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Beasley And Budd Square Off In Close N.C. U.S. Senate Debate https://digitalalaskanews.com/beasley-and-budd-square-off-in-close-n-c-u-s-senate-debate/ North Carolina U.S. Senate candidates Congressman Ted Budd, R-NC, and Democrat Cheri Beasley, met Friday for their only debate, focusing on issues including inflation, abortion, legalization of marijuana, and crime. The closely watched race to fill the seat of retiring Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr is currently neck and neck, with Budd having a slight lead in polls.  The cordial but spirited debate hosted by Tim Boyum on Spectrum News 1 also saw some dodging from Beasley, a former state Supreme Court chief justice, when asked if she would appear with President Joe Biden if he came to the state. Beasley has had notable conflicts with appearing with him in the past.  “President Biden is certainly welcome here,” she said. “He is our president, and he should know what’s happening here in North Carolina. If it’s an official visit, we’ll just have to see if that’s something if we’re available.” When asked if Biden should run for reelection, she gave a similar response. “I don’t think he’s going to ask me, so we’ll see what happens,” she said. With the highest inflation rate in 40 years, pushing up prices of everything from gas and groceries, and rising interest rates making it harder to own a home, Beasley acknowledged that prices for most things are too high for North Carolinians and the rest of the country. She said Biden and Congress could work harder to ensure prices are lowered and included Budd in the blame, saying he voted against lowering drug and gas prices. Budd countered, pointing out low inflation (1.4% January 2021 compared to 8.26% September 2022) and low unemployment under President Donald Trump. He also said while stimulus money in the early days of the pandemic was needed for things like the Paycheck Protection Act, Biden has taken things too far with the American Rescue Plan. “That was two trillion dollars of unnecessary spending,” he said. “We need to stop the bickering. We need to be encouraging energy. On Day 1, Joe Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline, killing 10,000 jobs and more after that.” Budd also said people need to be encouraged to return to work and pointed to overregulation, making it hard for people to start a business. He said that Beasley would be a “rubber stamp” of the Biden Administration, continuing its policies.  Regarding abortion, Budd was asked if he supported a total abortion ban, even in the case of rape, incest, or risk to the mother’s life, as Beasley has said he would.  Budd, a co-sponsor of a measure that would make most abortions illegal after the 15th week of pregnancy, said he has always been pro-life but also supports protecting the mother’s life. He focused on what he said was the extreme view of the Democrats’ Women’s Health Protection Act. “She’s (Beasley) a supporter of abortion at any time, for any reason, all the way up to until the moment of birth, and she wants to do that at taxpayer expense, and I think if you check with North Carolinians, you polled the broad spectrum of North Carolinians, that’s wildly out of step with where they are,” he said, repeating that she would be a rubber stamp of any of Biden’s policies. Beasley responded, saying that women have a constitutionally protected right to make this decision for themselves with their position free from government interference. “The congressman is very clear and has said that he supports and is leading the charge on an absolute ban on abortion without exceptions for rape, incest, or risk to the mother’s health,” she said.  “I will support the parameters outlined in Roe which provide for protections and restrictions on abortion later in pregnancy and allow them only in the most severe cases, for instance, when a woman’s life is at risk. She said she would fight to ensure that Roe versus Wade becomes the law of the land. North Carolina currently has a 20-week ban on abortion.  Beasley attempted to reject efforts to align her with the policies of the Biden administration but stopped short of criticizing the president’s policy initiatives or clarifying whether or not she would support those Democrat policies in the Senate. “It’s wrong to align me with anybody unless I specifically say what my positions are, and I’m glad to talk about my positions because my positions really do support people here in North Carolina.” She said Budd had aligned himself with an extremist like Trump, and that is a reflection on him. Budd didn’t shy away from his Trump endorsement. He said the endorsement points to his support of Trump’s policies that led to the 1.4% inflation rate, a 50-year unemployment low for women, people of color, and Hispanics, and those entering the workforce had the fastest growing wages in history.  Budd said he was unlike his opponent, who has been “running away” from appearances with Biden and would be a rubber stamp for his policies. Beasley accused Budd of not accepting the results of the 2020 presidential election, which he voted against certifying. Budd said that although they didn’t have the necessary votes, he does acknowledge Biden as president but doesn’t like what he is doing to the American people. Beasley and Budd said they would accept the results of this year’s U.S. Senate election results. Beasley said that Washington had dropped the ball regarding immigration, acknowledging that the immigration system needs fixing and that the border must be secure but blamed Budd for not doing anything to address the crisis. Budd responded by saying he was in favor of a wall and addressed issues with crime and drugs like fentanyl coming over the border and to North Carolina. Beasley said she is in favor of the legalization of marijuana. On the other hand, Budd said he could support its medical use but stressed that it is a bad idea, which could lead to higher crime rates, and sends the wrong message to children. Budd pointed out his endorsements from organizations like the North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police. the North Carolina Police Benevolent Association and the North Carolina Troopers Association, who once endorsed Beasley, but now endorse him regarding matters of crime. “I would encourage your viewers to go out to their websites and take a look at why they support me, read their press releases, look at their history with Miss Beasley, including throwing out indictments for sex offenders and defending cop killers.” Beasley said she had been endorsed by sheriffs and law enforcement across the state, many of whom she worked with over the years as a judge. National security and healthcare issues were also discussed. Green Party candidate Matthew Hoh and Libertarian candidate Shannon Bray didn’t appear in the debate but were interviewed beforehand.  The General Election is on Tuesday, November 8. Read More Here

Hurricane Julia Makes Landfall In Nicaragua https://digitalalaskanews.com/hurricane-julia-makes-landfall-in-nicaragua/ Hurricane Julia formed made landfall as a Category 1 storm in Nicaragua early Sunday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center. As of 8 a.m., the system was located about 60 miles west-northwest of Bluefields, Nicaragua with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph moving west at 16 mph. Julia’s hurricane winds extend 30 miles while its tropical storm-force winds have a reach of 80 miles. It is not expected to impact Florida. Hurricane warnings are in effect for San Andres, Providencia and the Santa Catalina Islands in Colombia, and in Nicaragua from Laguna de Perlas to Puerto Cabezas. A hurricane watch and tropical storm warning is in effect for Nicaragua south of Laguna de Perlas to Bluefields and north of Puerto Cabezas to the Honduras/Nicaragua border. A tropical storm watch is in effect for part of the Honduran coast. Hurricane force winds and a dangerous storm surge is expected where the core of the system crosses the islands tonight. Life-threatening flash flooding and mud slides are expected across portions of Central America through the weekend. The system is expected to make landfall in Nicaragua on Sunday. Julia becomes the fifth hurricane of the year. Models are in agreement showing Julia growing to a maximum sustained wind strength of 85 mph before making landfall potentially along San Andres, Nicaragua by Sunday morning, the NHC said. San Andres and Providencia could receive between 6 and 12 inches of rain, the NHC warned, and portions of Central America could receive 15 inches, producing life-threatening flash floods and mudslides through this weekend. Julia’s storm surge will likely raise water levels by as much as 2 to 4 feet above normal tide levels along the immediate coast in areas of onshore winds on San Andres, Providencia, and Santa Catalina Islands. After landfall, the NHC is confident Julia and its remnants should turn northwest and remain over Central America and southern Mexico through Monday. After that, Julia should be no more. So far, the 2022 hurricane season has produced nine named storms and one more tropical depression that spun up and fell apart while Ian was striking Florida. The NHC also tracked one other potential cyclone that never grew into a depression, so that is why the most recent tropical depression is named TD 12. Initially, the season was off to a slow start with a quiet July and August, but the season has picked up the pace since Sept. 1 with the emergence of four hurricanes including Fiona and Ian in the last two weeks. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted the season to be an above-average year in storm production calling for 14-21 named storms. An average year has 14. Hurricane season ends on Nov. 30. Jpedersen@orlandosentinel.com Read More Here

Feds Seek Prison In Rioter’s Attack On Journalist https://digitalalaskanews.com/feds-seek-prison-in-rioters-attack-on-journalist/ Published: 10/9/2022 8:58:00 PM Federal prosecutors on Sunday recommended a prison sentence of approximately four years for a Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to assaulting an Associated Press photographer and using a stun gun against police officers during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss is scheduled to sentence Alan Byerly on Oct. 21 for his attack on AP photographer John Minchillo and police during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot in Washington, D.C. Sentencing guidelines recommend a prison term ranging from 37 to 46 months. Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of at least 46 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. Byerly’s attorney has until Friday to submit a sentencing recommendation. The judge isn’t bound by any of the sentencing recommendations. Byerly was arrested in July 2021 and pleaded guilty a year later to assault charges. Byerly purchased a stun gun before he traveled from his home in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6. Leaving the rally before then-President Donald Trump finished speaking, Byerly went to the Capitol and joined other rioters in using a large metal Trump sign as a battering ram against barricades and police officers, prosecutors said. Then he went to the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace of the Capitol, where he and other rioters attacked Minchillo, who was wearing a lanyard with AP lettering. Byerly is one of at least three people charged with assaulting Minchillo, whose assault was captured on video by a colleague. After that, Byerly approached police officer behind bike racks and deployed his stun gun. “After officers successfully removed the stun gun from Byerly’s hands, Byerly continued to charge toward the officers, struck and pushed them, and grabbed an officer’s baton,” prosecutors wrote. Byerly later told FBI agents that he did just “one stupid thing down there and that’s all it was,” according to prosecutors. “This was a reference to how he handled the reporter and nothing more,” they wrote. Byerly treated Jan. 6 “as a normal, crime-free day, akin to the movie, ‘The Purge,’ when he could do whatever he wanted without judgment or legal consequence,” prosecutors said. “He was mistaken,” they added. More than 100 police officers were injured during the Capitol siege. Approximately 900 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct on Jan. 6. More than 400 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses. Over 280 riot defendants have been sentenced, with roughly half sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from one week to 10 years. Read More Here

AP News In Brief At 9:04 P.m. EDT https://digitalalaskanews.com/ap-news-in-brief-at-904-p-m-edt-10/ Putin calls Kerch Bridge attack “a terrorist act” by Kyiv ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called the attack that damaged the huge bridge connecting Russia to its annexed territory of Crimea “a terrorist act” masterminded by Ukrainian special services. The Kerch Bridge, which holds important strategic and symbolic value to Russia in its faltering war in Ukraine, was hit a day earlier by what Moscow has said was a truck bomb. Road and rail traffic on the bridge were temporarily halted, damaging a vital supply route for the Kremlin’s forces. “There’s no doubt it was a terrorist act directed at the destruction of critically important civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation,” Putin said during a meeting with the chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin. “And the authors, perpetrators, and those who ordered it are the special services of Ukraine.” Bastrykin said Ukrainian special services and citizens of Russia and other countries took part in the attack. He said a criminal investigation had been launched into an act of terror. “We have already established the route of the truck,” he said, saying it had been to Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia and Krasnodar, a region in southern Russia. ‘War crime:’ Industrial-scale destruction of Ukraine culture KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The exquisite golden tiara, inlaid with precious stones by master craftsmen some 1,500 years ago, was one of the world’s most valuable artifacts from the blood-letting rule of Attila the Hun, who rampaged with horseback warriors deep into Europe in the 5th century. The Hun diadem is now vanished from the museum in Ukraine that housed it — perhaps, historians fear, forever. Russian troops carted away the priceless crown and a hoard of other treasures after capturing the Ukrainian city of Melitopol in February, museum authorities say. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its eighth month, is being accompanied by the destruction and pillaging of historical sites and treasures on an industrial scale, Ukrainian authorities say. In an interview with The Associated Press, Ukraine’s culture minister alleged that Russian soldiers helped themselves to artifacts in almost 40 Ukrainian museums. The looting and destruction of cultural sites has caused losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros (dollars), the minister, Oleksandr Tkachenko, added. “The attitude of Russians toward Ukrainian culture heritage is a war crime,” he said. ‘A time bomb’: Anger rising in a hot spot of Iran protests SULIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Growing up under a repressive system, Sharo, a 35-year-old university graduate, never thought she would hear words of open rebellion spoken out loud. Now she herself chants slogans like “Death to the Dictator!” with a fury she didn’t know she had, as she joins protests calling for toppling the country’s rulers. Sharo said that after three weeks of protests, triggered by the death of a young woman in the custody of the feared morality police, anger at the authorities is only rising, despite a bloody crackdown that has left dozens dead and hundreds in detention. “The situation here is tense and volatile,” she said, referring to the city of Sanandaj in the majority Kurdish home district of the same name in northwestern Iran, one of the hot spots of the protests. “We are just waiting for something to happen, like a time-bomb,” she said, speaking to The Associated Press via Telegram messenger service. The anti-government protests in Sanandaj, 300 miles (500 kilometers) from the capital, are a microcosm of the leaderless protests that have roiled Iran. Noem’s balancing act: Big ambitions, South Dakota reelection SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — They had waited in the desert heat in a line that wrapped around the block and now the excitement was palpable when South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem took the stage in a suburban Phoenix convention hall. “She’s our governor!” someone yelled. Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for governor in Arizona who hosted the event this past week, stood beside Noem and joined in the praise. She called Noem an “inspiration” who stood up for families against intrusive government mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. The warm reception was familiar to Noem, who has made such appearances part of building her national profile as a potential 2024 White House contender. “I wish I could vote for a woman like that,” Lake said. “But I don’t live in South Dakota.” If Noem has ambitions beyond her state, she must first take care of political business back home: winning a second term in November. Florida school shooter may have been his own worst witness FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It’s possible Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz talked himself into a death sentence. Prosecutors played video last week at Cruz’s penalty trial of jailhouse interviews he did this year with two of their mental health experts. In frank and sometimes graphic detail, he answered their questions about his massacre of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018 — his planning, his motivation, the shootings. While it can’t be known what the 12 jurors are thinking, if any are wavering between voting for death or life without parole, his statements to Dr. Charles Scott, a forensic psychiatrist, and Robert Denney, a neuropsychologist, did not help his cause. “All of this made Cruz himself perhaps one of the state’s best witnesses,” said David S. Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor who has been monitoring the trial. The jury will likely decide Cruz’s fate this week. For the 24-year-old to get a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous on at least one victim. But if all 17 counts come back with at least one vote in favor of life in prison, then that would be his sentence. Closing arguments are scheduled Tuesday, with deliberations beginning Wednesday. Thai town struggles with sudden loss of so many of its young UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Paweenuch Supholwong sits on her mother’s lap and fidgets with her pigtails as her mother tells the remarkable story of how the 3-year-old wisp of a girl survived Thailand’s worst mass killing — the only child to emerge unscathed from a day care after a former police officer massacred preschoolers while they napped. Two dozen children were among the 36 people shot and slashed to death in an attack that shattered the serenity of the rural township of Uthai Sawan, robbing the small farming community of much of its youngest generation in the blink of an eye. Paweenuch was deeply asleep and covered by a blanket on the floor when the attacker burst through the front door and killed 22 of her classmates who lay around her — apparently missing her because he thought she was already dead, her mother Panomplai Srithong said. Another child survived with serious injuries and remains hospitalized. As the community has come together to share its grief at the scene of the attack and its Buddhist temples, people have also flocked to Paweenuch, tying dozens of white, yellow and red “soul strings” to her wrists in the hope it will help her also spiritually survive the horror, in the belief that when someone suffers such a tragedy, they lose part of their soul. “It is to bring the spirit back into her body,” Panomplai explained, holding her daughter warmly. “It’s like the spirit had left the body and it is being called back.” Rain-fueled landslide sweeps through Venezuela town; 22 dead LAS TEJERÍAS, Venezuela (AP) — A landslide fueled by flooding and days of torrential rain swept through a town in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead as it dragged mud, rocks and trees through neighborhoods, authorities said Sunday. Dozens of people are missing. Residents of Las Tejerías in Santos Michelena, an agro-industrial town in Aragua state 54 miles (87 kilometers) southwest of Caracas, had just seconds to reach safety late Saturday as debris swept down a mountainside onto them. The official death toll rose to 22 after the recovery of 20 bodies on Sunday, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez told state-owned Venezolana de Televisión. “There was a large landslide in the central area of Las Tejerías” where five streams overflowed, she said from the scene of the disaster. “We have already found 22 dead people; there are more than 52 missing.” “There are still people walled in,” Rodríguez said. “We are trying to rescue them, to rescue them alive.” Senator: Dems back reparations for those who ‘do the crime’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville asserted that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that.” The first-term Alabama Republican spoke at a Saturday evening rally in Nevada featuring former President Donald Trump, a political ally. His comments were part of a broader critique in the final weeks before the Nov. 8 election, when control of Congress is at stake, about how Democrats have responded to rising crime rates. But Tuberville’s remarks about reparations played into racist stereotypes about Black people committing crimes. “They’re not soft on crime,” Tuberville said of Democrats. “They’re pro-crime. They want crime. They want crime because they want to take over what you got. They want to control what you have. They want reparation because they think the people that do the crime are owed that.” He ended his appearance with a profanity as the crowd cheered. Tuberville is falsely suggesting that Democrats promote crime and that only Blacks are the perpetrators. In fact, crime has slowed in the last year and most crimes are committed by whites, according to FBI data. Bell wins Charlotte as champion Larson bumped from playoffs CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — It was a race of desper...

