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Perry Panthers named Georgia High School Football Daily’s “State Team of the Week”
Perry dominated Jones County 42-14 last week, earning the "State Team of the Week" honor.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — After a one-point loss to Houston County in their season opener, the Panthers bounced back and dominated Jones County 42-14 in their second game.
With Jones County ranked #3 in the 5A, the Panthers earned Georgia High School Football Daily’s “State Team of the Week” after the victory.
Since 1959, Perry has won two region titles, both coming under head coach Kevin Smith in 2020 and 2021. So after being at the helm for his sixth season, coach Smith feels honored for the recognition.
“It gives me chill bumps. You work countless hours. You do countless things, and sometimes you feel like you are spending it in quicksand, and then all of a sudden, you start getting some of that fruit. We talk about it all the time, watering the root and playing the next play and playing the next play. We are going to get to some fruit, and we are starting to reap some of that fruit now, and it’s a very, very humbling feeling,” said Smith.
The Panthers continue their quest for a third-consecutive region title as they face Veterans in an in-county battle on Friday.
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Piedmont Brewery debuts new Otis Redding beer
As part of a celebration of Otis Redding's birthday this weekend, Piedmont Brewery and the Otis Redding Foundation debuted the Otis Redding beer Thursday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – As part of a celebration of Otis Redding’s birthday this weekend, Piedmont Brewery and the Otis Redding Foundation debuted the Otis Redding beer Thursday.
Titled “Mister Pitiful’s Pilsner,” the new beer is part of the celebration of the late Otis Redding’s 81stbirthday, which would have been this Friday.
Proceeds raised will go toward the Otis Redding Foundation.
The daughter of Otis Redding and the executive director of the Otis Redding Foundation Karla Redding-Andrews says it’s a great way to honor her father.
“It’s more about supporting the foundation,” she said. “That’s so important for maintaining my dad’s legacy, but I just think the Piedmont team, they support the foundation in every way that they can, and this is such a great way to support.”
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Rain and storms stick around for the end of the week
Clouds have moved in over most of Middle Georgia this evening as our next weather maker sets up to our south.
An area of low pressure over the Gulf of Mexico will continue to funnel in moisture to Middle Georgia through the weekend.
This will result in periods of heavy rain, potentially gusty winds, and cooler high temperatures.
The low will be staying pretty stationary over the next few days which means that rain chances aren’t going anywhere for a while.
Rain totals, through Sunday, will likely range from 1-3″, with some spots seeing localized flooding.
Also note that most of us have already got saturated soils, so we could see faster flooding than a typical rain event.
The rain will finally be coming to an end next week as a cold front starts to move through the southeast.
Our temperatures will actually be heating up behind the front, but dry air will allow overnight lows to fall to the 60s.
The dry air should allow us to stay dry for the end of next week with highs in the upper 80s.
Light showers will be possible ahead of the cold front that will be pushing through next week, but dry air should limit our rain chances after Tuesday.
We will finally start to see some dry weather for a while, with highs around normal next week.
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Rising property values may lead to rising property taxes in Warner Robins
Due to rising property values, Mayor Patrick says some residents may soon see a payment increase.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Mayor LaRhonda Patrick and the City of Warner Robins held the first of three town hall meetings Thursday addressing property tax increases.
Patrick says the Warner Robins millage rate is currently at 9.980.
Due to rising property values, Mayor Patrick says some residents may soon see a payment increase.
Warner Robins resident and realtor Beth Lynn believes the rate should rise as property values rise.
“The millage rate should go up as property values increase, like at some point there has to be some leveling out,” she said. “If your property is worth more, then you’re going to need to pay more in taxes. That’s just how it is.”
Two more meetings regarding the millage rate are being held September 14 and September 19 at Warner Robins City Hall.
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State Superintendent Richards Woods makes visit to Alexander II Magnet School
Alexander II Magnet School in Macon got a special visit Thursday from the state schools superintendent.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Alexander II Magnet School in Macon got a special visit Thursday from the state schools superintendent.
Superintendent Richard Woods visited the school to connect with students and staff and speak with them about the importance of STEM education.
Woods said a focus on science, technology, engineering and math helps students with critical thinking and problem solving skills.
“STEM education, it allows for higher critical thinking,” Woods said. “That’s something we want to make sure that we have great thinkers as they move from elementary all the way to high school and beyond.”
Alexander II is one of 79 schools in the state that is STEM certified. The Georgia Department of Education recognized the school as STEM certified in 2020.
“I think what we have found out is that this is good education,” Woods said. “It’s good teaching practice definitely for us that means we have to modify we have to show that it is important. Hopefully my presence being here today to elevates that and shows how important it is personally to me but us of course, the state.”
Woods says he hopes more Bibb County Schools will begin teaching STEM education.
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The End Zone Game of the Week Preview: Jones County vs. Peach County, Pt. 2
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 9, at 8 p.m. at Trojan Field.
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Our End Zone Game of the Week for week four will have a familiar team in action.
The Peach County Trojans will host the Jones County Greyhounds, and the Trojans were featured as the away team in week one’s game of the week.
The Trojans dominated Baldwin 50-20 in their season opener but fell to Northside 35-7 in their week two matchup, and since had a bye week last week.
When asked what the team could improve on, head coach Chad Campbell said everything.
“Seniors got to take a bigger leadership role and do their job. Everybody’s got to be accountable for what they do each and every day, not just on Friday night but Monday through Thursday. So it’s just a process and got a long season to go,” said Campbell.
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 9, at 8 p.m. at Trojan Field.
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The End Zone Game of the Week Preview: Jones County vs. Peach County, Pt. 3
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 9, at 8 p.m. at Trojan Field.
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The week four End Zone Game of the Week features the Peach County Trojans hosting the Jones County Greyhounds.
The Jones County Greyhounds opened their season with two solid victories against the Northside Eagles and the Dacula Falcons. But in week three, the Greyhounds had a bit of a hiccup against the Perry Panthers.
“We weren’t ready to play. We came out, and they hit us in the mouth a little bit, and we didn’t answer the call. I don’t think the score was any indication of what the competition of the game was, but you got to tip your hat to those guys. They played great, and we’re using it for motivation going forward,” said Jones County head coach Mike Chastain.
The Peach County Trojans were featured in our first End Zone Game of the Week, where they dominated the Baldwin Braves 50 to 20, but in week two, the Trojans fell to Northside. Since they’ve had a bye week, head coach Chad Campbell remarked on what the team has been trying to improve in their week off.
“Everything. I mean, we didn’t play well at all. I mean, Northside had a lot to do with that, but we didn’t play up to our capabilities and our standard. And we’ve been trying to get back to that, and try to get better each day these last couple weeks,” said Campbell.
Peach County has dominated this matchup, winning the last five meetings; however, the most recent game came in 1997. With some rain in the forecast for tonight’s matchup, both head coaches can’t hope for more than a hard-fought battle.
“You got to take care of the football, and then you got to outplay people. I mean, both teams are well-coached. Both teams got good coaching staffs, but we got to get them to the field playing hard,” said Chastain.
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 9, at 8 p.m. at Trojan Field.
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UPDATE: Body of woman found on Elm Street identified
The woman found dead in a creek near the intersection of Fifth Street and Elm Street on Monday has been identified as 47-year-old Norma Christine Cannon of Macon.
UPDATE (9/8) : The woman found dead in a creek near the intersection of Fifth Street and Elm Street on Monday has been identified as 47-year-old Norma Christine Cannon of Macon.
The Bibb County Sheriff’s office says there are no signs of foul play at this time.
According to Macon-Bibb Coroner Leon Jones, the next of kin has been notified.
Coroner Jones also said her body was sent to the G.B.I. Crime Lab for an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Those results are pending.
Anyone with information in reference to this incident is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME.
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A body was found in Macon Monday morning around 8:46 a.m.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones tells 41NBC that an unidentified homeless woman was found dead in a creek by the intersection of 5th Street and Elm Street.
Jones says a witness saw the woman in the woods Sunday, and thought she was laying there to cool off. When the witness saw the woman again Monday, he called authorities.
The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says anyone with information in reference to this incident is urged to call the BCSO at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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TORONTO — Elton John paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II at his final concert in Toronto on Thursday night, saying he was inspired by her and is sad she is gone.
“She led the country through some of our greatest and darkest moments with grace and decency and genuine caring,” John said.
“I’m 75 and she been with with me all my life and I feel very sad that that she won’t be with me anymore, but I’m glad she’s at peace,” he said. “I’m glad she’s at rest and she deserves it. She worked bloody hard.”
The singer-songwriter then performed his 1974 track “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me.”
John was knighted by the queen in 1998, a year after the death of his friend Princess Diana. Prince Charles also anointed the musician and charity patron as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honor last year.
John’s concert was the second of two nights at Toronto’s Rogers Centre and part of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, billed as his final tour.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Prince Charles became king immediately after his mother’s death
— Will Charles be loved by his subjects, like his mother was?
— Elizabeth has been the only monarch that most people in Britain have ever known
— Her death is being mourned by British politicians from across the political spectrum
— Fifteen prime ministers served during Elizabeth’s seven decades on the throne
— Here’s the order of succession after Charles became king
— Key milestones in the life of Queen Elizabeth II
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol tweeted his condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
“She had a strong belief in the cause of human freedom and left great legacies of dignity,” he said. He wrote that her kind heart and good deeds will remain in people’s memories.
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The foreign affairs minister for Myanmar’s National Unity Government, an underground parallel government spearheading the fight for democracy in Myanmar against its military-led government, posted her condolences on Twitter.
“I’m deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. On behalf of @NUGMyanmar and the people of Myanmar, I extend our deepest sympathies to the Royal Family and the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth,” wrote Zin Mar Aung.
Myanmar, then called Burma, gained independence from British colonial rule in 1948.
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CANBERRA, Australia — Malcolm Turnbull, the leader of a failed campaign to have an Australian president replace the British monarch as Australia’s head of state and who later became prime minister, came close to tears on Friday in paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.
Turnbull was chair of the Australian Republican Movement in 1999 when Australians voted at a referendum against the nation becoming a republic, severing its constitutional ties to the queen. He was prime minister between 2015 and 2018, during which time the queen gave him a photograph of herself with her husband Prince Philip.
Turnbull’s voice trembled as he recalled looking at the photo on Thursday night before he and his wife Lucy Turnbull went to bed with a sense of dread because of news from Buckingham Palace of the queen’s failing health.
“I took the portrait of the queen out and set it up and we just thought, ‘What an amazing life. What amazing leadership,’” Turnbull told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
“It’s the end of an era and let’s hope that the future, after the queen’s passing, is one where we will have leadership as dedicated and selfless as she has shown,” Turnbull added.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The king and crown prince of Saudi Arabia have offered their condolences over the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Statements carried early Friday in Saudi state media quoted King Salman as saying that Queen Elizabeth was “a model of leadership that will be immortalized in the history.”
He added: “We recall with appreciation the efforts of the deceased in consolidating the friendship and cooperation relations between our two friendly countries, as well as the high international status that Her Majesty enjoyed throughout the decades during which she acceded to the throne of your friendly country.”
His young son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, similarly offered his condolences, saying that the queen was “an example of wisdom, love and peace.”
He added: “The world remembers today the great impact and deeds that she had throughout her reign.”
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Queen Elizabeth was “the very heart and soul of the United Kingdom” and that her passing was greatly mourned by everyone in the city-state.
“She performed her duties with devotion, grace, and humility. Her contributions to the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and indeed to the world will be recorded in history, and she will always be remembered fondly as a great world leader,” Lee said in a post on Facebook. The post included a photo of Lee shaking hands with the queen in 2018 during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London.
Lee’s office said in a statement to local media that state flags at all government buildings will be flown at half-mast on the day of the funeral as a mark of respect. Parliament will also observe a minute of silence at the beginning of its sitting on Monday.
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TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed his condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth II via his official Twitter account, both in Japanese and in English.
“On the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, I extend my heartfelt condolences to the Royal Family, the government and the people of the United Kingdom,” he said. “The loss of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is a great loss not only to the British people but also to the international community. Japan’s thoughts are with the United Kingdom as the British people overcome this deepest sadness.”
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Minister Saifuddin Abdullah said Malaysia, a former colony before its independence from Britain in 1957, extended its sincere condolences to the queen’s family and the people of the United Kingdom.
“Her Majesty was a towering figure and led a lifetime of dedication and service to the people of the UK and the Commonwealth,” he wrote on Facebook.
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NEW YORK — The U.S. Tennis Association held a moment of silence before the first U.S. Open women’s semifinal match Thursday night — won in straight sets by Ons Jabeur over Caroline Garcia.
“We would like to pause to remember Queen Elizabeth II,” the stadium announcer said. “Our thoughts are with the people today of the United Kingdom. Remember to be part of us in a second of silence.”
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told reporters she was awoken a little before 5 a.m. by a police officer shining a torch into her bedroom to tell her the news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
Under New Zealand’s constitutional arrangements, the queen was also New Zealand’s monarch and head of state.
“The last days of the queen’s life captures who she was in so many ways,” Ardern said. “Working until the very end on behalf of the people she loved.”
Ardern said the queen was an extraordinary woman who she’d remember for her laughter. Ardern said that like many other people, she was feeling not only deep sadness but also deep gratitude.
“Here is a woman who gave her life, utterly, to the service of others. And regardless of what anyone thinks of the role of monarchies around the world, there is undeniably, I think here, a display of someone who gave everything on behalf of her people, and her people included the people of Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Ardern said New Zealand had moved into a period of official mourning, and would hold a state memorial service after the official funeral in Britain.
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ABUJA, Nigeria — President Muhammadu Buhari expressed “immense sadness” over the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
“Her late Majesty was the only British sovereign known to 90 percent of our population,” the Nigerian leader said, describing the late queen’s reign as “unique and wonderful.”
“The story of modern Nigeria will never be complete without a chapter on Queen Elizabeth ll, a towering global personality and an outstanding leader. She dedicated her life to making her nation, the Commonwealth and the entire world a better place,” Buhari added.
Nigeria gained independence from the British in 1960, four years after the late queen’s official visit to the West African nation. When Elizabeth last visited in 2003, she spoke of Nigeria’s critical role in the Commonwealth and applauded the country for its “leading part in the new partnership for Africa’s development.”
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SAO PAULO — Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree for three days of national mourning in the South American nation for the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
He also said on Twitter that Elizabeth “wasn’t the queen for the British only; she was a queen for all of us.”
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the death of Queen Elizabeth II is a time of mourning for the people in Britain, across the Commonwealth and around the world.
In a statement, he said she is the only reigning monarch most Australians have known and the only one to ever to visit their country.
“And over the course of a remarkable seven decades, Her Majesty was a rare and reassuring constant amidst rapid change,” he said. “Through the noise and turbulence of the years, she embodied and exhibited a timeless decency and an enduring calm.”
The British monarch is Australia’s official head of state, although these days the role is considered primarily ceremonial.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden went to the British Embassy on Thursday to offer condolences for the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The U.S. leader sat at a desk and signed the condolence book at the embassy. His wife, Jill Biden, brought a bouquet of flowers. She stood next to him before she, too, wrote in the book.
The president then spoke with embassy staff and could be overhead saying of the former British monarch, “We mourn for all of you. She was a great lady.”
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PARIS — Britain’s historic rival and contemporary ally France lowered flags at the presidential palace and public buildings to half-staff in honor of Queen Elizabeth II who died at the age of 96.
President Emmanuel Macron said no other foreign sovereign had visited the Elysee Palace more than Elizabeth, who knew all eight presidents of contemporary France.
He hailed her “immutable moral authority,” her intimate knowledge of French and the stability she brought “across the fluctuations and upheavals of politics, a permanence with the scent of eternity.”
“The woman who stood alongside the giants of the 20th century on the path of history has left to join them,” he said in a statement, sharing condolences to Britain from “the French Republic and the French people.”
At the British Embassy in Paris, a 20-year-old fashion student was among many who gathered, moist-eyed, with flowers and candles, to bid her adieu.
“When we learned the news we said to ourselves that Queen Elizabeth had followed us a good part of our lives,” said fashion student Theo Maillet. “We wanted to pay homage to her tonight, think of her family, and tell her one final goodbye.”
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Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness noted that ever since she was crowned in 1953, Queen Elizabeth II visited the island every decade until 2002.
“Undoubtedly, she formed a special bond with the people of Jamaica during her reign,” he said. “We are saddened that we will not see her light again, but we will remember her historic reign.”
In March, when Prince William and Kate visited Jamaica as part of an official trip to the Caribbean, Holness made an unexpected announcement in public that the British commonwealth intended to become fully independent.
Since then, Jamaica has established a Constitution Reform Committee and is scheduled to hold a referendum in 2025. If approved, it would join other republics in the region including Barbados, Dominica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.
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LONDON — Police in Scotland have removed barriers blocking the gates to Balmoral Castle to allow the public to lay flowers for Queen Elizabeth II.
The area had been blocked off as members of the royal family arrived earlier Thursday.
In London, the wrought iron gates at Buckingham Palace were brightened by dozens of colorful bouquets laid by mourners.
On the Mall, the main road leading to Buckingham Palace, around 50 black cabs lined up to pay tribute to the monarch. In nearby Green Park, hundreds of people streamed down the pavements winding through the park on their way to the palace.
“As a young person, this is a really huge moment,” said Romy McCarthy, 20. “It marks the end of an era, particularly as a woman – we had a woman who was in power as someone to look up to.”
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LONDON — Several sporting events in Britain were called off as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Organizers of the BMW PGA Championship golf event immediately suspended play, with many players still out on the course at Wentworth. The course and practice facilities will be closed Friday.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said Friday’s play in the second test between England and South Africa at the Oval would not take place.
Horse racing meetings in Britain were suspended on Thursday night and Friday, with the governing body wanting to “remember her extraordinary life and contribution to our sport and our nation.”
Domestic rugby matches in England and Scotland were called off on Thursday and games will not be played over the weekend, either.
Friday’s stage in cycling’s Tour of Britain was canceled, with a decision on the final two stages over the weekend to be taken in due course.
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LONDON — People grieved in the crowds outside Buckingham Palace when officials carried a notice confirming the Queen Elizabeth II’s death to the gates of her London home.
Thousands gathered in the pouring rain to mark their respects for the late monarch, who died Thursday at age 96.
Royal superfan John Loughrey, 67, wept outside the palace as he paid tribute to the “inspirational” queen. He compared her and the late Prince Philip to swans, which are said to die of broken hearts when they lose their mate. She and Philip were married for 73 years until his death in April of last year.
“She went downhill after the Duke of Edinburgh died,″ Loughrey said. “They were like two swans.
“God save the Queen.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was among the sea of world leaders who expressed their condolences to the British royal family over the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday.
Despite the tensions between Russia and Britain over the war in Ukraine, Putin reached out to King Charles III in a telegram. He wrote: “The most important events in the recent history of the United Kingdom are inextricably linked with the name of Her Majesty. For many decades, Elizabeth II rightfully enjoyed the love and respect of her subjects, as well as authority on the world stage.
“I wish you courage and perseverance in the face of this heavy, irreparable loss. I ask you to convey the words of sincere sympathy and support to the members of the royal family and all the people of Great Britain.”
Elizabeth died peacefully Thursday afternoon at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. All four of her children and other members of her family traveled there to be at her side.
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ROME — Pope Francis told King Charles III in a telegram that he is praying for “eternal rest” for Charles’ late mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
The pontiff said he was deeply saddened to learn of the queen’s death on Thursday at her Scotland estate, Balmoral Castle. He offered “heartfelt condolences to Your Majesty, the Members of the Royal Family, the People of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.”
Francis, who met with the queen in 2014, said, “I willingly join all who mourn her loss in praying for the late Queen’s eternal rest, and in paying tribute to her unstinting service to the good of the Nation and the Commonwealth, her example of devotion to duty, her steadfast witness of faith in Jesus Christ and her firm hope in his promises.”
Elizabeth, who as queen was head of the Church of England, first visited the Vatican while a princess in 1951. The first pontiff she met at the Vatican as queen was John XXIII, in 1961.
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LONDON — Politicians from across the political spectrum in Britain united in sorrow at the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a passing that brought fractious everyday politics in the country to a halt.
Prime Minister Liz Truss said the country was “devastated” by the death of the monarch, calling her “the rock on which modern Britain was built.”
“We are now a modern, thriving, dynamic nation,” Truss said outside 10 Downing St. in London. “Through thick and thin, Queen Elizabeth II provided us with the stability and the strength that we needed.
“She was the very spirit of Great Britain – and that spirit will endure,” ending on words no British leader has said for 70 years: “God save the king.”
Truss was appointed by the queen just two days ago, becoming the 15th prime minister to serve during Elizabeth’s reign.
Truss’ predecessor, Boris Johnson, said “this is our country’s saddest day.”
He said the death of the only monarch most Britons have ever known would provoke “a deep and personal sense of loss – far more intense, perhaps, than we expected.”
He said her heir, King Charles III, would “amply do justice to her legacy.”
Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer also paid tribute.
“Above the clashes of politics, she stood not for what the nation fought over, but what it agreed upon. As Britain changed rapidly around her, this dedication became the still point of our turning world,” he said. “So as our great Elizabethan era comes to an end, we will honor the late Queen’s memory by keeping alive the values of public service she embodied.”
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LONDON — Royal officials have confirmed that Britain’s new monarch will be known as King Charles III, ending speculation about whether would use another name during his reign.
The former Prince of Wales has been known as Prince Charles since his birth in 1948, but British monarchs have in the past selected new names when they ascent to the throne.
The late Queen Elizabeth II said earlier this year that she hoped Charles’ wife, Camilla, would be know as queen consort.
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U.S. presidents past and present expressed their condolences over the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden said in a statement that Elizabeth was “more than a monarch” and that “she defined an era.”
“Queen Elizabeth II was a stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock Alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States,” the Bidens said. “She helped make our relationship special.”
Biden’s predecessor in the White House, Donald Trump, said in a statement that Elizabeth “will always be remembered for her faithfulness to her country and her unwavering devotion to her fellow countrymen and women.
“Melania and I will always cherish our time together with the Queen, and never forget Her Majesty’s generous friendship, great wisdom, and wonderful sense of humor. What a grand and beautiful lady she was — there was nobody like her!”
Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, also recalled the queen fondly.
“Back when we were just beginning to navigate life as President and First Lady, she welcomed us to the world stage with open arms and extraordinary generosity,” the Obama’s said in a statement. “Time and again, we were struck by her warmth, the way she put people at ease, and how she brought her considerable humor and charm to moments of great pomp and circumstance.”
Former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter also issued statements expressing their condolences.
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LONDON — Prince Charles has been preparing to be king his entire life. Now his moment has arrived.
Following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday, Charles is now the oldest person to take the British throne.
No date has been set for his coronation. And it’s not immediately clear whether the new monarch would call himself Charles III or choose another name, as his grandfather did.
But Charles faces the enormous challenge of building the same sort of affection that characterized the relationship between his mother and the British public.
Will Charles be loved by his subjects, like his mother was? It’s a question that has overshadowed his entire life.
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Liz Truss says the country is “devastated” by the death of Queen Elizabeth II, calling her “the rock on which modern Britain was built.”
Truss said the news is “a huge shock to the nation and to the world” but that the queen’s spirit will endure.
Truss was appointed by the queen just two days ago, becoming the 15th prime minister to serve during Elizabeth’s reign.
The Union Jack flag atop the prime minister’s 10 Downing Street residence was lowered to half-staff after the monarch’s death was announced.
Elizabeth died peacefully Thursday afternoon at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. All four of her children and her grandson Prince William traveled there to be at her side.
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LONDON — Prince Charles says the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, “is a moment of the greatest sadness” for him and his family.
In a statement issued Thursday following the 96-year-old monarch’s death at her Balmoral Castle estate in Scotland, Charles said: “We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished Sovereign and a much-loved Mother. I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.”
Charles, who became king upon his mother’s death, said, “During this period of mourning and change, my family and I will be comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which The Queen was so widely held.”
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LONDON — Condolences are pouring in from around the world following the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted Thursday that the queen “embodied continuity and the unity of the British nation over 70 years. I retain the memory of a friend of France, a queen of hearts who marked as never before her country and her century.”
Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, expressed sadness at the news, tweeting: “Germany remains forever grateful that she stretched out her hand to us in reconciliation after the terror of World War II.”
Italian Premier Mario Draghi in a condolence message hailed the queen as having been “the absolute protagonist of world history of the last 70 years.” Draghi, who is now acting in a caretaker role ahead of Italian parliamentary elections later this month, said Elizabeth had represented the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth “with equilibrium, wisdom, respect for institutions and for democracy.”
Elizabeth died peacefully Thursday afternoon at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. All four of her children and her grandson Prince William traveled to Balmoral to be at her side.
The Royal Family’s Twitter feed posted a black and white photograph of the queen smiling as they announced her death.
Outside Buckingham Palace, the news was posted on the railings as crowds gathered.
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LONDON — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has died.
The 96-year-old queen died peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. All four of her children and her grandson Prince William traveled to Balmoral to be at her side.
The palace says her son Charles, who is now king, and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, will stay at Balmoral overnight and travel to London on Friday.
Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, she marked 70 years on the throne this year.
Elizabeth sat on the throne as the U.K. rebuilt from war, lost an empire, transformed its economy and both entered and left the European Union.
She was a constant presence, the only monarch most Britons have ever known, and she guided the institution of the monarchy through choppy waters.
The BBC played the national anthem over a portrait of the queen in full regalia as the queen’s death was announced.
The flag over Buckingham Palace was lowered to half staff.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pressed the case for Democratic economic policies during a visit Thursday to Ford’s Rouge electric vehicle assembly plant in Michigan, a battleground state in the November midterm elections.
After a production-line tour, Yellen promoted recent legislative successes for the Biden administration, saying: “After the progress we have made over the past few months, I am more optimistic about the course of our economy than I have been for quite a while and I know we are headed in the right direction.”
Yellen’s visit to Detroit was part of a monthlong tour as well as a larger White House campaign to highlight new laws intended to repair the economy, boost computer chip manufacturing, lower prescription drug prices, expand clean energy and revamp the country’s infrastructure.
She pointed to the bipartisan infrastructure law, the CHIPS and Science Act and the “ Inflation Reduction Act, ” all passed and signed in the past year.
“By any traditional metric, we have experienced one of the quickest recoveries in our modern history,” she said, referencing the financial damage and stagnation caused by the coronavirus pandemic that shuttered economic systems around the world. “Our plans worked” she added.
The Treasury Department is responsible for managing a new $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit for qualifying, but the auto industry is warning that the vast majority of EV purchases won’t qualify for that much.
The European Union and other nations have threatened to file complaints at the World Trade Organization over the tax credit, claiming it would discriminate against foreign producers and break WTO rules.
Yellen has more stops planned and will give a speech next month at the 157th anniversary of the Freedman’s Bank Forum to talk about how President Joe Biden’s economic agenda “advances equity and makes our economy stronger as a result.”
Biden is set to visit Ohio on Friday for the groundbreaking of an Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility and go to the Detroit auto show Wednesday to talk about manufacturing electric vehicles.
