
"The public is the most important piece to public safety, so what would it be like if we could pull everyone together and say, 'This is what we need to do, this is what needs to happen in order for all of us, the public, to actually feel safe,'" said Harris.
From mentoring to helping them find a job, Ceasefire believes that every community needs to help stop the hurting in America.
"The streets need to activate 'cause it's a community thing," said Sample.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize on Friday, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant's history.
Votes were still being tabulated, but union supporters secured a wide enough margin to give the fledgling Amazon Labor Union enough support to pull off a victory.
The votes that were either voided or contested by either Amazon or the ALU did not appear to be enough to sway the outcome.
More than 8,300 eligible workers cast their ballots.
According to the Associated Press, 2,654 votes were cast in favor a union, and 2,131 votes were cast against it. There were 67 ballots challenged, but they wouldn't have changed the outcome.
Amazon workers in Alabama voted to unionize, but it appears they rejected the bid in a vote of 993 to 875. However, a hearing to review 416 challenged ballots could change that outcome, the news outlet reported.
Amazon workers aren't the first to vote to unionize.
Starbucks workers at more than 140 locations nationally have requested union elections, with some being successful.
In December, Buffalo Starbucks employees became the first in the company to unionize successfully.
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KALAMAZOO, Mich — If you're a buyer in the U.S. looking for a good deal on a new home, things aren't looking great.
"Currently there are no markets where home prices are declining," said Selma Hepp, the deputy chief economist with CoreLogic company.
They identified 13 markets where prices have a greater than 50% chance of falling over the next 12 months — four on the West Coast, two in Arizona, four in the Northeast, and three in Michigan.
"We look at a number of characteristics. One is income change, employment change, or expected employment change, there is debt to income ratio, there is new construction, percent of distressed sales, income change" said Hepp.
Kalamazoo, Michigan is one of those markets. So I came out to see what is it about this market that we all can learn from.
"It's been a hot market here so houses have been flying off the market here in a couple of days and it's been really low inventory. At one time we don't have a lot of houses on the market, so buyers are really having to compete with each other," said Ashley Sayles, a real estate agent in Kalamazoo.
Right now, she says the market is hot, but the report indicates a change.
"We still have a really low inventory. We still don't have a lot of houses on the market and even with interest rates rising a little bit right now, that doesn't solve our inventory problem," said Sayles.
But I asked Selma to look at Kalamazoo specifically. She identified key numbers that any of us can watch for in our areas.
"It seems like income growth compared to other areas may be a little bit slower, a little bit higher unemployment rate, there's been a lot of home price growth recently so it may be peaking that affordability ceiling, and maybe a little bit more debt for existing residents there," said Hepp.
So Hepp's point is Kalamazoo and these other 12 markets are at a higher risk of housing price decline than anywhere else in the country. But that isn't much comfort for home buyers looking for a house today.
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Every year, thousands of guns sold at gun stores end up in communities illegally.
"You don’t really think where do these guns come from. You don’t think that" Rashandra Burnett said
It's a harsh reality that Burnett has lived with for 20 years.
In 2002, she was a college student in Ohio. A classmate asked her to go to a nearby gun store and make a purchase for him.
“Of course, my regular questions were, 'Why do you need to?' His response was more like because he already had one, he couldn’t necessarily get it," Burnett said
What Burnett's classmate didn’t tell her, and she later learned from Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agents was that he, and a gun store owner, were sending illegal weapons to a street gang in New Jersey and he needed her to be a straw buyer.
A straw buyer is a person who buys guns on behalf of someone who can’t— for reasons like having a felony on their record.
“In the moment, it was like, I’m legal, I’m a citizen— not thinking like, they’re probably bad people trying to do bad things,” Burnett said.
Court records show that in two trips to the gun store, Burnett signed paperwork for a total of 40 firearms that her classmate paid cash for on the spot.
She later told federal agents she didn’t know she bought so many because her classmate handled them when they were picked up.
She says she felt uneasy about signing the form that said she was buying the guns for herself.
"Checked it, signed my life away, and handed him the note. And I went and sat in the car," Burnett said.
Burnett may have been a pawn, but to law enforcement, she is not a victim.
She pleaded guilty to two felonies for lying on the gun purchase form.
“It’s frequent, the person doesn’t think what they’re doing is wrong but they’re actually committing a felony," says David Booth, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division of the ATF.
“It’s probably two or three times that," Booth added.
Federally, buying a gun for someone who can’t, carries a maximum 10-year sentence.
“I would think if people were to get five-to-eight years for this versus probation, I think that would actually help," Booth said.
Activist Chet Whye feels gun laws can punish the wrong people.
"They can’t buy because they’re felons or they have a record and then that forces them to go get people who aren’t in that situation and don’t have a record then you go and lock up the people who are vulnerable," Whye said.
ATF says they don’t keep official stats on the gender of straw purchasers, but the agency notes that, in many cases, women are recruited.
“These women exchange, for love, or a little bit of money will do this favor not knowing what the repercussions are to themselves and their community," Whye said.
Whye, who works with Operation Lipstick, a group that has worked with district attorney offices in cities like Boston and Philadelphia to educate women about straw purchasing so they aren't used in criminal efforts to get more illegal guns onto the streets.
“Just as women, unwittingly or not, are neighbors of the gun pipeline, they can be disruptors. And that's what we should be focused on, empowering women to disrupt this thing," Whye said.
There are other efforts to educate the public about the dangers of straw purchasing, like the National Shooting Sports Foundation's "Don't Lie for The Other Guy" Campaign.
Burnett received probation after pleading guilty to the charges she faced. She’s working toward her master's degree but must live with a felony on her record.
“Hindsight, looking back, you think about all these things like, I don't know how many lives, I have taken, essentially," Burnett said.
She hopes her story will stop others from taking a place along the pipeline of illegal guns in America.
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What is it exactly about The Wolseley, that glorious restaurant on Piccadilly? The food is always reliably good, but there are more daring and note-worthy menus in the capital, flashier and more transcendent chefs. (‘Everything is 8/10’ and ‘fully knowable’, judges Giles Coren, who takes the veal Holstein and a glass of Riesling.) And there are older and more storied establishments – like Rules, say, or Wiltons, just around the corner. Despite the sort of mental trompe l’oeil that makes you assume it’s been here since the primordial swamps, the place only opened in 2003, and was a Chinese restaurant, a Barclays bank, and the eponymous Wolseley car showroom before that. None of which quite explains the anguish of the chattering classes when word got round that The Wolseley and the rest of the Corbin & King empire – with seven restaurants in London under the same gilded umbrella – might be in financial hot water. Remember the outpouring of public emoting when Notre-Dame caught fire, and everyone leapt to support it? This was a bit like that, only with extra schnitzel.
A fond farewell to the King era of The Wolseley: inside the battle for the sole of society
And everyone, in this case, means anyone who’s anyone. ‘It always felt like a special club you
were invited into, and you were thrilled to be part of it,’ explains Ben Elliot, co-chairman of the Conservative Party. ‘It is a smorgasbord of contemporary London in a really interesting way – not just of people who are in business or those sorts of things.’
AA Gill did not just write about the place: he inhabited it. Dame Joan Collins has a regular table there and has long deemed the soufflé Suisse the best thing on offer in the whole of London. Charles Saatchi, Nigella Lawson, Steve McQueen, Damien Hirst and Bella Freud are all regulars, as is the Duke of Westminster.
Beneath the domed ceiling, media meets art meets high society. You might spot Lady Tollemache stepping across the monochrome marble floor one moment, and Daphne Guinness, Tracey Emin or art doyenne Melanie Clore the next.
In fact, just chuck a dart in a recent Who’s Who and they’ll have a favourite table inside the ‘horseshoe’ – the most coveted set of banquettes at the centre of the dining room. Lady Antonia Fraser says that’s hardly the point – ‘I don’t care much to see interesting and powerful people. I like to see interesting and powerful food!’ – but even she thought it was ‘lovely’ to see Lucian Freud eating there most nights, at his reserved table on the top right of the horseshoe. (Lady Antonia Fraser and Harold Pinter decided ‘almost immediately’ that their favourite table was top left in the centre – a spot also enjoyed by Nigel Slater, while Loyd Grossman prefers bottom right for breakfast.)
But, mostly, the magic had come from the proprietors themselves: Christopher Corbin and Jeremy King – geniuses who in some otherworldly fashion have rendered the place both exceptional and egalitarian all at once, imbuing it with the sense that first-time walk-ins might be seated next to household names, and everyone would be treated like old friends.
So when the news emerged that the empire was in danger, it was not simply that a lunch spot or two was under threat – it was as though a fairytale was being impinged upon, a shared myth was being defiled. London society is not an altogether spiritual bunch – but it knows sacrilege when it sees it. Every billionaire, broadcaster, socialite, string-puller, actor, cheek-kisser and journalist worth their salt piped up in the darkest hour – a chorus of adoration and protest. ‘I was horrified, and I thought immediately of Jeremy,’ says Lady Antonia Fraser. ‘I’ve simply no idea what’s going on, but naturally, like everyone I know, I sent a message of support.’ Piers Morgan posted a grinning photo ‘with the King’ on social media. Ruthie Rogers posted that King ‘has always been by our side, and all of us in The River Café are, and always will be, by his’.
The whispers came thick and fast, like decent duck terrine. The Corbin & King group had been plunged into administration, we were told, thanks to a £38 million loan to the business, which the majority investors of the Corbin & King umbrella – Thai hotel firm Minor International – had called in suddenly and unexpectedly. Minor accused Corbin & King of being ‘unable to meet its financial obligations’ and called in the administrators.
This morning an auction took place, and a bidding war was won by Minor International, which, it is believed, paid more than £60m for the fine dining group.
In an email to its many loyal diners, King said: ‘We took part in the auction to try and buy the business and assets of Corbin & King that we didn’t already own, including of course all the restaurants. Regrettably, that attempt failed and Minor Hotel Group was the successful bidder, buying the entire business.’
King is not a superstitious man. But he is, as the old joke goes, a little-stitious. The master restaurateur will never hold an opening night on a full moon – something to do with the discombobulating energy of interplanetary forces conjures a temporary madness in the kitchens, he says, and plunges the computer systems into disarray, and makes the hubbub of conversation bounce inharmoniously off the marble floors. When he was 20, King decided to place his entire future on the roll of a dice. Either he’d go up to Cambridge to study, or, on the off chance he should roll a double one, he’d stay working at the wine bar where he was earning a bit of pocket money, and stick at the hospitality game. The dice fell, and the dice spoke.
That was 40-odd years ago. Today, King is perhaps the most beloved and revered restaurateur in London – ‘the capital’s maitre d’, as he is affectionately called – and the mastermind behind some of the most miraculous dining rooms in town: The Delaunay in Aldwych, Colbert on Sloane Square, Bellanger in Islington, Soutine in St John’s Wood, Fischer’s on Marylebone High Street and Brasserie Zédel in Piccadilly. He is not so much a presence in a room as an apparition – materialising at precisely the right moment to say hello to a tottering dowager or a six-year- old elbow-deep in a birthday Battenberg. Giles Coren marvels at the physics-defying way in which he seems to be in every single one of his restaurants all at once (Soutine at one moment, where Petronella Wyatt is at the bar with her dog, and Colbert the next, with a Cadogan taking coffee), as if he had discovered the art of teleportation, but deployed it simply so as not to be impolite. Describing The Wolseley, Nigel Slater says it is a ‘sort of amazing magic trick’ that King and Corbin have managed to create the grandest dining room in London and yet somehow make it so unintimidating at the same time. When it first opened back in 2003, AA Gill noted in his classic review that The Wolseley placed a sort of spell on you, conjuring a mythic history out of thin air. ‘[It’s] so authentically ancient, you’d think your grandfather ate there,’ he wrote. But most people just throw around the same adjectives: ‘spellbinding’, ‘otherworldly’, ‘enchanting’, ‘impossible’.
Things are just as miraculous at Colbert, where on any given day you might see Santa Montefiore having lunch with Lord Bruce Dundas. Art consultant Jane Suitor, who lives nearby, says the Chelsea restaurant is like ‘her local canteen’. Lord Snowdon is a regular, as are the Earl and Countess De La Warr and Baroness Lloyd Webber. At breakfast, you might spot David Cameron, Violet von Westenholz and Jane Churchill mid-eggs Benedict (on separate tables, mind). Princess Olympia of Greece, meanwhile, can be found having coffee with friends at the outside tables – which are ever-popular with the younger Chelsea crowd.
At Fischer’s, it’s a riot of famous faces: look out for Jemima Khan, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Eric Fellner or even the former England football manager Roy Hodgson having a leisurely lunch. They’ve got aristocrats up there, too, such as Lady Anne Lambton. The Delaunay draws a theatre crowd – Lady Gladstone goes with Jessica Zambeletti before a show – while Bellanger is where aspirational Labour folk hang out, as well as the Queen’s cousin Francesca D’Abreu. Soutine feels more old-school, despite it being the newest in the group: Nicholas Hytner’s mother, Joyce Hytner (herself theatrical, of course), dines there, as does Lynn Barber. And then there’s Brasserie Zédel, housed in the basement of what was once the Regent Palace Hotel. With its cabaret nights and subterranean charm, it pulls in an eclectic crowd, the ex-Sotheby’s chairman and renowned auctioneer Henry Wyndham among them.
Recent months had brought rumours of a tactical bid to wrest power from King and Corbin themselves, following a distinct clash in management styles. For one thing, the financiers, according to King, had hoped that they might franchise the Wolseley name to various territories, with an emphasis on emerging markets like Saudi Arabia.
This had echoes of Richard Caring’s national rollout of The Ivy – which, as it happens, King and Corbin had run during its 1990s pomp – and it left a distinctly bitter taste in the mouth when it was alleged that Caring (also the proprietor of Sexy Fish and Annabel’s, among others) had been in talks with Minor to help finance that pesky debt. His proposal, I have been told, was all arms-length benevolence: an offer to bolster Corbin & King’s liquidity without changing a single thing about its operation, which seems a bit like a fox insisting he’s simply interested in keeping the hens safe from predators. (Some say Caring was surprised by the backlash against his potential involvement – several Wolseley ultras told me they’d never set foot in a Caring version, for example – and days later, he removed his hat from the ring, saying he did not intend to pursue a deal ‘at this moment’.)
The financiers had also asked Corbin & King to lay off staff at the height of the pandemic, which they refused to countenance. ‘As I’ve got older,’ King says, in an interview before news of the auction’s outcome, ‘I’ve realised that more and more people and their happiness depend on me.’ (The restaurant group employs about 750 people across the capital.) There was also an idea to buy out the restaurateurs from their eponymous business, but keep King as a sort of gutted puppet figure at the front of house. ‘Of course, I had no interest in that,’ he says.