Putin Blames Kyiv For Attack On Strategic Crimea Bridge https://digitalalaskanews.com/putin-blames-kyiv-for-attack-on-strategic-crimea-bridge/ KYIV, Ukraine — President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Sunday of orchestrating the attack on a key Russian link with occupied Crimea, injecting new, heightened stakes into a calamitous episode that Ukrainian leaders touted as proof of their ability to prevail in the war with Russia. Russian investigators claimed to have swiftly identified suspects in the predawn fireball Saturday that sent concrete spans of the Crimean Bridge, a $4 billion project symbolizing Russia’s ambitions to control Ukraine, buckling into the waters of the Kerch Strait. A day after the incident, which Russia’s top law enforcement body deemed a terrorist attack, Putin announced that Ukraine’s special services were responsible. “There is no doubt that the attack was aimed at destroying critical civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation,” Putin said in a video released by the Kremlin. The 12-mile long span, while used by civilians, is also a crucial military logistics route for Russia’s armed forces, the only direct road and rail route from mainland Russia to Crimea. The incident sent shock waves across the region, puncturing Kremlin assurances about the bridge’s invincibility and compounding the challenges Russia faces in holding back a Ukrainian counteroffensive that has recovered occupied areas in the country’s south and east. While Russian officials said that limited road and rail traffic would continue, substantial damage to the bridge posed an immediate logistics challenge for Moscow’s military offensive. Putin personally inaugurated the bridge in 2018, in a step designed to solidify Russia’s grip on the peninsula, which it illegally annexed in 2014. While the Ukrainian government did not publicly claim responsibility for the incident, officials in Kyiv sought to employ the blast as evidence of its capacity to achieve a battlefield victory against Russia’s larger, better-armed military, a prospect dismissed by many Western officials only a few months ago. A Ukrainian official told The Washington Post on Saturday that Ukraine’s special services were behind the explosion, which Russian authorities said took place when a truck exploded, igniting fuel tanks on a passing train. Speaking in the video with Putin, Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, said the truck in the incident, which he said also involved Russian and other nationals, came from Bulgaria through Georgia and into Russia before being driven toward Crimea. Ukrainian officials dismissed the Russian statements, instead condemning Russia for overnight missile strikes that authorities said killed at least 14 people and injured at least 70, including 11 children, in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. After the attack, officials posted photos of a partially destroyed apartment building, where the central section had collapsed into a pile of rubble. “Putin accuses Ukraine of terrorism? Sounds too cynical even for Russia,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Twitter. “There is only one terrorist state here and the whole world knows who it is.” Russia has repeatedly struck civilian targets since its Feb. 24 invasion, including hospitals, schools, apartment buildings and railway stations. In Zaporizhzhia, at least eight people were pulled from the debris after the attack, Oleksandr Starukh, governor of the Zaporizhzhia region, said Sunday. While rescuers worked to clear the debris the following night, another airstrike devastated the area, Starukh said. About 2 a.m. Monday local time, Starukh warned people in Zaporzhzhia to take cover because of an incoming airstrike, according to his Telegram account. About an hour later, he said a residential building had been destroyed. The destruction highlighted the potential for Russian retaliation for the bridge incident, and the ongoing vulnerability of Ukrainian cities despite the massive shipments of weapons provided by the United States and European nations in recent months. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the Zaporizhzhia attack provided further proof that Ukraine’s backers should accelerate that supply. “We urgently need more modern air and missile defense systems to save innocent lives,” he said on Twitter. Officials in Kyiv hope that the bridge incident, whatever its cause, will provide additional fuel to their campaign to attract expanded support from the West, including longer-range missiles and tanks, and in turn convince Russian troops and the Russian public that the war is a lost cause. Simon Schlegel, a Ukraine expert with the International Crisis Group, said highway routes across Russian-controlled territory to the strategic city of Kherson, which Russian is expected to defend zealously, were not an ideal replacement for the Crimean bridge because they are closer to Ukrainian military positions. Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian defense minister who now serves as an adviser to the Zelensky government, said the psychological impact of the bridge incident may be greater than even the resulting logistical challenges for Russia. “It destroys the trust from the Russian military, the Russian government and even generally Russian people in their inability to manage risks and inability to protect,” he said. “And that is hugely important.” Michael Carpenter, U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, called the Zaporizhzhia attack “barbaric. … We’ll have to keep reaching deeper,” he said on Twitter. “More military assistance, more aid, more sanctions.” Russian authorities sought to telegraph normalcy following the bridge blast, despite what appeared to be serious damage to the structure. In a message on his Telegram channel, Sergei Aksyonov, head of the Crimea region, showed a photo of an undisturbed section of the bridge and said that officials were working to regularize transport between Crimea and Russia’s Krasnodar region. He said normal railway services had resumed but that only cars were passing on the bridge for now, while buses and heavy vehicles were traveling by ferry. Russia’s transport ministry reported on Sunday that passenger and freight trains were running regularly across the bridge by Sunday morning. It said commuter rail service would resume that evening, according to Interfax. It was not clear whether truck-borne explosives or something else caused the incident. Baza, a Russian news outlet that frequently reports leaked information, stated on its Telegram channel that the driver of the truck the Russian authorities said exploded on the bridge had been contracted to deliver a cargo shipment to Simferopol, a city in Crimea. The driver was supposed to be paid 48,000 rubles, or about $770, Baza reported. He was contracted on Oct. 6 and loaded the cargo in the Russian city of Armavir on Oct. 7, stopping to sleep just before the bridge and heading on early the next morning, it said. “He told his family about it, after the call he turned off his phone,” Baza said. Video posted by a Russian state newspaper showed the explosion occurring at 6:03 a.m., when few vehicles were traveling on the bridge. Officials in St. Petersburg named the two other people authorities said were killed in the explosion as Eduard Chuchakin and Zoya Sofronova, a married couple who worked as historians and documentarians. Authorities said their car was driving near the truck that exploded. The attack may also intensify internal pressure that Putin is facing over battlefield setbacks. The Russian leader is due to hold a Security Council meeting on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Already, prominent Russians are urging reprisal, including lawmakers and media figures such as Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of state-owned channel RT. After the blast, she asked in a tweet: “And?” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, called for a forceful response. “Russia’s response to this crime can only be the direct destruction of the terrorists. The way it is generally done in the world,” he said in an interview with journalist Nadana Friedrichson, which was published on her Telegram channel. “This is what the citizens of Russia are waiting for.” Isabelle Khurhudyan in Kryvyi Rih, Kostiantyn Khudov in Kyiv and John Hudson in Washington contributed to this report. War in Ukraine: What you need to know The latest: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees Friday to annex four occupied regions of Ukraine, following staged referendums that were widely denounced as illegal. Follow our live updates here. The response: The Biden administration on Friday announced a new round of sanctions on Russia, in response to the annexations, targeting government officials and family members, Russian and Belarusian military officials and defense procurement networks. President Volodymyr Zelensky also said Friday that Ukraine is applying for “accelerated ascension” into NATO, in an apparent answer to the annexations. In Russia: Putin declared a military mobilization on Sept. 21 to call up as many as 300,000 reservists in a dramatic bid to reverse setbacks in his war on Ukraine. The announcement led to an exodus of more than 180,000 people, mostly men who were subject to service, and renewed protests and other acts of defiance against the war. The fight: Ukraine mounted a successful counteroffensive that forced a major Russian retreat in the northeastern Kharkiv region in early September, as troops fled cities and villages they had occupied since the early days of the war and abandoned large amounts of military equipment. Photos: Washington Post photographers have been on the ground from the beginning of the war — here’s some of their most powerful work. How you can help: Here are ways those in the U.S. can support the Ukrainian...

Australia Stocks Fall More Than 1%; Japan, South Korea Markets Closed https://digitalalaskanews.com/australia-stocks-fall-more-than-1-japan-south-korea-markets-closed/ A man looks at an electronic board displaying stock information at the Australian Securities Exchange, operated by ASX Ltd. on March 16, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Brendon Thorne | Getty Images Australia stocks fell more than 1% on Monday morning on a quiet day in the region, with a few major markets closed. The S&P/ASX 200 was 1.47% lower in early trade. Markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia are closed for holidays Monday. Mainland China markets will return to trade after the Golden Week holiday. Later this week, the Bank of Korea will be holding its policy-setting meeting, Singapore is set to announce its GDP estimate for the third quarter and China releases inflation data. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Japan’s Fast Retailing will report earnings and the U.S. will release inflation data for September. On Friday in the U.S., major stock indexes dropped more than 2% after data showed the unemployment rate declined in September, sparking fear that the Federal Reserve would continue hiking rates aggressively. Services activity in China contracted in September, private survey shows The Caixin services purchasing managers’ index came in at 49.3 in September, according to a report published Saturday, a steep drop from 55 in August. The 50-point mark separates growth from contraction. PMI readings compare activity from month to month. The nation’s Covid curbs caused services activity in China to contract in September for the first time since May, the report said. “Companies that reported reduced activity frequently commented that the pandemic and subsequent measures to contain the virus had restricted operations and weighed on demand in September,” the press release by Caixin said. — Abigail Ng Read More Here

Cougar Notes: WNCC Sweeps Otero To Move To 24-3 On The Season https://digitalalaskanews.com/cougar-notes-wncc-sweeps-otero-to-move-to-24-3-on-the-season/ News The 6th-ranked Western Nebraska Community College volleyball team took care of business over the weekend as they swept a pair of Region IX South contests on Friday and Saturday.                The 6th-ranked Western Nebraska Community College volleyball team took care of business over the weekend as they swept a pair of Region IX South contests on Friday and Saturday.               The Cougars opened the weekend with a 25-12, 25-20, 25-22 win over Trinidad State College and then swept past Otero College 25-7, 25-18, 25-21 to stay unbeaten in conference play and move their record to 24-3 on the season.                 It was the Cougars seventh straight win as they head into a conference match on Wednesday when they travel to McCook Community College.                 Saturday saw Shanelle Martinez register a triple double in helping the Cougars to the sweep. Martinez finished with 26 points, 34 set assists, 14 digs, three aces, and a kill.                 The match started early as Martinez served up 10 straight points for a 10-0 lead. The Cougars pushed the lead to 13-1 after two AK Chavez points and then went up 17-3 after two Ale Meoni kills.                 WNCC led 20-7 when Erica Fava hammered down a kill and Martinez served the final four points for the 25-7 win.                 The second and third sets were much closer. The second set saw Otero trail 9-8 and later 13-11 before the Cougars started to put some distance in the score when Fava had two points for a 16-11 lead. WNCC won 25-18 after three Chavez points.                 The third set saw Otero lead 8-3 before a kill from Jenna Curtis and then three Alex Hernandez points to tie the contest at 8-8. Otero kept playing strong as the Rattlers led 16-15 and later 20-18 and 21-19. Emmalei Mapu got a kill and then Martinez closed out the match with five points.                 After Martinez’ triple double, Fava and Curtis each had 11 kills. Fava also had six digs and two assisted blocks, while Curtis had eight digs.                 Meoni hammered down seven kills to go with her two points, while Mapu had five kills, five assisted blocks, and three digs.                 Also for the Cougars, Chavez had 12 digs with seven points, five set assists, and two aces; Juliana Oliveira had four kills; Hernandez had three kills and four points; Bewley had a dig; and Paige Nakanelua had two digs. WNCC volleyball sweeps Trinidad State for 23rd win                 TRINIDAD, Colo. – The 6th-ranked Western Nebraska Community College volleyball team took care of business and swept to their 23rd win of the season with a 25-12, 25-20, 25-22 win over Trinidad State College in Region IX South conference action Friday night in Trinidad, Colorado.                 It was the Cougars sixth straight win as they head into a conference match on Saturday against Otero College in LaJunta, Colorado.                 The Cougars, 23-3 on the season,   started Friday’s contest strong as Ale Meoni served nine straight points for a 12-2 lead and the Cougars led 17-5 after three Jenna Curtis points. WNCC pushed the lead to 20-6 on a Emmalei kill and two Shanelle Martinez points and won the first set 25-12 on a Curtis kill.                 The second set was a little scarier as Trinidad took a 7-3 lead after three service points. Maya Angelova tied the set with a kill and then two service points. Trinidad came back to grab a 10-7 lead before Martinez had four service points, including two aces for a 12-10 lead. Meoni later added three more service points and a 19-13 lead.                 Trinidad came back and cut the Cougars’ lead to 19-18, but a missed serve gave the service back to WNCC and Angelova had two points for a 22-18 lead and then Jayla Brehmer closed out the second set with two ace serves and the 25-20 win.                 AK Chavez started the third set for WNCC with four straight points and a 5-1 lead. WNCC pushed the lead to 13-6 on four points from Charli Blackman. Trinidad tried coming back in cutting the lead to 20-17, but Chavez served two points for a 23-17 lead and then the Cougars won the match 25-22.                 WNCC only had three players with a double-figure statistic. Martinez had 27 set assists along with four digs, six points, and two aces. Erica Fava had 11 kill with eight digs and two points, while Meoni had 12 points with two aces, three kills, and three assisted blocks.                 Also for the Cougars, Curtis had four kills, four points, and five digs; Angelova had three kills, fouir points, and two assisted blocks; Alex Hernandez had four kills; Mapu had three kills; and Juliana Oliveira had three kills and two assisted blocks.                 The Cougars also got two points, two aces and a kill from Brehmer, while Blackman had four digs and four points. Chavez finished with seven digs; and Paige Nakanelua had three digs.                 All the players suited up played and got some kind of statistic. Shae Hardy had an assist with a dig; Angel Nahinu had a kill, Autumn Bennett had an assisted block, and Megan Bewley had three serve receive attempts. WNCC soccer teams fall to Laramie County on Saturday                After a week off, the Western Nebraska Community College soccer teams had a tough time in Region IX conference contests against Laramie County Community College Saturday afternoon in Cheyenne, Wyoming.                 The Cougar men almost came back to take out the Golden Eagles after trailing 3-0 at halftime, but the Cougars second half came up short as WNCC fell 4-2.                 The Cougar women played hard against a LCCC women’s team that have been national participants for the last 10-plus years, but in the end the Golden Eagles scored two late second-half goals to earn the 2-0 win.                 The women’s contest was a defensive battle for the entire contest until the last 10 minutes of the contest as neither team could put the ball into the back of the net.                 LCCC managed 14 shots on goal in the match and didn’t score it’s first goal until a shot by Mattiese Loretan in the 79th minute found the net on an own goal for the 1-0 lead. Loretan scored her second goal four minutes later on a header from a pass from Ellie Williams for the 2-0 lead.                 While LCCC had 23 shots, 14 of which were on goal, WNCC had a strong percentage of shots on goal. The Cougars had 10 shots with eight of which were on goal. Andrea Jimenez had seven shots in the contest with four on goal. Lesley Vasquez was 100 percent in the contest with two shots, both on goal.                 Summer Parnell had 11 saves in net.                 As for cornerkicks, LCCC only bettered the Cougar women by one as the Golden Eagles had four and WNCC had three.                 The WNCC men’s contest was offensive and defensive as the two teams that are separated by 90 miles hooked up in a thriller.                 LCCC started the contest as they seemed as if they were cruising over the Cougar men, scoring three times in the first 20 minutes. The first goal came just five minutes into the contest off a goal from Christian Nunez. Eight minutes later, Jorge Garcia scored and then seven minutes later Daniel Barajas scored.                 The next 25 minutes of the first half was all defensive as neither team scored.                 After intermission, the WNCC men decided to pick up the offense. Just eight minutes into the second half, Matheus Nascimento took a pass from Rodrigo Cercal and scored for the Cougars.                 WNCC kept playing tough defense and sliced the lead to one at 3-2 when Cercal buried a penalty kick in the 64th minute.                 The Cougars had opportunities to tie the game, but couldn’t get the tying goal in. LCCC added an insurance goal in the 86th minutes when Barajas scored his second goal off an assist from Vitaly Zatikyan for the 4-2 win.                 LCCC finished with just eight shots, six of which were on goal. WNCC peppered the goal with 15 shots with 10 of which on goal. Both teams had just one corner kick each.                 The game was physical with seven yellow cards issued, five of which went against the Golden Eagles.                 The Cougar men and women will wrap up the regular season next weekend when they travel to southern Colorado when they face Otero College on Friday and then Trinidad State College on Saturday. The playoffs then begin the following week. Read More Here