At the Ford electric vehicle assembly plant in Dearborn, Yellen pointed to U.S. vulnerability to global supply shocks caused by climate change and other factors, and the need to embrace green technology. Addressing those challenges, she said, offers the prospects of new jobs.
“This includes the U.S. clean vehicle sector, where we can expect greater investment — and more good jobs, like the ones here at Ford — as we develop the supply chain here at home,” she said.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Friday that the world owes impoverished Pakistan “massive” help in recovering from devastating floods because other nations have contributed much more to climate change, which experts say may have helped trigger the deluge.
Months of monsoons and flooding have killed 1,391 people and affected 3.3 million in this South Asian nation while half a million people have become homeless. Planeloads of aid from the United States, the United Arab Emirates and other countries have begun arriving, but there's more to be done, Guterres said.
Nature, the U.N. chief said in Islamabad, has attacked Pakistan, which contributes less than 1% of global emissions, according to multiple experts. Nations that “are more responsible for climate change ... should have faced this challenge,” Guterres said, seated next to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
“We are heading into a disaster," Guterres added. “We have waged war on nature and nature is tracking back and striking back in a devastating way. Today in Pakistan, tomorrow in any of your countries."
The U.N. chief's trip comes less than two weeks after Guterres appealed for $160 million in emergency funding to help those affected by the monsoon rains and floods that Pakistan says have caused at least $10 billion in damages. On Friday, the first planeload arrived from the U.S., which Washington says is part of an upcoming $30 million in assistance.
“I appeal for massive support from the international community as Pakistan responds to this climate catastrophe,” Guterres tweeted after landing in Pakistan earlier Friday.
He said other nations contributing to climate change are obligated to reduce emissions and help Pakistan. He assured Sharif that his voice was “entirely at the service of the Pakistani government and the Pakistani people” and that “the entire U.N. system is at the service of Pakistan.”
“Pakistan has not contributed in a meaningful way to climate change, the level of emissions in this country is relatively low," Guterres said. “But Pakistan is one of the most dramatically impacted countries by climate change."
Later, Guterres directed his words to the international community, saying that by some estimates, Pakistan needs about $30 billion to recover.
So far, U.N. agencies and several countries have sent nearly 60 planeloads of aid, and authorities say the UAE has been one of the most generous contributors and sent so far 26 flights carrying aid for flood victims.
Also Friday, Samantha Power, the administrator of USAID, met with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in Islamabad.
The floods have touched all of Pakistan, including heritage sites such as Mohenjo Daro, a UNESCO World Heritage Site considered one of the best-preserved ancient urban settlements in South Asia. The civilization that dates back 4,500 years, coinciding with those of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The U.N. heritage agency on Thursday announced it would send $350,000 to help recover flood-damaged cultural heritage sites.
Since June, heavy rains and floods have added new burdens to cash-strapped Pakistan and highlighted the disproportionate effect of climate change on impoverished populations. Experts say Pakistan is responsible for only 0.4% of the world’s historic emissions that are blamed for climate change. The U.S. is responsible for 21.5%, China for 16.5% and the European Union for 15%.
The floods in Pakistan have also injured 12,722 people, destroyed thousands of miles of roads, toppled bridges and damaged schools and hospitals, according to the National Disaster Management Agency.
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Sudan Archives' music celebrates digging. With infectious curiosity, her oddball collages of hip-hop, electronic and globally sourced folk bridge worlds and tramp through them, encouraging you to forge your own routes as well. Across two EPs and an album, the self-taught violinist, producer, and songwriter has honed a distinct blend of layered vocals and instrumentation that both pleases the ear and challenges it to parse all the fusion. Her vibrant second album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, details her passages between her hometown of Cincinnati, her adopted city of Los Angeles and the many other locales, people, and traditions that inform her idiosyncratic style. The record feels like a world tour of her brain, particular yet capacious — and always active.
Cosmopolitan music often leans heavily into the rush and the signifiers of jetsetting — accents, passports, landmarks, cuisines, runways — but Natural Brown Prom Queen's preoccupation is terroir, the distinct conditions that make a place unique. Sudan Archives doesn't just experience or consume global sounds; she interacts with them, her fingers sifting through the soil as she feels out every little element. "Suck out the honey," she implores on the steamy R&B track "Milk Me," capturing the intimacy and pleasure of her sourcing. Each encounter seems to clarify her own origins and path forward.
The album builds on the conviction of her debut, Athena, which bolstered her signature sound with heftier singing and breezy rapping. The cover of that globetrotting record, which pictured Sudan Archives and her violin as a Greek statue, captures the whimsy, audacity and confidence of her musical vision. Born Brittney Parks and nicknamed Sudan as a child, the artist is a Black Midwesterner with no direct ties to Sudan, South Sudan, or Greece. She picked up the violin when a chance performance by Canadian fiddlers at her Ohio elementary school sparked an obsession. She learned to play by ear in various ensembles — something she references on the Natural Brown Prom Queen interlude "Do Your Thing (Refreshing Springs)" — and later became interested in the actual sounds of Sudan, which coincidentally has a culture of ceremonial and experimental violin music. She adopted her stage name after this tacit connection implored her to peruse the broader archive of African folk music. More links followed — many of them hyperlinks on YouTube — as she explored and embraced the string traditions of Estonia, Ghana, and Russia. All this cultural gallivanting rules out any notion of "authenticity," a fraught term that, in the name of properly attributing sounds and styles to their sources, often conflates origination with originality and inspiration with extraction.
Natural Brown Prom Queen has little interest in proving Parks' legitimacy and is more driven by her intense curiosity. The acts of borrowing and interpolating are openly embedded in the music. On the closer, "513," she warps the hook of LL Cool J's "Going Back to Cali" into a homegoing reprise. Opener "Home Maker" is an ode to personal space that begins with a quicksilver suite that flickers between snatches of synth, trumpet, keys, harp, and a breakbeat before settling into a pulsing R&B arrangement. "I'm a homemaker," Sudan Archives sings on the hook, celebrating her domicile and the many elements that comprise it. Her home is a waypoint rather than an enclosure, the space and its builder changing as people and ideas drift through.
That enthusiasm for both influence and confluence flavors the swaggering and saucy album, which finds the singer mulling relationships, her body and her desires over compositions that shimmer with textures and overtones. The songs, which often have multiple producers, practically glow with life, constantly changing direction and shape. "Ciara" wryly uses sun-soaked melodies to toast to a roughneck relative ("I got a cousin in Chicago / Who will smack you in your face") then empties into a sludgy bridge that shifts yet again into a gale of chill funk. The dewy vocals and production on slow jam "ChevyS10" liquefy, sublimate and freeze like water changing states. Noise rap and hyperpop often use volatility to disorient and dissociate, but as Sudan jaunts from Miami bass on "Freakalizer" to Irish jigs on "TDLY (Homegrown Land)" she sounds more grounded and clear-headed.
"Selfish Soul" melds choral harmonies, violin riffs and pounding drums into a folksy rap track, the busyness of the beat matching Sudan's fraught tales of styling her hair. The theme recalls other considerations of Black hair by women in soul music — India.Arie's "I Am Not My Hair" and Solange's "Don't Touch My Hair" — but Sudan's take on the subject emphasizes working for self-acceptance rather than deflecting outside gazes, subtly underscoring that individual autonomy is at the root of such songs even as they mention experiences relatable to any Black woman. "Copycat" approaches the subject differently, Sudan playfully addressing biters. Calling out plagiarists is standard rap stuff, but the song doubles as a metacommentary on the unappreciated omni-influence of Black women, Sudan asking how she can be both despised and Xeroxed. It's a worthwhile question. In a world with so much erasure of Black women's contributions, what can authenticity even look like for them?
Control comes up often on Natural Brown Prom Queen. On the title track, she alludes to her time in N2, a defunct teen-pop duo with her twin sister. She's said that rebelling against the direction of the group, which was put together by her late stepdad, resulted in her getting kicked out the house. Because of this history, the polyvalent music she makes as Sudan Archives is often read as antipop. But here she makes it clear that she rejected her lack of authority rather than the music she made. "I just want to have my t*****s out / T*****s out / T*****s out," she chants in the outro, again linking creative and bodily autonomy. Her music is less a rejection of pop and more an embrace of her uninhibited self. (Plus, her pop instincts are on full display in the composition of these and past songs. She is very capable of writing earworms and being an ethnomusicological nerd at the same damn time.)
When she's not explicitly talking about authority, she's exuding it in her cocksure rapping and singing, which anchors all the album's motion. She gushes with ideas and approaches to these bustling arrangements, hopscotching across drum patterns ("Yellow Brick Road"), bouncing off of basslines ("Copycat") and gliding over melodies ("Homesick"). Her violin appears on over half the songs, but it's less of a focal instrument, underscoring the growing sense that she is the lead. Her widening web of influences and collaborators (most notably multi-instrumentalist Ben Dickey, who is credited on nearly every song) affirms that she is the conductor through which all these currents flow.
It's fitting, then, that her journeys lead her back to Cincinnati on "#513." "Hollywood will make you hollow / I'm too rooted in my ways," she sings defiantly, setting the song up as a prodigal return. But the tinny song is not an ode to the rustbelt city or a homecoming in the typical sense of the word. Sudan Archives doesn't head home to settle old scores, reminisce on better days, or restore herself. She goes simply because, in that moment, that's where she wants to be. That caprice captures the itinerant spirit of her music and the album's arch sense of home. In the world of Sudan Archives, home is anywhere, anyone, and any sound that pushes you forward.
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WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Warner Robins Police Department made 4 arrests Wednesday for drug sales.
According to WRPD, Narcotics investigators served a search warrant at 311 Woodlawn Avenue around 1 p.m. and arrested 4 people after finding several different drugs.
The 4 arrested have charges ranging from Sale of THC, Sale of Psychedelics, Sale of Edible THC, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Firearms, as well as singular charges for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, and Tampering with Evidence on two of those arrested. One of the 4 arrested is 16-years-old, so they were released to the Houston County Juvenile Division.
The other 3, Kristopher Dickerson, Michelle Pait, and Davion Marshall were taken to the Houston County Detention facility.
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an armed robbery that took place in the early hours of Friday, September 9th, at a Macon gas station.
According to BCSO, the incident happened around 2:05 a.m., when 2 male suspects entered the Chevron gas station at 584 Emery Highway and brandished a long rifle, demanding money from the cash registers. After taking the cash, the suspects ran towards Woolfolk Street. Nobody was injured during the incident.
Both suspects were seen wearing dark clothing and masks.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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LONDON, UK — As the United Kingdom mourns a beloved queen, the nation is already wondering how King Charles III will reign and whether his monarchy will depart from the traditions of his mother.
If his first full day on the throne is any indication, Charles seemed ready to chart at least a slightly different course.
When Charles traveled to Buckingham Palace for the first time as the new king Friday, his limousine snaked through a sea of spectators then stopped short of the palace gates before he got out and shook hands with well-wishers. Charles looked more like a U.S. president on the campaign trail than the latest steward of a 1,000-year-old hereditary monarchy.
It’s not that Queen Elizabeth II didn’t meet her subjects. She did, often. But this felt different — a bit less formal, a bit more relaxed. Charles spent almost 10 minutes greeting people pressed up against the crowd-control barriers, smiling, waving, accepting condolences and the occasional bouquet of flowers as the audience broke out in a chorus of “God Save the King.”
After inspecting the tributes to his mother lined up outside the palace, he waved once more and walked through the gates with Camilla, the Queen Consort.
“It was impressive, touching, a good move to come out to the crowds,” said Ammar Al-Baldawi, 64, a retiree from Hertfordshire who was among the throngs outside the palace. “I think that’s where the royal family needs to communicate with the people now."
There are more difficult issues ahead, most pressingly how the 73-year-old king will carry out his role as head of state.
The laws and traditions that govern Britain’s constitutional monarchy dictate that the sovereign must stay out of partisan politics, but Charles has spent much of his adult life speaking out on issues that are important to him, particularly the environment and development.
His words have caused friction with politicians and business leaders who accused the then-Prince of Wales of meddling in issues on which he should have remained silent.
The question is whether Charles will follow his mother’s example and muffle his personal opinions now that he is king, or use his new platform to reach a broader audience.
In his first speech as monarch, Charles sought to put his critics at ease.
“My life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities,'' he said. “It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply. But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others."
Ed Owens, a historian and author of “The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53,” said it’s unlikely Charles will suddenly stop talking about climate change and the environment — issues where there is a broad consensus about the urgent need for action. That may push the boundaries of what a constitutional monarchy looks like, he said.
Such “vigorous promotion” of the consensus “is something we’re going to see that is going to be different compared to his mother’s reign,” Owens said before Charles became king.
John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy for climate, said he hopes Charles will continue speaking out about climate change because it is a universal issue that doesn’t involve ideology. Kerry was in Scotland to meet with the Prince of Wales this week, but the session was canceled when the queen died.
“It doesn’t mean he’s involved in the daily broil of politics or speaking for a specific piece of legislation,” Kerry told the BBC. “But I can’t imagine him not … feeling compelled to use the important role of the monarch, with all the knowledge he has about it, to speak out and urge the world to do the things the world needs to do.”
Constitutional lawyers have debated for years whether Charles has pushed the boundaries of conventions designed to keep the monarchy out of the political fray.
His so-called Black Spider Memos — named for his spidery handwriting — to government ministers have been cited as evidence that he wouldn’t be neutral in his dealings with Parliament.
The debate has also spilled over into fiction.
In the 2014 play “King Charles III,” playwright Mike Bartlett imagines the new king, uncertain of his powers and moved by his conscience, causing a constitutional crisis by refusing to sign a new law restricting press freedom.
It is an illustration of the tensions inherent in a system that evolved from an absolute monarchy to one in which the sovereign plays a largely ceremonial role. While Britain’s unwritten constitution requires that legislation must receive royal assent before it becomes law, this is considered a formality that the monarch cannot refuse.
In an interview for a 2018 documentary broadcast on his 70th birthday, Charles said he would behave differently when he became king because the monarch has a different role than the Prince of Wales.
Even so, he questioned the criticism he has received over the years.
“I’ve always been intrigued if it’s meddling to worry about the inner cities, as I did 40 years ago, and what was happening or not happening there, the conditions in which people were living,” he wondered. “If that’s meddling, I’m very proud of it.”
On another issue facing the new king, Charles has said clearly that he intends to reduce the number of working royals and cut expenses as he seeks to ensure the monarchy better represents modern Britain.
Robert Lacey, a royal historian and adviser on the Netflix series “The Crown,” said this initiative underscores the important role of Prince William, who is now heir to the throne.
William has already made the environment one of his primary issues, and he is likely to take an even more prominent role in this area now that his father is king, Lacey told the BBC.
But there is another clue to the new king’s plans for his reign, and that’s his choice of a name.
Before Elizabeth’s time, there was a tradition that British monarch’s would choose a new name when they ascended the throne. Charles’ grandfather, for instance was known as Bertie before he became King George VI. There was some thought Charles would choose to be known as King George VII in honor of his grandfather.
But Charles rejected the idea and kept his own name. That’s a “clear message” that the king will continue to champion the causes he backed as Prince of Wales, Lacey said.
It was his father, Prince Philip, who identified ways in which the neutral monarchy could advocate for youth development and the environment — "really important causes that they could push forward without being accused of partisanship,” he said.
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(CN) — Despite not having clear answers to questions such as where in the ocean are North Atlantic right whales most likely to become entangled in fishing gear, federal regulators did not act arbitrarily when creating a 2021 biological opinion for the endangered species, a federal judge ruled.
On Thursday, a federal judge in the District of Columbia ruled against several lobstermen’s organizations and the Maine Department of Marine Resources who tried to argue the National Marine Fisheries Service exaggerated the risks the lobster industry posed to the whales.
Noting the issue has pitted the approximately 336 right whales left alive against the “livelihoods and traditions” of the lobstermen who populate the harbors and bays of New England, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said the agency rationally used what little data it had to create the biological opinion, which then informed it as the agency crafted fishing regulations.
“Indeed, as circumstances change and new data become available, the agency can and must continually update its assessments,” Boasberg wrote. “At this juncture, however, the Court is satisfied that NMFS suitably considered the data available at the time of its action and reasonably explained its scientific conclusions.”
Once the prized quarry of the area’s whaling industry, the North Atlantic right whale’s greatest threat is humankind: colliding with ships or tangling with fishing line that can lead to infection or drowning.
Federal regulators estimated about 1.24 million buoy lines stretch down through the water from Maine to Rhode Island and a study found 85% of right whales have had a run-in with rope at least once in their lives.
In one portion of its biological opinion, National Marine Fisheries Service estimated about half of those entanglements occurred in U.S. waters with the rest coming from Canada.
The lobsterman industry argued the agency’s numbers were off because a changing climate is pushing the right whales further north. Furthermore, it said that of the incidents that involved whale death or serious injury between 2010 and 2018, researchers were able to trace 7.75 incidents to Canadian fishing gear and two to American gear. The rest — 38.75 incidents — could not be pinned down to a particular region.
But Boasberg said it was unclear how much time the whales spent in American and Canadian waters.
“While noting that heavier Canadian gear used for fishing snow crabs is more lethal than American buoy lines used for lobstering, NMFS nonetheless concluded that the large number of buoy lines in U.S. waters, combined with substantial uncertainty on the effects of the countries’ mitigation measures, suggested a 50/50 split,” Boasberg wrote.
When researchers are able to observe entangled or dead whales, the weathered gear that can be recovered often gives scant clues as to where the whale was first entangled. While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration keep a gear locker of items it has taken from entangled whales, sometimes the best it can do is describe the gear as “unidentified line.”
Maine Governor Janet Mills said Boasberg’s decision was “out of touch with reality” and her administration would discuss next steps with lobster industry groups.
“Maine lobstermen care about the endangered right whale and have undertaken substantial actions to protect them at great personal expense,” Mills' statement said.
The Maine Lobstermen’s Association, one of the groups that challenged the biological opinion, said on Facebook that it has been nearly two decades since a right whale entanglement has been attributed to Maine lobster fishing gear.
“It has become crystal clear that neither [the federal court nor NMFS] grasp the devastating impacts their decisions will have on the Maine lobster industry, our coastal communities, and the State of Maine,” the association said.
The decision comes months after Boasberg sided with conservation groups who had filed a suit of their own arguing federal regulators disregarded federal laws and did not go far enough to protect right whales from the ropes of the lobster fisheries when crafting their regulations.
Around the same time, the First Circuit allowed a seasonal closure of a strip of ocean off the coast of Maine to the use of buoy lines to remain in place as lobster industry groups challenge it the regulation in court.
Responding to Thursday’s ruling, attorneys for the conservation groups involved with the litigation — Defenders of Wildlife, Conservation Law Foundation and the Center for Biological Diversity — said in a statement for years federal regulators did too little as right whale numbers dwindled.
Defenders of Wildlife senior attorney Jane Davenport said “for years the agency has deferred to the lobster industry’s demands for weaker fishing regulations. The Fisheries Service now needs to follow its own science and protect the right whale before the clock runs out on this iconic species’ survival.”
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PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of a new Arizona law restricting how the public and journalists can film police, agreeing with the American Civil Liberties Union and multiple media organizations who argued it violated the First Amendment.
U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi issued a preliminary injunction that stops the law from being enforced when it is set to take effect on Sept. 24. The quick decision came after Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and the prosecutor and sheriff’s office in Maricopa County told the judge they did not plan to defend the law. They were named as defendants in the lawsuit filed last month.
The law was enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature over unified opposition from Democrats and signed by GOP Gov. Doug Ducey on July 6.
It makes it illegal to knowingly film police officers 8 feet (2.5 meters) or closer if the officer tells the person to stop. And on private property, an officer who decides someone is interfering or the area is unsafe can order the person to stop filming even if the recording is being made with the owner’s permission.
The penalty is a misdemeanor that would likely incur a fine without jail time.
KM Bell, an ACLU attorney who lobbied against the bill at the Legislature and was in court Friday, said they were pleased the judge acted quickly.
“We are extremely gratified that Arizonans will not have their constitutional rights infringed and their ability to record the police criminalized by this law,” Bell said.
Bystander cellphone videos are largely credited with revealing police misconduct — such as with the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis officers — and reshaping the conversation around police transparency. But Republican Arizona lawmakers say the legislation was needed to limit people with cameras who deliberately impede officers.
Tuchi gave the Legislature a week to decide whether it wants to defend the law. The ACLU and media groups are seeking a permanent injunction.
Republican Rep. John Kavanagh, a retired police officer who sponsored the law, said he was “taken by surprise” when Brnovich did not move to defend the law.
“I was assuming that the attorney general would do his job as the state’s attorney and defend a law passed by the state,” Kavanagh said. “We are trying to get together with the (House) speaker and the (Senate) president and see if the Legislature will defend it, but there’s also the possibility of some outside group possibly stepping up.”
Brnovich’s office is charged with defending state laws. But in this case, his spokesperson, Katie Conner, said that because the attorney general does not have enforcement authority in these types of cases, they were the wrong party to sue.
Matt Kelley, an attorney who represented the news organizations that sued, argued in his court papers that Brnovich is not correct. He noted that by law the attorney general can step in and enforce laws that county prosecutors normally would.
Kavanagh argued that allowing people to record police up close while they are doing enforcement, like making arrests or dealing with a disturbed person, could put officers in danger, and noted that he made several changes to address the concerns of the ACLU. Those include changing the restriction from 16 feet (4.8 meters) to 8 feet.
“So I think this is unbelievably reasonable,” he said. “And if what’s causing the problem is my limiting it to just these law enforcement characters in all encounters, how ironic that trying to limit the scope of government reach is unconstitutional. But I guess that’s the world we live in.”
Kelley said that the law was very problematic. He praised Tuchi for quickly agreeing that the law did not meet the requirements needed to restrict First Amendment protections for filming law enforcement activities.
“There wasn’t anything in the law that said the person recording has to be interfering with law enforcement or harassing officers or otherwise doing something that would create a danger or a distraction,” Kelley said. “All it prohibited was simply standing there, making a video recording. And since that’s activity that’s protected by the First Amendment, this law was on its face unconstitutional.”
The original legislation was amended so it applies only to certain types of police actions, including questioning of suspects and encounters involving mental or behavioral health issues. It exempts people who are subject to the police interaction, or in a stopped car.
In similar cases, six of the nation’s dozen U.S. appeals courts have ruled on the side of allowing people to record police without restriction. Soon after the Arizona law was signed, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled that a YouTube journalist and blogger’s lawsuit against a suburban Denver police department could move forward. The blogger said an officer blocked him from recording a 2019 traffic stop.
The Phoenix Police Department, which oversees the nation’s fifth-largest city, has been criticized in recent years for its use of force, which disproportionately affects Black and Native American residents.
Reporters and photographers said this law will make it nearly impossible to do their job, especially at massive events like protests. The outlets that sued include Phoenix Newspapers Inc., parent of The Arizona Republic; Gray Television; Scripps Media; KPNX-TV; Fox Television Stations; NBCUniversal Media; the Arizona Broadcasters Association; States Newsroom; Arizona Newspapers Association; and the National Press Photographers Association.
The Associated Press filed a friend of the court brief urging Tuchi to block the law from being enforced. The AP’s attorneys said that photographers especially could be caught up while covering rallies, where it could limit their ability to capture the full interactions between police and protesters.
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15-year-old in critical condition after being shot in the chest
It happened in the 4100 block of Worsham Avenue just after 6 p.m.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) — A Macon teenager is in critical condition after being shot Friday night.
It happened in the 4100 block of Worsham Avenue just after 6 p.m.
The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says when deputies arrived on scene, they found a 15-year-old with a gunshot would to the chest.
The details leading up to the incident are still under investigation.
Anyone with about this incident is asked to call the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751 -7500, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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BCSO arrests brothers for gun & drug charges
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Two brothers were arrested in connection to gun and drug charges Wednesday in Bibb County.
According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, Drug Unit investigators along with the U.S. Marshal’s Southeast Fugitive task force worked to serve an arrest warrant on 34-year-old Trayon Latray Brown.
While serving the warrant at the Fourth Avenue address task force members found Trayon with his brother, 44-year-old Larry Kinte Brown, as well as 22 grams of marijuana. They also found that Larry, a convicted felon, was in possession of a handgun. After obtaining a search warrant of the residence, drug unit investigators found over 11 grams of cocaine.
Both brothers were sent to the Bibb County Law Enforcement center. Trayon Brown is being charged with Burglary in the 2nd degree, Probation Violation- Felony, Marijuana, Possession Less than 1 ounce and a Bond Surrender- Superior Court. Trayon Brown was out on bond for the charges of Possession of a Firearm During Commission of a Felony, Possession of a Firearm by 1st Offender, Possession of Methamphetamine, Driving without Valid Driver’s License, Possession of Marijuana, and Obstruction.
Larry Brown has been charged with Possession of a Firearm by Convicted Felon, Possession of Cocaine with the Intent to Distribute, Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of or Attempt to Commit Certain Felonies, and a Probation Violation- Felony.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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Carl Vinson VA honors those lost in 9/11
DUBLIN, Ga, (41NBC/WMGT)- The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center held 9/11 remembrance ceremony on Friday.
As the 21st anniversary of the attacks approach, the medical center held a prayer and moment of silence for those impacted.
Executive Director of the medical center, Manuel Davila, said that part of the ceremony is about honoring those lost in the war against terrorism after 9/11.
“So many have served in the conflicts since as a result and it’s not just remembering the services and sacrifices that they made but it’s also about the impact they continue to make on our nations and certainly in our communities as well,” said Davila.
Davila also made a promise to continue to serve veterans as they serve the country.
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Defense rests at R. Kelly trial on trial-fixing charges
CHICAGO (AP) — The defense for R. Kelly and two co-defendants rested Friday at the R&B singer’s trial on charges of trial-fixing, child pornography and enticing minors for sex.
They concluded their case after the main defense witness, Kelly co-defendant and former business manager Derrell McDavid, ended three days of testimony.
Prosecutors get a chance to call rebuttal witnesses and the sides will then deliver closing arguments. Jury deliberations aren’t likely to begin until next week.
Kelly and McDavid are charged with fixing Kelly’s 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening witnesses and concealing video evidence. Kelly was acquitted in 2008. Both he and McDavid also face child pornography charges at the federal trial in Chicago. A third co-defendant, Kelly associate Milton Brown, is accused of receiving child pornography.
McDavid was the only one of the three defendants to testify in his own behalf.
Kelly, 55, already was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June after a separate federal trial in New York.
Kelly, known for his smash hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and for sex-infused songs such as “Bump n’ Grind,” sold millions of albums even after allegations of sexual misconduct began circulating in the 1990s. Widespread outrage emerged after the #MeToo reckoning and the 2019 docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.”
At times while testifying this week, McDavid sounded like a prosecution witness. He said he believed Kelly’s denials about sexually abusing minors in the 2000s but altered his view during the current trial.
During cross-examination, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng sought to show McDavid was so close to Kelly that he couldn’t have been completely ignorant of any Kelly misconduct.
McDavid agreed his job included protecting Kelly’s reputation and assets. Citing financial records, the prosecutor said Kelly paid him some $1 million a year starting in 2006. McDavid denied he took steps to fend off sexual misconduct lawsuits against Kelly primarily to protect his his boss and his lucrative income from Kelly.
