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Brazil Elections 2022 Live: Lula In The Lead With 90% Of Votes Counted But Run-Off Likely https://digitalalaskanews.com/brazil-elections-2022-live-lula-in-the-lead-with-90-of-votes-counted-but-run-off-likely/ “,”elementId”:”6d9ed4cf-cdb7-417c-a59c-701186964c27″}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:false,”keyEvent”:true,”summary”:false},”blockCreatedOn”:1664752388000,”blockCreatedOnDisplay”:”19.13 EDT”,”blockLastUpdated”:1664752489000,”blockLastUpdatedDisplay”:”19.14 EDT”,”blockFirstPublished”:1664752489000,”blockFirstPublishedDisplay”:”19.14 EDT”,”blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone”:”19.14″,”title”:”Datafolha survey predicts run-off”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Sun 2 Oct 2022 20.20 EDT”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First published on Sun 2 Oct 2022 16.43 EDT”},{“id”:”633a177f8f086bb4a78ed29c”,”elements”:[{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” After a nail-biting first hour of counting –and with another tense hour or so to go – leftwing frontrunner Lula has overtaken Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential elections. “,”elementId”:”b603c902-97e0-4d1b-a7d8-47f4426533f6″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” Lula currently has 45.74% of the vote, to Bolsonaro’s 45.51%. “,”elementId”:”5345d75c-5820-4949-9243-8ae4e3fc1624″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TweetBlockElement”,”html”:” Lula ahead with 70% counted! pic.twitter.com/uXqHXtz0uO — Helen Sullivan (@helenrsullivan) October 2, 2022 n”,”url”:”https://twitter.com/helenrsullivan/status/1576709749457887232?s=20&t=zgK54OcpAzZvEJ7kXleEow”,”id”:”1576709749457887232″,”hasMedia”:false,”role”:”inline”,”isThirdPartyTracking”:false,”source”:”Twitter”,”elementId”:”b02892df-4d2b-4132-a878-0a121c10cd1d”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” The Guardian’s Tom Philips reports from outside Lula’s hotel in São Paulo: “,”elementId”:”1199c55a-930f-4fb5-b5a6-7248138e08b3″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TweetBlockElement”,”html”:” Joy outside Lula’s hotel as news comes that he has taken the lead pic.twitter.com/9i2SfV3HbV — Tom Phillips (@tomphillipsin) October 2, 2022 n”,”url”:”https://twitter.com/tomphillipsin/status/1576707670471741440?s=20&t=zgK54OcpAzZvEJ7kXleEow”,”id”:”1576707670471741440″,”hasMedia”:false,”role”:”inline”,”isThirdPartyTracking”:false,”source”:”Twitter”,”elementId”:”1dbcc91b-5a22-475d-8435-9db4b319cbe5″}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:false,”keyEvent”:true,”summary”:false},”blockCreatedOn”:1664751487000,”blockCreatedOnDisplay”:”18.58 EDT”,”blockLastUpdated”:1664751960000,”blockLastUpdatedDisplay”:”19.06 EDT”,”blockFirstPublished”:1664751904000,”blockFirstPublishedDisplay”:”19.05 EDT”,”blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone”:”19.05″,”title”:”Lula takes the lead with 70% of votes counted”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Sun 2 Oct 2022 20.20 EDT”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First published on Sun 2 Oct 2022 16.43 EDT”},{“id”:”633a13868f086bb4a78ed28d”,”elements”:[{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” With more than 50% of votes counted, Bolsonaro is still ahead. “,”elementId”:”937140d6-85fb-4140-af22-e155ae302b75″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” The last Datafolha survey published Saturday found a 50% to 36% advantage for da Silva among those who intended to vote. It interviewed 12,800 people. “,”elementId”:”430dadae-b728-421c-adb8-2399ece1ed69″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” Bolsonaro’s lead is steadily dwindling, however. It is now less than 2%. “,”elementId”:”4ee7c18c-682e-4730-9081-57690258062c”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TweetBlockElement”,”html”:” More than half of votes have now been counted, and while Bolsonaro's lead has narrowed again – now to just 1.44% – he is still ahead: pic.twitter.com/cAFYEL2i5Z — Helen Sullivan (@helenrsullivan) October 2, 2022 n”,”url”:”https://twitter.com/helenrsullivan/status/1576704301983944705?s=20&t=zgK54OcpAzZvEJ7kXleEow”,”id”:”1576704301983944705″,”hasMedia”:false,”role”:”inline”,”isThirdPartyTracking”:false,”source”:”Twitter”,”elementId”:”34959c9b-267d-4a24-a9ec-81e2ef3002dd”}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:false,”keyEvent”:true,”summary”:false},”blockCreatedOn”:1664750470000,”blockCreatedOnDisplay”:”18.41 EDT”,”blockLastUpdated”:1664750713000,”blockLastUpdatedDisplay”:”18.45 EDT”,”blockFirstPublished”:1664750658000,”blockFirstPublishedDisplay”:”18.44 EDT”,”blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone”:”18.44″,”title”:”Bolsonaro in the lead with half of votes counted”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Sun 2 Oct 2022 20.20 EDT”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First published on Sun 2 Oct 2022 16.43 EDT”},{“id”:”633a0b128f08ec87f1106c11″,”elements”:[{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” With just over 25% of votes counted, Bolsonaro is still ahead, but is lead over Lula – who is widely expected to win – has narrowed slightly, from around 6% to just over 4%. “,”elementId”:”63df8d03-27e6-4a01-bd63-b68300eef1ef”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TweetBlockElement”,”html”:” A quarter of votes counted, Bolsonaro's lead over Lula has narrowed again: pic.twitter.com/H5qVIN4XMj — Helen Sullivan (@helenrsullivan) October 