Election 2022 Michigan Election Deniers https://digitalalaskanews.com/election-2022-michigan-election-deniers/ Todd McInturf Oct 9, 2022 11 min ago Former President Donald Trump, left, and Michigan Republican attorney general candidate Matt DePerno, right, listen as Michigan Republican secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo addresses the crowd during a rally at the Macomb Community College Sports & Expo Center in Warren, Mich., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. With general election voting already underway in Michigan, Karamo stepped on stage as a warm-up act for Trump and hit hard on the main theme of her campaign — repeating debunked assertions that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP) Todd McInturf Get the news that matters most Read More Here

Russian Analyst Set To Face Trial On Charges Of Lying To FBI | Times Leader https://digitalalaskanews.com/russian-analyst-set-to-face-trial-on-charges-of-lying-to-fbi-times-leader/ Igor Danchenko leaves the Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse in Alexandria, Va., Nov. 4, 2021. Danchenko, a think tank analyst who played a major role in the creation of a flawed report about former President Donald Trump, is scheduled to go on trial Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, for lying to the FBI about how he developed information that went into what is now infamously known as the “Steele dossier.” AP photo ” href=”https://s24526.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/128969429_web1_128969429-b37a4e710bae4b5a8755e62040b411cb.jpg.optimal.jpg” Igor Danchenko leaves the Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse in Alexandria, Va., Nov. 4, 2021. Danchenko, a think tank analyst who played a major role in the creation of a flawed report about former President Donald Trump, is scheduled to go on trial Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, for lying to the FBI about how he developed information that went into what is now infamously known as the “Steele dossier.” AP photo ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Five years after the term “Steele dossier” entered the political lexicon, a think tank analyst who contributed to research about Donald Trump and Russia goes on trial Tuesday for lying to the FBI about his sources of information. Igor Danchenko is the third person to be prosecuted by Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed to investigate the origins of “Crossfire Hurricane” — the designation given to the FBI’s 2016 probe into former president Trump’s Russia connections. It is also the first of Durham’s cases that delves deeply into the origins of the dossier that Trump derided as fake news and a political witch hunt. Here’s some background on what the case is about. Who is Danchenko and what is he accused of? Danchenko, a Russian analyst, was a source of information for Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was paid by Democrats to research ties between Russia and presidential candidate Donald Trump. The compilation of research files, which included salacious rumors and unproven assertions, came to be familiarly known as the “Steele dossier.” Though the dossier did not help launch the FBI’s investigation into potential coordination between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the Justice Department did rely on it when it applied for and received warrants to monitor the communications of a former Trump campaign adviser. As part of its efforts to verify information in the dossier, the FBI interviewed Danchenko in 2017. He is charged with lying to agents about his information sources, with prosecutors accusing Danchenko of misleading the FBI in an effort to make his own contributions seem more credible. What do the prosecutors say? Prosecutors say Danchenko lied when the FBI asked him about how he obtained the information he gave to Steele. Specifically, they say he denied that he relied on a Democratic operative, Charles Dolan, a public relations executive who volunteered for Hillary Clinton’s presidential 2016 campaign. Prosecutors also say Danchenko lied when he said he received information from an anonymous phone call that he believed was placed by a man named named Sergei Millian, a former president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce. They argue Danchenko knew that Millian wasn’t a source of any anonymous phone call. The indictment says the FBI could have better judged the veracity of the Steele dossier had it known that a Democratic operative was the source of much of its information. What does the defense say? Danchenko’s lawyers say the prosecution “is a case of extraordinary government overreach.” They note that Danchenko agreed to multiple voluntary FBI interviews throughout 2017. They say his answers to the FBI were all technically true. For instance, an FBI agent asked Danchenko whether he ever “talked” with Dolan about the information that showed up in the dossier. While prosecutors have produced evidence that the two had email exchanges about topics in the dossier, there’s no evidence that they talked orally about those topics. “It was a bad question,” said Danchenko’s lawyer, Stuart Sears, at a pretrial hearing last month. “That’s the special counsel’s problem. Not Mr. Danchenko’s.” And while Danchenko said he believed Millian was the voice on the anonymous phone call, he never told the FBI with any certainty that it was Millian. Sears argued that ambiguous statements like that fall short of what’s necessary to convict on a false statements charge. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga last month rejected a request from defense lawyers to dismiss the charges, though he called his decision to let the case move forward an “extremely close call.” He has since ruled that prosecutors cannot present evidence about the most salacious parts of the dossier. What other cases has Durham brought? Durham was the U.S. Attorney in Connecticut in 2019 when he was tapped by then-Attorney General William Barr to hunt for potential misconduct by government officials who conducted the original Russia investigation. But after more than three years, Durham’s work has failed to meet the expectations of Trump supporters who hoped he would uncover sweeping FBI conspiracies to derail the Republican’s candidacy. The probe has produced only three criminal cases. The first case was against an FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, who was accused of altering an email related to the surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. It ended in a guilty plea and a sentence of probation – and involved FBI misconduct already uncovered by the Justice Department’s inspector general. Last year, Durham’s team charged a Democratic lawyer with making a false statement to the FBI’s top lawyer during a 2016 meeting in which he presented information about a purported digital backchannel between a Russia bank and the Trump organization. The FBI investigated but found no suspicious contact. The case against the lawyer, Michael Sussmann, ended in a swift acquittal in May. Durham’s work has continued deep into the Biden administration Justice Department, but the Danchenko trial seems likely to be the last criminal case his team will bring. It is not clear when Durham might produce a report summarizing his findings. Read More Here

Prosecutors Seek Prison For Rioter's Attack On AP Journalist https://digitalalaskanews.com/prosecutors-seek-prison-for-rioters-attack-on-ap-journalist/ (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Sunday recommended a prison sentence of approximately four years for a Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to assaulting an Associated Press photographer and using a stun gun against police officers during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss is scheduled to sentence Alan Byerly on Oct. 21 for his attack on AP photographer John Minchillo and police during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in Washington. Sentencing guidelines recommend a prison term ranging from 37 to 46 months. Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of at least 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. Byerly’s attorney has until Friday to submit a sentencing recommendation. The judge isn’t bound by any of the sentencing recommendations. Byerly was arrested in July 2021 and pleaded guilty a year later to assault charges. Byerly purchased a stun gun before he traveled from his home in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6. Leaving the rally before then-President Donald Trump finished speaking, Byerly went to the Capitol and joined other rioters in using a large metal Trump sign as a battering ram against barricades and police officers, prosecutors said. After that, he went to the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, where he and other rioters attacked Minchillo, who was wearing a lanyard with AP lettering. Byerly is one of at least three people charged with assaulting Minchillo, whose assault was captured on video by a colleague. Byerly then approached police officers behind bike racks and deployed his stun gun. “After officers successfully removed the stun gun from Byerly’s hands, Byerly continued to charge toward the officers, struck and pushed them, and grabbed an officer’s baton,” prosecutors wrote. Byerly later told FBI agents that he did just “one stupid thing down there and that’s all it was,” according to prosecutors. “This was a reference to how he handled the reporter and nothing more,” they wrote. Byerly treated Jan. 6 “as a normal, crime-free day, akin to the movie, ‘The Purge,’ when he could do whatever he wanted without judgment or legal consequence,” prosecutors said. “He was mistaken,” they added. More than 100 police officers were injured during the Capitol siege. Approximately 900 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct on Jan. 6. More than 400 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses. Over 280 riot defendants have been sentenced, with roughly half sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from one week to 10 years. © 2022 Circle City Broadcasting I, LLC. | All Rights Reserved. Read More Here

Fake Heiress Anna Sorokin Is Released From Jail https://digitalalaskanews.com/fake-heiress-anna-sorokin-is-released-from-jail/ Ms. Sorokin, who was convicted of swindling Manhattan’s elite as the high-flying Anna Delvey, was taken from an ICE detention facility on Friday to her new apartment in Manhattan. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Anna Sorokin in 2019, when she was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for various financial crimes.Credit…Timothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Published Oct. 7, 2022Updated Oct. 9, 2022, 2:22 p.m. ET Anna Sorokin, who bilked banks and tricked New York’s elite into believing she was a German heiress named Anna Delvey, was released from an immigration detention facility in Goshen, N.Y., on Friday and sent back to Manhattan. In May 2019, Ms. Sorokin was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for financial crimes including grand larceny and stealing a private jet. After serving nearly four years, she spent 18 months behind bars in immigration detention for overstaying her visa, after a judge determined she was unrepentant. (Ms. Sorokin, 31, who was born in what was then the Soviet Union, has German citizenship.) But the federal immigration judge Charles R. Conroy ruled this week that Ms. Sorokin was no longer such a threat — provided she wears an ankle bracelet. She will also be barred from using social media, including the accounts she already has. While in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, Ms. Sorokin accrued one million Instagram followers when her exploits were dramatized this year in a series on Netflix about her time, in her mid-20s, as Anna Delvey, the heiress persona she fabricated. She persuaded some of Manhattan’s elite to believe her fake back story and created a business plan to open an arts social club on Park Avenue South but ultimately went to jail after the project fell apart. Ms. Sorokin went to banks and other investment groups with her business plan, but prosecutors said she wanted to use the money to pay for her upscale lifestyle. When City National Bank gave her a $100,000 line of credit, she spent $40,000 in a month on designer clothing and luxury hotels, according to evidence presented at trial. By the next month she had gone through the rest of the money, and then some. With the project quickly fading from reality, she went to Marrakesh with Rachel Williams, a friend at the time, who was a photo editor at Vanity Fair. Ms. Sorokin left her with a $62,000 bill. In 2019, Ms. Williams testified before a jury that the bill, which she had charged on her company credit card and was ultimately reimbursed by American Express, was “the most traumatic experience I’ve ever been through.” The jury found Ms. Sorokin not guilty of stealing money from Ms. Williams, whose book about her experience with Ms. Sorokin was published shortly after the trial. (Ms. Williams had also signed an option with HBO, which has expired, according to her website.) While in jail, Ms. Sorokin supplied drawings for two art shows inspired by her time as the socialite Anna Delvey, up through her detention. Ms. Sorokin, who said she attended the art and design school Parsons Paris, said she began sketching in earnest during her criminal trial in 2019 and continued in what she said was an effort “to be very honest about my experiences.” Though she is being released from detention, “this doesn’t mean she gets to stay in the United States,” said John Sandweg, who is representing Ms. Sorokin in her immigration case. “All this means is that she gets to continue to aggressively pursue all her cases out of jail, off the taxpayer’s dime — and she gets to do it from home.” Mr. Sandweg, who previously served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Barack Obama, said he took her case because it exemplified larger problems within the immigration system. “We have an overreliance on detention, and her case is a good example of that,” he said. Referring to the effectiveness of ankle bracelets, Mr. Sandweg added: “But there are robust enforcement mechanisms that are cheaper, more humane and just as effective.” After her art dealer, Chris Martine, posted bond with a $10,000 cashier’s check on Friday, Ms. Sorokin was processed out of the Orange County Correctional Facility in Goshen and sent to the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan, where she completed additional paperwork, including confirmation of the address where she would fulfill her house arrest requirements. Hours later, Mr. Sandweg said, around 11 p.m., ICE agents drove Ms. Sorokin to her new one-bedroom apartment in the East Village. Read More Here