In a sudden shift at the end of the day Thursday, McDavid expressed doubts about Kelly’s insistence in the 2000s that he never sexually abused minors.
Asked by his own lawyer, Beau Brindley, if he was in “a different position” to assess allegations against Kelly after sitting through government testimony by four Kelly accusers, McDavid responded: “Yes, I am.”
“The last (few) weeks … I’ve learned a lot … that I had no idea about in 2008,” he added.
McDavid, who previously had testified that he once saw Kelly as a son, was also asked if he had wanted to believe Kelly in the 2000s, including to the end of Kelly’s 2008 trial.
“I absolutely did,” he answered, “because I loved him and I believed in him.”
McDavid’s testimony could lend credence to the charges Kelly alone faces — five counts of enticing minor girls for sex, one count each for five accusers. However, it is also in McDavid’s interest to say he believed Kelly heading into the 2008 trial because it undermines the government’s case that McDavid knew Kelly was guilty and thought the singer would be convicted if evidence wasn’t suppressed.
Judge Harry Leinenweber has repeatedly rejected requests from Kelly’s defense team that he be tried alone because his and McDavid’s interests would conflict at a joint trial.
McDavid testified that he and Kelly grew apart after the 2008 trial amid financial disputes and that he quit working for Kelly in 2014.
The ongoing trial in Kelly’s hometown is, in ways , a do-over of the 2008 trial. A single video, which prosecutors said showed Kelly sexually abusing a girl of around 14, was at the heart of that trial. The same video is evidence at the current trial.
The girl in the video, then an adult, did not testify at that 2008 trial, which jurors cited as a reason they couldn’t convict. She testified at the current trial under the pseudonym “Jane,” saying she was the person in that video and that Kelly made the recording. She also said that Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of time starting when she was 14.
McDavid testified Wednesday that he had seen the then-teenager hanging around Kelly’s studio in the late 1990s. He said Kelly angrily denied rumors he was sexually abusing Jane, whom Kelly described as his goddaughter.
“I believed him,” McDavid said.
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GMC celebrates Patriot Day
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Georgia Military College hosted its annual Patriot Day celebration to remember those lost on 9/11 as well as the war on terror.
GMC started its annual Patriot Day celebration with an early morning gathering to remember the events of 9/11 and what followed.
Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell is the president of GMC and a retired veteran. He says the school’s Patriot Day celebration started as a way to remember the family members of some of the students who died on duty during the Iraq War. These students are a part of what are called gold star families, the school also saw it as an opportunity to teach about what happened on 9/11 and what followed.
“We realized most of the cadets were only several years old at that time when 9/11 had happened and so we were looking for a way to establish, to teach them about history, to teach them about sacrifice and to teach them that America came together on one day as the result of a terrible event.” said Caldwell
For the past seven years, on the anniversary of 9/11,Georgia military college holds its Patriot Day celebration where the school hosts different events in remembrance of 9/11.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
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King Charles III signals his reign will offer change of tone
LONDON (AP) — As the United Kingdom mourns a beloved queen, the nation is already wondering how King Charles III will reign and whether his monarchy will depart from the traditions of his mother.
If his first full day on the throne is any indication, Charles seemed ready to chart at least a slightly different course.
When Charles traveled to Buckingham Palace for the first time as the new king Friday, his limousine snaked through a sea of spectators then stopped short of the palace gates before he got out and shook hands with well-wishers. Charles looked more like a U.S. president on the campaign trail than the latest steward of a 1,000-year-old hereditary monarchy.
It’s not that Queen Elizabeth II didn’t meet her subjects. She did, often. But this felt different — a bit less formal, a bit more relaxed and personal. Charles spent almost 10 minutes greeting people pressed up against the crowd-control barriers, smiling, waving, accepting condolences and the occasional bouquet of flowers as the audience broke out in a chorus of “God Save the King.”
After inspecting the tributes to his mother lined up outside the palace, he waved once more and walked through the gates with Camilla, the Queen Consort.
“It was impressive, touching, a good move to come out to the crowds,” said Ammar Al-Baldawi, 64, a retiree from Hertfordshire who was among the throngs outside the palace. “I think that’s where the royal family needs to communicate with the people now.”
Charles’ efforts to engage with the public more intimately reflect the fact that he needs their support. There are difficult issues ahead, most pressingly how the 73-year-old king will carry out his role as head of state.
The laws and traditions that govern Britain’s constitutional monarchy dictate that the sovereign must stay out of partisan politics, but Charles has spent much of his adult life speaking out on issues that are important to him, particularly the environment.
His words have caused friction with politicians and business leaders who accused the then-Prince of Wales of meddling in issues on which he should have remained silent.
The question is whether Charles will follow his mother’s example and muffle his personal opinions now that he is king, or use his new platform to reach a broader audience.
In his first speech as monarch, Charles sought to put his critics at ease.
“My life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities,” he said. “It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply. But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others.”
Ed Owens, a historian and author of “The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53,” said that while Charles will tread a careful path, it’s unlikely he will suddenly stop talking about climate change and the environment — issues where there is a broad consensus about the urgent need for action.
“To not do so would not be true to the image that he has until this moment developed,” Owens said.
John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy for climate, said he hopes Charles will continue speaking out about climate change because it is a universal issue that doesn’t involve ideology. Kerry was in Scotland to meet with the Prince of Wales this week, but the session was canceled when the queen died.
“It doesn’t mean he’s involved in the daily broil of politics or speaking for a specific piece of legislation,” Kerry told the BBC. “But I can’t imagine him not … feeling compelled to use the important role of the monarch, with all the knowledge he has about it, to speak out and urge the world to do the things the world needs to do.”
Constitutional lawyers have debated for years whether Charles has pushed the boundaries of conventions designed to keep the monarchy out of the political fray.
His so-called Black Spider Memos — named for his spidery handwriting — to government ministers have been cited as evidence that he wouldn’t be neutral in his dealings with Parliament.
The debate has also spilled over into fiction.
In the 2014 play “King Charles III,” playwright Mike Bartlett imagines the new king, uncertain of his powers and moved by his conscience, causing a constitutional crisis by refusing to sign a new law restricting press freedom.
It is an illustration of the tensions inherent in a system that evolved from an absolute monarchy to one in which the sovereign plays a largely ceremonial role. While Britain’s unwritten constitution requires that legislation must receive royal assent before it becomes law, this is considered a formality that the monarch cannot refuse.
In an interview for a 2018 documentary broadcast on his 70th birthday, Charles said he would behave differently when he became king because the monarch has a different role than the Prince of Wales.
Even so, he questioned the criticism he has received over the years.
“I’ve always been intrigued if it’s meddling to worry about the inner cities, as I did 40 years ago, and what was happening or not happening there, the conditions in which people were living,” he wondered. “If that’s meddling, I’m very proud of it.”
On another issue facing the new king, Charles has said clearly that he intends to reduce the number of working royals and cut expenses as he seeks to ensure the monarchy better represents modern Britain.
Robert Lacey, a royal historian and adviser on the Netflix series “The Crown,” said this initiative underscores the important role of Prince William, who is now heir to the throne.
William has already made the environment one of his primary issues, and he is likely to take an even more prominent role in this area now that his father is king, Lacey told the BBC.
But there is another clue to the new king’s plans for his reign, and that’s his choice of a name.
Before Elizabeth’s time, there was a tradition that British monarchs would choose a new name when they ascended the throne. Charles’ grandfather, for instance was known as Bertie before he became King George VI. There was some thought Charles would choose to be known as King George VII in honor of his grandfather.
But Charles rejected the idea and kept his own name. That’s a “clear message” that the king will continue to champion the causes he backed as Prince of Wales, Lacey said.
It was his father, Prince Philip, who identified ways in which the neutral monarchy could advocate for youth development and the environment — “really important causes that they could push forward without being accused of partisanship,” he said.
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Macon first responders honor 9/11 victims
"Events going on in this country now that give us pause. So we need to show particularly in a public safety front that we're all united to protect those that we serve."
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Macon-Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and Fire Department lined Second Street and Mulberry Street during Friday’s 9/11 ceremony.
Public servants offered prayers for those who lost their live. Sheriff David Davis spoke about the importance of showing unity
“Events going on in this country now that give us pause. So we need to show particularly in a public safety front that we’re all united to protect those that we serve,” said Sheriff Davis.
Fire Chief Shane Edwards says the ceremony means a lot to those who currently serve.
“Ceremony that’s not very long but it is touching. Our fire fighters and our deputies look forward to it every year, being able to come back and to let people know that we’re not going to forget. We’re always going to remember, and we’re always going to be there for them,” said Chief Edwards.
Sheriff Davis says even after 21 years, it’s important to remember we should always stand together.
“Public safety pay homage to those were lost on that day and all of the service members that have fallen since then in the war on terrorism,” he said. “We’re showing that we’re all in this together to fight any kind of foe that comes to this country or our local cities.”
Along with the moment of silence, a wreath was presented, along with the playing of bagpipes.
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Museum of Aviation to host first ever ‘STEM City Expo’
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)— The Museum of Aviation is looking to immerse children in STEM careers.
It’s doing so by hosting its first ever STEM City Expo at the Century of Flight Hangar.
Over 20 organizations like Flint Energies, Houston Healthcare and Georgia Power will be set up with a booth.
Throughout the expo you can win prizes, take a coding course, view special presentations and receive a virtual reality discount.
Melissa Spalding the Director of Education and Visitor Experience with the museum says, they’re hoping to reach families from across middle Georgia.
“How often do you hear children say why do I need to know that? Well we’re here to make those connections so that they can see these as future careers.”
Spalding also says the organizing of the expo is a workforce initiative. With the expo the museum can show students how learning about stem is going to help them in future careers.
The expo is free, and food trucks will also be out. It’s taking place Saturday, September 10th, at the century of flight hangar located at 1942 Heritage Boulevard in Warner Robins, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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N. Korea says it will never give up nukes to counter US
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stressed his country will never abandon the nuclear weapons it needs to counter the United States, which he accused of pushing to weaken the North’s defenses and eventually collapse his government, state media said Friday.
Kim made the comments during a speech Thursday at North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament, where members passed legislation governing the use of nuclear weapons, which Kim described as a step to cement the country’s nuclear status and make clear such weapons will not be bargained.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s office said he was “deeply concerned” about the new law, and noted that the North’s pursuit of a nuclear weapons program “continues to disregard the resolutions of the Security Council to cease such activities.”
“The Secretary-General reiterates his call to the DPRK to resume dialogue with the key parties concerned with a view to achieving sustainable peace and the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” Guterres’s office said in a statement, using an acronym for the North’s formal name.
The new law spells out conditions where North would be inclined to use its nuclear weapons, including when it determines that its leadership is facing an imminent “nuclear or non-nuclear attack by hostile forces.” The law requires North Korea’s military to “automatically” execute nuclear strikes against enemy forces, including their “starting point of provocation and the command,” if Pyongyang’s leadership comes under attack.
The law also says North Korea could use nukes to prevent an unspecified “catastrophic crisis” to its government and people, a loose definition that experts say reflect an escalatory nuclear doctrine that could create greater concerns for neighbors.
Kim also criticized South Korea over its plans to expand its conventional strike capabilities and revive large-scale military exercises with the United States to counter the North’s growing threats, describing them as a “dangerous” military action that raises tensions.
Kim has made increasingly provocative threats of nuclear conflict toward the United States and its allies in Asia, also warning that the North would proactively use its nuclear weapons when threatened. His latest comments underscored the growing animosity in the region as he accelerates the expansion of his nuclear weapons and missiles program.
“The purpose of the United States is not only to remove our nuclear might itself, but eventually forcing us to surrender or weaken our rights to self-defense through giving up our nukes, so that they could collapse our government at any time,” Kim said in the speech published by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
“Let them sanction us for 100 days, 1,000 days, 10 years or 100 years,” Kim said. “We will never give up our rights to self-defense that preserves our country’s existence and the safety of our people just to temporarily ease the difficulties we are experiencing now.”
Kim also addressed domestic issues, saying North Korea would begin its long-delayed rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in November. He didn’t specify how many doses it would have, where they would come from, or how they would be administered across his population of 26 million people.
GAVI, the nonprofit that runs the U.N.-backed COVAX distribution program, said in June it understood North Korea had accepted an offer of vaccines from China. GAVI said at the time the specifics of the offer were unclear.
North Korea rejected previous offers by COVAX, likely because of international monitoring requirements, and has also ignored U.S. and South Korean offers of vaccines and other COVID-19 aid.
Kim last month declared victory over COVID-19 and ordered preventive measures eased just three months after his government for the first time acknowledged an outbreak. Experts believe the North’s disclosures on its outbreak are manipulated to help Kim maintain absolute control.
The North Korean report about Kim’s speech came a day after South Korea extended its latest olive branch, proposing a meeting with North Korea to resume temporary reunions of aging relatives separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, which were last held in 2018.
Experts say it’s highly unlikely North Korea would accept the South’s offer considering the stark deterioration in inter-Korean ties amid the stalemate in larger nuclear talks between Washington and Pyongyang. The U.S.-North Korean diplomacy derailed in 2019 over disagreements in exchanging the release of crippling sanctions against the North and the North’s denuclearization steps.
Kim was combative toward South Korea in Thursday’s speech and urged his country to expand the operational roles of its tactical nuclear weapons and accelerate their deployment to strengthen the country’s war deterrent. Those comments appeared to align with a ruling party decision in June to approve unspecified new operational duties for front-line troops, which analysts say likely include plans to deploy battlefield nuclear weapons targeting rival South Korea along their tense border.
Cheong Seong Chang, a senior analyst at South Korea’s Sejong Institute, said Kim’s comments and the new North Korean law amount to a warning that it would launch immediate nuclear strikes on the United States and South Korea if they ever attempt to decapacitate Pyongyang’s leadership.
The North is also communicating a threat that it could use its nuclear weapons during conflicts with South Korea’s conventional forces, which would raise the risk of accidental clashes escalating into a nuclear crisis, Cheong said.
North Korea has been speeding its development of nuclear-capable, short-range missiles that can target South Korea since 2019. Experts say its rhetoric around those missiles communicates a threat to proactively use them in warfare to blunt the stronger conventional forces of South Korea and the United States. About 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed in the South to deter aggression from the North.
The U.S.-led diplomatic push to defuse the nuclear standoff has been further complicated by an intensifying U.S.-China rivalry and Russia’s war on Ukraine, which deepened the divide in the U.N. Security Council, where Beijing and Moscow have blocked U.S. efforts to tighten sanctions on Pyongyang over its revived long-range missile tests this year.
Kim has dialed up weapons tests to a record pace in 2020, launching more than 30 ballistic weapons, including the first demonstrations of his intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017.
U.S. and South Korean officials say Kim may up the ante soon by ordering the North’s first nuclear test in five years as he pushes a brinkmanship aimed at forcing Washington to accept the idea of the North as a nuclear power and negotiating concessions from a position of strength.
Experts say Kim is also trying to strengthen his leverage by strengthening his cooperation with China and Russia in an emerging partnership aimed at undercutting U.S. influence.
North Korea has repeatedly blamed the United States for the crisis in Ukraine, saying the West’s “hegemonic policy” justified Russian military actions in Ukraine to protect itself. U.S. officials said this week the Russians are in the process of purchasing North Korean ammunition, including artillery shells and rockets, to ease their supply shortages in the war against Ukraine.
North Korea also has joined Russia and Syria as the only nations to recognize the independence of two pro-Russia breakaway territories in eastern Ukraine and has discussed send its construction workers to those regions to work on rebuilding.
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Otis Redding Foundation breaks ground on new facility
The Otis Redding Foundation begins construction on its new Otis Redding Center for the Arts.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)– The Otis Redding Foundation celebrated Friday, after it broke ground on the new Otis Redding Center for the Arts.
“This means so much to us we’ve worked so hard, my kids have worked so hard, my coaches, my team, and to finally get here just means the world to us,” said Vice President of the foundation, and daughter of the late singer, Karla Redding-Andrews.
Macon-Bibb Commissioner, Elaine Lucas, says the art center will help grow the music industry in Macon.
“I can just see of so many artist,” Lucas said. “Them being given a chance to record to be in contact with others who are successful in the music industry, I just think it’s wonderful for the center but it’s just wonderful for Macon.”
Karla Redding-Andrews said the new center will not just be a landmark of her father legacy, but a dream he wanted to share everyone.
“Someone just told me that the rain is my dad’s tears of joy from heaven and I kind of feeling that you know,” she said. “We are so excited this was a vision that he had years early year before and here we are today finally bring it to fruition is just incredible just incredible.”
The Otis Redding Foundation says the building should be finished in about 18 months. The groundbreaking is one several events happening this weekend to celebrate Redding’s 81st birthday.
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Robins Air Force Base gives the special honors to a combat hero
Master Sergeant Mathue Snow of the 78th Security Force Squadron was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)-Robins Air Force Base gave special honors to a combat hero on Friday, for his actions taken following a terrorist attack.
Master Sergeant Mathue Snow of the 78th Security Force Squadron was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his actions during a terrorist attack in Kenya in 2020.
Sergeant Snow shared his recognition with those who fought with him on that day.
“I share this win with them,” Master Sergeant Snow said. “It’s a team win honestly, we came together and we made it out all together as a team so I couldn’t have done it without them.”
The Bronze Star Medal is the fourth highest ranking award a service member can receive for heroic deeds in an armed conflict.
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Sheriff: Slain deputies ambushed serving warrant in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — Two deputies were killed in an ambush while attempting to serve a warrant at a home in a suburb near Atlanta, a sheriff said Friday.
The two deputies had returned to their vehicle after knocking on the door when another car pulled up Thursday night, Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens said. The deputies got out of the vehicle and were talking to a suspect when shots were fired, he said.
The deputies were able to call for help and law enforcement officers swarmed the neighborhood. A long standoff ensued with at least one person. Owens said two suspects were taken into custody and questioned.
“Our hearts are broken here in Cobb County, and it’s going to take some prayers to help us get back to where we need to be,” he said at a news conference. “But it’s not going to be an easy road.”
The sheriff did not immediately release the names of the slain deputies.
Court records identified the two men in custody as Christopher Golden and Christopher Cook. They said Golden was charged with felony murder and aggravated assault on law enforcement officers, news outlets reported. The records said the deputies had a warrant to arrest Cook on multiple outstanding theft charges.
The suspects were scheduled to appear in court Friday afternoon, and authorities planned a news conference afterward.
The sheriff’s office in Cobb County tweeted initially that two deputies had “died in the line of duty” and that a SWAT team and other law enforcement officers remained at the scene, where a suspect was barricaded. It wasn’t clear how the standoff was resolved, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the home’s front door was out of its frame and several front windows were broken.
The deputies had each served in the department for more than five years, Owens said. They were serving a warrant for failure to appear on a charge of theft by deception, he said.
Sprawling Cobb County, with more than 760,000 people, is just northwest of Atlanta and one of Georgia’s most populous counties.
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THE END ZONE SCOREBOARD: Scores from Week 4 of high school football
Here are Middle Georgia's high school football scores from Week 4.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Here are Middle Georgia’s high school football scores from Week 4:
Games featured on The End Zone:
Peach County 35, Jones County 3
Valdosta 25, Warner Robins 0
Northeast 26, Carver 8
Westside 51, Rutland 7
Houston County 68, Locust Grove 12
Perry 37, Veterans 6
***For highlights of the games featured on The End Zone, click here.***
Other scores:
Baldwin 35, Washington County 28
Howard 16, Harris County 7
Vidalia 28, West Laurens 0
Mary Persons 38, Haralson County 17
Swainsboro 35, Dodge County 0
ACE Charter , Jordan
Worth County 32, Central 7
Bleckley County 17, Schley County 0
Dublin 41, ECI 21
Bowden 34, Tattnall 28 – 3rd quarter
Laney 26, FPD 14
John Milledge 48, George Walton 0
Pacelli 38, Mount de Sales 0
Stratford 42, Brookwood 20
Windsor 51, Covenant 8
Washington-Wilkes 14, GMC Prep 2
Academy of Richmond County 27, East Laurens 6
Westfield 63, Tiftarea 34
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Trump team, Justice Dept. to make new Mar-a-Lago filing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and Donald Trump’s legal team are to stake out positions Friday on the precise role to be played by an independent arbiter who will review documents seized during an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had given both sides until Friday to submit potential candidates for the role of a “special master,” as well as proposals for the scope of the person’s duties and the schedule for his or her work.
The back-and-forth over the special master is playing out amid an FBI investigation into the retention of several hundred classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago within the past year. Though the legal wrangling is unlikely to have long-term effects on the investigation, it will almost certainly delay the criminal probe and has already caused the intelligence community to temporarily pause a national risk assessment it was doing.
Over the strenuous objections of the Justice Department, Cannon on Monday granted the Trump team’s request for the special master and directed the department to temporarily halt its review of records for investigative purposes.
She said the person would be responsible for sifting through the records recovered during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and filter out from the criminal investigation any documents potentially covered by claims of attorney-client or executive privilege.
Roughly 11,000 documents — including more than 100 with classified markings, some at the top-secret level — were recovered during the search. That’s on top of classified documents contained in 15 boxes retrieved in January by the National Archives and Records Administration, and additional secret records the department took back during a June visit to Mar-a-Lago.
The Justice Department had objected to the Trump team’s request for a special master, saying it had already done its own review and identified a limited subset of records that possibly involve attorney-client privilege. It said that executive privilege does not apply in this investigation because Trump, no longer president, had no right to claim the documents as his.
The department on Thursday filed a notice of appeal indicating it would contest the judge’s order to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Officials asked the judge to lift her hold on their investigative work pending their appeal, as well as her requirement that the department share with a special master the classified records that were recovered.
It is not clear whether Trump or anyone else will be charged.
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Ukraine claws back some territory; nuclear plant in peril
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces on Friday claimed new success in their counteroffensive against Russian forces in the country’s east, taking control of a sizeable village and pushing toward an important transport junction. The United States’ top diplomat and the head of NATO noted the advances, but cautioned that the war is likely to drag on for months.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commended the military for its gains in the east, saying in a nightly video address that Ukrainian troops have reclaimed more than 30 settlements in the Kharkiv region since the start of the counteroffensive there this week.
“We are gradually taking control over more settlements, returning the Ukrainian flag and protection for our people.” Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine’s military said it also launched new attacks on Russian pontoon bridges used to bring supplies across the Dnieper River to Kherson, one of the largest Russian-occupied cities, and the adjacent region. Ukrainian artillery and rocket strikes have left all regular bridges across the river unusable, the military’s southern command said.
Anxiety increased about Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which was operating in emergency mode Friday for the fifth straight day due to the war. That prompted the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog to call for the establishment of an immediate safety zone around the plant to prevent a nuclear accident.
The six-reactor Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant came under the control of Russian forces early in the war but is being operated by Ukrainian staff. The plant and surrounding areas have been repeatedly hit by shelling that Russia and Ukraine blame on each other. The last power line connecting the plant to the Ukrainian electricity grid was cut Monday, leaving the plant without an outside source of electricity. It is receiving power for its own safety systems from the only reactor — out of six total — that remains operational.
In other advances, the Ukrainian military said it took control of the village of Volokhiv Yar in the Kharkiv region and aimed to advance toward strategically valuable town of Kupiansk, which would cut off Russian forces from key supply routes.
Pro-Russian authorities in the Kupiansk district announced that civilians were being evacuated toward the Russian-held region of Luhansk.
“The initial signs are positive and we see Ukraine making real, demonstrable progress in a deliberate way,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Brussels, a day after visiting Kyiv.
“But this is likely to go on for some significant period of time,” he said. “There are a huge number of Russian forces in Ukraine and unfortunately, tragically, horrifically, President (Vladimir) Putin has demonstrated that he will throw a lot of people into this at huge cost to Russia.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who met with Blinken, said the war is “entering a critical phase.”
The gains “are modest and only the first successes of the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army, but they are important both in terms of seizing the military initiative and raising the spirit of Ukrainian soldiers,” Mykola Sunhurovskyi, a military analyst at the Razumkov Center in Kyiv, told The Associated Press.
Energoatom, Ukraine’s state nuclear operator, said Friday that repairs to outside electric lines at the Zaporizhzhia plant are impossible because of the shelling and that operating the plant in what is called an “island” status carries “the risk of violating radiation and fire safety standards.”
“Only the withdrawal of the Russians from the plant and the creation of a security zone around it can normalize the situation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP. Only then will the world be able to exhale,” Petro Kotin, the head of Energoatom, told Ukrainian TV.
Earlier, Kotin told The Associated Press the plant’s only operating reactor “can be stopped completely” at any moment and as a consequence, the only power source would be a diesel generator.
There are 20 generators on site and enough diesel fuel for 10 days. After that, about 200 tons of diesel fuel would be needed daily for the generators, which he said is “impossible” to get while the plant is occupied by Russian forces.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Friday that there was little likelihood of reestablishing reliable offsite power lines to the plant.
“This is an unsustainable situation and is becoming increasingly precarious,” Grossi said, calling for an “immediate cessation of all shelling in the entire area” and the establishment of a nuclear safety and security protection zone.
“This is the only way to ensure that we do not face a nuclear accident,” he said.
Fighting continued Friday elsewhere in Ukraine.
Russian planes bombed the hospital in the town of Velika Pysarivka, on the border with Russia, said Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, governor of the Sumy region. He said the building was destroyed and there were an unknown number of casualties.
In the Donetsk region in the east — one of two that Russia declared to be sovereign states at the outset of the war — eight people were killed in the city of Bakhmut over the past day and the city is without water and electricity for the fourth straight day, said governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Four people were killed in shelling in the Kharkiv region, two of them in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest, according to governor Oleh Syniehubov. The shelling of the city continued Friday afternoon, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said, wounding 10 people, including three children.
Ukraine this week claimed to have regained control of more than 20 settlements in the Kharkiv region, including the small city of Balakliya. Social media posts showed weeping, smiling Balakliya residents embracing Ukrainian soldiers.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday refused to comment on the alleged retaking of Balakliya, redirecting all such questions to the Russian Defense Ministry.
But Vitaly Ganchev, the Russian-installed official in the Kharkiv region, confirmed Friday that “Balakliya, in effect, is not under our control.” Ganchev said “tough battles” were continuing in the city.
Helicopters and fighter jets streaked over the rolling plains of the Donetsk region, with the jets heading toward Izium, near where Ukrainian forces have been carrying out a counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region. The jets fired flares and black smoke billowed in the distance.
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King Charles III has expressed his love for his son, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan, in his first speech to the nation since taking the throne.
Charles, who became king upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, wishes the couple well “as they build their life overseas.’’
Meghan, 41, and Harry, 37, have been in a tense relationship with Britain’s royal family since they stepped away from royal duties and left the U.K. in early 2020, citing what they said were the unbearable intrusions and racist attitudes of the British media.
The comment came during a recorded speech before a memorial service honoring the late monarch, who died Thursday.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Prince Charles became king upon his mother’s death
— Will Charles be loved by his subjects, like his mother was?
