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Unions blast rail move to delay shipments before strike deadline
Omaha, Neb. – The heads of the nation’s two largest rail unions said Sunday that the freight railroads’ move to begin delaying some shipments ahead of this week’s looming strike deadline is only an attempt to get shippers to increase the pressure on Congress to intervene and block a work stoppage by imposing a contract on workers.
The heads of the unions that represent engineers and conductors – the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Division union and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union – issued a joint statement blasting the move, which the railroads announced late Friday. A strike or lockout won’t be allowed until this coming Friday, but the railroads appear to be bracing for one by saying they would begin curtailing shipments of hazardous materials and other chemicals on Monday to ensure carloads of those dangerous products won’t be stranded along the tracks if the trains stop moving.
“The railroads are using shippers, consumers, and the supply chain of our nation as pawns in an effort to get our unions to cave into their contract demands knowing that our members would never accept them. Our unions will not cave into these scare tactics, and Congress must not cave into what can only be described as corporate terrorism,” said Jeremy Fergunson with SMART-TD and Dennis Pierce with the BLET union.
Those two unions have been demanding that CSX, Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern and the other railroads go beyond the proposed deal recommended by a group of arbitrators President Joe Biden appointed. They want them to address concerns about strict attendance policies that they say make it hard to take any time off and increasing workloads after the railroads cut nearly one-third of their workforces in recent years.
The railroad trade group has said there’s no way trucks can pick up the slack if the railroads stop moving because roughly 467,000 additional trucks a day would be needed to handle all the cargo trains haul and there is already a shortage of truck drivers.
Five other unions have already reached tentative agreements based on the Presidential Emergency Board’s recommendations that will deliver 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses over a five-year contract that’s retroactive to 2020. But several key unions have been holding out in the hope that the railroads will also address some of their other concerns.
If the two sides can’t agree on a deal by the end of the week, Congress is expected to step in to block a strike because of the dire economic consequences if a strike happens because so many businesses rely on railroads to deliver their raw materials and finished products. The Association of American Railroads trade group put out a report last week estimating that the economy would take a $2 billion a day hit if the trains stop moving and passenger traffic would be disrupted nationwide because Amtrak and many commuter railroads use tracks owned by the freight railroads.
The railroads said in a statement Friday that they needed to start delaying shipments of sensitive cargo to “ensure that no such cargo is left on an unattended or unsecured train in the event of a work stoppage due to an impasse in labor negotiations.” The railroads also said other shipments could be affected this week.
The railroad trade group didn’t immediately respond to the unions’ criticisms Sunday.
Already, a number of trade groups representing railroad shippers have urged lawmakers to be prepared to block a strike. A coalition of 31 agricultural groups sent a letter to Congress last week, and the Fertilizer Institute trade group joined the chorus of concerned shippers Saturday because shipments of ammonia and other fertilizers will be delayed.
“Supply chains are already strained and there is currently zero elasticity in rail transportation,” TFI President and CEO Corey Rosenbusch said. “This situation will get exponentially worse every day there is no resolution.”
He said more than half of all fertilizer is hauled by railroads. More than 75% of all finished vehicles are taken from factories to dealerships by train, and countless other products move by rail.
The railroad trade group said that a single railcar can carry up to 2,000 UPS packages, or enough plastic pellets to make some two million two-liter bottles.
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To block infection from HIV, a successful vaccine will require a combination of ingredients, including at least three antibody targets and a substance that boosts immune responses.
In a step toward achieving that goal, one potential vaccine component has led to strong protection in primates by eliciting an antibody that binds to part of the virus's outer envelope, reports a team led by researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI).
"This is significant progress toward a viable HIV vaccine," said Barton Haynes, M.D., director of the DHVI and senior author of the study appearing online this week in the journal Science Translational Medicine. "While we know this will be a many-step process, each step is an advancement toward our goal."
Haynes and colleagues, including first author Kevin Saunders, Ph.D., director of research at at DHVI, isolated neutralizing antibodies that arose from a person living with HIV.
These antibodies bind to a known site on the virus that is conserved among many HIV strains. Exploiting this interaction, the researchers built an immunogen that stimulates the protective neutralizing antibodies against the immunizing strain.
Along with the immunogen, the researchers tested potential adjuvants, which boost the immune response. The team found that the best adjuvant ingredient was a Toll-like receptor called TLR7/8 that is a common ingredient in other vaccines.
Together, the protein and adjuvant in the vaccine provided protection from infection.
Our study supports the notion that relatively high levels of multiple broadly neutralizing antibody types will need to be induced by vaccination to prevent HIV infection. Our study also suggests that the use of the TLR7/8 agonist was key for inducing high concentrations of neutralizing antibodies and potently activating the immune system."
Barton Haynes, M.D., director of the DHVI and senior author of the study
In addition to Haynes and Saunders, study authors include Robert J. Edwards, Kedamawit Tilahun, Kartik Manne, Xiaozhi Lu, Derek W. Cain, Kevin Wiehe, Wilton B. Williams, Katayoun Mansouri, Giovanna E. Hernandez, Laura Sutherland, Richard Scearce, Robert Parks, Maggie Barr, Todd DeMarco, Chloe M. Eater, Amanda Eaton, Georgeanna Morton, Benjamin Mildenberg, Yunfei Wang, R. Wes Rountree, Mark A. Tomai, Christopher B. Fox, M. Anthony Moody, S. Munir Alam, Sampa Santra, Mark G. Lewis, Thomas N. Denny, George M. Shaw, David C. Montefiori, and Priyamvada Acharya.
The study received funding from the National Institutes of Health Division of AIDS (UM1AI100645, UM1AI144371, P01 AI131251) and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology-Immunogen Discovery.
The adjuvant used in this study, 3M-052-Alum, was developed by 3M and formulated by the Access to Advanced Health Institute.
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Weill Cornell Medicine was awarded a $61.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to continue funding its Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) until 2027. It is the largest federal grant ever awarded to Weill Cornell Medicine and the fourth consecutive time this initiative has been funded by the NIH, representing 20 years of continuous funding.
Weill Cornell Medicine's CTSC, led by founding director and principal investigator, Dr. Julianne Imperato-McGinley, has advanced translational science with its prestigious partner institutions since 2007, when itwas awarded a $49.6 million grant, the largest federal grant awarded to Weill Cornell Medicine at that time. The partners include a core network of scientific institutions that combine their expertise to push the boundaries of translational research and innovation to accelerate the clinical application of basic science discoveries.
The Clinical and Translational Science Center embodies the collaborative spirit that is made possible when institutions come together to foster innovation in science and medicine. I commend Dr. Imperato-McGinley and the CTSC team for their incredible work and the great strides they've made in advancing the field of translational research, and we are grateful for the NIH's ongoing support of this critical effort, which will have lasting benefits for patients worldwide."
Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine
"We're excited to continue collaborating with our partner institutions to advance medical innovations to improve human health," Dr. Imperato-McGinley said. "The CTSC drives innovation by creating novel initiatives that are implemented as an interdisciplinary team. Gone are the days of the single researcher. Team science is how important advances are accomplished. One researcher may have an idea, and others enhance the idea stimulating innovation. That's the CTSC's approach."
Consortium members include Cornell with its Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell Tech and the Cornell Cooperative Extension; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Hospital for Special Surgery; and Hunter College and its schools of Nursing and Public Health. Throughout the past 15 years, the CTSC has continued to stimulate translational research through interdisciplinary grants for researchers at all levels, as well as mentoring courses, seminars, workshops and programs designed to ignite creativity and stimulate entrepreneurship for rapid translational impact. CTSC investigators with an innovative idea can apply for multidisciplinary grants as trainees and scholars, and other researchers can seek pilot awards to fund their projects.
Since 2007, the CTSC has supported 5,157 investigators, trained 1,246 promising junior scientists with long-term and short-term programs, including the KL2 Scholar mentored career development program for senior investigators, the TL1 pre-doctoral traineeship for junior investigators, and a pilot award program. More than 300 CTSC scholars and trainees have published 7,564 original journal articles and received 962 research grants. Two-hundred thirty-six pilot awardees received 800 grants and published 282 original journal articles directly related to their research projects. Overall, 78 inventions, with 35 patents, have been issued and 28 patents are still pending.
This dedication to entrepreneurship and creative thinking is reflected in the CTSC's Health Hackathon. The inaugural event, hosted before the COVID-19 pandemic and sponsored by the CTSC along with Cornell's Ithaca campus, drew attendance from thousands of students, faculty and allied professionals. During the inaugural five-day event, diverse teams—which could include a surgeon, hematologist, veterinarian, a technician and an undergraduate student—assembled spontaneously to address real-world health-care problems. These teams produced creative ideas, including medical devices that could make their way to patients under the guidance of the CTSC and corporate mentors. "Hackathon participants worked well together and capitalized on innovative ideas as a diverse team. It was amazingly successful and we look forward to continuing the event," Dr. Imperato-McGinley said.
Over the next five years, the CTSC will host multiple courses in entrepreneurship and creative thinking with the help of entrepreneurs-in-residence, who will discuss how they developed their ideas to ultimately launch a company to produce drugs or devices that are beneficial to patients. The CTSC will continue to build on a legacy of successful research projects.
The CTSC has an enduring commitment to improving the health of patients in underserved areas of New York City. It has established and will continue to expand community involvement with opioid overdose prevention and education, community health screenings and extensive community outreach programs with mini-hubs located in the boroughs of New York City. "We bring the clinic to the community," Dr. Imperato-McGinley said. "Of the thousands who have attended our local health screenings, we've discovered that more than half of those screened have diabetes or pre-diabetes, and many didn't have any knowledge of it."
The CTSC also played a vital role combatting vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Managed and established by the CTSC, vaccination clinics were set up in community and non-profit spaces in underserved areas of Queens and the Bronx in collaboration with the Community Healthcare Network of federally qualified health centers. Weill Cornell Medicine medical students and Hunter College nursing students worked as a team to administer the vaccinations. The team successfully administered 31,000 vaccinations within five months.
Based on its solid foundation, the CTSC will continue to grow and enhance its scope and mission, inspired by its motto "innovation through collaboration." It will continue to advance by developing and disseminating innovative tools, education programs, informatics and other resources in translational science. It will also participate in national clinical trials and recruitment in collaboration with the NCATS to form a well-orchestrated nationwide network of interdependent stakeholders to continue to improve human health.
"Armed with multifaceted research and training, resources and community outreach, the CTSC is an extremely valuable resource for Weill Cornell Medicine, its partners and the community," Dr. Imperato-McGinley said, "with our trainees successfully progressing along the academic translational pathway into leadership positions.
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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Apple has introduced an all-new iPhone lineup, meeting Dynamic Island with iPhone 14 Pro. Humixx is ready to welcome the latest iPhone 14 series with crystal clear cases and translucent cases. With the commitment to be ever-improving, this year's case collection is a medley of revamped classics and brand-new innovation.
Humixx new crystal clear cases for iPhone 14 series are all military-grade certified by SGS (MIL-STD-810H 516.6), and have survived 8000+ drops with 0 damage to either phone or case. Their vision for clear cases is to provide optimum protection while showing your iPhone natural brilliance. Whether you want to showcase beauty or strength, Humixx clear cases do it all!
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(NEXSTAR) — From the slew of emotional faces to the countless country flags, there are more than 3,600 emojis on your smartphone. That doesn’t include the roughly two dozen that are expected to become available in the coming months.
Though it likely takes you mere moments to find the perfect emoji to express how you’re feeling, the process of becoming an approved emoji isn’t so easy.
To understand the process, we’ve got to go back over 30 years to the early 1990s. That’s when the Unicode Consortium, now known as Unicode, was started in Silicon Valley. The organization was intended to create a universal character set to be used by our developing technology, with early founders working for Xerox and Apple.
“Unicode decided to create a standard that, thankfully, the majority of the global community adheres to ensure that the letter A will always be the letter A, across all of our digital devices, all of our Arabic numbers – 1, 2, 3, 4, those symbols – are represented correctly across these devices,” Keith Broni, the editor-in-chief of Emojipedia.org tells Nexstar. Emojipedia serves as both a dictionary and an encyclopedia to research and monitor emojis.
Vendors such as Apple, Google, and Facebook are now members of Unicode and send staff to help run the organization. Apple and Google, according to Broni, were key drivers in Unicode encoding characters that have become well-used in our digital communication: emojis.
In 2010, Unicode encoded its first-ever set of emojis. This included many faces, animals, hand signals, and other more basic characters. These were largely inspired by the sets that already existed in Japanese mobile phones, which were initially created in Japan in the late 1990s (hence why you can find a map of Japan — 🗾 — in your emoji library).
Apple users were among the first to experience the initial round of emojis, according to Broni. Then Google began to support emoji use within Android devices and Samsung began creating its own style of emojis, as did Microsoft.
Technically speaking, an emoji is comprised of a sequence of one or more Unicode characters. But even the most innocent of them — take the otter (🦦) or the VHS tape (📼) — has to go through an intense process before it becomes an emoji on your digital device.
First, Unicode invites the public — meaning you — to propose a new emoji. The proposal process is explained in detail by Unicode here, but selection is basically dependent on whether the image will work at the small size emojis appear as, adds to what can we can communicate, and would likely be used by a large number of people.
A draft list of emojis is expected to be approved by Unicode on September 13, meaning we’ll have new emojis within a few months, if not sooner. One of those is expected to be a plain pink heart emoji.
‘Pink Heart’ has been one of the most requested emojis, Broni says. It should look like the other heart emojis already available, such as the blue (💙) or orange (🧡) hearts.
It’s also important to note that once an emoji has been created and added to our libraries, it will, likely, never be removed. According to Broni, the basis of Unicode is to make our digital text readable by devices around the globe forever, and removing an emoji from our library would make such text unreadable. Emojis can, though, be updated, like the pistol or certain faces.
Regardless of how often they’re updated or how realistic they are, there are some emojis you may never use. Even Unicode Emoji subcommittee chair Jennifer Daniel has said the emoji keyboard can sometimes feel “like a junk drawer.”
“There are certain objects in there that maybe shouldn’t be an emoji, certain symbols, etcetera,” Broni says. This may include the aforementioned VHS tape, a trackball mouse (🖲), or maybe even the DVD (📀). In hindsight, they may be a bit of clutter in our phones, but these have helped Unicode better determine what sort of emojis will be useful further down the road, and whether certain proposed eemojis are worth adding.
If, despite the more than 3,600 emojis already available at your fingertips, there’s one you wish existed — like a desk or peanut butter or a bowl of mashed potatoes — you can make it happen. You may want to check Unicode’s list of emojis that have already been submitted.
Some of the recently proposed and declined ideas include an almond, a marijuana leaf, a solar panel, a wine bottle, and a 3D printer.
Unicode accepts emoji proposals between early April and late July each year.
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The Queen of 'banter'! Monarch's piper of four years says she was 'easy-going' and 'funny' and secretly 'liked' being called Your Royal Highness after he mistakenly called her by the title instead of Your Majesty
- Scott Methven was moved from the army in 2015 to live in Buckingham Palace
- The pipe major, 48, recalled accidentally calling the Queen Your Royal Highness
- He says he had so much 'banter' with the Queen and says she had a quick wit
- Full coverage: Click here to see all our coverage of the Queen’s passing
Pipe Major Scott Methven, who was the Queen's Piper until 2019, has recalled the 'banter' he had with the 'easy-going and funny' monarch during his four-year tenure.
The 48-year-old described being moved from the army in 2015 to live in Buckingham Palace as 'surreal', but said that he struck up a 'great relationship' with the Queen.
He said: 'She had really a quick wit as is well-documented. It was just always one-liners, I had so much sort of banter with the Queen, it was great.
'The first time when I was appointed, she turned around and said to me 'Look, the only reason you got this job is because you're the same height as me' and then she just walked away.
The professional bagpiper recalled accidentally calling the Queen Your Royal Highness in Windsor instead of Her Majesty during the royal Ascot week.
The 48-year-old described being moved from the army in 2015 to live in Buckingham Palace as 'surreal', but explained he struck up a 'great relationship' with the Queen
'I didn't expect it from the Queen if that makes sense. She set the bar so I continued with it and we just used to have a laugh. She was just the most easy-going person to work for.'
Mr Methven, who played at Sting's 60th birthday party in New York alongside celebrity guests including Stevie Wonder, Hugh Jackman, Robert Downey Jr and Lady Gaga, said he used to have a 'good laugh' with the royal family in Balmoral.
He said: 'I remember one night, it was just the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and several other members of the family. The invited guests hadn't arrived so I said I would mix it up and I did movies on the bagpipes.
'I would go around the tables and it would be like Top Gun and the Prince of Wales (now King Charles) had asked if I could do AC/DC Thunderstruck.
'Up in Balmoral it was such good fun, the duke would try and trip me up, put his foot out and things like that, things people wouldn't expect.
'I think that is one thing I loved about the Queen, she was so easy-going and funny.'
'I remember King Charles III pulled me to the side and he said to me 'Can I just say, every time I see you with Ma'ma you make her really happy, please just keep doing what you're doing.' 'It was just a great relationship. She made you feel like she was just your granny'
The professional bagpiper recalled accidentally calling the Queen Your Royal Highness in Windsor during the royal Ascot week.
He said: 'She never missed a beat. She just looked to the right. I said 'I do beg your pardon, good afternoon Your Majesty' and she grabbed me by the arm and said 'Pipes, it has been 60 years since somebody called me Your Royal Highness and I quite liked it.'
'It was brilliant and she was laughing.
'I remember King Charles III pulled me to the side and he said to me 'Can I just say, every time I see you with Ma'ma you make her really happy, please just keep doing what you're doing.'
'It was just a great relationship. She made you feel like she was just your granny.'
During his time as the Queen's Piper, Mr Methven lost his mother and wife to terminal illnesses as well as his father within the space of eight months.
Prior to the death of his wife, Mr Methven recalled: 'I was standing with the Queen and she said 'If you're not here in the morning and you don't play the bagpipes, then I know you're away. Don't wait to ask anyone, just go home if your family need you because it's family first.'
'She grabbed me by the arm again and said 'you know Pipes if anyone has a problem with that you tell them that I said it was okay to go.'
'That's the type of person she was. She was the best employer I've ever had, just fantastic.
'She didn't make you feel like she was your boss. We're talking about the best-known women of the last century and she was just a great person.'
Mr Methven, who was the 15th Queen's Piper since 1873, said he called 'people in the know' at the Palace to check the Queen was okay after seeing the 'frail' pictures of the monarch shaking hands with the new Prime Minister Liz Truss on Tuesday.
He said he 'had an inkling something wasn't quite right' and was waiting at the airport in Naples, Italy when he heard the news of the Queen's passing.
He said: 'I was devastated. It was my daughter who phoned me and she was crying. As my daughter put it, it felt like she (the Queen) was the only one who cared about our family.
'She was the one who said I could leave my kids in Balmoral Castle, she said go and sit in the hospital with your wife.
'I was devastated, it feels like I have lost a member of my family. The Queen had invited me up on September 22 to stay and attend the next Ghillies Ball so I was going up in a couple of weeks.
'I spoke to the Queen more in that four-and-a-half-year period in a given week in person than I did my own wife.
'I only saw my wife at the weekends, I was in London Monday to Friday and the Queen was the woman I saw the most, every day. She was just a wonderful person.
'It is the humanity side of things that I don't think people would actually believe, how much she genuinely cared, and nothing was too much of a problem.
'I think she cared more about other people than her herself and that's quite a thing to say about anybody.'
On Sunday, the Queen's oak coffin, draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland with a wreath of Balmoral flowers on top, began its six-hour trip to Edinburgh.
It was played out of Balmoral estate by the current Queen's Piper, Pipe Major Paul Burns of The Royal Regiment of Scotland.
Mr Methven added: 'Last night I spoke to the Queen's Piper to give some advice and I was happy to give it, it's nice that people still get in touch with you but everybody's obviously devastated.
'He played out the ballroom, the six ghillies carried the coffin and he will be playing at St Giles' tomorrow.
'He will be the Piper playing down at the service in London and also when Her Majesty goes to Windsor Castle into the chapel he will play the pipes for that as well.
'So he'll be very much front and centre for this. Pipe Major Paul Burns is a cracking piper and a good man, he will do a fantastic job.'
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An activist, who had been demanding the closure of illegal stone quarries, was allegedly run over by a truck belonging to a quarry, at Kuppam near K. Paramathi in Karur district on Saturday evening.
The incident occurred a day after a quarry situated near Kalipalayam, where activist R. Jaganathan lived, was closed by the Department of Geology and Mining on complaints that it was being operated illegally.
According to local sources, a truck reportedly belonging to the Annai Stone Quarry knocked down Jaganathan when he was riding a two-wheeler. After confirming that he was dead, the occupants of the truck were said to have enacted a farce by alerting an ambulance service to conjure up a semblance of a road accident. Jaganathan was declared brought dead at the Government Medical College Hospital.
As information spread, a group of social activists, led by R. S. Mugilan, convener of the Tamil Nadu Environment Protection Movement, and the victim’s relatives and friends gathered in front of the hospital and staged a dharna. Alleging that Jaganathan was murdered for fighting to close the Annai quarry, they demanded a detailed investigation into the death.
Revathy, wife of Jaganathan, said her husband was brutally murdered for exposing the illegal operation of the quarry and refused to accept the body on Sunday until all the accused persons were arrested.
Later in the day, the police arrested S. Selvakumar, 39, the quarry owner; Sakthivel, 24, the lorry driver; and Ranjith Kumar, 40, of Rayavelur, on the charge of murdering Jaganathan. Incidentally, in 2019, Jaganathan had a narrow escape when a group of persons attacked him with lethal weapons for opposing the functioning of the quarry. Selvakumar and Ranjith Kumar were citied as accused in that case too.
E. Sundaravathanam, Superintendent of Police, Karur, told The Hindu that according to preliminary inquiries, there was a prima facie indication that Jaganathan had been murdered for filing a complaint against a stone quarry. Further details would be known only after a detailed investigation.
Jaganathan had participated at meetings and protests organised by environmentalists against the illegal sand and stone quarries in the district for long.
“It is disheartening to note that Jaganathan was brutally murdered for voicing protest against illegal quarries. It is an attempt to silence those struggling to save the environment. We will continue our protest until all those involved in the case are arrested. An impartial inquiry should be conducted,” demanded P. Gunasekaran, a social activist in Karur.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Disney unveiled the first peak at Halle Bailey's Ariel in a new teaser trailer for the live-action reboot of "The Little Mermaid."
The minute-long trailer immersed fans into underwater views until Bailey appears as the familiar green-tailed, red head mermaid swimming around. Near the end, fans get a full glimpse of a transformed Bailey singing "Part of Your World."
Fans of the singing mermaid can expect to see Bailey's Ariel in theaters on May 26, 2023.
Disney unveiled the teaser on Friday at its fan expo D23 in Anaheim, California, where other movies such as "Inside Out 2" and a "Lion King" prequel were also announced.
Bailey is cast along side Jonah Hauer-King, who plays Prince Eric, Melissa McCarthy who takes on the role of Ursula.
Director Rob Marshall said fans could expect for new songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken in the remake of the 1989 cartoon film, USA Today reported.
Disney continued its fan expo on Saturday where it unveiled a line up of Marvel projects. Among them was new footage of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" shown to eager fans at the expo.
Angela Bassett and Winston Duke were among the cast members who presented part of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," which is set for release on Nov. 11.
The sequence shows a team trying to steal some of the nation of Wakanda's precious substance vibranium, and a Wakandan team beating them back.
It has not been clear how the film would deal with the death of the title star of the first film, Chadwick Boseman, who died of colon cancer in 2020.
But the footage acknowledged that his character T'Challa had died, and suggests that his sister Shuri, played by Letitia Wright, might be the next Black Panther.
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The Las Vegas Raiders face the Los Angeles Chargers in a regular season game on Sunday, September 11, 2022 (9/11/22) at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, California.
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When: Sunday, September 11, 2022
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Some key matchups in Week 1 include the New York Giants, led by first year coach Brian Daboll, vs. the Tennessee Titans and the Dallas Cowboys, led by quarterback Dak Prescott, vs. the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, led by quarterback Tom Brady.
Local blackouts may apply, but fans can watch every NFL game in Week 1 for free via a trial of DirecTV Stream or fuboTV. Out-of-market fans can watch games with NFL Sunday Ticket.
Here’s the complete NFL preseason 2022 TV schedule:
Week 1
Thursday, September 8
Buffalo Bills at Los Angeles Rams, 8:20pm ET, NBC (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Sunday, September 11
New Orleans Saints at Atlanta Falcons, 1 p.m. ET, FOX (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Cleveland Browns at Carolina Panthers, 1 p.m. ET, CBS (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
San Francisco 49ers at Chicago Bears, 1 p.m. ET, FOX (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals, 1 p.m. ET, CBS (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Philadelphia Eagles at Detroit Lions, 1 p.m. ET, FOX (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans, 1 p.m. ET, CBS (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m. ET, CBS (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Baltimore Ravens at New York Jets, 1 p.m. ET, CBS (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Jacksonville Jaguars at Washington Commanders, 1 p.m. ET, FOX (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Kansas City Chiefs at Arizona Cardinals, 4:25 p.m. ET, CBS (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Las Vegas Raiders at Los Angeles Chargers, 4:25 p.m. ET, CBS (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings, 4:25 p.m. ET, FOX (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
New York Giants at Tennessee Titans, 4:25 p.m. ET, FOX (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Dallas Cowboys, 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
Monday, September 12
Denver at Seattle, 8:15pm, ESPN, (DirecTV Stream, free trial), (fuboTV, free trial)
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A 25-year-old man is hospitalized after he was shot in New Castle Friday night.
Officers found the victim around 6:30 p.m. when they responded to a "shots fired" report on Carvel Avenue in New Castle Crossing.
The victim had been shot in the leg, and was in stable condition when paramedics took him to the hospital.
The investigation into the shooting is still in its early stages, and police are asking anyone who may have information about the incident to call Detective Gino Cevallos at 302.395.8129 or by email at Gino.Cevallos@newcastlede.gov or by calling the New Castle County Division of Police non-emergency number at 302.573.2800.
Tipsters can also text their information to 847411 using the keyword NCCDE, call Delaware Crimestoppers at 1.800.TIP.3333 or visit the New Castle County Police Facebook Messenger page.
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To have an appointment to meet our Director / Principa to enrol. You won’ t get lost here, no hidden fees - No commissio. Gp ess test answers pdf free torrent link for the new free driver. If he had asked “ is this one big happy funky family. Please complete and file your test fee wwa/ ess registration ”. The EMPRIS online- testing- system makes available many testing functions online available for registration/ can- ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A shutout win wasn’t enough for a No. 2 Georgia coming off its impressive opener when it scored touchdowns on its first seven offensive possessions.
The reigning national champions fell short of that lofty standard against FCS Samford.
Stetson Bennett still passed for 300 yards while throwing and running for touchdowns and No. 2 Georgia’s rebuilt defense delivered another dominant performance in the Bulldogs’ 33-0 win on Saturday.
One week after giving up only a field goal in a 49-3 rout of then-No. 11 Oregon, Georgia (2-0) held Samford (1-1) to 128 yards and three first downs.
The offense, however, settled for four field goals — including on its first two possessions after moving the ball inside Samford’s 10.
“We didn’t score touchdowns,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “… You come off a week like Oregon where every opportunity to score a touchdown, we score a touchdown. And then we take a huge step back and have to kick field goals. Good teams, you can’t do that. You have to be able to execute well. … We have to do a better job.”
Bennett completed 24 of 34 passes, including a 3-yard scoring pass to freshman Dillon Bell. Even so, he wasn’t satisfied.
“I think we’re all upset we didn’t execute as well as we could have in the first half,” Bennett said, adding “Too many field goals.”
There were no complaints on defense, where Georgia has reloaded after losing eight players in this year’s NFL draft, including five in the first round. Overall, Georgia had a record 15 players taken in the draft.
One year ago, Samford gave another SEC East team a scare, leading Florida 42-28 in the first half before the Gators rallied for a 70-52 win. Samford couldn’t repeat that offensive showing against Georgia.
Tight ends Darnell Washington and Brock Bowers had big gains, each leaping while making catches for 28 and 26 yards, respectively.
Georgia gave up only one first down in the first half and led 30-0 at the break. Late in the third quarter, Carson Beck replaced Bennett and Georgia’s third quarterback, Brock Vandagriff, completed the game.
Samford’s second possession ended with Georgia safety Dan Jackson forcing a fumble by quarterback Michael Hiers. Xavian Sorey’s recovery set up the second of four field goals by Jack Podlesny.
Another defensive highlight was freshman defensive end Mykel Williams’ first sack.
Samford’s Michael Hiers completed 13 of 21 passes for 62 yards.
Samford coach Chris Hatcher was upbeat despite the lopsided loss.
“I thought defensively there were times we just shut them down,” Hatcher said. “We get back into playing our level of competition, I expect us to come back better and faster and meaner and tougher than ever on Monday.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Samford: Hiers, who was impressive in a season-opening win over FCS Kennesaw State was unable to establish consistent offense. The visiting Bulldogs were held to 59 yards in the first half. Backup Quincy Crittendon’s 36-yard pass to Ty King in the fourth quarter was the biggest gain of the day.
Georgia: There was no evidence of Georgia looking ahead to next week’s Southeastern Conference opener at South Carolina — or looking back at its rout of Oregon. The only disappointment was the Bulldogs’ inability to reach the end zone when they moved inside Samford’s 10 on their first two possessions. The only bad news came when receiver Adonai Mitchell limped off the field during the Bulldogs’ opening drive and was ruled out with a left ankle injury.
RUNNING AWAY FROM RAIN
Kendall Milton led Georgia with 85 yards rushing on 10 carries. Kenny McIntosh had a 1-yard scoring run and caught five passes for 61 yards.
Georgia prepared to emphasize its ground game, especially with expectations for rain.
“Going through this week, we knew we were going to have to run the ball,” Milton said. “We actually were expecting it to be a rainy day so we were kind of already expecting for it to be a big running day.”
Georgia ran for 127 yards and two touchdowns, but Milton’s 19-yard gain was the only big play on the ground.
“The backs did a nice job of running downhill, we just didn’t have a big home-run hitter,” Smart said.
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Georgia should hold its No. 2 spot in the AP Top 25 and could receive more support for the top spot following No. 1 Alabama’s 20-19 win over unranked Texas.
NO CELEBRATION
There were few visual reminders of Georgia’s 2021 national championship in its first home game. A “2021” was added to the “1942” and “1980” on Georgia’s national championship signage on a Sanford Stadium facade. Also, a 2021 championship flag was raised atop the east end zone stands.
Players were awarded their championship rings in the spring, and Smart said it’s time to move on.
“It’s really not fair for this team to celebrate that because this year’s team didn’t do that,” Smart said. “Last year’s team did that.”
UP NEXT
Samford: Plays at Tennessee Tech, a member of the FCS Ohio Valley conference, next Saturday.
Georgia: Opens SEC schedule at South Carolina next Saturday. The Bulldogs have won the last two games in the series, including a 40-13 home win last season.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian man who is seen in an amateur video lying face down, bloody and motionless, as an Israeli policeman kneels on his neck, said Sunday that Israeli forces beat and detained him without provocation as he headed to pray at Jerusalem’s chief Muslim shrine.