2, 2022 n”,”url”:”https://twitter.com/helenrsullivan/status/1576695075656019968?s=20&t=zgK54OcpAzZvEJ7kXleEow”,”id”:”1576695075656019968″,”hasMedia”:false,”role”:”inline”,”isThirdPartyTracking”:false,”source”:”Twitter”,”elementId”:”88e1b36f-9f12-4004-9c07-789c81d37f3d”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” Brazilians voted Sunday in a highly polarised election that could determine if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office for another four years. The race pits incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro against his political nemesis, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, known as Lula. There are nine other candidates, but they have far less support than the two frontrunners. “,”elementId”:”9655c505-f55c-49df-83c0-98abdc0ebc20″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” The last Datafolha survey published Saturday found a 50% to 36% advantage for da Silva among those who intended to vote. It interviewed 12,800 people, with a margin of error of two percentage points. “,”elementId”:”33c33869-cffe-4be6-9cd9-b68703c5e204″}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:false,”keyEvent”:true,”summary”:false},”blockCreatedOn”:1664748306000,”blockCreatedOnDisplay”:”18.05 EDT”,”blockLastUpdated”:1664748509000,”blockLastUpdatedDisplay”:”18.08 EDT”,”blockFirstPublished”:1664748509000,”blockFirstPublishedDisplay”:”18.08 EDT”,”blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone”:”18.08″,”title”:”Quarter of votes counted”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Sun 2 Oct 2022 20.20 EDT”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First published on Sun 2 Oct 2022 16.43 EDT”},{“id”:”6339f62f8f0883d28b5868fd”,”elements”:[{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” The Associated Press has this explainer on how votes are collected in Amazonas’ remote Javari Valley region. “,”elementId”:”6f4b552c-5fcd-42ff-beb3-5bfa0742fecc”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” Thanks to the efforts of Bruno Pereira, the Indigenous expert slain this year alongside British journalist Dom Phillips, collecting votes in Amazonas’ remote Javari Valley region is less fraught than in recent years. “,”elementId”:”f55c054e-74d1-473a-9a80-238b0a067f8a”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:” Villages in the Javari Valley territory received their first voting centers in 2014. To deliver a voting machine to the most distant village, Vida Nova, election officials usually fly in a small plane from Manaus to Cruzeiro do Sul, a city in Acre state. There, they board a helicopter for the final leg. 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Reuters US Domestic News Summary | Law-Order https://digitalalaskanews.com/reuters-us-domestic-news-summary-law-order/ Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs. Hurricane Ian death toll climbs to 83, officials defend response The death toll from Hurricane Ian climbed past 80 on Sunday as embattled residents in Florida and the Carolinas faced a recovery expected to cost tens of billions of dollars, and some officials faced criticism over their response to the storm. The death toll was expected to keep rising as floodwaters receded and search teams pushed farther into areas initially cut off from the outside world. Hundreds of people have been rescued as emergency workers sifted through homes and buildings inundated with water or completely washed away. Weighty U.S. Supreme Court term dawns with environmental and race cases The U.S. Supreme Court’s nine justices are poised on Monday to open a new nine-month term packed with major cases including disputes centered on race that give members of its conservative majority fresh opportunities to flex their muscles, with an environmental case up first. The top U.S. judicial body annually kicks off its term on the first Monday of October, and the justices have important cases on the schedule right away. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority. President Joe Biden’s appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson – America’s first Black woman justice – joins the court’s liberal bloc after being confirmed by the Senate in April to succeed now-retired Justice Stephen Breyer. Trump staffers not returning White House records, National Archives says Former President Donald Trump’s administration has not turned over all presidential records and the National Archives will consult with the Justice Department on whether to move to get them back, the agency has told Congress. A congressional panel on Sept. 13 sought an urgent review by the National Archives and Records Administration after agency staff members acknowledged that they did not know if all presidential records from Trump’s White House had been turned over. U.S. Justice Dept seeks expedited ruling in Trump special master case The U.S. Justice Department on Friday moved to expedite its appeal of an order appointing a special master to review records the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. In a court filing late on Friday, the Justice Department said its inability to access the non-classified documents is still hampering significant aspects of its investigation on the retention of government records at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. White House meets oil industry over Hurricane Ian price-gouging concerns Top White House officials met on Friday with oil executives to discuss Hurricane Ian and