Dow Futures Fall 170 Points To Start Week With Key Inflation Data, Earnings Ahead https://digitalalaskanews.com/dow-futures-fall-170-points-to-start-week-with-key-inflation-data-earnings-ahead/ Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Getty Images Stock futures are lower Sunday night as the markets come out of a tumultuous week and traders look ahead to key reports coming in the next week that can offer insights into the health of the economy. Futures connected to the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 0.6% to 29,175 points. S&P 500 futures dropped 0.7% to 3,626.25 points, while Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 0.8% to 11,014.25 points. Market observers generally consider the week ahead as the kickoff to earnings season, with four of the world’s largest banks – JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Citi – reporting Friday. PepsiCo, Delta and Domino’s are also among companies reporting next week. Inflation will also take center stage as new monthly Consumer Price Index data comes Thursday morning. It will follow a week of whiplash for market participants. The first half brought a relief rally that pushed the S&P 500 up more than 5% in its largest two-day gain since 2020. But jobs data that economists say will keep the Federal Reserve on a path to continue raising interest rates and OPEC+’s decision to slash oil supply rattled investors, diluting wins later in the week. When day trading ended Friday, the S&P was up 1.5% compared to where it started the week. The Dow and Nasdaq were up 1.5% and 0.7%, respectively. Still, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq had the first positive week in the last four. All remain down substantially so far in 2022, however, and the Nasdaq is less than 1% away from its 52-week low. Meanwhile, the 2-year Treasury yield rose 6 basis points, closing at 4.316%. One basis point is equivalent to 0.01%. “The direction of the stock market is likely to be lower because either the economy and corporate profits are going to slow meaningfully or the Fed is going to have to raise rates even higher and keep them higher for longer,” said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Independent Advisor Alliance, on Friday. “Given the conditions that we are operating under, we believe it’s prudent to begin preparing for a recession,” he added. “The talk of a shallow recession that is now the narrative-du-jour strikes us as eerily similar to the ‘inflation is transitory’ narrative of last year.” Last week brought heightened concerns that corporate earnings will show the ugly side of a surging dollar as Levi Strauss became the latest to cut guidance due to sliding international sales. Core inflation will rise again, Allianz’s El-Erian predicts Allianz Chief Economic Adviser Mohamed El-Erian predicts core inflation will continue rising while headline inflation comes down to about 8%. He told CBS’ “Face The Nation” on Sunday that inflation core inflation will eventually come down. But he expects new Consumer Price Index data coming Thursday to show it rose again month over month. Core inflation previously rose 0.6% from July to August – the most recent data before what is coming next week – and was up 6.3% from a year ago. “The question is, does it come down with a slowdown in the economy or a major recession?” he said. — Alex Harring, Ashley Capoot The week ahead: Earnings season kicks off, new data and more Market observers will be watching for key data and information coming in the coming week. Four of the world’s largest banks, as well as consumer interest brands like PepsiCo and Domino’s, will report earnings for a week many call the start to the new earnings season. They will also watch for Consumer Price Index data Thursday morning as concerns over inflation continue to impact the political landscape and economic policy. New data from the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index will drop Friday morning. This index gauges consumer feelings about issues such as the health of the business world and their finances and is considered a key indicator of how average Americans feel about the economy. CNBC Pro subscribers can see more to watch for here. — Alex Harring, Jesse Pound Stock futures open lower Stock futures were down at the start of after-hours trading Sunday night. Futures connected to the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.3% to 29,225 points. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 saw futures down 0.4% to 3,638 points and 11,056.75 points, respectively. — Alex Harring Read More Here

Russian Strike Kills At Least 17 In Ukraine Following Bridge Attack https://digitalalaskanews.com/russian-strike-kills-at-least-17-in-ukraine-following-bridge-attack/ A Russian barrage pounded apartment buildings and other targets in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens, officials said Sunday. The blasts in the city, which remains under Ukrainian control but sits in a region Moscow has claimed as its own, blew out windows in adjacent buildings and left at least one high-rise apartment building partially collapsed. The multiple strikes came after an explosion Saturday caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia. The Kerch Bridge attack damaged an important supply route for the Kremlin’s faltering war effort in southern Ukraine, an artery that also is a towering symbol of Russia’s power in the region. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called the attack “a terrorist act” masterminded by Ukrainian special services.   “There’s no doubt it was a terrorist act directed at the destruction of critically important civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation,” Putin said during a meeting with the chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin. “And the authors, perpetrators, and those who ordered it are the special services of Ukraine.” Bastrykin said Ukrainian special services and citizens of Russia and other countries took part in the attack. He said a criminal investigation had been launched into an act of terror. “We have already established the route of the truck,” he said, saying it had been to Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia and Krasnodar, a region in southern Russia. In Kyiv, presidential adviser Mikhail Podolyak called Putin’s accusation “too cynical even for Russia.” “Putin accuses Ukraine of terrorism?” he said. “It has not even been 24 hours since Russian planes fired 12 rockets into a residential area of Zaporizhzhia, killing 13 people and injuring more than 50. No, there is only one state terrorist and the whole world knows who he is.” Podolyak referred to missile strikes on the city of Zaporizhzhia overnight that brought down part of a large apartment building. The six missiles were launched from Russian-occupied areas of the Zaporizhzhia region, the Ukrainian air force said. The bombing of the bridge came a day after Putin turned 70, dealing him a humiliating blow that one military analyst called it a punch in the face for Putin on his birthday, CBS News’ Charlie D’Agata reports. The rockets that pounded Zaporizhzhia overnight damaged at least 20 private homes and 50 apartment buildings, city council Secretary Anatoliy Kurtev said. At least 40 people were hospitalized, Kurtev said on Telegram. The Ukrainian military confirmed the attack, saying there were dozens of casualties. Rescuers work at a site of a residential area heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine October 9, 2022. STRINGER / REUTERS Residents gathered behind police tape by a building where several floors collapsed from the blast, leaving a smoldering chasm at least 40-feet wide where apartments once stood. Tetyana Lazun’ko, 73, and her husband, Oleksii, took shelter in the hallway of their top floor apartment after hearing sirens, warning of an attack. They were spared the worst of the blast that left them in fear and disbelief. “There was an explosion. Everything was shaking,” Lazun’ko said. “Everything was flying and I was screaming.” Shards of glass, entire window and door frames and other debris covered the exterior floors of the apartment where they’d lived since 1974. Lazun’ko wept inconsolably, wondering why their home in an area with no military infrastructure in sight was targeted. “Why are they bombing us. Why?” she said. Oleksii, who sat quietly, leaning on a wooden cane, has suffered three strokes, Lazun’ko said. Breaking his silence, he said slowly, “This is international terrorism. You can’t be saved from it.” In recent weeks, Russia has repeatedly struck Zaporizhzhia, which is the capital of a region of the same name that Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed in violation of international law last week. At least 19 people died in Russian missile strikes on apartment buildings in the city on Thursday. “Again, Zaporizhzhia. Again, merciless attacks on civilians, targeting residential buildings, in the middle of the night,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote in a Telegram post. “Absolute meanness. Absolute evil. … From the one who gave this order, to everyone who carried out this order: they will answer. They must. Before the law and the people,” he added While Russia targeted Zaporizhzhia before Saturday’s explosion on the Crimea bridge, the attack was a significant blow to Russia, which annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. No one has claimed responsibility for damaging the bridge. Putin signed a decree late Saturday tightening security for the bridge and for energy infrastructure between Crimea and Russia, and put Russia’s federal security service, the FSB, in charge of the effort. Some Russian lawmakers called for Putin to declare a “counterterrorism operation,” rather than the term “special military operation” that has downplayed the scope of fighting to ordinary Russians. Hours after the explosion, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that the air force chief, Gen. Sergei Surovikin, would now command all Russian troops in Ukraine. Surovikin, who this summer was placed in charge of troops in southern Ukraine, had led Russian forces in Syria and was accused of overseeing a bombardment that destroyed much of Aleppo. The 19-kilometer (12-mile) Kerch Bridge, on a strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, is a symbol of Moscow’s claims on Crimea and an essential link to the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The $3.6 billion bridge, the longest in Europe, is vital to sustaining Russia’s military operations in southern Ukraine. Putin himself presided over the bridge’s opening in May 2018. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a video address, indirectly acknowledged the bridge attack but did not address its cause. “Today was not a bad day and mostly sunny on our state’s territory,” he said. “Unfortunately, it was cloudy in Crimea. Although it was also warm.” Zelenskyy said Ukraine wants a future “without occupiers. Throughout our territory, in particular in Crimea.” Zelenskyy also said Ukrainian forces advanced or held the line in the east and south, but acknowledged “very, very difficult, very tough fighting” around the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have claimed recent gains. Train and automobile traffic over the bridge was temporarily suspended. Automobile traffic resumed Saturday afternoon on one of the two links that remained intact, with the flow alternating in each direction, said Crimea’s Russia-backed leader, Sergey Aksyonov. The Russian transport ministry said on Telegram Sunday that passenger train traffic between Crimea and the Russian mainland resumed overnight “according to schedule.” In a separate Telegram post Sunday, the ministry said car ferries also were working between Crimea and the mainland, with the first crossing taking place shortly before 2 a.m. local time (11 p.m. GMT). While Russia seized areas north of Crimea early in its invasion of Ukraine and built a land corridor to it along the Sea of Azov, Ukraine is pressing a counteroffensive to reclaim that territory as well as four regions Putin illegally annexed this month. Russia has ramped up its strikes on the city of Zaporizhzhia since formally absorbing the surrounding region on September 29. The regional governor of Zaporizhzhia reported that the death toll had risen to 32 after Russia’s missile strike on a civilian convoy making its way out of the city on September 30. In a Telegram post, Oleksandr Starukh that one more person died in the hospital on Friday. A part of the Zaporizhzhia region currently under Russian control is home to Europe’s largest nuclear power station. Fighting has repeatedly imperiled the the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and Ukrainian authorities shut down its last operating reactor last month to prevent a radiation disaster. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, said Saturday that the Zaporizhzhia plant has since lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators. The Crimean Peninsula is a popular destination for Russian tourists and home to a Russian naval base. A Russian tourist association estimated that 50,000 tourists were in Crimea on Saturday. In: Ukraine Russia Read More Here

Opinion: Trump Tilts At Windmills With Libel Suit Against CNN https://digitalalaskanews.com/opinion-trump-tilts-at-windmills-with-libel-suit-against-cnn/ President Trump speaks during his Jan. 6 rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by Congress. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo Donald J. Trump has filed a lawsuit against CNN. He is suing for “defamation” and wants $475 million dollars. First, Trump does not know what defamation is. Secondly, he doesn’t understand the Constitution’s protection of free speech, expression and association. Thirdly, he obviously is unaware of how the Supreme Court ruled in the New York Times v. Sullivan case in 1964. The key word in that decision was “malice.” Those who understand libel law know that a “C” student, as Trump was at Fordham and Pennsylvania, did not exit those institutions knowing what “malice” means. We are also sure that Trump didn’t attend any Constitutional law class when that case was discussed. And, we can assume that his lawyers have been too busy chasing ambulances or hiding top-secret documents in cardboard boxes at Mar-a-Lago to have read the case either. Simply put, the court ruled that a public office holder or candidate for public office must prove publication of a false defamatory statement and, additionally, prove this defamatory statement was made with “actual malice.” For Trump and his lawyers to win, the defendant, in this case CNN, must know the statement made was absolutely false or “recklessly disregarded” whether it might be false. Trump is familiar with “malice,” malicious intent and how those words are applied to outright falsehoods, outright lies. For example, on election night one-year and 11 months ago, then President Trump announced to the world that he had won the election. Trump knew that was not true. When the Fox News election staff announced that he had lost Arizona, Trump’s people objected vigorously. Fox refused to change its decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden. Numerous recounts and outside investigations proved that call was correct. The point: Trump and his people lied outright about his winning the election in claiming he had won before over half the votes cast were even counted. He did so, we now know, as part of a strategy bandied about by his friend, convicted felon Roger Stone, who we have on video tape advising Trump supporters to claim their man won no matter what the calls were state by state and regardless if any votes had even been counted. Stone told people to claim Trump won in order to confuse the matter and support numerous legal attacks by Trump and his people that, in fact, we watched in over 60 different courts around the country — all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. As we all know, not a single Trump victory was recorded. Can Trump present any real examples of defamatory statements made by any CNN employee on the air? Then can he prove that CNN knew or should have known that the incident was made public with “actual malice?” Can Trump show “actual malice” by CNN and the other news outlets he says he will also sue for defamation? Can Trump sue for defamation for anything said or published while he was President? That’s one legal question. Another might be that because he has never admitted defeat, could he be considered a candidate for office? Can he sue for anything said or published that has been proven wrong and for which the defendant has apologized for and corrected? As Trump is a citizen of Florida and CNN is a corporation in another state he has properly filed his suit in a federal court in Florida. Will the case go before a Trump-appointed judge? We don’t know. Neither does he nor do his lawyers.  Whichever judge handles the case, we know one thing — the judge will know what “actual malice” means and will be happy to school Trump’s lawyers. If that is not enough, appellate judges in the 11th Circuit in Atlanta will be happy to define it for Trump’s lawyers, for Trump and for those Americans who believe every word Trump says or posts. If only Trump had ever read New York Times vs. Sullivan he wouldn’t be suing.  Contreras is a U.S. Marine veteran, a political campaign consultant, author and hosts the Contreras Report on YouTube and ROKU TV. Read More Here

L https://digitalalaskanews.com/l-4/ LCV News: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friday, LCV Victory Fund’s state affiliates are announcing a $3.3 million investment in governors’ races across the country. From New Mexico to Maine, state leagues are running campaigns on cable, digital, and direct mail to highlight major contrasts between the candidates and the environmental stakes of the election. In each state, programs are targeting voters who turned out in 2020 but are in jeopardy of not showing up for pro-climate Gubernatorial candidates in November and are uniquely mobilized by climate and environmental issues. These Climate Voters are key to protecting governors who have strong climate records as well as winning open seats. “Across the country, voters are seeing the devastating impacts of climate change every day,” said LCV Victory Fund Senior National Campaigns Director Megan Jacobs. “When they see there are candidates who understand what’s at stake and have a plan to fight for clean air, clean water, and clean energy in their communities, they are more motivated to turn out in November.” New Mexico – CVNM Verde Voters Fund In New Mexico, ads and direct mail will contrast Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s work passing the most pro-climate and conservation executive action and legislation in state history with Mark Ronchetti’s climate denying statements and the money he has accepted from the oil and gas industry. Ronchetti is also on the 2022 Dirty Dozen in the States. Watch “Leadership” Maine – Maine Conservation Voters Action Fund Mail and digital ad campaigns supporting Gov. Janet Mills are running through the election. Ads will highlight Gov. Mills’ bold record to grow Maine’s clean energy economy and protect the state’s land, water, and wildlife. Paul LePage, Gov. Mills’ opponent, is on the 2022 Dirty Dozen in the States, a list of the 12 worst environmental candidates in the country highlighting his past record siding with polluters and attacking basic protections for Maine’s environment. Watch “Emerald” Michigan – Conservation Voters of Michigan PAC Ad campaigns on digital platforms and direct mail highlight Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s historic moves to commit the state to 100% clean energy and building thousands of clean energy jobs across the state. Ads also highlights the Governor’s historic Clean Water Plan, the largest investment to protect the Great Lakes and drinking water in state history. Watch: “Big” and “Treasure” Minnesota – Climate Vote Minnesota Ads in Minnesota highlight Scott Jensen’s dangerous anti-climate action record. Watch: “Red Alert” and “Minnesota Values” and “Something’s Not Right” Direct mail campaigns highlight Governor Tim Walz’s record to protect clean air and water and build clean energy across the state. Under Governor Walz’s leadership, Minnesota has a mandate to reduce emissions 50% by 2030 and is now the first Midwest state to implement Clean Car standards.  Pennsylvania – Conservation Voters of PA Victory Fund Ads in Pennsylvania will contrast Doug Mastriano’s record voting against pollution safeguards and for oil company tax breaks with Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s record holding big polluters accountable for water and public safety violations and fighting Trump-era EPA efforts to weaken federal protections. Mastriano also is on the 2022 Dirty Dozen in the States. Watch “Cleaner, healthier PA” Wisconsin – Wisconsin Conservation Voters Independent Expenditure Committee Digital and mail ad campaigns highlight the contrast between Tim Michels’ record of profiting off oil pipelines and Gov. Tony Evers’ work to bring down energy costs and build clean energy jobs across the state. Tim Michels also is on the 2022 Dirty Dozen in the States. Gov. Evers released Wisconsin’s first Clean Energy Plan, committing the state to 100 percent renewable energy and created the state’s first Office of Environmental Justice to ensure marginalized voices are front and center in the state’s climate solutions.  Watch “A Choice” The 2022 Climate Voters Mobilization program is modeled after LCV Victory Fund and Priorities USA Action’s successful 2020 ‘Environmental Swing Voters’ program, which served ads and direct mail about Trump’s anti-environmental record to a universe of swing voters who cared about the environment. A post-election test found that the 2020 program increased the Democratic vote margin among target voters by almost six points. Visit https://www.lcvvictoryfund.org/. Read More Here