Yousef Adi, 36, said that he suffered a broken nose and required four stitches on his forehead after last Thursday’s beating nearby the Al Aqsa mosque. The incident is the latest in a series of violent acts by Israeli police against Palestinians. Israeli police said the video distorted the facts and they had used “reasonable force.”
Adi, a West Bank resident who works as a technician at Palestine TV, said he had all the necessary Israeli permits to enter Jerusalem. Inside the Old City, he said officers arbitrarily detained him and dragged him against a wall and began to beat him.
“I did nothing except shout at them to leave me alone and stay away from me," he said. "But then more policemen came and began hitting me everywhere on my body.”
A video circulated on social media appeared to show an officer from the Israeli border police pinning Adi’s head to the ground with his knee. Adi is seen bleeding from his nose and hanging limply as police officers cuff him and move his apparently unconscious body. A pool of blood is visible on the ground.
Adi said the beatings continued and that he was eventually hospitalized.
The border police said the video did not tell the full story. It released a separate video of security camera footage that showed part of the events preceding Adi’s arrest.
Although there is no sound, Adi can be seen arguing over being stopped near a police barrier and appears to push an officer as he is detained. He also appears to be shouting and waving his arms frantically as they try to subdue him. The video, however, does not show the moments when he was beaten.
“Because of his violent behavior, the troops were forced to use reasonable force in order to subdue the suspect who ran wild and remove the threat his violent behavior posed,” the police statement said. Tamir Paro, the force’s spokesman, declined to answer any additional questions.
Adi said the following day he was fined 500 shekels (about $150) and banned from entering Jerusalem for a month.
“I’m still suffering from the pain,” he said. “My children, after seeing the video, wake up at night crying ... I need surgery on my nose. Who will pay for it?”
The border police is a paramilitary force that is often deployed to maintain order in tense areas, such as the Old City, or to quell unrest, and its officers have been targets of Palestinian attackers. At the same time, Palestinian and human rights groups accuse the force of frequently using excessive force and say officers are rarely punished for violent acts.
Last December, an AP photographer was beaten by a border policeman in an unprovoked attack, and two years ago, an autistic Palestinian man was killed by a border policeman in the Old City. Israeli authorities say that shooting was a tragic mistake, and an officer has been charged with reckless homicide in the case.
Earlier Sunday, a Palestinian man who was wounded in a firefight with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank last week died of his injuries, Palestinian health officials said.
Hamad Mustafa Abu Jelda, 24, was shot during a shootout with Israeli forces in Jenin. The forces were demolishing the home of a Palestinian gunman who killed three Israelis in an attack in Tel Aviv earlier this year.
It was not clear whether he was taking part in the violence when he was shot.
Israel has been conducting near-daily arrest raids in the West Bank for months, which were prompted by a spate of deadly attacks against Israelis earlier this year that killed 19 people.
Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war and the Palestinians seek those territories for a future state.
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Police: Man critical after being shot 3 times inside a North Philadelphia home
PHILADELPHIA - A man is in critical condition after police say he was shot multiple times Sunday afternoon.
The shooting occurred inside a house on the 1000 block of Erie Avenue around 1:30 p.m.
Police say a 27-year-old was shot three times, once in the stomach and twice in the arm.
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He was transported to Temple University Hospital, where he is said to be in critical condition.
No arrests have been made, and no information given on possible suspects.
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LOS ANGELES – The horror film “Barbarian” won the weekend by bringing in $10 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, as the late-summer doldrums at the box office continued.
Director Zach Cregger's debut from Disney's 20th Century Studios premiered at San Diego Comic-Con in July and opened Friday on 2,340 screens.
“Barbarian” tells the story of a young woman (Georgina Campbell) who finds her Airbnb-rented house weirdly occupied by a stranger (Bill Skarsgård) in a half-ruined section of Detroit. It goes on to subvert several horror conventions.
The hardly head-turning numbers were expected in a nearly always slow September, with the bigger movies of fall and the holiday season many weeks away. “Barbarian” nearly earned back its $10.5 million budget in its first weekend.
Coming in a distant second, but playing on just 810 screens, was “Brahmāstra: Part One: Shiva,” an Indian, Hindi-language fantasy epic from Star Studios, another subsidiary of Disney.
The film written and directed by Ayan Mukerji, about a DJ named Shiva who discovers a connection with the element of fire and an ability to awaken a supernatural super-powerful weapon, earned $4.4 million in its first weekend in North America.
Long-running Hollywood fare, “Bullet Train” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” occupied the three and four spots.
“Bullet Train” has brought in $92.5 million in six weeks and “Top Gun: Maverick” has earned $705.7 million in 16 weeks and stands as the fifth highest-grossing domestic film of all time.
More quiet weeks likely lie ahead before a surge of expected big earners, including “Halloween Ends” and “Black Adam," arrive in October.
Soon after that, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” kicks off the holiday box office season and an even bigger round of expectations.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Barbarian,” $10 million.
2. “Brahmastra Part One: Shiva,” $ 4.4 million.
3. “Bullet Train,” $3.25 million.
4. “Top Gun: Maverick,” $3.2 million.
5. “DC League of Super-Pets,” $2.8 million.
6. “The Invitation," $2.6 million.
7. “Lifemark,” $2.2 million.
8. “Beast,” $1.8 million.
9. “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” $1.65 million.
10. “Spider Man: No Way Home,” $1.3 million.
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Multiple anti-transgender and homophobic attacks, especially the death of a transgender man, raise the question: How safe are queer people in Germany?
Munster, Augsburg, Bremen: three German cities, three brutal attacks on queer people within the past three months. One of them ended in tragedy for Malte C.*, a transgender man who intervened to protect a group of lesbian women who were being harassed and insulted on the sidelines of the Christopher Street Days festival in Münster. The assailant hit him, Malte C. slammed down onto the asphalt, and suffered a severe and traumatic brain injury. He died from his injuries six days later, after being in a coma.
The case provoked widespread dismay. The co-leader of Germany's governing center-left Social Democrat party (SPD) Saskia Esken expressed her sympathy on Twitter: "The case is a brutal reminder that hate crimes against queer people continue. Every week. Every day."
In fact, statistically speaking, two anti-queer attacks are reported each day, although Germany's federal Interior Ministry admits that the true number is likely much higher. Organizations like the Lesbian and Gay Association (LSVD), as well as the police, estimate that up to 90% of cases go unreported. Many assaults coincide with parades held for Christopher Street Day , the name for LGBTQ Pride events in several German-speaking countries.
Alfonso Pantisano from the federal board of the LSVD is not surprised: "Visibility always also means danger. Because of this, every public gathering of queer people is also always a place where they, unfortunately, put themselves at risk. We must be honest about this," he told DW.
However, it is a fallacy to limit the problem to CSD events. "These attacks happen every day of the week. At every hour of the day, from the busiest street to the smallest alleyway. They happen in the subway, on the bus, in the schoolyard, in companies, clubs, and shopping centers. Unfortunately — and I know this sounds drastic — we are never truly safe."
It is only since 2020 that Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has recorded anti-queer crimes in the field of "gender/sexual identity" in addition to the category "sexual orientation." The number of reported cases has risen significantly in both categories, by 66% and 50%, respectively. Attacks, where hostility toward transgender people is a factor, are not recorded separately.
For Pantisano from the LSVD, the many categories are not entirely comprehensible because they did not lead to more transparency. "In the end, it is violence. And whether someone is attacked because he or she is trans, or because two men are walking through the city holding hands, it is always a hate crime against queer people."
It is also problematic that Berlin registers an above-average number of cases — the German capital has been recording such incidents in an exemplary way for years — but this also means that in other states anti-queer crimes do not yet appear as such in the statistics.
"If I go to the police in Munich, Stuttgart or Frankfurt and say that I was attacked because I am gay, it could be that it is recorded simply as a physical assault," Pantisano said. "So the background is not registered and incorporated with it. And so, this attack disappears from the statistics. It is different in Berlin. The police there have a lot of training in this matter."
The death of Malte C. in Münster has also raised a debate about the perpetrators of anti-queer crimes. Some of the high-profile attacks have been committed by young men, some Muslim or with a migration background to Germany. Psychologist and author focusing on Islamism, Ahmad Mansour, for example, told the German tabloid newspaper Bild in reference to the Chechen alleged perpetrator in Münster: "Hatred of homosexuals is widespread among Chechens, but also among men from Afghanistan or Syria. With the migration from these countries, homophobia in Germany is growing."
An examination of the meager available data from the BKA shows that trans people like Malte C. are indeed threatened by foreign and religious ideologies, but above all from the far-right social environment. Crimes in both the "gender/sexual identity" category and the "sexual orientation" category were committed by offenders with a right-wing motivation, by a large margin. However, most crimes could not be attributed, which suggests that anti-queer attacks are a problem that affects all parts of society.
The death of Malte C. in Münster has shaken up politics. The German Federal Government Commissioner for the Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Diversity, Sven Lehmann, recently sent a draft action plan against transphobia and homophobia to various associations. They had been calling for such a plan for a long time.
That did not go far enough, said Pantisano from the LSVD. Germany is lagging behind other countries, for example with a self-determination law for transgender people or homosexual men giving blood donations, which are still not allowed for everyone in Germany. Other countries such as Malta or Argentina have made more progress on issues like these.
And there is yet another failure: In 2021, the conference of interior ministers from Germany's 16 states decided to appoint a working group to combat homophobic and transphobic violence.
"It is meeting for the first time this September," Pantisano said. "So politicians have slept through an entire year on this issue. In Germany, we live in a country that always likes to pretend that it is supportive of diversity. But in my view, Germany has a problem with diversity. And we need to address that."
That is why this question plagues Pantisano to this day: Could some of the attacks, like the one on Malte C., have been prevented if more action had been taken?
*Editor's note: DW follows the German press code, which stresses the importance of protecting the privacy of suspected criminals or victims and urges us to refrain from revealing full names in such cases.
This article was originally written in German.
While you're here: Every Tuesday, DW editors round up what is happening in German politics and society. You can sign up here for the weekly email newsletter Berlin Briefing.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — In a somber, regal procession, Queen Elizabeth II’s flag-draped coffin was driven slowly through the Scottish countryside Sunday from her beloved Balmoral Castle to the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. Mourners packed city streets and highway bridges or lined rural roads with cars and tractors to take part in a historic goodbye to the monarch who had reigned for 70 years.
The hearse drove past piles of bouquets and other tributes as it led a seven-car cortege from Balmoral, where the queen died Thursday at 96, for a six-hour trip through Scottish towns to Holyroodhouse palace in Edinburgh. The late queen’s coffin was draped in the Royal Standard for Scotland and topped with a wreath made of flowers from the estate, including sweet peas, one of the queen’s favorites.
The procession was a huge event for Scotland as the U.K. takes days to mourn its longest-reigning monarch, the only one most Britons have ever known. People turned out hours early to grab a space by the police barricades in Edinburgh. By afternoon, the crowds were 10 people deep.
“I think she has been an ever-constant in my life. She was the queen I was born under, and she has always been there,” said Angus Ruthven, a 54-year-old civil servant from Edinburgh. “I think it is going to take a lot of adjusting that she is not here.”
Silence fell on the packed Royal Mile in Edinburgh as the hearse carrying the queen arrived. But as the convoy vanished from view, the crowd spontaneously started clapping.
“A very historic moment. I am quite speechless actually,” said Fiona Moffat, a 57-year-old office manager from Glasgow. “She was a lovely lady. Great mother, grandmother. She did well. I am very proud of her.”
When the hearse reached Holyroodhouse, members of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, wearing green tartan kilts, carried the coffin past the queen’s youngest three children —Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward — into the throne room, where it was to remain until Monday afternoon so staff can pay their last respects.
King Charles III and his Queen Consort Camilla will travel Monday to Edinburgh to join another solemn procession that takes the queen’s coffin to St. Giles Cathedral on the city’s Royal Mile. There the coffin will remain for 24 hours so the Scottish public can pay their respects before it is flown to London on Tuesday.
The first village the cortege passed through was Ballater, where residents regard the royal family as neighbors. Hundreds of people watched in silence. Some threw flowers in front of the hearse.
“She meant such a lot to people in this area. People were crying, it was amazing to see,” said Victoria Pacheco, a guest house manager.
In each Scottish town and village, the entourage was met with respect. People stood mostly in silence; some clapped politely, others pointed their phone cameras at the passing cars. In Aberdeenshire, farmers lined the route with an honor guard of tractors.
Along the route, the cortege passed through locations laden with House of Windsor history. Those included Dyce, where in 1975 the queen formally opened the U.K.’s first North Sea oil pipeline, and Fife, near St. Andrews University, where her grandson Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, studied and met his future wife, Catherine.
Sunday’s solemn drive came as the queen’s eldest son was formally proclaimed the new monarch — King Charles III — in the rest of the United Kingdom: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It came a day after a pomp-filled accession ceremony in England.
“I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty, which have now passed to me,” Charles said Saturday.
Just before the proclamation was read Sunday in Edinburgh, a protester appeared with a sign condemning imperialism and urging leaders to “abolish the monarchy.” She was taken away by police. Reaction was mixed. One man shouted, “Let her go! It’s free speech!” while others shouted: “Have some respect!”
Still, there was some booing in Edinburgh when Joseph Morrow, Lord Lyon King of Arms, finished his proclamation with “God save the king!”
That upset Ann Hamilton, 48.
“There’s tens of thousands of people here today to show their respect. For them to be here, heckling through things, I think it was terrible. If they were so against it, they shouldn’t have come,” she said.
Still, it was a sign of how some, including people in Britain’s former colonies, are struggling with the legacy of the monarchy — and its future.
Earlier in the day, proclamations were read in other parts of the Commonwealth, including Australia and New Zealand.
Charles, even as he mourned his late mother, got to work at Buckingham Palace, meeting with the secretary-general and other Commonwealth envoys. Many in those nations are grappling with both affection for the queen and lingering bitterness over their colonial legacies, which ranged from slavery to corporal punishment in African schools to looted artifacts held in British cultural institutions.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who is in favor of an Australian republic, said Sunday that now was not the time for a change but for paying tribute to the late queen. India, a former British colony, observed a day of state mourning, with flags lowered to half-staff.
Amid the grief enveloping the House of Windsor, there were hints of a possible family reconciliation. Prince William and his brother Harry, together with their respective wives, Catherine, Princess of Wales, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, delighted mourners near Windsor Castle with a surprise joint appearance Saturday.
The queen’s coffin was taking a circuitous journey back to the capital. After it is flown to London on Tuesday, the coffin will be moved from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to the Houses of Parliament to lie in state until a state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19.
In Ballater, the Rev. David Barr said locals consider the royal family as neighbors.
“When she comes up here, and she goes through those gates, I believe the royal part of her stays mostly outside,” he said of the queen. “And as she goes in, she was able to be a wife, a loving wife, a loving mum, a loving gran and then later on a loving great-gran — and aunty — and be normal.”
Elizabeth Taylor, from Aberdeen, had tears in her eyes after the hearse passed through Ballater.
“It was very emotional. It was respectful and showed what they think of the queen,” she said. “She certainly gave service to this country, even up until a few days before her death.”
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HELSINKI (AP) — Scaled-down celebrations took place Sunday in Denmark marking 50 years on the throne by Queen Margrethe, whose reign is now Europe’s longest following the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Dampened celebrations were ordered Friday by the 82-year-old Margrethe — now also the only female monarch in the world — in respect for Britain’s late queen, who died Thursday at 96.
Margrethe asked her court to adjust Saturday’s and Sunday’s anniversary program at a short notice, cancelling — among other things — her appearance on the Amalienborg Palace balcony to greet throngs of well-wishers as well as a ride through the Danish capital of Copenhagen in a horse-drawn carriage.
Sunday’s events included a church service and a lunch hosted by Margrethe on board the Danish royal ship Dannebrog for the royal couples and presidents from the fellow Nordic countries of Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
A music and theater gala honoring the Danish monarch took place on Saturday evening and a gala dinner at Christiansborg Palace — the seat of the Danish Parliament — was taking place late Sunday.
Margrethe was proclaimed queen on Jan. 15, 1972, a day after her father King Frederik IX, died following a short illness.
The 50th anniversary jubilee for the Danish queen was initially scheduled for January but most events were canceled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A man was shot to death Sunday at an ATM in Homewood.
Police said the incident happened at 12:43 p.m. at the Wells Fargo Bank at 325 West Valley Avenue.
Sgt. John Car said officers were dispatched to a report of shots fired with a person down at a stand-alone ATM on the Wells Fargo Bank property. They arrived to find the victim suffering from at least one gunshot wound.
He was pronounced dead on the scene.
“This appears to be a targeted attack and there is no immediate risk to the general public,’’ Carr said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Homewood detectives at 205-332-6200 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans used their opener Sunday against Indianapolis to honor and remember the victims of the Uvalde Elementary school shooting.
The Texans hosted the Uvalde high school football team and wore “Uvalde Strong” decals on their helmets after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a shooting there in May.
The team joined with grocery store chain H-E-B to pay for the team to travel the 280 miles from Uvalde and watch the game from a suite. It’s part of the team’s continuing support for the community after donating $400,000 to the Robb Elementary School memorial fund soon after the shooting.
Senior linebacker Justyn Rendon said it was the first time most of his teammates had ever attended an NFL game.
“It means a lot to a lot of these guys just to get away from Uvalde in general and just enjoy being here,” he said. “A lot of these guys may never experience an NFL game like this. So it’s a real big thing.”
Uvalde coach Wade Miller said they want to do whatever they can to continue to honor those who lost their lives in the shooting.
“As far as the memory of 21, it’s important to us,” he said. “We all either lost somebody or knew somebody (that did) and … we’re like the rest of the world, we just want to help in some way. And hopefully this helps.”
A video recognizing the team was shown on the video board in the stadium during a timeout in the first quarter Sunday. Uvalde players cheered as they were shown on the screens before a message that read: “We stand with Uvalde” flashed on the boards.
A contingent from the Texans including linebackers Christian Kirksey and Kamu Grugier-Hill visited Uvalde earlier this month and surprised the team with new uniforms provided by Nike during a team dinner. Miller has been overwhelmed by the support the Texans have give his team.
“It’s unbelievable,” he said. “You live out in a small southwest Texas town, and to know people care about us and when these guys find out that those guys want to know what their score is, it means the world.”
Uvalde is about 280 miles from Houston.
Rendon was asked if he was a Texans fan before the game. He paused and looked sheepish before answering.
“I’ll be totally honest, I’m 49ers fan,” he said. “But it’s just amazing and wonderful what the Texans have done for us and the whole city of Houston, too.”
Added Miller: “We have a lot of fans on our team of a bunch of different teams — but we’re all Texans fans now.”
Both Miller and Rendon spoke about how sports has helped the city find a distraction and try to heal in the wake of such an unthinkable tragedy. Rendon takes special pride in wearing No. 21 on his jersey to remember the victims every time he takes the field.
“It means a lot, especially to the city of Uvalde just being able to run out on Friday nights and represent the 21 lives that were lost on May 24,” he said. “I’m representing them on and off the field.”
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(WXIN) — While fall begins on Sept. 22, leaf peepers in most parts of the United States will have to wait a few weeks until peak foliage time, according to one prediction map.
The Smoky Mountains are one of the most popular places to catch leaves changing color, and its 2022 Fall Foliage Prediction map is a tool designed to help travelers decide on the best time to visit.
Using a complex algorithm, the map forecasts county-by-county fall foliage based on millions of data points. The data includes historical temperatures, historical precipitation, forecast temperatures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; historical leaf peak trends, and even user-generated information.
The northernmost states in the contiguous U.S. are the first to see the changing of leaves, and the trend slowly trickles down to the southernmost states.
Across the U.S., the peak foliage happens sometime between Oct. 3 and Nov. 21.
For Smoky Mountain visitors, the leaf peeping doesn’t get better than the week of Oct. 31.
In the Midwest, the second and third weeks of October are typically the peak times, depending on your location, according to the Almanac. The change there starts by late September.
In the New England area, also beloved for its colorful fall leaves, peak foliage will be around Oct. 10, according to the foliage prediction map.
Why do leaves change color?
Chlorophyll is the compound that gives leaves their green color and helps plants by converting sunlight into “food” through photosynthesis.
As the days get shorter and colder in the fall, chlorophyll in leaves breaks down and reveals the natural colors underneath, including red, orange and yellow.
The colors are based on chemicals in the leaves like carotenoids and anthocyanin, according to the Harvard Forest.
What’s the effect of the weather?
“Another important part of leaf-peeping is knowing the right time to go!” according to the Almanac. “For the best experience, not only should leaves be near their peak colors, but the weather should be agreeable, too.”
While many folks prefer blue skies and full sun to view the brilliance of the changing colors, others say a lightly overcast day could make the colors appear to “pop against the somber skies.”
The least desirable conditions are rain and wind, the latter of which can result in prematurely bare trees, the Almanac said.
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The irony at halftime of Lake Catholic’s encounter with visiting Rocky River on Sept. 10 is, within a match, Cougars coach Kevin Pitorak is one of the most vocal leaders on the touchline that you’ll find.
Yet when it was time to discuss the opening 40, there wasn’t all that much Pitorak needed to convey.
That’s what happens when Lake is cooking in the attack to the extent it was on this afternoon.
That 40 was message enough.
Harley Forkins netted a brace, and the Cougars scintillated in stretches en route to a 4-0 win over a good, young River side.
#NHsoccer Lake Catholic junior midfielder Daniel Villa discusses a 4-0 win over Rocky River
I thought the young man had a nice, active match in a deep mid role – it's not work that necessarily shows up on the scoresheet, but is invaluable in making a side go in the attack pic.twitter.com/6O0QeqWDid— Chris Lillstrung (@CLillstrungNH) September 11, 2022
“We played a tough team In US (on Sept. 7), and all credit to them – they’re a fantastic team. They have talent,” Pitorak said. “Their forwards and center midfielders are unbelievable.
“I don’t think we gave the effort that we gave today to be honest. And not taking any credit away from them – fantastic team. But we didn’t compete the way we should have. Today, we came back, we responded and we really did compete. I thought the effort was, overall, much better.”
Forkins grabbed the opener for Lake (3-2-1) in the seventh minute, setting the tone in a 40 that exuded brilliance in ballwinning, service variety and more.
“My teammate (Ali Kazemaini) played a beautiful ball over the top, and I saw the keeper came off his line,” Forkins said. “I just gave it a little dink over his head.”
Then in the 25th, Tristan Robles managed to corral service through the edge of the six and strike for a tapper for a deserved 2-0 Cougars advantage.
#NHsoccer Lake 2-0
Tristan Robles 25th min pic.twitter.com/PaA8c6MRiF— Chris Lillstrung (@CLillstrungNH) September 10, 2022
Lake, en route to its first win in the series since 2016, generated eight shots on target in the opening 40.
The second 40 wasn’t as ideal, and the Pirates (1-1-4) had a lot to do with that.
The Cougars blew the match open with two goals in the final two minutes on a Marko Odorcic penalty kick and Forkins capping his brace with 23 seconds left.
#NHsoccer Lake 3-0
Marko Odorcic PK follow 79th pic.twitter.com/3nheNmND0M— Chris Lillstrung (@CLillstrungNH) September 10, 2022
“I think we played a good game,” Forkins said. “The second half, it wasn’t as good. But we fought, and that’s all that matters.
“I think, after beating a good team like this, we can move forward being confident and keep playing as well as we did, and keep going through the competition.”
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Black pastor who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town filed a federal lawsuit alleging the ordeal violated his constitutional rights and caused lingering problems including emotional distress and anxiety.
Michael Jennings filed the lawsuit Friday night against three officers and the central Alabama town of Childersburg requesting a jury trial and seeking an unspecified amount of money.
Jennings’ lawyers held a news conference outside the Birmingham federal courthouse on Saturday to discuss the lawsuit, and the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, and other groups planned a rally afterward at a downtown park.
“I’m here for accountability, and I’m here for justice,” Jennings told the news conference.
The suit alleged the actions of Officers Christopher Smith and Justin Gable, Sgt. Jeremy Brooks and the city violated rights protecting against unlawful arrest and guaranteeing free speech. He cited multiple continuing problems including post traumatic stress disorder and humiliation.
Childersburg city attorney Reagan Rumsey didn’t return an email seeking comment.
Jennings, 56, was arrested in May after a white neighbor called 911 and said a “younger Black male” and gold SUV were at a house while the owners — who are friends of Jennings and had asked him to watch their home — were away.
Jennings identified himself as “Pastor Jennings” but refused to provide identification to the officers, who arrested him on a charge of obstructing government operations after a 20-minute confrontation that included raised voices on both sides.
Filed in municipal court, the charge was dismissed within days at the request of the then-police chief. Jennings’ attorneys last month released police body camera video that was obtained following a records request to the city, located 55 miles (88 kilometers) southeast of Birmingham.
Benard Simelton, president of the Alabama branch of the NAACP, said the officers who arrested Jennings did “so many things” that weren’t in line with good community policing tactics.
“These poor judgment decisions reflect poorly on the type of training the Childersburg police officers receive … if they were acting in accordance within police guidelines,” Simelton said in a statement.
While Jennings could have filed a claim against the city seeking damages, attorney Harry Daniels said that wasn’t done because the arrest was well within the time frame allowed by law for a lawsuit.
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Bonneville Power Administration shut off three high-voltage transmission lines Saturday night running through the region engulfed by the Bolt Creek fire, a move the power provider said was designed to safely allow firefighters to access the rugged area to combat the blaze.
Kevin Wingert, a BPA spokesperson, said the utility received a request from a fire incident commander Saturday night to de-energize the transmission lines. BPA did so to “enable fire crews to safely transport personnel and equipment” and “out of an abundance of caution.”
The lines remain out of service and haven’t affected customers, as BPA has been able to deliver power through other routes, Wingert said.
More than 200 firefighters are battling the blaze as it rages uncontrolled over 7,600 acres in forested, mountainous terrain, said Peter Mongillo, a spokesperson for Snohomish Fire and Rescue.
The fire grew rapidly Saturday, sending smoke drifting to Seattle and making the city’s air quality among the worst in the world. Emergency crews were flying helicopters over the fire to douse it with water or fire-retardant chemicals, attempting to push the blaze north away from populated areas, Mongillo said.
The areas under an evacuation order, stretching from Index to Skykomish, are home to about 500 structures, ranging from houses to garages, Mongillo said. The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday that only about half of those in the evacuation zone had left the area.
Wingert, the BPA spokesperson, had no estimate for when the transmission lines would be placed back in service, but emphasized that they don’t present a danger. The lines are strung high up to steel towers, he said.
“We’ve not seen or experienced anything that would lead us to believe those represented a fire risk to the public,” he said.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-6-8
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-6-8
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LONDON, UK — Queen Elizabeth II’s flag-draped coffin is passing through the rugged Scottish countryside Sunday on a final journey from her beloved summer estate Balmoral Castle to London, with mourners quietly lining roads and some tossing flowers to honor the monarch who died after 70 years on the throne.
The hearse drove past piles of bouquets and other tributes as it led a seven-car cortege from Balmoral, where the queen died Thursday, for a six-hour trip through Scottish towns to Holyroodhouse palace in Edinburgh. The late queen's coffin was draped in the Royal Standard for Scotland and topped with a wreath made of flowers from the estate, including sweet peas, one of the queen's favorites.
“A sad and poignant moment as Her Majesty, The Queen leaves her beloved Balmoral for the final time,” the first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon tweeted. “Today, as she makes her journey to Edinburgh, Scotland will pay tribute to an extraordinary woman.”
Crowds lined parts of the route as the nation mourns its longest-reigning monarch, the only one most Britons have ever known. In the Scottish village of Ballater, where residents regard the royal family as neighbors, hundreds of people watched in silence and some threw flowers in front of the hearse as it passed.
“She meant such a lot to people in this area. People were crying, it was amazing to see,” said Victoria Pacheco, a guest house manager.
In each town and village the cars drove through, they were met with similar muted scenes of respect. People stood mostly in silence; some clapped politely, others pointed their phone cameras at the passing cars.
Before reaching the Scottish capital, the cortege is traveling down what is effectively a royal memory lane — passing through locations laden with House of Windsor history including Dyce, where in 1975 the queen formally opened the U.K.’s first North Sea oil pipeline, and Fife near St. Andrews University, where her grandson William, now the Prince of Wales, studied and met his future wife, Catherine.
Sunday's solemn drive through Scotland comes a day after the queen's eldest son was formally proclaimed the new monarch — King Charles III — at a pomp-filled accession ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism.
“I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty, which have now passed to me,” Charles said as he took on the duties of monarch.
He will be proclaimed king in other nations of the United Kingdom — Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — and in towns across the country Sunday. Earlier, proclamations were held in other parts of the Commonwealth — the group of former British Empire colonies — including Australia and New Zealand.
In the New Zealand capital, Wellington, the British monarch’s representative, Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro, said: “On behalf of all New Zealanders, I extend to King Charles our loyalty and support and wishes for a long and happy reign.”
Even as he mourned his late mother, Charles was getting down to work. He was meeting at Buckingham Palace with the secretary-general and other representatives of the Commonwealth, a group of nations that grapples with affection for the queen and lingering bitterness over their own colonial legacies, ranging from slavery to corporal punishment in African schools to looted artifacts held in British institutions.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who had started laying the groundwork for an Australian republic after elections in May, said Sunday that now was the time not for a change but for paying tribute to the late queen.
India, a former British colony, observed a day of state mourning, with flags lowered to half-staff on all government buildings throughout the country.
Amid the grief enveloping the House of Windsor, there were hints of a possible family reconciliation. Prince William and his brother Harry, together with their respective wives, Catherine, Princess of Wales, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, delighted mourners near Windsor Castle with a surprise joint appearance Saturday.
The queen's coffin will take a circuitous journey back to the capital. On Monday, it will be taken from Holyroodhouse to nearby St. Giles’ Cathedral, where it will remain until Tuesday, when it will be flown to London. The coffin will be moved from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to the Houses of Parliament to lie in state until a state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19.
In Ballater, the Rev. David Barr said locals consider the royals as “neighbors” and try to treat them as locals when they spend summers in the Scottish Highlands.
“When she comes up here, and she goes through those gates, I believe the royal part of her stays mostly outside," he said. “And as she goes in, she was able to be a wife, a loving wife, a loving mum, a loving gran and then later on a loving great-gran — and aunty — and be normal."
Elizabeth Taylor, from Aberdeen, had tears in her eyes after the hearse carrying the queen's coffin passed through Ballater.
“It was very emotional. It was respectful and showed what they think of the queen," she said. “She certainly gave service to this country even up until a few days before her death.”
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An alligator, drugs, guns and money were seized during a raid at two homes in Albuquerque last month, but New Mexico wildlife officials said Saturday they are still searching for a young tiger they believe is being illegally kept as a pet.
Investigators think the tiger is with someone “in New Mexico or a nearby state,” New Mexico Department of Game and Fish conservation officers said in a statement.
The animal was believed to be less than 1 year old and weigh under 60 pounds, but tigers can grow to 600 pounds, the department said, calling large meat-eating animals such as tigers and alligators a clear danger to the public.
Wild tigers are listed globally as an endangered species. Alligators were listed as endangered in the U.S. from 1967 to 1987, but today thrive in the wild.
The alligator seized by authorities is about 3 feet long. It was taken to a wildlife facility after state conservation officers and federal, state and local police served search warrants Aug. 12.
RELATED: An experimental program gave Florida manatees 160,000 pounds of lettuce. They ate all of it.