So the money men decided to call back the loan, alleging that Corbin & King was utterly cash-strapped – and suddenly some of the great certainties in the universe (schnitzel Holstein just the way you like it at Fischer’s; Bill Nighy reading the papers at The Wolseley) began to wobble and quiver.
For the most part, King had remained unruffled. The week that the company went into the hands of administrators, he could be seen in his signature charcoal Savile Row three-piece, smilingly sailing from table to table, friend to friend, with the placidity of a parish priest. He is a swan without the nasty streak. And though there had been a feisty call to arms in a video released the week before – ‘We are under siege,’ he says down the lens, like a wartime Churchill addressing his stout populace – he displays a Zen-grade calm and purpose when we speak. He makes a point never to swear (‘unless I’m quoting’) and will pay anyone who hears him do so £5. (‘And in a room of 100 people, that’s £500!’) He cannot bear loudmouths throwing off the delicate acoustics of a room, so he speaks in a considered, hushed baritone like a Radio 4 newscaster in the small hours of the night.
Hope came in the form of the aptly named Knighthead Capital Management, an American fund, which attempted to gallop in to the rescue. ‘They’ve been helping us purchase the company, and even offered to buy the banking debts so we could finish off Manzi’s [a stalled Soho project]. They couldn’t have been more helpful. Fortunately, they believe in us, which sadly Minor didn’t,’ said King.
Society never wanted to stop believing.
This in an edited version of an article originally published in the May issue, on newsstands now.
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An Italian aid worker held captive by ruthless ISIS executioners dubbed “The Beatles” said he was forced to fight other hostages until they passed out as a part of a brutal “regime of punishment” doled out by his captors.
Federico Motka, who was held by ISIS’ British-born executioners for 14 months, testified about the harrowing captivity Thursday during the terrorism trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, a British national who allegedly led the kidnapping scheme that took more than 20 Western hostages between 2012 and 2015.
Motka, who was captured near the border of Turkey and Syria in 2013, said hostages were thrown into a facility they nicknamed “the box” — where they were tortured and treated like animals.
“They gave us dog names. We needed to come and immediately respond” to the name to avoid a beating, he recalled.
Four Americans were also among the group’s hostages, including journalists James Foley and Steven Soloff, as well as aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.
Motka is the first surviving hostage to testify at Elsheikh’s trial in Alexandria, Virginia.
The aid worker described to the court how his cruel captors — whom they nicknamed John, George and Ringo because of their British accents — inflicted a lengthy “regime of punishment” on their prisoners.
Motka said he was forced into a room at “the box” with Foley and another British hostage, John Cantile, to duke it out in a “Royal Rumble”-style fight.
“They were super excited about it,” Motka testified. “We were so weak and shattered we could barely lift our arms.”
The losers would be waterboarded, the group was told, and two of the forced combatants passed out during the 60-minute battle, Motka recalled.
The aid worker said he was declared the loser, but received a beating instead of being waterboarded — although he was subject to the brutal form of torture at other times during his captivity, he testified.
Another man nicknamed “The Punisher” also tortured them regularly, Motka told the court.
Motka, who was released in May 2014, said he was also beaten with a cable during his captivity, CNN reported.
“There wasn’t a minute’s peace,” he said.
Prosecutors have said in court that Elsheikh is the captor who was nicknamed Ringo.
Motka said he had trouble differentiating his captors as they took great pains to conceal their faces, but he tried to differentiate them based on their preferences for inflicting punishment.
“George was more into boxing,” Motka testified. “John, he kicked a lot. Ringo used to talk how he liked wrestling. He would put people in headlocks.”
Prosecutors in Virginia referenced three British nationals in their opening statements: Elsheikh, Alexanda Amon Kotey, and Mohammed Emwazi, aka “Jihadi John.”
Emwazi was killed in a drone strike, while Kotey pleaded guilty in Virginia in September, receiving a life sentence with no chance of parole.
The four Americans also taken hostage have all been killed. Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were decapitated, while Mueller was forced into slavery and raped by Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, prior to being killed.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — The committee has been dismissed.
The Dodgers’ plan to replace all-time saves leader Kenley Jansen with a collective at closer took a turn Friday morning when they instead completed a trade with the Chicago White Sox for right-hander Craig Kimbrel. Outfielder AJ Pollock will go to the White Sox.
Only two pitchers in baseball history have struck out 1,000 batters in fewer than 700 innings. The Dodger have now replaced one (Jansen) with the other (Kimbrel).
An eight-time All-Star, the 33-year-old Kimbrel has had five seasons with 40 saves or more. Kimbrel ranks ninth all-time with 372 saves recorded for the Braves, Padres, Red Sox, Cubs and White Sox.
Kimbrel is scheduled to make $16 million this season after the White Sox activated a club option in his contract, taking the Dodgers’ payroll even higher in 2022.
Pollock spent three seasons with the Dodgers, batting .282 with an .856 OPS and 65 home runs. Last year was his best season with the Dodgers. He hit .297 with 21 home runs and 69 RBI in 117 games.
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City of Los Angeles officials said Friday, April 1 that they have agreed to spend billions of dollars to construct more housing units and add thousands of new beds for unhoused people as part of a settlement intended to bring to a close the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights ‘ epic federal lawsuit over how local government has responded to the widening homeless crisis.
The goal set out in the settlement, subject to approval from U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, who has been overseeing the long-running lawsuit: Provide shelter for 60% of the homeless population in each of the city’s 15 council districts.
The actual number of housing units the city will be required to build under the settlement was not yet certain, but will likely be solidified when the results of the February “point-in-time” countywide homeless counts are released. Nonetheless, city officials estimate that 14,000 to 16,000 beds, costing between $2.4 billion and $3 billion, will be needed to fulfill the settlement’s expectations.
Officials said the terms are deadline driven, and goals for adding hosing must be complete within five years.
The long-running, often unpredictable public legal battle demanded Los Angeles city and county government agencies immediately find shelter to house the region’s growing homeless population camping on sidewalks and near freeways.
The settlement does not at this point include Los Angeles County, which is also a defendant in the lawsuit. City officials, however, said Friday that the county will have responsibility to provide services and housing for homeless people with serious mental illness, substance-use issues or chronic physical illnesses.
The county appeared to align with that in a statement released early Friday:
“We applaud the news that the City of Los Angeles has reached a tentative settlement with the LA Alliance over conditions on Skid Row downtown. We hope this settlement will provide relief to many people experiencing homelessness,” said a statement from the county. “As for the County, we remain steadfast in our focus on addressing homelessness as a regional crisis affecting people and communities in all of our 88 cities as well as in the unincorporated areas. Since voters passed Measure H in 2017, the County has housed more than 75,000 people experiencing homelessness and in the last three years has ramped up shelter capacity 60 percent. It will spend a record $1 billion this year on programs to house even more people while providing mental health and other services to those in need.”
The statement added: “The County will continue to use its resources to support people experiencing homelessness within the area of Los Angeles that is the subject of this lawsuit, while also maintaining our obligation to use our resources equitably to support people experiencing homelessness in the rest of the City of Los Angeles and in the remaining 87 cities and unincorporated areas.”
The two-year-old lawsuit argued that wherever unhoused people are located, services have not kept pace with the ever-expanding crisis, demanding swift action by local government to “comprehensively” deal with the homelessness crisis downtown and throughout the region.
Appearing at Friday’s announcement were Elizabeth Mitchell, the attorney for the plaintiffs in the LA Alliance for Human Rights v. City of Los Angeles case, as well as Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez and City Council Homelessness and Poverty Committee Chair Councilmember Kevin de León.
The settlement could bring to an end the two-year tug-of-war between the city, the county, a firebrand federal district court judge and the Alliance, an association of business leaders, property owners, landlords, a real estate professional, housed residents and residents who are formerly homeless. It arrives as a county commission just this week called for a sweeping change to how agencies deal with homelessness.
Arriving at a settlement was pressed in February by Carter, who ordered that the city and county get back to the bargaining table to strike a deal between LA Alliance, an association of downtown residents, homeless people and property owners that filed the lawsuit.
Over the past six weeks, city and county representatives shuffled in and out of Carter’s chambers for multi-hour meetings — with little progress to report until last week when there were indications that a settlement was in the works.
At least twice, a seemingly exasperated Carter requested the presence of Garcetti and Martinez at the confidential meetings.
During open-court hearings, Carter has referred several times to a “historic schism” between the city and county that had apparently stymied previous settlement efforts.
The two entities were ostensibly supposed to come to a compromise on funding and other issues before an agreement with the L.A. Alliance could be reached.
Carter, who himself has tried to shed light on the issue by showing up publicly at encampment sites, has said more than once that he was increasingly concerned about “inertia” on the defense side, and ordered the discussions to try and put an end to months without meaningful progress.
Thursday’s development is just the latest turn in a lawsuit brought in March 2020 in federal court by the L.A. Alliance. The lawsuit had been on hold almost since it was filed with the goal of forcing local government to “comprehensively” deal with the homelessness crisis downtown.
Its focus has appeared to shift from the Skid Row area, the thousands of transients living under or next to the region’s freeways and the county’s entire homeless population.
The actual number of those affected remains in flux because an accurate count of the area’s unhoused was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual homeless count returned this year after being cancelled in 2021.
The 2020 count found that 41,290 were homeless in the city Los Angeles, a 16% increase from the prior year, with 28,852 unsheltered and living in dwellings that include tents and vehicles. Statewide, 151,000 were reported in 2020, and 66,436 in Los Angeles County, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Experts agree that the numbers have certainly grown since then and this year’s rekindled count is anxiouyly awaited.
The plaintiffs argued that wherever the homeless are located, services have not kept pace with the ever-expanding crisis.
The lawsuit gained much public attention and spurred a series of public hearings, some staged adjacent to the areas were homeless people set up encampments. Myriad elected officials attended or participated — or were summoned by Carter — along the way.
City and county attorneys strongly objected to the suit, with government officials in court papers saying that LA Alliance’s “extraordinary” attempt to invoke the power of the court is “overbroad and unmanageable,” lacks legal standing and would “improperly usurp the role of local government and its elected officials.”
Maverick jurist Carter made many headlines along the way, hosting unusual hearings, ushering high-profile elected officials into court and touring homeless encampments — add amid an unprecedented pandemic.
But the judge is accustomed to media attention.
Carter was battle-tested as a Marine wounded in the Vietnam War, where he earned a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts for his heroics. He’s affectionately known in Orange County legal circles as “King David” — slayer of Goliath and unifier of warring tribes — catapulted onto the national stage again earlier this week.
Carter topped national media reports on Monday when he ordered the release of more than 100 emails from Trump adviser John Eastman to the House committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, asserting it is “more likely than not” that former President Donald Trump committed crimes in his attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election. The ruling marked a major legal win for the panel as it looks to correspondence from Eastman, the lawyer who was consulting with Trump as he attempted to overturn the presidential election.
“Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021,” Carter wrote in the ruling submitted in the federal Central District of California.
Eastman was trying to withhold documents from the committee on the basis of an attorney-client privilege claim between him and the former president. The committee responded earlier this month, arguing that there is a legal exception allowing the disclosure of communications regarding ongoing or future crimes.
Carter also oversaw lawsuits that erupted over the clearing of mammoth homeless encampments along the Santa Ana River Trail in Orange County and the subsequent, still evolving Orange County Catholic Worker vs. Orange County case that has also looped in other cities aiming to arrive at a strategy to house the homeless, including Bellflower and Whittier.
Staff writers Terri Sforza, Elizabeth Chou, as well as City News Service and The Associated Press contributed to this report
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Credit Suisse Research summarizes its tactical bias on EUR/USD and USD/JPY in Q2.
Our expected EURUSD range for Q2 is 1.0750 – 1.1400, targeting 1.0800 for end-Q2, keeping a quarterly range downgrade we have had in place since 2021. Levels above 1.1300 represent good entry levels for fresh shorts from a quarterly risk-return perspective," CS notes.
"For USDJPY, the test of the BOJ’s YCC commitment likely makes the Q2 range as wide as 118.00 – 130.00, with our old end-Q1 target now the base and our current 123.75 target as a pivot point," CS adds.
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If you like ornamental grasses, you will most probably like sedges. Unlike grasses that don’t flower until late in the season, many sedges flower and set seeds in May and June. This gives the gardener some early season interest in the garden.
The proper name for sedges is carex. In order to properly identify sedges, you need to understand a few terms related to their fruiting structures. These terms aren’t going to come up in your usual gardening conversation so, take a deep breath. Here we go. Carex fruits that contain seeds are called achenes and are enclosed in a bladder-like sac called a perigynium. The shape of this structure is how one tells which sedge you are dealing with. Most carex species have separate male and female flowers. The actual sedge flowers aren’t very showy. It’s the fruiting structures containing the seeds that are ornamental. Unlike grasses, many sedges like to grow in the shade.
Carex crinite, aka fringed sedge has pretty foliage. This sedge grows to about 30 inches tall and is chartreuse when grown in the sun. It has wider leaves than most other sedges, up to ½ inch wide. When it's not blooming it looks like a daylily. The fruiting structure looks like a droopy caterpillar thus the nickname, caterpillar sedge.
Carex typhine grows about two feet tall. The 3/8-inch-wide foliage is lime green to yellow in both sun and shade. It may be greener in some soils. It does best in part shade as the leaves will burn in full sun. This sedge is native to wet woods and prairies. Use this plant in sunny rain gardens. The fruiting structure is the highlight of this plant. It has ¼ inch spikes composed of pointed penigynia arranged in a cylindrical spike. As this structure turns from green to brown it looks like it is covered in tiny cattails. These structures persist from June through October, truly a plant with full season interest.
Carex lupuina, or hop sedge. This sedge has an odd-looking fruiting structure that looks much like hops when it appears in June. The ½ to 3/8-inch pointed penigynia radiates from the stem in a star-like pattern. Two or three of the clusters stick out from the flower. They persist all summer. This plant is about two feet tall with light to medium green foliage. The plant is slow to grow in the spring. It does best in moist shade as it is native to wet woods.
Carex sprengelii, long beaked sedge. This sedge blooms in mid-May and produces pendulous fruiting clumps. The long beaked penigynia give this species its common name. The prigynia dries up by the end of June. This plant has ¼ inch wide leaves and is two feet tall and about 30 inches wide. It is commonly found In maple groves and does best in shade.