Senator: Dems Back Reparations For Those Who 'do The Crime' | News Channel 3-12 https://digitalalaskanews.com/senator-dems-back-reparations-for-those-who-do-the-crime-news-channel-3-12/ WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville asserted that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that.” The first-term Alabama Republican spoke at a Saturday evening rally in Nevada featuring former President Donald Trump, a political ally. His comments were part of a broader critique in the final weeks before the Nov. 8 election, when control of Congress is at stake, about how Democrats have responded to rising crime rates. But Tuberville’s remarks about reparations played into racist stereotypes about Black people committing crimes. “They’re not soft on crime,” Tuberville said of Democrats. “They’re pro-crime. They want crime. They want crime because they want to take over what you got. They want to control what you have. They want reparation because they think the people that do the crime are owed that.” He ended his appearance with a profanity as the crowd cheered. Tuberville is falsely suggesting that Democrats promote crime and that only Blacks are the perpetrators. In fact, crime has slowed in the last year and most crimes are committed by whites, according to FBI data. The Democratic Party has not taken a stance on reparations for Black Americans to compensate for years of unpaid slave labor by their ancestors, though some leading Democrats, including President Joe Biden, back the creation of a national commission to study the issue. Some Republicans on Sunday struggled to defend Tuberville’s comments. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said he “wouldn’t say it the same way,” describing the remarks as impolite. “That’s not the way I present things,” Bacon said on “Meet the Press” on NBC. “But got to be honest that we have a crime problem in our country.” There was no immediate response from Tuberville’s office on Sunday to a request for comment. Republicans have been trying to close out this election year with an emphasis on crime, using rhetoric that has sometimes been alarmist or of questionable veracity, similar to Trump’s late-stage argumen t during the 2020 campaign that Democratic-led cities were out of control. FBI data released last week showed violent and property crime generally remained consistent between 2020 and 2021, with a slight decrease in the overall violent crime rate and a 4.3% rise in the murder rate. That’s an improvement over 2020, when the murder rate in the U.S. jumped 29%. The report presents an incomplete picture, in part because it doesn’t include some of the nation’s largest police departments. More broadly, rates of violent crime and killings have increased around the U.S. since the pandemic, in some places spiking after hitting historic lows. Nonviolent crime decreased during the pandemic, but the murder rate grew nearly 30% in 2020, rising in cities and rural areas alike, according to an analysis of crime data by The Brennan Center for Justice. The rate of assaults went up 10%, the analysis found. The rise defies easy explanation. Experts have pointed to a number of potential causes, from worries about the economy and historically high inflation rates to intense stress during the pandemic that has killed more than 1 million people in the United States. Read More Here

Inflation Relief Checks Live Online Updates By State: California, Florida… | Payments, Who Qualifies & Amounts https://digitalalaskanews.com/inflation-relief-checks-live-online-updates-by-state-california-florida-payments-who-qualifies-amounts/ Inflation Relief Checks: live updates  US NEWS $350 relief checks in Georgia: Who qualifies and when are the payments? Beginning in September, around 3 million Georgians received a check worth $350. This is because Governor Brian Kemp released up to $1.2 billion in covid-19 aid to send people funds to deal with inflation. While some could see this as a bit of a bung considering upcoming gubernatorial elections in November, the money will be happily received by many living in one of the most serious economic periods in the last three decades. “This assistance will help some of Georgia’s most vulnerable citizens cope with the continued negative economic impact of the covid-19 public health emergency and 40-year-high inflation caused by disastrous policies that were implemented by the Biden administration,” Kemp’s office said in a statement. As Virginians face high inflation and prices coming from policies set in Washington, these one-time tax rebates will help families lower the cost of living.   “Past administrations have overtaxed Virginians and by returning taxpayer money to Virginia’s taxpayers we are ensuring that hard working Virginians get to keep more of their paycheck during these difficult economic times. Latest News California Inflation Relief Check: do I qualify according to my filing status? After seeing a budget surplus, the Golden State has established a new tax credit, Middle-Class Tax Refund (MCTR), that will be distributed to millions. The state allocated around $9.5 billion for the refund and hopes that families will be able to use the payments to keep up with prices. The state leads the country in the cost of gas and after a brief period of relief from high prices from July to September, they are on the climb once again. The payments for the tax refund are worth anywhere between $200 and $1,050, depending on one’s income, tax filing status, and whether or not one claimed a dependent on their taxes in 2021. Read our full coverage for how payments break down by filing status and when they can be expected.  US NEWS Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan: When does it start, who qualifies and how to apply? It was announced last August that a plan for accessing the student debt forgiveness plan would come in October. This is yet to have happened but CNN reports that the application plan is due out very, very soon, so you should keep switched on to the news or be aware of updates on the Federal Student Aid website as the details will be released there first. Pell Grant recipients and non-grantees will be able to cut $20,000 and $10,000 in student loan debt, respectively, so long as they make under $125,000 a year (250,000 for married couples). Of those surveyed in a Data for Progress poll in August, 29 percent of students had less than $10,000 in debt, highlighting the large impact President Biden’s decision will have on millions of borrowers. Read our full coverage for more details on President Biden’s plan to cancel some student loan debt.  Maine offers inflation relief payments Maine governor, Janet Mills, touted the sending of $850 checks that will be sent to 850,000 residents as a part of a bipartisan bill to support households as inflation continues to cut into purchasing power.  Those who have yet to receive their checks should check in with the state’s tax authority.  More money could be distributed to California taxpayers This week the first batch of payments for the Middle Class Tax Refund were sent out.  Additionally, Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced that he is calling a special session to have the legislature pass a law that would increase taxes on profits made by oil and gas companies.  The news comes as the state sees gas prices increase rapidly as global markets have seen decreases in the price of a barrel of oil.  A windfall tax would increase state revenue on the profits these companies see that is over and above what they made in previous years. The idea would be to use the increased revenue collected through the new tax as a tax credit for taxpayers in the form of a rebate.   US NEWS California inflation relief checks 2022: amounts, eligibility and how for apply to the payments Californians who filed a 2020 tax return by 15 October 2021 will start receiving direct payments 7 October from the state’s Middle Class Tax Refund. The tax rebate plan will provide up to $1,050 to millions of California families to help with inflation and high gas prices which are on the rise again. Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders agreed at the end of June to spend part of the state’s bumper budget surplus on the $17 million inflation relief package. Read more on the payments in our full coverage.  Welcome to AS USA’s live blog on inflation and the measures states are taking to assist residents in combatting its impacts for Sunday, 9 October.   Last week, California sent out its first batch of payments for the Middle-Class Tax Refund, which will send checks worth up to $1,050 to millions of households across the state.  Additionally, this week, the Social Security Administration will announce the 2023 Cost-of-living adjustment that will be made to payments in January.   Follow along for more news on the payments being sent in other states, as well as support that may come from the federal level.  Read More Here

The Next Best Thing To A Debate? Lake, Hobbs Make Back-To-Back Appearances On National TV https://digitalalaskanews.com/the-next-best-thing-to-a-debate-lake-hobbs-make-back-to-back-appearances-on-national-tv/ Arizona’s candidates for governor appeared on the CBS morning news show ‘Face the Nation’ Sunday, just hours ahead of Trump’s visit to the state.  The former president wasn’t the focus of the discussion; instead, Democratic nominee Katie Hobbs and Republican nominee Kari Lake discussed their plans for border security, abortion and other issues, including Hobbs’ refusal to debate Lake.  The interviews, conducted separately and aired back to back, might be the closest equivalent to a debate a national audience will see this cycle. They highlighted the stylistic and policy differences of two women locked in a nationally watched race that most polls say is tied. Lake has shifted from praising a near-total ban on abortion to saying she will follow the law. She did so again Sunday. Arizona has two conflicting laws on the books, but a court ruling Friday has allowed a ban on abortions after 15 weeks except for in medical emergencies to prevail.  Trump in Arizona: Trump, Lake supporters filling venue in Mesa Lake told CBS news correspondent Major Garrett the “law right now as it stands is Gov. Ducey’s law at 15 weeks, so we’ll follow the law,” according to a transcript of the interview.  Garrett likewise tried to pin down Hobbs’ position on abortion, which Lake has painted as extreme because Hobbs has repeatedly declined to say if there is a stage of pregnancy after which she thinks abortion should be prohibited. Pressed on that, Garrett asked Hobbs if an Arizona voter would be right to conclude that she does “not favor any specific week limit on abortion.”  “I support leaving the decision between a woman and her doctor and leaving politicians entirely out of it,” Hobbs replied.  Lake spent much of her interview talking about her plan to use state law enforcement as border patrol and deportation officers, an authority she’d seek using an untested legal theory that would buck decades of court precedent and likely lead to a lawsuit.   “I hope that Joe Biden doesn’t fight us because then it would really look like he is on the side of the cartel,” she said.  Lake didn’t mention Trump in her interview, perhaps a reflection of his unpopularity with voters nationally. Hobbs brought up the former president twice, attacking his record at the southern border and his false claims the 2020 election was “stolen,” which Lake has parroted. Hobbs said Trump’s effort to build the border wall, the signature of his border policy, wasn’t finished and called on the Biden administration to “step up.”  Asked why she wouldn’t debate Lake, and if her decision not to participate shortchanged voters of a chance to see how Hobbs would respond in a moment of duress, Hobbs shifted to Trump.  “I think the voters of Arizona have had a chance to see how I work under crisis throughout my leadership during the 2020 election as secretary of state,” Hobbs said, “when we had to combat multiple election challenges from former President Trump and his band of election deniers, including my opponent Kari Lake.” Reach reporter Stacey Barchenger at stacey.barchenger@arizonarepublic.com or 480-416-5669. Follow her on Twitter @sbarchenger Read More Here

Jim Jordan Has A Meltdown And Threatens The FBI Over Trump Investigation – The Bharat Express News https://digitalalaskanews.com/jim-jordan-has-a-meltdown-and-threatens-the-fbi-over-trump-investigation-the-bharat-express-news/ On Sunday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) the FBI with congressional hearings as they investigate Trump. Video of Jordan on TBEN News’ Sunday Morning Futures: Jim Jordan vows to investigate the FBI for searching Trump’s club and recovering stolen documents. pic.twitter.com/4V8nJxk5ao — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticianSarah) October 9, 2022 Jordan said: This is the FBI who raided the home of a former president, ninety-one days before an election, picked up the phone of a sitting congressman… I also think it’s an important point to remember, Maria. This is the FBI that has been involved in every election for the past four cycles. This is a point Congressman Gaetz made in committee a few weeks ago. In 2016, they spied on President Trump’s campaign. In 2018, that was the Mueller investigation. In 2020 they withheld information about the Hunter Biden laptop and now in 2020 (sic) they raided the home of a former president, took the phone of a sitting congressman 91 days before an election, so when did the FBI not get involved at one of our elections? That’s probably an important question, so that’s the real concern for me. We will do everything we can to hold these people accountable when we have the majority. Representative Jordan apparently had no problem interfering with Hillary Clinton’s email investigation in the 2016 election. Jordan only seems to have trouble with FBI investigations involving Donald Trump. For the record, none of what Jim Jordan claims the FBI did to Republicans in previous election cycles was true. The Mueller investigation was overseen by the Trump Justice Department, not the FBI. Representative Jordan is trying to drive the FBI away from Trump, and his collapse was proof that Republicans intend to use their majority in the House, if they win one, to defame Joe Biden and protect Donald Trump. Mr Easley is the editor in chief. He is also a White House Press Pool and a congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His graduation work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements. Awards and Professional Memberships Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Political Science Association Read More Here

Slotkin Says Democrats Need ‘New Blood’ With Biden 2024 Pending https://digitalalaskanews.com/slotkin-says-democrats-need-new-blood-with-biden-2024-pending/ (Bloomberg) — Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat facing a tight race in November, said her party needs “new blood” though she’d back President Joe Biden if he seeks a second term in 2024. Most Read from Bloomberg Russia Races to Reopen Crimea Bridge Damaged in Fiery Blast Putin Orders Sakhalin-1 Project Transferred to Russian Entity Minecraft Star Dream Meets His Screaming Fans for First Time Ukraine Latest: Putin Comments on Bridge, Calls Security Meeting Eight Years of Combat Hardened Ukraine’s Army Into a Fighting Force Slotkin, who represents a district that Donald Trump carried twice, sought to burnish her independence from traditional Democratic leaders in an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “He’s the sitting president,” Slotkin said of Biden. “If he decides to run again, I’m going to support him, the party’s going to support him.” Yet, she said, “we need a new generation, we need new blood, period, across the Democratic Party.” Slotkin, 46, called for more party leaders from the Midwest. She was among a handful of Democrats who didn’t vote for Nancy Pelosi as House speaker in 2019 and 2021. Biden has said he intends to run for re-election, though he’ll decide after congressional midterm elections in November. While his approval ratings have recovered from lows reached over the summer, a Washington Post-ABC News poll in September found 56% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents say the party should pick a different nominee for 2024. Most Read from Bloomberg Businessweek Hackers Target Eager Homebuyers With a Dumb Scam That Keeps Working Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere The Massive Gas Field That Europe Can’t Use ‘I Am Energy’: Inside the Bang Billionaire’s Reeling Empire ©2022 Bloomberg L.P. Read More Here