Albuquerque police reported a 26-year-old man was arrested and investigators seized 2 pounds of heroin, 10.5 pounds of cocaine, 49 pounds of marijuana, 17 rifles and pistols, fentanyl and Xanax pills, and nearly $42,000.
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Marion County residents honor anniversary of 9/11 with remembrance ceremony
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OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - People in Ocala remembered first responders, civilians, and military men and women that lost their lives 21 years ago at a 9/11 remembrance ceremony at Veterans Park.
There were 2,996 names etched on a memorial wall for people to remember everyone that died. Three people at the ceremony lived in New York at the time and gave their thoughts about that day.
“These two men went down to the sight and picked up body parts and identified. I was the mother waiting at home,” said Lucy Colletta.
Her husband Robert Colletta was a board member of the New York State Fraternal Order of Police and he said he’ll never forget this day.
“It was just devastating the mass it was just horrible the way it was. Whole crews were lost in the rumble.”
Former Department of Corrections Officer for the City of New York Steven Breitman said he responded to the city morgue while others went to ground zero.
“I was helping deal with the bodies and it was something I felt I needed to do to help our city.”
Lucy said her husband was finally able to come home after days of helping when they discovered something on his helmet.
“He had dust on his helmet and then I just realized this isn’t just dust this could be ashes from body parts. So the kids and I and him gathered around it and prayed.”
All three said they go by the motto of never forget, never forgive, and never ever again.
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Past decade witnesses notable strides in delivering better healthcare
Pharmacists prepare Chinese herbal medicine at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Sanya City in Sanya, south China's Hainan province, Aug. 20, 2022. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)
BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2012, the central Party leadership has prioritized the people's health in a strategic move.
With deepened medical and healthcare system reform, China is now on track to a healthcare reform and development path with Chinese characteristics, according to a CPC press conference on China's progress in this regard over the past 10 years.
PROMOTION OF HEALTH SERVICE ACCESSIBILITY
The average life expectancy in China rose from 74.8 years to 78.2 years over the past decade. The latest statistics show that basic medical insurance schemes covered 1.36 billion people, or 96.45 percent of the total population, and the proportion of healthcare expenses borne by individuals dropped to 27.7 percent.
"As reform of the medical and healthcare systems intensifies, the problem of difficult and expensive access to medical treatment is being solved at a faster pace," said Li Bin, deputy head of the National Health Commission.
Generally speaking, Li added, the past decade has witnessed the most progress in China's health cause.
ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT OF TCM SERVICE SYSTEM
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) embodies the Chinese nation's concepts of health preservation and relevant practices throughout several millennia and is a national treasure.
Over the past decade, China has accelerated the construction of a high-quality and efficient TCM service system and significantly improved the capacity of community-based TCM services, making TCM services fairer, more accessible, and more convenient, according to officials.
Recent years saw steady efforts in pushing ahead with projects designed to build community-level TCM service capacity, noted Qin Huaijin, deputy head of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Since 2012, the central government has provided funding support for constructing 36,700 TCM service centers. By the end of 2020, more than 80 percent of community-level and township-level health institutions had been equipped with TCM service centers.
State-level hospitals were mobilized to help and support nearly 700 county-level TCM hospitals in improving service capacity through pair-up assistance.
"TCM development over the past 10 years has been at its best since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949," Qin said.
IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH EMERGENCY RESPONSE CAPACITY
In the last 10 years, China's public health system withstood the tests of H7N9 bird flu, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and COVID-19, as well as natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.
China has basically established a health emergency response system with its core capacity in health emergency response reaching the advanced international level, and has responded rationally and efficiently to public health emergencies, noted Chang Jile, deputy head of the national administration of disease prevention and control.
"China has set up the world's largest direct reporting system of epidemics and public health emergencies, and the average reporting time has been shortened to four hours," said Chang.
China can identify more than 300 pathogens within 72 hours, he said.
In addition, China has established a public health emergency risk assessment system and 59 national health emergency teams in four categories, said Chang.
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Prince Harry and Prince William reunite in their shared grief; Anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks in US; Ukraine forces recapture key land in the northeast
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
225 PM CDT Sun Sep 11 2022
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Nueces River Near Tilden affecting McMullen County.
For the Nueces River...including Cotulla, Tilden, Three Rivers,
Mathis, Bluntzer, Calallen...Moderate flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/crp.
The next statement will be issued late tonight at 530 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Moderate flooding is occurring and moderate flooding is
forecast.
* WHERE...Nueces River Near Tilden.
* WHEN...Until early Tuesday morning.
* IMPACTS...At 16.0 feet, Moderate lowland flooding occurs. Hunting
cabins, oil field tanks and pumps are affected, and livestock
become isolated.
At 18.0 feet, The flooding of livestock, roads, irrigation pumps
and tank batteries occurs. Fences and hunting cabins are damaged.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1:30 PM CDT Sunday the stage was 16.8 feet.
- Forecast...The river is slowly receding, expected to fall
into minor flood stage overnight tonight, fall below flood
stage early Tuesday morning then continue falling but remain
above caution stage through the rest of the week.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and stage forecasts:
Fld Observed Forecasts (1 pm)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Nueces River
Tilden 14.0 16.8 Sun 1 pm 14.8 13.3 13.5 13.6 13.4
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23-24-29-30-33
(twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-three)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
23-24-29-30-33
(twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-three)
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PRINCETON, W.Va. (AP) — Chase Bowman found a love for art at the young age of just five years old when he entered a coloring contest and won it.
Bowman is a Mercer County native who is originally from Matoaka and a graduate from the 1998 class at Princeton Senior High School.
He is now an Associate Professor at Concord University (CU) for art, and he is going into his eighth year teaching there for this academic year.
“I really enjoy the job,” said Bowman. “It gives me a social outlet because I get to talk to people; otherwise, I would just be in the studio all day.”
Bowman works in the art studio eight to 10 hours a day because he does not only teach but also sells and shows his pieces at art galleries around the country.
“Right now, I have pieces in two galleries,” he said. “There are some at the Live In Gallery in Brooklyn, New York and some at the Bloomfield Richwood Gallery in Richwood, West Virginia.’
The Richwood gallery actually opened Bowman’s showing on August 25.
Bowman’s art styles is more traditional in supplies and technique which is what he thinks makes his work unique. He specializes in pen and ink drawing and watercolors and illustrations.
While Bowman loves doing art, showing it, and teaching it, he did not always see art as something he could do full time.
“I’ve always done art, but I’d never though of art as a professional practice until I was about 18, and that’s really because for better or worse, young artists aren’t really strongly encouraged to pursue art as a career,” Bowman explained.
Bowman says a lot of the discouragement around the art field stems from the fact that many people believe there is not much money to be made in the practice, but Bowman said that is just not true at all.
He says that the only thing needed to be successful in the art field is drive and some sense of seriousness.
“That is the advice that I would give to anyone looking to pursue art as a career.” Bowman said. “It’s fun, you can play around with it, it’s a joyful experience, but if you don’t have a level of seriousness practicing it everyday, it’s going to be very difficult.”
Bowman attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, and Marshall University for his undergraduate degree, and he attended the Columbus College of Art and Design for his graduate program.
His graduate program is when he decided that he would pursue teaching in art, but before then, teaching was not his first choice.
“Believe it or not I’m very shy, so teaching was not something I thought I would enjoy,” said Bowman. “The thought of talking to people in front of a classroom really scared me, but when I started doing it, I made a very pointed decision to make my class very conversational.”
Bowman found that by engaging with every individual in his classes, he was able to not only ease his anxiety about talking in front of a lot of people but also make the class more engaging for his students and he could focus on each students needs when it comes to curriculum.
“I don’t have the same job every single day of every single year. Every student comes to me, and I have to individualize their learning experience so that they’re getting something out of it,” said Bowman.
Many schools have seen significant declines in the use for art programs and are starting to get rid of them, but Bowman said that Concord’s program is not seeing a change and that he feels their program is doing really well.
“Our student body is really dedicated,” he said. “They’re learning and growing. It’s nice to have an arts program that is not super far away, so local students or students who don’t want to travel super far away can have a nice, solid program close by.”
Bowman said he feels really passionate about teaching because of all of the opportunities that come along with it.
“What I really like about teaching is that I actually get to talk to other people and young people. I’m getting older, and I kind of need their help string grounded and in touch with younger people,” he said.
He also said that he likes it because it keeps him from being isolated.
“If I were left to just doing art, it’s not a very social activity, I would be in my studio by myself for 23 hours a day,” Bowman said.
While teaching is a big part of Bowman’s life, he also does art showings.
“I really enjoy getting feedback on my work whether people like it or they don’t, trust me, I’ve had my fair share of people not liking it, which always hurts, but it’s good to hear. You grow a really thick skin from it,” explained Bowman.
He also said he loves hearing back from people because that is the point of art, and he likes to see where his art ends up. One of his pieces actually ended up in Paraguay.
Bowman said his favorite part about art is that it is another way of communication and that it was better than words.
“It’s a language just like French, Russian, or Japanese,” he said. “There’s a certain kind of way that you can do it, and it communicates with people.”
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
5-7-8-6
(five, seven, eight, six)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
5-7-8-6
(five, seven, eight, six)
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — An emotional Harrison Ford appeared along with a new trailer for the fifth Indiana Jones film, cast members from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” showed footage from their forthcoming sequel, and trailers and details were unveiled from the widening TV presence of the “Star Wars” galaxy on Saturday at the D23 Expo.
An arena-sized audience gave a standing ovation to Ford, co-star Phoebe Waller-Bridge and director James Mangold after the trailer was shown at a presentation from Disney divisions Marvel, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Studios at the festival at the Anaheim Convention Center, next door to Disneyland.
“Thank you for making these films such an incredible experience for all of us,” the usually stoic Ford said, choking up at times. “I’m very proud to say to say that this one is fantastic.”
He pointed to Waller-Bridge and said, “this is one of the reasons.”
The 80-year-old Ford suggested this would be his last time donning the hat and holding the whip of one of the two characters that made him famous.
“This is it,” he said, as shouts of “no” came from the crowd. “I will not fall down for you again.”
The 37-year-old Waller-Bridge said Ford showed no signs of slowing down, saying “I had the time of my life making this movie,” and “keeping up with this guy is exhausting.”
The trailer shows Ford cracking that whip in front of a group of heavily armed henchmen with Waller-Bridge at his side.
The film, whose title has yet to be announced, is set for release on June 30, 2023. It also stars Mads Mikkelsen, Toby Jones and Antonio Banderas, and is the first in the franchise not directed by Steven Spielberg.
Angela Bassett and Winston Duke were among the cast members who presented part of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which is set for release on Nov. 11.
The sequence shows a team trying to steal some of the nation of Wakanda’s precious substance vibranium, and a Wakandan team beating them back.
It has not been clear how the film would deal with the death of the title star of the first film, Chadwick Boseman, who died of prostate cancer in 2020.
But the footage acknowledged that his character T’Challa had died, and suggests that his sister Shuri, played by Letitia Wright, might be the next Black Panther.
“We had to meet his level of excellence, and we did,” Bassett said.
Neither the “Indiana Jones” trailer nor the “Black Panther” footage were released outside of the convention hall.
Marvel also announced cast members of the forthcoming Phase 5 films from its cinematic universe, “Captain America: New World Order” and “Thunderbolts.”
Anthony Mackie will take up the familiar shield as Captain America in the movie slated for a May 2024 release, as he did at the end of the television series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” and he’ll be joined by Tim Blake Nelson as central villain the Leader. Danny Ramirez and Shira Haas will play heroes alongside Mackie.
Marvel’s team of antiheroes “Thunderbolts” will include role reprisals from Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier and David Harbour as Red Guardian. Wyatt Russell and Julia Louis Dreyfus also appear in the film set to be released in July of 2024.
Pedro Pascal and the cast of “The Mandalorian” unveiled a trailer and new details for the series’ third season and Diego Luna did the same for the forthcoming series “Andor” as Lucasfilm and the “Star Wars” galaxy deepens its television presence with no big screens in sight.
“You are a Mandalorian no more,” Pascal’s title character is told in the trailer for the new season, a penalty for his having removed his helmet and showed his face.
The trailer shows the Mandalorian and his baby-Yoda sidekick Grogu zipping through space, and suggests an increased role for “Battlestar Galactica” star Katee Sackhoff and her character Bo-Katan Kryze, who first appeared in season two.
Carl Weathers and Giancarlo will both reprise their roles, and “Back to the Future” star Christopher Lloyd is joining the cast. The show is set to premiere in February.
In a different Lucasfilm galaxy, a trailer was unveiled for the forthcoming TV series “Willow,” based on the 1988 Ron Howard fantasy film. Christian Slater was announced as a cast member, and appeared live to talk about it.
“I love the fantasy, the sci-fi, just getting to be a part of this show was, I will be honest with you an absolute dream come true,” Slater said. “This was a very fun character.”
The character was described only as someone aiding in a quest who is a friend of Madmartigan, the rogue adventurer played by Val Kilmer in the film.
The trailer brings epic echoes of “Lord of the Rings,” with original “Willow” actor Warwick Davis leading a group of teen adventurers in cloaks on a magical mission.
All the shows will stream on Disney+.
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Follow AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/andyjamesdalton
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VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE)- A mountain lion has safely been removed from Visalia after it was spotted inside the city early Sunday morning.
Visalia police say they got a call of the sighting of the big cat around 12:42 a.m. in the 1900 block of west Porter Avenue. They say their officers were able to spot the animal the next street over in the 2000 block of west Sedona Avenue and were able to contain it until wildlife experts were able to get to the scene.
Officers and wardens from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife eventually arrived and were able to tranquilize the mountain lion and remove it from the area.
Officials say it was taken to a suitable habitat and released back into the wild.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Black pastor who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town filed a federal lawsuit alleging the ordeal violated his constitutional rights and caused lingering problems including emotional distress and anxiety.
Michael Jennings filed the lawsuit Friday night against three officers and the central Alabama town of Childersburg requesting a jury trial and seeking an unspecified amount of money.
Jennings’ lawyers held a news conference outside the Birmingham federal courthouse on Saturday to discuss the lawsuit, and the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, and other groups planned a rally afterward at a downtown park.
“I’m here for accountability, and I’m here for justice,” Jennings told the news conference.
The suit alleged the actions of Officers Christopher Smith and Justin Gable, Sgt. Jeremy Brooks and the city violated rights protecting against unlawful arrest and guaranteeing free speech. He cited multiple continuing problems including post traumatic stress disorder and humiliation.
Childersburg city attorney Reagan Rumsey didn’t return an email seeking comment.
Jennings, 56, was arrested in May after a white neighbor called 911 and said a “younger Black male” and gold SUV were at a house while the owners — who are friends of Jennings and had asked him to watch their home — were away.
Jennings identified himself as “Pastor Jennings” but refused to provide identification to the officers, who arrested him on a charge of obstructing government operations after a 20-minute confrontation that included raised voices on both sides.
Filed in municipal court, the charge was dismissed within days at the request of the then-police chief. Jennings’ attorneys last month released police body camera video that was obtained following a records request to the city, located 55 miles (88 kilometers) southeast of Birmingham.
Benard Simelton, president of the Alabama branch of the NAACP, said the officers who arrested Jennings did “so many things” that weren’t in line with good community policing tactics.
“These poor judgment decisions reflect poorly on the type of training the Childersburg police officers receive … if they were acting in accordance within police guidelines,” Simelton said in a statement.
While Jennings could have filed a claim against the city seeking damages, attorney Harry Daniels said that wasn’t done because the arrest was well within the time frame allowed by law for a lawsuit.
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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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Election officials preparing for the rapidly approaching midterm elections have one more headache: trying to combat misinformation that sows distrust about voting and results while fueling vitriol aimed at rank-and-file election workers.
Some states and counties are devoting more money or staff to a problem that has only grown more concerning since the 2020 presidential election and the false claims that it was marred by widespread fraud. A barrage of misinformation in some places has led election officials to complain that Facebook parent Meta, Twitter and other social media platforms aren’t doing enough to help them tackle the problem.
“Our voters are angry and confused. They simply don’t know what to believe,” Lisa Marra, elections director in Cochise County, Arizona, told a U.S. House committee last month. “We’ve got to repair this damage.”
Many election offices are taking matters into their own hands, starting public outreach campaigns to provide accurate information about how elections are run and how ballots are cast and counted. That means traveling town halls in Arizona, “Mythbuster Mondays” in North Carolina and animated videos in Ohio emphasizing the accuracy of election results. Connecticut is hiring a dedicated election misinformation analyst.
Still, the task is daunting. Despite Oregon putting additional money into joining a national #TrustedInfo2022 campaign, misinformation continues to reach social media and force local election officials to respond, taking time from other duties.
Ben Morris, spokesperson for the Oregon secretary of state’s office, cited three recent Facebook posts that Meta allowed to remain on Facebook despite his office providing evidence to them that they were false.
One alleged a candidate’s name had been improperly censored from election fliers. Another falsely asserted that one party was purposefully denied access to a local elections office. Yet another claimed inaccurately that election workers in Multnomah County were being required to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
“Meta’s policies are too limited to address the misinformation we see at a state and local level,” Morris said. “Their policies cover big national issues, but false posts about a county clerk or a state law aren’t removed. When you realize this could be happening at Meta’s scale, it’s deeply concerning.”
The disconnect may be that Facebook policies “prioritize provably false claims that are timely, trending and consequential.” All three posts Morris referenced were presumably too localized to have “trended,” though he contends they were still damaging.
They also were posted by candidates for office, a group that includes a growing number of election deniers and whose speech social media companies strive to protect.
Meta spokesperson Corey Chambliss said the policies exempt much of what politicians say online because of “Facebook’s fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, especially in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is the most scrutinized speech there is.”
But he said those protections are waived in cases of direct election interference or threats of violence or intimidation.
In Arizona’s largest county, Maricopa, candidates shielded by those protections have liberally posted misinformation during this year’s election cycle. That has prompted officials to aggressively condemn the false narratives themselves.
When a candidate for county supervisor encouraged supporters to steal ballot-marking pens given to them at polling places on Election Day during the state’s August primary, the county attorney, Rachel Mitchell, wrote warning her to stop. The candidate pushed false claims that the pens allow election workers to change people’s votes.
And when Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake made unsupported claims of potential fraud ahead of the primary, Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates told local reporters her claims were “beyond irresponsible.”
“They never brought any specifics to us,” said Gates, a fellow Republican.
He said he has been more vocal on social media and more available to traditional media than ever before this year, in an effort to tamp down false election claims before they get out of hand.
Gates and County Recorder Stephen Richer regularly respond directly to false Twitter posts with the facts. Richer said his department also emails Twitter when it sees a misleading narrative or threats against election workers gathering steam online, though it has disagreed with some of the platform’s responses.
When debunked claims about the county deleting election data off a server in 2021 resurfaced at an activist-led “election security forum” three days before the state’s August primary, the presenters publicly identified two election workers they claimed were responsible and called their actions a crime. That prompted threats and harassment against the workers online, part of a disturbing trend affecting election offices across the country.
Richer said the county wrote to Twitter in hopes of muting the hate, but the platform “didn’t always agree” that the content violated its policies.
Last month, Twitter activated enforcement of 2022 election integrity policies intended to “enable healthy civic conversation on Twitter, while ensuring people have the context they need to make informed decisions about content they encounter.” The company’s efforts included unveiling state-specific pages with live election updates featuring tweets from election officials and local reporters. The platform didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Video app TikTok, whose growing popularity has made it yet another hub for misinformation this election cycle, announced last month it is launching an election center that will help people find voting locations and candidate information. The platform said it works with over a dozen fact-checking organizations to debunk misinformation and will incorporate artificial intelligence as part of its efforts to detect and remove threats against election workers and push back against voting misinformation.
Not every state or county has Maricopa’s command of social media.
Relatively few county election offices have official presences on both Facebook and Twitter, according to a recent report by a pair of scholars who specialize in voter participation and the electoral processes, Mississippi State University’s Thessalia Merivaki and Connecticut College’s Mara Suttmann-Lea.
Many more local offices are on just one platform or the other, and the vast majority aren’t on either.
Legislation introduced in Congress earlier this year would provide $20 billion over the next decade to help state and local governments support election administration, which includes fighting misinformation.
“Election after election, millions of Americans see inaccurate or misleading information about elections and the voting process on social media, and it is hurting our democracy,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat who is co-sponsoring the legislation, said during a hearing last spring.
When election officials battle through staffing, funding and personal safety concerns to get more involved on social media, voters of all ages — and particularly younger voters — become more engaged, according to the recent academic report on elections. The electorate benefits, the researchers wrote, “as does democracy itself.”
That’s just what the election supervisor’s office in Collier County, Florida, is trying to do.
In one TikTok video on her personal account, office spokesperson Trish Robertson snaps her fingers to the Sicilian song “Che La Luna” amid images of district maps, portraits of election officials and large windows that allow for public viewing during vote counting.
The lighthearted video from June, playing off a TikTok trend in which users display essential items in their homes and offices, is one of many efforts Robertson is making to restore voters’ trust. Besides posting to her own TikTok feed, she manages the county supervisor’s social media channels, hosts “transparency tours” of the office and responds to piles of public record requests, which often demand information that doesn’t exist.
Amid election falsehoods stoked by former President Donald Trump and amplified by his allies, Robertson said fighting misinformation “has pretty much become a full-time job.”
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Associated Press misinformation reporter David Klepper contributed to this report.
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(STACKER) — Like many industries, airlines felt the strain of declining revenues and had to find clever ways to make extra money. Enter baggage fees.
Southwest Airlines is still a unicorn in the industry, staying true to offering low fares and two free checked bags no matter your status. As a result, their per-passenger baggage fee total in 2021 was a mere $0.48 (as a comparison, the 10th entry on this list comes in at $10.46 per passenger), which added up to $58 million in total fees.
Though it’s a burden for travelers, airlines have been able to stay afloat because of baggage fees. In 2021, U.S. airlines made about $5.3 billion in baggage fees, a huge leap from $2.8 billion in 2020; however, the number is still down from 2019’s $5.8 billion.
Bounce collected data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics to determine which airlines make the most from baggage fees. They looked at data from 2021, the most recent full year available, and calculated the total fees per passenger serviced. The per-passenger figure includes passengers who did not pay for baggage fees, so the average may be lower than each airline charges per bag. Breeze Airways was excluded from the analysis as complete data was not available for 2021.
#10. Alaska Airlines
– Total baggage fees collected: $242,173,000 ($10.46 per passenger)
– Total passengers boarded: 23,153,191
Eligible Alaska Airlines Visa credit card holders may get their first checked bag fee waived, but for everyone else, there’s a $30 charge for the first, $40 for the second, and $100 for the third and beyond. There’s also a $100 charge for oversized bags, so be mindful of the weight and dimensions of your luggage.
#9. American Airlines
– Total baggage fees collected: $1,224,288,000 ($10.54 per passenger)
– Total passengers boarded: 116,173,259
American Airlines offers several ways to receive a complimentary baggage check depending on various card members and status, but there’s a fee on domestic flights for most passengers. The first bag will cost $30; the second, $40; the third, $150; and the fourth or more are $200 apiece. The charges differ depending on the type of flight, so be sure to look at American’s website to find the right information for your particular travel plans.
#8. United Airlines
– Total baggage fees collected: $869,626,000 ($12.00 per passenger)
– Total passengers boarded: 72,488,269
If you’re flying United Airlines with a heavy bag and you’re in First or Business Class or have MileagePlus status, you’re in luck: The weight restrictions are 70 pounds rather than the standard 50 pounds. The carrier’s checked baggage fees vary depending on your destination and status, so United developed a handy baggage fee calculator to help you prepare for your trip. It also offers baggage delivery at select U.S. destinations for those who don’t want to wait at baggage claim.
#7. Eastern Air Lines
– Total baggage fees collected: $1,549,000 ($13.34 per passenger)
– Total passengers boarded: 116,095
With hubs in Miami, New York, and San Juan, Eastern Air Lines primarily runs in the southern and eastern United States (as well as some international destinations). The benefit of flying with Eastern is the baggage size limit (70 pounds no matter your status) and the first bag flies for free. A second checked bag will cost $65; the third and fourth are $100 apiece; and the fifth and sixth come with a $200 charge per bag.
#6. JetBlue
– Total baggage fees collected: $517,202,000 ($17.15 per passenger)
– Total passengers boarded: 30,159,824
Many airlines allow somewhere between six and 10 checked bags per passenger (for a fee, of course), so it’s worth pointing out that JetBlue only lets travelers fly with two. The fees are calculated depending on your fare and destination and can be found on the airline’s website. If you’re a planner, you can save $5 per bag by checking your bags online more than 24 hours before your flight.
#5. Allegiant Air
– Total baggage fees collected: $246,127,000 ($18.09 per passenger)
– Total passengers boarded: 13,607,794
Allegiant Air may save passengers money on low fares, but it recoups some of it with baggage fees. In addition to charging per checked bag (you are allowed up to four), the airline also charges travelers for a carry-on piece of luggage (you can bring a personal item on board for free). This can cost an additional $10-$75 depending on the size of your suitcase and when in your travel plans you decide to pay. A full baggage fee chart can be found on Allegiant Air’s website.
#4. Silver Airways
– Total baggage fees collected: $8,535,000 ($18.78 per passenger)
– Total passengers boarded: 454,453
Silver Airways is a regional airline that flies between Florida, the southeastern U.S., and the Bahamas, but if you’re going on a tropical vacation, you might want to pack light. The carrier limits two checked bags per guest, with a fee per piece. If you need that third bag, Silver Airways will allow it for a $100 charge. See a full baggage fee chart on the airline’s website.
#3. Spirit Airlines
– Total baggage fees collected: $635,038,000 ($20.64 per passenger)
– Total passengers boarded: 30,770,259
Spirit is a budget airline that capitalizes on extra fees. In addition to charging passengers who want to choose their own seats, the carrier also charges for carry-on luggage (aside from a personal item) and all checked bags. Spirit doesn’t openly disclose its baggage fees, but its website comes equipped with a baggage fee calculator so you won’t be surprised when you get to the airport.
#2. Frontier Airlines
– Total baggage fees collected: $463,388,000 ($22.44 per passenger)
– Total passengers boarded: 20,654,583
Frontier Airlines’ slogan might be “Low Fares Done Right,” but what customers save in airfare they may lose in extra fees. Like many of the budget airlines, Frontier allows travelers one personal item to fly for free, but everything else comes at a charge. The carrier offers a travel bundle called “the Works” that includes a carry-on and checked bag, seat selection, priority boarding, flight flexibility, and refundability, but the catch is it’s only available for purchase during initial booking.
#1. Sun Country Airlines
– Total baggage fees collected: $61,554,000 ($22.58 per passenger)
– Total passengers boarded: 2,726,516
You may see a pattern in the top airlines on this list: They’re all billed as “ultra-low-cost,” but words can be deceiving. These carriers are great for the minimalist traveler, but there will be extra charges for luggage. Sun Country Airlines charges for carry-on and checked bags. Travelers can save money by choosing bag options when making their reservation. Fees vary depending on where you’re flying, so check Sun Country’s website for a fee calculator.
Bounce collected data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics to determine how much airlines made from baggage fees in 2021.
This story originally appeared on Bounce and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.
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Sun shines on village’s 78th flower show
Saturday 10th September 2022 11:00 am
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Walkhampton Cottage Garden Society held its 78th Annual Flower and Produce Show in the village’s Memorial Hall on Saturday August 27.
The show had returned to its traditional format after the restrictions of covid, and 150 classes covered flowers, fruit, vegetables, cookery and handicrafts, with some 30 dedicated classes for children.
The sun shone, the tea tent did a roaring trade in delicious home-made cakes, and prize winners went home holding prize cards and silver cups, with rosettes for the children.
Pictures by Jean Jameson, Tavistock Photographic Club
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A few days before middle school teacher Shaun Nielsen joined a work group to develop South Dakota’s social studies standards, he got a thick package in the mail.
Sent from Hillsdale, Michigan, home to a conservative private college enjoying outsize influence among top Republicans, it contained materials that would ultimately form what the state’s public schools students could be expected to learn about American history and civics.
“Whoa — these are already written,” Nielsen remembers thinking as he opened the document this spring.
Hillsdale College, which has sought in recent years to “revive the American tradition of K-12 education” by fostering a nationwide network of schools, won new prominence when then-President Donald Trump tapped the school to help develop a “patriotic education” project. Now, in a sign of Hillsdale’s growing influence in public education, South Dakota has proposed statewide standards that contain distinct echoes of Hillsdale’s material.
While Republican governors such as Tennessee’s Bill Lee and Florida’s Ron DeSantis have embraced Hillsdale’s education for K-12 students, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has been perhaps the most enthusiastic. Larry Arrn, the school’s president, even said in a speech last year that Noem had “offered to build us an entire campus in South Dakota.”
That doesn’t appear to be in the works. But it was Noem, widely seen as a 2024 White House hopeful, who turned to former Hillsdale politics professor William Morrisey to develop the state’s social studies standards. The state paid him $200,000, and he tapped Hillsdale’s material, according to members of the standards commission.
The college played an integral part in Trump’s “1776 Report,” a conservative response to work like the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” which re-examined the founding of the United States with the institution of slavery at the center. Hillsdale followed up by producing “The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum,” which offers nearly 2,400 pages of lesson plans on American history.
South Dakota’s proposed standards released in mid-August align with the “1776 Curriculum.” Both emphasize the ideals of the country’s founders as an argument for American exceptionalism — an idea popular in conservative circles that the U.S. is uniquely worthy of universal praise.
The documents both define patriotism similarly, as preserving the “good” of the country while correcting its flaws. They teach that progressivism conflicts with the nation’s founding ideals, and assert that most of the founders — including such slave owners as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison — wanted to end slavery.
Morrisey declined an interview, and Hillsdale did not grant a request to interview a member of its K-12 Education Office.
Noem’s administration referred questions to Ben Jones, who oversees the South Dakota Historical Society and worked on the commission to develop the standards. Jones defended the scholarship at Hillsdale as respected in higher education and said Morrisey brought the commission a “generic” version of U.S. history that could be found in most textbooks.
“Frankly, it’s a logical fallacy to say that something is bad because it’s associated with this group that I don’t agree with over this other thing,” he said of criticism of Hillsdale.
Jones pointed out that Morrisey’s draft included descriptions of how the first Africans were enslaved and brought to the colonies and how the U.S. broke treaties with Native American tribes.
“The good, the bad, the ugly was all there,” he said.
Jones added that the group discussed and debated the standards over several meetings and by the end, “my sense was that we all made this very much our own.”
When Noem’s administration formed the 15-person commission, it chose three people, including Nielsen, currently certified to teach in South Dakota public schools. The group decided which grade levels should learn the standards and added South Dakota and Native American components to the proposal, Nielsen said.
As the proposal became public last month, Nielsen said he felt conflicted. He said he is a conservative but is careful to separate his political opinions from his classroom teaching. He said he agreed with Noem’s desire to make South Dakota a national leader in social studies education and even with much of the content it covered.
Ultimately, he said, he decided to speak out against the standards because they didn’t originate with South Dakota educators.
“The ‘1776 curriculum’ — it’s pretty much close to that,” he said.
“When you’re handed a set of standards to approve, it’s not a collaborative process at all,” he added. The standards, he worried, were not written with the practical needs of a classroom in mind.
Prominent voices among South Dakota educators agree. The standards — which will be subjected to public hearings this fall before the governor-appointed Board of Education Standards decides whether to adopt them — have been greeted coolly by organizations representing teachers, school boards and school administrators.