low gasoline inventories as President Joe Biden warned the industry not to price-gouge consumers, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The White House requested the meeting with eight oil companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp, Chevron Corp and Marathon Petroleum Corp, late on Thursday, the sources said. Elon Musk to provide Florida with Starlink satellites in response to Hurricane Ian Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk agreed to provide the company’s satellite internet service, Starlink, for help in response to Hurricane Ian in areas of Southwest Florida still without connectivity. “We are working with Elon Musk and Starlink satellite. They are positioning those Starlink satellites to provide good coverage in Southwest Florida and other affected areas,” DeSantis told reporters on Saturday. “We are expecting 120 additional large Starlink units to deploy to Southwest Florida.” Tillerson to be called as witness in Trump ally’s foreign agent trial Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be called as a witness by federal prosecutors in the trial of Tom Barrack, a one-time fundraiser for former President Donald Trump, on charges of illegally acting as a foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates, a court filing showed on Saturday. Barrack’s defense revealed the plans in a letter to U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan in which it requested that Tillerson take the stand on Monday. The defense said prosecutors had confirmed that they would be calling Tillerson, but informed the defense he would be unavailable after Oct. 4 due to “personal plans.” (This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) Read More Here

AP News Summary At 7:54 P.m. EDT https://digitalalaskanews.com/ap-news-summary-at-754-p-m-edt/ 10 torture sites in 1 town: Russia sowed pain, fear in Izium IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — An Associated Press investigation has found that Russian torture in the Ukrainian town of Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine for both civilians and soldiers. AP journalists located 10 torture sites in the town, including a deep sunless pit in a residential compound, a clammy underground jail that reeked of urine, a medical clinic, and a kindergarten. AP also spoke to 15 survivors of Russian torture and confirmed the deaths of eight men. All but one were civilians. The AP also found a former Ukrainian soldier who was tortured three times hiding in a monastery, and connected him with loved ones. The town has now been liberated by Ukrainian forces. Bolsonaro, Lula appear headed for runoff in Brazil race RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With 91.6% of votes counted, da Silva had 47.3%, ahead of Bolsonaro with 44.2% support, according to the electoral authority. It appears increasingly likely neither of the top two candidates will receive more than 50% of the valid votes, which exclude spoiled and blank ballots, which means a second round is scheduled for Oct. 30. The highly polarized election will determine whether the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right leader in office for another four years. Ukraine presses on with counteroffensive; Russia uses drones KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has attacked the Ukrainian president’s hometown with suicide drones. This comes as Ukraine has pushed ahead with its counteroffensive that has embarrassed the Kremlin. Ukraine took back control of the strategic eastern city of Lyman, which Russia had been using as a transport and logistics hub. That’s a new blow to the Kremlin as it seeks to escalate the war by illegally annexing four regions of Ukraine. Photos circulating online pointed to some battlefield movement for Ukraine, showing Ukrainian soldiers entering what appeared to be newly retaken settlements in the south and east. Pope Francis, meanwhile, on Sunday decried Russia’s nuclear threats against the West and appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop “this spiral of violence and death.” 125 die as tear gas triggers crush at Indonesia soccer match MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — Police firing tear gas after an Indonesian soccer match in an attempt to stop violence triggered a disastrous crush of fans that has left at least 125 people dead. Attention immediately focused on police crowd-control measures at Saturday night’s match between host Arema FC of East Java’s Malang city and Persebaya Surabaya. Witnesses described officers beating them with sticks and shields before shooting tear gas canisters directly into the crowds. President Joko Widodo ordered an investigation of security procedures and the president of FIFA called the deaths “a dark day for all involved in football and a tragedy beyond comprehension.” While FIFA has no control over domestic games, it has advised against the use of tear gas at soccer stadiums. Feds vow major aid for Hurricane Ian victims amid rescues FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — U.S. officials say they are vowing to unleash a massive amount of federal aid in response to Hurricane Ian as the death toll rises amid recovery efforts. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Deanne Criswell said Sunday that the government is ready to provide help days after Ian came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane and carved a deadly path of destruction through Florida and into the Carolinas. The monster storm killed at least 54 people, including 47 in Florida, and hundreds of thousands of people and businesses remain without power. Officials warn that flooding could still worsen in parts of Florida because all the rain that fell has nowhere to go, with waterways already overflowing. Ian is long gone but water keeps rising in central Florida GENEVA, Fla. (AP) — Residents living in parts of central Florida donned fishing waders, boots and bug spray and canoed or kayaked their way to their homes on streets where floodwaters continued rising Sunday despite it being four days since Hurricane Ian tore through the state. The waters flooded homes and streets that had been passable just a day or two earlier. Ben Bertat found 4 inches of water in his house by Lake Harney off North Jungle street in a rural part of Seminole County north of Orlando after kayaking to it Sunday morning. Only a day earlier, there had been no water. Haiti reports cholera deaths for first time in 3 years PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government says at least eight people have died from cholera for the first time in three years, raising concerns about a potentially rapid spreading scenario and reviving memories of an epidemic that killed nearly 10,000 people a decade ago. The cases were reported in a community called Dekayet in southern Port-au-Prince and in the seaside slum of Cite de Soleil, where thousands of people live in cramped, unsanitary conditions. The deaths announced Sunday come as a lack of fuel and ongoing protests shut down the availability of basic services across Haiti, including medical care and clean water, which is key to helping fight cholera and keep patients alive. Ousted Burkina Faso leader leaves country for Togo OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Diplomats say that Burkina Faso’s ousted coup leader Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba has left the country and headed to Togo. Mediators had said earlier Sunday that Damiba agreed to resign so long as his security and other conditions are met. The junta now in charge in Burkina Faso earlier in the day had declared that Capt. Ibrahim Traore was head of state. The formal announcement came after the new coup on Friday, the country’s second this year. Damiba, who came to power in a January coup, saw his popularity plummet as violence linked to Islamic extremists continued across the country. AP Top 25: Tide retakes No. 1 from UGA; Kansas snaps drought Alabama reclaimed No. 1 from Georgia in The Associated Press college football poll in one of the closest votes in the recent years. Two points separate the Crimson Tide from the Bulldogs. Six teams including Kansas made their season debut in the AP Top 25. The Jayhawks are ranked for the first time since 2009, which was the longest drought among current Power Five conference teams. The Crimson Tide received 25 first-place votes and 1,523 points. Georgia got 28 first-place votes to become the first team since Alabama in November 2019 to have the most first-place votes but not be No. 1. Trump: ‘King’ to some in Pennsylvania, but will it help GOP? MONONGAHELA, Pa. (AP) — The enthusiasm for Donald Trump’s brand of nationalist populism has cut into traditional Democratic strongholds in places such as Monongahela in western Pennsylvania. That’s where House Republicans recently outlined their election-year campaign agenda, called  “Commitment to America.” They’re hoping they can tap into the same political sentiment Trump used to attract voters. But it’s not clear whether the support that propelled Trump to the White House will be there on Election Day this November. Just as challenging for the Republican Party is whether Trump’s false claims of voter fraud will hurt the GOP if voters decide to sit out the election. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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Hackers Release Data After LAUSD Refuses To Pay Ransom https://digitalalaskanews.com/hackers-release-data-after-lausd-refuses-to-pay-ransom/ Hackers released data from Los Angeles Unified School District on Saturday, a day after Supt. Alberto Carvalho said he would not negotiate with or pay a ransom to the criminal syndicate. Some screenshots from the hack were reviewed by The Times and appear to show some Social Security numbers. But the full extent of the release remains unclear. The release of data came two days earlier than the deadline set by the syndicate that calls itself Vice Society — and happened in apparent response to what it took as Carvalho’s final answer. Hackers demand ransom to prevent the release of private information and also to receive decryption keys to unlock computer systems. “What I can tell you is that the demand — any demand — would be absurd,” Carvalho told The Times on Friday. “But this level of demand was, quite frankly, insulting. And we’re not about to enter into negotiations with that type of entity.” In a statement released later that day, he said: “Paying ransom never guarantees the full recovery of data, and Los Angeles Unified believes public dollars are better spent on our students rather than capitulating to a nefarious and illicit crime syndicate.” The extent of the data theft is now being evaluated by federal and local authorities, including the school district. “Unfortunately, as expected, data was recently released by a criminal organization,” the school district said in a social media post