Our last carex, carex aurea can be a stinker. It has rhizomes and will spread if not kept in check. It is best used as a ground cover. It is only about a foot tall and grows into 30-inch-wide clumps. The prigynia turn from green to yellowish orange as they mature and look like miniature grapes. The foliage is fine textured. It is described as being “more vigorous” in the sun if watered well. In other words, it probably heads for Mexico as soon as it gets well established. It is native to Northern Minnesota so will grow quite well here.
Bev Johnson, Master Gardener.
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An Ohio man is in the process of documenting America’s Kirkbride structures, one visit at a time, in a new book that will explore many of the buildings, including the former Regional Treatment Center in Fergus Falls.
Andrew Polhamus’ book project concerns the adaptive reuse of Kirkbride hospitals. His travels have taken him to Kirkbride structures all over the country to see the ways they've been saved or not saved.
He recently spent time in Minnesota and Fergus Falls, exploring the grounds of the Kirkbride-designed Regional Treatment Center.
Polhamus has been to a large number of Kirkbride hospitals. Among them were buildings in West Virginia, Ohio, New York, Oregon, Michigan, Philadelphia and Minnesota.
The project is possible due to secure grant money from the Ohio Arts Council, which made the trip to the former RTC possible. Polhamus states that the grant he received is called an Individual Excellence Award.
Polhamus was able to pay a few visits to the former Fergus Fall Regional Treatment Center and walk the grounds and peek into some windows, in addition to spending several days looking over the resources at the historical society's library.
“I have been fascinated by architecture for as long as I can remember, especially public architecture, like schools, train stations, prisons, and hospitals," he stated. "I became interested in deserted mental hospitals in my early teens in a way that I now see as pretty culturally insensitive: I thought of them as these sort of haunted houses, a point of view that persists in movies, television and books even today."
Polhamus spoke with city staff in Fergus Falls, including city administrator, Andrew Bremseth, public works director, Len Taylor, community development manager, Klara Beck, City Council member, Scott Kvamme, and executive director Chris Scheulke from the Otter Tail County Historical Society.
“I have found that people are incredibly invested in the future of this building, even if they are pessimistic about its viability as a preservation project," Polhamus shared. "When I visited Fergus Falls at the beginning of March I walked around the building and something that's very striking about it, and this is something I have seen mentioned in the city's master plan for the site, is that the Kirkbride is in pretty good shape for a vacant, hundred-odd-year-old building. The Fergus Falls Kirkbride is structurally sound and architecturally complete, and those two factors make it all the more valuable."
Polhamus says that with the sheer amount of interest from the people in the area, as well as the excellent public resources from local government and OTCHS, he said he feels that his Fergus Falls experience has been his most thorough, in-depth look at any hospital yet.
During his time in town, Polhamus was allowed to look at original blueprints to the hospital in city hall, thanks Bremseth and Beck, who both took time out of busy schedules to talk with him on a weekday morning, as did Taylor, who gave insights into the practical aspects of keeping a place like this safe and secure.
"In other places, when I've tried to arrange meetings or interviews I've been brushed off, but in Fergus Falls, I found that everyone was kind, generous and really interested in furthering the public conversation,” sated Polhamus. “The folks at the historical society, specifically the head of OTCHS, Chris Scheulke and research assistant Vicky Anderson, were nothing short of incredible. I was able to see some really amazing historical records, such as old newspaper articles about people being admitted to the hospital and the reasons they were committed, among many other things.”
Polhamus' most recent travels find him visiting the Babcock Building in Columbia, South Carolina, another Kirkbride facility, which was converted into a condominium complex.
So far, he has visited a total of nine Kirkbride designed properties, along with New York City's Roosevelt Island, where Nellie Bly wrote her immortal account of the horrible conditions of New York's public asylum. Polhamus shares that a portion of the Roosevelt Island building was converted into an upscale apartment building.
How does Polhamus think any reuse plan for Kirkbride buildings should turn out? He says he believes commercial and residential use are the two ideal choices.
“In Traverse City there are many apartments and rentable spaces, this is all situated in a place where the grounds of the old hospital are a very popular public park, and visitors can still take walking tours that focus on the building's important history. The same thing is true in Buffalo. There is a boutique hotel, fine dining, conference center, an architectural museum and plans for apartments and workspaces, with historic tours still going on,” said Polhamus.
Polhamus believes that the master plan the city published emphasizes that Otter Tail County is growing, and Fergus Falls can take advantage of being the county seat by offering an offbeat, trendy new place for people to live.
He states that it is important to acknowledge the incredibly important role the building has played in the lives of literally thousands of people. He adds that he thinks it would be a mistake to do away with the wings on either side of the building, an option being considered for the local Kirkbride facility.
Polhamus is hoping to complete a second draft of this book project by the end of this year. The first draft of the project was his thesis for a master’s degree in fine arts from Ohio State University. That version is approximately 175 pages long.
A friend of Polhamus, who is also a writer and editor, lives not far from Fergus Falls, and is currently helping him take the manuscript from a first to a second draft that might be fit for submission to publishers or agents.
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At Wednesday’s City Council Committee of the Whole meeting, Jean Bowman, executive director of Visit Fergus Falls, shared a look the Fergus Falls hospitality industry for the past couple of years. “COVID took a big bite out of revenue in 2020,” said Bowman. “But 2021 made a big rebound, even slightly exceeding 2019.”
Bowman is referring to lodging tax revenue, the funds collected on local hotel stays and passed through the city to fund Visit Fergus Falls. “Visit Fergus Falls is not a department of the city or membership-based. It is a private, non-profit business formed for the primary purpose of marketing Fergus Falls as a travel destination,” explained Bowman. Lodging tax revenue in 2021 was $138,808 compared to 2020 which was $91,001. Because COVID kept people from traveling, the entire industry was hit hard. “We survived because we had a reserve balance and successfully raised nearly $118,000 in grant revenue.”
Noting that hospitality is more than just hotel success, Bowman shared that when tourism is strong, retail, restaurants, attractions and other businesses all benefit. “Every $1 spent to promote tourism returns $180 in local sales. With an average annual budget of $140,000, the Visit Fergus Falls marketing investment returns $25 million in customer sales to Fergus Falls,” said Bowman, crediting Explore MN Tourism (EMT) for the data.
In addition to financial data, Bowman shared other metrics including web traffic and social media engagement. “We target people most likely to travel here based on their interests and demographics,” said Bowman. "Online and print advertising are also successful and measurable tools. In 2021 we provided financial support for local events that would bring visitors to Fergus Falls. In 2022, we are fully funding that partnership,” she continued. “We know our event partners are experts in what they do. Their success is important to us.”
Other activities last year included serving as a liaison between customers and the then-closed Bigwood Event Center. Advocacy at a state level is also important. Bowman noted that a key issue includes how early in the fall schools are allowed to start. “We encourage the legislature to honor Labor Day as the start of the school year. It benefits tourism when families have a full, long summer to vacation together.”
Bowman’s leadership and experience are shared with the industry. She serves on the Minnesota Governor’s Tourism Council, is the vice chair of the MN Association of CVBs board and is on the board of the Otter Tail Lakes Country Association. “Partnership and collaboration are key to success,” said Bowman. She also serves as a non-voting member on the Chamber of Commerce Board, and their president, Lisa Workman, serves similarly on the Visit Fergus Falls Board.
Statewide, EMT said tourism took a 40% hit, or lost nearly $12 billion. Predicted trends are for more “slow travel,” visitors traveling closer to their own communities (due to increasing gas prices) and increased visitor travel from Canada. “We follow EMT’s strategic lead,” said Bowman. So far, 2022 is off to a great start for Fergus Falls tourism. The developments of new community assets like the Spies Riverfront Park, Ferber Park Mountain Bike Trail, Otter Cove, Kirkbride summer concerts and 150th Fergus Falls anniversary activities add to the many reasons people visit Fergus Falls. “It’s great introducing visitors to Fergus Falls. And it increases the likelihood that they will love it here, and maybe someday move here or start a business,” said Bowman. “That’s a win for all of us.”
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Henry Donald Budke, known by most as Don, died peacefully at Pioneer Care Center on Thursday, March 31, 2022. (Henry) Donald was born September 5, 1932, the fourth of nine children born to Alida Budke (Gilbertson) and Henry Budke in Friberg Township, Minnesota. He attended a country school until completing the eighth grade when he began a life-long career in agriculture.
On January 15, 1953, (Henry) Donald Budke married Kathleen Mary Schneider at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Foxhome, Minnesota. Together Don and Kathleen raised thirteen kids on their farm near Phelps Mill in rural Otter Tail County, Minnesota, where Don was a full-time farmer in addition to a variety of other occupations, including driving a milk truck, working at the lumber yard in Underwood, and roofing and insulating homes with a neighboring farmer, Orris Skogen.
Don lived a life deeply rooted in Christian faith, honesty, integrity, and belief in the value of hard work. He would sometimes speak with regret about his unfinished education, messy handwriting, and inability to remember how to spell words correctly, but he never forgot a face. Until recent years, he held a detailed map of the majority of central Minnesota in his head and could name who farmed where (or had years ago), how to get there most efficiently, and the best way to turn around in the yard while pulling a loaded gooseneck stock trailer.
While Don’s life was devoted to his wife and family, he always made time for someone in need, whether it be a young couple who lost everything in a house fire or those looking for freedom and peace in a new country. He shared the fruits of his labor generously with those who needed it or simply because, as a child of the Great Depression, he couldn’t bear to see anything go to waste. His nature was peaceful, and he could strike up a friendly conversation with complete strangers anywhere, but he was also willing to challenge what he didn’t believe was right. He was an inveterate tease, enjoyed playing cards and dancing, liked to deer hunt and fish year-round but mainly as an opportunity to socialize with family or neighbors.
(Henry) Donald was preceded in death by his wife Kathleen and siblings Ann, Roy, Myrtle, Mervin, Rosemary, Marcella, and Jerry. He is survived by his sister, Joann Kugler; thirteen children, Dale, Mitzi, Laure (LaFond), Tim, Bob, Julie (Scott), Kris, Nancy (Grovum), Beth (Waller), Karen (Taylor), Jon, Patrick, Dominick; fifty-three grandchildren, sixty-four great-grandchildren, and one great-great-granddaughter.
Closed Casket Visitation: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Sunday, April 3, 2022 at Saint James Catholic Church, rural Underwood, with prayer service at 6:30 p.m. Visitation will resume one-hour prior to the service on Monday.
Mass of Christian Burial: 11:00 a.m. Monday, April 4, 2022 at Saint James Catholic Church, rural Underwood
Clergy: Father Jon Budke, Father Leroy Schik, and Father Alan Wielinski
Interment: Saint James Catholic Cemetery, rural Underwood, MN
Arrangements provided by Olson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls.
Online condolences may be sent to www.olsonfuneralhome.com
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Competing at the Heart O’ Lakes Conference indoor meet at Concordia College, on Mar. 29, the Pelican Rapids Vikings boys track and field team scored 41 points and placed sixth. East Grand Forks was first with 132 points, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton was second with 121 points and Perham was third, scoring 94 points.
Sebastian Centeno was runner-up in the 400-meter dash, coming in with a time of 54.72 seconds. In the 800-meter run, Charlie Larson ran a time of 2:11.55, coming in third. Anthony Checco De Souza and Tristan Landberg went sixth and seventh respectively, in the 55-meter hurdles.
The Vikings had three of their relay teams score points. A runner up finish in the 4 x 400-meter relay for Sebastian Centeno, Sidiq Farah, Jesus Moreno and Hamsa Ishowa. Their time was 3:55.25. The 4 x 200-meter relay team, with Yahir Diaz, Arturo Zavala, Ishowa and Landberg, placed fourth (1:42.56). In the 4 x 800-meter relay, Pelican Rapids placed eighth, with a time of 11:31.71. The foursome included Andrew Martinez, Austin Kleinschmidt, Henry Nordgren and Josiah Banton.
In field events, Justin Jacobson placed fifth in the shot put, with a throw of 38 feet 10 inches. Ethan Walters was sixth in the pole vault, clearing 8-6.
Vikings track and field returns to action on Apr. 5, at a meet hosted by Fergus Falls.
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Photo by Eric Newman
Los Angeles–based writer Eric Newman snapped this photo of performers in traditional dress in Ukraine's Dnieper Delta during a 2017 visit.
A little more than one month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, travelers offer their recollections of what visiting Ukraine was like prior to the destruction and devastation. And remind us not to forget.
Five weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the clashes continue while we watch, heartbroken and still somewhat in shock—whether we have ever been to Ukraine during our travels or not. More than 4.1 million refugees have now fled Ukraine since February 24, according to the United Nations, a number that keeps growing each day. Of those, nearly 2.4 million have crossed the border into neighboring Poland, while others have gone to Romania, Moldova, Hungary, and Slovakia, among other countries.
“The escalation of conflict in Ukraine has caused destruction of civilian infrastructure and civilian casualties and has forced people to flee their homes seeking safety. . . . They are in need of protection and support,” the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) wrote in its latest report about the current Ukraine refugee crisis.
Last week, President Biden pledged $1 billion in humanitarian assistance for those affected by the war in Ukraine and announced plans to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and others fleeing the war.
As we observe in horror as this humanitarian crisis unfolds, we have been reminded in recent days and weeks by travelers of better times in Ukraine, prior to the invasion, when the destination left an indelible mark on visitors’ hearts and souls.
“There was a time, just a few years past, when Kyiv would regularly host my visits,” my brother, Paul-Andre Baran, who owns and operates Anagram Brewing in Bucharest, Romania, recently told me. “The patchwork of images that still spring to mind flow from nubilous mornings walking through the slumbering city while visiting the glorious green and gold of the St. Sophia Cathedral, to late night descents into the deep caverns of beautifully ornamented subway stations that now house the many residents of that beautiful city.”
He noted that rather than seem “hard or broken from their long communist legacy,” he found the people of Ukraine to be “confident and aspirational of a future they worked to define.” Kyiv, he said, was very much a welcoming capital city “that earned its place beside its European brethren.”
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My brother isn’t the only person I know who has spent some time traveling in Ukraine. In 2017, while working as a senior editor at Travel Weekly, I sent Los Angeles–based writer, editor, and producer Eric Newman on assignment to Ukraine.
“When I visited Ukraine on a river cruise in May 2017, it was a place where one could almost viscerally feel the push and pull of history,” recalls Newman.