“It’s coming from a private, out-of-state college,” said Tim Graf, the superintendent of Harrisburg School District outside Sioux Falls. “I just don’t want it to be political in any way.”
Jennifer Lowery, the superintendent at Tea Area School District, worried teachers for younger grade levels would have to spend more time on social studies at the expense of foundational skills like basic math and reading.
“We’re not stomping our feet because our feelings got hurt or our profession was disrespected,” she said. “You’re hearing the outcry because this isn’t what’s best for our kids.”
Several educators said the standards rely too much on memorization and too little on inquiry-based learning that teaches students to question and analyze. Jones, the state historian, countered that memorization at younger grade levels will pave the way for analysis later.
Stephen Jackson, a history professor at the University of Sioux Falls, said that runs counter to criteria for state standards from the American Historical Society, which says inquiry engages students and helps them connect historical events to modern contexts.
Jackson was part of a group that created social studies standards last year, only to have its work scrapped by the governor. As conservatives began pushing back against historical analyses that argued racism and U.S. history are inextricably intertwined, Noem called for teaching how the “U.S. is the most special nation in the history of the world.”
Noem said the new standards are the best in the nation, calling them “a true, honest, and balanced approach to American history that is not influenced by political agendas.” Hillsdale College used similar language when it launched its curriculum.
Jonathan Zimmerman, an education historian at the University of Pennsylvania, suggested high school students could benefit from analyzing the “1619 Project” alongside the Trump administration’s “1776 Report” and learning how to evaluate and debate them. That’s unlikely in South Dakota, since Noem has moved to block teachings like the “1619 Project” from public schools.
“People like Kristi Noem are correct when they say that the fundamental narrative of America is under challenge like never before,” Zimmerman said. “I just think it’s a good challenge.”
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Here’s what you need to know about the Week 1 game between the Ravens and New York Jets.
Time: 1 p.m. Sunday
Venue: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
TV: CBS, Chs. 13, 9 (Andrew Catalon, James Lofton, Michael Grady)
Stream: Paramount Plus
Radio: WBAL (1090 AM, 101.5 FM) and 98 Rock (97.9 FM) (Gerry Sandusky, Rod Woodson)
Forecast: Mid-70s, showers
Line: Ravens by 7 (as of Saturday night)
Pregame reading:
- Previewing Ravens vs. Jets: 13 things to watch, including Joe Flacco, Rashod Bateman and defensive help
- Ravens vs. Jets staff picks: Who will win Sunday’s regular-season opener in New York?
- Mike Preston: Ravens are smart to wait before giving QB Lamar Jackson the deal he wants | COMMENTARY
- Which Ravens are poised for a big season? Here’s what 12 veterans think.
- Ravens will honor Tony Siragusa, Jaylon Ferguson with helmet sticker, more this season | NOTES
- Ravens vs. Jets scouting report for Week 1: Who has the edge?
- After a miserable ending to 2021, Ravens and QB Lamar Jackson prepare to begin a pivotal season
- Jets QB Joe Flacco will start vs. Ravens, setting up unlikely Week 1 reunion
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Ally Ewing ran off five straight on the back nine Sunday and closed with a 7-under 65 to hold off Xiyu Lin and win the Kroger Queen City Championship in the LPGA Tour's return to Cincinnati.
Ewing now has three career wins, one in each of the last three years, though she came into this tournament without a top-10 finish all year.
The 29-year-old American played bogey-free on a rain-softened course and was pushed to the very end by Lin, who birdied two of her last three holes for a 65.
Maria Fassi of Mexico had a 71 and finished alone in third, her best LPGA finish.
Lin started the final round two shots behind and made up ground quickly with a pair of birdies. Ewing had to make a 7-footer to match birdies with Lin on the par-5 12th and stay tied, and then the American kept going.
Ewing took the lead with an 8-foot birdie on the par-4 13th, made a 10-foot birdie on the next hole, hit wedge to 8 feet for birdie on the par-5 15th and then made her fifth in a row on the 16th after Lin also had birdied.
Lin made an 18-foot birdie on the 456-yard closing hole into a breeze — only the 20th birdie all week on No. 18 — to create a little extra pressure. Ewing had come up short of the green and elected to use putter through about 5 feet of wet fairway grass.
She gave it a good pop and the putt rolled out to 3 feet left of the hole. After Lin made her birdie, Ewing calmly rapped in the par to finish at 22-under 266.
The victory came at a good time for Ewing, who last month decided to shorten her putting stroke in an effort to find something.
“The key for me is knowing it's in there,” Ewing said after getting soaked by sparkling wine on the 18th green. “The change I made a couple of weeks before Canada ... this week I saw putts go in. And once I saw them go in, I had confidence.”
One of them was for par. Ewing started with eight pars as Lin got off to a good start, and Ewing had to make a 6-foot par putt on No. 7 to avoid falling behind.
“I was just a 6-footer,” she said, “but I saw a 6-footer go in.”
Lin fell two shots behind when she failed to birdie the par-5 15th, though she gave herself good chances and converted two of them.
The 26-year-old from China, who goes by “Janet,” is still looking for her first win.
“I did whatever I can do,” Lin said. “I had one of the best rounds I played all year. I came out second, which is a little said. But Ally played so well. Congrats to her.”
Ewing has reached the CME Group Tour Championship for the top 60 players every year since 2017, and this year was looking bleak without a top 10. She was at No. 70 in the Race to CME Globe, and the victory takes her to No. 30 and assures her spot in Naples, Florida, in the season finale in November.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
225 PM CDT Sun Sep 11 2022
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Nueces River Near Tilden affecting McMullen County.
For the Nueces River...including Cotulla, Tilden, Three Rivers,
Mathis, Bluntzer, Calallen...Moderate flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/crp.
The next statement will be issued late tonight at 530 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Moderate flooding is occurring and moderate flooding is
forecast.
* WHERE...Nueces River Near Tilden.
* WHEN...Until early Tuesday morning.
* IMPACTS...At 16.0 feet, Moderate lowland flooding occurs. Hunting
cabins, oil field tanks and pumps are affected, and livestock
become isolated.
At 18.0 feet, The flooding of livestock, roads, irrigation pumps
and tank batteries occurs. Fences and hunting cabins are damaged.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1:30 PM CDT Sunday the stage was 16.8 feet.
- Forecast...The river is slowly receding, expected to fall
into minor flood stage overnight tonight, fall below flood
stage early Tuesday morning then continue falling but remain
above caution stage through the rest of the week.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and stage forecasts:
Fld Observed Forecasts (1 pm)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Nueces River
Tilden 14.0 16.8 Sun 1 pm 14.8 13.3 13.5 13.6 13.4
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When the Yankees placed DJ LeMahieu on the injured list with inflammation in his toe, Aaron Boone expressed concern that the veteran may not return this season.
However, the tide seems to have turned in the right direction. The 34-year-old could return as soon as the Yankees next homestand, which begins on Sep 22. against the Boston Red Sox.
“Yeah, I anticipate coming back,” said LeMahieu. “That’s my plan [to return during next homestand], and our plan. We haven’t picked a set date yet but we think sometime during next homestand.”
LeMahieu received a cortisone shot in his toe right around the All-Star break. He slashed .226/.305/.336 in 37 games after the break before being placed on the injured list. As a career .297 hitter, it was clear that something was not right with the Yankees’ utility man.
“Just rotating on my back foot swinging [I feel] pain,” said LeMahieu. “It got to a point where I wasn’t even rotating.”
LeMahieu added that there are no plans for offseason surgery at the time as it would be a “tricky” one to operate on. The plan is to start ramping up baseball activities at some point during the upcoming road trip that begins in Boston on Tuesday.
RIZZO RELIEF
Anthony Rizzo returned to the Yankees’ dugout on Saturday. The first baseman was on bed rest due to headaches caused by an epidural to treat back pain. Rizzo underwent a blood patch procedure that immediately relieved his symptoms.
“I think there’s some relief in his face and in his eyes,” said Boone. “The procedure he got the other day kind of gave him that immediate relief. It was immediate, he said it was amazing. He got the procedure and it was literally right away.”
Boone added that Rizzo will begin doing the core exercises he’s used to doing on Sunday. Rizzo has not been in the lineup since Aug. 30 against the Angels when he hit his 30th homer of the season. The-33 year-old has missed multiple games this season due to back issues.
SOMERSET SUPERSTARS
The Yankees have multiple players in Hartford rehabbing with the Somerset Patriots. Harrison Bader will DH and bat second. The gold-glove center fielder is expected to make his team debut during the next homestand.
Aroldis Chapman, Zack Britton and Miguel Castro are also in Hartford and are expected to begin their rehab assignments, weather permitting.
Boone said Saturday that Chapman will make a “couple” of appearances in the minors as he rehabs from an infected tattoo. The Yanks will evaluate Chapman after his appearances.
Zack Britton began his rehab assignment on Aug. 23 and there has been no word of when he is expected to return to the big league club. Britton is rehabbing from Tommy John surgery that has kept him out for the last year.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
225 PM CDT Sun Sep 11 2022
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Nueces River Near Tilden affecting McMullen County.
For the Nueces River...including Cotulla, Tilden, Three Rivers,
Mathis, Bluntzer, Calallen...Moderate flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/crp.
The next statement will be issued late tonight at 530 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Moderate flooding is occurring and moderate flooding is
forecast.
* WHERE...Nueces River Near Tilden.
* WHEN...Until early Tuesday morning.
* IMPACTS...At 16.0 feet, Moderate lowland flooding occurs. Hunting
cabins, oil field tanks and pumps are affected, and livestock
become isolated.
At 18.0 feet, The flooding of livestock, roads, irrigation pumps
and tank batteries occurs. Fences and hunting cabins are damaged.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1:30 PM CDT Sunday the stage was 16.8 feet.
- Forecast...The river is slowly receding, expected to fall
into minor flood stage overnight tonight, fall below flood
stage early Tuesday morning then continue falling but remain
above caution stage through the rest of the week.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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Fld Observed Forecasts (1 pm)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Nueces River
Tilden 14.0 16.8 Sun 1 pm 14.8 13.3 13.5 13.6 13.4
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The horror film “Barbarian” won the weekend by bringing in $10 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, as the late-summer doldrums at the box office continued.
Director Zach Cregger’s debut from Disney’s 20th Century Studios premiered at San Diego Comic-Con in July and opened Friday on 2,340 screens.
“Barbarian” tells the story of a young woman (Georgina Campbell) who finds her Airbnb-rented house weirdly occupied by a stranger (Bill Skarsgård) in a half-ruined section of Detroit. It goes on to subvert several horror conventions.
The hardly head-turning numbers were expected in a nearly always slow September, with the bigger movies of fall and the holiday season many weeks away. “Barbarian” nearly earned back its $10.5 million budget in its first weekend, and accounted for nearly a quarter of the entirety of theatrical earnings.
“In a weekend where the overall box office is quite low, the top number of $10 million is a really solid number for this marketplace,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore. “Horror movies are always an accountant’s dream, and this is why.”
Coming in a distant second, but playing on just 810 screens, was “Brahmāstra: Part One: Shiva,” an Indian, Hindi-language fantasy epic from Star Studios, another subsidiary of Disney.
The film written and directed by Ayan Mukerji, about a DJ named Shiva who discovers a connection with the element of fire and an ability to awaken a supernatural super-powerful weapon, earned $4.4 million in its first weekend in North America.
Long-running Hollywood fare, “Bullet Train” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” occupied the three and four spots.
“Bullet Train” has brought in $92.5 million in six weeks and “Top Gun: Maverick” has earned $705.7 million in 16 weeks. It now stands as the fifth highest-grossing domestic film of all time, just behind “Avatar” and just ahead of “Black Panther,” and is the biggest North American earner ever that is not part of a sci-fi or superhero franchise.
“This movie is putting down superhero numbers,” Dergarabedian said.
More quiet weeks likely lie ahead before a surge of expected big earners, including “Halloween Ends” and “Black Adam,” arrive in October.
Soon after that, the sequel “ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ” kicks off the holiday box office season and an even bigger round of expectations.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Barbarian,” $10 million.
2. “Brahmastra Part One: Shiva,” $ 4.4 million.
3. “Bullet Train,” $3.25 million.
4. “Top Gun: Maverick,” $3.2 million.
5. “DC League of Super-Pets,” $2.8 million.
6. “The Invitation,” $2.6 million.
7. “Lifemark,” $2.2 million.
8. “Beast,” $1.8 million.
9. “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” $1.65 million.
10. “Spider Man: No Way Home,” $1.3 million.
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New York Mets right-hander Taijuan Walker surely is looking forward to Sunday, when he gets to face the host Miami Marlins again.
Walker is 10-4 with a 3.60 ERA this season. Against the Marlins, he has been even better: 3-0 with a 2.49 ERA in four starts.
However, the second halves of seasons have not been kind to Walker lately. Last year, he was an All-Star with a 7-3 record and a 2.66 ERA in the first half. But in the second half, he went 0-8 with a 7.13 ERA.
This year in the first half, he went 7-2 with a 2.55 ERA. In the second half, he is 3-2 with a 6.25 ERA.
Meanwhile, the Mets (88-52) and Marlins (57-81) have split the first two games of their series.
New York, locked into a battle for National League East supremacy with the Atlanta Braves, will face lefty Jesus Luzardo (3-6, 3.36) on Sunday.
In two career starts against the Mets, Luzardo is 1-0 with a 4.22 ERA. However, he has yet to face the Mets this year, when the Marlins have lost 10 of his 13 starts.
The Marlins on Saturday lost right fielder Avisail Garcia, who felt discomfort in his left hamstring and was removed from the game.
“He wanted to keep going, but we’re being cautious,” manager Don Mattingly said. “Hopefully, it’s just a couple days.”
The Mets are 11-5 against the Marlins this year, and shortstop Francisco Lindor has a lot to do with that. He has hit seven homers and driven 19 runs against Miami this season.
Lindor and Eduardo Escobar each went 3-for-5 with two RBIs in Saturday’s 11-3 Mets win, and both of them are switch-hitters.
Against the lefty Luzardo, New York could line up several sluggers from the right side, including Lindor, Escobar, Mark Canha and Pete Alonso, who leads the team with 33 homers and 108 RBIs. Lindor is second on the team in homers (22) and RBIs (91).
Canha hit his first career grand slam on Saturday.
However, the Mets placed standout right fielder Starling Marte on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Sept. 7, due to his broken middle finger on his right hand.
To replace Marte on the roster, the Mets called up corner infielder Mark Vientos, a top prospect who could make his major league debut on Sunday.
Vientos, 22, is from the Miami area, making this even more meaningful. In 101 Triple-A games this year, he has 24 homers, 72 RBIs and an .877 OPS.
“He’s a good-looking hitter,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said of Vientos. “He’s driven in a lot of runs, and I like that. He’s also made improvements defensively.”
Showalter said he’s not sure if Marte will be able to come off the injured list in one week. But the Mets are expecting slick-fielding second baseman Luis Guillorme to return soon, possibly on Monday.
In the meantime, it would not be a surprise if Vientos gets the start at DH on Sunday in place of veteran Darin Ruf, who has been slumping.
Since being acquired from the San Francisco Giants on Aug. 2, Ruf is just 7-for-46 for a .152 batting average.
“You feel you have to prove yourself all over again to a new group of people,” said Ruf, 36. “You can put pressure on yourself.”
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Around 150,000 Catalan separatists rallied in Barcelona on Sunday, trying to reignite the independence movement that is fraying as it nears the five-year anniversary of its failed breakaway bid from Spain.
For the past decade, the Sept. 11 rally held on Catalonia’s main holiday has been the focal point of the wealthy northeast region’s separatist movement. It has drawn in several hundreds of thousands of people clamoring to create a new country in the western Mediterranean.
But the unity between pro-independence political parties and the civil society groups that led the October 2017 independence push, which received no international support and was quickly quashed, is in danger of falling apart due to conflicting views on how to go forward.
The Catalan National Assembly (ANC), a civil group that organizes Sunday’s march, is strongly opposed to the talks that the Catalan government is holding with Spain’s central government in Madrid. The influential organization says it has lost faith in political parties and is ready to move on without them toward a new attempt at breaking with Spain.
That led Catalonia’s regional president, Pere Aragonès, to become the first Catalan president to not attend the annual secessionist march.
Dolors Feliu, the president of ANC, told The Associated Press that she hopes Sunday’s rally will serve as a wake-up call for Aragonès to cease negotiations with the central government.
“It has to be the people on the street and the institutions committed to independence who achieve independence and that the Spanish state will oppose us,” Feliu said. “If we wait for the approval of the Spanish state, we won’t get anywhere.”
Barcelona’s police calculated that 150,000 people attended the rally. Organizers claimed several hundred thousand more. Amid a sea of pro-independence flags, some marchers carried signs demanding Catalan authorities either make a “Declaration of Independence or Resign.”
Feliu told the huge crowd in Barcelona that “this rally has put the fear” presumably, in the separatist parties.
“The people never fail to live up to the circumstances. Politicians fail. And the current Catalan government is failing,” said Kevin Izaguirre, a 29-year-old store clerk attending the event.
Aragonès did participate in other events on the holiday, but other members of his Republican Left of Catalonia party endured jeers of “Traitors!” from spectators when they made the traditional offering of flowers at a monument to a Catalan nationalist in Barcelona.
“Let’s not mistake who our real opponent is: the Spanish state,” said Marta Vilalta, spokeswoman for Aragonès party. “Enough of criticism and anything that divides us.”
Aragonès defends the talks with the government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez as vital. He insists that he won’t renounce his pledge to hold another referendum on independence, but said the talks are crucial to finding solutions for the dozens of Catalans in legal trouble for their role in the 2017 breakaway bid that was ruled illegal by Spanish courts.
Coinciding with the talks, Spain’s government issued pardons last year for nine Catalan separatist leaders who had been sentenced to long prison terms for leading the 2017 bid.
The infighting threatening Catalonia’s separatist cause comes while Scotland is seeking to hold a second independence referendum after the “No” vote won in 2014.
Catalan separatist parties won 52% of the vote last year and maintained their hold on the regional parliament, but after years of extreme tensions and protests that turned violent in 2019, many people, especially the roughly half of Catalans who want to remain a part of Spain, are relieved that there is a dialogue with central authorities.
There are divisions also between the separatist political parties that form Catalonia’s government. The junior member of Aragonès’ government shares the ANC’s skepticism of the talks with Madrid. Its leadership has publicly talked about leaving the government unless there is a stronger plan of action to force independence.
But no one, not the ANC or the more radical separatist parties, seem to be able to articulate exactly how they can achieve independence if not via an authorized referendum. The 2017 bid was based on an unauthorized referendum on independence, and that only got the separatists into legal problems.
Historian Enric Ucelay-Da Cal, author of several books on Catalonia and its separatist movement, says this marks the low point of the current push.
“I think the whole movement is out on a limb,” Ucelay-Da Cal told the AP. “I don’t see the association movement being able to lead any better than the parties have done, because none of them are facing the real facts. They are not sizing up who they are. They are saying ‘we are everybody.’”
He said the movement’s splintering is “just a hangover: you had the party and it didn’t work out.”
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — An exit poll projected that Sweden’s ruling left-wing Social Democrats have won the most votes in a general election Sunday, while a right-wing populist party had its best showing yet.
The exit poll published by Swedish public broadcaster SVT has a margin of error, and the final outcome will only be known once votes are counted.
There are eight parties running to win seats in the 349-seat parliament, or Riksdag. They belong to one of two major blocs, one with four left-wing parties and another with four conservative parties.
The exit poll projected that the left had a slight edge over the right, with 176 seats to 173.
If the exit poll is confirmed by the official results, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson would likely be in a position to remain in power. Her Social Democratic party was projected to win 29.3% of the vote.
The election boosted a populist anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats, that promised to crack down on shootings and other gang violence that have shaken a sense of security for many in Sweden.
The party won 17.5% in 2018 and was projected by the exit poll to gain 20.5% support on Sunday. Though it would be its best-ever result, disappointment at the party election headquarters was palpable as party members realized they were unlikely to form a new coalition government.
The populist party’s fortunes have risen following massive migration in recent years, particularly in 2015, and as crime has grown in segregated neighborhoods.
It has its roots in the white nationalist movement but years ago began expelling extremists. Despite its rebranding, voters long viewed it as unacceptable and other parties shunned it. But that has been changing.
Mainstream parties have been growing increasingly opposed to migration and have been vowing a tougher law-and-order stance in response to crime.
Andersson, a 55-year-old economist, enjoys high approval ratings. She became Sweden’s first female prime minister less than a year ago and led Sweden’s historic bid to join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
The poll projected that the center-right Moderate party was projected to win 18.8%. The party leads the conservative opposition bloc under its leader, Ulf Kristersson. He ran on a pledge of “Sweden needs change.”
During the campaign, Andersson voiced alarm at the rising popularity of the Sweden Democrats, characterizing it as a far-right party that could erode Sweden’s identity as a place of tolerance.
Tobias Andersson, a 26-year-old member of parliament for the Sweden Democrats seeking a second term, said his party was unfairly characterized as racist by opponents.
“I wasn’t even born when my party was founded, I don’t really care who founded it. I look at the values and policies that we support today,” he told the AP.
He said politicians who have called his party racist are now “pushing forward the same policies themselves.”
Most Swedes still oppose the Sweden Democrats, and some voted tactically against any right-wing party to prevent that faction from getting a chance to wield power.
Voting in Stockholm, Bjarne Frykholm, a 65-year-old computer specialist wouldn’t say who he voted for other than to make it clear he opposed the Sweden Democrats.
“I don’t want them to get any power at all,” he said. “I think they frighten me a lot.”
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Jari Tanner in Helsinki, Finland, and James Brooks in Stockholm contributed reporting.
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This version corrects the percentage that the Sweden Democrats won in 2018. It was 17.5% of the vote. They won 13% in 2014.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden marked the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, taking part in a somber wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon held under a steady rain and paying tribute to “extraordinary Americans” who gave their lives on one of the nation’s darkest days.
Sunday’s ceremony occurred a little more than a year after Biden ended the long and costly war in Afghanistan that the U.S. and allies launched in response to the terror attacks.
Biden noted that even after the United States left Afghanistan that his administration continues to pursue those responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Last month, Biden announced the U.S. had killed Ayman al-Zawahri, the al-Qaida leader who helped plot the Sept. 11 attacks, in a clandestine operation.
“We will never forget, we will never give up,” Biden said. “Our commitment to preventing another attack on the United States is without end.”
The president was joined by family members of the fallen, first responders who had been at the Pentagon on the day of the attack, as well as Defense Department leadership for the annual moment of tribute carried out in New York City, the Pentagon and Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
In ending the Afghanistan war, the Democratic president followed through on a campaign pledge to bring home U.S. troops from the country’s longest conflict. But the war concluded chaotically in August 2021, when the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed, a grisly bombing killed 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops at Kabul’s airport, and thousands of desperate Afghans gathered in hopes of escape before the final U.S. cargo planes departed over the Hindu Kush.
Biden marked the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan late last month in low-key fashion. He issued a statement in honor of the 13 U.S. troops killed in the bombing at the Kabul airport and spoke by phone with U.S. veterans assisting ongoing efforts to resettle in the United States Afghans who helped the war effort.
Biden on Sunday said an “incredible debt” was owed to the U.S. troops who served in Afghanistan as well as their families. More than 2,200 U.S. service members were killed and more than 20,000 were wounded over the course of the nearly 20-year war, according to the Pentagon.
He also vowed that the nation will “never fail to meet the sacred obligation to you to properly prepare and equip those that we send into harm’s way and care for those and their families when they come home — and to never, ever, ever forget.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday criticized Biden’s handling of the end of the war and noted that the country has spiraled downward under renewed Taliban rule since the U.S. withdrawal.
“Now, one year on from last August’s disaster, the devastating scale of the fallout from President Biden’s decision has come into sharper focus,” McConnell said. “Afghanistan has become a global pariah. Its economy has shrunk by nearly a third. Half of its population is now suffering critical levels of food insecurity.”
The president also remembered the words of comfort Queen Elizabeth II, who died last week, sent to the American people soon after the 2001 attacks: “Grief is the price we pay for love.” Biden said those words remain as poignant as they did 21 years ago but the weight of loss also remains heavy.
“On this day, when the price feels so great, Jill and I are holding all of you close to our hearts.” Biden said.
Biden has recently dialed up warnings about what he calls the “extreme ideology” of former President Donald Trump and his “MAGA Republican” adherents as a threat to American democracy. Without naming Trump, Biden again on Sunday raised a call for Americans to safeguard democracy.
“It’s not enough to stand up for democracy once a year or every now and then,” Biden said. “It’s something we have to do every single day. So this is a day not only to remember, but also is a day for renewal and resolve for each and every American in our devotion to this country, to the principles it embodies, to our democracy.”
First lady Jill Biden spoke to a crowd at the Flight 93 National Memorial Observance in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where she recalled the concern she had about her sister Bonny Jacobs, a United Airlines flight attendant.
She said the attacks showed that “with courage and kindness we can be a light in that darkness.”
“It showed us that we are all connected to one another,” said Biden, who was joined by her sister in Shanksville for Sunday’s commemoration. “So as we stand on this sacred and scarred earth, a record of our collective grief and a monument to the memories that live on each day, this is the legacy we much carry forward: Hope that defies hate.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband attended a commemoration ceremony at the National September 11th Memorial in New York.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe’s largest nuclear plant has been reconnected to Ukraine’s electricity grid, allowing engineers to shut down its last operational reactor in an attempt to avoid a radiation disaster as fighting rages in the area.
The six-reactor Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant lost its outside source of power a week ago after all its power lines were disconnected because of shelling. It was operating in “island mode” for several days, generating electricity for crucial cooling systems from its only remaining operational reactor.
That’s considered an unstable way of operating a nuclear plant, which could lead to damage to key equipment including turbines and pumps.
Nuclear operator Energoatom said one of the power lines was restored “to its operational capacity” late Saturday, making it possible to run the plant’s safety and other systems on electricity from the power system of Ukraine.
“Therefore, a decision was made to shut down power unit No. 6 and transfer it to the safest state – cold shutdown,” the company said Sunday in a statement.
Energoatom said the risk remains high that outside power is cut again, in which case the plant would have to fire up emergency diesel generators to keep the reactors cool and prevent a nuclear meltdown. The company’s chief told The Associated Press on Thursday that the plant only has diesel fuel for 10 days.
The plant, one of the 10 biggest atomic power stations in the world, has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war, which marked its 200th day on Sunday. Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for shelling around the plant that has damaged the power lines connecting it to the grid.
Energoatom renewed its appeal for Russian forces to leave the Zaporizhzhia plant and allow for the creation of a “demilitarized zone” around it.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog that has two experts at the plant, confirmed that external power has been restored there.
However, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said he remains “gravely concerned about the situation at the plant, which remains in danger as long as any shelling continues.”
He added that “consultations have begun on the urgent need to establish a nuclear safety and security protection zone” at the plant.
The IAEA said it would take 30 hours to bring the sixth reactor to a “cold shutdown state,” but it will still require electricity for its safety systems after that. The agency said work is under way to restore other power lines at the plant, which remains occupied by Russian forces but run by Ukrainian engineers.
Also on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw his troops and weapons from the plant and ensure its safety and security in line with IAEA recommendations.
Macron reminded Putin in a phone conversation that the “Russian occupation of the nuclear plant was the cause for concern over its integrity,” according to a statement from the French presidency.
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Jon Gambrell and Hanna Ahrirova contributed.
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VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) — Shane Lowry tapped in for birdie at the 18th hole and then had to wait and see if Rory McIlroy could produce something special to force a playoff at Wentworth.
McIlroy gave himself a chance and the crowd cheered as his long eagle putt on the final hole crept slowly toward the cup, only to stop less than an inch short.
McIlroy crouched down, staring at the ball in disbelief, while Lowry hugged his caddie in the scorer’s tent to celebrate a one-shot victory at the BMW PGA Championship on Sunday.
It was Lowry’s first win since the British Open at 2019 and came after a bogey-free performance over three days at Wentworth.
It was also, according to the 35-year-old Irishman, a win for all the golfers who — like him — have rejected the lucrative offers from Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway series LIV Golf. Lowry and McIlroy were both outspoken this week in criticizing the fact that a contingent of LIV golfers had been allowed to play at Wentworth.
“I wanted to go out and win this tournament for myself, first and foremost, but I think for this tour and everyone that has stayed loyal to this tour,” Lowry said. “I really feel like this is one for the good guys.”
McIlroy and Jon Rahm were tied for second, one shot back. Talor Gooch, who plays on the LIV circuit, was another shot back in fourth place.
It was Lowry’s first win since the British Open at 2019 and came after a bogey-free performance over three days at Wentworth.
The tournament was reduced to 54 holes with no play on Friday after the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday.
Lowry finished with a 7-under 65 for a 17-under total of 199.
“I said to my coach this morning, ‘I need to just allow myself to play golf today,’” Lowry said. “I’m playing the best golf of my life, I need to just allow myself to do that. And I did that.”
Rahm surged up the leaderboard with a 62, rolling in an eagle putt on the 18th to take a two-shot clubhouse lead at 16 under. He then had to wait more than two hours to see if it would be good enough for the win, although on a low-scoring day at Wentworth it never looked likely to be.
A superb approach shot from Lowry on the 18th made sure of that.
Lowry hit an iron from 242 yards onto the center of the green — a shot good enough to earn an immediate fist bump from his caddie — and then rolled an eagle putt to within a few inches of the hole, leaving himself a tap-in birdie for the lead.
McIlroy, playing in the pairing behind Lowry, also had a 14-foot birdie putt on the 17th break just to the right of the hole. When Lowry then birdied the last hole, McIlroy knew he needed to eagle the par-5 18th — something he has never managed at Wentworth.
He came agonizingly close.
“I thought three feet out even that that putt was going in the hole,” said McIlroy, who won his third FedEx Cup title last month. “It just sort of wriggled right on me at the end. But overall it’s been another really good week.”
It was a first win for Lowry at Wentworth in his 13th appearance in the European Tour’s flagship event, having finished second to McIlroy in 2014.
“I love it here, I’ve contended in the past,” Lowry said. “The bad shots that I’ve hit over the years in contention actually started to creep into my head. It’s amazing what this game does.”
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Fresh off her victory in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate, Leora Levy roamed the busy fairgrounds in Terryville on a mild summer evening in late August, meeting with voters and celebrating a win even she didn’t expect to be that decisive.
The nominee spent two hours at the Terryville Lions Country Fair speaking with police officers, firefighters, vendors and locals whom she’s hoping to win over in November — some of them in a chaotic kitchen where cooks were flipping burgers and making fried dough.
As she met with fairgoers, the person who helped Levy solidify her win rarely came up in conversations. But former President Donald Trump was not completely absent.
Plymouth Mayor Joe Kilduff, who helped guide Levy around the grounds, was curious to hear how Levy went from a one-time Trump critic to an eager supporter who won his last-minute endorsement in the primary.
With the midterm elections two months away, Trump is still playing a significant role in GOP politics, and Connecticut is no exception. Democrats are again trying to use that to their advantage — especially in more traditionally blue states — while Republicans view the race as a referendum on the sitting president, Joe Biden, and his agenda.