Sunday. “In partnership with law enforcement, our experts are analyzing the full extent of this data release.” Carvalho said on Friday that he believed confidential information of employees was not stolen. He was less certain about information related to students, which could include names, grades, course schedules, disciplinary records and disability status. Some of the documents in the release appear to be forms with confidential information from the facilities services division. These forms could have been filled out either by district employees or by contractors doing work for the school system. Some W-9 forms also appear to be in the release. The W-9 is an official form furnished by the IRS for employers or other entities to verify the name, address and tax identification number — typically a Social Security number — of an individual receiving income. Independent contractors who do work for companies or agencies they are not employed with must often provide that entity a W-9. The district will provide assistance to anyone harmed by the release of data and has set up an “incident response” line at (855) 926-1129. Its hours of operation are 6 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding major U.S. holidays. Since the attack, which was discovered Sept. 3, the nation’s second-largest school district has worked closely with local law enforcement, the FBI and the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA. CISA posted a warning to education institutions about Vice Society immediately after the LAUSD attack without directly confirming that the syndicate was responsible for it. The syndicate’s original Monday deadline was posted on the dark web site maintained by Vice Society, which had informally confirmed to at least three reporters that it was responsible for the hack. On Friday, Carvalho did not contest media accounts identifying Vice Society. He continued his previous practice of not naming the amount that is being demanded. The claim of responsibility became official with a posting on the dark web. A screenshot shows the Vice Society logo and its catchphrase “ransomware with love.” The site lists as “partners” the entities that it claims to have victimized. These now include the L.A. Unified School District, which is listed along with the district logo. Hackers this year have attacked at least 27 U.S. school districts and 28 colleges, said Brett Callow, threat analyst for the digital security firm Emsisoft. At least 36 of those organizations had data stolen and released online, and at least two districts and one college paid the attackers, Callow said. Cybersecurity experts who confirmed late Saturday or early Sunday that the release had occurred included Callow and blogger Dominic Alvieri. Vice Society alone has hit at least nine school districts and colleges or universities so far this year, per Callow’s tally. When the LAUSD attack was discovered, district technicians quickly shut down all computer operations to limit the damage, and officials were able to open campuses as scheduled on the Tuesday after the holiday weekend. The shutdown and the hack resulted in a week of significant disruptions as more than 600,000 users had to reset passwords and systems were gradually screened for breaches and restored. During this rebooting, technicians found so-called tripwires left behind that could have resulted in more structural damage or the further theft of data. The restoration of district systems is ongoing, but there also was another element of the attack: the exfiltration of data. The hackers claimed to have stolen 500 gigabytes of data. As part of its response, the district also set up a cybersecurity task force, and the school board has granted Carvalho emergency powers to take any related step he feels is necessary. The internal systems most damaged were in the facilities division. Carvalho said it was necessary to create workarounds so that contractors could continue to be paid and repairs and construction could continue on schedule. Read More Here

Stock Futures Turn Slightly Positive After Dow, S&P 500 Cap Worst Month Since March 2020 https://digitalalaskanews.com/stock-futures-turn-slightly-positive-after-dow-sp-500-cap-worst-month-since-march-2020/ Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Sept 7, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures rose slightly in overnight trading Sunday after Wall Street wrapped up another negative quarter and both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average finished their worst month since March 2020. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 100 points, or 0.35%, while S&P 500 added 0.22%. Nasdaq 100 futures traded flat. Friday capped off a negative month and quarter for all the major averages, with the Dow falling 500.10 points, or 1.71%, to close below 29,000 for the first time since November 2020. For the quarter, the Dow fell 6.66% to notch a three-quarter losing streak for the first time since the third quarter of 2015. Both the S&P and Nasdaq Composite fell 5.28% and 4.11%, respectively, to finish their third consecutive negative quarter for the first time since 2009. The Dow shed 8.8% in September, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite lost 9.3% and 10.5%, respectively. All the major averages also recorded their sixth negative week in seven. Heading into the new quarter, all S&P 500 sectors sit at least 10% off their 52-week highs. Nine sectors finished the quarter in negative