Newman was on one of the first river cruises to make its way from Odessa to Kyiv following Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, “and spirits were so high that the ship was greeted at the Kyiv port by cheering pedestrians and a brass band playing the songs of composer Vlodymyr Ivasyuk. I will never forget that moment, which resonates differently for me today, when I see a country that offered so much warmth, joy, discovery (and food!) torn apart by war. It won’t always be, of course. Ukraine is a country that knows and lives perseverance, and I look forward to the day when others can walk those streets in Odessa and Kyiv as I once did.”
Véronique Banzet, who runs the luxury travel service VeronicTravel, lived in Kyiv for five years and was there during the 2014 revolution. She recalls a Kyiv “colored with the roofs of the monasteries, full of life with all the restaurants, the terraces of the cafés, enchanted by the Opera and the Philharmonic hall.”
Banzet tells AFAR that Kyiv, Odessa, Chernivtsi, Lviv, and many cities in Ukraine are in her heart these days. “We are totally shocked and sad,” Banzet says.
Four years ago, Loretta Becker of Cruise World Inc. traveled to Ukraine with her husband. “It was such a memorable time,” she recalls. “We love Ukraine and her people.”
Becker and her husband visited Lviv, Kyiv, Odessa, and the Carpathian Mountain region. “We loved Lviv, the little Paris of Ukraine, with her sidewalk cafés and beautiful churches,” says Becker. “I was amazed at the beautiful architecture in Kyiv.”
During her trip, Becker took a Ukrainian cooking class, hired a sailboat one afternoon and sailed down the Dnieper River, and took a tour of Odessa’s hidden courtyards and attended a ballet performance in Odessa.
“As my husband has Ukrainian heritage, it was an incredible journey for us to visit the country of his ancestors,” she says.
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A little more than one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, help is still needed. Travelers who would like to assist refugees fleeing Ukraine as well as people who are displaced within the country can donate to organizations that are aiding and supporting those who are affected.
Dating back to 1950, UNHCR works to provide everything from secure shelter to food and medical supplies to those who are fleeing violence around the world. The organization has been in the Ukraine since 1994 and has currently established outreach efforts to Ukrainian refugees who have fled to Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. The current response plan includes partnering with emergency teams to ensure that basic needs are met for the now millions of refugees fleeing Ukraine.
“Millions of people—mostly women and children—have been forced to flee Ukraine. They are sheltering in underground train stations, walking hundreds of miles and leaving behind everything they’ve ever known,” the agency writes in its latest report about Ukraine.
To donate: give.unrefugees.org
The organization that works to protect children throughout the world estimates that 2 million children have been forced to flee Ukraine and more than 2.5 million children have been internally displaced.
“Children fleeing the war in Ukraine are also at heightened risk of human trafficking and exploitation,” UNICEF reports.
UNICEF is working to provide vulnerable children and families with essential services, including safe water, food, healthcare services, education, and protection.
To donate: unicefusa.org
The IRC mission dates back to 1933, and the organization currently responds to humanitarian crises in more than 40 countries throughout the world. The IRC is working to help provide evacuation services to people who are trapped by the conflict in Ukraine and to provide essential items to those being forced to flee. In Poland, the IRC is offering legal counseling, social work services, interpreters, and psychological support to Ukraine refugees.
To donate: help.rescue.org
Chef José Andrés’s nonprofit specializing in humanitarian food aid has set up services in Poland, where the group is serving hot meals at eight border crossings throughout the country. The organization is also supporting local restaurants preparing meals in the Ukrainian cities of Odessa, Lviv, and Kyiv and is handing out meals in Romania, Moldova, and Hungary.
To donate: donate.wck.org
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The EURJPY moved below its 100 hour MA for the first time since March 9th yesterday and moved down to test a swing area between 134.61 and 134.86, along with the rising 200 hour MA. The swing area was modestly broken, but the 200 hour MA could not and the price moved back higher in the Asian session today.
The rise today saw the price move back toward the 100 hour MA (blue line) and although the price highs took small peeks above the 100 hour MA today, the price could not sustain upside momentum. The 100 hour MA is currently at 135.72. The current price is at 135.45.
It seems the pair will likely go out between the 100 hour MA above at 135.72 and the 200 hour MA below (green line) at 134.825. That will leave the flows from next week to determine the next move in the pair.
- Move above the 100 hour MA would be more bullish.
- Move below the 200 hour MA and the bias would move more in favor in the short term to the sellers.
- Between the levels and the battle continues between buyer and sellers.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, has joined three other senators in introducing the National Opportunity to Restore Uranium Supply Services In America (NO RUSSIA) Act of 2022.
Co-sponsors of the NO RUSSIA Act include Sens. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo.; Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota.
The legislation would authorize the Department of Energy to establish a national strategic uranium reserve, according to a Thursday news release from Barrasso's office. It would also increase domestic uranium production, conversion and enrichment to ensure existing U.S. nuclear reactors have sufficient fuel to continue operating.
“Having access to American produced uranium is critical to both our energy and national security,” Barrasso said in the release. “We cannot be reliant on our adversaries for fuel we have here at home. My legislation will jumpstart America’s nuclear fuel supply chain. It will increase demand for Wyoming uranium and ensure America will always have the fuel it needs to power our nuclear reactors.”
Barrasso's office expects that a House version of this bill could be introduced next week, according to a spokesperson. "This bill was developed with broad industry stakeholder support, including from the Uranium Producers of America," she wrote in an email to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Barrasso "looks forward to working with industry and members in both chambers to make this a bipartisan effort."
This new legislation is connected to Barrasso’s bill, S-3856, according to his spokesperson. That earlier proposal would bar importing to the U.S. uranium from the Russian federation.
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A critical failure of the city of Rawlins water system that created an emergency that saw much of Rawlins and Sinclair without potable water for nearly a week in early March will take years to fully fix.
“We estimate it will take three to five years to make all the necessary repairs to our water infrastructure,” the city says in its “Water Infrastructure and 2022 Critical Water Even Report” released this week.
Customers were asked to limit their water usage to help recharge the city’s water tanks and reservoirs, while the low-pressure event resulted in a boil water advisory and plea for people to keep their water usage as low as possible. While the emergency has been contained, the city is asking residents to continue to practice water conservation for the foreseeable future.
“By pulling together, our community made it through the critical event, but we must stick together by conserving water for the long haul if we are to make it through the underlying problems,” the report says.
The city also thanks the many residents, volunteers and nonprofit groups that worked to help others during the crisis.
As city staff continue to search for answers and solutions to Rawlins’ water infrastructure problems, “We have heard from our community and we empathize with you as we navigate this frustrating and disappointing situation,” the report says.
It also says that pointing fingers won’t help fix the situation.
“It doesn’t matter who is at fault, knowing that wouldn’t help fix one leak,” Mayor Terry Weickum says in the report. “However, I do know that it is our responsibility to fix it.”
The Rawlins City Council and staff “are doing everything in our power to repair our springs collection system in the Sage Creek Basin and the 32-mile pipeline which brings our water into town,” according to the report.
Wintertime water use by customers in Rawlins and Sinclair averages about 900 gallons a minute, or about 1 million gallons a day. During summertime, even when conserving water, the communities consume about 2,800 to 4,000 gallons a minute, or 4 million to 6 million gallons a day.
That means the upcoming summer season will see demand on the city’s water system increase by at least four times.
As of now without repairs on the Sage Creek Basin’s 10,000 feet of woodstave pipeline, the city averages 1,500 gallons of flow between the springs and wells, the report says.
“Although flow will increase with the wood pipeline replacement and with the spring thaw, you can see that we are currently significantly short of meeting our lowest typical summer demands,” according to the report. “The reduced flow will be more problematic (later this year) as our reservoirs are not full due to our repairs this winter.”
Until the underlying infrastructure failures are addressed, Rawlins and Sinclair residents can expect their water supply will continue to be impacted. This also is likely to prompt the City Council to enact ordnance changes to require conservation.
Those rules could include water restrictions.
For the upcoming summer, the city says it’s important to know its water is safe and that the treatment plant is working.
“You can drink your water without concerns,” the report says, adding that “you can likely expect water restrictions this summer.”
The city reports a consequence of residents not following any restrictions imposed to curtail water usage while the system is being repaired would be the EPA “will likely require we build a $10-plus million chemical-heavy water treatment plant, which would be prohibitively costly.”
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As you’re getting everything ready to help the Easter Bunny stuff those festive baskets, it might be easy to forget that the grown-ups should have some fun, too. After all the Easter Egg coloring and getting the little ones into their holiday finest, the adults deserve a little something special.
If you happen to pick up a few extra chocolate Easter bunnies during your holiday preparations, tuck them aside to make an absolutely genius idea from Gastronom. Sure, the candy treats are tasty on their own (we love eating the ears first, by the way). But the creative Gastronom team of Jay and Leah takes chocolate bunnies to a whole new level by transforming them into cocktail cups!
These Funny Bunny cocktails are the creators’ way to allow adults “to relive their childhood and get their very own chocolate bunny,” they said. Then, they get to enjoy a special mixed drink just for grown-ups!
Obviously, the first step is to create the bunny tiki mugs. This requires simply trimming the ears off a chocolate bunny. You can present your guest with a whole bunny and let them eat the ears (our choice!). Or, prep the bunny cups in advance and cut the ears off with a knife. You can eat the ears yourself if you’d like. We won’t judge you!
Without the ears, the chocolate bunny is hollow and ready to be transformed into a tiki mug. That’s where the Funny Bunnies — Chocolate Easter Cocktails recipe enters the party.
The ingredients for the cocktail include:
- Mozart Dark Chocolate Liqueur
- Scotch whiskey
- Banana liqueur
- Grapefruit juice
- Bitters (the recipe creators recommend Aztec Chocolate Bitters and Cardamom)
Here is the full recipe and instructions on how to prepare and enjoy this delicious drink. It couldn’t be easier to make and would be a fun addition to your holiday celebrations. Cheers!
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People have lots of opinions on the best ways to store fruits and vegetables. Tomatoes? Keep them out of the dang fridge or they’ll lose their flavor! (Or not.) Berries need a rigorous bath. Fresh herbs require a multi-step storage technique to keep them vibrant.
When a home cook has to catalog all the optimal ways to keep food at its best, it’s no wonder that some of our hardier staples fall by the wayside. Have you ever given much thought to how to store potatoes? They’re so rough-and-tumble-looking, they seem like they’ll be fine no matter where they get shoved.
Have some sympathy, for even the staunchest potato is a little more delicate than it looks.
One of the first issues to show up in an improperly stored tater is a green tinge to its skin or flesh. Unless you’re an experienced gardener or a potato farmer, you may not think much about the potato’s life as a plant — it sprouts into a little green shrub, with crinkly leaves that look like a larger version of mint.
That green comes from chlorophyll, which helps change sunlight into energy. So guess what? When your potatoes start to go greenish, it’s because they’ve been exposed to light for too long.
Which wouldn’t be a big deal, except that green tint can indicate toxins are building up in the potato. Those toxins, called glycoalkaloids, can be harmful in large enough quantities. (Don’t worry too much — potato “poisoning” usually results in sleepiness and an irritated gut — but if it can be avoided, it should.)
How To Store Potatoes
This brings us to the first potato storage hint: Keep it dark. Spuds would prefer to stay underground, so try to mimic that cool darkness somewhere in your kitchen. According to The Kitchn, 45 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit is an ideal range, if possible.
It’s equally important to keep those taters dry. Not dry as in dessicated, but dry enough that the small amounts of water they release over time can evaporate — mold and bacteria love dampness. Food52 recommends using an organic cotton mesh bag, a ventilated container or a paper bag. Anything that will allow air to circulate.
Finally, potatoes should stay in their own container. Storing them closely with other produce, like bananas, can mingle their various off-gases, speeding up spoilage and possibly transferring flavors. (No one wants a banana-flavored baked potato with their steak.)
How To Store Onions And Garlic
So, we have our watchwords for how to store potatoes: Dark, dry, cool and secluded. And this also goes for the potato’s frequent companions, onions and garlic. Like potatoes, we eat the root part of these alliums. And, like potatoes, they’re happiest in the dark.
Onions are a little tricky: The type of onion can determine its happy place. In general, though, most varieties respond to the cool-dark-dry treatment. Sweet onions contain more liquid, according to The Spruce Eats, and don’t store well for long.
Garlic, however, is forgiving, especially as an intact head. The Pioneer Woman says a bulb can last up to six months in the right conditions — kept in one piece in a cool, dark, dry place. (Sensing a theme here?)
Whatever you do for all three of these flavorsome friends, don’t stash them in the refrigerator! The potatoes will turn sweet, and not in a good way. The garlic sprouts unpleasant-tasting green stems. Onions lose their crunch and become generally sad and gross.
Handy, then, that there are containers made especially to store these items! Check out these ideas from Amazon:
Home Acre Designs Set Of Three Kitchen Canisters
Available for $39.09, this set of cute, carbon-steel canisters looks old-fashioned, but each container has a nifty airtight lid. Which could be bad, except they also sport perfect little ventilation holes at the bottom of each canister! Yay! Gotta keep things aired out, right?
Reviewers seem to like them, too, with 84% giving the canisters a 5-star rating.
“The potato canister is a great size, holds an entire bag of potatoes easily,” wrote reviewer Angel. And Amy L titled her 5-star review “GREAT storage option for small spaces.”
Kito Living Canister Set
Priced at $49.90, these countertop cuties are a little different than the ones above: They’re stackable, for one thing. And the lids, while not airtight, are made of bamboo. Breathability for the win!
“This is a beautiful set, the perfect size, not only for my kitchen, but for the amounts of potatoes, onions and garlic I tend to buy,” wrote one reviewer named James R. Hazelton.
No matter what container you decide to use, treat your taters (and onions and garlic) with care, and they’ll treat your tastebuds right back!
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How many times have you found yourself a little flustered trying to find your keys, wallet, phone or even the TV remote? For some reason, these necessities always seem to disappear at the worst times and wind up in the most unusual places. I can’t be the only person on the planet who wanders around my house muttering angrily about my misplaced items and wishing I had tracking devices on all of them.
It turns out some very smart people made that possible with a nifty little gadget. About a year or so ago, my husband and daughter introduced me to the Tile, a small Bluetooth tracker and locator system that sounded too simple to me to really be effective.
Turns out I was wrong.
In my own experience, the Tile Mate Essentials Four-Pack, which you can pick up on Amazon for $79.99, is honestly worth every penny. In this set, you get two Tile Mates, one Tile Slim and one Tile Sticker, each of which work inside a radius of 250 feet from the smart device you’ve paired them with.
The Tile Mates are small square trackers with a keyring hole that you can attach to your keys, purse, backpack or anything portable you might carry regularly and misplace. The Tile Sticker is round and can adhere to a remote control, video game controller, charger or other similar device. Finally, Tile Slim is credit card-shaped and can slip right into your wallet, passport, luggage tag or even a book, if you tend to misplace those.