Whether or not Trump ends up being a red flag for the party, Connecticut Republicans are hoping more hesitant voters can look past the potential 2024 presidential contender and still vote for the ticket as they look to unseat U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
“Regardless of your particular opinion of a certain candidate, what Connecticut has been doing the last generation hasn’t been working for a lot of folks,” said Kilduff, a Republican mayor who was elected in 2021.
When asked how the former president might factor into the general election and whether his support will hurt her with more moderate voters, Levy emphasized that Trump is “not on the ballot” — a possible indication that he might not get as involved in the campaign, at least in a direct way.
“I was honored to win his endorsement. He and I agree completely on policy, but I’m Leora Levy. … Trump is not on the ballot. Leora Levy is,” she said. “And if there’s any president’s name on the ballot, it’s Joe Biden, because of his failed policies.”
From critic to supporter
On the night of Florida’s presidential primary in 2016, Levy was visiting Palm Beach and going to dinner at Mar-a-Lago with a close friend. The two of them spotted Donald Trump, who was holding a yellow legal pad and presumably working on a speech about his victory that further solidified him as the leading GOP candidate.
Trump offered his condolences to her friend, who had lost her husband more than a year earlier, at a time when he was likely occupied with his primary win. Levy said she saw a much softer side to Trump, one she “wished he’d show more often.”
“I was supporting Sen. [Ted] Cruz because Jeb [Bush] had dropped out. But it was after that conversation, I really took a look at then-candidate Trump,” Levy said in an interview.
But it was not until a month or so later that Levy was fully on board. She attended a dinner held by the New York Republican Party, where both Trump and Cruz delivered remarks. She was similarly impressed as he spoke about the projects and financial assistance he had given “anonymously” over the years in New York City.
“When I heard him speak about it with such passion and just a depth of feeling I had not seen from him before, I realized this is someone who could be president,” Levy said. “I was already leaning toward him, but that was the moment I decided I would support him.”
Before her turnaround, Levy called Trump “vulgar” and “ill-mannered” in an op-ed she wrote a day before Bush dropped out of the race. After the former Florida governor’s exit, she supported Cruz before deciding on Trump. Levy noted that she does not always agree with Trump, including when he disparaged the late Sen. John McCain’s military service during the Vietnam War.
Now six years later, Trump returned the favor and endorsed Levy days before Connecticut’s GOP Senate primary last month. Before she won the official seal of approval, Levy — a political fundraiser and Republican National Committee committeewoman — had fashioned herself as the “America First” candidate. She was also nominated in 2019 by Trump to serve as U.S. ambassador to Chile, but the then-GOP controlled Senate never voted on her nomination.
But the prospect of a future Trump rally in the state is uncertain. When asked if she would like Trump to campaign in Connecticut before the Nov. 8 race, Levy said he “runs his own schedule.”
“That’s up to him,” she said. “I’m running my race.”
That might be music to some Connecticut Republicans’ ears, as leaders in the party still grapple with Trump’s tight grip on the party after voters rejected the convention-endorsed candidate and social moderate Themis Klarides. They dismissed questions about the influence he still holds over Republicans, while other candidates keep him at arm’s length.
While Levy scored a resounding victory with the help of Trump, the primary featured low turnout particularly because unaffiliated voters — the largest bloc in the state — are shut out of party primaries in Connecticut. November will be the first time those voters weigh in on the midterms, and they have historically gravitated away from the former president in past elections.
Trump’s connection to the state could also complicate other top races, including the rematch between Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski. The GOP nominee does not talk about Trump and hasn’t campaigned with Levy, though he donated to her campaign as well as to her former primary rival Peter Lumaj. Levy said she “look[s] forward” to campaigning with Stefanowski, but did not specify any exact plans.
An uphill fight in November
But a much bigger challenge lies ahead for Levy in trying to unseat Blumenthal, who has been a fixture in Connecticut politics for decades.
Connecticut has gone deep blue at the national level for years. The state’s congressional delegation is made up of all Democrats, and Republicans have not won a Senate seat since 1982, when Lowell Weicker won reelection.
Biden won the state by 20 percentage points over Trump in 2020. And Blumenthal, who has served in elected office since 1984, easily won his past two Senate races, even after his first opponent spent tens of millions of dollars of her own money against him.
Some recent polling found Blumenthal’s approval rating under 50%, though he still held a wide lead over all Republicans who were running for the nomination at the time, including Levy.
While Trump’s influence still looms large over the GOP, Levy is trying to focus on her own campaign and what she argues are damaging policies coming from a federal government fully controlled by Democrats in the White House and in Congress. She has criticized Blumenthal as a “career politician” who has helped his party pass trillions of dollars in spending, which she claims has contributed to inflation.
Campaigning in a friendly political terrain, Levy was warmly received by attendees at the Terryville fair, and many were enthusiastic about her campaign against Blumenthal, who goes to the fair annually and stopped by again on the last day.
Terryville, one of the many villages in the town of Plymouth, has held its fair for more than 70 years and is a hot spot for political candidates trying to get face time with voters especially in an election year. The area is a very red part of the state that Trump overwhelmingly carried two years ago. In August, Levy won Plymouth, a mostly white town with over 12,000 residents, with a little more than 58% of the vote.
Levy ticked through some of her main priorities, which include establishing federal protections for police officers and addressing rising prices and crime rates. But she had some of her longest interactions when talking about more personal things. She did not order any fair food staples, but she purchased a few items, including dog car magnets because of her work with animal shelters.
Not every attendee was completely sold, though. One woman working as a cashier in the kitchen said she had an opposite view when it comes to “medical freedom” for COVID-19 prevention, since she knows someone who is immunocompromised.
One Republican voter who missed the Aug. 9 primary said he would have voted for Levy regardless of Trump’s endorsement. Larry Walters of Woodbridge, 66, was one of the vendors promoting his small business, SteadyStraps, which sells adjustable straps to more easily hold phones. He said he gravitates toward “more conservative, common sense candidates” and wants to see lower taxes.
“President Trump has become such a divisive issue,” Walters said. “I recognize he’s got a number of issues that I think upset a number of people more from a personal standpoint. From a performance standpoint, I think a lot of people feel very strongly that he’s accomplished a lot for the country.”
But Democrats are enthusiastically seeking to make the connection between Trump and Republicans running for office across the state. The Connecticut Democratic Party is seeking to tie Trump to both Levy and Stefanowski, who have had different strategies when it comes to the former president.
For Blumenthal’s part, he has sought to paint Levy as “way out of the mainstream.” He specifically pointed to her positions on abortion rights and gun reform. Levy opposes abortion except in cases of rape and incest or when the life of a pregnant person is endangered. And when it comes to guns, she raised concerns over a measure that would temporarily take away firearms from people who are a danger to themselves or others, wanting to see stronger due process provisions for gun owners.
“She wants government to make women’s health care decisions. I trust women to make their own decisions, and I’ve fought for decades for reproductive rights. She opposes commonsense measures to combat gun violence. I have fought for commonsense gun violence prevention measures at the state and federal level,” Blumenthal said in a statement.
“She considers Jan. 6 to be ‘legitimate political discourse,’ and she is Donald Trump’s hand-picked choice,” he added, referring to her vote this year for an RNC resolution about the violence that unfolded after rioters breached the U.S. Capitol. “I am working to be Connecticut’s choice.”
‘Interference of the government’ in schools
Republicans are largely trying to focus on economic issues, immigration and crime rates, even as the party veers into divisive social issues and Trump-pushed theories on voter fraud that are unfounded.
For the GOP candidates running on the top of the ticket in Connecticut, they’re increasingly wading into the debate over transgender rights and how schools should teach students about race, sexual orientation and gender identity. Stefanowski released a broad “parental bill of rights” and called for banning transgender athletes from women’s sports, though he argued that he’s not trying to impose anything “radical” on how to discuss those subjects.
In the Senate race, Levy flagged “the interference of the government between parents and their children” as a top concern. She has previously claimed schools are “indoctrinating” students by teaching critical race theory, a flashpoint that has grown among Republicans nationally despite most schools not offering such curriculum.
Those types of issues recently spilled out into the open and caused a political frenzy in Connecticut when Project Veritas, a conservative group that seeks to expose liberals and has been accused of deceptively editing videos, released hidden-camera footage alleging that educators in Greenwich are biased towards conservatives and Catholics.
Lawmakers and candidates in both parties — even those who have raised concerns about Project Veritas’ practices — swiftly condemned the video showing the assistant principal at Cos Cob School bragging to a woman about how he screened against conservative teaching applicants by using Catholicism and age as a determinant.
“This country was built on religious tolerance. Religious discrimination is inexcusable and illegal. Of course I support a full investigation,” Blumenthal said.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced he is opening a civil rights investigation into the allegations, saying that “discrimination, hate, bigotry against any person, and against any religion or on the basis of age, is reprehensible.”
At her press conference in front of Cos Cob School last week, Levy wove details from her bio as a Jewish immigrant from Communist Cuba, who grew up in the segregated American South, into a warning of how she sees more progressive politics undermining contemporary public education.
“What they are doing in trying to divide Americans, divide our children, teaching things like critical race theory and inappropriate sexual curriculums, it is to put the government between the kids and their parents. It’s exactly what Castro did,” Levy said.
“They can’t succeed without the government,” she added. “We cannot allow that, and that’s why I’m here.”
Connecticut Mirror Staff writer Mark Pazniokas contributed to this report.
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CINCINNATI — Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt suffered a pectoral injury in the fourth quarter of the team’s game Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals.
He tied the NFL single-season sacks record with 22 1/2 last season despite missing two games.
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On July 9, 2021, California’s Death Valley reached 130 degrees Fahrenheit, according to an automated measuring system there, representing one of the highest temperatures ever recorded on the planet. The world record, also recorded at Death Valley, was 134 degrees in July 1913.
More than 210 degrees Fahrenheit separates the highest and the lowest temperatures on record in the United States, the third-largest country in the world. As some states are infamous for having blistering hot summers, others become inundated by winter storms and frigid cold. The contiguous U.S. had its warmest meteorological summer (June-August) on record in 2021, according to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.
Stacker consulted 2021 data from the NOAA’s State Climate Extremes Committee (SCEC) to illustrate the hottest and coldest temperatures ever recorded in each state. Each slide also reveals the all-time highest 24-hour precipitation record and all-time highest 24-hour snowfall.
Keep reading to find out individual state records in alphabetical order.
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Alabama
– All-time highest temperature: 112° F (Centreville on Sept. 6, 1925)
– All-time lowest temperature: -27° F (New Market 2 on Jan. 30, 1966)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 32.52 inches (Dauphin Island #2 on July 19–20, 1997)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 20 inches (Walnut Grove on March 13, 1993)
Walnut Grove became famous as a town burned during the Civil War. Despite being another subtropical town, on March 13, 1993, it was covered in 20 inches of snow. The extreme weather was termed the “Superstorm of 1993” by the National Weather Service because of its strength (equal to a Category 3 hurricane) and size. At one point, the storm system ran from Eastern Canada to Central America.
Alaska
– All-time highest temperature: 100° F (Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915)
– All-time lowest temperature: -80° F (Prospect Creek on Jan. 23, 1971)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 15.05 inches (Seward Airport on Oct. 10, 1986)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 78 inches (Mile 47 Camp on Feb. 9, 1963)
Prospect Creek recorded the coldest ever U.S. temperature of -80 degrees in 1971. On Oct. 10, 1986, Seward witnessed the highest rainfall as compared to any other parts of Alaska due to an unrelenting rainstorm. The highways and the railroads took a massive hit during the three-day rainstorm, and the region was declared as a “Federal disaster area.” In October 2018, the city of Seward was forced to announce an emergency declaration after facing the wrath of heavy flooding yet again. Nearly 5 inches of rain were recorded following several days of heavy rainfall that caused debris to block several roads.
Arizona
– All-time highest temperature: 128° F (Lake Havasu City on June 29, 1994)
– All-time lowest temperature: -40° F (Hawley Lake on Jan. 7, 1971)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 11.4 inches (Workman Creek 1 on Sept. 4–5, 1970)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 38 inches (Heber (Black Mesa) Ranger Station on Dec. 14, 1967)
Heber Black Mesa Ranger Station is a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Phoenix and is a ranger district on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. On Dec. 14, 1967, this part of Arizona suffered from an unexpected natural disaster in the form of a non-stop snowfall that lasted eight days and came to be known as The Blizzard of 1967.
Arkansas
– All-time highest temperature: 120° F (Ozark on Aug.10, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -29° F (Gravette on Feb.13, 1905)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 14.06 inches (Big Fork 1 SSE on Dec. 3, 1982)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 25 inches (Corning on Jan. 22, 1918)
“The Great Heat Wave of 1936” affected around 15 states during its three-week run that brought temperatures above 100 degrees. Still, Ozark topped the charts by reaching 120 degrees. Also known as the “1936 North American Heat Wave,” it exacerbated the levels of human suffering during the ongoing Great Depression. Little Rock in Arkansas had to endure its hottest summer in 2010 between June and August when the temperature went above 90 degrees for two months.
California
– All-time highest temperature: 134° F (Greenland Ranch on July 10, 1913)
– All-time lowest temperature: -45° F (Boca on Jan. 20, 1937)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 25.83 inches (Hoegees Fc 60 A on Jan. 22–23, 1943)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 67 inches (Echo Summit Sierra at Tahoe on Jan. 5, 1982)
Death Valley’s Greenland Ranch holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded at 134 in 1913. But On Jan. 20, 1937, Boca—a former reservoir located in Nevada County—recorded a mind-numbingly cold temperature of -45 degrees. In February 2019, news reports observed that June Mountain in the Sierra Nevada, located east of Yosemite National Park, reported 72 inches of snow in 24 hours.
Colorado
– All-time highest temperature: 115° F (John Martin Reservoir on July 20, 2019)
– All-time lowest temperature: -61° F (Maybell on Feb. 1, 1985)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 11.85 inches (USGS Rod & Gun (Ft. Carson) on Sept.12, 2013)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 75.8 inches (Silver Lake on April 14–15, 1921)
During the 2013 floods that took place across Colorado, the highest precipitation levels were recorded on Sept. 12, 2013, at Fort Carson, a United States Army installation located in El Paso County. In September 2019, smaller rainstorms affected Denver that resulted in flash floods and mudslides.
Connecticut
– All-time highest temperature: 106° F (Torrington on Aug. 23, 1916)
– All-time lowest temperature: -32° F (Falls Village on Feb. 16, 1943)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 12.77 inches (Burlington on Aug. 19, 1955)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 36 inches (Ansonia 1 NE on Feb. 8–9, 2013)
On Aug. 19, 1955, the Great Flood of 1955 occurred in Burlington. The last time Connecticut had witnessed such heavy rainfalls was during colonial times. Fast forward to 64 years later to October 2019 when strong winds and heavy rains left thousands of residents without electricity in Wilton, Connecticut. Following that, coastal flooding warnings were also issued to New Haven and Fairfield counties.
Delaware
– All-time highest temperature: 110° F (Millsboro on July 21, 1930)
– All-time lowest temperature: -17° F (Millsboro on Jan. 17, 1893)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 8.5 inches (Dover on July 13, 1975)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 25 inches (Dover on Feb. 19, 1979)
Millsboro is one of the two cities in the United States that holds the record for both the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in a state. Also of interest was a major east coast cyclone in 1979 that brought record-breaking snowfall to the Mid-Atlantic states. Because of this, Dover received the most snowfall in the history of Delaware’s climate. In comparison to the 25 inches of snow recorded in Dover in February 1979, there were only 4–6 inches of snowfall in January 2019.
Florida
– All-time highest temperature: 109° F (Monticello 5 SE on June 29, 1931)
– All-time lowest temperature: -2° F (Tallahassee on Feb.13, 1899)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 23.28 inches (Key West International Airport on Nov.11–12, 1980)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 4 inches (Milton Experiment Station on March 6, 1954)
1980’s Hurricane Jeanne indirectly struck Florida’s Key West with heavy rainfall after it first formed in the Gulf of Mexico. But it did result in the heaviest rainfall Florida had ever witnessed within one day. Florida was struck in 2004 by four back-to-back major hurricanes within six weeks.
An estimated depth of rainfall calculated following Hurricane Easy Sept. 5, 1950, revealed 38.7 inches fell in Yankeetown, Florida. The value is thought to be accurate, but being an estimate isn’t counted as an official observation.
Georgia
– All-time highest temperature: 112° F (Greenville on Aug. 20, 1983)
– All-time lowest temperature: -17° F (CCC Fire Camp F-16 (near Beatum) on Jan. 27, 1940)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 21.1 inches (Americus on July 6, 1994)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 19.3 inches (Cedartown on March 3, 1942)
The flood of 1994 in Americus included surging floodwaters that entered Americus rapidly and were described as “fierce” by local news outlets. More than 100 small dams in nearby areas had reached their capacity and started washing out directly on the roads. The deluge also damaged the railroad service that took several months to recover even after the floodwaters receded.
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Hawaii
– All-time highest temperature: 100° F (Pahala 21 on April 27, 1931)
– All-time lowest temperature: 12° F (Mauna Kea Observatory 111. on May 17, 1979)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 38 inches (Kilauea 1134 on Jan. 24–25, 1956)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 6.5 inches (Haleakala on Feb. 2, 1936)
Hawaii’s highest-ever rainfall came in late January of 1956 in Kilauea, Kauai. In April 2018, heavy rainfalls devastated the island of Kauai once again as dozens of homes were left in shambles in the island’s towns, including Hanalei, Wainiha, Haena, and Anahola. The floods affected 532 houses in Kauai and Oahu, according to the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
Idaho
– All-time highest temperature: 118° F (Orofino on July 28, 1934)
– All-time lowest temperature: -60° F (Island Park on Jan.18, 1943)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 7.17 inches (Rattlesnake Creek on Nov. 23, 1909)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 31 inches (Anderson Dam on Dec.18, 1967)
Rattlesnake Creek in Elmore County was recorded on Nov. 23, 1909, to have received the most rainfall of 7.17 inches in one day. In April 2019, several residents in the nearby community of Stites woke up to the sight of their homes and neighborhoods covered in more than a foot of water that had accumulated within an hour early in the morning.
Illinois
– All-time highest temperature: 117° F (East St. Louis on July 14, 1954)
– All-time lowest temperature: -38° F (Mount Carroll on Jan. 31, 2019)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 16.91 inches (Aurora on July 18, 1996)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 36 inches (Astoria on Feb. 28, 1900)
East St. Louis recorded the state’s most sweltering temperature on July 14, 1954. While the residents of East St. Louis first woke up to stifling 100-degree heat; by late afternoon, the temperature soared to 117 degrees. Residents in St. Louis recalled July 14, 1954, as the day “they were just cooked.”
Indiana
– All-time highest temperature: 116° F (Collegeville St Joseph County Airport on July 14, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -36° F (New Whiteland on Jan. 19, 1994)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 10.5 inches (Princeton 1 W on Aug. 6, 1905)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 33 inches (Salem on Dec. 23, 2004)
On Aug. 6, 1905, Princeton, a city in Indiana’s Gibson County, recorded the highest one-day-long rainfall event in the state at 10.5 inches. More recently, in June 2019, severe storms in central and southern Indiana caused floods that left thousands of households powerless. Several roads also had to be closed after there were reports of cars being stuck in the floods.
Iowa
– All-time highest temperature: 118° F (Keokuk No 2 on July 20, 1934)
– All-time lowest temperature: -47° F (Elkader 6 SSW on Feb. 3, 1996)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 13.18 inches (Atlantic 1 NE on June 14, 1998)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 24 inches (Lenox on April 20, 1918)
The Nishnabotna River that runs along Atlantic in Iowa’s Cass County experienced intense flooding on June 14, 1998, after heavy rainfall and a severe thunderstorm. Many bridges were either damaged or completely destroyed, and all highways and roads had to be closed once the flooding started intensifying. More recently, in October 2020, western Iowa suffered from repeated flooding that forced the closure of Interstate 29 and Interstate 680.
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Kansas
– All-time highest temperature: 121° F (Fredonia on July 18, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -40° F (Lebanon on Feb. 13, 1905)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: Data not available
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 30 inches (Pratt 3NW on March 28, 2009)
Pratt, a city with a population of 6,835 people, had recorded the state’s heaviest snowfall on March 28, 2009. A spring snowstorm had resulted in a whopping 30 inches of snow falling within one day in Pratt.
Kentucky
– All-time highest temperature: 114° F (Greensburg on July 28, 1930)
– All-time lowest temperature: -37° F (Shelbyville 1 E on Jan. 19, 1994)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 10.48 inches (Louisville WFO on March 1, 1997)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 26 inches (Simers on March 3, 1942)
The flood of 1997 in Louisville resulted in 10.48 inches of rainfall within one day on March 1, 1997. The deluge intensified when smaller streams started overflowing rapidly, which in turn caused the worst flooding along the Ohio River. As if the large amounts of flooding wasn’t bad enough, tornadoes were also reported from Arkansas to southern Kentucky.
Louisiana
– All-time highest temperature: 114° F (Plain Dealing on Aug. 10, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -16° F (Minden on Feb. 13, 1899)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 22 inches (Hackberry 8 SSW on Aug. 28–29, 1962)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 13 inches (Colfax on Feb. 13, 1960)
Hackberry, a community in Cameron Parish, witnessed the state’s heaviest rainfall between Aug. 28 and 29 in 1962. A tropical depression that had first formed in the western Gulf of Mexico eventually struck the Texas and Louisiana border two days later before finally subsiding on Aug. 30, 1962. In August 2016, the state of Louisiana suffered from devastating flooding. More than 100,000 houses were destroyed, and over 10,000 people had to move to shelters.
Maine
– All-time highest temperature: 105° F (North Bridgton on July 10, 1911)
– All-time lowest temperature: -50° F (Big Black River (near Saint Pamphile, Pq) on Jan. 16, 2009)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 13.32 inches (Portland Jetport on Oct. 20–21, 1996)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 40 inches (Orono on Dec. 30, 1962)
The flood of Southern Maine in 1996 resulted in the state’s highest rainfall or precipitation levels on Oct. 20–21, 1996, that was recorded at the Portland Jetport. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the severe flooding resulted in one death and damaged more than 2,100 homes and businesses. Most recently, on April 21, 2019, huge amounts of snow that had accumulated across Maine resulted in several minor and major floods.
Maryland
– All-time highest temperature: 109° F (Cumberland on Aug. 6, 1918)
– All-time lowest temperature: -40° F (Oakland 1 SE on Jan.13, 1912)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 14.75 inches (Jewell on July 26–27, 1897)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 31 inches (Clear Spring 1 ENE on March 29, 1942)
The greatest record 24-hour total rainfall in Maryland was in Jewell on July 26–27, 1897. In mid-October, Maryland experienced coastal flooding because of Tropical Storm Melissa that kept increasing water levels at the Chesapeake Bay as floods were 2.5 feet higher than usual.
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Massachusetts
– All-time highest temperature: 107° F (Chester 2 on Aug. 2, 1975)
– All-time lowest temperature: -35° F (Coldbrook on Feb.15, 1943)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 18.15 inches (Westfield on Aug. 18–19, 1955)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 29 inches (Natick on April 1, 1997)
Westfield, Massachusetts, suffered from heavy flooding and rainfall in the middle of August 1955, making it the wettest day for the state. The Great Flood of 1955 affected both Connecticut and Massachusetts, resulting from Hurricanes Connie and then a week later, Hurricane Diane.
Michigan
– All-time highest temperature: 112° F (Stanwood on July 13, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -51° F (Vanderbilt 11ENE on Feb. 9, 1934)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 12.92 inches (6E Fountain on July 20, 2019)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 32 inches (Herman on Dec. 2, 1985)
In the years of 2013 and 2014, Michigan faced heavy flooding after the Grand Rapids River overflowed. In 2019 after almost two weeks of heavy rainfall, most homes in the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood were underwater.
Minnesota
– All-time highest temperature: 115° F (Beardsley on July 29, 1917)
– All-time lowest temperature: -60° F (Tower 2S on Feb. 2, 1996)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 15.1 inches (Hokah Wastewater Treatment Plant on Aug. 19, 2007)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 36 inches (Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center on Jan.7, 1994)
Hokah, a city in Houston County, had the state’s heaviest one-day rainfall on Aug. 19, 2007. The flood of 2007 claimed the lives of six people and resulted in nearby counties also going several feet underwater.
Mississippi
– All-time highest temperature: 115° F (Holly Springs 2 N on July 29, 1930)
– All-time lowest temperature: -19° F (Corinth 7 SW on Jan. 30, 1966)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 15.68 inches (Columbus 4 ESE on July 9, 1968)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 18 inches (Tunica 2 N on Dec. 23, 1963)
The “New Year’s Snowstorm” swept through the Southern United States, killing three people and setting historic snowfall records in Tunica, Mississippi. A few days later, Alabama and Tennessee witnessed extremely heavy snowfall from Dec. 31, 1963, to Jan. 1, 1964.
Missouri
– All-time highest temperature: 118° F (Warsaw 1 on July 14, 1954)
– All-time lowest temperature: -40° F (Warsaw 1 on Feb. 13, 1905)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 18.18 inches (Edgerton on July 20, 1965)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 24 inches (Jackson on Feb. 25, 1979)
Warsaw is one of two cities in the United States that holds the record for both the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in a state (the other is Millsboro, Delaware). During the 1965 flood in Edgerton, four people died and 729 residences were damaged or completely destroyed. Approximately 433,000 acres of agricultural land flooded during the deluge. The total damages the floods inflicted on properties cost Missouri $24,292,900.
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Montana
– All-time highest temperature: 117° F (Glendive on July 20, 1893)
– All-time lowest temperature: -70° F (Rogers Pass on Jan.20, 1954)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 11.5 inches (Springbrook on June 20, 1921)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 48 inches (Millegan 14 SE on Dec. 27, 2003)
Montana’s lowest temperature was recorded in 1954 at -70 degrees. But in early February 2019 and into the first week of March, Montana set a brand-new bone-chilling record for consecutive below-freezing days when Great Falls concluded its 32-day streak on March 8, 2019.
Nebraska
– All-time highest temperature: 118° F (Geneva on July 15, 1934)
– All-time lowest temperature: -47° F (Oshkosh on Dec. 22, 1989)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 13.15 inches (York on July 8–9, 1950)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 27 inches (Dalton on Dec.21, 2006)
Before the unforgiving heat wave hit Geneva, Nebraska, in July 1934, the state was already struggling due to a severe drought that had worsened living conditions for farmers and other residents. During “The Heat Wave of 1934,” people slept outdoors to escape from the terrible heat in their own houses.
Nevada
– All-time highest temperature: 125° F (Laughlin on June 29, 1994)
– All-time lowest temperature: -50° F (San Jacinto on Jan. 8, 1937)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 7.78 inches (Mt. Charleston Fire Station on Oct. 20, 2004)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 36 inches (Daggett Pass on Dec. 21, 1996)
Nevada is no stranger to extreme heat. While the hottest day in Nevada was recorded in Laughlin in 1994, in late August 2019, an excessive heat warning was issued to the residents of Las Vegas as the temperature slid up to 110 degrees. Studies show residents will likely be at an increased risk from exposure to extreme heat due to climate change.
New Hampshire
– All-time highest temperature: 106° F (Nashua 2 Nnw on July 4, 1911)
– All-time lowest temperature: -50° F (Mount Washington on Jan. 22, 1885)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 11.07 inches (Mount Washington on Oct.20–21, 1996)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 49.3 inches (Mount Washington on Feb. 25, 1969)
New Hampshire’s “100-Hour Snowstorm of February 1969” produced record snowfall for New Hampshire. Even the neighboring states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont were affected by the massive snowstorm.
New Jersey
– All-time highest temperature: 110° F (Runyon on July 10, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -34° F (River Vale on Jan. 5, 1904)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 14.81 inches (Tuckerton 2 Ne on Aug. 19–20, 1939)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 32 inches (Rutherford on Dec. 14, 1915)
According to New Jersey State climatologist David Robinson, several factors contributed to River Vale recording the state’s coldest day. Two of the biggest reasons were River Vale’s unique location and barren landscape. To top that off, River Vale had some heavy snowfall on the same day that made the location excessively cold in January 1904.
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New Mexico
– All-time highest temperature: 122° F (Waste Isolt’n Pilot Plt on June 27, 1994)
– All-time lowest temperature: -50° F (Gavilan on Feb. 1, 1951)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 11.28 inches (Lake Maloya on May 18–19, 1955)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 41 inches (Kelly Ranch on Feb. 3, 1964)
While New Mexico is known for its dry, desert environment, it averages fairly low temperatures during the peak of winter. But on Feb. 1, 1951, Gavilan in north Albuquerque experienced an Alaska-like winter at -50 degrees.
New York
– All-time highest temperature: 108° F (Troy on July 22, 1926)
– All-time lowest temperature: -52° F (Old Forge on Feb. 18, 1979)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 13.57 inches (Islip-Long Island MacArthur Airport on Aug. 12–13, 2014)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 49 inches (Watertown on Nov. 14–15, 1900)
The historic Islip, Long Island, flash flooding on Aug. 12–13, 2014, took place after a torrential downpour. Several expressways, streets, and houses were completely water-logged. Countless crews had to work around the clock to pump out all the water.
North Carolina
– All-time highest temperature: 110° F (Fayetteville Regional Airport Grannis Field on Aug. 21, 1983)
– All-time lowest temperature: -34° F (Mt. Mitchell on Jan. 21, 1985)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 22.22 inches (Altapass on July 15–16, 1916)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 36 inches (Mt. Mitchell on March 13, 1993)
After heavy rainfall lashed North Carolina, the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers started overflowing, resulting in the “Great Flood of 1916.” The exact number of people who died during this deluge is still unknown, but it’s estimated that at least a few dozen people lost their lives. Houses, warehouses, and industrial plants along the French Broad were almost underwater.
North Dakota
– All-time highest temperature: 121° F (Steele 4N on July 6, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -60° F (Parshall on Feb. 15, 1936)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 8.1 inches (Litchville 2NW on June 29, 1975)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 27 inches (Minot International Airport on April 27, 1984)
Parshall became intolerably frigid in February 1936 at -60 degrees Fahrenheit. Interestingly, this recording was made by an unnamed coal-miner, who had volunteered to be a weather observer, with the help of a special (mercury-thallium alloy) thermometer.
Ohio
– All-time highest temperature: 113° F (Gallipolis on July 21, 1934)
– All-time lowest temperature: -39° F (Milligan on Feb. 10, 1899)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 10.75 inches (Lockington Dam (near Sidney, Shelby Co.) on Aug.7-8, 1995)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 30 inches (Warren 3 S on April 20, 1901)
During the statewide 1934 heat wave, residents of Gallipolis, a village in Ohio, bore the brunt of the highest temperature ever recorded in the state. Residents left their furnace-like houses in the hopes of finding a shady spot to cool off, while many slept on their rooftops, porches, or lawns. The oppressive heat made the death toll climb to 160 from July 20–26. An extreme heat wave during July 2019 made the mercury levels increase to 112 degrees in northern Ohio.
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Oklahoma
– All-time highest temperature: 120° F (Poteau on Aug. 10, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -31° F (Nowata on Feb. 10, 2011)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 15.68 inches (Enid on Oct. 11, 1973)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 27 inches (Spavinaw on Feb. 9–10, 2011)
The deadly 1973 flood in Oklahoma had started with relentless rainfall and ended only after killing nine people. According to The Oklahoman, in a desperate attempt to flee from the surging water levels, residents had cut holes through their walls to climb up on rooftops. Several others tried to take shelter in their attics as their houses started filling up with water.