— Queen Elizabeth II, a monarch bound by duty, dies at 96
— Elizabeth has been the only monarch most people in Britain know
— ‘A constant in my life’: World mourns Queen Elizabeth II
— Biden is 13th and final US president to meet Queen Elizabeth II
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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LONDON — King Charles III says he feels “profound sorrow” at the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, and has vowed to carry on her “lifelong service” to the nation.
Charles is making his first address to Britain and the Commonwealth as monarch. He became king on Thursday after the queen’s death.
“That promise of lifelong service I renew to all today,” he said.
His speech was broadcast on television and streamed at St. Paul’s Cathedral, where some 2,000 people were attending a service of remembrance for the queen. Mourners at the service included Prime Minister Liz Truss and members of her government.
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Flags were flying at half-staff on landmarks in Australia on Friday as people expressed sadness at the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
Australian Governor-General David Hurley and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed condolence books in Canberra.
“There is comfort to be found in Her Majesty’s own words: ‘Grief is the price we pay for love.’” said the Australian prime minister.
New Zealanders also mourned the passing of Queen Elizabeth II with tributes around the country on Friday. At the Auckland War Memorial, a group of young people performed the Haka, a ceremonial dance in Māori culture. Flags flew at half-staff around the country.
Under New Zealand’s constitutional arrangements, the queen was also New Zealand’s monarch and head of state.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said New Zealand had moved into a period of official mourning, and would hold a state memorial service after the official funeral in Britain.
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ABUJA, Nigeria — The death of the British monarch Queen Elizabeth II was frontpage news in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, biggest economy and former British colony.
Nigeria’s President Mohammodu Buhari offered his condolences and expressed sadness on hearing of the queen’s passing, according to his spokesman.
That sentiment was echoed by one man, Musa Adamu, at a news stand in the capital Abuja. The civil servant urged the British people to “exercise patience and endure the pain,” noting that “God will bless you all of you now.”
The flag flew at half-staff outside the British High Commission.
On a daily morning TV talk show, presenter Mohammed Jinadu and pundit Linda Claudia discussed the role Queen Elizabeth II played in holding the United Kingdom together.
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GIBRALTAR — Gibraltarians were mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II with several dozen queueing from the early hours of Friday to sign a book of condolences and lay flowers.
Gibraltar has lowered the flags of official buildings, entered a period of national mourning and cancelled celebrations on Saturday of its National Day.
On Friday morning the governor and Chief Minister also signed the condolences book that the residents had been writing in.
Fabian Picardo, the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, a British overseas territory bordering southern Spain, said “May Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second rest in eternal peace. Long live the King.”
In a statement sent to media and posted online, Picardo also added: “The People of Gibraltar will mourn Her Majesty as a monarch who has reigned wisely and with incomparable dedication throughout the period of our post-war emergence as a part of the British family of nations.”
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BELFAST, EDINBURGH — A series of special gun salutes across the United Kingdom fired 96 shots on Friday, one for each year Queen Elizabeth II lived, a near century-long life.
Bells also tolled across the nation in honor of Queen Elizabeth II as the nation started 10 days of mourning for its longest-serving monarch.
King Charles III, who spent much of his 73 years preparing for the role, planned to meet with the prime minister and address a nation grieving the only British monarch most of the world had known.
He takes the throne in an era of uncertainty for both his country and the monarchy itself.
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ABERDEENSHIRE, Scotland — People paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II at the gates of her Balmoral residence where she died.
Despite the rain on Friday, mourners from all walks of life came to lay down flowers or simply say goodbye to the British monarch they loved and respected.
“I just wanted to say thank you to the Queen,” said Christy Asalor.
“She has been a symbol of strength and stability, she has been so selfless and she’s given herself, literally sacrificed her whole life serving us until two days before she passed and the least we could do is just say thank you.”
Other people said they were feeling a lot of sadness at the passing of the only queen they ever knew.
Queen Elizabeth II was the longest reigning British monarch, at 70 years of service.
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LONDON — U.S. climate envoy and former U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, has paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth, describing her as the “calm in the storm” and a “great stateswoman.”
In brief comments to The Associated Press in London, Kerry said his thoughts were with the royal family and noted the sense of loss that people were feeling around the world.
Kerry also praised what he described as the queen’s “great sense of direction.”
“Never any any vitriol, never any political commentary, always on values, always on the bigger picture,” he said.
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LONDON — “The Crown,” Netflix’s acclaimed series about Queen Elizabeth II and her family, has paused production due to the monarch’s death.
A spokesperson for the series said production was paused on Friday “as a mark of respect” and will also be suspended on the day of the queen’s funeral.
The show is in production on its sixth season. Its first two seasons starred Claire Foy as the young Princess Elizabeth ascending to the throne and gradually growing into her role as monarch, and seasons three and four featured Olivia Colman as a more mature queen.
The show, which has won 22 Emmy Awards so far, has gradually moved closer to current events. Netflix recently revealed casting of the actors who are playing Prince William and his wife Kate in the sixth season.
Its fifth season, with Imelda Staunton playing the queen, will premiere in November.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus – In ethnically divided Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades offered condolences for the Queen’s passing, posting on his official Twitter account, “our thoughts are with the Royal Family and the people of the United Kingdom.”
But for many Greek Cypriots, those thoughts hark back to a bloody, four-year guerrilla campaign that was waged in the late 1950s against British colonial rule and a perceived indifference the Queen demonstrated over the plight of nine individuals whom British authorities executed by hanging, despite appeals for their death sentences to be commuted.
Yiannis Spanos, president of Association of National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) told the Associated Press that “we respect the dead even if in life they proved to be our enemies.”
Spanos said the Queen was “held by many as bearing responsibility” for the “island’s tragedies,” particularly for not granting pardons, even for some of the condemned for whom there was no definitive evidence to merit a death sentence even under colonial law.
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LONDON — King Charles III has arrived at Buckingham Palace for the first time as Britain’s monarch.
The king flew to London from Scotland on Friday and was driven to the royal residence in an official Bentley. A large crowd cheered as the car arrived at the palace gates.
He got out of the car to greet well-wishers and look at some of the huge pile of floral tributes left to honor his mother Queen Elizabeth II. Some called “Thank you Charles” and “Well done, Charlie!” as he shook hands with the crowd. Several shouted “God save the King!”
A few broke into a rendition of Britain’s national anthem, which is now titled “God Save the King.”
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BUCHAREST, Romania — The office of Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis said he sent a condolence message to King Charles III on Friday following the “painful loss” of Queen Elizabeth II.
“On behalf of the Romanian people and myself, I wish to convey to Your Majesty, the entire Royal Family and the British people my condolences and sympathy for the painful loss suffered,” he said.
Iohannis called the late Queen an “exceptional leader who served her country with utmost devotion and responsibility, representing a symbol of stability and a true moral benchmark for the whole world.”
He added that her decades of service will “remain in the history of humanity as a landmark and inspiration” for future generations.
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LONDON — British prime ministers who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II are sharing personal tributes to the late monarch.
There were 15 prime ministers during the queen’s reign, from Winston Churchill to Liz Truss, who was appointed just this week. The leaders held weekly private meetings with the monarch.
Truss’s predecessor, Boris Johnson, said in the House of Commons that when he saw the queen on Tuesday to offer his resignation, “she was as radiant and as knowledgeable and as fascinated by politics as ever I can remember, and as wise in her advice as anyone I know, if not wiser.”
Johnson called the queen “the keystone in the vast arch of the British state” and said “we are coming to understand in her death the full magnitude of what she did for us all.”
Former Prime Minister Theresa May said the queen was “the most remarkable person I have ever met” as well as the most impressive.
“I doubt we will ever see her like again,” May said. “May she rest in peace and rise in glory.”
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ISTANBUL- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would like to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth providing his schedule permits it.
Erdogan told reporters Friday that he knew the queen and had met her at Buckingham Palace twice.
“If we find the opportunity we would like to be present at this ceremony,” he said.
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BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, speaking at a joint news conference in Brussels with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, noted that all 30 NATO member flags are flying at half-staff to honor Queen Elizabeth.
“She was a strong supporter of the transatlantic alliance, of our armed forces and our values,” Stoltenberg said, adding that she knew and worked with every one of his predecessors since NATO was founded. “I will always remember her wisdom, her warmth, and her strong personal interest in transatlantic unity.”
Blinken, meanwhile, paid homage to the “truly extraordinary life of Her Majesty Elizabeth II.”
He said she had personified “a sense of stability and continuity during turbulent times” and among “unprecedented challenges” faced by both Britain and the world. “She was a source of comfort and resilience to people from all walks of life.”
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron expressed “deep sadness” and a sense of “emptiness” after the passing of the monarch and praised her “great affection for France.”
Macron said in a video message that the queen mastered “our language, loved our culture and touched our hearts.”
Macron described her as a “great head of state,” and said that with her, Britain and France share “a warm, sincere and loyal partnership.”
Speaking in English, the French president said: “To you, she was your Queen. To us, she was THE Queen.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — In Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, people laid flowers outside the British Embassy in honor of Queen Elizabeth.
Anatolii Zakletskyi, a 75-year-old Kyiv resident, said he wanted to express his admiration for the monarch.
“First, as a symbol of devotion to the motherland. Secondly, an absolute sense of duty before, as she herself said, God and the people. And thirdly, to all of Britain for being true friends of Ukraine,” Zakletskyi said. “My deep condolences to the entire British nation.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy started his nightly address to the nation late Thursday with condolences “to the royal family, the entire United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.”___
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LONDON — Prime Minister Liz Truss says the death of Queen Elizabeth II has caused a “heartfelt outpouring of grief” in Britain and around the world.
Truss spoke at the start of a special session of Parliament paying tribute to the queen.
Truss called the monarch “the nation’s greatest diplomat” and said her devotion to duty was an example to everyone.
The prime minister was officially appointed by the queen on Tuesday, just two days before her death. Truss said at the meeting, “she generously shared with me her deep experience of government, even in those last days.”
Normal business in Parliament has been suspended and lawmakers will spend two days offering their memories and reflections on the queen, who died Thursday after seven decades on the throne.
Senior lawmakers will also take an oath to King Charles III, the new monarch.
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LONDON — Bells tolled across Britain on Friday in honor of Queen Elizabeth II as the nation started 10 days of mourning for its longest-serving monarch.
In imposing city cathedrals and small-town chapels, the bells began ringing at noon (1100 GMT) as part of a long-planned, carefully organized series of events to mark the queen’s passing.
At the same time, the British Parliament opened a special session to pay tribute to the queen.
An hour later, a special gun salute is planned with 96 shots, one for each year of Elizabeth’s nearly-century-long life.
Her son, now King Charles III, was en route from Balmoral Castle in Scotland where Elizabeth died Thursday for London, where he will meet the prime minister and give an address to the nation.
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As the world mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth II, an Acadiana woman is recounting an experience she had with her royal highness while living in Tampa, Florida.
She was part of the Mayor's advisory council for disabilities.
While there, she received an invitation to see the Queen during her stop in Tampa.
She now looks back at not one, but two encounters with Queen Elizabeth.
In 1991 Donna Baltakis was asked by the Mayor's office to present the Queen with flowers as she visited Tampa. "She came up to us and I presented the flowers and I said, Your Majesty, you honor our city with your visit today. She looked at me, took them and said, thank you. She said We are inspired by your courage and your community, your commitment to the community. I thought that was so nice of her and she went on,” Baltakis said.
KATC spoke to Baltakis, and what she remembers as an honorable moment, suddenly turned into chaos.
"Well, after I presented the flowers and said hello to her, and she walked by, I thought, Well, I'm gonna go get my car and get out of the downtown area before the traffic gets bad. But when I got back to my car it had been towed,” Baltakis said.
Diagnosed with polio as a child--she had a brace on her leg that also broke, however, she wanted to see the queen's motorcade that would soon pass by.
"And the limo stopped in front of me. And the window came down. And Prince Philip said, we met you. What's the problem? I said, Well, they've towed my car I broke my brace. I'm trying to get some help, but I thought I'd see you one more time. The Queen leaned forward and said, "I'm so sorry. You're going through all of this because of me. We will get help for you right now. Are you okay?" I said "Yes, ma'am". So she said something to someone in the car. Next thing I know a motorcycle police officer from the motorcade came over, said something to someone in the car and said Yes, ma'am. And the Prince said you take care of yourself and thank you again for your kindness. I said Thank you, Your Majesty, and off they went,” Baltakis said.
A moment Baltakis says she'll never forget.
"They were just such a wonderful warm couple to think that this is the Queen and she's so well known throughout the whole world and here I am face to face with her giving her flowers and she said such nice things that she was inspired by what we were trying to do. Well we were inspired by everything she had accomplished,” Baltakis added.
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Houston County welcomes Locust Grove
The Bears (3-0) were still undefeated as they hosted the winless Wildcats (0-2) who had lost 17 in a row.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Houston County Bears hosted the Locust Grove Wildcats Friday night.
The Bears (3-0) were still undefeated as they hosted the winless Wildcats (0-2) who had lost 17 in a row.
Here are the highlights from Freedom Field:
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Northeast hosts Carver
The Raiders (0-2) were trying to win their first game of the season after losing to Mary Persons in Week One and Fitzgerald in Week Two. The Tigers (2-0) were ranked #2 in AAA.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Northeast Raiders welcomed the Carver Tigers to Henderson Stadium Friday.
The Raiders (0-2) were trying to win their first game of the season after losing to Mary Persons in Week One and Fitzgerald in Week Two. The Tigers (2-0) were ranked #2 in AAA.
Check out the highlights below:
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Peach County hosts Jones County in our Game of the Week
The Trojans (1-1) were coming off a BYE last week. The Greyhounds (2-1) were looking to rebound from last week's loss to Perry.
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Peach County Trojans welcomed the Jones County Greyhounds to Fort Valley Friday night.
The Trojans (1-1) were coming off a BYE last week. The Greyhounds (2-1) were looking to rebound from last week’s loss to Perry.
It’s the first meeting between the teams since 1997.
Shaaz Peerani has the Game of the Week highlights:
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Rutland faces Westside
The Seminoles (3-0) beat Morrow 40-14 last week. The Hurricanes (2-0) were coming off a 35-29 victory over Hawkinsville last week.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) –The Rutland Hurricanes faced the Westside Seminoles in Week 4.
The Seminoles (3-0) beat Morrow 40-14 last week. The Hurricanes (2-0) were coming off a 35-29 victory over Hawkinsville last week.
Let’s find out who stays unbeaten:
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Veterans travels to Perry
The Warhawks (2-0) were looking to stay unbeaten this year. The Panthers (1-1) beat Jones County 42-14 last week.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Veterans Warhawks went on the road to take on the Perry Panthers at Herb St. John Stadium.
The Warhawks (2-0) were looking to stay unbeaten this year. The Panthers (1-1) beat Jones County 42-14 last week.
Here are the highlights below:
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Warner Robins welcomes Valdosta
The Demons (1-1) were coming off an exciting overtime thriller last week, beating Northside 17-10. The Wildcats (3-0) came into the game outscoring their opponents 116-15.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Warner Robins Demons welcomed the Valdosta Wildcats to town Friday night.
The Demons (1-1) were coming off an exciting overtime thriller last week, beating Northside 17-10. The Wildcats (3-0) came into the game outscoring their opponents 116-15.
Tucker Sargent has the highlights from McConnell-Talbert Stadium:
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LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has been officially announced as Britain’s monarch Saturday, in a ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism — and, for the first time, broadcast live.
Charles automatically became king when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on Thursday, but Saturday's accession ceremony is a key constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
The ceremony at St. James’s Palace, a royal residence in London, is attended by the Accession Council, made up of senior politicians and officials who advise the monarch. They met without Charles, officially confirming his title, King Charles III. The king will then join them to make a series of oaths and declarations.
It’s the first time the ceremony has been held since 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took the throne.
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When Kaitlin McGaw and Tommy Soulati Shepherd founded the performance collective Alphabet Rockers, the longtime friends wanted to inspire children to make social change. Hip hop seemed the perfect medium.
"When you look at hip hop, it's an invitation to be exactly who you are," said McGaw. "There's also a lot of wordplay, so it's absolutely a root of fun conversation, expression, bravado, listening, all these things that teachers are trying to create."
But Shepherd said they quickly realized something was missing. "What was driving into us is that we had to do it with — versus for — kids," he said.
So they added three of them: Kali de Jesus, Tommy Shepherd III and Maya Fleming, all now teenagers. It worked. The Oakland, California-based collective went on to earn two Grammy Award nominations in the Best Children's Music Album category for their infectiously groovy and smart songs that appeal to kids and adults alike.
Now they've dropped a new album, "The Movement," which showcases upbeat tracks about restorative justice, Juneteenth, and how to create community by having each others' backs.
"Every time they release a new video or tune, we play it for our staff, because it's so uplifting," said Christy Estrovitz, youth services manager for the San Francisco Public Library, which has hosted the Rockers many times over the past decade. "They have intergenerational appeal."
On a recent Wednesday afternoon after school, the collective was in their Oakland studio, and the teenagers were throwing verses back and forth.
"I'm just loving the riffing," said 13-year-old Rockers' member Maya. She joined the group after her dance teacher suggested she check it out. Like all three teenagers, she sings on — and wrote songs for — the new album. "Just doing whatever comes to mind that goes with the song."
Her colleague Tommy III, 14, is the son of Shepherd and has been around the group his entire life; you can see him in early Rockers videos when he was a toddler. He said he joined the group in kindergarten because it felt right.
"It wasn't like I was like automatically in the group just because he was my dad," Tommy III said.
Kali, 13, joined the band in kindergarten, too; he and Tommy III are best friends. "Dang! I've known him longer than half my life!" Kali said.
The two boys enjoy shooting hoops and goofing off outside the studio during breaks. But they have a serious side; the songs they contributed to the new album take an unflinching look at systems of oppression.
"I want to inspire kids to be whatever they want to be in the world without having to think about, 'I don't wanna be like a lawyer because I feel like that's only for white people,' or something like that," said Tommy III of his song, "The Change Up."
"My song, 'Games,' is about the same thing," said Kali. "It targets everybody. It's really showing up the systems that the government is placing on people in everyday life for what they are."
The third youth member of the group, Maya, said she originally saw herself only as a dancer, but being part of the collective helped her to develop other artistic talents. Recently, she performed her song "Our Turn," about coping with the chaos of life under COVID-19, during the Rockers' recent set at a block party thrown by the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
"The message that they utilize is one that is resonant within the museum," said Leslie Walker, who oversees social justice and scholarly programs there. "How they define hip hop as freedom of culture, freedom of expression, and using it as a means for young people to speak about social issues and social justice."
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The Rockers perform all over the country, but when they're home in the Bay Area, they keep busy with concerts and social justice-focused workshops for kids in libraries and schools.
The San Francisco Public Library's Estrovitz said the teenage members are especially inspiring to her young patrons.
"What's really cool [is] in the past few years, they've really seen their youth performers [become] ambassadors and role models," Estrovitz said. "So now I'm seeing younger children looking up, not just at Tommy and Kaitlin, but at the youth."
The collective is hoping "The Movement" will net them a third Grammy nomination this year in the Best Children's Music Album category — this time, maybe it will even be a win.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon utilities shut down power to tens of thousands of customers on Friday as dry easterly winds swept into the region in the hopes that it would lessen the risk of wildfires in extremely dry and hot conditions.
Power shut-offs due to extreme fire weather, common in California, are relatively new to the Pacific Northwest. The plans, which were part of permanent rules approved in May to manage wildfire danger in high-risk areas, mark the new reality in a region better known for its rain and temperate rainforests.
Portland General Electric halted power to about 30,000 customers in 12 service areas — including the posh West Hills neighborhood of Portland — and Pacific Power shut down service to more than 7,000 customers in a small community on the Pacific Coast, where a wildfire burned two years ago, and in pockets southeast of the state capitol of Salem.
Schools in the areas with planned power outages canceled classes and authorities urged residents to charge cellphones and be ready to evacuate at a moment’s notice.
The winds were whipping up a wildfire southeast of Eugene, Oregon, that had been burning in the wilderness for a month but was now making a run toward the small community of Oakridge, where residents were ordered to evacuate. Gov. Kate Brown declared a fire emergency late Friday for the Cedar Creek Fire as it encroached on the 3,200-person town.
Climate change is bringing drier conditions to the Pacific Northwest and that requires strategies that have been common in fire-prone California for the past decade or more, said Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University.
Wind patterns haven’t changed, but those winds are now coinciding more frequently with drier vegetation and hotter temperatures — a toxic mix for fire ignition, rapid spread and extreme fire behavior, she said.
“I don’t know whether this is the solution, but it’s an interim effort to manage wildfire risk,” Fleishman said. “People are going, ‘Oh my gosh!’ The areas we thought were safe, they’re realizing those are not immune to fire anymore. The fire likelihood is changing.”
The proactive power shutoffs were just the second for Portland General Electric ever. The utility shut down power to 5,000 customers in 2020 near Mount Hood during firestorms that ravaged the state. Extreme winds over Labor Day weekend led to wildfires that burned more than 1 million acres (405,000 hectares), destroyed 4,000 homes and killed at least 11 people — and utilities were blamed for some of those fire starts.
Pacific Power, another major utility in Oregon, said the shutoffs Friday were the first the company has ever done. The company put a wildfire mitigation plan in place in Oregon in 2018 that includes studying wind and weather patterns to predict high-risk areas.
The utility was sued last year by residents in two towns that burned to ashes in the 2020 wildfires who blamed the company for not shutting down power in advance of the devastating wind storm.
Pacific Power has since hired a team of meteorologists to make fire weather forecasts and is spending more than $500 million to “harden” its electric grid in high-risk areas by replacing wooden poles with carbonized ones and encasing power lines and conductor boxes to reduce the chances of a spark, said Drew Hanson, a Pacific Power spokesman.
“You can look at the West in general and climate change has impacted areas from Southern California, and then Northern California and now up into this region as well, we’re seeing those same conditions,” he said.
“It’s something we are taking very seriously. We realize the changing landscape. We’ve been changing and evolving along with it.”
A number of blazes are burning in Oregon and Washington state.
Just south of Salem, firefighters using at least two planes and a helicopter tried to douse the flames of a wildfire that spread from grass to stands of trees, blanketing parts of the Willamette Valley in smoke.
The largest in Oregon is the Double Creek Fire burning in northeastern Oregon near the Idaho border. The fire grew by nearly 47 square miles (122 square kilometers) Wednesday because of wind gusts up to 50 mph (80 kph) and as of Friday had burned a total of nearly 214 square miles (554 square kilometers). It’s threatening about 100 homes near the community of Imnaha.
In Central Oregon, the Cedar Creek Fire east of Oakridge has burned nearly 52 square miles (135 square kilometers). On Friday, officials ordered a level 3 “go now” evacuation for residents of greater Oakridge, Westfir and High Prairie areas due to increased fire activity.
The Van Meter Fire, which started Wednesday, is burning on Stukel Mountain about 13 miles (21 kilometers) southeast of Klamath Falls. One home and four structures have been destroyed and about 260 structures are threatened by that blaze, officials said.
The Rum Creek Fire was also burning in southwest Oregon and was almost halfway contained at about 33 square miles (82 square kilometers).
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LONDON — Prime Minister Liz Truss and senior members of her government have taken oaths of loyalty to King Charles III in the House of Commons.
House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was the first to pledge he will “bear true allegiance to his Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors,” followed by the longest-serving lawmakers and the prime minister.
All lawmakers pledge allegiance to the monarch after they are elected. Making a new vow when the monarch changes is not a legal requirement, but all 650 lawmakers will have a chance to retake the oath in the coming days if they wish.
Normal parliamentary business has been suspended during a period of mourning for the queen. The House of Commons is holding a rare Saturday session so that lawmakers can pay tribute to the late monarch.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Prince Charles became king upon his mother’s death
—- A singular queen, mourned by her people
— “The Crown” pauses production because of queen’s death
— Will Charles be loved by his subjects, like his mother was?
— ‘A constant in my life’: World mourns Queen Elizabeth II
— Biden is 13th and final US president to meet Queen Elizabeth II
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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A royal official has publicly proclaimed King Charles III as Britain’s new monarch during a ceremony at St. James’s Palace.
David White, the Garter King of Arms, read the proclamation from a balcony at the London royal residence flanked by trumpeters in gold-trimmed robes.
Gun salutes rang out in Hyde Park, at the Tower of London and at military sites around the U.K. as the proclamation was made.
Scarlet-robed soldiers in the palace courtyard presented arms and doffed their bearskin hats in a royal salute.
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LONDON — King Charles III has declared that the day of his mother’s funeral will be a public holiday.
Charles approved the decision during his formal accession ceremony on Saturday.
The date of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral has not been announced but is expected to be around Sept, 19.
This will be the second extra public holiday for Britons this year — a holiday was declared in early June for celebration’s to mark Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee, for 70 years on the throne.
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LONDON — King Charles III has been officially announced as Britain’s monarch Saturday, in a ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism — and, for the first time, broadcast live.
Charles automatically became king when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on Thursday, but Saturday’s accession ceremony is a key constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
The ceremony at St. James’s Palace, a royal residence in London, is attended by the Accession Council, made up of senior politicians and officials who advise the monarch. They met without Charles, officially confirming his title, King Charles III. The king will then join them to make a series of oaths and declarations.
It’s the first time the ceremony has been held since 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took the throne.
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As floral tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth continue to mount near the palaces of the United Kingdom, William and Kate, now the Prince and Princess of Wales, were joined by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle outside of Windsor Castle on Saturday to look at the mounting number of flowers and tribute cards from grieving Britons.
Harry and Meghan's appearance came as a surprise, as this is the first time all four have been together in public for a non-family event since a charity polo match in July 2019 (the King Power Royal Charity Polo Day for the Khun Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Memorial Polo Trophy at Billingbear Polo Club, if you want the full name.) It was confirmed by Reuters that William invited his brother and sister-in-law to come to Windsor.
The images of the four together will bolster thoughts of a rapprochement between the two couples. There has been a bit of a rift between them since Harry and Meghan stepped down from official royal duties and moved to California in early 2020.
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As it happens, the brothers had been staying just down the road from one another prior to their grandmother's death. Despite the proximity, and very brief moments of overlap during some of the ceremonies surrounding the Queen's Platinum Jubilee earlier in the year, there was not much done to thaw the ice “beyond some polite hellos,” according to one report.
Frogmore Cottage, which still belongs to Harry and Meghan, recently underwent a significant refurbishment to the tune of $3.2 million. In a recent interview with The Cut, Meghan said that returning to their English home felt like visiting a time capsule. “You go back and you open drawers and you’re like, Oh my gosh. This is what I was writing in my journal there? And here’s all my socks from this time?" She added that taking it all in was “bittersweet, you know? Knowing none of it had to be this way.”
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ORONO: If you're interested in kind of a personal exploration of pop music that me and my friends do, check it out. And if it's not your cup of tea, that's totally fine. Go listen to old music. I love old music.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WORLD WIDE POP")
SUPERORGANISM: (Singing) Good morning. Welcome to the channel. I hope you can handle the tutorial.