These Tile trackers are not rechargeable but have a non-replaceable battery that will last up to three years before you need to buy a new one.
How Does Tile Work?
To use Tile’s system, all you need is a smartphone, a Tile device and the item you want to track. Download the Tile app to your smartphone (either iOS or Android), then, connect your Tile device to the app using Bluetooth.
For example, I have a Tile Mate attached to my car keyring, as you can see below. In the Tile app, I connected the Tile Mate via Bluetooth and labeled it as “Keys,” so I can quickly access it in the app.
Tile can be used in a couple of different ways. First, let’s say I can’t find my car keys as I’m trying to rush out the door. I can open the Tile app, press the Find button, and the Tile Mate on my keyring will automatically engage.
This sends a signal from my phone to the Tile Mate device, which starts beeping loudly. That may sound pretty basic, but even if I can’t hear the tone, the app displays a signal strength that changes in real time as I get farther from or closer to the Tile Mate. Your phone will vibrate more the closer you get to the missing item.
It’s basically a high-tech version of the Hot and Cold game with spot-on accuracy.
One of my daughters lost her keys while hiking during a trip to West Virginia. She almost panicked, but remembered she had a Tile tracker attached. She activated it in the app, and, even though it was farther away than the advertised 250-foot range, her smartphone was able to show the last location of the Tile on the keychain. She backtracked to that area and found them pretty quickly. That saved her a lot of trouble — and me, too, because I’d have had to drive a few hours to pick her up otherwise!
You can also use the Tile tracker to locate your missing phone. Tile Mate has a button on it that I can touch twice and it will activate an alarm on my phone, even if it is in silent mode.
A new feature even allows users to input contact information that people will see if they find your lost Tile and scan the QR code on the back. So, not only is the Tile system helpful for users to locate their own items, but it also can help others return lost things to the rightful owner.
If you ask me, it’s totally worth the price for that type of peace of mind and convenience.
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DETROIT, Mich. — Trafficking affects thousands of people every year.
"My trafficking started at a young age and so for a long time I was in denial that I was a victim of trafficking," said Yolanda, who did not want to use her full name for the story.
For years, she was trafficked around the Midwest. She knew she wanted to get out, but didn’t know how. The people trafficking her made her believe she was dependent on them.
"I felt very trapped," Yolanda said.
She wants others to know that people are out there to help victims of trafficking.
"It just makes you feel so powerful to finally be able to step away and say, 'I'm never going back, I'm never going back because I don't have to,'" she said.
According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, 16,658 victims called last year, some from every state in the country. However, experts say that due to how the industry preys on the silence of victims, this only represents a fraction of the problem.
"We also know that there's consistent evidence, that it is way underreported," said Amy Good, CEO of Detroit's Alternatives for Girls, a nonprofit that helps trafficking survivors start a new life with resources.
It’s estimated that 15,000 to 50,000 people are forced into trafficking in the U.S. every year.
Yolanda is one of the women helped by Alternatives for Girls. She says organizations like them are a critical lifeline.
"I started getting my legal issues taken care of, they helped me with food. We started working on shelter. We had counseling and life skills," said Yolanda.
From providing emergency shelter, clothes, job training, and daycare for children, the help someone needs to start a new life away from being trapped must be holistic and catered to the individual, the team at Alternative for Girls says. However, they say the work shouldn’t stop with organizations like theirs.
"We need community awareness because the more people are aware, the more people can be allies to help people protect themselves and to help recognize when you can sound the alarm," said Good.
Breaking out of trafficking is difficult and complicated, but as Yolanda testifies, there are people out there who can help and it’s worth the work.
"It wasn't everybody's choice to be out in the street. Somebody, some of us was just running from something or someone, you know, it's tough. The streets are tough, but what's your life worth to you," said Yolanda.
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A 16-year-old is being charged as an adult for second-degree murder in connection with a December 31, 2021 shooting death.
Deputies say that Keith Adam Joseph, 38, was shot to death in 300 block of East Saint Mitchell Street in Washington.
A suspect, 16-year-old Michael J. Zachary, was indicted by a grand jury on March 28, 2022.
Zachary was charged as an adult with second-degree murder, a St. Landry Parish Sheriff's release states.
Investigators allege that a juvenile (age unknown) asked Keith Joseph to buy cigars for him, but instead Joseph used the money to buy alcohol. The juvenile wanted the alcohol, and followed Joseph to Joseph's home. Someone there argued with the juvenile, and the teen left, investigators say.
Later, the juvenile told their parent what happened, and then Zachary and the juvenile allegedly returned to the residence. Joseph requested that the juvenile come onto the property and he apologized to the juvenile. A verbal altercation then allegedly began between Joseph and Zachary.
Deputies say Zachary produced a handgun and fatally shot Joseph. He then allegedly fled the scene on foot after the shooting.
When questioned by detectives, Zachary allegedly admitted to walking to Keith Joseph’s home with the juvenile. Zachary allegedly stated that Joseph grabbed the juvenile’s arm and he confronted Joseph about touching the juvenile. Zachary stated that Joseph walked onto the porch and reached for a shotgun, which was later identified as a BB gun. He allegedly admitted to carrying a .22 caliber revolver and shooting Joseph on the night of December 31, 2021.
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A 16-year-old is being charged as an adult for second-degree murder in connection with a December 31, 2021 shooting death.
Deputies say that Keith Adam Joseph, 38, was shot to death in 300 block of East Saint Mitchell Street in Washington.
A suspect, 16-year-old Michael J. Zachary, was indicted by a grand jury on March 28, 2022.
Zachary was charged as an adult with second-degree murder, a St. Landry Parish Sheriff's release states.
Investigators allege that a juvenile (age unknown) asked Keith Joseph to buy cigars for him, but instead Joseph used the money to buy alcohol. The juvenile wanted the alcohol, and followed Joseph to Joseph's home. Someone there argued with the juvenile, and the teen left, investigators say.
Later, the juvenile told their parent what happened, and then Zachary and the juvenile allegedly returned to the residence. Joseph requested that the juvenile come onto the property and he apologized to the juvenile. A verbal altercation then allegedly began between Joseph and Zachary.
Deputies say Zachary produced a handgun and fatally shot Joseph. He then allegedly fled the scene on foot after the shooting.
When questioned by detectives, Zachary allegedly admitted to walking to Keith Joseph’s home with the juvenile. Zachary allegedly stated that Joseph grabbed the juvenile’s arm and he confronted Joseph about touching the juvenile. Zachary stated that Joseph walked onto the porch and reached for a shotgun, which was later identified as a BB gun. He allegedly admitted to carrying a .22 caliber revolver and shooting Joseph on the night of December 31, 2021.
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Groups are officially set for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The United States drew Group B and will face England, Iran, and either Wales, Scotland, or Ukraine, depending on the results of a play-in.
Ukraine's road to Qatar has been a long one.
The team was set to play Scotland on March 24, but that was delayed due to Russian invading the country.
Their match has been pushed back by FIFA to June 7.
They then would have to win against Wales to make it into the tournament.
The U.S. team has a manageable group, probably not the easiest or the hardest. They will undoubtedly be out for redemption after failing to qualify for the World Cup in 2018.
In its last two World Cup appearances, Team USA has advanced to the Round of 16 before being eliminated.
The United States advanced to the quarter-finals back in 2002 and the semi-finals way back in 1930.
There is a bit of history in this group, as back in 2010, Team USA tied with England 1-1.
In 1950, they defeated England 1-0.
In 1998, the United States lost 2-1 to Iran.
They have never faced Wales, Scotland, or Ukraine in World Cup play.
Here is a full list of the groups:
GROUP A
Qatar
Ecuador
Senegal
Netherlands
GROUP B
England
Iran
United States
Wales/Scotland/Ukraine
GROUP C
Argentina
Saudi Arabia
Mexico
Poland
GROUP D
France
Peru/United Arab Emirates/Australia
Denmark
Tunisia
GROUP E
Spain
Costa Rica/New Zealand
Germany
Japan
GROUP F
Belgium
Canada
Morocco
Croatia
GROUP G
Brazil
Serbia
Switzerland
Cameroon
GROUP H
Portugal
Ghana
Uruguay
South Korea
Some teams will still have to win a play-in to make it into the World Cup.
The World Cup runs from Nov. 21 to Dec. 18.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Two U.S. Senators are co-sponsoring a bill to extend summer meal programs that provide food for kids.
Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said today they are co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation that would extend federal school meal flexibilities for children in Oregon and nationwide until September 30, 2023.
The U.S. Senate says in a press release these flexibilities have been crucial to feeding children throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Senate says with 90 percent of schools still facing many challenges as they return to normal operations, these flexibilities give schools and summer meal programs much-needed support to deal with ongoing food service issues and keep kids fed.
Among the list of senators co-sponsoring the bipartisan bill is Washington Senator Patty Murray.
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KENNEWICK, Wash. - If you plan on booking a flight out of state for Spring Break, you may be out of luck.
Prices have gotten higher and Spring Break for the Tri-Cities begins next week on April 4.
As activities and events return, travelers may be planning to go on vacation, but if you don't have tickets already in place you'll notice ticket prices are insanely high for both the Spokane and the Pasco Tri-Cities Airports next week.
Ticket prices to go to Los Angeles, California are priced at more than 700 dollars if you leave on Monday from those two airports.
But if you do have those tickets secured, don't forget to mask up and follow protocols inside the airport. The director of the Tri-Cities Airport, Buck Taft, says there will be consequences for travelers who are refuse to follow those restrictions, like wearing your masks.
"Penalties include fines include 500 to one-thousand for the first offenders and $1,000 to $3,000 for second offenders...in some circumstances the FAA can propose up to $37,000 per violation of unruly passengers," Taft explained.
If you still want to go out on vacation, a road trip will be a lot more affordable than purchasing one of those airline tickets. You can calculate your trip on the Gas Buddy website and click here to go to their trip calculator.
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A local billionaire is planning to open a private aeronautical station for space pleasure cruises in the North Leigh area.
The mysterious unnamed billionaire, who owns three minor league baseball teams and one traveling circus, has bought approximately a quarter of the land in Teton Valley through various LLCs, and now his intentions for the property have been revealed.
The Wall Street Journal broke the news about the rocket launch site in a report on April 1, and published a glowing editorial expounding the benefits of privatized space "luxe-ploration."
The soon-to-be-astronaut declined to comment but fellow outer space aficionado Geoff Bozo said he was pleased to have some competition in the decadent billionaire space race.
Rapper and soap opera star Kane East confirmed in a tweet that he planned to be the first passenger aboard the new Jedediah Smith rocket ship (so named because "Beaver Dick" was deemed inappropriate).
Building permits submitted to the county indicate that the billionaire is attempting to complete the launch pad before the Jackson Hole Airport reopens, in order to capture a share of that elite clientele. County planner Cup Stanworth said that, surprisingly, nothing in the land development code prohibits rocket launch sites.
"He'll probably need a variance though," Stanworth added.
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In a highly anticipated development, WYDOT moved to fund and approve a new multi-level parking garage after gaining Bridger Teton National Forest approval exactly one year ago today.
With a completion date of fall 2026 the garage will increase current parking capacity by 35%.
The project will be funded primarily through a new entrance system. Recreationalists will have to pay a $5 toll at the summit of the highway before ascending to the top of Telemark bowl. There will also be a gate at the bottom of the Glory bootpack.
During the summer, hikers and mountain bikers will be charged a similar $5 fee before entrance into the garage.
In addition to the tolls, a .5% tax will be instituted on all touring ski, splitboard, and mountain bike purchases in both Teton Counties. The tax will sunset upon completion of the structure.
As a compromise for non-recreationalists, WYDOT will still allow tourists three free minutes to take a picture next to the newly-renovated “Howdy Stranger, Yonder is Jackson Hole, The First of the New West” sign.
WYDOT also included a clause that leaves the door open for three lucky individuals to have the chance at reserved summit parking during the winter season. The spots will be up for grabs via a yearly lottery.
To enter the lottery, individuals have to complete a race up and down Mount Glory’s Twin Slides. Those wishing to compete have to do so on snowblades.
The annual uphill/downhill hybrid race will be put on by WYDOT in conjunction with the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The top 20 finishers will be entered into the lottery. Entrance fees will be donated to the Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center.
“We felt that snowblades are an appropriate choice as it levels the playing field between snowboarders and skiers,” said a BTAC spokesperson. “Snowblades are just more fun anyways, needless to say.”
The new garage will also house a dedicated space for BTAC avalanche volunteers to store their gear and supplies. There will also be a small BTAC satellite office used to create and distribute a Teton Pass-specific avalanche forecast.
The Coal Creek trailhead was not forgotten, which will also see an increase in parking capacity. A similar $5 fee will be instituted.
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St. Louisan Caleb Love is at last getting his opportunity to play in a Final Four and compete for a championship.
The former CBC basketball star has been tremendous throughout the NCAA Tournament in helping lead North Carolina to the East Regional championship and a berth in the Final Four.
The Tar Heels will meet longtime rival Duke in a national semifinal game at the Superdome in New Orleans following the Kansas-Villanova contest.
For Love, he will get the chance participate in a Final Four that was denied to him two years ago at the end of his stellar high school career with the Cadets.
I take you back to March 14, 2020, at Francis Howell Central when Love and his Cadet teammates defeated Francis Howell 62-53 in the quarterfinals of the Class 6 state tournament. Love scored 23 points to lead CBC, including a pair of clutch jumpers down the stretch with the game in the balance.
Normally, a state quarterfinal game of that magnitude would attract a packed gym of rabid basketball fans. But this was no ordinary day. There were less than 150 people in the gym. With the COVID-19 pandemic first raging across the country, events were being cancelled, including high school activities. And those that still went on were held in front of small gatherings, like the one in St. Charles on that night.
I had just come back from New York early because the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament had been cancelled. But I did get out to Francis Howell Central two days later because I wanted to see Love at least one more time in high school He delivered one more virtuoso performance to get the Cadets back to the Final Four. The Cadets advanced to the state championship game the previous season and were defeated by Columbia Rock Bridge in a close game.
Caleb was looking forward to getting back to Springfield to close out his career with a state championship. However, it was becoming clear that he would not have that opportunity. It became official a few days later when the Final Four was officially cancelled.
I spoke with him after the quarterfinal game, and you could see the disappointment on his face. As excited as he was, it was starting to sink in that he had probably played his last high school game and that he would not get the opportunity conclude his dream season the way he wanted to. No state championship; No McDonald’s All-American Game. It was over, just like that. I felt crushed for the young man and all the other kids who were in that same position on March 14, 2020.