Oregon
– All-time highest temperature: 119° F (Moody Farms Agrimet on Jun. 29, 2021 and Pelton Dam on Aug. 10, 1898)
– All-time lowest temperature: -54° F (Seneca on Feb. 10, 1933)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 11.77 inches (Nehalem 9 NE on Nov. 6, 2006)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 47 inches (Hood River Experiment Station on Jan. 9, 1980)
On June 29, 2021, Moody Farms Agirmet tied Pelton Dam for the hottest summer day ever recorded in Oregon. Pelton Dam set the record first in 1898.
Pennsylvania
– All-time highest temperature: 111° F (Phoenixville 1 E on July 10, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -42° F (Smethport on Jan. 5, 1904)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 13.5 inches (York 3 SSW Pump Station on June 22, 1972)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 38 inches (Morgantown on March 20, 1958)
Tropical storm Agnes unleashed its fury on Pennsylvania in 1972 by claiming the lives of 48 people in the state and causing damages worth an astounding $2 billion. According to The Evening News, Susquehanna River, which has a normal volume of 23 billion gallons a day, began overflowing rapidly into Harrisburg as its volume increased to 650 billion gallons two days after the state experienced its most torrential downpour.
Rhode Island
– All-time highest temperature: 104° F (Providence on Aug. 2, 1975)
– All-time lowest temperature: -28° F (Wood River Junction on Jan. 11, 1942)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 12.13 inches (Westerly 1 W on Sept. 16–17, 1932)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 30 inches (Woonsocket on Feb. 7, 1978)
The blizzard of 1978 in Rhode Island turned a seemingly normal Monday into a historical record of the highest snowfall the state had ever experienced. The snowfall began at 10 a.m. Monday and didn’t stop for 36 hours. It was believed that around 55 inches of snow accumulated in different parts of the state.
South Carolina
– All-time highest temperature: 113° F (Columbia Univ. of S.C. on June 29, 2012)
– All-time lowest temperature: -19° F (Caesars Head on Jan. 21, 1985)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 14.8 inches (Myrtle Beach on Sept. 16, 1999)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 24 inches (Rimini 2 SSW on Feb.9–10, 1973)
The summer 2012 heat wave was responsible for at least 82 deaths across the U.S. It was reported that South Carolina was exposed to the worst portions of this heat wave on June 29. The city continued to record the same temperature for 11 days straight at 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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South Dakota
– All-time highest temperature: 120° F (Fort Pierre 17 WSW on July 15, 2006)
– All-time lowest temperature: -58° F (McIntosh 6 SE on Feb.17, 1936)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 8.74 inches (Groton on May 6, 2007)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 52 inches (Lead on March 14, 1973)
Record heat in 2006 resulted in the state’s highest temperature in Fort Pierre, a city in Stanley County. The heat wave during July 2006 was so intense in South Dakota, Kansas, and Nebraska that it ended up disrupting transportation links and straining electric power grids.
Tennessee
– All-time highest temperature: 113° F (Perryville on Aug. 9, 1930)
– All-time lowest temperature: -32° F (Mountain City on Dec. 30, 1917)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 20.7 inches (McEwen on Aug. 21, 2021)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 30 inches (Mt. Leconte on March 14, 1993)
Intense rainfall during a storm on August 21, 2021, devastated the region between Waverly and McEwen, Tennessee about 60 miles west of Nashville. The resulting flash flooding killed more than 20 people.
Texas
– All-time highest temperature: 120° F (Seymour 3NW on Aug.12, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -23° F (Tulia Near on Feb.12, 1899)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 42 inches (Alvin on July 25–26, 1979)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 26 inches (Hillsboro on Dec. 20–21, 1929)
The sweltering heat wave of 1936 claimed the lives of 5,000 people across the U.S. but didn’t receive widespread coverage by leading newspapers at the time. During the 2019 heat wave in the state, Galveston’s temperature stayed at 100 degrees for 40 hours. The heat felt even more stifling due to high humidity levels.
Utah
– All-time highest temperature: 117° F (St. George on July 5, 1985)
– All-time lowest temperature: -50° F (East Portal on Jan. 5, 1913)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 5.08 inches (Deer Creek Dam on Feb. 1, 1963)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 38 inches (Alta on Dec. 2, 1982)
Utah is famous for its ski resorts and ample amount of snowfall during winters, but summers can get unbearably hot. St. George’s arid weather makes it far warmer than other parts of Utah, thanks to the fact that it is located in the Mojave Desert, which explains why it holds the record at 117 degrees. During the summer of 2019, Salt Lake City and other parts of the state experienced stifling heat after a high of 103 degrees was recorded in July.
Vermont
– All-time highest temperature: 107° F (Vernon on July 7, 1912)
– All-time lowest temperature: -50° F (Bloomfield on Dec. 30, 1933)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 9.92 inches (Mount Mansfield on Sept.17, 1999)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 42 inches (Jay Peak on Feb.5, 1995)
Bloomfield, a town with a tiny population of 221 people (as of the 2010 census), recorded the state’s most unbearably cold temperature in 1933. Normally, the average temperature during winter in the state ranges between 2 degrees to 12 degrees.
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Virginia
– All-time highest temperature: 110° F (Balcony Falls on July 15, 1954)
– All-time lowest temperature: -30° F (Mount Lake Biological Station on Jan. 21, 1985)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 14.28 inches (Williamsburg 2 N on Sept. 16, 1999)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 33.5 inches (Luray 5 E on March 3, 1994)
Hurricane Floyd caused four deaths in Virginia in 1999 and cost the state $150 million after severely damaging thousands of houses, businesses, and crops. Hundreds of residents had to be evacuated as the water levels increased to several feet. The hurricane affected Williamsburg, Richmond, and other parts of the state like Hanover County and Southampton County.
Washington
– All-time highest temperature: 120° F (Hanford on Jun. 29, 2021)
– All-time lowest temperature: -48° F (Winthrop 1 WSW on Dec. 30, 1968)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 14.26 inches (Mount Mitchell #2 on Nov. 23-24, 1986)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 65 inches (Crystal Mountain Ski Resort on Feb. 24, 1994)
Crystal Mountain, the biggest ski resort in Washington State, is located in the Cascade Range, only two hours away from Seattle. After breaking records for the highest snowfall within 24 hours in 1994, the resort was covered in more than 7 feet of snow within a week in February 2019. A full 31.5 inches of snow fell In a single day.
West Virginia
– All-time highest temperature: 112° F (Moorefield 1 SSE on Aug.4, 1930)
– All-time lowest temperature: -37° F (Lewisburg 3 N on Dec.30, 1917)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 12.02 inches (Brushy Run on June 18, 1949)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 35 inches (Flat Top on Jan.27–28, 1998)
A massive blizzard struck West Virginia Jan. 20, 1978—it shut down the government for an entire day and paralyzed Kanawha Valley. However, the snowfall recorded back then still doesn’t compare to the all-time highest record of 35 inches in Flat Top in 1998.
Wisconsin
– All-time highest temperature: 114° F (Wisconsin Dells on July 13, 1936)
– All-time lowest temperature: -55° F (Couderay 7 W on Feb. 4, 1996)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 11.72 inches (Mellen 4 NE on June 24, 1946)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 26 inches (Neillsville 3ESE on Dec. 26–27, 1904)
From Feb. 1 to Feb. 4, 1996, Arctic temperatures swept across the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Wisconsin experienced its coldest and most hostile weather in Couderay Feb. 4. Situated in Sawyer County, the small and nondescript village was the victim of a frigid air mass that settled into the region and resulted in the record low temperature in Wisconsin.
Wyoming
– All-time highest temperature: 115° F (Basin on Aug. 8, 1983)
– All-time lowest temperature: -66° F (Riverside Ranger Station, Yellowstone National Park) on Feb. 9, 1933)
– All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 6.06 inches (Cheyenne WSFO Airport on Aug. 1, 1985)
– All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 49 inches (Hunters Station on March 21, 1924)
Yellowstone National Park stands out with its unparalleled natural beauty that features geysers, hot springs, lush forests, and picturesque canyons. In the winter of 1933, around a mile away from the park’s west entrances, the temperature recorded was -66 degrees.
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Former MLB pitcher-turned-police officer Anthony Varvaro dies in car crash
(AP) – Anthony Varvaro, a former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired in 2016 to become a police officer in the New York City area, was killed in a car accident Sunday morning on his way to work at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in Manhattan, according to police officials and his former teams.
Varvaro, 37, was an officer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He played baseball at St. John’s University in New York City before a six-year career in the majors as a relief pitcher with the Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox.
“We are deeply saddened on the passing of former Braves pitcher Anthony Varvaro,” the Braves said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and colleagues.”
St. John’s head baseball coach Mike Hampton said he was “at a loss for words” over Varvaro’s death.
“Not only was he everything you could want out of a ball player, he was everything you could want in a person,” said Hampton, who was an assistant coach at St. John’s during all three of Varvaro’s seasons there. “My heart goes out to his family, friends, teammates and fellow officers.”
Port Authority officials issued a statement to the media.
“On this solemn occasion as the Port Authority mourns the loss of 84 employees in the attacks on the World Trade Center — including 37 members of the Port Authority Police Department — our grief only deepens today with the passing of Officer Varvaro,” the statement said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ons Jabeur dropped her racket in disgust after one poor shot in the U.S. Open final. Minutes later, she was on the court right along with it after lunging to hit a volley that flew out of bounds.
Jabeur picked herself up and kept on fighting Saturday, and that’s exactly what she intends to do after a second straight Grand Slam tournament ended in disappointment.
“Definitely I’m not someone that’s going to give up,” Jabeur said. “I am sure I’m going to be in the final again. I will try my best to win it. I’m not sure, but I know I will do my best.”
Her best wasn’t good enough against top-ranked Iga Swiatek, who won 6-2, 7-6 (5) for her second major title this year and third overall.
Jabeur is still trying for her first, having come up short at Wimbledon in her initial attempt. The No. 5 seed had mostly rolled through the U.S. Open, dropping just one set before running into the best player in the sport.
“It was a closer match than it looks, said Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, a four-time Grand Slam singles champion, including at the 1994 U.S. Open, who has been sitting in Jabeur’s guest box and offering advice during the tournament.
“Now she needs to take the positives. If she keeps going and does the right things, the next one will come.”
Jabeur said she felt even more nervous before this final than her first, where she fell to Elena Rybakina in three sets at the All England Club in July. After becoming the first woman since Serena Williams to reach the Wimbledon and U.S. Open finals in the same year since 2019, she worked on trying to keep herself calm, so couldn’t question her preparation. She wasn’t even particularly disappointed with her execution.
“To be honest with you, I have nothing to regret because I did everything possible,” Jabeur said.
The Tunisian will move to No. 2 in the WTA rankings next week. But she really wants that Grand Slam trophy, which would be the first by an African and Arab woman in the professional era, which dates to 1968.
Doing so, she said, would “really show that it’s not impossible for someone coming from my country, from my continent, to have that title.”
She will hope to start better in her next chance, having spotted Swiatek 3-0 leads in both sets Saturday. Jabeur said during the trophy presentation that she didn’t like the native of Poland, though she showed there were no hard feelings later during her upbeat news conference.
“I was joking when I said I don’t like her,” Jabeur said. “I’ll forgive her when she gives me a Rolex or something.”
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AP Tennis Writer Howard Fendrich contributed to this report.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who had started laying the groundwork for an Australian republic after elections in May, said Sunday that now was the time not for a change but for paying tribute to the life of Queen Elizabeth II.
Many regarded Australians’ respect and affection for the late monarch as the biggest obstacle to the country becoming a republic with its own head of state.
Albanese, who describes himself as the first candidate with a “non-Anglo Celtic name” to run for prime minister in the 121 years that the office has existed, had created a new position of Assistant Minister for the Republic and appointed Matt Thistlethwaite to the role in June. Thistlethwaite had said there would be no change in the queen’s lifetime.
“Now is not a time to talk about our system of government,” Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Sunday. “Now is the time for us to pay tribute to the life of Queen Elizabeth, a life well lived, a life of dedication and loyalty including to the Australian people and for us to honor and grieve.”
Albanese has said previously that a republic referendum is not a priority of his first three-year term in government.
During her long reign, the queen connected to Australia in ways that no monarch before her had done.
In 1954, she became the only reigning British monarch to visit Australia. Such was her star power, an estimated 70% of Australia’s population turned out to see her during a punishing two-month itinerary that took her and her husband Prince Philip to 57 towns and cities spread across vast distances. She visited 16 times, the final time in 2011 when she was 85.
Her face is the only monarch to appear on Australian money since decimal currency was introduced in 1966, when Australian dollars and cents replaced British-style pounds, shillings and pence.
Her eldest son, King Charles III, was officially proclaimed Australia’s head of state Sunday by the monarch’s Australian representative, Governor-General David Hurley, at a protocol-heavy ceremony at Parliament House that ended with a 21-gun salute.
Albanese is already planning a referendum in the current term that would enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in Australia’s Constitution. While details have yet to be finalized, the voice would provide a mechanism that would allow Indigenous representatives to address Parliament about laws that effect their lives.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton, a monarchist, has similarly avoided questions about why Australia needs a king.
The Australian Republic Movement, an organization that campaigns for Australia to become a republic and is unaffiliated with any political party, was widely criticized over a political statement issued soon after news of the queen’s death.
The statement referred to the queen’s comments surrounding a 1999 referendum that voted to maintain the British monarch as Australia’s head of state.
“The queen backed the right of Australians to become a fully independent nation during the referendum … saying that she has ‘always made it clear that the future of the monarchy in Australia is an issue for the Australian people and them alone to decide, by democratic and constitutional means,’” the statement said.
That referendum largely failed because Australians were divided about what kind of president they wanted. The monarch is represented in Australia by a governor-general who in recent decades has always been an Australian citizen. The governor-general is appointed by the monarch on the prime minister’s advice.
The referendum recommended that the monarch and the monarch’s representative be replaced by a president chosen by at least two-thirds of lawmakers in Parliament. But many republicans wanted voters to elect the president as they do in the United States, so joined with monarchists in opposing the republic model then on offer.
The minor Greens party, which is influential in the Senate where no party holds a majority of seats, was also criticized for raising the republic within hours of the queen’s death.
“Now Australia must move forward. We need Treaty with First Nations people, and we need to become a Republic,” Greens leader Adam Bandt tweeted on Friday. Australia is rare among former British Empire countries in having no treaty with its Indigenous peoples.
Support for the republic movement surged in 1975, when Governor-General John Kerr used Queen Elizabeth II’s authority to dismiss Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam to end a constitutional crisis. There were suspicions that the British royal family had instructed Kerr to bring down a democratically elected Australian government.
Historian and Whitlam biographer Jenny Hocking fought a four-year legal battle to have correspondence between Kerr and Buckingham Palace released by the National Archive of Australia in 2020. Lower courts accepted that letters between the monarch and governor-general, two central figures in Australia’s Constitution, were personal and might never be made public.
But the High Court found in Hocking’s favor in a 6-1 majority ruling that allowed the letters to be released.
Kerr fired Whitlam to end a month-old Senate deadlock. Kerr appointed Opposition leader Malcolm Fraser caretaker prime minister on condition Fraser immediately called elections, which Labor lost.
While the queen was the monarch at the time, King Charles, then Prince Charles, had also influenced Kerr’s decision to fire Whitlam, Hocking said.
Charles had been discussing with Kerr the possibility of sacking Whitlam three months before Kerr became the only governor-general to bring down an Australian government.
“It’s clearly an influence on Kerr’s decision to dismiss the government — no doubt about that,” Hocking said. “It’s an appalling involvement. It doesn’t do anyone service to pretend that’s not the case. We need to acknowledge that.”
Albanese has said the 1975 crisis reinforced the need for an Australian head of state instead of a British monarch.
John Howard, a monarchist who was prime minister when Australians voted against severing their constitutional ties to their former colonial master, said those ties can survive the queen’s death.
“The strength of the monarchy in Australia was immeasurably increased by the personal popularity of the queen,” Howard said. “That’s not to say it won’t continue. It will continue in a different form.”
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Michel Martin is the weekend host of All Things Considered, where she draws on her deep reporting and interviewing experience to dig in to the week's news. Outside the studio, she has also hosted "Michel Martin: Going There," an ambitious live event series in collaboration with Member Stations.
Following the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with media critic Margaret Sullivan about threats to journalists and journalism.
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CHILTON COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — A single-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon in Chilton County claimed the life of a Calera woman.
According to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Teresa Forman, 40, was injured when her 4Runner left the roadway, overturned and hit a tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash occurred on Chilton County 42, around five miles east of Jemison.
Nothing else is available as ALEA’s Highway Patrol Division continue to investigate.
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BEIJING (AP) — Almost 500 students at China’s premier college for broadcast journalists have been sent to a quarantine center after a handful of COVID-19 cases were detected in their dormitory.
The 488 students at Communication University of China, along with 19 teachers and five assistants, were transferred by bus beginning Friday night.
Quarantining anyone considered to have been in contact with someone who tested positive for the virus has been a pillar of China’s “zero-COVID” policy. The quarantine centers include field hospitals, as well as converted stadiums and exhibition centers that have been criticized for overcrowding, poor sanitation and spoiled food.
As of last week, approximately 65 million Chinese residents were under lockdown, despite just 1,248 new cases of domestic transmission being reported on Sunday. Most of those were asymptomatic.
The lockdowns have sparked protests online and confrontations with health workers and police, and have exacted a major toll on the economy, affecting global supply chains for electronics and other products. The weekslong lockdown in China’s biggest city of Shanghai over the summer prompted an exodus of migrant workers and foreign business people, the repercussions of which have yet to be felt.
With the release of economic data this week, analysts will be looking for insights into how China’s handling of the pandemic is impacting economic activity in the world’s second-largest economy. Lockdowns have been accompanied by nearly daily testing, travel restrictions and the suspension of classes at all levels.
China has pursued the relentless enforcement of the policy, even as virtually every other country has sought to return to normal life with the help of vaccines and drugs to fight the virus.
“Zero-COVID” is closely associated with President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, leading to accusations that the government has politicized a public health crisis. His administration has rejected statements from the World Health Organization that the policy is unsustainable, and has refused to approve foreign vaccines that are widely considered more effective than those produced by Chinese companies.
Xi, who has not traveled abroad since the start of the pandemic in early 2020, has taken control of all levers of power and struck a confrontational tone in foreign policy, while sidelining or imprisoning rivals. He has eliminated term limits on the presidency and is expected to receive a third five-year term as Communist leader at next month’s party congress.
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TORONTO (AP) — Three years after premiering “Knives Out” at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rian Johnson returned to the scene of the crime to debut his much-anticipated whodunit sequel, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
When Johnson introduced the film to the eager Princess of Wales Theatre audience on Saturday night, he didn’t calmly stroll out on the stage with a polite wave to the crowd. He sprinted.
“Are you guys ready to have a good time?” yelled Johnson. “Are you ready for a fun whodunit?”
The roar of the crowd made it clear that, yes, they, too, could hardly wait. The “Knives Out” films almost perfectly bookend the last three pandemic years; the original “Knives Out” had premiered in the same theatre almost exactly three years prior, where Johnson’s modern spin on a retro genre more or less blew the roof off.
“It’s surreal,” said Johnson, the 48-year-old director of “The Last Jedi” and “Looper,” in an interview ahead of the premiere of “Glass Onion.” “It’s so strange thinking of the 30 years that have gone by in the three years since we played a movie at Toronto.”
If “Knives Out” bridged a long-ago movie world — a cocktail of eccentric murder suspects hounded by a colorful sleuth — with contemporary issues of class and ethnicity, “Glass Onion” had the task of collapsing pre-pandemic moviegoing with today’s still unfolding recovery. The film, set in early 2020, starts with characters in masks and Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc in lockdown — soaking in his bathtub, mostly — and hungry for a new case.
“Part of the real pleasure of it for me is having a whodunit that’s not a period piece but set in modern America and that fully engages with whatever’s on people’s minds at the time — hopefully in a way that’s still completely encased within an entertainment,” said Johnson. “I hope we pulled that off again.”
The boisterous audience response and glowing reviews out of Toronto suggested that Johnson, who also wrote the film, did just that. While the less said the better about the many-layered plot of “Glass Onion,” it revolves around tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton), who invites a small group of friends to his private island (much of the film was shot in Greece) for a murder mystery party. The cast includes a standout Janelle Monáe, Dave Bautista, Madelyn Cline, Kathryn Hahn, Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick and Leslie Odom Jr.
Johnson juggles themes of truth and stupidity with echoes of today’s American politics, and also takes a satirical approach to tech moguls. In the film, Bron considers his inner circle a gang of “disrupters.”
That will strike many viewers as either fitting or ironic considering that “Glass Onion,” unlike “Knives Out,” is a movie for Netflix, a self-styled Hollywood disrupter that over the past decade has radically altered the movie business. After “Knives Out” became one of 2019’s biggest hits, grossing $311 million worldwide against a $40 million budget, Netflix swooped in to pay $450 million for two sequels.
That’s put particular focus on the release of “Glass Onion,” a likely box-office success if it were released widely in theaters, at a time when the film industry is grappling with the equilibrium between streaming and theaters. While Netflix often gives its most prominent films several weeks in select theaters before streaming, the streamer and exhibitors discussed a wider release for “Glass Onion.” Currently, that’s not expected; Netflix will stream the film beginning Dec. 23 after a theatrical run beginning in November.
“This movie, above everything else, is designed to be a good time with a big crowd of folks in a theater,” said Johnson.
As far as the specific theatrical rollout, Johnson said it’s still being worked out. “To be decided,” he said.
“I want as many people to see the movie in theaters as possible,” said Johnson. “Having said that, I know a lot of people discovered ‘Knives Out’ with their families at home once it was streaming. But this movie is so designed to be seen with a crowd in a theater. It’s less like ‘Top Gun’ where it’s about the big experience of the screen and the sound, and it’s more about being surrounded by people who are going to be having as much fun as you.”
“My goal is to hopefully have it be so if you want to see it in a theater, you can,” added Johnson. “But we’re still TBA.”
Johnson, who emerged with the 2005 neo-noir “Brick,” with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, said he’s not so far removed from his independent roots that he isn’t happy with simply having the backing of a major distributor.
“As a form of self-defense, I have a serenity that if you make a good movie, you put it out there and people will find it,” said Johnson. “At the end of the day, you just have to reach a place of Zen because everything is changing so quickly.”
Johnson has again picked a movie title that relates not just to the storyline of his movie but that corresponds with a notable rock song. (Radiohead has their own “Knives Out.”)
“I honestly just searched through my music library for songs having to do with glass,” said Johnson, chuckling. “With apologies to Blonde, this was my favorite glass-centric song. The title has an oddness to it that reminds me of ’70s paperbacks or even some Agatha Christie titles. There’s a pleasant oddball-ness to calling a big movie ‘Glass Onion.’”
In a parallel universe, Johnson might have spent the last seven years working on “Star Wars.” Around the release of “The Last Jedi” — which remains a groundbreaking if contentious entry in the “Star Wars” canon — Johnson was tapped to develop a trilogy. Though there has yet to be any publicly announced plans for that, Johnson said that door hasn’t necessarily closed.
But he’s also having an awful lot of fun making “Knives Out” mysteries. There will be at least one more. At the premiere, Craig said: “I’d work with this man for the rest of my life.”
“I had the best experience of my life making ‘The Last Jedi.’ I don’t know if I’ll ever top it professionally. And I really hope that I get to do it again. I hope to come back and do more ‘Star Wars’ at some point,” said Johnson. “But it’s pretty fun having something that’s entirely our sandbox.”
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Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP
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INDIANAPOLIS – The Colts rallied from a 17-point deficit to tie the Texans 20-20 on Sunday afternoon and extend their winless streak in season openers to nine games.
Rodrigo Blankenship missed a 42-field goal in overtime that would have given the Colts their first week one win since 2013.
The Colts trailed 20-3 when they began to chip away at the Houston lead. Blankenship kicked a 27-yard field goal to cut it to 20-6.
The Indy defense then got its first takeaway when E.J. Speed drilled Texans’ quarterback Davis Mills forcing the ball loose. DeForest Buckner recovered at the Houston 20.
Jonathan Taylor turned the takeaway into points with a two-yard touchdown run four plays later to make it a 20-13 game.
The Colts tied the game on a Matt Ryan to Michael Pittman Jr. 15-yard touchdown on the first play after the two-minute warning.
Ryan finished 32 of 50 for 352 yards and one touchdown and one interception in his Indy debut.
The Colts appeared to be in control of the game early. They capped off their second possession of the game with a 45-yard Blankenship field goal to take a 3-0 lead.
Indy was on the verge of going up 10-0 when Alex Pierce dropped a pass in the end zone. The Colts went for it on fourth down, but Nyheim Hines was stuffed in the backfield out of the wildcat formation.
The Texans marched right down the field, tying the game at 3, then took the lead on a Mills to O.J. Howard 16-yard touchdown after former Colts’ draft pick Jerry Hughes picked off Ryan.
Mills and Howard connected again for a 22-yard score in the third quarter to give Houston its biggest lead.
The Colts will stay on the road for another divisional game next week when they visit the Jaguars at 1:00 p.m. on CBS4.
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POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Through the debris-strewn rooms of the bomb-blasted house, the incessant ringing of a phone punctuates the crunch of broken glass splintering underfoot as police lay out a body bag.
But the call will never be answered. The phone’s owner crouches lifeless on the floor of his home, in a front room where the explosion from a missile — one of several to hit this eastern Ukrainian town — found him.
The missiles that rained down on Pokrovsk Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday were part of a barrage of attacks on towns in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region that left at least 10 people dead Saturday, according to Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. They came as Ukraine pressed forward with a counteroffensive just to the north in the Kharkiv region, pushing Russian forces into a retreat from key areas.
Six of the dead were in Pokrovsk, mayor Ruslan Trebushkin said in a message posted on Telegram. The industrial town about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the front line had been hit twice before by missiles, in May and July, but never before by so many in one night. A flash illuminated the night sky as a detonation sounded out across the town in the second of six explosions. An ambulance raced through the darkened streets, and flames rose from a fire triggered by the missile strikes.
At least three of those who died were killed when one of the missiles struck between a row of small houses and nearby train tracks, collapsing part of a nearby abandoned building, leaving one home burnt to the ground and severely damaging several more.
Oleksandr Zaitsev, 67, stood quietly outside his friend’s house as the police arrived. His friend’s wife had been calling her husband nonstop since the strike, he said, but nobody was picking up.
The house’s windows were shattered, the walls were pockmarked from shrapnel, and the front door blown off its hinges. Inside, the police gently rolled Zaitsev’s friend into a black body bag.
Next door, Yevhenia Butkova, 47, stood stunned in the center of her living room, trying to calm her two agitated pet dogs. Blood stained the sofa where she and her husband had been watching television when the first missile struck. On Sunday morning, he was recovering in a hospital after doctors removed shards of glass from his wounds, she said.
Chunks of debris from the ceiling littered the floor throughout the house, whose entrance was reduced to a jumble of splintered wood, plaster, glass and brick. One of the plywood boards the couple had put over their windows for protection had been blown clean across the garden. But a combination of that and the plastic they had put over the glass probably saved their lives, Butkova said.
“It was all quiet in Pokrovsk, this was very unexpected,” she said. “It was horrible.”
Further down the row of single-story houses, an elderly couple swept rubble and glass from their small porch, dried blood still streaking their faces.
Mariia Trutko, 85, and her husband Oleksii Maksymenko, 75, had been sleeping when they were jolted awake by the blast.
“I can’t hear anything without my hearing aid, and then it hit so hard that I heard,” said Maksymenko, a retired coal miner. “Everything flew. … I started bleeding, so we got up to see what that was, and then there was another one: boom!”
Their bed was littered with jagged shards of glass and plaster from the roof that covered them both, Trutko said. A large, square piece of glass lay on the pillow, and spots of blood stained the floor.
“Oh my God, we could never imagine going through something like this at this old age,” Maksymenko said.
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By DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press
When the hearse carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s body pulled out of the gates of Balmoral Castle on Sunday, it marked the monarch’s final departure from a personal sanctuary where she could shed the straitjacket of protocol and ceremony for a few weeks every year.
The sprawling estate in the Scottish Highlands west of Aberdeen was a place where Elizabeth rode her beloved horses, picnicked, and pushed her children around the grounds on tricycles and wagons, setting aside the formality of Buckingham Palace.
“When … she goes through those (Balmoral) gates, I believe the royal part of her stays mostly outside,’’ said the Rev. David Barr, of Glenmuick Church in nearby Ballater. “And as she goes in, she was able to be a wife, a loving wife, a loving mum, a loving gran and then later on a loving great gran — and aunty — and be normal.’’
It was a transformation that took place every summer, when the royal family would spend much of August and September at the estate that has been a royal bolt-hole since 1852, when Prince Albert bought it for his wife, Queen Victoria.
Balmoral is the family’s “private wilderness,” where a fleet of immaculate Land Rovers would pick up guests each morning during the shooting and stalking season, Jonathan Dimbleby wrote in his 1994 biography of Prince Charles, who became King Charles III upon his mother’s death.
But there were other attractions, too.
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“In the stables, the Queen’s horses were again at the ready, coats groomed, saddles and bridles soaped and stirrups polished,’’ Dimbleby wrote. “The household servants, trained in discretion, appeared only when required, aware that to be seen or heard without a purpose would be to intrude.”
At Balmoral, a woman most remembered for being clad in robes and crowns or grandmotherly dresses and wide-brimmed hats could tie a scarf around her head, snuggle into a warm jacket and tug on a pair of boots to explore a domain covered with heather and pine forests and populated by deer, bees and butterflies.
That sense of informality could bring out the queen’s mischievous side.
A former royal protection officer, Richard Griffin, remembered accompanying the queen on a picnic when they met two American hikers. The tourists didn’t recognize Elizabeth and asked how long she had been visiting the area. When she replied “over 80 years,” they asked if she had ever met the queen.
“As quick as a flash she says, ‘Well, I haven’t, but Dickie here meets her regularly’,” Griffin told Sky News earlier this year during events marking the monarch’s 70 years on the throne.
One of the hikers then turned to Griffin and asked what the queen was like. He replied: “She can be very cantankerous at times, but she’s got a lovely sense of humor.”
After posing for a picture with the queen, the unsuspecting hikers waved good-bye and they continued their trek.
“And then Her Majesty said to me, ‘I’d love to be a fly on the wall when he shows those photographs to friends in America. Hopefully, someone tells him who I am,’” Griffin recalled.
The queen’s love of Balmoral underscored the royal family’s close links to Scotland, which began with her great, great-grandmother Queen Victoria, who began the royal tradition of wearing the tartan.
During the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, the queen was said to be hoping for a “no” vote, though she couldn’t express her view publicly. Former Prime Minister David Cameron later confirmed this, telling how her husband, the late Prince Philip, sought to keep the peace at Balmoral by trying to hide the morning papers on the day a poll was published suggesting the Scots might vote in favor of leaving the U.K.
“But, of course, when she got the result he said that she purred like a cat with satisfaction when she heard her United Kingdom was going to remain united,” royal historian Robert Lacey told the BBC on Friday.
But at its heart, Balmoral was a family home for the queen.
Freed temporarily from the affairs of state, Elizabeth and Philip spent more time with their children while at Balmoral.
Home movies shared with the BBC for a documentary on the queen’s 90th birthday showed the couple playing with Charles and his sister, Anne, on the lawn outside Balmoral Castle, with Philip careening down a grassy slope on a little red wagon before toppling over, his kilt flying in the breeze.