DANIEL ESTRIN, HOST:
Orono - she prefers to go by just her first name - is the lead singer of the band Superorganism. They made a splash with their debut album in 2018, a frenzy of collected samples and deadpan lyrics. Her bandmates, who are from all over the world, met both in-person and on the internet, and their musings about the peril and promise of life online continue in a new album, "World Wide Pop."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WORLD WIDE POP")
SUPERORGANISM: (Singing) It's a world wide pop. Pop. And all the people jump up when they feel it glowing. Intergalactic shock...
ESTRIN: So how much of this album was actually recorded in the same room or even, you know, in the same country?
ORONO: Most of it was still recorded remotely just 'cause I feel like being in our rooms or in our little bunks on the tour bus kind of is just our preferred, like, mode of creating music, I guess.
ESTRIN: So you actually preferred to record separately in separate rooms, even though you could have all just recorded in the same space.
ORONO: That's just kind of how we grew up making music and learned how to make music, on our laptops in our rooms. So it just kind of ends up happening like that.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WORLD WIDE POP")
SUPERORGANISM: (Singing) It's a world wide pop.
ESTRIN: Well, a lot of your music involves not just singing and music, but actually gathered sound. So we hear some of that in the track "Solar System."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SOLAR SYSTEM")
SUPERORGANISM: (Singing) Cool. Press the button to be begin. This is the planet Pluto.
ORONO: It's, like, such a core part of our songwriting process that it's, like, literally all over the records because we just kind of include sounds from our daily life. We just have, like, a great management team and label that helps us figure it out because we sampled something that we randomly found, and then we, like, almost got sued. And it was a whole thing. So this time around, we did it all legally.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SOLAR SYSTEM")
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: We first flew in 1903.
ESTRIN: I have to say, you know, when I first listened to your album, it kind of felt like the musical equivalent of TikTok. It was that...
ORONO: I don't know if that's a compliment or a dis.
ESTRIN: Well, wait a minute. Hear me out. Hear me out.
ORONO: OK.
ESTRIN: It's that feeling of, like, you know, on TikTok or on Facebook or Instagram, that rush of random short videos, one after the other on a loop we all are just drawn to on our phones. I guess I'm wondering if you - do you see that as a compliment or as a dis? I mean, do you see this as a mirror of the moment we're living in right now?
ORONO: I think the songs kind of sound like that because we were feeling kind of overwhelmed with the internet, which we kind of grew up on and love. I feel like it's morphed into, like, this weird algorithm monster now, and it's totally different from, like, the internet that we grew up with, I feel like.
ESTRIN: There is this track, the first track on your album, "Black Hole Baby."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BLACK HOLE BABY")
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: There you go. That is Superorganism.
ELTON JOHN: This is Elton John, the Superorganism, really recommend that one.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: Josh tell me, did you like it?
ESTRIN: In this song, you hear actually audio clips of people in the music industry saying how much they love your band.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BLACK HOLE BABY")
BOB BOILEN: From NPR Music, anyone else love this band as much as me?
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #5: Superorganism, check them out.
ESTRIN: And then later in the album, there is another song, "Put Down Your Phone." People can guess what that's about. And it talks about what it's like to be constantly bombarded by everybody's thoughts about you online. So talk about this new internet. I mean, how do you handle all this attention, all your online fans and commenters?
ORONO: Delete Instagram. Delete as many social media apps as you can. But the kind of unfortunate nature of being a musician nowadays is that you kind of have to be an influencer in a way. It's not just about making music. You kind of have to, you know, brand yourself and put content up on a regular basis. You know, it's not really just about the music now.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PUT DOWN YOUR PHONE")
SUPERORGANISM: (Singing) Right. Did you put on a few pounds? I bet you got paid so much. Well, I mean, you know, it's really complicated...
ESTRIN: As a lead singer of a band in your early 20s with this music that just mirrors this strange internet world we're living in, you know, what would you tell our listeners who maybe are a little bit older than you?
ORONO: I would just be like, I hope you like this record. If you don't, that's fine. I don't really care.
ESTRIN: I mean, there is a lot of retro in this album, isn't there? It feels like there's a lot of '80s, '90s, you know, even early 2000s.
ORONO: Oh, yeah. I mean, I feel like that's, like, our main inspo. I mean, for me at least, I grew up with a lot of, like, '90s music because of my parents. So we actually get a good mix of, like, age ranges at our shows.
ESTRIN: Sweet.
ORONO: And we get a lot of dads with their daughters. And that's, like, my favorite thing to see because my dad would take me to shows and festivals and stuff, and that was, like, my favorite memories from growing up. So it's cool that I'm kind of setting up similar experiences for people.
ESTRIN: And what does your dad think about this new album?
ORONO: He's like, I mean, it's not for me, but it's cool. You know, he's a Japanese dad, so he's not going to very clearly be like, I love your new record. It's so great and amazing. He's never going to do that, but I'm pretty sure he's proud of me.
ESTRIN: Well, congratulations on your new album, and thanks for being here.
ORONO: Thank you very much.
ESTRIN: That's Orono of the band Superorganism. Their latest album is called "World Wide Pop."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "EVERYTHING FALLS APART")
SUPERORGANISM: (Singing) Yeah, and everything falls apart except for us. Everything falls apart, just falls apart, just falls apart. Except for us. Everything falls apart, just falls apart, just falls apart. Except for us. Everything falls apart. Just falls apart. Everything falls apart except for us. Everything falls apart, just falls apart. Everything falls apart. Hey there, dude, thanks for the edibles. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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DAVE DAVIES, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. Over the last 30 years, jazz drummer Billy Drummond has made hundreds of records with, among many, many others, horn players John Faddis, Javon Jackson and Marty Erlich, and pianist Renee Rosnes, Steve Kuhn and Carla Bley. He also records as a leader. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says Drummond's new quartet album is a treat.
(SOUNDBITE OF BILLY DRUMMOND AND FREEDOM OF IDEAS' "LITTLE MELONAE")
KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Billy Drummond's Quartet on Jackie McLean's "Little Melonae," the sound of a drummer keeping time on ride cymbal is a familiar jazz marker, maybe even a jazz cliche. True, some drummers keeping time sound like they're on autopilot, self-hypnotized, but not the best ones like Billy Drummond. His ride cymbal beat is lively, varied and full of passing cross-rhythms, the sound of a musician fully engaged, hearing and reacting to everything happening around him.
(SOUNDBITE OF BILLY DRUMMOND AND FREEDOM OF IDEAS' "LITTLE MELONAE")
WHITEHEAD: Saxophonist Dayna Stephens with Billy Drummond's quartet Freedom of Ideas from their new album "Valse Sinistre." The leader doesn't take many solos, but he doesn't need stand-alone spots to show his stuff. He conducts a lot of side business while keeping time. Great jazz drummers are motivators, prodding their comrades and making sure everything swings in an interactive way. This is Micah Thomas on piano.
(SOUNDBITE OF BILLY DRUMMOND AND FREEDOM OF IDEAS' "RECONFIRMED")
WHITEHEAD: The title track of "Valse Sinistre" is a gem of a waltz by Drummond's old boss, Carla Bley. Dayna Stephens plays it on soprano sax whose bright tone suits the melody and leaves exposed the rhythm section's sideways moves underneath. On bass is Dezron Douglas.
(SOUNDBITE OF BILLY DRUMMOND AND FREEDOM OF IDEAS' "VALSE SINISTRE")
WHITEHEAD: "Valse Sinistre" by Carla Bley. The slow ballad and one standard on the album "Valse Sinistre" is David Raksin's 1944 movie theme, "Laura." Billy Drummond's quiet grace with wire brushes reminds me of the great tap dancer Bill Robinson doing a rhythmic shuffle on a sandy surface. But Drummond can also be a little contrary.
(SOUNDBITE OF BILLY DRUMMOND AND FREEDOM OF IDEAS' "LAURA")
WHITEHEAD: On Billy Drummond's album "Valse Sinistre," there is also music by pianist Stanley Cowell and Frank Kimbrough and drummer Tony Williams and by members of the band. The quartet revived the late trombonist Grachan Moncur's "Frankenstein" from 1963, a minor tune with odd chord changes, the kind of offbeat choice that helps make this album a treat. It's not surprising that a leader in the habit of attentive listening would turn up some good, old tunes that other folks overlook.
(SOUNDBITE OF BILLY DRUMMOND AND FREEDOM OF IDEAS' "FRANKENSTEIN")
WHITEHEAD: Kevin Whitehead is the author of the book "Play The Way You Feel: The Essential Guide To Jazz Stories On Film." And he writes for Point of Departure and The Audio Beat. He reviewed the new album Valse Sinistre by Billy Drummond's quartet, Freedom of Ideas.
On tomorrow's show, the risk of growing tension between China and the U.S. Michael Beckley says China is engaged in the largest military buildup since World War II and is being increasingly aggressive with its Asian neighbors and with the United States. Beckley's new book with Hal Brand (ph) is "Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict With China." I hope you can join us. For Terry Gross, I'm Dave Davies.
(SOUNDBITE OF BILLY DRUMMOND AND FREEDOM OF IDEAS' "FRANKENSTEIN") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. You can say a lot about the power of music. One song has so much power, it can make some old laptops crash. It's Janet Jackson's 1989 classic "Rhythm Nation."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "RHYTHM NATION")
JANET JACKSON: (Singing) With music by our side to break the color lines...
MARTIN: Microsoft's chief software engineer blogged about it. Raymond Chen says a specific frequency like the one in "Rhythm Nation" makes Windows XP hard drives go black. Even though there used to be a digital fix for the problem, maybe some folks didn't get the update. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Leadoff man Aaron Judge singled twice during a six-run first inning off Corey Kluber as the New York Yankees started with seven straight hits for the first time since 1990 and routed the Tampa Bay Rays 10-3 Saturday.
Josh Donaldson homered early and Giancarlo Stanton connected late off a lob pitch as both players returned to the lineup and helped the AL East-leading Yankees move to 4 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay. New York also clinched the season head-to-head tiebreaker over the Rays should the teams finish even atop the division.
Judge, leading the majors with 55 home runs, hit three singles in raising his average to .307. He is the first Yankees player to reach base at least three times in seven straight games since Mickey Mantle in June 1957.
Judge also is the seventh Yankee to reach base at least three times in at least seven straight games. Besides Mantle, Babe Ruth did it in 1920, Lou Gehrig achieved it twice in 1936 and 1937, Tommy Henrich did it in 1938 and Joe DiMaggio along with Frank Crosetti achieved the feat in 1939.
“Obviously, every team’s a little bit different in how they attack and pitchers are a little bit different but we’ve seen teams in some cases really pitch around him and stay away from him,” manager Aaron Boone.
“The Rays tend to go after him a little bit more, but take what the game gives you. Mike Schmidt used to always say that to me when I was a kid,” said Boone, whose father, Bob, was a teammate of the Hall of Fame third baseman in Philadelphia.
Judge has reached base in 12 straight games, reaching base multiple times in 11 games. He also reached base at least three times for a major league-leading 41st time.
The Yankees opened a game with seven straight hits — all singles — for the first time since starting a 15-3 win over Baltimore with eight hits in a row on Sept. 25, 1990.
“It was just a collection of really good at-bats,” Boone said.
Judge’s RBI single with two outs in the first chased Kluber (10-8) after 32 pitches. It was the two-time Cy Young Award winner’s shortest career outing.
“Too many mistakes,” Kluber said.
Donaldson came back from the paternity list and hit an RBI single that bounced off the top of the fence in the first. After flipping his bat on the single, Donaldson homered in the second. He had missed four games following the birth of his daughter.
“Being home, being around my family going through that experience is pretty special and just really putting things in perspective and having that joy to come out here and play the game I love to play,” Donaldson said.
Stanton hit his 25th home run, connecting on a 47 mph lob from catcher Christian Bethancourt in the eighth. Stanton had been limited to pinch-hitting appearances in the previous two games since fouling a ball off his left foot in the sixth on Monday.
Stanton declared himself ready to play after texting Boone and snapped a 17-game homerless streak. He reached 25 homers for the ninth time in his career.
“Hey, they all count,” Stanton said of homering off a position player.
Stanton’s homer was his first extra-base hit in 55 at-bats since he homered and won the MVP award in the All-Star Game on July 19. He had missed a month with Achilles tendinitis since then.
New York starter Jameson Taillon (13-4) gave up three runs and six hits in 7 1/3 innings and got his 50th career win.
Judge led off the first with a single as the Yankees broke loose from the start. Rookie Oswaldo Cabrera hit a two-run single and scored on a grounder by Kyle Higashioka on New York’s first out of the game.
Wander Franco hit an RBI single and Harold Ramírez added a two-run single as Tampa Bay lost for the second time in 11 games.
Donaldson hit his 13th homer in the second. He stumbled home in the seventh on a wild pitch by Calvin Faucher.
HICKS’ FOLLOW UP
Struggling LF Aaron Hicks did not play after misplaying two flyballs in the fourth inning on Friday and getting pulled midgame.
Hicks didn’t catch balls hit by Franco and Randy Arozarena that led to run-scoring doubles.
On the Franco hit, the ball dropped out of his glove along the left-field foul line and Hicks initially thought he caught the ball and it was foul before reacting.
Boone said he was planned to have a conversation with Hicks, who struck out twice Friday and is hitting .211.
“You always got to get to that point where things I think are affecting you,” Boone said. “Kind of becoming that target. Hopefully this is something that you get to that point where you get through it and it doesn’t bother you, doesn’t get to you.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rays: LHP Shane McClanahan (left shoulder impingement) may throw a light session Sunday and is on track to return from the injured list when eligible next Thursday.
Yankees: 1B Anthony Rizzo (headaches from epidural injection) could start ramping up activities on Sunday. Rizzo’s could return by the end of the upcoming road trip. … RHP Luis Severino (strained right lat) will make another rehab start Thursday and could rejoin the rotation Sept. 21 against Pittsburgh. … LHP Aroldis Chapman (leg infection) will appear in rehab game for Double-A Somerset Sunday along with RHP Miguel Castro (strained right shoulder), OF Harrison Bader (right foot plantar fasciitis) and LHP Zack Britton (Tommy John surgery). … LHP Scott Effross (strained right shoulder) threw a bullpen session Saturday.
UP NEXT
Tampa Bay RHP Luis Patiño (1-1, 4.34) opposes New York RHP Domingo Germán (2-3, 3.27 ERA) Sunday.
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The death of Queen Elizabeth II has elicited empathy from some British pop artists. Elton John, for instance, paid tribute to the queen at a concert earlier this week.
But the relationship between British pop and the late monarch has long been much more fraught.
Until the 1970s, the Queen of England pretty much only made innocuous cameo appearances in British pop songs. The Beatles' "Penny Lane" is a case in point, with the whimsical lyric, "Penny Lane, there is a fireman with an hourglass/And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen."
The sentiments changed after The Sex Pistols released "God Save the Queen" in 1977.
The song, which the punk band released in tandem with the Queen's Silver Jubilee, equates the monarchy with a right-wing dictatorship.
"It really is an indictment of the system," said Paul McEwan, a professor of media and communications at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, where he teaches a class on pop music history. "By using the title, 'God Save the Queen,' obviously you're invoking the national anthem and making it about more than just her."
McEwan said a slew of songs that followed in the 1980s — a time of high unemployment and unassailable class divides in the UK — continued to attack the queen for her symbolic status.
Including a comical scene that references a real-life break-in at Buckingham Palace ("So I broke into the palace with a sponge and a rusty spanner/She said, 'I know you, and you cannot sing'/I said, 'That's nothing, you should hear me play the piano'") "The Queen is Dead" by The Smiths pokes fun at Elizabeth. The 1986 track views the monarch as the figurehead of a dissolute empire.
McEwan said this wave of anti-monarchy music, largely driven by white people, subsided in the 1990s as this segment of the population's economic prospects started to improve.
"And so there's a little less of that deep anger, much as there's still plenty of poverty in Britain," he said.
But the financial pressures and racism faced by the country's many citizens with roots in Britain's former colonies largely continued to grow.
A new batch of songs targeting the queen by acts like slowthai and Bob Vylan have emerged in recent years from the UK's hip-hop community. These tracks are even more direct than their punk and alt-rock predecessors.
Slowthai's "Nothing Great About Britain" and "England's Ending" by the band Bob Vylan criticize the monarch's greed.
For example, the Bob Vylan track begins with a direct, f-bomb-laced order to kill the queen, and goes on to explain why:
"'Cause England's ending, death's still pending/Where's that money you spent?/Work all week, still work on weekends/Still can't pay my rent/Times are tough/I've had enough."
Bob Vylan frontman Bobby Vylan (the other band member, who plays the drums, goes by the name Bob Vylan) said the late monarch still owes a debt to Britain's Black and brown families.
"She never came to my house personally and took food out of my fridge," the rapper and songwriter said. "But our families, our community, our ancestors suffered at the hands of this monarchy."
Vylan said the band plans to perform the song on their upcoming U.S. tour this fall. Now that Elizabeth has died, they're considering updating the lyrics to talk about King Charles.
Meanwhile, former Smiths frontman, Morrissey, still apparently espouses anti-royalist sentiments. The cover of his recent solo album, Low in High School, shows a boy holding up a sign that says "Axe The Monarchy." But pop music scholar McEwan noted both Morrissey and John Lydon, the Sex Pistols' singer (known back then as Johnny Rotten) identify with far-right-wing politics these days. Lydon has been a vocal supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Morrissey has shown allegiance with the far-right political party For Britain.
"It's an ugly turn," McEwan said. "I don't quite know what to make of it, that these two people who had these anti-monarchy songs, both became, really unusually for pop music, right-wingers."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Leadoff man Aaron Judge singled twice during a six-run first inning off Corey Kluber as the New York Yankees started with seven straight hits for the first time since 1990 and routed the Tampa Bay Rays 10-3 Saturday.
Josh Donaldson homered early and Giancarlo Stanton connected late off a lob pitch as both players returned to the lineup and helped the AL East-leading Yankees move to 4 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay. New York also clinched the season head-to-head tiebreaker over the Rays should the teams finish even atop the division.
Judge, leading the majors with 55 home runs, hit three singles in raising his average to .307. He is the first Yankees player to reach base at least three times in seven straight games since Mickey Mantle in June 1957.
Judge also is the seventh Yankee to reach base at least three times in at least seven straight games. Besides Mantle, Babe Ruth did it in 1920, Lou Gehrig achieved it twice in 1936 and 1937, Tommy Henrich did it in 1938 and Joe DiMaggio along with Frank Crosetti achieved the feat in 1939.
“Obviously, every team’s a little bit different in how they attack and pitchers are a little bit different but we’ve seen teams in some cases really pitch around him and stay away from him,” manager Aaron Boone.
“The Rays tend to go after him a little bit more, but take what the game gives you. Mike Schmidt used to always say that to me when I was a kid,” said Boone, whose father, Bob, was a teammate of the Hall of Fame third baseman in Philadelphia.
Judge has reached base in 12 straight games, reaching base multiple times in 11 games. He also reached base at least three times for a major league-leading 41st time.
The Yankees opened a game with seven straight hits — all singles — for the first time since starting a 15-3 win over Baltimore with eight hits in a row on Sept. 25, 1990.
“It was just a collection of really good at-bats,” Boone said.
Judge’s RBI single with two outs in the first chased Kluber (10-8) after 32 pitches. It was the two-time Cy Young Award winner’s shortest career outing.
“Too many mistakes,” Kluber said.
Donaldson came back from the paternity list and hit an RBI single that bounced off the top of the fence in the first. After flipping his bat on the single, Donaldson homered in the second. He had missed four games following the birth of his daughter.
“Being home, being around my family going through that experience is pretty special and just really putting things in perspective and having that joy to come out here and play the game I love to play,” Donaldson said.
Stanton hit his 25th home run, connecting on a 47 mph lob from catcher Christian Bethancourt in the eighth. Stanton had been limited to pinch-hitting appearances in the previous two games since fouling a ball off his left foot in the sixth on Monday.
Stanton declared himself ready to play after texting Boone and snapped a 17-game homerless streak. He reached 25 homers for the ninth time in his career.
“Hey, they all count,” Stanton said of homering off a position player.
Stanton’s homer was his first extra-base hit in 55 at-bats since he homered and won the MVP award in the All-Star Game on July 19. He had missed a month with Achilles tendinitis since then.
New York starter Jameson Taillon (13-4) gave up three runs and six hits in 7 1/3 innings and got his 50th career win.
Judge led off the first with a single as the Yankees broke loose from the start. Rookie Oswaldo Cabrera hit a two-run single and scored on a grounder by Kyle Higashioka on New York’s first out of the game.
Wander Franco hit an RBI single and Harold Ramírez added a two-run single as Tampa Bay lost for the second time in 11 games.
Donaldson hit his 13th homer in the second. He stumbled home in the seventh on a wild pitch by Calvin Faucher.
HICKS’ FOLLOW UP
Struggling LF Aaron Hicks did not play after misplaying two flyballs in the fourth inning on Friday and getting pulled midgame.
Hicks didn’t catch balls hit by Franco and Randy Arozarena that led to run-scoring doubles.
On the Franco hit, the ball dropped out of his glove along the left-field foul line and Hicks initially thought he caught the ball and it was foul before reacting.
Boone said he was planned to have a conversation with Hicks, who struck out twice Friday and is hitting .211.
“You always got to get to that point where things I think are affecting you,” Boone said. “Kind of becoming that target. Hopefully this is something that you get to that point where you get through it and it doesn’t bother you, doesn’t get to you.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rays: LHP Shane McClanahan (left shoulder impingement) may throw a light session Sunday and is on track to return from the injured list when eligible next Thursday.
Yankees: 1B Anthony Rizzo (headaches from epidural injection) could start ramping up activities on Sunday. Rizzo’s could return by the end of the upcoming road trip. … RHP Luis Severino (strained right lat) will make another rehab start Thursday and could rejoin the rotation Sept. 21 against Pittsburgh. … LHP Aroldis Chapman (leg infection) will appear in rehab game for Double-A Somerset Sunday along with RHP Miguel Castro (strained right shoulder), OF Harrison Bader (right foot plantar fasciitis) and LHP Zack Britton (Tommy John surgery). … LHP Scott Effross (strained right shoulder) threw a bullpen session Saturday.
UP NEXT
Tampa Bay RHP Luis Patiño (1-1, 4.34) opposes New York RHP Domingo Germán (2-3, 3.27 ERA) Sunday.
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(The Hill) – The nation’s supply of food could take a hit if railroad workers go on strike, driving up prices at the grocery store and limiting U.S. grain exports to countries facing famine.
As soon as next week, 115,000 freight rail workers could walk out if they cannot reach a new contract with railroads, potentially shutting down the national rail network that transports 20 percent of all grain shipments.
While unions say they want to avert a strike, and Congress has the power to block it, the U.S. food sector is rattled by the prospect of a national railroad shutdown in the middle of peak harvest season.
A ‘devastating ripple effect’
Even a short-lived interruption “would create a devastating ripple effect” on the nation’s fragile supply chains, said Lee Sanders, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs at the American Bakers Association.
“Rail-dependent facilities would be unable to receive materials and ingredients, and millions of Americans a day would be unable to receive the baked goods they rely on to feed themselves, their families, and communities,” she said.
A railroad shutdown in mid-September would quickly overwhelm grain storage facilities, leaving farmers with few options to store their crops and boosting the chance of spoilage. Many grain processors would shut down, raising the price of bread and other common items, while farmers would be saddled with huge crop quantities and lower commodity prices.
“It’s kind of a double whammy when you hit both the beginning and the end of the supply chain,” said Max Fisher, chief economist at the National Grain and Feed Association.
Freight railroads also carry roughly half of fertilizer, and farmers can’t afford delays, according to a Wednesday letter to congressional leaders from The Fertilizer Institute.
“If farmers do not receive fertilizer, it results in lower crop yields, higher food prices, and more inflation for consumers,” Corey Rosenbusch, the group’s CEO, told lawmakers.
Soaring food costs — which agricultural groups blame partially on existing railroad disruptions — have hit American families particularly hard. Grocery prices rose 13.1 percent over the last year ending in July, the largest annual increase in more than four decades, according to Labor Department data.
There typically isn’t a backup plan for crops that are transported by rail, particularly when the trucking industry is already struggling to keep pace with demand. The same goes for coal, crude oil, steel, lumber, car parts and other items frequently loaded onto freight trains.
A nationwide railroad work stoppage would cost the U.S. economy more than $2 billion per day and cause shipping containers to stack up at ports, according to estimates from the Association of American Railroads.
Grain exports and global food security
Because roughly one-third of U.S. grain exports travel by rail, a work stoppage would also cut down on America’s ability to ship food to foreign nations, particularly those in East Africa and the Middle East that face a risk of famine following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A coalition of food and agricultural groups, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, urged lawmakers on Thursday to block a freight rail strike, warning that it would have “devastating consequences” for global food security.
“Congress must be willing to act to ensure our farmers and ranchers can continue to help feed the world,” the groups wrote in a letter to the top lawmakers on transportation committees.
The United Nations estimates that the number of people facing acute food insecurity has risen from 145 million to 345 million since 2019, and 50 million people in 45 countries are nearing famine.
Russia blocked off Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea at the onset of the invasion, cutting off nations that rely on Ukraine to provide large shipments of grain and cooking oil.
The warring countries signed a deal to open up Black Sea shipments in July, but Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticized the agreement, prompting fears that he could abandon it entirely.
What lies ahead
U.S. rail workers could legally strike as soon as Sept. 16 after the White House-appointed Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) released recommendations last month meant to bring railroads and unions closer to a deal.
Five unions have reached tentative agreements with railroads on a new contract based on the PEB recommendations, which call for 24 percent raises over five years and back pay but don’t address workers’ concerns about grueling hours and limited time off.
The bulk of rail workers belong to unions that haven’t struck a deal. And a recent online survey from grassroots group Railroad Workers United found that more than 9 in 10 railroad workers would vote to reject the PEB recommendations and go on strike.
If workers vote for a strike, Congress would likely intervene to block it. They could then vote to fast-track a new contract. Railroads, retailers, growers and other industries are largely urging lawmakers to simply implement the terms laid out by the PEB.
Still, some business groups are worried about the prospect of a slow congressional response to a rail walkout, driven either by lawmakers’ inexperience with the issue or political games ahead of the midterms.
The Biden administration, eager to avoid more economic disruption just before November, is pushing unions and railroads to secure an agreement before the issue comes before Congress. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh joined a negotiation session Wednesday before the National Mediation Board.
“We are confident the parties will make every effort to negotiate in good faith toward a mutually acceptable solution, and we urge both sides to do so promptly,” a White House official said in an email.
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(The Hill) – The nation’s supply of food could take a hit if railroad workers go on strike, driving up prices at the grocery store and limiting U.S. grain exports to countries facing famine.
As soon as next week, 115,000 freight rail workers could walk out if they cannot reach a new contract with railroads, potentially shutting down the national rail network that transports 20 percent of all grain shipments.
While unions say they want to avert a strike, and Congress has the power to block it, the U.S. food sector is rattled by the prospect of a national railroad shutdown in the middle of peak harvest season.
A ‘devastating ripple effect’
Even a short-lived interruption “would create a devastating ripple effect” on the nation’s fragile supply chains, said Lee Sanders, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs at the American Bakers Association.