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(%);UV Index Albany, NY;62;42;59;39;Becoming cloudy;W;7;65%;25%;2 Albuquerque, NM;65;52;68;51;Mostly cloudy;SSE;7;56%;15%;4 Anchorage, AK;51;32;41;31;Rain and drizzle;NNW;7;73%;92%;0 Asheville, NC;64;42;68;45;Partly sunny;ESE;6;57%;2%;5 Atlanta, GA;73;47;77;54;Mostly sunny, nice;ENE;6;44%;4%;5 Atlantic City, NJ;64;46;68;49;Plenty of sunshine;WSW;9;53%;0%;4 Austin, TX;89;64;89;64;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;5;49%;11%;6 Baltimore, MD;64;46;69;50;Mostly sunny;WSW;6;45%;3%;4 Baton Rouge, LA;83;56;85;57;Sunny and nice;ENE;7;51%;5%;5 Billings, MT;73;46;78;48;Partly sunny, warm;WSW;11;40%;25%;3 Birmingham, AL;73;45;78;49;Sunny and nice;ENE;7;40%;5%;5 Bismarck, ND;66;38;73;43;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;10;50%;2%;3 Boise, ID;79;48;79;48;Sunny and very warm;ENE;7;30%;0%;4 Boston, MA;63;45;64;47;Partly sunny;NW;7;54%;8%;3 Bridgeport, CT;63;44;66;46;Mostly sunny;NW;7;53%;2%;4 Buffalo, NY;60;46;60;45;A shower in the a.m.;SSW;6;60%;57%;3 Burlington, VT;53;36;54;37;Mostly cloudy;ESE;6;63%;27%;2 Caribou, ME;49;28;51;30;Clouds limiting sun;WSW;7;58%;8%;2 Casper, WY;74;38;76;45;Breezy in the p.m.;SW;12;26%;1%;4 Charleston, SC;74;65;77;65;Humid, a p.m. shower;NE;9;78%;49%;4 Charleston, WV;64;37;69;41;Mostly sunny;SE;4;57%;1%;4 Charlotte, NC;70;52;70;51;Mostly cloudy;E;7;68%;12%;2 Cheyenne, WY;70;40;75;46;Partly sunny, warm;WSW;10;25%;3%;4 Chicago, IL;69;51;69;54;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;47%;3%;4 Cleveland, OH;64;48;63;52;Periods of sun;SE;9;55%;9%;4 Columbia, SC;73;60;73;58;Low clouds may break;NE;6;78%;21%;2 Columbus, OH;62;40;69;44;Mostly sunny;S;7;49%;4%;4 Concord, NH;62;34;57;35;An afternoon shower;NW;6;68%;40%;2 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX;82;64;86;66;Clouds and sun, warm;S;7;48%;25%;5 Denver, CO;74;46;75;50;Mostly sunny;SW;6;29%;3%;4 Des Moines, IA;74;46;79;58;Plenty of sunshine;SSE;8;41%;7%;4 Detroit, MI;68;45;66;48;Mostly sunny;SE;5;56%;9%;4 Dodge City, KS;76;49;79;55;Mostly sunny;S;13;48%;26%;4 Duluth, MN;53;40;59;48;Mostly sunny, milder;ENE;5;71%;3%;3 El Paso, TX;74;57;75;58;A t-storm around;SE;7;58%;52%;4 Fairbanks, AK;40;26;37;21;Mostly cloudy;NNW;5;66%;71%;1 Fargo, ND;63;38;68;50;Mostly sunny;SSE;10;61%;8%;3 Grand Junction, CO;72;47;75;49;Sunny and pleasant;SE;8;42%;4%;4 Grand Rapids, MI;64;42;65;45;Mostly sunny;E;5;61%;9%;4 Hartford, CT;64;43;66;44;Partly sunny;NNW;6;57%;2%;4 Helena, MT;70;40;74;49;Partly sunny, warm;WSW;9;43%;74%;3 Honolulu, HI;86;71;85;73;Cloudy and humid;SE;7;74%;44%;2 Houston, TX;87;64;87;65;Plenty of sunshine;SE;8;53%;9%;6 Indianapolis, IN;65;44;74;50;Sunshine and nice;SSE;8;46%;2%;4 Jackson, MS;79;52;82;54;Sunny and nice;ESE;5;51%;8%;5 Jacksonville, FL;86;66;84;68;Partly sunny;NNE;8;66%;11%;5 Juneau, AK;57;45;49;45;A couple of showers;S;10;85%;99%;0 Kansas City, MO;77;52;84;62;Sunny and very warm;S;7;49%;56%;4 Knoxville, TN;68;38;71;44;Partly sunny, nice;NE;5;51%;3%;5 Las Vegas, NV;90;66;88;64;A stray t-shower;NW;7;33%;50%;5 Lexington, KY;64;39;71;44;Mostly sunny, nice;SSE;6;53%;3%;4 Little Rock, AR;78;56;86;59;Mostly cloudy;SSE;5;53%;12%;4 Long Beach, CA;79;66;76;64;Partly sunny, nice;SW;6;73%;6%;4 Los Angeles, CA;80;64;79;63;Partly sunny;SW;6;72%;5%;4 Louisville, KY;65;43;76;47;Mostly sunny, nice;SSE;7;48%;3%;4 Madison, WI;67;40;67;49;Partly sunny;SE;5;61%;4%;4 Memphis, TN;76;55;84;58;Partly sunny;SE;5;45%;3%;5 Miami, FL;84;78;88;79;Humid;ENE;10;73%;67%;7 Milwaukee, WI;68;48;64;51;Mostly sunny;SSE;8;64%;5%;4 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN;69;44;70;55;Mostly sunny, nice;SSE;8;49%;3%;3 Mobile, AL;81;55;84;55;Sunny and nice;NNE;9;42%;6%;5 Montgomery, AL;76;46;79;50;Sunny and nice;NE;8;38%;7%;5 Mt. Washington, NH;32;20;29;21;A bit of ice;WNW;30;92%;60%;2 Nashville, TN;70;41;77;46;Partly sunny, nice;ESE;5;50%;5%;5 New Orleans, LA;81;64;83;64;Sunny and pleasant;ENE;10;47%;7%;6 New York, NY;64;48;66;51;Mostly sunny;WNW;8;45%;1%;4 Newark, NJ;64;44;67;47;Partly sunny;WNW;7;49%;2%;4 Norfolk, VA;68;47;70;49;Partly sunny;SE;5;60%;4%;4 Oklahoma City, OK;75;58;75;61;A stray p.m. t-storm;S;12;70%;82%;2 Olympia, WA;77;48;68;44;Not as warm;SW;9;77%;22%;2 Omaha, NE;77;44;81;59;Partly sunny, warm;SSE;9;44%;8%;4 Orlando, FL;86;72;86;72;An afternoon shower;NNE;9;74%;70%;3 Philadelphia, PA;64;45;68;48;Sunny;SW;7;47%;2%;4 Phoenix, AZ;90;71;90;71;Mostly sunny;ENE;6;36%;9%;5 Pittsburgh, PA;61;41;66;45;Partly sunny;SSW;7;49%;3%;4 Portland, ME;60;38;56;39;A passing shower;NW;6;62%;80%;2 Portland, OR;84;53;73;50;Not as warm;NNW;6;64%;34%;3 Providence, RI;63;42;65;43;Partial sunshine;WNW;6;55%;4%;3 Raleigh, NC;70;51;69;49;Mostly cloudy;NNE;5;67%;9%;2 Reno, NV;81;47;81;46;Partly sunny;W;4;29%;4%;4 Richmond, VA;66;41;70;43;Partly sunny;SE;6;53%;3%;4 Roswell, NM;68;54;73;53;A t-storm in spots;S;6;64%;64%;3 Sacramento, CA;90;56;92;56;Sunny and hot;SSE;5;41%;1%;4 Salt Lake City, UT;81;52;79;55;Mostly sunny, warm;SE;7;33%;0%;4 San Antonio, TX;88;64;89;65;Mostly sunny, warm;SE;8;53%;14%;6 San Diego, CA;74;66;75;66;Partly sunny, humid;WNW;8;74%;3%;5 San Francisco, CA;64;54;68;55;Partly sunny;WSW;10;73%;2%;3 Savannah, GA;79;63;80;64;Humid with sunshine;NNE;7;74%;30%;5 Seattle-Tacoma, WA;76;55;68;51;Mostly sunny, nice;E;6;69%;32%;3 Sioux Falls, SD;76;38;75;56;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;9;46%;16%;4 Spokane, WA;77;47;77;46;Sunny and warm;W;9;45%;1%;3 Springfield, IL;73;43;78;53;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;6;47%;25%;4 St. Louis, MO;73;47;82;56;Sunny and warm;SSE;6;47%;26%;4 Tampa, FL;90;71;87;72;Showers around;ENE;7;76%;70%;3 Toledo, OH;67;41;67;47;Mostly sunny;SE;5;57%;10%;4 Tucson, AZ;83;63;84;62;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;44%;4%;5 Tulsa, OK;78;58;81;63;A stray p.m. t-storm;SSW;8;59%;94%;3 Vero Beach, FL;87;74;86;74;Humid with a t-storm;ENE;8;81%;85%;2 Washington, DC;65;44;68;47;Mostly sunny;SW;6;49%;2%;4 Wichita, KS;78;53;80;62;Mostly sunny;S;10;60%;66%;4 Wilmington, DE;64;42;68;46;Sunshine;SW;7;51%;1%;4 _____ Copyright 2022 AccuWeather Read More Here

US Forecast https://digitalalaskanews.com/us-forecast-123/ City/Town, State;Yesterday’s High Temp (F);Yesterday’s Low Temp (F);Today’s High Temp (F);Today’s Low Temp (F);Weather Condition;Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%);Chance of Precip. (%);UV Index Albany, NY;62;42;59;39;Becoming cloudy;W;7;65%;25%;2 Albuquerque, NM;65;52;68;51;Mostly cloudy;SSE;7;56%;15%;4 Anchorage, AK;51;32;41;31;Rain and drizzle;NNW;7;73%;92%;0 Asheville, NC;64;42;68;45;Partly sunny;ESE;6;57%;2%;5 Atlanta, GA;73;47;77;54;Mostly sunny, nice;ENE;6;44%;4%;5 Atlantic City, NJ;64;46;68;49;Plenty of sunshine;WSW;9;53%;0%;4 Austin, TX;89;64;89;64;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;5;49%;11%;6 Baltimore, MD;64;46;69;50;Mostly sunny;WSW;6;45%;3%;4 Baton Rouge, LA;83;56;85;57;Sunny and nice;ENE;7;51%;5%;5 Billings, MT;73;46;78;48;Partly sunny, warm;WSW;11;40%;25%;3 Birmingham, AL;73;45;78;49;Sunny and nice;ENE;7;40%;5%;5 Bismarck, ND;66;38;73;43;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;10;50%;2%;3 Boise, ID;79;48;79;48;Sunny and very warm;ENE;7;30%;0%;4 Boston, MA;63;45;64;47;Partly sunny;NW;7;54%;8%;3 Bridgeport, CT;63;44;66;46;Mostly sunny;NW;7;53%;2%;4 Buffalo, NY;60;46;60;45;A shower in the a.m.;SSW;6;60%;57%;3 Burlington, VT;53;36;54;37;Mostly cloudy;ESE;6;63%;27%;2 Caribou, ME;49;28;51;30;Clouds limiting sun;WSW;7;58%;8%;2 Casper, WY;74;38;76;45;Breezy in the p.m.;SW;12;26%;1%;4 Charleston, SC;74;65;77;65;Humid, a p.m. shower;NE;9;78%;49%;4 Charleston, WV;64;37;69;41;Mostly sunny;SE;4;57%;1%;4 Charlotte, NC;70;52;70;51;Mostly cloudy;E;7;68%;12%;2 Cheyenne, WY;70;40;75;46;Partly sunny, warm;WSW;10;25%;3%;4 Chicago, IL;69;51;69;54;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;47%;3%;4 Cleveland, OH;64;48;63;52;Periods of sun;SE;9;55%;9%;4 Columbia, SC;73;60;73;58;Low clouds may break;NE;6;78%;21%;2 Columbus, OH;62;40;69;44;Mostly sunny;S;7;49%;4%;4 Concord, NH;62;34;57;35;An afternoon shower;NW;6;68%;40%;2 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX;82;64;86;66;Clouds and sun, warm;S;7;48%;25%;5 Denver, CO;74;46;75;50;Mostly sunny;SW;6;29%;3%;4 Des Moines, IA;74;46;79;58;Plenty of sunshine;SSE;8;41%;7%;4 Detroit, MI;68;45;66;48;Mostly sunny;SE;5;56%;9%;4 Dodge City, KS;76;49;79;55;Mostly sunny;S;13;48%;26%;4 Duluth, MN;53;40;59;48;Mostly sunny, milder;ENE;5;71%;3%;3 El Paso, TX;74;57;75;58;A t-storm around;SE;7;58%;52%;4 Fairbanks, AK;40;26;37;21;Mostly cloudy;NNW;5;66%;71%;1 Fargo, ND;63;38;68;50;Mostly sunny;SSE;10;61%;8%;3 Grand Junction, CO;72;47;75;49;Sunny and pleasant;SE;8;42%;4%;4 Grand Rapids, MI;64;42;65;45;Mostly sunny;E;5;61%;9%;4 Hartford, CT;64;43;66;44;Partly sunny;NNW;6;57%;2%;4 Helena, MT;70;40;74;49;Partly sunny, warm;WSW;9;43%;74%;3 Honolulu, HI;86;71;85;73;Cloudy and humid;SE;7;74%;44%;2 Houston, TX;87;64;87;65;Plenty of sunshine;SE;8;53%;9%;6 Indianapolis, IN;65;44;74;50;Sunshine and nice;SSE;8;46%;2%;4 Jackson, MS;79;52;82;54;Sunny and nice;ESE;5;51%;8%;5 Jacksonville, FL;86;66;84;68;Partly sunny;NNE;8;66%;11%;5 Juneau, AK;57;45;49;45;A couple of showers;S;10;85%;99%;0 Kansas City, MO;77;52;84;62;Sunny and very warm;S;7;49%;56%;4 Knoxville, TN;68;38;71;44;Partly sunny, nice;NE;5;51%;3%;5 Las Vegas, NV;90;66;88;64;A stray t-shower;NW;7;33%;50%;5 Lexington, KY;64;39;71;44;Mostly sunny, nice;SSE;6;53%;3%;4 Little Rock, AR;78;56;86;59;Mostly cloudy;SSE;5;53%;12%;4 Long Beach, CA;79;66;76;64;Partly sunny, nice;SW;6;73%;6%;4 Los Angeles, CA;80;64;79;63;Partly sunny;SW;6;72%;5%;4 Louisville, KY;65;43;76;47;Mostly sunny, nice;SSE;7;48%;3%;4 Madison, WI;67;40;67;49;Partly sunny;SE;5;61%;4%;4 Memphis, TN;76;55;84;58;Partly sunny;SE;5;45%;3%;5 Miami, FL;84;78;88;79;Humid;ENE;10;73%;67%;7 Milwaukee, WI;68;48;64;51;Mostly sunny;SSE;8;64%;5%;4 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN;69;44;70;55;Mostly sunny, nice;SSE;8;49%;3%;3 Mobile, AL;81;55;84;55;Sunny and nice;NNE;9;42%;6%;5 Montgomery, AL;76;46;79;50;Sunny and nice;NE;8;38%;7%;5 Mt. Washington, NH;32;20;29;21;A bit of ice;WNW;30;92%;60%;2 Nashville, TN;70;41;77;46;Partly sunny, nice;ESE;5;50%;5%;5 New Orleans, LA;81;64;83;64;Sunny and pleasant;ENE;10;47%;7%;6 New York, NY;64;48;66;51;Mostly sunny;WNW;8;45%;1%;4 Newark, NJ;64;44;67;47;Partly sunny;WNW;7;49%;2%;4 Norfolk, VA;68;47;70;49;Partly sunny;SE;5;60%;4%;4 Oklahoma City, OK;75;58;75;61;A stray p.m. t-storm;S;12;70%;82%;2 Olympia, WA;77;48;68;44;Not as warm;SW;9;77%;22%;2 Omaha, NE;77;44;81;59;Partly sunny, warm;SSE;9;44%;8%;4 Orlando, FL;86;72;86;72;An afternoon shower;NNE;9;74%;70%;3 Philadelphia, PA;64;45;68;48;Sunny;SW;7;47%;2%;4 Phoenix, AZ;90;71;90;71;Mostly sunny;ENE;6;36%;9%;5 Pittsburgh, PA;61;41;66;45;Partly sunny;SSW;7;49%;3%;4 Portland, ME;60;38;56;39;A passing shower;NW;6;62%;80%;2 Portland, OR;84;53;73;50;Not as warm;NNW;6;64%;34%;3 Providence, RI;63;42;65;43;Partial sunshine;WNW;6;55%;4%;3 Raleigh, NC;70;51;69;49;Mostly cloudy;NNE;5;67%;9%;2 Reno, NV;81;47;81;46;Partly sunny;W;4;29%;4%;4 Richmond, VA;66;41;70;43;Partly sunny;SE;6;53%;3%;4 Roswell, NM;68;54;73;53;A t-storm in spots;S;6;64%;64%;3 Sacramento, CA;90;56;92;56;Sunny and hot;SSE;5;41%;1%;4 Salt Lake City, UT;81;52;79;55;Mostly sunny, warm;SE;7;33%;0%;4 San Antonio, TX;88;64;89;65;Mostly sunny, warm;SE;8;53%;14%;6 San Diego, CA;74;66;75;66;Partly sunny, humid;WNW;8;74%;3%;5 San Francisco, CA;64;54;68;55;Partly sunny;WSW;10;73%;2%;3 Savannah, GA;79;63;80;64;Humid with sunshine;NNE;7;74%;30%;5 Seattle-Tacoma, WA;76;55;68;51;Mostly sunny, nice;E;6;69%;32%;3 Sioux Falls, SD;76;38;75;56;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;9;46%;16%;4 Spokane, WA;77;47;77;46;Sunny and warm;W;9;45%;1%;3 Springfield, IL;73;43;78;53;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;6;47%;25%;4 St. Louis, MO;73;47;82;56;Sunny and warm;SSE;6;47%;26%;4 Tampa, FL;90;71;87;72;Showers around;ENE;7;76%;70%;3 Toledo, OH;67;41;67;47;Mostly sunny;SE;5;57%;10%;4 Tucson, AZ;83;63;84;62;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;44%;4%;5 Tulsa, OK;78;58;81;63;A stray p.m. t-storm;SSW;8;59%;94%;3 Vero Beach, FL;87;74;86;74;Humid with a t-storm;ENE;8;81%;85%;2 Washington, DC;65;44;68;47;Mostly sunny;SW;6;49%;2%;4 Wichita, KS;78;53;80;62;Mostly sunny;S;10;60%;66%;4 Wilmington, DE;64;42;68;46;Sunshine;SW;7;51%;1%;4 _____ Copyright 2022 AccuWeather Read More Here