In later years, Charles played ping-pong and football in the yard and was even allowed to cycle to the village shop by himself, albeit with a police officer trailing behind, Dimbleby wrote.
It’s “very significant” that the queen died in Scotland, Lacey told The Associated Press.
“Because apart from her love of that particular country, it was the countryside, the way it brought her into contact with nature,” he said.
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Author Patricia Nicol reveals a selection of the best books on: Kings
What a week that was. A new Prime Minister, then the death of a beloved Queen, and the graceful accession of her son. Now we are in a Carolean age; we will get used to God Save The King being the national anthem and soon enough new stamps and currency, but for now it feels strange.
And that is unsurprising, because one of the eye-popping statistics shared last week was that nine out of ten of the world’s population were born during Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.
Years ago, when I spent some time working as a volunteer in a Brazilian orphanage, I remember being amused that the boys’ standard put-down to anyone getting airs was: ‘Who do you think you are, the Queen of England?’
British author Patricia Nicol has rounded up a selection of the best books on including Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and Restoration by Rose Tremain
The Queen may have been the world’s most recognisable woman, but history has seen many more kings than queens. In fiction, too.
The protagonist of Hilary Mantel’s multi-award-winning historical fiction trilogy, which begins with Wolf Hall and continues with Bring Up The Bodies and The Mirror And The Light, is Thomas Cromwell. But the character who holds the greatest sway is always King Henry VIII; on his whims, fancies and fears, the world of this novel turns.
Cromwell, who has risen through the ranks to be Henry’s chief minister, knows how easily he could fall from favour: he has seen firsthand how it happened to Cardinal Wolsey and Sir Thomas More.
Patricia Nicol reveals that Charles II also features in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (as does Elizabeth I)
Charles II, the merry monarch, is depicted in several novels. In Rose Tremain’s Restoration, the fortunes of foppish doctor Robert Merivel are transformed after he cures one of the Stuart king’s ailing dogs. Merivel is married off to one of the King’s mistresses and given an estate in Norfolk.
Charles II also features in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (as does Elizabeth I). It is Charles II who appoints Orlando — a gender-bending aristocrat blessed with extraordinary longevity — as his ambassador to Turkey.
Charles II is remembered for his bawdy lifestyle, reopening the theatres and presiding over an age of scientific discovery. What might this next Carolean age bring?
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A visiting U.S. diplomat on Sunday urged Sri Lankan authorities to tackle corruption and introduce governance reforms alongside efforts to uplift the country’s economy as a way out of its worst crisis in recent memory.
USAID Administrator Samantha Power told reporters that such moves will increase international and local trust in the government’s intentions.
“Assistance alone would not put an end to this country’s woes,” Power said. “I stressed to the Sri Lankan president in my meeting earlier today that political reforms and political accountability must go hand in hand with economic reforms and economic accountability.”
She said that international investor confidence will increase as the government tackles corruption and proceeds with long sought governance reforms. “As citizens see the government visibly following through on the commitment to bring about meaningful change, that in turn increases societal support for the tough economic reforms ahead,” she said.
During her two-day visit, Power announced a total of $60 million in aid to Sri Lanka. After meetings with farmers’ representatives at a rice field in Ja-Ela, outside of the capital Colombo on Saturday, she announced $40 million to buy agrochemicals in time for the next cultivation season.
Agricultural yields dropped by more than half for the past two cultivation seasons because authorities had banned the imports of chemical fertilizers ostensibly to promote organic farming. She said that according to the World Food Program, more than 6 million people — nearly 30% of Sri Lanka’s population — are currently facing food insecurity and require humanitarian assistance.
On Sunday, she said an additional $20 million will be given to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to vulnerable families.
Sri Lanka has faced its worst crisis after it defaulted on foreign loans, causing shortages of essentials like fuel, medicines and some food items.
It has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a $2.9 billion package to be disbursed over four years. However, the program hinges on Sri Lanka’s international creditors giving assurances on loan restructuring. Sri Lanka’s total foreign debt is more than $51 billion of which $28 billion must be repaid by 2027.
Power said that the U.S. stands ready to assist with debt restructuring and reiterated that it is imperative that China, one of the island nation’s bigger creditors, cooperate in this endeavor.
Infrastructure like a seaport, airport and a network of highways built with Chinese funding but did not earn revenue and are partly blamed for the country’s woes.
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(iSeeCars) – Inventory constraints due to the microchip shortage have driven used car prices to record highs. That means your own used car, which is typically a depreciating asset, could be worth more than, or close to, what you originally paid for it. Or, at the very least, it’s worth considerably more than it would be in a stable used car market. If you’re thinking of selling your car or trading it in for a new one, it’s important to know the value of your vehicle. This guide will give you all the information you need to price your vehicle, either for a sale or to help you get a fair price as part of the trade-in process.
What’s My Car Worth? How to Calculate the Market Value of Your Car
A car’s market value is the amount you would receive for your car if you were to sell it to a private buyer. How do you determine this value? There are helpful online tools like the iSeeCars Price My Car Tool, which provide a detailed pricing report to help calculate your used car’s value. Simply enter your vehicle’s VIN or provide its make, model, year, trim, style, and mileage.
The Price My Car tool will then provide a used car valuation with a suggested range of prices to list it at, depending on how quickly you’re looking to sell.
How Do I Find My Car’s VIN?
Your vehicle’s VIN (vehicle identification number) is most commonly located on the dashboard on the driver’s side of the car, but can also be found inside the door jamb on the driver’s side door. You can learn more about what your car’s VIN can tell you with the iSeeCars free VIN check tool.
Understand What Your Car’s Valuation Really Means
Your vehicle’s market price is calculated by analyzing the prices of similar cars for sale in the same local market. The calculation takes into account many considerations, including price, mileage, vehicle condition, trim level, and features. The pricing information also factors in outside market conditions like supply and demand.
There are a few different values for your vehicle, and it’s important to understand the differences among them. Here are some additional terms you’re likely to hear if you’re selling or buying a vehicle:
Understanding Car Values: Market Value Vs. Car Trade-In Value Vs. Retail Value
Market value is different from trade-in value, although the two terms are often used interchangeably. A car’s trade-in value is the amount of money a car dealer will offer you for your vehicle, whereas market value, also referred to as private party value, is the amount of money you would get selling your car directly to a buyer. Because dealerships handle the complex process of selling the vehicle, they offer a lower trade-in value to ensure they make a profit when they sell the car. Keep in mind, dealers have to cover the overhead costs associated with the transaction, like inspecting, reconditioning and transferring ownership. Another pricing term is retail value, which is what a buyer can expect to pay for a used car at a dealership versus buying from a private individual. Retail value will likely be the highest figure, as it covers overhead and helps dealers make a profit.
Using Market Value to Sell Your Used Car
Once you have your car’s market value, you can price your car accordingly. If you want to sell your car quickly, you can price it below market value. If you aren’t in a rush to sell and want to leave room for negotiation, you can price your car closer to or above market value.
Many pricing tools like the iSeeCars Price My Car Tool will give you a range of prices to consider based on similar listings in your local market. If you want to sell your car quickly, you can choose the lowest or best price, while the highest price will give you the most money but will likely take longer to sell. The price in the middle is the closest to current market value, which means a price that is less than some similar listings but more than others.
Once you’ve determined your asking price, you can use the free iSeeCars Sell My Car Tool to list your vehicle.
Is It a Good Time to Sell Your Car?
Certain times of the year can be better than others when it comes to selling your car. For example, you can get more than $385 on average in April when selling SUVs and sedans, while May will get you the most money for selling your pickup truck. Generally, February through July is when you will get the most money for your vehicle. If you aren’t in a rush to sell your car, you can put your car on the market when it’s expected to bring you the greatest profit.
What If I Decide to Trade In My Car?
While selling your car privately will yield you a bigger profit than trading it into a dealer, some car buyers find that it isn’t worth the added hassle. Trading your car to a dealership means that you don’t have to show your car to prospective buyers and go through the trouble of transferring your car title. It can also make your car transaction easier, as your trade-in value will go towards your new car payment. If you trade in your car, get a few quotes from multiple local and online dealers to see who will give you the best price. You can choose to sell your car to Carvana or Carmax, and they will provide you with an instant offer that is good for seven days. You can also use those prices to negotiate your trade in value with the car dealer you’re purchasing from.
Using Market Value to Buy a Car
Market Value also plays a role in buying a car. By understanding a car’s market value, you’ll know if a car is priced fairly by a dealer or a private seller.
The Depreciation Factor
The average new car loses nearly half its value after five years. However, some cars hold their value better than others. Along with keeping your car’s condition as pristine as possible, buying a car that retains its value will help you command a higher car price when it comes time to sell or trade-in your vehicle. Keep in mind that optional equipment and special packages typically don’t aid in resale value.
Trucks and truck-based SUVs retain their value better than average, while luxury vehicles depreciate more than average. Reliable vehicles, like Toyotas and Hondas, also tend to have high resale value because of their durability and lower-than-average maintenance costs. Understanding a car’s depreciation can help car shoppers make a smart car buying decision, especially if you plan on trading it in after a few years.
Additional Used Car Buying Resources
Here are some additional resources to determine if you are paying a fair price for your used car:
- Kelley Blue Book (KBB): KBB is a trusted resource to help you determine the price of your used car, so much so that “blue book value” has become synonymous with a used car’s value. The Kelley Blue Book Trade In Range shows a range of prices that consumers can expect to receive when trading it in at a dealership. The Kelley Blue Book Private Party Value provides a fair price for a used car from an individual seller. KBB also gives an Instant Cash Offer based on its trade-in value, which is valid for seven days. Consumers can take that offer and bring it to a participating dealer for cash or a credit towards a new vehicle.
- NADAGuides: Designed for dealer members of the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), the NADA pricing guides use retail sales data to determine the sale prices for used vehicles. The main difference between the NADA and KBB is that KBB focuses on condition, mileage, demand, and features, while NADA looks at a car’s wholesale price.
- CarFax: CarFax provides the value of a used car based on its miles, condition, location, make and model, trim, and other factors. Carfax focuses on the individual vehicle and history rather than external factors such as market conditions and seasonality. You can enter your vehicle’s VIN or license plate number/
- TrueCar: Data aggregation company, TrueCar, has a network of dealers across the United States that provides the company with car sales data. TrueCar provides an estimated value based on questions about the vehicle’s specs and condition. It then provides you with a TrueCar cash offer and connects you with a certified dealer who will deliver a check for the vehicle’s value.
Bottom Line:
Getting an accurate price for your used vehicle can help you decide if you want to sell it. If you decide to sell your vehicle, you’ll have the information necessary to determine the right price for your car. You’ll also likely need to buy a replacement vehicle, and having the right tools to determine a car’s market value can help you determine if you’re getting a good deal.
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If you’re interested in a new or a used car to replace the vehicle you’re trading in or selling, be sure to check out iSeeCars’ award-winning car search engine. It uses advanced algorithms to help shoppers find the best car deals across all vehicle types and provides key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars free VIN check report and Best Cars rankings. Filter by make, model, price, and special features to find the best deal on your next vehicle.
This article, How Much is My Car Worth?, originally appeared on iSeeCars.com.
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Officials believe small explosion destroys 25-year-old Franklin mansion
By Danica Sauter
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Officials with the Franklin Fire Department believe a small explosion may have been the cause of the fire that destroyed a 25-year-old mansion on Long Lane and Gosey Hill.
WSMV learned on the scene that the fire had spread from the downstairs area all the way through the attic and flames took off the whole roof as well as the right side of the house.
WSMV spoke to the owner as well as the Franklin Fire Department. They said that there was a construction crew inside working on last-minute touches as well as some renovations when a small explosion happened.
A man that was with the construction crews in the house at the time of the fire, was taken to a nearby hospital.
Officials with the Franklin FD do not know the cause of the fire but believe the small explosion began the fire.
The homeowner said he was devastated because they had just finished the last-minute renovations.
Crews told WSMV that the home was a total loss. However, the loss didn’t just hit the homeowners.
“On our arrival, we had flames to the roof,” said Williamson Fire Chief Brian Jones. “There was a construction crew on the scene at the time that was doing some work inside the building.
The owner of the home on Long Lane did not want to go on camera, however, they said the loss was something they never imagined.
“There are portions we save, but between the water damage, the fire damage and the smoke damage, it will probably be a total loss,” Jones said.
While Jones said the loss of the home is unsettling. There are a few things to be grateful for.
The mansion had been standing there for 25 years in the community and everyone has been sad to see it go.
“It’s not impacting the residents, that are in this area, because this neighborhood is under construction, the home was not occupied, so we don’t have anybody displaced, they were close to moving in, but it wasn’t quite finished,” Jones said.
A witness said she was with her sister outside when she heard what sounded like a burglary alarm. They said after a few minutes they heard dozens of sirens coming from all directions on West Long Lane, Crowder and Gosey Hill.
“A neighbor stopped by to tell us the mansion was on fire up to the roof and the structure looked like it was gone,” said Amanda Cooper a witness of the fire.
Officials with the Franklin Fire Department are investigating the cause of the fire.
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This evening's outlook for Munster: A shower is possible early. Mostly cloudy. Low 52F. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 mph. Folks in the Munster area will see highs in the 60s tomorrow. It looks to reach a pleasant 61 degrees. We'll see a low temperature of 53 degrees tomorrow. Scattered showers are in the forecast for tomorrow. Don't leave the house without an umbrella tomorrow! Monday's outlook shows a 39% chance of rain. The Munster area should see a light breeze, with winds only reaching 10 miles per hour, coming from southwest. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. For more daily forecast information, visit nwitimes.com.
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Denver’s Josey Jewell ruled out for opener with calf strain
By ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Pro Football Writer
DENVER (AP) — Inside linebacker Josey Jewell, who missed most of last season with a torn chest muscle, was ruled out for the Denver Broncos’ season opener at Seattle on Monday night because of a strained calf.
First-year coach Nathaniel Hackett said newcomer Alex Singleton would “take most of” the snaps in Jewell’s place, but that Justin Strnad would also play.
Jewell got hurt in practice Thursday.
The Broncos’ other starting inside linebacker, Jonas Griffith, is returning from an elbow injury he sustained in the preseason opener against Dallas. He was a full participant in practice all week and Hackett declared him ready to go.
Jewell, 27, was a part-time starter with the Broncos his first two years in Denver. He had a breakout season in 2020 when he started all 16 games and had a career-best 113 tackles.
He was off to a terrific start last season when he tore a pectoral muscle making a tackle on punt coverage in Week 2 at Jacksonville and missed the rest of the season.
That didn’t stop general manager George Paton from rewarding Jewell with a two-year, $11 million deal that includes a guaranteed $6 million.
“It means a lot and there was a little bit of stress last year with that and being hurt, just watching from the sidelines and trying to help out as much as I could. But now this year, I know that I can just go out there and play my football,” Jewell said shortly after signing his contract in the summer. “I don’t have to be too worried about things, I can just go out there, enjoy it, communicate and play physical ball. I’m excited for that.”
Jewell was added to the Broncos’ injury report Thursday and he was held out of Denver’s practices Friday and Saturday before being ruled out Sunday.
The Broncos open at Seattle in Russell Wilson’s return to the city where he spent the first 10 years of his career. It also marks the debut of Hackett and his three first-time coordinators.
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Former MLB pitcher-turned-police officer Anthony Varvaro dies in car crash
(AP) – Anthony Varvaro, a former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired in 2016 to become a police officer in the New York City area, was killed in a car accident Sunday morning on his way to work at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in Manhattan, according to police officials and his former teams.
Varvaro, 37, was an officer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He played baseball at St. John’s University in New York City before a six-year career in the majors as a relief pitcher with the Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox.
“We are deeply saddened on the passing of former Braves pitcher Anthony Varvaro,” the Braves said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and colleagues.”
St. John’s head baseball coach Mike Hampton said he was “at a loss for words” over Varvaro’s death.
“Not only was he everything you could want out of a ball player, he was everything you could want in a person,” said Hampton, who was an assistant coach at St. John’s during all three of Varvaro’s seasons there. “My heart goes out to his family, friends, teammates and fellow officers.”
Port Authority officials issued a statement to the media.
“On this solemn occasion as the Port Authority mourns the loss of 84 employees in the attacks on the World Trade Center — including 37 members of the Port Authority Police Department — our grief only deepens today with the passing of Officer Varvaro,” the statement said.
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Texans honor Uvalde shooting victims, host HS team Sunday
Posted/updated on: September 11, 2022 at 1:33 pmHOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans used their opener to honor and remember the victims of the Uvalde Elementary school shooting. The Texans hosted the Uvalde high school football team and wore “Uvalde Strong” decals on their helmets Sunday after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a shooting there in May.
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One person died and four people were injured after a motorboat flipped on the Colorado River Saturday afternoon, according to the National Park Service.
The incident occurred in an area of the river called Bedrock Rapid in Grand Canyon National Park, NPS said in a tweet Saturday.
"Today at 2:12 p.m., we received a report of a flipped motorboat on the Colorado River at Bedrock Rapid. One fatality has been confirmed; SAR [search and rescue] is underway to treat and transport injured patients. Incident is ongoing; no further information is available," Grand Canyon National Park Service said.
A spokesperson later told CNN in an email that four people had been injured in addition to the fatality.
On its website, rafting company Western River Expeditions says a large rock splits the Colorado River's current at Bedrock Rapid.
"The best run is on the right side, which requires adept and precise handling to bring a craft around the rock and into calm water. The left side is an unforgiving place, as the river pinballs through a narrow rock studded channel," it says.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Alex Bregman and Trey Mancini hit two of Houston’s five home runs, and the AL West-leading Astros beat the Los Angeles Angels 12-4 on Sunday for their 90th win of the season.
Trailing 3-0, the Astros rallied for five runs in the third. Mauricio Dubón led off the inning with a solo home run, and after Tucker Davidson (2-6) hit Yordan Alvarez to load the bases, Davidson was replaced by Mike Mayers, who Bregman greeted with his grand slam to right-center.
It was Bregman’s fourth career grand slam and first since May 5, 2019, against the Angels.
Mike Trout, who has homered in a club record six straight games, was given the day off. He has hit a home run in an Angels-record six straight games. Ken Griffey Jr., Don Mattingly and Dale Long share the major league record of eight games in a row with a home run
Mancini hit his three-run homer to left in the fifth. Alvarez hit a solo home run in the eighth for his 32nd of the season, and Kyle Tucker launched a two-run shot to right two batters later.
Jose Altuve, who had three hits, scored on a wild pitch in the sixth.
Luis Garcia (12-8) allowed three runs on eight hits with four strikeouts in five innings. Garcia has given up at least three runs in seven straight starts.
The Astros, who have the best record in the AL at 90-50, reached 90 wins for the fifth time in the last six seasons.
Shohei Ohtani hit his 34th home run of the season in the first, a two-run shot to right, and Andrew Velazquez hit a solo home run in the second as the Angels built a 3-0 lead. Mickey Moniak had an RBI double in the ninth.
Davidson yielded four runs on five hits in two innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: 2B David Fletcher was out of the lineup on Sunday after exiting Saturday’s game with a right hand contusion after being hit by a pitch in the first inning. … Ohtani is expected to throw a bullpen and not miss his next start after leaving Saturday’s start due to a blister on his right index finger, interim manager Phil Nevin said.
Astros: RHP Justin Verlander (right calf) threw a bullpen session on Sunday and felt “great” afterward, he said. “I did my pregame a bit and kind of simulated one inning,” Verlander said. “Obviously, not being off the mound with intensity in awhile, I kind of wanted to try at least do the best I can to trick my body feeling like ‘Alright, this is a start day’ and then, hopefully, I can get into my regular routine from here.” Verlander said he was hopeful he could return soon.
UP NEXT
Angels: LHP Reid Detmers (5-5, 3.57 ERA) starts Monday in Cleveland in the first of three games against the Guardians, who will send LHP Konnor Pilkington (1-2, 3.99 ERA) to the mound.
Astros: LHP Framber Valdez (14-5, 2.64 ERA) will look to extend his quality starts steak to 24 games when he starts Monday in Detroit against the Tigers, who will start LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (3-4, 4.13 ERA).
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Rookie right-hander Kyle Bradish ended the Orioles’ stretch of poor starts, but Baltimore’s offensive struggles continued to dampen the club’s postseason hopes.
A first-inning run off Bradish was the only one scored in Sunday’s series finale against the Boston Red Sox, a game that began after a rain delay of more than an hour. The Orioles went hitless in seven at-bats with a runner in scoring position in the 1-0 loss, their sixth defeat in eight games as they dropped the series to Boston and risked moving as many as six games back in the American League wild-card race with 22 games remaining.
Tommy Pham began the day with a single off Bradish, stole second, went to third on a groundball and scored on Xander Bogaerts’ sacrifice fly. Bradish did not allow another hit until the seventh, following it with an inning-ending double play. It marked the third time in four starts Bradish allowed no more than two hits while working at least seven innings and gave Baltimore (73-67) its first quality start in nine games.
Bradish, who turns 26 on Monday, has a 2.86 ERA in nine starts since returning from an injured list stint for right shoulder inflammation. That includes a 2.05 ERA in five outings since moving to the first-base side of the pitching rubber, compared to a 6.38 mark in his previous major league appearances.
But an Orioles lineup absent Cedric Mullins, Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson against left-hander Rich Hill couldn’t support Bradish. Manager Brandon Hyde said a foul ball off Rutschman’s foot Saturday led to some soreness, while the other two sat to avoid left-on-left matchups with Hill.
Ryan Mountcastle’s run of poor luck on well-struck balls continued in the first, when Pham smacked the left field wall making a jumping catch on his first-inning drive. With two on and two outs in the third, he again flied out to left.
The bottom two hitters in Baltimore’s order, Rougned Odor and Robinson Chirinos, opened the fifth with a hit-by-pitch and walk, respectively, but they were stranded when Ryan McKenna popped up a bunt attempt before Hill struck out Anthony Santander and Mountcastle. Odor was again hit with an offering, this time from Matt Strahm, to begin the seventh, throwing his bat and staring down Strahm on his way to first. He reached second on a balk but was left there as the Orioles’ average with runners in scoring position in September dropped to .203, a mark that entered Sunday 26th of the 30 major league teams.
Odor exited the game in the ninth with a bruised right hand. The Orioles said X-rays were negative for breaks.
After striking out as a pinch-hitter with Hill out of the game, Henderson walked with two outs in the eighth in his second plate appearance but was narrowly forced out at second on a groundball from Austin Hays, who otherwise reached three times for only the third time since the All-Star break.
Mullins replaced Odor in the lineup and was the second out of the ninth, with Rutschman lining out as a pinch-hitter for Chirinos to end the game.
Around the horn
- Closer Félix Bautista said through team interpreter Brandon Quinones that he would have been available if needed in losses Saturday and Sunday after he didn’t pitch in Friday’s victory because of arm fatigue. In the bottom of the eighth Sunday, he warmed to pitch in case the Orioles took the lead. Hyde said he plans to continue to use the rookie right-hander frequently but likely won’t push him to two innings as he did in Tuesday’s outing that led to the issue.
- During the game, the Orioles claimed catcher Cam Gallgher from the San Diego Padres and designated right-hander Rico Garcia for assignment. Gallgher, 29, spent parts of six season playing for the Kansas City Royals, hitting .240 with a .656 OPS.
- Right-handers Dean Kremer and Tyler Wells will start in the Orioles’ two-game road series against the Washington Nationals that begins Tuesday.
This story will be updated.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A public administrator in Clark County, Nevada, who faces an open murder charge could remain in his elected position — with a $130,000-per-year salary — until a new person takes over in January.
Rob Telles, 45, was taken into custody Wednesday in connection with the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German.
The 69-year-old German was found dead outside his home on Sept. 3. He had published several stories about Telles’ office, saying it was in “turmoil,” in the months leading up to his stabbing death last weekend.
Telles’ DNA was discovered under German’s fingernails, sources told Nexstar’s KLAS on Thursday.
Voters elected Telles as the county’s public guardian in 2019. The county position runs the office that administers a deceased person’s estate if no family is found, or if the family is unable.
That same year, Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak appointed him to the Board of Indigent Defense. The board, one of hundreds of advisory boards and committees, removed Telles on Friday, its chair said. A spokesperson for the governor said the governor “had signed paperwork” removing Telles as a voting member of the board on Friday.
As of this week, a county spokesperson said leaders were reviewing their options on how to move forward with Telles’ employment.
“For now, he’s still an elected officer and he’ll get paid while he’s in jail,” Democratic Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom said Friday, adding the only action he believed the commission could take could be to order a recall vote.
That would require a recall petition and other work, including gathering and verifying more than 100,000 signatures. Before Telles’ arrest, an election was already in the works to choose his replacement, since Telles lost his June primary.
“We can take the scope of work away from him, but as far as him having the title and getting the salary, it is that way, because the voters picked him,” Segerblom said.
Telles could also resign.
Judge Elana Lee Graham denied bail for Telles on Thursday. If a judge sets bail and Telles is released pending trial, he will not have access to his office or other county buildings, officials said.
“People don’t need to worry that the place isn’t being run or he’s still running it,” Segerblom said. (Former Clark County coroner Michael Murphy was hired to mend tension in the office earlier this year.)
Police took a sample of Telles’ DNA around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday before searching his home. Detectives then detained Telles and questioned him, releasing him around 2 p.m. and driving him back to his house.
Nevada law states a person can only be detained for an hour without probable cause.
Telles was taken into custody around 6:30 p.m. and was found with superficial wounds. Police also suspect he may have ingested narcotics in an attempt to die by suicide.
An attorney for Telles did not respond to an email Friday.
German’s family has set up a donation page to a local charity in his memory. The family chose Three Square, which helps people dealing with food insecurity.
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Queen chose Princess Anne to accompany funeral cortege on first leg of journey back to London
- The Queen chose Anne to accompany the coffin on its journey from Balmoral
- Princess Anne will fly with the coffin to RAF Northolt tomorrow from Edinburgh
- The Princess Royal is regarded by many as the hardest-working of the family
- She pictured forlornly in a Bentley alongside her husband on September 11
- Full coverage: Click here to see all our coverage of the Queen’s passing
Princess Anne, the Queen’s only daughter, was chosen by her mother to accompany the funeral cortege on the six-hour journey from Balmoral to Edinburgh.
The Princess Royal, 72, had a forlorn expression but remained composed as she was driven behind the hearse in a royal Bentley alongside her husband of thirty years, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.
Nothing was left to chance in the Queen’s funeral arrangements, meaning Her Majesty likely personally requested that her daughter accompany the coffin to the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Princess Anne will also travel to London with her mother’s coffin tomorrow, when it will leave Scotland by air, Buckingham Palace confirmed.
Princess Anne, the Queen’s only daughter, was chosen by her mother to accompany the funeral cortege on the six-hour journey from Balmoral to Edinburgh. Pictured today passing the City Chambers in Edinburgh
Anne watches as the hearse carrying the coffin of her mother is readied to be carried into Holyrood House today
The Very Reverend Professor David Fergusson, dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland, will also be on board the flight to RAF Northolt in Ruislip, west London, when it departs Edinburgh at 6pm.
From there, it will be taken to Buckingham Palace by a waiting state hearse.
Anne is regarded by many as the hardest-working member of the royal family, having completed more than 20,000 engagements.
She is also a close confidante of her brother, King Charles III.
The Princess Royal is regarded by many as the hardest-working member of the royal family and is a close confidante of her brother King Charles III (pictured together in 2017)
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The San Francisco 49ers fought a tough battle against the Chicago Bears in adverse weather conditions, but ultimately fell short, dropping Game 1 of the regular season 19-10.
Here are seven takeaways from Sunday's 49ers vs. Bears game:
Trey Lance Shows Off His Dual-Threat Quarterback Abilities
Adverse weather conditions had head coach Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers leaning heavily on the rushing attack in the regular season opener. Deebo Samuel accounted for about a third of the team's total rushing yards and Lance was responsible for another third. The 49ers QB1 rushed for 54 yards on 13 carries, averaging 4.2 yards per attempt. Through the air, the second-year quarterback went 13-of-28 for 164 yards and an interception.
Samuel Contributes to the Ground Game
On a day when heavy rain played a factor and RB Elijah Mitchell exited early, having Samuel contributing to the ground game gave the offense a chance. San Francisco got on the board in the second quarter by way of a six-yard rushing touchdown by Samuel. No. 19 rushed for 52 of San Francisco's 176 yards and caught an additional two passes for 14 yards.
Penalty Problems Continue into the Regular Season
Costly penalties on both sides of the ball and low third-down conversion rates followed San Francisco into the regular season. In the opener, the 49ers racked up a total of 12 penalties for 99 yards versus the Bears. There was a big penalty pile up for San Francisco's defense late in the third quarter. Three third down penalties by the 49ers defensive unit in back-to-back drives allowed Chicago to go on and score its first two touchdowns, erasing the 49ers 10-0 lead.
The D-Line Stacks the Sacks
The 49ers recorded their first multi-sack game of the 2022 season. It took 49ers defensive lineman Samson Ebukam exactly three snaps to get to Bears quarterback Justin Fields for the first sack of the game, forcing a quick three-and-out on Chicago's opening drive. Later that same quarter, Nick Bosa notched a sack of his own, also on a third down play, for a loss of six yards, ending the Bears third offensive series.
Talanoa Hufanga is an Early Defensive Standout
The second-year safety did a little bit of everything for the 49ers defense on Sunday. Hufanga locked down the defensive unit's only interception, picking off Fields in the first quarter and returning the ball for three yards. No. 29 had 11 total tackles—two of which were tackles-for-loss—and a pass defended against the Bears.
Mitchell Exits Sunday's Contest Early
San Francisco's top running back was ruled out of the game in the second quarter with a knee injury. He rushed for 41 yards on six carries versus the Bears and provided a key block for Samuel on the play that resulted in the 49ers only touchdown.
Robbie Gould is Good at Scoring Points in Chicago
From extra points to field goals, Gould gets it done against his former team. Since joining San Francisco in 2017, the veteran kicker is perfect against the Bears. With his extra point and 25-yard field goal in Sunday's regular season opener, Gould improves to 10-of-10 versus the Bears.
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What they're saying in Russia about Ukraine's advances By Charles Maynes Published September 11, 2022 at 5:22 PM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:39 Amid a Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian forces withdrew from several key cities in the northeast. But things are being framed differently in Moscow. Copyright 2022 NPR
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Sean Rubin. His central character is a tree that was planted at the Twin Towers in the 1970s and stands tall in New York City's Freedom Plaza once again.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Sean Rubin. His central character is a tree that was planted at the Twin Towers in the 1970s and stands tall in New York City's Freedom Plaza once again.
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FHP: Pinellas Park man charged with DUI manslaughter following fatal hit-and-run crash
LEALMAN, Fla. - An early morning hit-and-run crash in Pinellas County left one man dead and another behind bars, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Troopers say Nicholas Carusotti, 29, of Pinellas Park, was driving a pickup truck eastbound on 62nd Avenue North, west of 39th Street North, shortly after 2:30 a.m. on Sunday when he hit a 64-year-old bicyclist from New York.
The bicyclist died at the scene.
After impact, Carusotti continued for a short distance before his car broke down from the collision, according to FHP.
With his car disabled, troopers say Carusotti fled on foot, but was later located by Pinellas Park police.