Here we are two years later, and Caleb Love is getting to go to the Final Four and the stage could not be bigger. He is going to play in what may be the most anticipated Final Four game in recent memory. The North Carolina-Duke rivalry is the biggest in college basketball, yet it will be the first time that these two storied programs have played in the NCAA Tournament. And with the retirement of legendary Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski looming, it is a game that everyone will be tuning in to.
It was Love who had a big hand in making sure the Tar Heels are headed to the Big Easy. He is currently averaging 18 points a game in the tournament, which is up three points from his regular season average. He started off the tournament with a bang as he scored 23 points and made six 3-pointers in the Tar Heels’ 95-63 victory over Marquette.
As good as that performance was, it his Caleb’s epic 30-point performance against UCLA in the regional semifinals that will etch his name into Carolina folklore. After a tough-shooting first half, Love changed his shoes at halftime, then proceeded to score 27 points in the second half to lead the Tar Heels to a 73-66 victory over the Bruins.
It was Love’s back-to-back 3-pointers in the final minutes of play that turned a 64-61 deficit into a 67-64 lead that the Tar Heels would not relinquish. He followed up with 14 points in the Tar Heels’ victory over St. Peter’s in the regional final.
Welcome back to the Final Four Caleb Love. Good things come to those who wait.
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Close Call for Base Jumper Who Slammed Into Rocks After Parachute Failure
“I can climb down, but I'm going to have to ungear. It's going to be sketchy,” Johnni Dijulius told his friends after landing 50 feet above ground.
A base jumper is lucky to be alive after experiencing a parachute malfunction while leaping off a cliff in Arizona.
Johnni Dijulius, 29, was flying 50 miles an hour when his parachute opened. Suddenly, it twisted, causing him to slam into the rocky cliffside. The scary incident was caught on camera.
“My number one goal was to keep my head from hitting. I didn't want to get knocked out,” Dijulius said.
The daredevil kept falling and used his feet to brace himself. He wound up landing in a rocky crevice 50 feet from the ground and untangled himself. He grabbed his cellphone and called his buddies who had already landed.
“I can climb down, but I'm going to have to ungear. It's going to be sketchy,” Dijulius told them.
He climbed down the cliff with no ropes or safety harness. When he got to about 10 feet above ground, he jumped into some bushes. Luckily, he wasn’t injured.
Dijulius has jumped off bridges, buildings and some other jaw-dropping stunts. He says he will base jump again even after the close call.
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Dog Escapes Daycare And Runs Home, Rings Doorbell While Parents Are on Vacation
Jeremy and Sarah Henson were on vacation when they got alerted that someone was at the front door. It was their dog Dexter! “He’s very smart, and that intelligence can get him into trouble sometimes," Jeremy tells Inside Edition.
A Kansas family on vacation got quite the surprise when their security camera alerted them that their pet dog was at the front door.
Dexter was supposed to be at doggy daycare, but escaped and managed to run all the way home.
The pup's owners, Jeremy and Sarah Henson, were a thousand miles away in Las Vegas enjoying a week-long vacation. They got the notification on their phone that somebody was at their front door.
“We were both like, ‘Oh my god, that’s Dexter!’” Jeremy said.
Dexter was supposed to stay at the daycare facility for five days, but was so homesick by the third day, he escaped.
Jeremy says that Dexter would have had to get over a 6-foot fence to make it home.
Two miles and 90 minutes later, the lonesome pup made it and rang the bell.
“He was bound and determined. Obviously, he didn’t understand the fact that we were gone, he just thought that we were home. And he takes his job protecting us very seriously,” Jeremy said.
The couple did what he could to calm down Dexter over the speaker, before calling the doggie daycare center. They came over and brought Dexter back.
His parents weren’t surprised he escaped and made it home.
“He’s very smart, and that intelligence can get him into trouble sometime,” Jeremy said.
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Kremlin Accuses Ukraine of Attacking Russian Oil Depot Amid Reports of Russian Troops Refusing to Obey Orders
Friday's missile attack was the first airstrike on Russian soil since troops invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin said.
Two low-flying Ukrainian helicopters fired missiles into an oil depot Friday, the first airstrike on Russian soil since the country's troops invaded the neighboring nation, the Kremlin said. The attack came amid reports that Russian troops are demoralized and refusing to obey orders.
The assault occurred in Belgorod, a city of 400,000, about 20 miles from the Ukrainian border. The area has been a staging ground for Russian troops entering eastern Ukraine, which was invaded on Feb. 24 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
News video and photos showed billowing black clouds and orange flames shooting from the depot.
The airstrike followed reports from Britain's spy chief that Russian troops were demoralized and were refusing to carry out orders in Ukraine, sabotaging their own equipment and had accidentally shot down their own aircraft.
Jeremy Fleming, who heads the GCHQ electronic spy agency, made the statements during a speech Thursday in the Australian capital Canberra.
“We’ve seen Russian soldiers, short of weapons and morale, refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft,” Fleming said.
Putin, he said, "misjudged the resistance of the Ukrainian people. He underestimated the strength of the coalition his actions would galvanize. He underplayed the economic consequences of the sanctions regime, and he overestimated the abilities of his military to secure a rapid victory."
Fleming praised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his “information operation” to counter Russia's massive propaganda and disinformation campaign about the invasion.
Reports also surfaced that Russian troops were abandoning the highly contaminated Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches there, according to Energoatom, Ukraine’s state power company.
As fighting raged on several fronts, including the outskirts of Urkraine capital Kyiv, Russian soldiers were leaving the closed plant, which is the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
The troops “panicked at the first sign of illness,” which “showed up very quickly,” and began preparing to leave," Energoatom said. The plant's massive radiation leak occurred in 1986.
The International Atomic Energy Agency says the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant is now back in Ukrainian hands, but hasn't confirmed reports that Russian troops left because they were experiencing radiation sickness
The United Nations nuclear watchdog's top official said Friday that he would lead a mission to Chernobyl "as soon as possible," to investigate radiation levels and the integrity of the plant, which still houses and processes nuclear waste.
"It will be the first in a series of such nuclear safety and security missions to #Ukraine," Rafael Grossi said Friday on Twitter.
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Miami-Dade Animal Services Halt Offerings Due to Infectious Virus Affecting Dogs
CIRDC has impacted several dogs in South Florida, leading some pet services and events to be paused for dog safety.
A highly contagious virus is spreading through South Florida, making it dangerous for pet owners to bring their dogs with them to public areas.
It’s called canine infectious respiratory disease complex (CIRDC), and affects a dog’s respiratory system, hampering their breathing and potentially causing coughing and susceptibility to other infections.
Miami-Dade County Animal Services has issued a warning to pet owners to keep their pets safe, despite the warm weather, according to 7News.
“A disease that is caused by multiple viruses and bacteria that pretty much infect the respiratory tract of dogs and can cause pretty severe infection including pneumonia,” said Miami-Dade County Animal Services Chief Veterinarian Dr. Maria Serrano to a local Miami news station.
Because of the uptick in cases, animal services have paused some of their pet services.
“Wellness services such as vaccinations, micro-chipping and spay and neuter. We are suspending intake of owner surrenders into our population, and we are suspending events that require our dogs to go into the community,” said Serrano.
According to the affiliate, officials said some ways to help prevent it from spreading is by:
- Visiting your veterinarian
- Keeping your dogs up-to-date on routine vaccines
- Avoiding dog parks and other settings with several other dogs
CIRDC symptoms last seven to 10 days, according to officials. If symptoms last longer or become more severe, it is best to contact your veterinarian immediately.
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New York Italian Restaurant Offers Limited 1980s Menu and Prices for Anniversary
La Bussola Ristorante is giving its patrons a throwback to the 1980s as a celebration of its 42 years in business.
To celebrate its 42nd anniversary, La Bussola Ristorante in Glen Cove, New York, will offer its original menu from 1980.
Not only will the menu have the original offerings, but they will be offered at their original prices. For example, veal will run you less than $20, and chicken cacciatore all of $9.
During the month of April this year, patrons can expect to spend money on their dinner without the inflation, thanks to a month-long anniversary special.
The Italian restaurant has been open for over four decades and spans three locations, all run by four Lubrano brothers.
To get an idea of what 1980s nostalgia La Bussola has to offer, you can view the full retro menu here.
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Paul Rodriguez Says Will Smith Was Verbally Abusive on the Set of 'Ali'
“When he turned around [after the slap] — that smug, that look like that. I’ve seen that look before. I feel like I got slapped everyday with the verbal abuse,” Paul Rodriguez tells Inside Edition of his experience working with Will Smith.
While Will Smith waits to find out what action the Academy will take over his slapping Chris Rock for joking about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair, others wait to see what the impact might be on the new Oscar winner's career. At least one of his former co-stars says he'll never work with him again.
Comedian Paul Rodriguez says he's experienced Smith's rage up close while on set of the 2001 film "Ali." Smith packed on 35 pounds of muscle to play the boxing legend. His startling transformation into Muhammad Ali earned him his first Oscar nomination.
“When he turned around [after the slap] — that smug, that look like that. I’ve seen that look before. I feel like I got slapped everyday with the verbal abuse,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez says during filming, Smith became a real life “Jekyll and Hyde.”
“I’d be walking around and he would hurl some insult. You know, I just kept it in. What am I going to do?” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez was cast as Muhammed Ali's boxing ring physician Dr. Ferdie Pacheco — a role he traveled all the way to Africa to perform for the rumble in the jungle scenes.
Rodriguez says the real-life doctor showed up on set, and that's when things turned nasty. The doctor allegedly ranted that his character didn't have a big enough role. Rodriguez says the doctor hurled racial slurs at Will Smith.
After that, Rodriguez claims Smith took out his anger on him.
“Will Smith says, ‘You better be careful. You’re far away from anyone who likes you.’ I go, ‘Where does that come from? What do you mean I’m far away?’ He goes, ‘Ain’t no Mexicans here in Africa.’ I said, ‘What?’” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez even kept a diary of the traumatic experience.
“The insults just continue — that look of impunity. And I’m saying to myself, it went from one of the happiest moments of my life to a horrible situation,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez’s scripted role was cut, and he was basically reduced to that of an extra.
“I had lines. I didn't audition to be an extra here. It was humiliating,” Rodriguez said.
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After nearly eight decades of serving up old-country classics, this Italian-American landmark has sold its final veal scallopini.
“Forlini’s has officially closed,” the 79-year-old restaurant just south of Little Italy announced on social media Friday morning. “We would like to thank all of our patrons for supporting us throughout the years. We do not consider you our customers, but friends and part of our family.”
The big-boothed, white-tableclothed, extremely carpeted Baxter Street beacon of family-style pasta dishes was a crowd favorite and one of the last Manhattan red-sauce joints. Its location by the courts made it a go-to for many judges, lawyers, prosecutors and defendants alike.
But in recent years the restaurant’s bar area became a favorite hangout of the downtown fashion set. In 2018, Vogue hosted it’s pre-Met Gala party, attended by Hailey Baldwin and Ashley Graham, at the restaurant.
“Forlini’s was really a very significant place for Italian-American families. It’s where we generally celebrated the main events of our lives — first confirmations, school graduations. I always remember it as a place of celebration,” Little Italy native and “Hot Bench” Judge Michael Corriero told The Post in 2017 of his favorite restaurant. “I lived literally across the street from The Tombs and up the block from Forlini’s. When I was working as a young assistant DA, and eventually as a judge, it was the unofficial commissary for the courthouse.”
The family-owned restaurant was begun by “Grandpa Joe” in 1943, then continued by his sons Frank, Freddie and Hugo before being operated by the current 3rd generation: “Big” Joe, Derek and “Little” Joe.
“My cousin and I are in our sixties now,” one of the Joes told Eater of their reason for selling the family business, as well as the building, which was reportedly co-owned by 12 family members. Joe would not elaborate on who the new owners are, but they’d bought not just the restaurant’s home but also its furnishings — chairs, tables, equipment and all. Joe and Derek, however, retain the Forlini’s name.
Public records do not yet show how much 91-93 Baxter St. was sold for, but in 2020 Eater reported that the building was on the market for $15 million.
“Forlini’s has been sold. We are now closed,” announced a sign taped to the restaurant’s door Thursday.
“We want to thank everyone for the wonderful memories over the years,” the eatery concluded its goodbye post. “God Bless and blessings to you all.”
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Kyle Kuzma’s love for fashion landed him a modeling gig with his own team — and fans are having a field day over the photos.
The Washington Wizards forward showed off the team’s new City Edition uniform for the 2022-23 season in a photoshoot that has fans roasting him on social media.
“Horrible man just horrible that’s isn’t style its a mess,” one fan tweeted.
The images, which were taken outdoors, feature Kuzma rocking the Wizards’ pink Cherry Blossom jersey tucked into floral-printed dress pants and a matching blazer.
The Wizards shared the photos on Twitter with the caption, “@kylekuzma knows how to pull off a fit and this jersey adds just the right amount of drip.” Kuzma also posted the photos to his Instagram page with an identical caption.
Unsurprisingly, some Instagram users didn’t mince words when it came to expressing their feelings about Kuzma’s look.
“Might be the worst fit I’ve ever seen,” one person wrote in the comments, while another said the former Laker “went Hollywood” with his bright look.
Elsewhere, a fan noted that they hadn’t “seen this side of Kuz before.”
Many fans have seen this side of Kuzma, though, as he’s long been passionate about fashion. Further, the 26-year-old’s NBA peers have also enjoyed poking fun at his ensembles throughout the year.
Last November, LeBron James — Kuzma’s NBA championship teammate in 2020 — trolled him for the oversized pink sweater that he wore to Capital One Arena before a loss to Charlotte.
Washington debuted its new uniforms Tuesday — the team’s official Cherry Blossom Night — in a 107-94 loss to the Bulls at home.
The Wizards joined the Washington Nationals in celebration of the District of Cherry Blossoms, becoming the first MLB and NBA teams from the same market.
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Oh, Sephora, how we love you!
Sephora’s Spring Savings Event is going on right now and runs until April 11.
During the sale, shoppers can look forward to big beauty savings of up to 20% off coveted brands.
The percentage off each product depends on one’s membership status. To give you all the details, we created an easy-to-follow guide below:
- Rouge members: 20% off
- VIB members: 15% off
- Insider members: 10% off (anyone can sign up and no points are needed.)
Sign up for a Sephora membership here to unlock those savings. To ensure you land the discounts, simply enter the code SAVESPRING at checkout. For an added bonus, use code FREESHIP for free shipping on all orders.