“Rail-dependent facilities would be unable to receive materials and ingredients, and millions of Americans a day would be unable to receive the baked goods they rely on to feed themselves, their families, and communities,” she said.
A railroad shutdown in mid-September would quickly overwhelm grain storage facilities, leaving farmers with few options to store their crops and boosting the chance of spoilage. Many grain processors would shut down, raising the price of bread and other common items, while farmers would be saddled with huge crop quantities and lower commodity prices.
“It’s kind of a double whammy when you hit both the beginning and the end of the supply chain,” said Max Fisher, chief economist at the National Grain and Feed Association.
Freight railroads also carry roughly half of fertilizer, and farmers can’t afford delays, according to a Wednesday letter to congressional leaders from The Fertilizer Institute.
“If farmers do not receive fertilizer, it results in lower crop yields, higher food prices, and more inflation for consumers,” Corey Rosenbusch, the group’s CEO, told lawmakers.
Soaring food costs — which agricultural groups blame partially on existing railroad disruptions — have hit American families particularly hard. Grocery prices rose 13.1 percent over the last year ending in July, the largest annual increase in more than four decades, according to Labor Department data.
There typically isn’t a backup plan for crops that are transported by rail, particularly when the trucking industry is already struggling to keep pace with demand. The same goes for coal, crude oil, steel, lumber, car parts and other items frequently loaded onto freight trains.
A nationwide railroad work stoppage would cost the U.S. economy more than $2 billion per day and cause shipping containers to stack up at ports, according to estimates from the Association of American Railroads.
Grain exports and global food security
Because roughly one-third of U.S. grain exports travel by rail, a work stoppage would also cut down on America’s ability to ship food to foreign nations, particularly those in East Africa and the Middle East that face a risk of famine following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A coalition of food and agricultural groups, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, urged lawmakers on Thursday to block a freight rail strike, warning that it would have “devastating consequences” for global food security.
“Congress must be willing to act to ensure our farmers and ranchers can continue to help feed the world,” the groups wrote in a letter to the top lawmakers on transportation committees.
The United Nations estimates that the number of people facing acute food insecurity has risen from 145 million to 345 million since 2019, and 50 million people in 45 countries are nearing famine.
Russia blocked off Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea at the onset of the invasion, cutting off nations that rely on Ukraine to provide large shipments of grain and cooking oil.
The warring countries signed a deal to open up Black Sea shipments in July, but Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticized the agreement, prompting fears that he could abandon it entirely.
What lies ahead
U.S. rail workers could legally strike as soon as Sept. 16 after the White House-appointed Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) released recommendations last month meant to bring railroads and unions closer to a deal.
Five unions have reached tentative agreements with railroads on a new contract based on the PEB recommendations, which call for 24 percent raises over five years and back pay but don’t address workers’ concerns about grueling hours and limited time off.
The bulk of rail workers belong to unions that haven’t struck a deal. And a recent online survey from grassroots group Railroad Workers United found that more than 9 in 10 railroad workers would vote to reject the PEB recommendations and go on strike.
If workers vote for a strike, Congress would likely intervene to block it. They could then vote to fast-track a new contract. Railroads, retailers, growers and other industries are largely urging lawmakers to simply implement the terms laid out by the PEB.
Still, some business groups are worried about the prospect of a slow congressional response to a rail walkout, driven either by lawmakers’ inexperience with the issue or political games ahead of the midterms.
The Biden administration, eager to avoid more economic disruption just before November, is pushing unions and railroads to secure an agreement before the issue comes before Congress. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh joined a negotiation session Wednesday before the National Mediation Board.
“We are confident the parties will make every effort to negotiate in good faith toward a mutually acceptable solution, and we urge both sides to do so promptly,” a White House official said in an email.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A new coach. A bunch of guys coming back from injuries. A 16-point deficit in the fourth quarter.
None of it flustered the New Orleans Saints, who pulled off a stunning comeback Sunday.
Wil Lutz kicked a 51-yard field goal with 19 seconds remaining after Jameis Winston guided a pair of lighting-quick touchdown drives, giving the Saints a 27-26 victory over the Atlanta Falcons in Dennis Allen’s coaching debut.
“It was exciting,” Winston said with a smile. “We’ve just got to find a way to get there quicker.”
After struggling offensively through most of the season opener, the Saints finally found their rhythm.
Winston threw for 269 yards after going down last season on Halloween with a knee injury. Michael Thomas hauled in a pair of fourth-quarter TD passes in his first game since the 2020 season, having missed an entire campaign with complications from an ankle injury.
And Lutz delivered at the end, showing he’s fully recovered from a core issue that kept him out for all of 2021.
“I’m happy with our resilience,” Winston said. “We never gave up.”
Winston hooked up with Thomas on touchdown passes of 3 and 9 yards. The Saints converted one 2-point try, but failed on the other, leaving the Falcons clinging to a 26-24 lead.
New Orleans got the ball back one more time, taking over at its own 20 with 48 seconds remaining and no timeouts.
No problem.
Winston connected on a 40-yard pass to Jarvis Landry and a 17-yarder to Juwan Johnson to set up Lutz’s winning field goal.
A personal foul on the Saints gave the Falcons a chance to pull out the victory, but Younghoe Koo’s 63-yard field goal attempt was blocked as the clock ran out.
It was a stirring start to the Allen era.
Sean Payton, who coached the team for 15 years and led New Orleans to its lone Super Bowl title, surprisingly stepped down after last season.
His defensive coordinator got the job, even though Allen’s first head coaching stint resulted in a record of 8-28 with the Raiders in 2012-14.
Make it 9-28.
“I hope they’re not all like that,” Allen said. “Look, our team is tough and gritty. That’s what I love about ’em. That’s exactly the way they played in this game. It wasn’t perfect. We’ve got a ton of things to clean up.”
The Falcons, who have seemingly never recovered from squandering a 28-3 lead in the 2017 Super Bowl, added another meltdown to their resume in their first game of the post-Matt Ryan era.
Cordarrelle Patterson rushed for a career-high 120 yards, including a 5-yard scoring burst, and Marcus Mariota made his first start since 2019 as Ryan’s replacement.
Mariota threw for 215 yards and added 72 on the ground, highlight by a 2-yard touchdown run.
But in the end, the Falcons let what seemed like a sure victory get away.
“You guys wrote our obituary back in May and you’ll continue to write our obituary,” second-year coach Arthur Smith grumbled to reporters. “Who cares? We’ve got 16 games to learn from this and get better.”
Winston was sacked four times by a team that had a league-low 18 sacks a year ago. He passed for just 24 yards in the first half, but made all the throws when it really counted.
Landry had seven catches for 114 yards, and Thomas finished with five catches for 57 yards.
“It was a blessing to be back out there with the guys,” said Thomas, who had an NFL-record 149 receptions in 2019 but was playing just his eighth game since then.
SECOND CHANCE
Lutz was kicking himself after his first field goal attempt from 44 yards hit the left upright.
He bounced back to make a 49-yarder before connecting on the game-winner.
“Obviously, coming off a miss is tough,” Lutz said. “But that’s what we signed up to do. I’m grateful the defense gave me a chance to get back out there and the offense put me in position to make the kick. It feels really good.”
SACK ATTACK
One bright spot for the Falcons was their pass rush.
The four sacks was the most by Atlanta since its next-to-last contest of the 2020 season at Kansas City. The Falcons had an NFL-low 18 sacks a year ago, never managing more than three in a game.
Grady Jarrett was credited with 1 1/2 sacks, teaming with Lorenzo Carter on one of them. Mykal Walker and Arnold Ebiketie also had sacks.
PROMISING STARTS
Both teams got plenty of production from their first-round rookie receivers.
Drake London, the No. 8 overall selection, led the Falcons with five catches for 74 yards.
Chris Olave, the No. 11 choice by the Saints, had three receptions for 41 yards and hauled in another catch on New Orleans’ successful 2-point conversion.
INJURY REPORT
Atlanta RB Damien Williams sustained a rib injury in the first quarter, forcing Patterson to take on the bulk of the running load. The Falcons activated only one other back, Avery Williams, choosing not to play rookie Tyler Allgeier.
UP NEXT
Saints: Home opener next Sunday against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Falcons: Hit the road to face the Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams in the first of two straight West Coast games.
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More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL
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BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a message of congratulation to Britain’s King Charles III on his accession to the throne, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.
“I am willing to work with King Charles III to enhance mutual understanding and friendship … and strengthen communication on global issues, so as to benefit the two countries,” Xinhua quoted Xi as saying.
The Chinese president also commemorated the 50th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations. The message comes amid strained relations over trade, human rights and China’s crackdown on the democratic opposition in the former British colony of Hong Kong.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Former British colonies conflicted over Queen Elizabeth II
— Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin begins journey through Scotland
— What’s next for the UK as Queen Elizabeth II laid to rest
— King Charles III is officially proclaimed monarch in London
— What will happen to all the currencies that feature the queen?
— Explainer: The formal rules around Charles’ accession
— Mourners in the street: Sincere grief flows out across Britain
— Will Charles be loved by his subjects, like his mother was?
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
King Charles III has been formally proclaimed the monarch in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The moves Sunday in the rest of the United Kingdom came a day after the same proclamation was made in London at a pomp-filled accession ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism.
In Belfast, bells chimed and a bugler played before the proclamation was read. It was followed by a 21-gun salute and a military band playing the anthem, “God Save the King.” In Wales, a regimental mascot goat accompanied the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welsh regiment at the ceremony at Cardiff Castle.
Earlier, proclamations were held in other parts of the Commonwealth — the group of former British Empire colonies — including Australia and New Zealand.
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ABERDEEN, Scotland — Mourners are quietly paying tribute as a hearse carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin passes through the Scottish countryside on a final journey back to London.
Crowds are lining the streets Sunday and some have tossed flowers as the hearse passes through villages and towns a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh. The queen died Thursday at her beloved summer estate Balmoral Castle.
The late queen’s coffin was draped in the Royal Standard for Scotland and topped with a wreath made of flowers from Balmoral, including sweet peas, one of the queen’s favorites.
The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, tweeted that “as she makes her journey to Edinburgh, Scotland will pay tribute to an extraordinary woman.”
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LONDON — King Charles III will attend a reception Sunday with commissioners from Commonwealth nations.
The commissions maintain and develop relationships with the group of countries that grapple with affection for the queen and lingering bitterness over their own colonial legacies.
Charles became king after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died Thursday at her summer retreat in Scotland. Her coffin has left her beloved Balmoral Castle on Sunday for a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh, with people lining the streets in some places to pay their respects.
The king will meet with the secretary-general of the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace before a reception with the foreign secretary and commissioners from countries like Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Belize, Canada and New Zealand.
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BALMORAL CASTLE, Scotland — A hearse carrying the late Queen Elizabeth II’s oak coffin has left her beloved Balmoral Castle.
The coffin of the late monarch is beginning a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh on Sunday. She died Thursday at Balmoral after a 70-year reign and is starting her last journey back to London for a state funeral Sept. 19.
Crowds are lining parts of the route as the nation mourns its longest-reigning monarch. Early Sunday, flowers and other tributes — a small Paddington Bear toy, a hand-drawn picture of the queen — were piled up outside the gates of Balmoral.
Also Sunday, King Charles III will be formally proclaimed king in the other nations of the United Kingdom — Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — after a similar ceremony in Britain a day earlier.
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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — Britain’s King Charles III has been officially proclaimed Australia’s monarch during a ceremony in Canberra.
Australian Governor General David Hurley made the proclamation Sunday at Parliament House. At the end of the service there was a 21-gun salute.
Charles automatically became king when the queen died on Thursday.
But like the accession ceremony in London on Saturday, the proclamation in Australia was a constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
Charles is now is the head of state in Australia, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.
Similar ceremonies will be held in each Australian state and territory.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Britain’s King Charles III was officially proclaimed New Zealand’s monarch in a ceremony in Wellington.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern paid tribute to the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday and spoke of the strong bond her son and successor had with New Zealand.
Charles automatically became king when the queen died on Thursday.
Like the accession ceremony in London on Saturday, the proclamation in New Zealand was a constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
To mark the occasion, the army’s 16 Field Regiment fired a 21-gun salute from Point Jerningham in Wellington.
Charles is now is the head of state in New Zealand, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.
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NEW DELHI — India is observing a day of state mourning on Sunday as a mark of respect to Queen Elizabeth II.
The national flag has been lowered to half-staff on all government buildings throughout the country. India was a British colony before gaining independence in 1947.
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne.
King Charles III was officially proclaimed Britain’s monarch on Saturday. He automatically became king when his mother died Thursday.
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Both are in stable condition
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Two people were shot near the intersection of Dublin Avenue and Forsyth Avenue, just after 10:00 p.m. on Friday September 9.
It was reported there was an altercation of some kind near the intersection and shots were fired. A 40-year-old male and 14-year-old male were struck by gunfire. The 14-year-old male was transported to Atrium Health and is listed in stable condition. The 40-year-old male was driven by personal vehicle to Piedmont Hospital and then transported to Atrium Health. The 40-year-old male is listed in stable condition at this time. No one else was injured in the incident.
This incident is still under investigation, anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751 -7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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Bar and Grill security guard shot and killed
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – 46-year-old Jermaine Stewart, of Macon, who was shot while working as security for the Rodeo Bar and Grill was pronounced deceased Sunday afternoon.
The shooting happened just after 04:00 a.m after there was an altercation inside the Rodeo Bar and Grill. Multiple people were involved and made to leave the bar. As the subjects were leaving multiple shots were fired by unknown subjects. During the incident Stewart was struck in the head. No one else was injured in the incident.
There is no information on the suspects at this time other than two male subjects.
This incident is still under investigation, anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751 -7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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Bibb deputies: 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after Saturday night shooting
One man is dead and another man is in the hospital following a shooting late Saturday night.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – One man is dead and another man is in the hospital following a shooting late Saturday night.
It happened around 11 o’clock in the 300 block of Grier Street, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release.
Deputies found 40-year-old Lester Summers of Macon between two houses. They say he had multiple gunshot wounds.
He was taken to Atrium Health Navicent and pronounced dead there.
A second victim, a 34-year-old man, was driven to Piedmont Northside and is in stable condition.
Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have any information.
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Macon man found shot dead in pickup truck
A man was found shot dead in a pickup truck early Sunday morning.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A man was found shot dead in a pickup truck early Sunday morning.
A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release says deputies found 42-year-old Stephen Lee Brown unresponsive in a pickup truck near the intersection of Cowan and Smith Streets around 2:30.
He was pronounced dead on the scene.
The shooting is under investigation. Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have any information.
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Man robbed and shot in Downtown Macon
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Just before 01:30 am Sunday deputies responded to atrium Health in regards to a person shot. According to a release from the Bibb Sheriff’s Office deputies talked to a 32-year-old male that stated he was walking to his car in the parking lot next to the Tubman Museum when a male with gun demanded items from him and then shot him. He drove himself to the hospital and was listed in stable condition at the time. There’s no further information on the suspect.
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Pedestrian hit and killed on Gray Hwy
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A man is dead after being struck by a vehicle in the 1300 block of Gray Highway just before 12:00 a.m. Sunday
According to a news release the victim was walking in the left lane when a pickup truck driven by a 42-year-old male of Milledgeville, hit him. After being struck by the pickup truck the victim was also struck by a motorcycle, driven by a 27-year-old male of Gray. The victim was pronounced deceased on scene. The male on the motorcycle was transported to Atrium Health and is listed in stable condition at this time.
The traffic collision is still under investigation. Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Pro-Kremlin candidates won all of the 14 regional governorships that were chosen in the first elections in Russia since it sent troops into Ukraine, according to preliminary results Monday.
Most of the winners ran as members of United Russia, the country’s dominant political party that is closely tied to President Vladimir Putin. Two ran as self-nominated but support United Russia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked by reporters Monday, if the results constitute a show of support for Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, said “Absolutely.”
“This shows a high level of support for both the current head and the decisions he makes,” Peskov said.
United Russia candidates also dominated the elections for six regional parliaments in the voting that was held Friday through Sunday. However, in the Sakhalin region, United Russia totaled only 47% of the vote.
Many opposition politicians were barred from running in the three-day vote.
United Russia’s candidates won about 75% of the municipal council seats in Moscow, according to state news agency Tass. Municipal councils, the lowest level of local governance with little real power, have become battlegrounds for opposition politicians cut off from competing in national races.
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Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton are working hard to make sure that the recent death of their children's great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth doesn't upset their daily life too much.
The newly-appointed Prince of Wales spent forty minutes walking around outside Windsor Castle on Saturday meeting with various mourners and well-wishers who were gathered following the monarch's passing on Thursday. At one point, the royal paused to speak with Elaine Gee, a teacher from Wokingham, England, who discussed with him how hard it can be to explain death to her young students. A sentiment William commiserated with as he's had to broach the subject himself with 9-year-old Prince George, 7-year-old Princess Charlotte, and 4-year-old Prince Louis.
Gee shared some of their conversation with People, revealing, “I told him how I work at a school and how it's been a strange year celebrating the Jubilee and now it's all changed and we are talking about this. He spoke about George, Charlotte and Louis, saying that they were trying to keep some sense of continuity for them at school and keep things as normal as possible.” The school teacher also got the opportunity to meet briefly with the Princess of Wales, sharing with her how impressed she's been by how Kate has conducted herself during this difficult mourning period. “Catherine thanked me, and she said that all the nation were feeling it,” Gee said. “They were both very kind and gentle and genuine. It was very special—definitely a moment I will always treasure.”
William and Kate were also joined on the walk around Windsor Castle by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, together speaking to hundreds of mourners paying their respects to the late queen. One of those gathered, Sanj Chowdhri, told the outlet that was surprised, but delighted to get the opportunity to meet the Duchess of Sussex face-to-face. “She shook my hand and said it was really nice of us to come and support the family, she was very gracious,” he said, while his wife, Minal Chowdhri, added, “We didn't expect this, it's been surreal!”
Another bystander Debbie Fowler remarked how nice it was to get to see the royals being so informal around one another. She explained, “It was amazing, they were so personable. Somebody gave William a pot plant, and he said he was going to plant it. And they were talking about people's dogs, and Will called Kate over to stroke one near us. They are in mourning, and yet they were so lovely to everyone.” And another visitor, Cheryl Young, traveled to Windsor from Preston to hand deliver a bouquet to Kate. “It was magical and very surreal,” she said of that special moment. “I'm actually shaking from the overwhelming atmosphere. Kate said how all the messages were so wonderful to see.”
At another point during the event, a visitor told the Princess of Wales that it was almost as if Queen Elizabeth had been the nation's grandmother, to which she concurred. “Yes, I know she will be missed by so many, and it's lovely to see the outpouring of love from people of all ages here today,” Kate said. “It's hugely touching to see.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Three children were found dead in the surf off Brooklyn’s famed Coney Island boardwalk early Monday and police believe they may have been drowned by their mother.
The bodies of the 7-year-old boy, 4-year-old girl and 3-month-old girl were found after a nearly three-hour search that began at 1:40 a.m. when a relative called police, worried the woman intended to harm her children.
The mother was found 90 minutes later, barefoot and soaking wet, 2 miles (3 kilometers) down the boardwalk from the section of Coney Island where she lived.
Detectives were trying to question the woman at the local police precinct house.
“So far, she’s not said anything,” said NYPD Chief of Department Kenneth Corey.
The search for the children intensified after the mother was found alone. Police sent in a helicopter and marine units. The children were found at the water’s edge shortly after 4:30 a.m. on a quiet section of beach about 13 blocks from the stadium where the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team plays its games.
Efforts to revive the children at a nearby hospital failed, Corey said.
Police didn’t immediately identify the children or the 30-year-old mother. A decision hadn’t been made about what criminal charges she might face.
The children’s bodies were found just three blocks from the woman’s apartment building, where police had first gone when the search began. Corey said officers had canvassed the beach and the boardwalk, searched neighborhood streets and checked the local hospital in the hunt for the children before the mother was found on the boardwalk.
As they continued to search the area, police found a shoe in the water and bagged it as evidence.
A security supervisor for the building where the mother and children lived said the family had moved in less than a year ago. Corey said the mother had not been reported to authorities previously for abusing or neglecting her children.
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New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware will host the final multistate primary elections of the 2022 midterm season Tuesday, with contests to select candidates for governor, U.S. Senate and the U.S. House.
Because of their late primaries, the winners of Tuesday’s races will have a mere eight weeks to win over voters ahead of the Nov. 8 general election. Delaware’s primary will feature just one contested statewide race — the Democratic primary for auditor.
As in earlier contests in other states, former President Donald Trump’s shadow looms large over some key races to be decided Tuesday, particularly in New Hampshire.
What to watch:
SUNUNU SEEKS A FOURTH TERM AS NEW HAMPSHIRE GOVERNOR
Until late last year, New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu was widely expected to run for the U.S. Senate, taking on Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan. Instead, he opted to seek a fourth two-year term as governor, dealing a major blow to Republicans who had hoped he could help them retake control of the Senate.
Although he faced intense pressure to run for the Senate, Sununu insists he can have a bigger and more direct impact as governor than as a senator. And despite efforts by Trump’s former campaign manager to recruit a challenger, none of the other five Republicans on the ballot Tuesday poses a serious threat.
Democratic state Sen. Tom Sherman is running unopposed for his party’s nomination for governor.
REPUBLICANS’ SCRAMBLE FOR U.S. SENATE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
With Sununu out of the running, a crowd of 11 candidates stepped forward to seek the GOP Senate nomination, including state Senate President Chuck Morse, former Londonderry town manager Kevin Smith and cryptocurrency entrepreneur Bruce Fenton. But retired Army Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc, who lost the GOP primary for New Hampshire’s other Senate seat in 2020, quickly emerged as the front-runner via dogged grassroots campaigning to compensate for his lack of cash.
That has made establishment Republicans nervous, with Sununu calling Bolduc “not a serious candidate” and a conspiracy theorist. Sununu issued a last-minute endorsement for Morse.
Democratic groups, meanwhile, have put up ads promoting Bolduc, hoping he’ll be an easy opponent for Hassan in November.
Hassan, seeking a second term in the battleground state, faces two virtually unknown challengers on the Democratic side. Although Democrats hold all four of New Hampshire’s congressional seats, Republicans control the state Legislature, and Hassan’s 2016 win was a narrow one.
GOP EYES 2 CONGRESSIONAL SEATS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Many expected major changes in New Hampshire’s two congressional districts thanks to the once-a-decade redistricting process, but that didn’t happen. Earlier this year, the Republican-controlled Legislature redrew the state’s two districts to give the GOP an advantage in the 1st District. But Sununu vetoed the plans, and the maps were updated by the courts instead with only minor changes.
Still, Republicans are bullish about their chances in New Hampshire and are eagerly eyeing both Democratic-held seats as potential pickups in November.
New Hampshire’s 1st District flipped five times in seven elections before Democrat Chris Pappas won his first term in 2018. He faces no primary opponent this year, while more than 10 Republicans are competing for a chance to challenge him.
The field includes a number of candidates with ties to Trump: Matt Mowers, the district’s 2020 Republican nominee and a former Trump State Department adviser; Karoline Leavitt, a former assistant press secretary in the Trump White House; and former TV broadcaster Gail Huff Brown, who is married to Scott Brown, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts and the Trump administration ambassador to New Zealand. While Trump hasn’t endorsed in the race, the candidates haven’t been shy about emphasizing their connections to him.
In the second district, Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster faces no primary challenge as she seeks a sixth term. Seven Republicans are vying for their party’s nomination to challenge her, including pro-Trump candidate Bob Burns, a former county treasurer who runs a pharmaceutical safety company; the more moderate George Hansel, mayor of Keene; and Lily Tang Williams, who grew up in China and is a former libertarian U.S. Senate candidate in Colorado.
TOUGH DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FOR RHODE ISLAND GOVERNOR
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee is trying to fend off four Democratic challengers as he seeks his first full term in office. McKee, the former lieutenant governor, became governor a year and a half ago when then-Gov. Gina Raimondo was tapped to be the U.S. commerce secretary in the Biden administration.
McKee is expected to be in a close contest against Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea. Both were first elected to statewide office in 2014 and maintain a base of support and name recognition among voters.
Also running in the Democratic primary: Helena Foulkes, a former CVS Health executive who has proved to be an adept fundraiser and is spending heavily on the race in her first bid for public office; former Rhode Island secretary of state and progressive candidate Matt Brown; and community activist Dr. Luis Daniel Muñoz.
McKee is hoping his stewardship during the COVID-19 pandemic — and his 94-year-old mother — will earn him the Democratic nomination.
Willa McKee is a star of her son’s first television ad, titled “motha” because that’s how she pronounces “mother.” The two are playing cards as the governor talks about helping the economy, eliminating the state’s car tax, creating affordable housing and passing gun safety laws to keep families safe.
“Not bad for a year and a half,” the governor says.
He laughs as his mother replies, “Not bad for a governor that lives with his motha.”
A RHODE ISLAND CONGRESSIONAL SEAT RIPE FOR FLIPPING?
The 2nd Congressional District seat has been held by Democrats for more than three decades in a state traditionally dominated by the party. National Republican leaders think now is their best chance to flip it.
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin, who has represented the district since 2001, announced his retirement in January. The state’s Democratic treasurer, Seth Magaziner, had been running for governor but switched races after Langevin’s announcement to try to keep the seat in Democratic control.
Magaziner, who is considered the front-runner and has been endorsed by Langevin, faces a crowded Democratic field, including Joy Fox, a former top aide to Langevin; former Biden administration official Sarah Morgenthau; Omar Bah, executive director of The Refugee Dream Center in Providence; and former state lawmakers David Segal and Spencer Dickinson.
A popular former Rhode Island mayor, Allan Fung, is running unopposed for the Republican nomination after two rivals dropped out of the race. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy visited Rhode Island in August to raise money for Fung.
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When Law & Order and its various spin-offs return to NBC this fall, it’s safe to assume that late-night host John Oliver won’t be tuning in. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, he devoted his main segment to the franchise’s oft-skewed depiction of law enforcement and took aim at show creator Dick Wolf. (Vanity Fair has reached out to Wolf’s rep for comment.)
“It’s presenting a world where the cops can always figure out who did it, defense attorneys are irritating obstacles to be overcome, and even if a cop roughs up a suspect, it’s all in pursuit of a just outcome,” Oliver said, calling the series “a commercial, and a commercial produced by a man who is, in his own words, unabashedly pro-law enforcement. And he is very good at selling things. And in this instance, he’s selling a complete fantasy that many people in this country are only too happy to buy.”
Oliver began by noting that Wolf was influenced by the 1950s police procedural Dragnet, a series that collaborated so closely with the LAPD that officials from the force reportedly had script approval. Similarly, Wolf cultivated a “close behind-the-scenes relationship with the NYPD, employing officers as consultants and boasting about the access he had,” Oliver said.
He mentioned an anonymous Law & Order writer who once claimed that there was a sense amongst the creative team that if police were depicted negatively, the NYPD “could make it very difficult for us to shoot in New York.” Said Oliver, “Does make sense, doesn’t it? The NYPD is famously anti-shooting unless they are the ones doing it.”