After troopers say Carusotti was determined to be impaired, he was arrested by FHP on charges of leaving the scene of a crash involving death and DUI manslaughter.
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WASHINGTON — For a generation or more, America’s high levels of child poverty set it apart from other rich nations, leaving millions of young people lacking support as basic as food and shelter amid mounting evidence that early hardship leaves children poorer, sicker, and less educated as adults.
But with little public notice and accelerating speed, America’s children have become much less poor.
A comprehensive new analysis shows that child poverty has fallen 59 percent since 1993, with need receding on nearly every front. Child poverty has fallen in every state, and it has fallen by about the same degree among children who are white, Black, Hispanic, and Asian, living with one parent or two, and in native or immigrant households. Deep poverty, a form of especially severe deprivation, has fallen nearly as much.
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In 1993, nearly 28 percent of children were poor, meaning their households lacked the income the government deemed necessary to meet basic needs. By 2019, before temporary pandemic aid drove it even lower, child poverty had fallen to about 11 percent.
More than 8 million children remained in poverty, and despite shared progress, Black and Latino children are about three times as likely as white children to be poor. With the poverty line low (about $29,000 for a family of four in a place with typical living costs), many families who escape poverty in the statistical sense still experience hardship.
Still, the sharp retreat of child poverty represents major progress and has drawn surprisingly little notice, even among policy experts.
It has coincided with profound changes to the safety net, which at once became more stringent and more generous. Starting in the 1990s, tough welfare laws shrank cash aid to parents without jobs. But other subsidies grew, especially for working families, and total federal spending on low-income children roughly doubled.
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To examine the drop in child poverty, The New York Times collaborated with Child Trends, a nonpartisan research group with an expertise in statistical analysis. The joint project relied on the data the Census Bureau uses to calculate poverty rates but examined it over more years and in greater demographic detail.
The analysis found that multiple forces reduced child poverty, including lower unemployment, increased labor force participation among single mothers, and the growth of state-level minimum wages. But a dominant factor was the expansion of government aid.
In 1993, safety net programs cut child poverty by 9 percent from what it would have been absent the aid. By 2019, those programs had cut child poverty by 44 percent, and the number of children they removed from poverty more than tripled to 6.5 million.
“This is an astounding decline in child poverty,” said Dana Thomson, a coauthor of the Child Trends study. “Its magnitude is unequaled in the history of poverty measurement, and the single largest explanation is the growth of the safety net.”
Renee Ryberg, another coauthor, said the poverty reduction offered millions of children greater prospects of success. “A childhood free of poverty predicts better adult outcomes in just about every area you can imagine, including education, earnings, and health,” she said.
The analysis excluded 2020, the most recent year for which data is available, because pandemic aid made it unrepresentative. Including it makes the decline since 1993 even greater, at 69 percent.
The plunge in child poverty is the opposite of what most liberal experts predicted a quarter-century ago when President Clinton signed a law from a Republican Congress to “end welfare as we know it.”
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Conservatives say the landmark law pushed more parents to work and call it the main reason child poverty declined. Progressives say many working families would still be poor without the expanded safety net, which grew in part to compensate for stagnant wages amid decades of rising inequality.
“This decline in child poverty is very significant. I cannot say it enough,” said Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, a poverty expert at Brandeis University who reviewed the data. “If we still had the rates as we had in the 1990s, there would be 12 million more children in poverty.”
In measuring poverty, the analysis used the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, the yardstick that best accounts for government aid. Unlike the outdated Official Poverty Measure, the supplemental measure counts billions in tax credits, SNAP and other benefits, and adjusts for local living costs, providing a more accurate tally of household resources. While 2009 is the earliest year for which the Census Bureau produced the supplemental measure, researchers at Columbia University calculated it for earlier decades, and Child Trends drew on their data.
While the official measure shows child poverty falling 37 percent from a 1993 peak, the supplemental measure shows a 59 percent decline.
The decline of child poverty coincides with progress on another measure of children’s well-being. The share who lack health insurance fell by about two-thirds, mostly because of expansions of Medicaid and other government insurance. While those programs often improve children’s health, they do not directly reduce poverty because the government does not count insurance as income.
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Almost every program that Child Trends examined does more to reduce child poverty than it did a quarter-century ago, either because it raised benefits, expanded eligibility, or made it easier to enroll.
But each program expanded in its own way — some by congressional intent (tax credits) and others by demographic change (Social Security) or court order (Supplemental Security Income, which provides disability aid). A primary goal was to help low-wage workers, but there were also major expansions of programs with few if any work rules (SNAP and school meals).
The story of the safety net, in other words, is a story of safety nets — multiple programs with multiple aims, sometimes evolving in uncoordinated or accidental ways.
“The safety net is often criticized for being a patchwork of programs, but that’s also a strength,” Thomson said. “It reaches a variety of people in a variety of circumstances.”
The aid is often large. The average family lifted out of poverty received nearly $18,000 in benefits — more than 40 percent of its after-tax income.
Among the programs that most affected children is one aimed at retirees. Social Security cut child poverty by 14 percent, more than twice as much as it did a quarter-century ago, both because benefits grew and because more children now live with elderly parents or grandparents.
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Despite its progress, the United States still has more child poverty than many peer nations, though its rank depends on how poverty is defined.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an intergovernmental group, ranks the United States 36th out of 41 countries, defining poor children as those with less than half their country’s median income. But since the United States is unusually wealthy, its poor children may have higher incomes than some nonpoor children abroad.
The United States looks better in comparisons that use the American poverty line as a common standard. Yet even with that definition, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2019 found the United States ranked fourth among five rich English-speaking countries, trailing Australia, Canada, and Ireland.
“We could do a lot better,” said Hilary Hoynes, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, though she hailed the progress as evidence that solutions can be found.
“When we spend money, we make gains,” she said. “Providing more resources to low-income families changes children’s life trajectories.”
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BALTIMORE — The Red Sox were leading the Baltimore Orioles by eight runs in the ninth inning on Saturday night when rookie Triston Casas pinch hit for Xander Bogaerts.
With runners on second and third, Casas had a chance to do some damage.
He instead worked a six-pitch walk, swinging at just one pitch from righthander Yennier Cano before trotting to first base.
Even with little at stake, Casas stayed with his approach rather than swinging for the fences at pitches off the plate.
“Always,” he said later. “Why would I change?”
In a game the Sox won, 17-4, manager Alex Cora was enthused about that walk.
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“That’s the way he attacks every at-bat. That’s something we’ve been preaching. We want that,” he said Sunday. “Good teams, they take walks. They extend at-bats. When we are at our best, that’s what we do.”
That Casas has stayed true to the approach that landed him in the majors at 22 isn’t a surprise.
“He controls the zone. He doesn’t expand,” Cora said. “He has an understanding of the strike zone. The strike zone isn’t controlling him; he is controlling the strike zone, which is a lot different. He’s putting good swings on good pitches.”
Now he needs some better results. Casas was 0 for 3 with a strikeout in Sunday’s 1-0 victory against the Orioles and is 2 for 21 in seven games with eight strikeouts and three walks.
Hirokazu Sawamura released
At his request, the Red Sox released righthanded reliever Hirokazu Sawamura. He was on the Triple A Worcester roster but had pitched once since Aug. 28.
Sawamura was designated for assignment on Aug. 29 after a series of poor performances following the All-Star break. He cleared waivers and was outrighted to Worcester.
Sawamura had a 3.39 earned run average over 104 appearances in two seasons with the Sox. The 34-year-old pitched mostly in medium- or low-leverage situations.
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He signed what proved to be a $3.4 million deal with the Sox [including a buyout] after pitching 10 seasons in Japan.
Anthony Varvaro dies in accident
Former Mariners, Braves, and Red Sox righthander Anthony Varvaro, who left baseball to pursue a career in law enforcement, died Sunday morning. He was 37.
According to a statement from Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Superintendent of Police Edward Cetnar, Varvaro’s death was the result of a motor vehicle accident while he was en route to serve at World Trade Center Command in commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks.
New York and New Jersey media reported Varvaro was struck by a wrong-way driver near the Holland Tunnel.
Varvaro, who had a wife and four children, spent six years with the Port Authority Police in New York after an 11-year career in professional baseball. The Staten Island native pitched parts of six seasons in the majors, going 7-9 with a 3.23 ERA over 166 appearances.
He pitched in nine games for the Red Sox in 2015.
Trevor Story exits
Trevor Story left Sunday’s game with a twisted left ankle after grounding into a double play in the seventh inning. He is day to day … The start of the game was delayed 72 minutes because of rain … There was a moment of silence before the game to remember the victims of Sept. 11 … Nate Eovaldi, who threw two simulated innings in the bullpen on Saturday, felt fine Sunday. He is scheduled to throw live batting practice at Fenway Park on Tuesday. Eovaldi, who is on the injured list with shoulder soreness, hopes to make at least a few starts before the season ends … Double A Portland named infielder Christian Koss its most valuable player, Chris Murphy pitcher of the year, and Ceddanne Rafaela defensive player of the year. Development coach Katie Krall was selected for the Charlie Eshbach Citizen of the Year award.
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The Jets have a tall task this weekend trying to slow down the physical Baltimore Ravens.
So how does Gang Green plan to match the Ravens’ intensity on both sides of the ball?
“We’re physical too,” Jets coach Robert Saleh said. “That’s how you match it.”
Easier said than done for the Jets as they will need to find a way to stop arguably the most potent rushing attack in the league. The Ravens averaged 145.8 yards per game on the ground in 2021, which was the third best in the NFL.
On the flip side, the Jets finished 29th in rushing defense, allowing 138.3 yards on the ground. They’re hoping the additions of Jermaine Johnson, Micheal Clemons along with getting Carl Lawson back from an Achilles injury he suffered last season, will improve Gang Green’s rushing defense from a season ago.
“I think as we get more familiar with this front, we’re going to get better, just naturally,” Jets defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said. “I think the addition of some of the guys that we’ve gotten will help a little that.
“In this league, you’ve got to create the second and longs, you’ve got to create those third down [opportunities] on second down where you can absolutely let this pass rush just go and jump out the shoes and affect quarterbacks, so playing the run at a higher level is necessary to play the defense that we want to play.”
Baltimore’s backfield could also have a bonus this weekend as running back J.K. Dobbins could play. After averaging 6.0 yards per carry as a rookie in 2020, Dobbins suffered a knee injury during the 2021 preseason and missed the entire campaign.
If Dobbins plays, he will join a Ravens ground game led by star quarterback Lamar Jackson, who finished with 767 yards before suffering a season-ending bone bruise in his ankle. Jackson also rushed for back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons in 2019 and ‘20.
But it’s not just Jackson’s legs the Jets need to be concerned about. Jackson passed for 2,757 yards and 26 touchdowns in 2020 and then for 2,882 yards and 16 TDs last season.
The two-time Pro Bowler also has a connection with tight end Mark Andrews that’s been used as a security blanket for the Ravens offense. This is another element the Jets will need to be aware of during Sunday’s game.
“Dynamic, fast, violent as a runner, he’s got a really good arm, can throw the football, he’s got good targets to throw to,” Saleh said about Jackson. “He is special, it’s basically wildcat offense with him.
“His ability to tuck the ball and run, they’ve always had an extra gap and then his speed to capture edges. He’s one of the most dynamic football players in the league and he’s an absolute bear to prepare for, so this is the ultimate challenge and it’s in Week 1, so thankfully, we’ve had all offseason to prepare, we’ll see how it works out.”
Plus, Jackson will be playing with a chip on his shoulder after he and the Ravens couldn’t agree on a contract extension ahead of the season.
Although the Ravens offense has a bruising old-school style, so does their defense. Baltimore finished first in the NFL in rushing defense, allowing 84.5 yards per game.
Joe Flacco knows better than anyone how physical the Ravens defense can be. He played with the club for 11 seasons, winning 10 playoff games, including Super Bowl XLVII and being named the game’s MVP.
The Ravens also have former All-Pros in Calais Campbell and Marlon Humphries, who could make Flacco’s job that much more challenging. Baltimore also has a new defensive coordinator in Michael Macdonald, who was the Michigan Wolverines’ D-coordinator last season.
“They’ve had good defenses and they have something that they believe in,” Flacco said when asked about the leadership change. “So there is going to be [differences], obviously, with the person that’s behind the window calling the games. But ultimately I think they’re going to rely on the things that they kind of always found consistency in and therefore you got to rely on that a little bit yourself and just go play football.”
Can the Jets match the Ravens’ physicalness and intensity on the field? That remains to be seen.
But it is undoubtedly the key to securing a Jets victory on Sunday.
“You do your best to stick to your principles,” Saleh said. “Obviously, you have to adjust some stuff based on what you have seen and you’re going to have your wrinkles that you’ve been working on throughout all of OTA’s and training camp, but at the end of the day, you are playing rules football and just trying to make sure that you digest as much information.
“They’ll reveal their game plan early just like we will and vice versa with our offense and defense. Then, just who can make that adjustment in-game and continue to find ways to get better all the way into the fourth quarter so you can finish fast.”
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Alarmed by escalating rent prices that have made family housing unobtainable for a growing number of residents, St. Paul voters went to the polls in November 2021 and approved a new city ordinance that limits residential rent increases to 3 percent annually.
The “rent stabilization” ordinance, widely considered among the strictest rent-control measures in the nation, left it to the city to create a process for landlords to seek exemptions for costs largely outside of their control, with the stated goal of allowing property owners a reasonable return on their investment.
Nevertheless, the negative impact from the measure on housing construction appears significant. Even before rent control took effect in May, developers began abandoning housing projects or putting them on pause, citing the rent-control restrictions.
Data from various city departments has led some officials to conflicting conclusions about building permit activity, but the lack of active construction cranes throughout the city is palpable.
AMENDMENTS TO TEMPER RENT MEASURE
The city’s zoning committee, which convenes twice monthly to consider developers’ requests for conditional-use permits and variances, canceled all of its meetings in March and August, as well as half of its meetings in July and September. On Sept. 8, the committee reviewed a single application.
Largely in response to the slowdown in housing construction, the St. Paul City Council proposed a series of amendments meant to temper the rent-control ordinance.
To the chagrin of some housing advocates and with the support of others, several of those changes would fundamentally alter the rules voters approved last fall.
On Sept. 7, the council reviewed eight potential changes and incorporated about half of them into a master amendment proposed by council member Chris Tolbert.
A final council vote on the Tolbert amendment is scheduled Wednesday. Among the provisions:
20-YEAR EXEMPTION: The Tolbert amendment would exempt developers of new housing from rent control for 20 years after a new building certificate of occupancy is issued. The master amendment also includes a look-back period, making the same exemption apply to housing constructed over the past 20 years. In short, thousands of renters currently protected from rent increases above 3 percent would lose that protection.
In June, a 41-member stakeholder group convened by the mayor’s office released a report recommending changes to the city’s rent-control ordinance, including a 15-year exemption for new construction.
VACANCY DECONTROL: At the urging of city council member Jane Prince, the council voted 4-3 last Wednesday to allow landlords to raise rents as much as they want once a unit becomes vacant. Prince noted that without full “vacancy decontrol,” landlords may feel compelled to raise rents 3 percent each year, the maximum allowed under the city’s rent-control policy, because they won’t be able to catch up to the market later.
In its report this summer, the city’s rent-control task force advocated for some level of vacancy decontrol, but it could not agree upon the extent. The group, however, did not embrace full decontrol. Nor had the mayor’s office requested full vacancy decontrol.
“There is a broad spectrum of possibilities for what ‘partial vacancy decontrol’ could be in practice, between the rejected polar opposites of full vacancy decontrol and full vacancy control,” reads the report. “The recommendation for some form of partial vacancy decontrol received support from 83 percent of the group members who voted.”
IMPROVED NOTIFICATION AND JUST CAUSE: The amendments include a handful of new protections for renters. Landlords would be required to inform prospective tenants if their rental unit is not regulated by rent control prior to signing a lease. Tenants would be notified by the city when a landlord seeks an exemption from rent control. And a targeted “just cause” provision requires landlords seeking exemptions to attest in writing that the unit became empty for an allowable reason, such as non-payment of rent, substantial property damage or a material breach of the lease.
OTHER CHANGES: Other changes added to the Tolbert amendment clarify that inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, is a valid reason for landlords to seek a one-year exemption from rent control. Landlords completing major renovations would be allowed to apply to the city to spread out rent increases above 3 percent over multiple years.
A MAYORAL VETO? Members of the progressive interfaith coalition ISAIAH and the SEIU Minnesota State Council have called upon St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter to veto the Tolbert amendment, including all of its recent changes. Not long after voters approved rent control last November, Carter called for at least a 15-year exemption for new construction, and he has repeatedly said he looks forward to signing such a policy into law.
In late July, the mayor signaled strong support for Tolbert’s master amendment. His statement was issued, however, before the council added full vacancy decontrol to the package of amendments.
MORE INFO: Get details about the meeting, and details about how to submit comments about the ordinance or other matters, at Stpaul.gov/department/city-council#city-council-meetings.
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Guardians sweep Twins, send AL Central rivals below .500
Shane Bieber allowed one run over 6 1/3 innings to pick up his 10th win of the season and Steven Kwan went 3-for-5 with a home run and two runs as the Cleveland Guardians completed a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 4-1 victory on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis.
Bieber (10-8) allowed five hits and a walk while striking out seven. James Karinchak pitched around two walks in the ninth by firing three strikeouts to pick up his second save of the season.
Andres Gimenez also homered, Myles Straw had three hits and scored a run and Josh Naylor added a two-run double for Cleveland (73-65). The Guardians clubbed six home runs in the series after hitting just three homers in their previous 13 games.
Nick Gordon doubled and had two hits for third-place Minnesota (69-70), which fell 4 1/2 games behind the Guardians in the American League Central with their sixth loss in the last seven games. Josh Winder (4-4) suffered the loss, allowing two runs on four hits over four innings. He walked one and struck out four.
Cleveland took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when Gimenez lined his 16th home run into the bleachers in right.
Kwan, who walked four times and scored twice in Cleveland's 6-4 victory on Saturday night, made it 2-0 in the third with his fourth homer of the season, a 387-foot line drive down the right field line.
Minnesota, thanks to a little luck, cut it to 2-1 in the fifth. Gordon led off with a double off the wall in right-center, advanced to third one out later on Jake Cave's groundout to second and then scored when pinch-hitter Gary Sanchez's chopper caromed off the third base bag and over the head of third baseman Jose Ramirez.
After the Twins failed to score in the seventh despite getting the tying run to third with no outs, the Guardians scored twice in the ninth to extend their lead to 4-1.
Straw and Kwan led off with back-to-back singles, and one out later Ramirez was intentionally walked to load the bases. Naylor then bounced a double over first baseman Jose Miranda and off the glove of second baseman Jermaine Palacios to drive in Straw and Kwan.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Rich Hill pitched five scoreless innings, and the Boston Red Sox defeated the fading Baltimore Orioles 1-0 Sunday.
The Orioles have lost six of eight, all at home, including back-to-back games to the last-place Red Sox. Baltimore was 1 1/2 games out of the third and final AL wild-card spot entering Sept. 4, but will begin a five-game road trip at least five games out of the playoffs.
The Orioles went 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position.
“We got guys on in a couple different innings and just couldn’t get that big hit to get something rolling for us,” Orioles outfielder Austin Hays said. “It seems like that’s just where we’re at right now.”
Boston got four hits and the Orioles only had three — every hit in the game was a single.
Baltimore has scored just eight runs over its last four games.
“We have some guys that are scuffling and we have really big swings, and we need to get back to staying in the middle of the field,” manager Brandon Hyde said.
Hill (7-6) allowed two hits, walking three while striking out seven. The 42-year-old left-hander, who pitched for the Orioles in 2009, improved to 4-1 with a 2.80 ERA in 18 career appearances against Baltimore.
“He’s a crafty pitcher,” Boston manager Alex Cora said. “That’s why I do believe he can pitch until whenever he wants to or his family lets him. You see him, (and) physically he stays in great shape. He’s on top of the craft.”
John Schreiber, Matt Strahm, Garrett Whitlock and Matt Barnes each worked an inning of relief. Barnes worked a perfect ninth to earn his fifth save.
The Red Sox manufactured their run in the first when Tommy Pham singled, stole second, moved to third on a grounder and scored on Xander Bogaerts’ sacrifice fly. It was all they would muster against Baltimore starter Kyle Bradish (3-6), who allowed just one more hit --- Rafael Devers’ seventh-inning single --- over seven innings.
Bradish struck out three while walking two. The rookie has a 1.44 ERA over his last four starts, and has lowered his ERA from 6.25 to 5.01 in that span.
The start of the game was delayed by 1 hour, 12 minutes because of rain.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: 2B Trevor Story departed in the seventh inning with twisted left ankle. “We’ll see how he feels on Tuesday and go from there,” Cora said. … Cora said the team’s goal is to have RHP Nathan Eovaldi (shoulder inflammation) throw live batting practice Tuesday. Eovaldi was placed on the injured list Aug. 22.
Orioles: 2B Rougned Odor left in the ninth with a bruised right hand, and X-rays were negative. Strahm hit Odor on the hand in the seventh, prompting Odor to slam his bat in frustration. … C Adley Rutschman, who fouled a ball off his foot Saturday, was scheduled to have the day off. He flied out as a pinch-hitter to end the game.
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Baltimore recalled RHP Mike Baumann from Triple-A Norfolk and optioned RHP Yennier Cano to Norfolk. Cano allowed seven runs in 1 2/3 innings in his Orioles debut Saturday. … The Orioles designated RHP Rico Garcia for assignment and claimed C Cam Gallagher off waivers from San Diego and optioned him to Norfolk.
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Red Sox: After an off day, Boston faces the New York Yankees to begin a two-game series Tuesday at Fenway Park. RHP Nick Pivetta (9-11, 4.29 ERA) is 0-2 with an 11.48 ERA in three starts against the Yankees this season.
Orioles: Baltimore opens a two-game series at Washington on Tuesday, with RHP Dean Kremer (6-5, 3.23) facing the Nationals for the first time.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe’s largest nuclear plant has been reconnected to Ukraine’s electricity grid, allowing engineers to shut down its last operational reactor in an attempt to avoid a radiation disaster as fighting rages in the area.
The six-reactor Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant lost its outside source of power a week ago after all its power lines were disconnected because of shelling. It was operating in “island mode” for several days, generating electricity for crucial cooling systems from its only remaining operational reactor.
That’s considered an unstable way of operating a nuclear plant, which could lead to damage to key equipment including turbines and pumps.
Nuclear operator Energoatom said one of the power lines was restored “to its operational capacity” late Saturday, making it possible to run the plant’s safety and other systems on electricity from the power system of Ukraine.
“Therefore, a decision was made to shut down power unit No. 6 and transfer it to the safest state – cold shutdown,” the company said Sunday in a statement.
Energoatom said the risk remains high that outside power is cut again, in which case the plant would have to fire up emergency diesel generators to keep the reactors cool and prevent a nuclear meltdown. The company’s chief told The Associated Press on Thursday that the plant only has diesel fuel for 10 days.
The plant, one of the 10 biggest atomic power stations in the world, has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war, which marked its 200th day on Sunday. Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for shelling around the plant that has damaged the power lines connecting it to the grid.
Energoatom renewed its appeal for Russian forces to leave the Zaporizhzhia plant and allow for the creation of a “demilitarized zone” around it.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog that has two experts at the plant, confirmed that external power has been restored there.
However, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said he remains “gravely concerned about the situation at the plant, which remains in danger as long as any shelling continues.”
He added that “consultations have begun on the urgent need to establish a nuclear safety and security protection zone” at the plant.
The IAEA said it would take 30 hours to bring the sixth reactor to a “cold shutdown state,” but it will still require electricity for its safety systems after that. The agency said work is under way to restore other power lines at the plant, which remains occupied by Russian forces but run by Ukrainian engineers.
Also on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw his troops and weapons from the plant and ensure its safety and security in line with IAEA recommendations.
Macron reminded Putin in a phone conversation that the “Russian occupation of the nuclear plant was the cause for concern over its integrity,” according to a statement from the French presidency.
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MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Will Power was pushed to the brink Sunday by Team Penske but withstood the internal challenge from his teammate to close out a season of consistency and win his second IndyCar championship.
Power finished third at Laguna Seca Raceway to beat teammate Josef Newgarden for the championship by 16 points in the final standings. The Australian's first IndyCar title came in 2014.
“Oh, man, it sounds so surreal," Power said as he crossed the finish line behind outgoing IndyCar champion Alex Palou and Newgarden, who used a white-knuckled drive through the field to make Power sweat until the checkered flag.
Power needed only to finish third to win the championship. But Team Penske has proved over the last week that its cars race individually and all three drivers were on their own in this title decider.
Newgarden was relentless.
“I'm ultimately just proud of the team,” said a crestfallen Newgarden. He has talked in the last several days of his personal drive for perfection and the emotional toll its taken on him.
A five-time winner this season, his inconsistency simply put him in too deep of a hole to overcome Power's season of consistency.
Newgarden had gone off course in a sloppy qualifying mistake that forced him to start 25th in the 26-driver field. He picked his way through traffic and used three nail-biting passes through Laguna Seca's famed corkscrew to make it tight for Power.
One of Newgarden's big moves in the corkscrew was on Power, but Newgarden made it clean and pulled into second behind Palou. The American needed much more than that to win the championship.
Power, at 41 years old, has insisted all year he's been “playing the long game” with an eye on a second title. The Australian won only once, but his average finish was sixth, and he's barely bobbled all year. On Saturday, he won his 68th career pole to break Mario Andretti's mark for most in series history.
Now the fastest man in IndyCar is the most consistent, too, and rewarded team owner Roger Penske with a 17th championship.
Palou, eliminated from the championship fight last week and locked into a legal battle between Chip Ganassi Racing and McLaren over his 2023 rights, won his first race of the year. He was the only Ganassi driver competitive at Laguna Seca, where five drivers were in title contention in the tightest championship race since 2003.
Palou had the field covered and dominated in the win. The four Ganassi cars tested at Laguna Seca but contenders Marcus Ericsson and Scott Dixon were never in Sunday's fight. Ericsson, the Indianapolis 500 winner, finished ninth and six-time champion Dixon was 12th.
“We ultimately just didn't have the pace,” said Dixon, who finished third in the standings, 39 points behind Power. “You win some, you lose some, man. This team never gave up.”
Palou was the ninth different IndyCar winner this season and after taking the checkered flag, with current team owner Ganassi behind him, Palou was evasive on where he'll drive next season. Ganassi says he picked up the option for 2023 on the Spaniard, McLaren says it has signed him, and the fight is currently both in the courts and mediation.
Palou in July definitively said he'd be a McLaren driver next year. After the win, he sounded less sure.
“Things are moving good, so we’ll see what can we tell, but yeah, we’re going to enjoy the moment now and we’ll see what happens,” said Palou, who beat Newgarden by 30.381 seconds in a Laguna Seca record.
Palou's dominance put the focus on Newgarden, who started the day 21 points behind teammate Power in the championship standings.
Colton Newgarden, the 22-year-old Californian being courted by the AlphaTauri Formula One team, was a nonexistent 11th in what could have been his last IndyCar race for some time. Herta won the last two races at Laguna Seca from pole and there's serious interest
Christian Lundgaard, who raced last year in the Formula One ladder system, finished fifth for the Danish driver to win rookie of the year.
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South Central Railway (SCR) has reached one more milestone by increasing the maximum permissible speed of train services to 130 kmph in major sections of Secunderabad, Vijayawada and Guntakal divisions, which will come into effect from Monday.
This has been achieved with the systematic and planned approach in strengthening of track and its infrastructure by removing bottlenecks in these sections on a fast pace. These infrastructure development works, maintenance works and signaling aspects were carried out continuously after the due sanction accorded by RDSO/Lucknow in the year 2020.
After carrying out extensive upgradation works in these sections, it has now been permitted to increase the sectional speed of train services from 110 kmph to 130 Kmph on both up & down lines of these sections. The sections that are covered under this speed implementation concept are - Secunderabad – Kazipet – Balharshah, Kazipet – Kondapalli sections in Secunderabad Division, Kondapalli –Vijayawada – Gudur of Vijayawada Division, Renigunta – Guntakal – Wadi of Guntakal sivision.
These sections cover the entire high-density route, golden quadrilateral and golden diagonal routes of SCR, except for the section between Vijayawada – Duvvada of golden diagonal route, where the works are in fast progress for implementation of increased speed.
The enhancement of maximum permissible speed in these sections is likely to result in the improvement of average speed of the both passenger-carrying trains as well as goods trains. This will have a positive impact on the punctuality of the trains. Importantly, the increase of maximum permissible speed will enhance the sectional capacity of these critical and saturated sections, said an official press release on Sunday.
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Loved ones gathered in Memphis, Tennessee on Saturday, Sept 10 for the funeral of Eliza Fletcher, the missing jogger who was abducted and found dead earlier this month.
The service was held at the Second Presbyterian Church, where she married her husband Richard James Fletcher III eight years earlier on March 8, 2014. According to Memphis magazine, the church was the same location where she first met her husband.
The 34-year-old was a beloved kindergarten teacher, who was known for her "boundless childlike energy" at Promise Academy and later at St. Mary’s Episcopal School.
St. Mary's thanked supporters for the outpouring of love during what they called a "week of darkness."
"'Light and life' are at the heart of the St. Mary’s community, and so many people have borne light to us during the dark days of this past week," a statement shared on Facebook said. "You have strengthened us with your prayers, words of encouragement, and kindness. We saw the loving light of community today as we gathered for fresh air and friendship with our students."
"Thank you for the Light and Life you showed our community during a week of darkness," the statement concluded.
Her obituary described her love for teaching, saying: “As with everything Liza took on, she nurtured and cared for her students with her whole heart. A strong believer in the importance of personal growth, she was not afraid to be vulnerable. To the contrary, she embraced it."
After playing collegiate soccer for the University of Memphis, Fletcher was known by family and friends to have remained a devoted athlete, running marathons as an adult.
"She found great joy in her morning runs with friends. She channeled her competitive nature into enthusiastic participation in all that she undertook."
After the mother of two did not return from her usual 4 a.m. run on Sept. 2, Richard Fletcher reported his wife missing at around 7 a.m., according to an amended arrest affidavit obtained by NBC News.
While running near the University of Memphis, a black GMC Terrain passed Fletcher and waited for her to run by the SUV, according to surveillance footage. A man subsequently exited vehicle, ran aggressively toward Fletcher and forced her into the passenger seat.
According to the affidavit, the man stayed in the vehicle with Fletcher for about four minutes before driving away.
Police arrested Cleotha Abston, 38, on suspicion of kidnapping and tampering with evidence in connection with Fletcher’s disappearance. Investigators linked Abston to the SUV after a pair of Champion slide sandals were found near the scene of the abduction, the affidavit read. Cell phone records also placed his phone's location near the same site.
Authorities on Sept. 6 then filed first-degree murder and first-degree murder in perpetration of kidnapping charges against Abston following the discovery and identification of Fletcher's body the day before.
In the evening on Sept. 5, officers searched for the 34-year-old near a vacant residence on Victor Street in Memphis, according to the affidavit. Officers discovered vehicle tracks near the driveway of a home and "smelled an odor of decay."
After searching around the residence, police found an unresponsive woman near the steps of the home that matched the description of Fletcher, the affidavit read.
According to authorities, an officer located a discarded trash bag in the surrounding area that contained purple Lululemon running shorts that looked like “the ones Eliza Fletcher was last seen wearing."
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