While you’re at it, don’t forget to stock up on your Sephora Collection favorites here, as each item in the lineup is marked down by 30% — no code or membership status needed.
With so many incredible products and even greater savings, we know it can also become overwhelming. To help you out, we decided to bring you the 13 items we are currently adding to our own carts.
These items have earned a special place in our hearts either due to rave reviews, personal love affairs or tried-and-true staples.
Happy Sephora spring savings!
1. Armani Beauty Lip Power Long Lasting Satin Lipstick, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $39
We are lovers of red lipstick here at The Post, and when we tell you that this is one of the best ones our there, we mean it. The formula is hydrating, the satin finish is gorgeous and the red and black glossy packaging makes it all the better.
2. Maison Margiela ‘REPLICA’ When The Rain Stops, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $144
Rain, rain go away. We want to wear our Maison Margiela today.
Capturing the moment of when a spring rain ends, this Maison Margiela fragrance includes notes of aquatic accord, rose petal and pine needle. There’s nothing more fitting for a spring perfume.
3. Gisou Honey Infused Hair Oil, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $46
We once thought it was overhyped too, but let us tell you, it’s so worth it. Use it on damp or dry hair, and instantly reduce frizz and add shine. The pretty honey-colored product and glass bottle certainly adds to the allure as well.
4. By Rosie Jane Rosie Perfume, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $65
You think the perfect everyday perfume doesn’t exist? Well, think again. The Rosie perfume smells delicately soft, fresh and bit warm, which is ideal for running errands, working from home and having brunch. Best of all, it’s good for you and the planet.
5. bareMinerals Original Loose Powder Mineral Foundation SPF 15, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $33
We can’t get enough of this loose powder foundation. The bareMinerals original mineral foundation seamlessly blends into the skin creating a veil of color and medium coverage. No matter how much you apply, you’ll also receive a natural end result — trust us, we’ve tried it.
6. Sunday Riley C.E.O. 15% Vitamin C Brightening Serum, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $85
We’ve tried our fair amount of vitamin C serums, but this Sunday Riley one takes the cake. It smells amazing, isn’t sticky and is great for dark circles. Plus, it evens skintone and texture. What more could you ask for?
7. Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Hydrating Makeup Primer, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $36
When you need your makeup to stick, Milk Makeup is here to save the day. The Hydro Grip Primer leaves you with a radiant finish, holds your makeup down and is loved by over 4,000 Sephora shoppers. Seriously, this is a must-have in your makeup bag.
8. Sol De Janeiro Bum Bum Jet Set, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $28
The brand’s Cream Cheirosa ’62 scent is beloved for a reason, and this set offers a body wash, cream and fragrance in that iconic smell. The small sizes allow you to test each product out before you splurge on the full sizes and makes for a great travel companion.
9. Benefit Cosmetics Benetint Rose Lip & Cheek Tint, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $18
For the love of beauty, please add this Benefit lip and cheek tint to your cart ASAP. It creates a flush-from-within look that is both sweet and seductive. And did we mention it’s smudge-proof? Because that’s definitely an added bonus.
10. IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow Lightweight Foundation + Glow Serum with SPF 40 and Niacinamide, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $42
You mean to tell us that a CC cream can look great and include skin-loving ingredients? Why, yes it can! This IT Cosmetics skin tint color corrects, provides medium-coverage and is packed with brightening glow serum and SPF 40.
11. Muglar Alien Goddess Eau de Parfum, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $123
Be the goddess that you are with Muglar’s Alien Goddess perfume. First, the bottle is insanely gorgeous — you’re definitely going to want to display it on your vanity. Second, the fragrance is warm, inviting and sweet — key notes in a great perfume.
12. Urban Decay All Nighter Long-Lasting Makeup Setting Spray with Vitamin C, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $33
Urban Decay brought us the original All Nighter setting spray that sent beauty lovers in a frenzy. Now, the brand is giving us the same great payoff but with added vitamin C that hydrates skin and keeps makeup set for up to 16 hours.
13. Peace Out Salicylic Acid Acne Healing Dots, discounted price based on membership status, original price: $19
The Peace Out Healing Dots are an effortless and gentle way to treat breakouts. We love placing a dot on a breakout before bed and waking up to a reduced blemish. The clear color tone also makes it great for blending into the look of skin.
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Gee, it’s about time they got to the bottom of this 72-year-old sexual myth.
Generations of humans have been fooled by the commonly accepted G-spot theory, according to new research released by leading sexual health experts. Now these professionals are considering renaming the elusive erogenous designation — which they claim has “misled” people to think there is an automatic orgasm button.
Instead, a new editorial, co-signed by the top three editors of the Sexual Medicine Reviews journal, suggests we refer to it as a “G-zone” — part of the five “erotic zones” inside the vagina, they write.
“We suggest the current term ‘G-spot’ is misleading and therefore inappropriate,” Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor-in-chief, and his colleagues wrote.
The term “G-spot” was coined in honor of mid-20th-century German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg, who was the first to describe the orgasmically volatile region — located a few inches up the “anterior wall of the vagina, along the course of the urethra.”
In 1950, Gräfenberg observed that this region of the vagina contained a “distinct erotogenic zone,” Goldstein noted in his reprisal.
Three decades later, it was Dr. Frank Addiego and his associates who would call it the “Gräfenber-spot,” chopped to “G-spot,” in their report on female ejaculation, as tribute to the pioneering sexual researcher.
“Based on the description by Gräfenberg of the anterior vaginal wall as containing a ‘distinct erotogenic zone’, we believe that the subsequent use of the term ‘G-Spot’, coined 31 years later by Addiego et al, to be misleading,” the editors wrote.
More accurately, the “correct term,” they suggested, would be the mouthy “G zone,” for short.
Gräfenberg saw three distinct functions of the “erotic zone” he’d discovered — “pleasurable sensations,” “swelling,” and “fluid ejaculation” — though its triggers and location vary from body to body.
Goldstein’s commentary suggests that their so-called G-zone is made up of five different tissues — found in different locations of the female genitalia — each serving a different purpose during sex, including the prostate, urethra, anterior vaginal wall, and two areas associated with the clitoris.
Sex-positive activists and other experts have longed called for a debunking of the bewildering “G-spot.” But despite the clarification, the gynecological jury is out on exactly where to find it in yourself or your partner — with some researchers recently comparing it to the legend of the Holy Grail or the lost city of Atlantis. Some frustrated researchers — and women — have even decided that the fabled G-spot does not exist.
Meanwhile, sex therapists and other experts have further confused the field by offering an alphabet’s worth of new lettered targets, including the A-spot, E-spot and C-spot.
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(NEXSTAR) – Paul McCartney doesn’t care too much for money — unless he’s being upcharged for non-dairy milk.
McCartney, a longtime vegetarian and animal-rights activist, recently penned an open letter to Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson, urging him to end the chain’s surcharges for alternative milks.
The legendary musician issued his statements in partnership with PETA, which has previously called out the practice for penalizing customers “who are making the humane, environmentally friendly choice.”
“It recently came to my attention that Starbucks in the USA has an extra charge for plant-based milks as opposed to cow’s milk,” McCartney wrote in the letter. “I must say this surprised me as I understand that in other countries like U.K. and India, there is the same charge for both types of milk and I would like to politely request that you consider this policy also in Starbucks USA.
“My friends at PETA are campaigning for this to happen … I sincerely hope that for the future of the planet and animal welfare you are able to implement this policy,” he concluded the letter.
In a press release issued this week, PETA added that McCartney is hoping to change Johnson’s mind before the latter’s retirement on April 4. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will be stepping in as interim CEO, the company announced.
PETA has long campaigned against Starbucks’ surcharge for plant-based milk, arguing that it not only contributes to the support of dairy farming, but unfairly discriminates against vegan customers. Also affected are lactose-intolerant customers, “most of whom are people of color,” PETA has previously said.
Starbucks itself has also acknowledged that “dairy is the biggest contributor to Starbucks carbon footprint” — another point that PETA is quick to repeat.
In this week’s press release, PETA added that a number of national chains, including Panera Bread and Pret A Manger, have already eliminated surcharges for non-dairy milk.
A representative for Starbucks was not immediately available to respond to McCartney’s letter. But Starbucks said as recently as Nov. 2021 that it was working on new approaches to sourcing sustainable dairy, but did not announce any plans to scale back on dairy offerings or make it more affordable for customers who request non-dairy options. The chain did, however, say it would continue to introduce more plant-based menu options.
The production of dairy, meanwhile, continues to have “a higher environment impact that all of the alternative milks,” according to an article published by the University of California, Davis, which cited (among others) a study from researchers at the University of Oxford.
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The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and Carnival Cruise Line have honored 40 years of service from Adolfo M. Perez, who has spent four decades promoting cruise travel, advocating for travel agents, and connecting with cruise passengers, by presenting Perez with CLIA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
A Prestigious Honor
Perez was presented with the honor at the 2022 CLIA Hall of Fame Cruise Industry Awards at a gala banquet on Thursday, March 31, 2022, during the annual Cruise360 conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As part of the ceremony, Perez was inducted into CLIA’s Hall of Fame by Carnival Cruise Line Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Ken Tate.
CLIA’s Lifetime Achievement Award honors individuals who make remarkable, positive contributions to the cruise industry. Recipients are determined by a selection panel which includes CLIA leadership as well as its Strategic Trade Advisory and Review Board and Trade Relations Committee.
Previous winners have included independent cruise travel agents, cruise line CEOs, and leadership team members.
A Lifetime of Service
Perez has been a champion of cruise travel since he started with Carnival Cruise Line as an embarkation agent at PortMiami in 1982, when he was just 16 years old.
He’s helped launch 34 Carnival Fun Ships, introduced the first consumer-focused campaign to promote travel agents, and revolutionized connections between Carnival, travel advisors, and guests through his popular Facebook page and his Live from Adolfo’s Desk webinars and media columns.
Perez credits his achievements to the travel advisor community, saying agents have been a critical component of Carnival’s success since its early days up until now.
“Despite the fact we have grown into a huge travel leisure company with nine brands, from the Carnival Cruise Line side, it still feels like a family,” said Perez. “I’m proud to be part of this family – this company and industry. It’s been an amazing 40 years and I look forward to more fun with the Carnival family ahead.”
Carnival Cruise Line’s leadership team applauds Perez’s enthusiasm and commitment to the company.
“Adolfo has been an integral part of Carnival’s success and the growth and success of the global cruise industry for 40 years,” said Arnold Donald, President and CEO of Carnival Corporation. “We are proud to join with all our partners and friends in the industry to recognize and celebrate Adolfo on his incredible career – and no doubt there is more success to come.”
“Adolfo epitomizes the essence of partnership and support to our travel partners, and he has enhanced the impact our company has in continuing to deliver memorable vacations to all,” said Christine Duffy, Carnival Cruise Line president.
Perez served as the vice president of Carnival’s Contact Center and opened Carnival’s London office as vice president of Carnival UK and Ireland before becoming Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Trade Marketing for the company’s consumer and trade businesses in the UK, Ireland, and Australia.
The honor coincides with Perez marking 40 years with Carnival at the same time the company celebrates its 50th birthday, making 2022 an even more monumental year for the cruise line.
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Carnival-owned Holland America Line to house Ukrainian refugees in the Netherlands as part of an agreement with the City of Rotterdam. They will be accommodated onboard the Volendam cruise ship, which is currently not in service.
Volendam to House Ukrainian Refugees
The Volendam cruise ship, operated by Holland America Line, will be used to accommodate Ukrainian refugees in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The vessel will dock in the city for three months to temporarily hours 1,500 Ukrainians as part of an agreement with the city.
It’s part of a much broader commitment by the country to accommodate 50,000 people who have fled their home country in Ukraine since February 24, 2022.
“We are in a unique position to accommodate the immediate need for food and housing, so we felt it was very important to work with the City of Rotterdam and charter this ship,” said Gus Antorcha, president, Holland America Line. “Our company was founded in Rotterdam around the mission of helping immigrants find a better life. So today we’re proud to be a small part of a similar mission for Ukrainians who have tragically been displaced.”
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Those on board the Holland America cruise ship temporarily will be provided three hot meals each day and stay in staterooms with housekeeping services. The refugees will be able to enjoy services from the ship, including the use of public spaces, fitness facilities, internet access, and other necessities.
“We are known for our service and hospitality, and our team is ready to welcome our new guests as we would welcome guests into our own home,” said Captain Ryan Whitaker. “It will truly be an honor for us to make Volendam a comfortable and caring environment for these families who have been through so much.”
Volendam will remain docked at the Merwehaven cargo port, located on the north side of the River Maas, to allow easy access to the city for those onboard.
Volendam’s Return to Service Delayed
With the Volendam being chartered to help Ukrainian refugees, it does mean that the ship will not return to service as scheduled. The Holland America ship was set to return on May 15, 2022, with voyages from Rotterdam to Norway, the British Isles and Iceland.
The ship will now be resuming passenger operations on July 3, 2022, instead of May 15. Impacted guests are being notified about their options and will be offered other sailings with similar itineraries.
“We are very sorry for the inconvenience this will cause to guests booked on the three canceled cruises,” Antorcha said. “We hope they understand the unprecedented nature of this situation and why we felt it was important to work with the government on this initiative in support of these families in need.”
The cruise line has been working to support those impacted by the situation in eastern Europe, including its crew members. There has been a $1 million fund to help assist and offer financial support for them. The crew from the region can also receive counseling assistance, free internet, and help with accommodation or a contract extension to remain on board longer.
“We stand for peace and our hearts go out to everyone whose lives have been upended by the invasion of Ukraine,” said Arnold Donald, president and chief executive officer of Carnival Corporation & plc. “We have crew members from 145 countries and we sail with guests from nations around the globe, so we feel deeply the impact of this humanitarian crisis and we join many others in supporting relief efforts.”
Parent company Carnival Corporation also recently announced that the Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation pledged $3 million in donations to organizations helping Ukrainian refugees. Sister brand Carnival Cruise Line has also made a $50,000 donation to World Central Kitchen.
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LAURENS COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A eighth-grade student from Gray Court-Owings School is being charged after posting a threatening message related to the school.
According to Laurens County School District 55, shortly after noon Friday the student used Snapchat to post the message. The administration and the school resource officer were immediately notified and safety protocol was followed to isolate the student and ensure the safety of others.
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office responded and arrested the student, district officials said. The student is being charged for the offense.
The district said no weapons were found on campus.
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SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) – A flight heading from Salt Lake City to Washington D.C. had to be diverted Thursday due to a shattered windshield.