Mark Meadows Told Incoming Biden Chief Of Staff Ron Klain During The Presidential Transition That 'no President' Received A Daily Intelligence Briefing: Book https://digitalalaskanews.com/mark-meadows-told-incoming-biden-chief-of-staff-ron-klain-during-the-presidential-transition-that-no-president-received-a-daily-intelligence-briefing-book/ Meadows told Klain that “no president” received a daily briefing, per Maggie Haberman’s new book. In “Confidence Man,” Haberman detailed how Klain asked for Biden to get a daily intelligence brief. “No president ever does that. That’s never happened,” Meadows responded, according to the book. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told incoming Biden White House chief of staff Ron Klain that “no president” received a daily intelligence briefing, after the longtime Democratic aide told his GOP counterpart that the incoming president wanted to be briefed on a daily basis, according to a new book by New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman. The transition process between the administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden had already been rocky, as Trump refused to formally concede the race in public and his campaign attorneys were still trying to figure out ways to overturn the results in myriad swing states. Meadows, a former GOP congressman from North Carolina, and Klain, a longtime confidant of Biden who had previously been a chief of staff to both Al Gore and the then-incoming president, were in communication to work together in navigating the transition process. But Trump’s continued insistence that he had truly won the election complicated the situation, as detailed in the book, “Confidence Man.” “I know the president’s saying these things,” Meadows told Klain at the time, per the book. “We will get it worked out.” But Biden’s transition staffers continued running into issues, as they received critical updates from the Pentagon later than desired, and encountered delays in getting COVID-19 vaccinations set up for incoming staffers in the Democratic administration. However, there was one area where Meadows sought clarity and seemed to be surprised by the response — as it pertained to the President’s daily briefing. In April 2020, The New York Times reported that Trump generally did not complete reading the intelligence reports, as several former intelligence officials told the newspaper at the time that the then-president had a short attention span and was adept at veering off onto different subjects. According to the Times report, Trump often eschewed reading through detailed reports but was attracted to graphics, charts, and other data-driven visuals. In November 2020, after Biden had been declared the president-elect by virtually every major news outlet, Klain informed Meadows that Biden needed to begin getting the daily intelligence briefing, according to Haberman’s account. “How many days a week is Vice President Biden gonna want this daily brief?” Meadows asked, per the book. Klain was surprised by the question, telling Meadows that Biden — a former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his days in the upper chamber — would want to get a briefing on a daily basis. Biden also received daily briefings during his time as vice president under then-President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017. Meadows responded: “No president ever does that. That’s never happened.” Haberman wrote that Klain’s request “seemed so beyond Meadows’s own experience that he could not comprehend it.” Read More Here

Tuberville: Dems Back Reparations For Those Who ‘do The Crime’ https://digitalalaskanews.com/tuberville-dems-back-reparations-for-those-who-do-the-crime/ Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville asserted that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that.” The first-term Alabama Republican spoke at a Saturday evening rally in Nevada featuring former President Donald Trump, a political ally. His comments were part of a broader critique in the final weeks before the Nov. 8 election, when control of Congress is at stake, about how Democrats have responded to rising crime rates. But Tuberville’s remarks about reparations played into racist stereotypes about Black people committing crimes. “They’re not soft on crime,” Tuberville said of Democrats. “They’re pro-crime. They want crime. They want crime because they want to take over what you got. They want to control what you have. They want reparation because they think the people that do the crime are owed that.” He ended his appearance with a profanity as the crowd cheered. Tuberville is falsely suggesting that Democrats promote crime and that only Blacks are the perpetrators. In fact, crime has slowed in the last year and most crimes are committed by whites, according to FBI data. The Democratic Party has not taken a stance on reparations for Black Americans to compensate for years of unpaid slave labor by their ancestors, though some leading Democrats, including President Joe Biden, back the creation of a national commission to study the issue. Some Republicans on Sunday struggled to defend Tuberville’s comments. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said he “wouldn’t say it the same way,” describing the remarks as impolite. “That’s not the way I present things,” Bacon said on “Meet the Press” on NBC. “But got to be honest that we have a crime problem in our country.” There was no immediate response from Tuberville’s office on Sunday to a request for comment. Republicans have been trying to close out this election year with an emphasis on crime, using rhetoric that has sometimes been alarmist or of questionable veracity, similar to Trump’s late-stage argumen t during the 2020 campaign that Democratic-led cities were out of control. FBI data released last week showed violent and property crime generally remained consistent between 2020 and 2021, with a slight decrease in the overall violent crime rate and a 4.3% rise in the murder rate. That’s an improvement over 2020, when the murder rate in the U.S. jumped 29%. The report presents an incomplete picture, in part because it doesn’t include some of the nation’s largest police departments. More broadly, rates of violent crime and killings have increased around the U.S. since the pandemic, in some places spiking after hitting historic lows. Nonviolent crime decreased during the pandemic, but the murder rate grew nearly 30% in 2020, rising in cities and rural areas alike, according to an analysis of crime data by The Brennan Center for Justice. The rate of assaults went up 10%, the analysis found. The rise defies easy explanation. Experts have pointed to a number of potential causes, from worries about the economy and historically high inflation rates to intense stress during the pandemic that has killed more than 1 million people in the United States. Copyright © 2022 The Washington Times, LLC. Read More Here

🌱 National Fire Prevention Week + Search For Missing Las Vegas Man https://digitalalaskanews.com/%f0%9f%8c%b1-national-fire-prevention-week-search-for-missing-las-vegas-man/ Skip to main content Palm Desert, CA Banning-Beaumont, CA Redlands-Loma Linda, CA Claremont-La Verne, CA Glendora, CA Lake Elsinore-Wildomar, CA Monrovia, CA Diamond Bar-Walnut, CA Murrieta, CA Sierra Madre, CA Nevada Top National News See All Communities Hello again, everybody! It’s me, Danielle Fallon-O’Leary, your host of the Daily. Here are all the things you need to know about what’s happening in town. But first, today’s weather: A stray afternoon t-shower. High: 88 Low: 64. Find out what’s happening in Las Vegaswith free, real-time updates from Patch. I’m looking for business owners and marketers in Las Vegas who want to build awareness, connect with customers and increase sales. I have a limited number of sponsorships available to introduce our Las Vegas Daily readers to local businesses they need to know about. If that’s you, then I invite you to learn more and secure your spot now. Find out what’s happening in Las Vegaswith free, real-time updates from Patch. Here are the top three stories today in Las Vegas: Las Vegas residents gathered with Las Vegas Fire and Rescue on Saturday to kick off National Fire Prevention Week. The department held an open house at Fire Station 3 to show the community how it responds to fires. Participants were allowed to tour to station, trucks, and emergency vehicles during the open house. The department is actively working to lower the number of fire deaths. (lasvegassun.com) The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is searching for a missing 80-year-old man. Henry Young went missing on Saturday from the 11400 block of Valentino Lane. He might be in severe emotional distress and in need of medical assistance. Anyone with information on Young’s whereabouts is asked to contact the department immediately. (KTNV 13 Action News Las Vegas) During a rally in Minden, Nevada, former President Donald Trump called Las Vegas a city “drenched in the blood of innocent victims.” Trump dedicated a significant portion of his speech to the Las Vegas Strip mass stabbing and the capture of an escaped Nevada convict. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombaro was endorsed by Trump during the rally. Lombaro is running for Nevada Governor. (Nevada Current) Today in Las Vegas: Lunch and Learn At Southwest Career and Technical Academy (10:00 AM) Toddler Storytime At Rainbow Library (10:30 AM) Baby Storytime At Sunrise Library (10:30 AM) 0-5 Storytime At Centennial Hills Library (10:45 AM) Ants in the Pants Writing Workshop At The West Charleston Library (5:30 PM) Laugh Factory Las Vegas At Laugh Factory Comedy Club (10:30 PM) From my notebook: Is the current housing market making you feel a little overwhelmed? Consider this list of the latest properties in the Las Vegas area to hit the market. Click to view the full list of properties that includes prices, photos, and property dimensions. (Las Vegas Patch) The National Weather Service reports a 60-80 percent probability of above-normal temperatures through Tuesday in Las Vegas. Click for the full weather report. (US National Weather Service Las Vegas Nevada via Facebook) The City of Las Vegas is offering free parking in the Arts District between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on weekdays. Click for a map of the free lunch parking. (City of Las Vegas) Now you’re in the loop and ready to start this Monday! I’ll see you around. — Danielle Fallon-O’Leary About me: Danielle Fallon-O’Leary is a senior writer with content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and assists Patch.com with community newsletter curation. Danielle also holds a Master’s Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders and works part-time as a pediatric speech therapist. Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. The rules of replying: Be respectful. This is a space for friendly local discussions. No racist, discriminatory, vulgar or threatening language will be tolerated. Be transparent. Use your real name, and back up your claims. Keep it local and relevant. Make sure your replies stay on topic. Review the Patch Community Guidelines. Read More Here

MAGA Nominee Tries Wacky Claim To Backing ‘Choice’ For Women https://digitalalaskanews.com/maga-nominee-tries-wacky-claim-to-backing-choice-for-women/ Mario Tama/Getty Arizona gubernatorial candidate and MAGA hardliner Kari Lake claimed in an interview aired Sunday that “true choice” means the option for a woman to keep her baby or put it up for adoption. Along the way, she awkwardly tried to reconcile her own recent hardline stance on banning abortion with an electorate that pulled the lever for Joe Biden two years ago. “I’m for giving women true choices,” Lake said on CBS’ Face the Nation. “When they walk into an abortion center, they’re only given one choice. They’re not told that you have the choice to keep your baby, and we can help, and here’s how. Or, we can help you find a loving family that will adopt your baby.” Lake, a 22-year veteran of Phoenix’s KSAZ-TV news station, grabbed national attention when she denied Arizona’s election integrity up until she began to run away with her own primary race. She’s since become a bona fide general election contender boosted by the likes of Donald Trump, and embraced some of the harshest abortion bans in the country. Her Democratic opponent, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, has refused to publicly debate Lake in the hotly contested race, claiming that any attempt to face off with the fringe Republican—who once suggested right-wing Gov. Ron DeSantis had “the kind of BDE that we want all of our elected leaders to have”—would “turn into a circus.” Arizona clinics have stopped providing abortion services after a Sept. 23 court ruling that state prosecutors can enforce a near-total abortion ban that has been on the books in the state since the 19th century. The state also recently passed a 15-week ban on the procedure. But Lake garnered attention for uncharacteristic comments last month apparently challenging that ruling, calling for the practice to be “rare and legal,” before a spokesperson for her campaign walked it back on Tuesday, suggesting her only wish was for the procedure to be “rare but safe.” The back-and-forth, as the AP noted, echoes the balancing act Bill Clinton pulled off when he first ran for president in 1992. In the interview Sunday, Lake seemed to realize she was in danger of echoing a trademark of Democratic campaign platforms for decades, and thus alienating her far-right base. “I-I was in an interview when I said that, and I was, I was telling the interviewer that when abortion was first presented, they said it should be. It should be rare, safe and legal,” she said on CBS. The problem for Lake is that in a post Roe v. Wade America, reproductive-rights advocates say, rare but safe is effectively out of the window, and women may seek extra-legal alternatives. Now, whether moderate voters who support abortion rights buy what Lake is selling could go a long way toward determining whether the next governor of a key swing state is a Stop the Steal fanatic. Read more at The Daily Beast. Get the Daily Beast’s biggest scoops and scandals delivered right to your inbox. Sign up now. Stay informed and gain unlimited access to the Daily Beast’s unmatched reporting. Subscribe now. Read More Here