The host then pointed out realities of the criminal justice system that Law & Order often ignores, including the 97% of cases that never go to trial and the fact that defendants often don’t reflect those seen on the show, who are “disproportionately white, male, older, and from the middle or upper classes.” “Obviously, Law & Order cannot reflect that reality,” Oliver said. “It would be unwatchable. Nobody wants to watch a show where 97% of episodes end with two lawyers striking a deal in a window-less room, and then you get to watch the defendant serve six months then struggle to get a job at their local Jiffy Lube.”
Oliver concluded his remarks on Law & Order’s glorification of policing by asserting that the show “is never going to grapple with the reality of policing in a meaningful way…because fundamentally, the person who is responsible for Law & Order and its brand is Dick Wolf, and he knows exactly what he wants his shows to do and, importantly, not to do.”
Elsewhere in the episode, the infamously anti-royal host acknowledged the death of Queen Elizabeth by criticizing new UK prime minister Liz Truss, whom he referred to as “Margaret Thatcher if she were high on glue.” Oliver maligned Truss’s plans to counteract soaring energy bills in England with a tax on oil and gas corporations. “Look, I’m just gonna say this, and you may not like it, but it doesn’t make it any less true: The nicest thing the Queen of England ever did for anyone was die the week that woman became prime minister,” he said. “Because for at least a week, she’s not going to get justifiably destroyed for answers like that.”
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There could not been more at staka or anything you need this kind of information you receive the discs to you. They may need one invoice but if the data with incompatible formats is on those records for tax reporting. There isn not just to the Internet.\nthe same and be done and they can always ask to talk to a group if you can save some data is. When purchasing the products for each recordings may just leave us all confused what information are also many products As I walk along a dirt trail that winds through Cheyenne Canyon near Colorado Springs, Colorado, I look up at the rock wall next to me. It’s imposing, around 400 feet tall with several jagged rocks that seem to stick out of the near-vertical face.
“This whole wall here is called the Army route,” says Joe Baker, speaking about the big thing he and his 8-year-old son, Sam, are about to climb. “You go right up the front of that.”
I’m from New Jersey. We don’t have rocks, nonetheless ones that you intentionally hook yourself to in an attempt to scale, so this entire experience is brand new to me, but for Sam, who is less than a third my age, it is anything but.
“We’re training Sam to be able to lead [a climb] and this has been one of our projects, and yesterday, he just led it masterfully and so I thought we’d try it again today,” said Joe, as we draw closer to the rock face.
If Sam’s name sounds familiar, it is because it is. We caught up with him and his dad in May 2021, shortly after the father-son duo made the decision they would climb one of the world’s most imposing rock faces in the world: El Capitan in Yellowstone National Park.
“I think Sam’s already ready,” said Joe on this cool September morning. “He’s definitely ready physically to do it. Is he ready for the exposure? I don’t know. Are any of us?”
To the uninitiated, El Capitan is known across the world as the mecca of climbing, with its 3,200 vertical feet of granite that's tested even the most experienced climbers since it was first climbed in the 1950s.
A few years ago, Joe thought it would be a good test for Sam’s ability, as he has already become the youngest person to climb three distinct peaks in North America.
On Oct. 24, the duo will set out for their newest journey, and if successful, it will make Sam the youngest person to climb and summit El Capitan.
“Just imagine walking on your fingers for a mile on the sidewalk, and then, think about that straight up, but you can’t walk anywhere because you’re literally hanging from your fingers or your anchors for four days,” said Joe, explaining the daunting task in front of them.
But going deeper, Joe thought it would be an even better test for the man he knows Sam will one day be.
“Yeah, just that internal confidence that you build with your father out on the rocks,” said Joe. “It’s something that’s going to be so beneficial when you’re building a business someday. You know, when you’re living life. Life is risky, life is dangerous, and learning to really acutely manage that [fear] is one of the greatest skills.”
As I watched Sam climb up the rocks of the Army Route with seemingly effortless ease, I witnessed what Joe meant about managing that fear. With no one around him around 60 feet from the ground, you could hear Sam call down to his father.
“It’s not going in! It’s not going in!”
He was referencing an anchor that you press between two rocks. The pressure of the device on the rocks holds it in place as you then attached a carabiner and rope to it for safety. Eighteen months ago, when we first met up with Sam, he might have given up on the task out of frustration, but today, after Joe asked if Sam wanted him to come up and help, Sam replied with a definitive, almost defiant, “No. I can do this.”
It was one of those moments where all you can do is smile. And as I looked over at Joe, that’s exactly what he was doing.
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As I walk along a dirt trail that winds through Cheyenne Canyon near Colorado Springs, Colorado, I look up at the rock wall next to me. It’s imposing, around 400 feet tall with several jagged rocks that seem to stick out of the near-vertical face.
“This whole wall here is called the Army route,” says Joe Baker, speaking about the big thing he and his 8-year-old son, Sam, are about to climb. “You go right up the front of that.”
I’m from New Jersey. We don’t have rocks, nonetheless ones that you intentionally hook yourself to in an attempt to scale, so this entire experience is brand new to me, but for Sam, who is less than a third my age, it is anything but.
“We’re training Sam to be able to lead [a climb] and this has been one of our projects, and yesterday, he just led it masterfully and so I thought we’d try it again today,” said Joe, as we draw closer to the rock face.
If Sam’s name sounds familiar, it is because it is. We caught up with him and his dad in May 2021, shortly after the father-son duo made the decision they would climb one of the world’s most imposing rock faces in the world: El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
“I think Sam’s already ready,” said Joe on this cool September morning. “He’s definitely ready physically to do it. Is he ready for the exposure? I don’t know. Are any of us?”
To the uninitiated, El Capitan is known across the world as the mecca of climbing, with its 3,200 vertical feet of granite that's tested even the most experienced climbers since it was first climbed in the 1950s.
A few years ago, Joe thought it would be a good test for Sam’s ability, as he has already become the youngest person to climb three distinct peaks in North America.
On Oct. 24, the duo will set out for their newest journey, and if successful, it will make Sam the youngest person to climb and summit El Capitan.
“Just imagine walking on your fingers for a mile on the sidewalk, and then, think about that straight up, but you can’t walk anywhere because you’re literally hanging from your fingers or your anchors for four days,” said Joe, explaining the daunting task in front of them.
But going deeper, Joe thought it would be an even better test for the man he knows Sam will one day be.
“Yeah, just that internal confidence that you build with your father out on the rocks,” said Joe. “It’s something that’s going to be so beneficial when you’re building a business someday. You know, when you’re living life. Life is risky, life is dangerous, and learning to really acutely manage that [fear] is one of the greatest skills.”
As I watched Sam climb up the rocks of the Army Route with seemingly effortless ease, I witnessed what Joe meant about managing that fear. With no one around him around 60 feet from the ground, you could hear Sam call down to his father.
“It’s not going in! It’s not going in!”
He was referencing an anchor that you press between two rocks. The pressure of the device on the rocks holds it in place as you then attached a carabiner and rope to it for safety. Eighteen months ago, when we first met up with Sam, he might have given up on the task out of frustration, but today, after Joe asked if Sam wanted him to come up and help, Sam replied with a definitive, almost defiant, “No. I can do this.”
It was one of those moments where all you can do is smile. And as I looked over at Joe, that’s exactly what he was doing.
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As I walk along a dirt trail that winds through Cheyenne Canyon near Colorado Springs, Colorado, I look up at the rock wall next to me. It’s imposing, around 400 feet tall with several jagged rocks that seem to stick out of the near-vertical face.
“This whole wall here is called the Army route,” says Joe Baker, speaking about the big thing he and his 8-year-old son, Sam, are about to climb. “You go right up the front of that.”
I’m from New Jersey. We don’t have rocks, nonetheless ones that you intentionally hook yourself to in an attempt to scale, so this entire experience is brand new to me, but for Sam, who is less than a third my age, it is anything but.
“We’re training Sam to be able to lead [a climb] and this has been one of our projects, and yesterday, he just led it masterfully and so I thought we’d try it again today,” said Joe, as we draw closer to the rock face.
If Sam’s name sounds familiar, it is because it is. We caught up with him and his dad in May 2021, shortly after the father-son duo made the decision they would climb one of the world’s most imposing rock faces in the world: El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
“I think Sam’s already ready,” said Joe on this cool September morning. “He’s definitely ready physically to do it. Is he ready for the exposure? I don’t know. Are any of us?”
To the uninitiated, El Capitan is known across the world as the mecca of climbing, with its 3,200 vertical feet of granite that's tested even the most experienced climbers since it was first climbed in the 1950s.
A few years ago, Joe thought it would be a good test for Sam’s ability, as he has already become the youngest person to climb three distinct peaks in North America.
On Oct. 24, the duo will set out for their newest journey, and if successful, it will make Sam the youngest person to climb and summit El Capitan.
“Just imagine walking on your fingers for a mile on the sidewalk, and then, think about that straight up, but you can’t walk anywhere because you’re literally hanging from your fingers or your anchors for four days,” said Joe, explaining the daunting task in front of them.
But going deeper, Joe thought it would be an even better test for the man he knows Sam will one day be.
“Yeah, just that internal confidence that you build with your father out on the rocks,” said Joe. “It’s something that’s going to be so beneficial when you’re building a business someday. You know, when you’re living life. Life is risky, life is dangerous, and learning to really acutely manage that [fear] is one of the greatest skills.”
As I watched Sam climb up the rocks of the Army Route with seemingly effortless ease, I witnessed what Joe meant about managing that fear. With no one around him around 60 feet from the ground, you could hear Sam call down to his father.
“It’s not going in! It’s not going in!”
He was referencing an anchor that you press between two rocks. The pressure of the device on the rocks holds it in place as you then attached a carabiner and rope to it for safety. Eighteen months ago, when we first met up with Sam, he might have given up on the task out of frustration, but today, after Joe asked if Sam wanted him to come up and help, Sam replied with a definitive, almost defiant, “No. I can do this.”
It was one of those moments where all you can do is smile. And as I looked over at Joe, that’s exactly what he was doing.
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After pay raise led Kemp’s 2018 bid, he offers new K-12 plan
STATHAM, Ga. (AP) — Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said Monday that he wants Georgia to provide grants to school districts to help students catch up on what they might have missed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, expand the number of school counselors, encourage teacher aides to become full-fledged teachers and pass a law requiring school lockdown drills.
Kemp unveiled a relatively modest set of K-12 education proposals as part of his second-term reelection effort at an elementary school in Oconee County, the same school where one of his daughters was a teacher last year.
“We have more work to do to address pandemic learning loss, bring more educators and counselors into our schools, and keep our students and staff safe,” Kemp said at Dove Creek Elementary School in Statham, just outside Athens.
Kemp made a $5,000 pay raise for teachers a centerpiece of his agenda when he was running in 2018 and delivered the final chunk of the money this year, but he didn’t propose a pay raise for his second term on Monday.
Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is running against Kemp again after losing narrowly to him in 2018, has proposed boosting average teacher pay over four years to $75,000, and guaranteeing a starting salary of $50,000. The plan would cost $1.65 billion in new spending over four years, Abrams has said.
Kemp has made few promises thus far for what he would do in a second term. His biggest proposal has been a pledge to use $2 billion in surplus state money to provide $1 billion in state income tax rebates and $1 billion in property tax relief. Abrams has proposed a much more ambitious plan, including expanding Medicaid, promoting affordable housing, expanding college financial aid, tightening gun laws and blocking further restrictions on abortion.
Kemp said he would propose to lawmakers that the state should offer $25 million in grants to school districts using state money to provide additional tutoring, non-traditional staff, or boost existing services.
During the 2021-2022 school year, 64% of third graders read at grade level or above, according to results from Georgia’s Milestones standardized tests, while 73% of third graders read at or above grade level during the 2018-2019 school year. Officials attribute the drop to pandemic-related disruptions.
“By working with our local school systems and providing targeted funding to bring these kids back up to grade level, I am confident we can lend a helping hand to the students who need it most,” Kemp said.
However, the $25 million pales in comparison to the $6 billion in federal aid that Georgia’s 181 public school districts have gotten during the pandemic. School districts must spend more than $750 million of that money improving academic performance.
Kemp also said he would recommend giving districts another $25 million to recruit more counselors statewide. Right now, the state funding formula mandates funding for one counselor for every 450 students, but it has never been fully funded. The governor also proposed spending $15 million to give $3,000 to paraprofessionals who already have four-year degrees to become certified as teachers.
“These funds will help get more teachers in the classroom and assist Georgians already passionate about our students achieve career success,” Kemp said.
Kemp said he would seek to enhance school safety by passing a law requiring schools to offer “intruder alert drills” once each August and September, with a requirement to report drills to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. Some fear such drills traumatize students, but Kemp said his proposal would allow parents to opt students out of the drills.
Kemp said he would also propose letting teachers take school safety and anti-gang training, require that school security plans, already legally mandated, be submitted to GEMA, and recommend continuing education for school resource officers.
Georgia provided $69 million in school safety grants in 2019, Kemp’s first year in office, guaranteeing every school $30,000.
Kemp in 2020 backed a reduction in state-required standardized tests. This spring, he signed a package of conservative education bills that regulate the teaching of race and let the state athletic association ban transgender girls from playing high school sports, and that eased parental challenges to books they view as inappropriate.
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Man arrested in connection to July barber shop murder
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A man has been arrested in connection to the death of 38-year-old Jimmy Lee Scott III, who was shot and killed in front of a barber shop on PioNono Avenue in late July.
The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says investigators identified 21-year-old Adolphus Dewayne Hughes Jr. as the suspect behind the shooting in front of Next Level Kuts on July 29th. Investigators and U.S. Marshal task force members found Hughes at a residence on Highland Avenue, where they arrested him.
Hughes is being held at the BCSO Law Enforcement Center where he is being held without bond for the charge of murder.
Jarel Scott, the brother of victim, Jimmy Lee Scott III, was also injured during the incident, but is listed to be in stable condition now.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday dismissed as a “storage dispute” Trump’s retention of top-secret documents at his Florida home, urging a judge to keep in place a directive that temporarily halted key aspects of the Justice Department’s criminal probe.
The Trump team also referred to the documents that were seized as “purported ‘classified records,’” suggesting his lawyers do not concede the Justice Department’s contention that highly sensitive, top-secret information was found by the FBI in its Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
The lawyers asserted there is no evidence any of the records were ever disclosed to anyone and said at least some of the records belong to Trump and not to the Justice Department.
“This investigation of the 45th President of the United States is both unprecedented and misguided,” they wrote. “In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records.”
The 21-page filing underscores the significant factual and legal disagreements between lawyers for Trump and the U.S. government as the Justice Department looks to move forward with its criminal investigation into the illegal retention of national defense information at Mar-a-Lago and into the potential obstruction of that probe.
The investigation hit a roadblock last week when U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted the Trump team’s request for the appointment of an independent arbiter, also known as a special master, to review the seized records and prohibited for now the department from examining the documents for investigative purposes.
The Justice Department has asked the judge to lift that hold and said it would contest her ruling to a federal appeals court.
The department said its investigation risked being harmed beyond repair if that order remained in place, noting that confusion about its scope and meaning had already led the intelligence community to pause a separate risk assessment it was doing.
But Trump’s lawyers said in their own motion Monday that Cannon should not permit the FBI to resume its review of classified records.
“In opposing any neutral review of the seized materials, the Government seeks to block a reasonable first step towards restoring order from chaos and increasing public confidence in the integrity of the process,” the lawyers wrote.
In the meantime, both sides on Friday night each proposed different names of candidates who could serve in the role of a special master, though they disagreed on the exact scope of duties the person should have. Cannon has said the yet-to-be-named arbiter would be tasked with reviewing the documents and weeding out from the investigation any that could be covered by claims of either executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.
The Justice Department recommended either Barbara Jones, a retired judge in Manhattan who has served as special master in prior high-profile investigations, or Thomas Griffith, a retired federal appeals court jurist in the District of Columbia who was appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush. The department said in its proposal that the special master should not have access to classified documents, or be empowered to consider claims of executive privilege,
The Trump team proposed either Raymond Dearie, a retired judge in the federal court based in Brooklyn, or prominent Florida lawyer Paul Huck, Jr. The lawyers said the arbiter should have access to the entire tranche of documents and should be able to evaluate executive privilege claims.
In its filing Monday, the Trump team again voiced a broad view of presidential power, asserting that a president has an “unfettered right of access” to his presidential records and absolute authority to declassify any information without the “approval of bureaucratic components of the executive branch” — though it did not say, as Trump has maintained, that he had actually declassified them.
The Justice Department has said Trump, as former commander-in-chief, had no right to hold onto the presidential documents. and the criminal statutes that the department has used as the basis of its investigation, including one criminalizing the willful retention of national defense information, do not actually require that the records be classified.
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NPR is celebrating its 1,000th Tiny Desk Concert. And who better to mark the occasion than the 5-time Grammy award-winning Beninese artist and international sensation Angélique Kidjo?
Kidjo's music is equal parts boisterous and soulful. The strength of her voice commands attention while her band impressively manages to keep up with awe-invoking and radiant energy she displays. Her music transcends mere danceability and instead possesses you with its rhythm, leaving you no choice but to move with the groove.
We spoke to Kidjo about her music, her activism on behalf of girls and women – and what it means to perform at supercharged events like the Olympics and of course, the 1,000th Tiny Desk, which marked the occasion with a cake (it was ... delicious).
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
What was is like performing for the 1,000th episode of NPR's Tiny Desk?
I'm speechless. I've always been a listener to the Tiny Desk Concerts. They show that there's more than just American musicians we have to focus on. The Tiny Desk Concerts bring the whole world into this tiny place where you can make miracles and wonder.
The Tiny Desk Concerts remind us that we are each other's keepers and that music is a universal language. It doesn't matter who is behind the microphone, the music goes straight into our DNA and touches our hearts.
Last year you performed during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic games. How does that experience, being on an immense stage in front of people from all over the world, compare to performing here behind a tiny desk?
One thing that Tiny Desk shares in common with the Olympics is that they're both moments where we rediscover other people. You realize that, gee, this world is big, yet these moments bring all of us together in one place. The Tiny Desk and the Olympics bring everybody together in one place to speak to the largest public around the world.
What does African music mean in the context of this new world where technology can bring us all together no matter where we are?
There is no music without African input. Why? Because Africa is the cradle of humanity, all Homo sapiens originally came from Africa. The music from Africa is here to last forever.
The new generation of artists coming up from Africa are talented and unapologetic. What's changed now is the platform that the internet has given them. They don't have to come all the way to the U.S. to get recognized. You just click and see how many millions of people like their work.
Your new album, Queen of Sheba, which was made in collaboration with French-Lebanese jazz trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, combines African music and Middle Eastern music in a way that's new for you. What inspired this collaboration – and how did that album come together?
I thought about what is the link between Africa and the Middle East, and I found the myth of the queen Sheba asking King Solomon riddles to tap into his wisdom. At the time, power had always been male, but here was a woman who had wisdom, too.
We scraped the whole project together from performances we did on stage. Ibrahim Maalouf and I did three shows, then looked at each other and said "We're going to do an album." And that was how we got Queen of Sheba.
How has your advocacy work been going? You've led campaigns against child marriage and domestic violence against women. Has the pandemic had an impact on those efforts?
I'm campaigning every day, because when you witness abuse and you say nothing or do nothing, you are a part of that abuse. Lately, I've learned a great lesson of humility. I realized we don't have all the answers, we don't have all the solutions.
We lost a lot of progress on the fight against child marriage and violence against women during the lockdown. We are back at zero, really. The lockdown allowed a lot of abuse from men who didn't have a job and had to stay home. Men going away to work protected a lot of women in Africa. Without that women and children were forced to live with the perpetrator at home all the time.
My father always said, a great man is one who accepts both sexes, men and women. We all come into this world created by the two. So when you embrace that, you cannot see another person of a different sex as inferior to you.
How can people help? There are so many people out there who want to make a difference but don't know how.
Everybody is an advocate, that's what the song "Free and Equal" we sang today is saying. It's saying that we belong to the same human family and we all have to advocate for that human family so that justice can exist for everybody, no matter your skin color or where you come from.
You need to embrace love more than hate and violence. Life demands courage, I tell people to live every day like it's going to be your last one. Challenge yourself to be the best version of yourself. If you see somebody saying something outrageous, fight back.
That being said. We in Africa are not your charity work. As long as you have homeless people here in America who don't eat three meals a day or have access to basic health care, then the human rights of the American people are being infringed too.
Last question, you've been on the biggest stages and had all of this success, so what's next for Angelique Kidjo?
I don't know. If I knew, then I would have the pretension and arrogance of God, so I don't know.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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Cold front to bring cool, sunny, and dry conditions to Middle Georgia
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – An approaching cold front will bring cooler and drier air to Middle Georgia as well as clear out the cloudy pattern.
Tonight
Storm activity around Middle Georgia has subsided. We now play the waiting game as cloud cover overhead slowly clears out. Wind from the northwest at 5-10 mph will transport cool and dry air into Middle Georgia, replacing the warm and humid airmass that has been in place for the last few months. Low temperatures tonight will drop into the lower 60s for the first time since June.. Some Middle Georgians may want a light sweater out the door in the morning.
Tomorrow
Skies will be mostly clear to begin our Tuesday. It will be a cool start, and there will be no need to clear any moisture off of your windshield. Humidity will remain low throughout the day as sunshine dominates the sky. Only a few cirrus clouds are likely in the afternoon. Ambient wind will blow in from the north-northwest at 5-10 mph. High temperatures will reach the mid 80s around the region.
Tomorrow night we will see clear skies almost everywhere in Middle Georgia, however a couple of cirrus clouds may stick around. Lows will reach their coolest point of the week as they dip into the upper 50s in many Middle Georgia towns. Ambient wind will continue to blow from the north northwest at about 5 mph.
Wednesday and Beyond
The sunny pattern will stick around through the middle of the week. Highs will stick in mid to upper 80s, however the wind will shift towards the north-northeast heading into Wednesday afternoon. We likely will not see any rain in Middle Georgia again until Friday. The tropics are also quiet at this time, so benevolent weather should stick around the region for the foreseeable future.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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Downtown Macon gas station robbed at gunpoint
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – According to a press release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, just before 12:00 a.m. Tuesday two men entered the Nams Gas Station, located at 885 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard with guns and demanded money from the clerk. After getting an undisclosed amount of cash they fled the store on foot. One of the clerks was checked by EMS and cleared on the scene with minor injuries.
The suspects were completely covered in dark clothes with their faces hidden.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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eWIC program rollout starting soon
The North Central Health District will soon implement the Georgia eWIC system for all WIC participants.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The North Central Health District will soon implement the Georgia eWIC system for all WIC participants.
The eWIC system will replace WIC paper vouchers with a debit-like card.
Funds will be loaded on to the card for WIC participants to use for WIC-approved items.
“Paper vouchers are a part of an outdated model, and moving on to a card where everything is stored, all you need is that little card,” NCHD Public Information Officer Michael Hokanson said. “You don’t have to handle those paper vouchers anymore. It works just like a debit card, so it simplifies the entire process.”
Statewide adoption of the e-WIC program is expected to be complete by the end of October.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News Top stories from September 12, 2022 September 12, 2022 Clayton Poulnott, BCSO: Macon-Bibb at 50 homicides for 2022 eWIC program rollout starting soon Middle Georgia man shares journey with AFIB For other stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News, click here. FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
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BCSO: Macon-Bibb at 50 homicides for 2022
50 homicides for the year according to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) – After three gun violence victims died within 24 hours over the weekend, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says Macon-Bibb’s homicide count for the year is now at 50.
According to the sheriff’s office, 54 homicides were recorded all of last year.
Bibb County Sheriff David Davis is upset with the violence that occurred in Macon over the weekend and wants the community to know the sheriff’s office is doing everything in its power to stop the violence.
“This was a tragic weekend for our community where we had seven different incidents of violence and we had nine people who were shot,” he said. “And then three out of those nine passed away. “It’s just saddening. Our grief and regards and condolences go out to all of those who’ve lost lives, to their families and all of those who are suffering, so we are re-doubling our efforts to have our investigators work, but we need the public to help us.”
Macon-Bibb Mayor Lester Miller also gave statement about the recent deaths.
“The number of murders in our community this year is horrific and unacceptable,” he said. “I am outraged that time and time again, we hear about another life lost, about another family that will be grieving.
As Mayor, I am doing everything in my power to fund law enforcement and programs to help turn this epidemic around. We have made an unprecedented investment in this effort, and that work will take time.
Meanwhile, we need to make sure the people who are preying on our community are caught and kept in jail. Our community deserves nothing less. Our families deserve to live in safe neighborhoods.”
Investigators need your help tracking down leads. If you have any tips, contact Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME or the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500.
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Macon-Bibb Fire Department puts finishing touches on new facility
The Macon-Bibb Fire Department celebrated the last beam being put in place on its new training facility Monday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Macon Bibb Fire Department celebrated the last beam being put in place on its new training facility Monday.
The department broke ground at the Charles A. Smallwood training complex in May.
The fire department invited families of deceased firefighters to sign the final beam.
Fire Chief Shane Edwards shared what it meant to have the families there.
“We wanted all the history of the Macon-Bibb Fire department, people who helped who we are today, because of those people in our history,” he said. “We wanted them here to partake in this ceremony.”
The five-story structure will allow for live fire training as well as rope training and confined area rescue training as well.
Chief Edwards says he expects the facility to open in January 2023.
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Macon Touchdown Club Players of Week 4
Kennesaw State University football head coach Brian Bohannon spoke at the first meeting of the season.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Macon Touchdown Club hosted its first meeting of the 2022 high school football season.
Kennesaw State University football head coach Brian Bohannon spoke at this week’s meeting.
Outside of Bohannon’s speech, the club gave out the players of the week honors for the first four weeks of play.
Week four features three players.
The Back of the Week is Westside freshman quarterback James Neville. Neville completed 12 of 16 passes for 250 yards and four touchdowns in the Seminoles’ 51-7 victory over Rutland.
The first Co-Lineman of the Week is Howard junior linebacker Ethan Ellington. Ellington had 12 tackles, seven solo and five assists, two tackles for loss and a safety in the Huskies’ 16-7 victory over Harris County.
The second Co-Lineman of the Week is Northeast senior defensive end Carlton Jackson. Jackson had 15 tackles, eight solo and seven assists, four tackles for loss, and three sacks in the Raiders’ 26-8 victory over Carver.
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Middle Georgia man shares journey with AFIB
September is National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month. The condition, known as 'AFIB,' is one doctors in Macon say is far too common.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — September is National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month.
The condition, known as ‘AFIB,’ is one doctors in Macon say is far too common.
For Jarred Mimbs, AFIB could have cost him his life.
“They saved my life,” he said. “I mean I could have had a stroke. I could have had a heart attack.”
Just nine months ago, Mimbs was undergoing a procedure known as ablation, which would ultimately help him survive AFIB, a condition that causes the heart to beat irregularly.
“I didn’t know anything that I was going through, and when you don’t know anything, you’re just lost,” he said.
He realized he had AFIB in his mid-30s when his heart would skip a beat.