Passengers aboard the flight say the plane made an unexpected landing in Denver due to the incident.
“We were on our way to the ACC meeting when it was announced that we would need to make an unplanned landing in Denver because the windshield cracked,” wrote passenger Kirk Knowlton in a tweet. “Apparently, it was spontaneous. Fortunately, we landed safely and are about to get back in air. We are grateful for safe flights.”
In a statement, Delta confirmed the unscheduled landing.
“Delta flight 760 from Salt Lake City to Washington D.C. experienced a maintenance issue mid-flight. Out of an abundance of caution, the flight crew diverted into Denver and the plane landed routinely. Our team worked quickly to accommodate customers on a new plane, and we sincerely apologize for the delay and inconvenience to their travel plans.”
Delta says the 198 passengers on board were flown to D.C. on a new plane.
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The United States will face England and Iran in Group B at the World Cup finals while Spain will take on Germany in a clash of former winners in Group E.
Holders France will meet Denmark and Tunisia in Group D while the tournament will kick off on November 21 with hosts Qatar playing Ecuador.
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For the US, the draw pits them against their former colonial rulers England and the Iranians, a country they have had long-running political disputes with.
The US faced Iran at the 1998 World Cup in France, losing 2-1.
Group G was one of the toughest, pitting five-time World Cup winners Brazil against Serbia, Switzerland and Cameroon.
The draw came after a 45 minute musical and video show as FIFA president Gianni Infantino promised the event would "simply be the best tournament ever".
The decision in 2010 to hand the hosting rights to Qatar was heavily criticised and there has been intense scrutiny of the human rights situation in the country.
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani welcomed the guests who included national team coaches, World Cup-winning players and football officials all waiting to discover the group stage match-ups during a ceremony presented by British actor Idris Elba and broadcaster Reshmin Chowdhury.
The tournament will run from November 21 to December 18 -- the first time soccer's top prize has been competed for in the Middle East and there was a distinct Arabian feeling to the show.
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Kalyani (West Bengal): Gokulam Kerala rode on their Jamaican forward Jourdain Fletcher's twin strikes to beat Aizawl FC 2-1 in their I-League fixture here on Friday.
Ayush Dev Chhetri pulled one back with a stunning 90th minute strike but the defending champions snuffed out Aizawl's efforts to bag three points.
Having missed a handful of chances, the Malabarians finally struck when Fletcher pounced on a loose ball to finish off the rebound in the 63rd minute.
Five minutes later, Aizawl almost equalised from a miss by their goalkeeper Rakshit Dagar, who reacted just in time to manage to hold on to their lead.
In the 88th minute, Gokulam doubled the lead with Fletcher bringing up his brace.
After Ayush's strike two minutes later, Aizawl pressed on the attack only to be reduced to 10 players in added time when Robert Primus was sent off for denying Fletcher a goal-scoring opportunity.
The win maintained Gokulam's second place in the table as they have 18 points, one point clear of Sreenidi Deccan FC with a match in hand.
At Naihati, Sreenidi Deccan rallied from behind to down Kenkre FC by an identical 2-1 margin, their sixth from eight matches.
I-League: Fletcher brace helps Gokulam Kerala edge Aizawl FC
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Published: April 01, 2022 09:26 PM IST
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Kochi: Golden Threads FC outplayed Travancore Royals FC 5-2 to enter the semifinals of the Kerala Premier League (KPL) at the Maharaja's College Grounds here on Friday.
The win helped Golden Threads top Group B with 24 points from 10 matches, while KSEB finished second with 23 points to progress to the semifinals. Kerala United (22) and Muthoot FA (21) missed out on a place in the semifinals.
Issahak Nugu Seidu scored three goals for Golden Threads while Soyal Joshy and Asif Saheer also found the target.
Travancore Royals reduced the margin through Bibin Ajayan (own goal) and Sujith S.
Result: Golden Threads FC 5 (Issahak Nugu Seidu 27', 33', 90+2'; Soyal Joshy 43'; Asif Saheer 77') bt Travancore Royals FC 2 (Bibin Ajayan OG 48'; Sujith S 80').
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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Deserae Griego, Navy Hospital Corpsman Basic - A course, instructor, holds an encouragement sign during a "Stand Against Sexual Assault" drive-by information and support campaign Apr. 1, 2022 at Joint Base San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston, Walters gate. April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month and this year JBSA will be collaborating and joining forces to take a stand against sexual assault. (U.S. Air Force photo by Brian Boisvert)
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Yakima police have arrested the suspected killer of a man who was gunned down outside his South Eighth Street home in February.
The 25-year-old Yakima man was already being held in the Yakima County jail on charges of eluding, hit-and-run, first-degree unlawful firearms possession and drug possession when police linked him to the killing of Gerald Steven Moore from cellphone messages, shell casings and other evidence, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The suspect was expected to appear in Yakima County Superior Court Friday afternoon.
Police were called to the 1000 block of South Eighth Street at 7:42 p.m. Feb. 16 for the shooting. Neighbors said they heard gunshots and found Moore, 71, lying in the driveway, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Video from the area showed a car pull into the common driveway by Moore’s home and, after turning around and bumping a fence post, the driver shot Moore twice when he came out of his home, the affidavit said.
A Yakima police officer spotted a car that matched the description of the suspect vehicle around 1:25 p.m. Feb. 22, and chased it until the car crashed at 20th Avenue and River Road, the affidavit said. The driver of the car had fled, but police were able to trace the car back to an apartment where they found the suspect and arrested him for eluding and hit-and-run.
Officers searching the car found a shell casing near the car’s windshield wiper that matched one found at the scene of Moore’s killing, the affidavit said. Police also found a .38-caliber revolver in a safe in the car’s trunk along with 100 pills believed to be fentanyl and ammunition, as well as items in the car linking it to the suspect, the affidavit said.
The suspect has prior convictions for first- and second-degree assault, and is barred from having a firearm, the affidavit said.
Detectives also said that the suspect made calls from the jail in which he showed that he knew facts about the crime that were not public knowledge, as well as a message from someone telling him to hide and clean his car.
Moore’s death was one of five homicides in the city this year, and the sixth in Yakima County.
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St. Augustine, Fla. - (March 29, 2022) – Rear Adm. Raul Zamorano, second from left, Deputy Chief of the Navy General Staff (EMGA) of the Chilean Navy (Amada de Chile), speaks at the 26th annual Maritime Staff Talks (MST), March 29, 2022. MSTs support the U.S. maritime strategy by building and strengthening working relationships with U.S. and partner nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Steven Khor/Released)
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St. Augustine, Fla. - (March 29, 2022) -- Rear Adm. Jim Aiken, second from right, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/ U.S. 4th Fleet, speaks to Rear Adm. Raul Zamorano, Deputy Chief of the Navy General Staff (EMGA) of the Chilean Navy (Amada de Chile), during the 26th annual Maritime Staff Talks (MST), March 29, 2022. MSTs support the U.S. maritime strategy by building and strengthening working relationships with U.S. and partner nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Steven Khor/Released)
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The Department of Homeland Security on May 23 will no longer expel migrants on public health grounds.
In a statement Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the policy implemented in March 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prevent cross-border spread of COVID-19 is coming to an end on that date.
“Once the Title 42 Order is no longer in place, DHS will process individuals encountered at the border pursuant to Title 8, which is the standard procedure we use to place individuals in removal proceedings,” Mayorkas said. “Nonetheless, we know that smugglers will spread misinformation to take advantage of vulnerable migrants. Let me be clear: those unable to establish a legal basis to remain in the United States will be removed.”
Mayorkas said the administration has “put in place a comprehensive, whole-of-government strategy to manage any potential increase in the number of migrants encountered at our border.” That includes increasing capacity to process new arrivals, evaluate asylum requests and remove those who do not qualify for protection.
“We will increase personnel and resources as needed and have already redeployed more than 600 law enforcement officers to the border. We are referring smugglers and certain border crossers for criminal prosecution,” he said.
Title 42 remains in place over the next eight weeks or so, and during that time DHS will apply COVID-19 protocols and ramp up vaccination programs.
Mayorkas said the administration will continue addressing the root causes of migration flows to the United States, which he said have been increasing since at least over a decade ago.
“The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to pursuing every avenue within our authority to secure our borders, enforce our laws and stay true to our values,” Mayorkas said. “Yet a long-term solution can only come from comprehensive legislation that brings lasting reform to a fundamentally broken system.”
Officials outline preparations for expected new migrant surge
In a Friday call on background with reporters, DHS and State Department officials outlined preparations to cope with the May 23 termination of the Title 42 program.
They said they are anticipating and preparing for an increase in migrants coming across the border but that not everyone may be eligible to remain in the United States.
“Families and single adults who cross the border and are unable to establish a legal basis to remain in the U.S. will be placed in removal proceedings and will be removed. This is how border management was done before, so we will be returning to status quo,” an administration official said.
In the meantime, administration officials emphasized Title 42 will continue to be implemented.
“Individuals arriving at out border before May 23 will be expelled,” the DHS official said.
Efforts to ramp up COVID-19 vaccination of migrants at processing and detention centers start now, with the goal of expanding vaccinations from 2,000 a day at 11 processing centers along the U.S.-Mexico border to at least 6,000 in 27 facilities. Those who refuse the Pfizer or Moderna shots will either be referred for removal or released with more stringent conditions, the officials said.
The administration had been anticipating a rollback of Title 42 for some time and has begun working with non-government organizations and local governments to manage the transition.
“We’ve taken a number of concrete steps to respond quickly and efficiently to any increase in migratory flows and leverage partners at the state and local levels and other key stakeholders,” the State Department official said.
Planning is ongoing to contract “soft-sided” facilities such as tents to process an overflow of migrants and additional DHS personnel is being sent to the border. Also, federal agencies will solicit volunteers to assist with the effort as needed.
The State Department official said an interagency task force would also be in place to ensure smugglers and migrants who may represent a danger be routed for prosecution by the Department of Justice. “We will continue to work actively with them, and also with the government of Mexico, to interdict smuggling organizations with an all-of-government approach to human smuggling,” she said.
The officials also anticipate a continued and even expanded use of the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, also known as “Remain in Mexico,” that a federal court has directed the Biden administration to keep in place.
“MPP is one of the Title 8 processing pathways,” one official said. “We will continue to increase enrollments in MPP in the next few months.”
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3 Army soldiers, 9 others accused in gun trafficking ring
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve people, including three U.S. Army soldiers, are accused in a large-scale gun trafficking ring that prosecutors allege supplied nearly 100 guns to gang members in Chicago and led to at least two killings, the Justice Department said Friday.
The soldiers — Demarcus Adams, 21; Jarius Brunson, 22; and Brandon Miller, 22 — were enlisted in the Army and stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, where they would legally purchase guns from local dealers in Tennessee and Kentucky, prosecutors charged. The soldiers are accused of selling them to members of the Gangster Disciples street gang in the Pocket Town neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, according to the 21-count indictment.
The indictment charges the group with conspiring to violate federal firearms laws, among other crimes. If convicted, the defendants face up to 20 years in prison.
The case is part of the Justice Department’s push to investigate and prosecute gun trafficking amid rising crime across the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has vowed to prioritize prosecutions of firearms traffickers and so-called “straw purchasers,” who legally purchase firearms to sell them to people who can’t legally poses guns, often in states with more restrictive gun laws.
“The Justice Department will spare no resources to hold accountable criminal gun traffickers,” Garland said at a news conference Friday. “There is no hiding place for those who flood our communities with illegal guns. It does not matter where you are, or how far away you are. If you illegally traffic guns, we and our law enforcement partners nationwide will find you.”
Prosecutors allege Miller would receive orders from members of the Gangster Disciples in Chicago for specific guns to purchase and he, Brunson and Adams would then buy them from dealers in Clarksville, Tennessee and Oak Grove, Kentucky, and give them to gang members, who paid through money transfer apps, including Zelle and CashApp. Miller also advertised that he had 1,000 rounds of ammunition available for sale, prosecutors say.
Authorities believe the trio provided over 90 illegally obtained firearms to the gang “to facilitate the on-going violent disputes between the Pocket Town Gangster Disciples and their rival gangs,” the Justice Department said.
Investigators believe one of the guns was used in a shooting at a party in Chicago last March that left one man dead, and seven others wounded. Another was used in a killing at a Chicago barbershop in January 2021, according to officials.
The nine others charged in the indictment are: Blaise Smith, 29; Rahaeem Johnson, 24; Bryant Larkin, 33; Corey Curtis, 26; Elijah Tillman, 24; Lazarus Greenwood, 23; Dwight Lowry, 41; and Dreshion Parks, 25, all of Chicago; along with Terrell Mitchell, 27, of Davenport, Iowa. Two people who were alleged to be part of the conspiracy were killed “as a result of gang violence, which was facilitated by the firearms illegally transferred to individuals in the Chicago,” prosecutors say.
The indictment spells out how Miller would exchange messages with his associates in Chicago to negotiate the prices of the guns.
“The silver one a 380 u still want it it’s a steal,” Miller wrote to Lowry in December 2020, the indictment says. Lowry wrote back, “Yup can’t beat it,” according to court papers.
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This story has been corrected to show Fort Campbell is located in Kentucky, not Tennessee.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BayPort Credit Union announced it is donating $10,000 to The Ukrainian Credit Union Displacement Fund through the Worldwide Foundation of Credit Unions.
The Ukrainian Credit Union Displacement Fund was established to provide direct monetary support to mitigate both short and long-term impacts to Ukraine's credit union system, including impacts affecting their employees and members.
"We are saddened and troubled by the tragedies unfolding in Ukraine, and want to leverage our support in whatever way we can," said Jim Mears, President/CEO of BayPort Credit Union. "Our credit union philosophy of 'People Helping People' doesn't end here at home in the Greater Hampton Roads Virginia area. We are honored to make this contribution to support and help stabilize Ukraine's credit union community."
Visit www.bayportcu.org to learn more.
BayPort is the region's only Community Development Financial Institution and a National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Low-Income Designated Credit Union. Membership is open to those who live, work, worship, volunteer, or attend school in the Greater Hampton Roads area. BayPort is ranked in the top five percent of credit unions nationwide by asset size.
About BayPort
In 1928, nine shipyard workers from Newport News Shipbuilding formed an organization with a specific purpose as a low-interest source of loans and a trusted place to deposit money. Today, BayPort Credit Union is rated a Superior 5-Star credit union by Bauer Financial, managing $2.2 billion in assets and servicing nearly 148,000 individuals and businesses with 27 branch locations across the Virginia Peninsula and Southside communities. Visit us at www.bayportcu.org.
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