Saturday Night Live Recap: In With The News https://digitalalaskanews.com/saturday-night-live-recap-in-with-the-news/ Photo: NBC/Will Heath/NBC When people talk about how SNL has fallen off—which they’ve been doing for nearly half a century now—they often add, paradoxically, that they haven’t watched it in ages. One can’t claim with any authority that the show is in a permanent rut, though, just by cadging clues about its contents from a thumbnail of whatever sketch went viral any given week. During the Trump years, SNL developed a reputation for being overly topical and hyper fixated on the then-president. While some of that reputation was certainly earned, there’s no reason it should carry on indefinitely. This season kicked off last week with a self-aware summary of what viewers seem to expect from the show these days; this week, it continued to dash those expectations. Instead of a cold open dwelling on one major political moment—and making that moment “whatever Donald Trump did”—the show kicked off with an omnibus of political and social disasters from around the world this past week, anchored by a devilish Bowen Yang game-show host performance. And though Trump somehow stayed near the forefront of the news during an extra-chaotic week, he remained absent from the episode entirely. Rather than focus on one exhausting aspect of what’s making the world awful right now, the show seems more interested in capturing what it feels like to be constantly awash in an orgy of awfulness. This approach continued with a sketch about The Try Guys. Instead of simply clowning on the overexposed trio for releasing, as Gawker put it in a brutal headline, “their first funny video,” the show used that video to comment on a weird week altogether. The idea that its release would be considered breaking news on CNN speaks to the continued prominence of infotainment during a time of competing catastrophes. With this tactic, the show gets to have its cake and eat it too. (Or, in sketch comedy terms, to have its pie and also have a pie fight.) It highlights a thing everyone was talking about this week while acknowledging a) how ridiculously tame it is for a national scandal, b) how ridiculous it is that so many of us are so acquainted with all its gory details, and c) how much more important news the video seemed to eclipse. (It also gets a lot of mileage out of distinguished character actor and this week’s host Brendan Gleeson saying “Food Babies.”) This sketch is doing a lot and doing it in a fun way, and it will be interesting to see how many people use a screenshot of it for a dismissive tweet about how SNL has nothing better to do than recreate the Try Guys video while the world burns. Here’s hoping that instead they’ll just tweet about some of this episode’s many stellar moments: The departure of so many veteran cast members last season—along with the temporary absence of Cecily Strong, who will be back in November—only further highlights the audience’s unfamiliarity with the show’s four newcomers. Rather than spoon-feed these folks bit parts until the audience can pick them out of a lineup, SNL is making a meal out of their newness. The faux behind-the-scenes video format is a serviceable excuse to group the foursome together and let viewers get to know them. It takes a moment, though, to realize this sketch is mainly a showcase for Molly Kearney. They may have only been in the premiere for about 10 seconds, but Kearney’s nervous energy and unpredictable delivery get a dynamite introduction here. The easy comparison is to Melissa McCarthy, but Kearney’s performance suggests untold dimensions that will be revealed over time. The other most notable aspect of this sketch is Marcello Hernandez’s running joke about how he will be a nonentity on the show—a joke that gets subverted later in the episode with an at-bat at the Weekend Update desk, on the topic of Dominican baseball players, which he knocks out of the park. Once the premise of this sketch is revealed, there doesn’t seem to be many new places for it to go. And there aren’t! However, host Brendan Gleeson serving “cute shyboy” is pretty irresistible, as is Andrew Dismukes’s orgasmic reaction to it, and the walk-on cameo from Gleeson’s In Bruges partner Colin Farrell allows them to double down on both. Kudos to whoever thought to throw in a bizarre Back to the Future riff at the end—“Hello, Tiger Beat Magazine? It’s your cousin, Marvin Tiger Beat Magazine”—for catering to my exact sense of humor. The first proper Please Don’t Destroy video of the season (they co-wrote last week’s BeReal banger but didn’t star in it) finds the trio duped into friendship by Gleeson’s secretly 67-year-old undercover high schooler. It’s another winning effort, elevated by crackerjack editing and joke specificity. (I lol’d at the glass of whiskey with one big square ice cube.) This sketch also establishes that the group—who spent the summer filming their debut feature for Judd Apatow—may now be regularly venturing out of the office, opening up lots of fun possibilities. In keeping with the other zigs and zags on topical material, this Update desk piece about the upcoming live-action Little Mermaid doesn’t even touch on the conservative backlash. (Possibly because there was another conservative backlash to a cartoon character this week, Lesbian Velma in an upcoming Scooby Doo movie, skewered separately on Update.) Nor does Ego Nwodim’s Black Ariel—“Um, you can just call me Ariel”—traffic in any obvious jokes about Ariel’s Blackness. Instead, the central joke is that this Ariel is an undersea celebutante who should be nobody’s role model, regardless of interspecies skin color. Well, it didn’t take long into the season for the show to swing a spotlight over to Sarah Sherman. The sublimely strange, and strangely sublime, recent addition to the cast introduced herself last year mostly through Weekend Update appearances as Colin Jost’s new tormentor. “Eyes,” however, is easily her funniest contribution to the show yet. It more successfully marries the mindfuck body horror element of her comedy with SNL’s mainstream sensibilities than the hypnotically gross meatball sketch, and without sacrificing any of her edge. Come for the sight gag of an ad exec with surgically implanted googly eyes, and stay for that ad exec pitching terrible slogans for Denver while panicking over the possibility of tears drowning her brain. If “Eyes” is any indication, hiring Sarah Sherman is only going to make SNL more like her, rather than the other way around. Saturday Night Live Recap: In With the News Read More Here

Where Is Quinton? Many Questions Remain As Search For Missing Savannah Toddler Enters Fifth Day https://digitalalaskanews.com/where-is-quinton-many-questions-remain-as-search-for-missing-savannah-toddler-enters-fifth-day/ Above video: The investigation so farUpdate 2:13 p.m.: Chatham County Police have established a tip line for information surrounding the case.Call 912-667-3134 to reach a detective directly. If it goes to voicemail, leave a message.The tipline is only for the Quinton Simon investigation.Update 9:30 a.m.: Chatham County Police issued the following statement Sunday morning:”Today we will be re-canvassing some specific areas in our search for Quinton Simon. We are not in need of volunteers, but want to keep you informed about our efforts to find the little boy. The FBI continues to provide assistance and support, as they have since day one.”Initial report:It has been five days since 20-month-old Quinton Simon went missing from his Buckhalter Road home in Savannah. But there are few updates to the ongoing investigation.Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley told county commissioners Friday morning that police have exhausted the physical search but they are still considering it a missing person’s case. On Saturday, police issued a statement saying the case remains a high priority for them and they are not in need of volunteers. Below video: Search ongoing for missing toddlerChatham County Police say they don’t believe there was any foul play involved and hope Quinton is still alive.TRENDING STORIESHere’s how you can be in a movie starring Channing Tatum, Scarlett Johansson shooting near SavannahDeadly crash shuts down Highway 80 at Johnny Mercer BoulevardWawa announces plans to open new location in Georgia, then possibly 20 more”I hope he’s still alive,” Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley said during a press conference Thursday. “We don’t have any information to believe he’s not.”Below video: Chief Hadley holds press conferenceCourt documents obtained by WJCL show that the family was at odds before Quinton’s disappearance.The documents show that Billie Jo Howell, Quinton’s grandmother, attempted to remove the child’s mother, Leilani, and her boyfriend, Daniel Youngkin, from the home.Billie Jo, Leilani’s mother, said in the document “They have damaged my property and at this point no one is living in peace.”She added that she wanted Leilani and Daniel out “as soon as possible.” Documents also show that Quinton’s grandparents, Billie Jo and her husband, are the ones who have custody of Quinton and his 3-year-old brother. Below video: Hear from Quinton’s grandparents”She hasn’t always done the right thing,” Billie Jo said of her daughter on Thursday. “Sometimes she does really great, sometimes she doesn’t. I don’t know what to think right now. I don’t know what to believe, because I don’t think anybody ever believes this is going to happen to them. I don’t know if I can trust her or I don’t. I just know I’m hurting and I want this baby home. He’s my baby.”Chief Hadley says police will leave no stone unturned in the search. “There’s a very sequential process that takes place here,” Hadley said Friday. “It may be frustrating to the general public, it may be frustrating to y’all that things aren’t developing as quickly as you may like. But we’ve got to make sure that we’re doing the right thing, that we’re being lawful, making sure we dot our I’s and cross our T’s. So that if we discover evidence, it can be admissible in court and we can use it in court if we have to.” Police say a search has been conducted of the home, the backyard pool and a nearby pond. Because of the possibility the case could be an abduction, the FBI is involved, scouring the area by land and air looking for any signs of life. If you have any information regarding the case, call 911.Below video: Initial coverage of disappearance Above video: The investigation so far Update 2:13 p.m.: Chatham County Police have established a tip line for information surrounding the case. Call 912-667-3134 to reach a detective directly. If it goes to voicemail, leave a message. The tipline is only for the Quinton Simon investigation. Update 9:30 a.m.: Chatham County Police issued the following statement Sunday morning: “Today we will be re-canvassing some specific areas in our search for Quinton Simon. We are not in need of volunteers, but want to keep you informed about our efforts to find the little boy. The FBI continues to provide assistance and support, as they have since day one.” Initial report: It has been five days since 20-month-old Quinton Simon went missing from his Buckhalter Road home in Savannah. But there are few updates to the ongoing investigation. Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley told county commissioners Friday morning that police have exhausted the physical search but they are still considering it a missing person’s case. On Saturday, police issued a statement saying the case remains a high priority for them and they are not in need of volunteers. This content is imported from Facebook. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Below video: Search ongoing for missing toddler Chatham County Police say they don’t believe there was any foul play involved and hope Quinton is still alive. This content is imported from Facebook. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. TRENDING STORIES Here’s how you can be in a movie starring Channing Tatum, Scarlett Johansson shooting near Savannah Deadly crash shuts down Highway 80 at Johnny Mercer Boulevard Wawa announces plans to open new location in Georgia, then possibly 20 more “I hope he’s still alive,” Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley said during a press conference Thursday. “We don’t have any information to believe he’s not.” Below video: Chief Hadley holds press conference Court documents obtained by WJCL show that the family was at odds before Quinton’s disappearance. The documents show that Billie Jo Howell, Quinton’s grandmother, attempted to remove the child’s mother, Leilani, and her boyfriend, Daniel Youngkin, from the home. Billie Jo, Leilani’s mother, said in the document “They have damaged my property and at this point no one is living in peace.” She added that she wanted Leilani and Daniel out “as soon as possible.” Documents also show that Quinton’s grandparents, Billie Jo and her husband, are the ones who have custody of Quinton and his 3-year-old brother. Below video: Hear from Quinton’s grandparents “She hasn’t always done the right thing,” Billie Jo said of her daughter on Thursday. “Sometimes she does really great, sometimes she doesn’t. I don’t know what to think right now. I don’t know what to believe, because I don’t think anybody ever believes this is going to happen to them. I don’t know if I can trust her or I don’t. I just know I’m hurting and I want this baby home. He’s my baby.” Chief Hadley says police will leave no stone unturned in the search. “There’s a very sequential process that takes place here,” Hadley said Friday. “It may be frustrating to the general public, it may be frustrating to y’all that things aren’t developing as quickly as you may like. But we’ve got to make sure that we’re doing the right thing, that we’re being lawful, making sure we dot our I’s and cross our T’s. So that if we discover evidence, it can be admissible in court and we can use it in court if we have to.” Police say a search has been conducted of the home, the backyard pool and a nearby pond. Because of the possibility the case could be an abduction, the FBI is involved, scouring the area by land and air looking for any signs of life. If you have any information regarding the case, call 911. Below video: Initial coverage of disappearance Read More Here

Trump In Arizona: Blake Masters Confident In His Chances After Debate With Mark Kelly https://digitalalaskanews.com/trump-in-arizona-blake-masters-confident-in-his-chances-after-debate-with-mark-kelly/ Former President Donald Trump returns to Arizona for the third time this year with an eye to pushing his preferred Republican picks over the top in the upcoming midterms. The event starts at 1 p.m., with Trump scheduled to take the stage at 4 p.m. at Bell Bank Park in Mesa. Follow coverage by Republic reporters of Trump and the Republican campaign rally in Mesa here. 11 a.m.: Masters: ‘This race is winnable’ Republican U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters continued what amounted to a victory lap ahead of his rally with former President Donald Trump in Mesa later today. Masters appeared with Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News and made the case that his showing in Thursday’s debate with Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., had reversed the race. “I expected him to struggle to defend (his record in the Senate) and he did,” Masters said of Kelly. “All I had to do, Maria, was go out there and tell the truth. Explain to the people how Mark Kelly has kept our border wide open, how his votes for all the crazy trillions of dollars in spending have caused inflation.” “I think we had him on the ropes a little bit, and it’s a huge vibe shift, a momentum shift for our campaign,” he continued. Asked about the lack of financial investment from some conservative corners, Masters predicted, “a lot more people are going to get involved.” “I think I showed people that this race is winnable, that I’m a much, much better candidate than Sen. Kelly in that debate the other night.” — Ronald J. Hansen 10 a.m.: Lake and Hobbs on national TV prior to Trump rally Arizona’s candidates for governor appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation morning news show Sunday, just hours ahead of Trump’s visit to the state.  The former president wasn’t the focus of the discussion; instead, Democratic nominee Katie Hobbs and Republican nominee Kari Lake discussed their plans for border security, abortion and other issues, including Hobbs’ refusal to debate Lake.  The interviews, conducted separately and aired back to back, might be the closest equivalent to a debate a national audience will see this cycle. They highlighted the stylistic and policy differences of two women locked in a nationally watched race that most polls say is tied. Lake has shifted from praising a near-total ban on abortion to saying she will follow the law. She did so again Sunday. Arizona has two conflicting laws on the books, but a court ruling Friday has allowed a ban on abortions after 15 weeks except for in medical emergencies to prevail.  Lake told CBS news correspondent Major Garrett the “law right now as it stands is Gov. Ducey’s law at 15 weeks, so we’ll follow the law,” according to a transcript of the interview.  Garrett likewise tried to pin down Hobbs’ position on abortion, which Lake has painted as extreme because Hobbs has repeatedly declined to say if there is a stage of pregnancy after which she thinks abortion should be prohibited. Pressed on that, Garrett asked Hobbs if an Arizona voter would be right to conclude that she does “not favor any specific week limit on abortion.”  “I support leaving the decision between a woman and her doctor and leaving politicians entirely out of it,” Hobbs replied.  Lake spent much of her interview talking about her plan to use state law enforcement as border patrol and deportation officers, an authority she’d seek using an untested legal theory that would buck decades of court precedent and likely lead to a lawsuit.   “I hope that Joe Biden doesn’t fight us because then it would really look like he is on the side of the cartel,” she said.  Lake didn’t mention Trump in her interview, perhaps a reflection of his unpopularity with voters nationally. Hobbs brought up the former president twice, attacking his record at the southern border and his false claims the 2020 election was “stolen,” which Lake has parroted. Hobbs said Trump’s effort to build the border wall, the signature of his border policy, wasn’t finished and called on the Biden administration to “step up.”  Asked why she wouldn’t debate Lake, and if her decision not to participate shortchanged voters of a chance to see how Hobbs would respond in a moment of duress, Hobbs shifted to Trump.  “I think the voters of Arizona have had a chance to see how I work under crisis throughout my leadership during the 2020 election as secretary of state,” Hobbs said, “when we had to combat multiple election challenges from former President Trump and his band of election deniers, including my opponent Kari Lake.” — Stacey Barchenger 9 a.m.: 17 visits and counting Arizona’s political preeminence seems like a given these days, but the red state-turned-purple battleground coincides almost perfectly with the political rise of Donald Trump. The former president found early enthusiasm for his America-first message in Arizona in 2015, and he never really stopped coming back. His scheduled rally in Mesa will add to an Arizona total no president or presidential contender can rival, with big asterisks for Barry Goldwater and John McCain, who lived in the state while pursuing the White House. According to Republic research, Trump has made at least 17 visits since entering politics. That is a list that began on July 11, 2015, with a stop in Phoenix that focused on immigration and helped set the tone for his upstart campaign. By the end of the 2016 campaign, Trump made six more stops in Arizona. He carried the state by 3.5 percentage points, an unusually low margin in a state that had voted Republican in all but one presidential election beginning in 1952. Trump visited the state seven times in 2020. That included a Feb. 19, 2020, rally in Phoenix just weeks before the pandemic halted campaign visits for months.  In May 2020, Trump started to move about again, with a stop at a Phoenix Honeywell facility making respirator masks to cope with the health crisis and to discuss aid to Native Americans. He wound up losing Arizona in 2020 by fewer than 11,000 votes, the smallest margin in the country. Trump made his first post-presidential visit to Arizona on July 24, 2021, at a Turning Point Action rally in Phoenix in which he saw firsthand the raucous reception to Kari Lake by Republicans. He wrongly predicted the ongoing review of Maricopa County ballots would vindicate his baseless claims of a stolen election. This year, Trump held a January rally in Florence, a pre-primary rally in Prescott Valley in July and is set now to again back his slate of Republicans on Sunday in Mesa.   — Ronald J. Hansen Read More Here