According to doctors at Piedmont, that’s just one of the symptoms. Others include shortness of breath, sweating and fatigue.
Carmine Oddis, an electrophysiologist with Piedmont Macon, says there’s no way to prevent AFIB from happening, because it’s passed down genetically. Although it’s a serious condition, it is not deadly.
Oddis says he sees about three to four AFIB patients a day.
“It’s a big problem,” he said. “And it’s only getting bigger as the population ages.”
Generally, patients who have AFIB go through medication therapy first, but if that doesn’t work, doctors have to perform the ablation procedure.
“The goal is to make everybody feel better and actually get rid of the AFIB if we can,” Oddis said.
“Now that I know what’s going on, I want to share my story with other people so it will help them,” Mimbs said.
If you experience any symptoms of the aforementioned symptoms, you should call your doctor right away.
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LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of a tweaked booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine that includes protection against two of the latest versions of omicron, as countries look to bolster their immunization programs ahead of winter.
The EU regulator said Monday that laboratory studies suggest the combination vaccine — which targets both the original COVID-19 virus as well as the omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 — should trigger an effective immune response. The vaccine is expected to be as safe as the original version, but the agency will continue to track its rollout globally since the data is limited.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the modified vaccine shot the green light last month.
According to the World Health Organization, the BA.5 version of omicron is responsible for most of the COVID-19 spreading globally; it made up about 87% of all virus sequences shared with the biggest public database.
Earlier this month, the European Medicines Agency also cleared two combination vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc. which aimed at protecting against the earlier omicron subvariant BA.1.
It’s unclear how well the updated boosters will work since experts are still gathering data. But there’s evidence that they are safe, so waiting for more study on their effectiveness would risk another mutation appearing before people are immunized.
Scientists warn that the coronavirus will linger far into the future, partly because it is getting better and better at getting around immunity from vaccination and past infection.
Globally, coronavirus cases and deaths have been dropping for weeks, but experts expect a surge of hospitalizations and deaths with the coming winter in the northern hemisphere. So far the virus has killed over 6.5 million people worldwide.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who is warning of security flaws, privacy threats and lax controls at the social platform, will take his case to Congress on Tuesday.
Senators who will hear Zatko’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee are alarmed by his Twitter allegations at a time of heightened concern over the safety of powerful tech platforms.
It’s Zatko’s second Capitol Hill appearance, and in some ways a 21st-century echo of his first. In 1998, he testified before a Senate panel along with fellow members of a hacker collective who warned about the security dangers of the then-emerging internet age.
Zatko, a respected cybersecurity expert, was Twitter’s head of security until he was fired early this year. He has brought the stunning allegations to Congress and federal regulators, asserting that the influential social platform misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control millions of “spam” or fake accounts.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the panel, called Zatko’s allegations “serious business.”
“If it’s anywhere along the lines that (he) suggested, I think it’s a matter of grave personal-privacy concern,” Durbin told reporters Monday. “The question is whether information gathered by Twitter has been used for purposes which we’re not aware of.”
Zatko’s accusations are also playing into billionaire tycoon Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter. The Tesla CEO is trying to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company; Twitter has sued to force him to complete the deal. The Delaware judge overseeing that case ruled last week that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
The allegation that Twitter engaged in deception in its handling of automated “spam bot” accounts is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter deal.
At the same time, many of Zatko’s claims are uncorroborated and appear to have little documentary support. In a statement, Twitter has called Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
Also on Tuesday, Twitter’s shareholders are scheduled to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Musk. The vote is something of a formality given that the deal is on hold while the court case plays out. But if the measure passes as expected, it would also pave the way for a Musk takeover should Twitter prevail in court.
Zatko also filed complaints with the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among his most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
The SEC is questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. Twitter uses counts of its presumably real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up about 90% of its revenue. The “spam bots” have no value to advertisers because there’s no person behind them.
San Francisco-based Twitter has an estimated 238 million daily active users worldwide. The company says it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Zatko’s 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies” on the platform, including issues with “user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
It accuses CEO Parag Agrawal and other senior executives and board members of making “false and misleading statements to users and the FTC” about these issues. Twitter denies those claims and said that Zatko was fired in January for “ineffective leadership and poor performance.” Zatko’s attorneys say the performance claim is false.
Twitter also hinted that Zatko’s complaint might be designed to bolster Musk’s legal fight with the company. Twitter called Zatko’s complaint “a false narrative” that is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and lacks important context.”
News of Zatko’s complaint surfaced on Aug. 23, almost two months before the Twitter-Musk trial is scheduled to begin. One of Zatko’s attorneys has said “he’s never met Elon Musk. Doesn’t know Elon Musk. They know people in common.”
The company also says it has significantly tightened security since 2020.
Among Zatko’s specific allegations:
— The company had such poor cybersecurity that it easily could have been exposed to outside attacks or attempts to siphon off its internal data.
—The company lacked effective leadership, with its top executives practicing “deliberate ignorance” of pressing problems. Zatko described former CEO Jack Dorsey as “extremely disengaged” during the last months of his tenure, to the point where he wouldn’t even speak during meetings on complex issues. Dorsey stepped down in November 2021.
—That Twitter knowingly allowed the government of India to place its agents on the company payroll, where they had “direct unsupervised access” to highly sensitive data on users. It makes a parallel but less detailed accusation that Twitter took funding from unidentified Chinese entities who may have been enabled to access the identities and sensitive data of Chinese users who secretly use Twitter, which is officially banned in China.
The 51-year-old Zatko, better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” first gained prominence in the 1990s. He was the best-known member of the Boston-based collective L0pht, which pioneered ethical hacking, embarrassing companies including Microsoft for poor security. His work raised awareness in the computing world that forced such major companies to take security seriously. He co-founded the consultancy @Stake, which was later acquired by Symantec.
Zatko later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Google. He joined Twitter at Dorsey’s urging in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach involving hackers who broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls, including Musk, in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin.
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AP technology writers Frank Bajak in Boston and Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.
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United Auto Workers union members who went on strike Saturday at a Stellantis casting plant in Indiana are returning to work after ratifying a deal with the company.
Stellantis said that operations at the plant in Kokomo will resume late Monday after UAW Local 1166 workers voted to ratify the agreement. The two sides had announced a tentative agreement earlier in the day pending the ratification vote.
The strike was related to health and safety issues, including the company’s alleged refusal to repair and replace the plant’s air conditioning and heating systems.
The 35-acre plant in Kokomo makes parts used in the power trains of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and RAM vehicles. The 1,200-worker plant, Kokomo Casting, is the world’s largest die cast facility, according to Stellantis.
In May, Stellantis announced a $2.5 billion joint venture with Samsung to build an electric vehicle battery factory in Kokomo that is to employ 1,400 workers.
Stellantis, created last year through the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Peugeot, had said it would build two electric vehicle battery factories in North America. The other is slated for Windsor, Ontario.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and the United States plan to take advantage of the Biden administration’s massive investment in semiconductor production to push the integration of their supply chains and cooperate on expanding the production of electric vehicles through Mexico’s nationalized lithium industry, officials from both countries said Monday
Both efforts seek to eat into Asia’s advantage in semiconductors and batteries needed for electric vehicles and promote North American production.
They were among the main topics discussed within and on the sidelines of the two countries’ High-Level Economic Dialogue in Mexico’s capital.
“Major elements of the semiconductor supply chains are already well established in Mexico, with U.S. based companies like Intel and Skyworks conducting research and development, design, assembly and test manufacturing in parts of Mexico,” U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken said.
Blinken and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimundo had spoken earlier in the day with Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador about the opportunities for Mexico to take advantage of recently passed U.S. legislation that would provide $28 billion in incentives for semiconductor production, $10 billion for new manufacturing of chips and $11 billion for research and development.
López Obrador, for his part, explained his plan to make the northern border state of Sonora a leader in lithium, electric vehicle and solar energy production, Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said. Lithium is a key component of batteries for electric vehicles. The president said last month he had already discussed the idea with U.S. President Joe Biden.
Blinken said another piece of new U.S. legislation aims to incentivize the shift to electric vehicles and the production of the batteries they need in North America.
Ebrard said it was a big opening for Mexico’s economy.
“This means more jobs for Mexico, more integration,” Ebrard said. “We think Mexico could grow twice as much with what was proposed to Mexico today and this means we can reduce poverty even faster in our country and that the infrastructure of Mexico can grow faster.”
The dialogue, which was launched by then-Vice President Biden in 2013, resumed last year in Washington after stopping during the Trump administration.
The global shortage of semiconductors has slashed into production of autos, household appliances and other goods, fueling high inflation. Biden appeared at the future site of a massive Intel plant in Ohio on Friday.
Last month, López Obrador said the government had created the state-run lithium company that would be in charge of the exploration and extraction of the mineral. Mexico nationalized lithium production in May.
Asked about ongoing trade disputes between the U.S. and Mexico in the energy sector, officials from both countries downplayed the disputes and emphasized that there was a separate process for resolving those disagreements under their trade accord and that it was not an agenda item for these meetings.
Ahead of the talks, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols, who is also attending, said one of the priorities for the talks was promoting development in southern Mexico and Central America.
U.S. border agents’ encounters with migrants from the Northern Triangle countries — El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala — have been running lower this year than last, despite overall encounters at the border being up this year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. Encounters with Mexican migrants have also been higher for most of the past year.
Mexico has more recently avoided direct clashes with migrants moving across its territory, instead regularly offering them temporary documents to relieve pressure at its southern border.
López Obrador has come under fire from some international and domestic organizations for transferring the recently created National Guard to the Defense Ministry. In many ways, the military already ran the force — and filled its ranks — but it had been created as a civilian force. López Obrador criticized the U.N. and the Organization of American States for expressing their concern over the move.
Mexico continues to struggle with high rates of violence. On Friday, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons said at that violence related to Mexico’s drug cartels was the main force causing internal displacements. She called on the government to create an official registry of the displaced, but said data collected from non-governmental organizations suggested there are some 400,000.
The talks come just days before Mexico celebrates its independence day, to which López Obrador has invited figures such as the daughter of revolutionary leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara and the father of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
At López Obrador’s daily news conference Monday, the president said he planned to submit a proposal to the U.N. aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. López Obrador, who did not join other countries by imposing economic sanctions on Russia, proposed creating a mediation commission made up by Pope Francis, the U.N. secretary general and India’s prime minister that would open talks between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine.
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BERLIN (AP) — Nine nations bordering the North Sea announced plans Monday to massively increase offshore wind power in the coming decades as part of an effort to combat climate change and become independent of fossil fuel imports, particularly from Russia.
German officials said members of the North Seas Energy Cooperation aim to expand wind power generation in the region to 76 gigawatts by 2030.
Subsequent targets are for 193 gigawatts of wind power in the North Sea by 2040 and 260 gigawatts by mid-century. Germany’s Economy and Energy Ministry said current generation capacity in the region is less than 20 gigawatts.
The countries that agreed to those goals include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The United Kingdom, whose territory is surrounded by the North Sea and which has significant offshore wind plans of its own, is not a member of the group since leaving the European Union in January 2020.
Last month, seven European countries bordering the neighboring Baltic Sea committed themselves to a seven-fold increase of offshore wind power production there by 2030.
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MEXICALI (AP) — When Gilbert Quintana, a farmer in the Mexicali Valley, learned he would soon lose 15% of his water supply, he did what he’s done before in a pinch: buy water from other growers in northern Mexico.
But Quintana worries that such workarounds won’t always be possible. The water used to irrigate his 2,000 acres of (800 hectares) of Brussel sprouts, green onions, and lettuce comes from the over-tapped Colorado River, which a megadrought in the American West due in part to climate change is rapidly depleting.
Buying water from other farmers is often the only way to grow the same acreage anymore, Quintana said, “but it’s short term.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
By the time the Colorado River reaches Mexico, just a fraction of its water is left for the fields of the Mexicali Valley and millions of people in northwestern desert cities. Now, that supply is more at risk than ever.
Water experts and scientists say Mexico, at the end of the river, will need to find other water for the two northwestern states that depend on it. They say the country will also have to use its supply more efficiently. But Mexico has been slow to act.
“This hit us so fast that it took us a while to understand that it’s not a drought, it’s a new era. It’s a new regime,” said Carlos de la Parra, an urban and environmental studies professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana.
The National Water Commission declared an emergency in four northern states in July. Roughly 65% of the country was facing drought. A swath stretching from Tijuana to Matamoros, more than 1,500 miles (2,414 kilometers), is still bone dry, with water shutoffs common in cities and towns and key reservoirs near all-time lows.
Tijuana, the sprawling border city of 2 million people, is especially dependent on the Colorado. About 90% of its water comes from the river. Parts of the city have baked this summer as taps ran dry — sometimes due to mismanagement — with local water authorities blaming it on the drought.
“It’s mismanagement linked with drought,” said Mario López Pérez, a consultant at the World Bank who previously worked for Mexico’s national water commission.
To fill the gap, the government has sent water tankers, a common sight in Mexican cities, to neighborhoods without running water. People have also bought water from private sellers.
PLANS FOR DESALINATION, WATER RECYCLING
For more than a decade, officials in Baja California talked about building a large, desalination plant in a beach town near Tijuana. In 2016, state officials finalized a plan only to shelve it four years later, citing its high cost. The energy-intensive technology works by removing impurities from seawater. Mexico has other, small desalination plants elsewhere in the state and country.
Roberto Salmón helped oversee U.S.-Mexico treaties on borders and rivers as Mexico’s representative to the International Boundary and Water Commission between 2009 and 2020. He said a desalination plant would help Tijuana considerably.
“But discussions had been going on ever since I came into the commission,” Salmón said, “and there is no plant yet.”
A single aqueduct that crosses the state, including a rugged 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) mountain pass, brings Colorado River water into Tijuana. “It’s a one-source city,” Salmón said.
Officials and companies have similarly talked about using treated recycled wastewater to boost the city’s water supply for years, but the city has little to show for it.
UNCERTAINTY FOR FARMERS
Maria-Elena Giner, the U.S. representative to the IBWC, said the U.S. is looking at projects that could help Mexico conserve more Colorado River water with about $32 million that became available in 2017. The money could go toward lining leaking canals, helping farmers switch to water-efficient drip irrigation, and paying others to leave fields unplanted, she said.
But getting Mexico to use significantly less water — and fast — will be hard.
“We did a lot of the low-hanging fruit,” Giner said. “Our problem right now is how we do the more difficult projects in Mexico.”
Mexican officials, meanwhile, say water conservation should be balanced with needs.
“We need to evaluate how we can contribute,” said Francisco Bernal, who directs the National Water Commission in Baja California. “But we also have to see that there isn’t a severe impact on our allocation.”
Since 1944, Mexico has received slightly more than a third of what California can take each year from the Colorado River. Next year, it will lose 7% of that, or more than what the industrial border city of Mexicali — population 1 million — uses in a year, according to Alfonso Cortez-Lara, an environmental professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Mexicali who researches transboundary water issues.
Nicolás Rodriguez, the director of an irrigation district in the Mexicali Valley, said water shortages (this year, Mexico lost 5% of its overall supply from the river) are starting to cause friction between irrigation district managers and farmers.
Farmers in the Mexicali Valley produce an almost identical range of crops — most for U.S. export — as what’s grown just north of the border in California’s Imperial Valley. Leafy greens, broccoli, alfalfa, and wheat are common. The farms tend to be much smaller.
Rodriguez said he has encouraged farmers for years to grow more drought-resistant crops and plant tighter rows to use less water, which some farmers have taken up. Eventually, he thinks the government could restrict how much alfalfa and cotton Mexicali Valley farmers can grow.
According to a recent study, the state of Baja California could need nearly 30% more than it gets now from the Colorado River by 2030 to not be water stressed.
Cortez-Lara, the study’s author, said that while cities should reduce their water use, coming up with that much water would involve significantly cutting how much alfalfa and cotton is grown in the Mexicali Valley. But doing so would come at an enormous cost, he said, adding that Mexico’s federal government should play a role in funding and enforcing water efficiency.
Absent such action, water managers, experts and farmers like Quintana, who bought his way out of trouble this year, agree that shortages will only get worse.
“The less water there is,” Quintana said, “the more farmers in the Mexicali Valley will have to fight.”
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Naishadham reported from Washington, D.C.
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If you were to look at the most acclaimed stars who have called Kent home over the years, it would be impossible to ignore the incredible career of our very own Brenda Blethyn. Audiences are sure to recognise this star from her performances in Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies, 1998’s Little Voice as well as the hit ITV crime drama series Vera, in which Brenda takes on the title role.
As mentioned, the 76-year-old’s impressive, multi-decade career has seen her land a number of impressive accolades. Her performance in Secrets & Lies saw her take home the award for Best Actress at the 49th Cannes Film Festival, as well as a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination.
While many are sure to recognise the face of the beloved star, some may be unaware that she has humble beginnings right here in Kent. Her parents, Louisa Kathleen and William Charles Bottle, first met when they were working at the same Broadstairs Household and were later married in 1944 after a 20 year engagement.
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Born in 1946, Ramsgate was the first home that Brenda knew. She was the youngest to nine children in a working-class, Roman-Catholic household.
In fact, by the time of her birth, Brenda’s three eldest siblings had already left home. Her love for film came in no small part thanks to her parents, who took her on weekly trips to the cinema.
Having originally trained at a technical college, Brenda’s first ventures into the wider working world saw her take on the role of a stenographer and bookkeeper for a bank. Following the end of marriage, Brenda decided to turn her hobby and passion of amateur drama into her career.
She studied at the Guildford School of Acting, and soon after found herself on the London Stage in 1976, performing several seasons at the Royal National Theatre. Her performances included roles in Tamburlaine The Great, Bedroom Farce, The Fruits of Enlightenment and Strife.
What is Brenda Blethyn best known for
As mentioned, her incredible on screen career has seen her take on roles in numerous highly acclaimed projects. Secrets & Lies is perhaps the role that garnered her the most praise and recognition, particularly during her early cinema career.
Brenda is also known for her minor role in the 1990 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Witches, appearing as Mrs Jenkins. Other notable cinema appearances include Saving Grace, Lovely and Amazing, Pride & Prejudice, Clubland and Atonement.
Perhaps how she is most well known these days is through her television appearances. In recent years, she has seen great praise for her performance as the title character in ITV's crime drama series Vera, which has run for 11 seasons since May 2011.
Interestingly, her break in TV came before her cinema debut, when she joined the cast of Grown Ups in 1980, directed by Mike Leigh who also helmed Secrets & Lies. Brenda also went on to leading roles in the short-run Chance in a Million which ran from 1984 to 1986, and The Labours of Erica, 1989 to 1990.
Awards and accolades
As mentioned, Brenda's impressive multi-decade career has not gone unnoticed over the years. Her performance in Secrets & Lies landed her a number of impressive awards, namely Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival, a Golden Glove, a BAFTA and an academy award nomination.
Two years after, she landed her second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress after her performance in Little Voice. She has also won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Actress of the Year.
Continued connections to Kent
While she now often finds herself living in London, Brenda does also have a home in Ramsgate, and has been rather outspoken about her love for the area over the years. In 2021, Brenda wrote a piece in celebration of the Ramsgate Royal Harbour bi-centenary for Ramsgatetown.org.
In this piece, she said: “Our lovely Ramsgate Royal Harbour is the only Royal harbour in the country, thanks to HM King George IV who bestowed the honour on Ramsgate in recognition of the wonderful hospitality he received on passing through the town two hundred years ago.
“Being Ramsgate born and bred myself, I am really looking forward to the celebrations planned for the bi-centenary in September.” She has also shared snaps of the coastal town from her social media, once taking to Twitter to share a picture of the harbour which she captioned: “Lovely Ramsgate today. Sunny and warm.”
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Food exports from Ukraine and Russia have increased since a July 22 grain deal, but critically needed fertilizer exports from Russia are still down despite being covered by the agreement, with financing and shipping still issues, the United Nations said Tuesday.
U.N. trade chief Rebeca Grynspan, who leads the team trying to facilitate unimpeded global access to Russian food and fertilizer, said Russia reported a 12% increase in food exports from June to July. But while there has been “important progress,” the U.N. is concerned about fertilizer exports needed by October and November, the latest for the northern hemisphere planting season, she said.
Fertilizers now are three times the price they were before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, Grynspan said, adding that “the crisis of affordability that we have now will be a catastrophic crisis if we don’t solve the problem of fertilizer.”
As an example, she said the sowing season for new crops in West Africa is over and planting was down by a very high percentage because of fertilizer costs.
Grynspan told a U.N. press conference by video from Geneva that the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reported that food prices declined globally in August for the fifth straight month. But she expressed concern that this decrease has not been seen in domestic markets, and developing countries especially are still struggling with high food prices as well as inflation, currency devaluations and interest rate hikes.
Amir Abdulla, the United Nations coordinator for the deal to ship Ukrainian grain, said 129 fully laden ships carrying over 2.8 million tons of grain have left the three designated Ukrainian Black Sea ports for different countries.
With grain prices dropping, Abdulla said, the U.N. has seen that people who had been hoarding gran to sell at high prices are now putting it on the market in one or two countries. “Hopefully that will bring some of those local prices down” he said by video from Istanbul.
On July 22, Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements with Turkey and the United Nations clearing the way for the export of desperately needed grain and fertilizer, ending a wartime standoff that threatened food security around the globe.
Ukraine was one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, but Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of the country and naval blockade of its ports had halted shipments.
Some Ukrainian grain is transported through Europe by rail, road and river, but the prices of vital commodities such as wheat and barley had soared before the grain deal, which U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called an unprecedented agreement between two parties engaged in a bloody conflict.
Although international sanctions against Russia did not target food exports, the war has disrupted shipments of Russian products because shipping and insurance companies did not want to deal with Russia.
Grynspan, who is secretary general of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, said the U.N. has been providing clarifications to the insurance, finance and shipping industry that there are no sanctions on any Russian ships carrying food or fertilizer. She explained that this involves dealing with the private sector where “the market showed a chilling effect.”
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23-Year-old shot and killed in Baldwin County on Monday
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A 23-year-old woman was shot and killed in Baldwin County on Monday.
According to the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office, September 12th, Baldwin Deputies and officers with Milledgeville PD responded to Atrium Health Baldwin in reference to a female gunshot victim. The victim, 23-year-old Shani King, was later pronounced dead at the emergency room.
Investigations led law enforcement to the residence of the victim, at 218 GA Hwy 49 W Baldwin County. It was here that the crime scene was located and secured, the GBI was requested to process the crime scene.
Investigators learned that Reco Stephens took King to the hospital. Stephens was detained, and is now being held at the Baldwin County Detention Center without bond for the charge of murder.
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Alcohol license revoked at Rodeo Bar and Grill following weekend shooting
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Sheriff David Davis is revoking local night club Rodeo Bar and Grill’s license to serve alcohol.
According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, on behalf of Sheriff David Davis, an alcohol license revocation letter was delivered to the proprietor of Rodeo Bar and Grill at 4053 Pio Nono Avenue on Tuesday, September 13th. This happens after an incident this past weekend in which a security guard was shot and killed at the business.
Saturday evening, the BCSO also served a notice for Rodeo Bar and Grill to cease all business activities because the camera system of the business was not capable of recording and storing retrievable data. The action was taken until the camera system was fixed and found to be up to the standards of the Macon-Bibb County ordinance and re-inspected by the Sheriff’s Office.
The revocation of the business’ alcohol license will take place immediately as the Sheriff’s Office and Macon-Bibb Commissioners conduct a review surrounding activities around the business.
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Morning Business Report: Twitter stockholders plan to vote on Musk buyout
Twitter stockholders today will vote on the buyout by Elon Musk even though it tangled up in the courts.
Amtrak is preemptively canceling trips on three of its long-distance routes due to a possible strike by two of the country’s largest rail unions.
The number of dry-cleaning establishments are falling in the U.S. due to COVID-19 and clothing trends.
Starbucks will unveil its “reinvention” today. It plans to address efficiency and improve employee turnover rates.
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Student found with firearm in backpack at Northside Middle School
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A student at Northside Middle School came to school with a firearm on Tuesday.
According to a statement from Dustin Dykes, Principal of Northside Middle, the firearm was found during the search of a student’s backpack– the firearm was found to be unloaded.
Dykes says in the statement that all students are safe and were not in danger, and that the first priority of Northside Middle is the safety and wellbeing of students and staff.
41NBC is still gathering information concerning the incident, stay with us for more updates as information is released.
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Peiter Zatko, the former Twitter security chief who’s accused the company of negligence with privacy and security in a whistleblower complaint, will testify before Congress on Tuesday.
Zatko is well-respected in the cybersecurity space, which gives his complaints extra weight. But so far he has little documentary support for his claims — unlike the Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, whose complaint last year included troves of internal documents from the company now called Meta.
Zatko’s accusations are also playing into Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company. The Delaware judge overseeing that case has ruled that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
Twitter calls Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
WHO IS PEITER ZATKO?
Better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” Zatko is a highly respected cybersecurity expert who first gained prominence in the 1990s and later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Agency and Google.
He joined Twitter at the urging of then-CEO Jack Dorsey in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach in which hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls — including Musk — in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin. Zatko served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year.
WHAT ARE HIS ACCUSATIONS AGAINST TWITTER?
Zatko’s complaint alleges that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation, according to a whistleblower complaint filed with U.S. officials.
Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users. Zatko also accuses the company of deceptions involving its handling of “spam” or fake accounts, an allegation that is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter takeover.
His 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies” on the platform, including issues with “user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
WHY IS HE GOING BEFORE CONGRESS?
U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Zatko and his allegations that the influential social network misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control fake accounts. Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing will be the first, but it might not be the last.
The Judiciary Committee’s chairman, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and its senior Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a joint statement last month that if Zatko’s claims are accurate, “they may show dangerous data-privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world.”
They said the panel “will investigate this issue further with a full committee hearing … and take further steps as needed to get to the bottom of these alarming allegations.”
WHAT’S EXPECTED FROM THE HEARING?
With the midterm elections looming in early November, many lawmakers may wish to appear before TV cameras expressing concern about online privacy, an issue that resonates with consumers. That means camera lights glaring and outrage thundering from elected representatives as a lone whistleblower stands and takes the oath behind a table ringed with photographers — a scene that would mirror former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen’s testimony late last year.
What’s less clear is whether Congress will take any concrete steps to address Zatko’s allegations. While lawmakers have held numerous hearings questioning Big Tech executives over privacy, security, competition and other matters, efforts to regulate the companies on a federal level have stalled.
WHAT’S NEXT?
The Securities and Exchange Commission is also questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. In June, the securities regulators asked the company about its methodology for calculating the number of false or spam accounts and “the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management.” The numbers are key to Twitter’s business because it uses metrics for real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up a little more than 90% of its revenue.
Twitter, with an estimated 238 million daily active users, said last month that it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Senior members of the Senate Intelligence and Commerce committees, as well as the House Energy and Commerce panel, also have publicly signaled their engagement on the issue. The Senate Intelligence Committee is planning a meeting with Zatko to discuss his allegations, a spokeswoman said, adding, “We take this matter seriously.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, has called on the FTC to investigate.
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