territory. Consumer discretionary was the best performer, gaining more than 4.1%. In the fourth quarter, elevated inflation and a Federal Reserve intent on bringing surging prices to a halt regardless of what it means for the economy will likely continue to weigh on markets, said Truist’s Keith Lerner. Oversold conditions, however, also make the market vulnerable to a sharp short-term bounce on good news, he added. “I think we could be set up for some type of reprieve but the underlying trend at this point is still a downward trend and choppy waters to continue,” Lerner said. On the economic front, Markit PMI and ISM manufacturing data are slated for release on Monday along with construction spending. Data suggests bigger S&P 500 drawdowns offer a greater potential return, LPL Financial’s Gilbert says Markets have sold off heavily this year with the S&P 500 starting October down nearly 25%. While the outlook is murky ahead, historical data analyzed by LPL Financial’s Barry Gilbert indicates that the average one-year return on the S&P 500 improves the more significant the pullback. According to Gilbert, the one-year average return increases steadily beyond a 10% pullback in the market and as the selloff worsens. When the market is down between 20% and 25% — in line with current times — the return is 11.5% on average one year later. “When markets are down, the natural bias is to sell,” he said in a note to clients Friday. “But looking at history, the more the S&P 500 is down, the better it does in the next year, on average.” — Samantha Subin Where all the major averages stand as the fourth quarter begins The final quarter of 2022 is set to kick off Monday and cap off what’s been a brutal year for the markets. Here’s where all the major averages stand ahead of Monday’s trading session. Dow Jones Industrial Average: Down 20.95% for the year Sits 22.26% off its 52-week highs Finished its worst month since March 2020 Capped its third consecutive down quarter for the first time since the third quarter of 2015 S&P 500: Down 24.77% this year 25.59% off its 52-week high Finished its worst month since March 2020 Closed out its third negative quarter in a row for the first time since its six-quarter streak that ended the first quarter of 2009 Nasdaq Composite: Down 27.4% this year 34.77% off its 52-week highs September marked its worst month since April 2022 Finished its third consecutive negative quarter in a row for the first time since its three-quarter streak ending the first period of 2009.  — Chris Hayes, Samantha Subin Stock futures open slightly lower Stocks futures opened slightly lower in overnight trading on Sunday. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 15 points, or 0.05%, while S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures shed 0.19% and 0.42%, respectively. — Samantha Subin Read More Here

AP News In Brief At 6:04 P.m. EDT https://digitalalaskanews.com/ap-news-in-brief-at-604-p-m-edt-4/ 10 torture sites in 1 town: Russia sowed pain, fear in Izium IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — The first time the Russian soldiers caught him, they tossed him bound and blindfolded into a trench covered with wooden boards for days on end. Then they beat him, over and over: Legs, arms, a hammer to the knees, all accompanied by furious diatribes against Ukraine. Before they let him go, they took away his passport and Ukrainian military ID — all he had to prove his existence — and made sure he knew exactly how worthless his life was. “No one needs you,” the commander taunted. “We can shoot you any time, bury you a half-meter underground and that’s it.” The brutal encounter at the end of March was just the start. Andriy Kotsar would be captured and tortured twice more by Russian forces in Izium, and the pain would be even worse. Russian torture in Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine for both civilians and soldiers throughout the city, an Associated Press investigation has found. While torture was also evident in Bucha, that devastated Kyiv suburb was only occupied for a month. Izium served as a hub for Russian soldiers for nearly seven months, during which they established torture sites everywhere. Brazil counting votes in historic race of Lula vs. Bolsonaro RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s electoral authority was tallying votes Sunday night in a highly polarized election that could determine if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office for another four years. The race pits incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro against his political nemesis, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. There are nine other candidates, but their support pales to that for Bolsonaro and da Silva. With 20.3% of votes counted, Bolsonaro had 47.9%, ahead of da Silva with 43.3%. Recent opinion polls have given da Silva a commanding lead — the last Datafolha survey published Saturday found a 50% to 36% advantage for da Silva among those who intended to vote. It interviewed 12,800 people, with a margin of error of two percentage points. Fernanda Reznik, a 48-year-old health worker, wore a red T-shirt — a color associated with da Silva’s Workers’ Party — to vote in Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana neighborhood, where pro-Bolsonaro demonstrators often congregate, and had been waiting in line for 40 minutes. “I’ll wait three hours if I have to!” said Reznik, who no longer bothers talking politics with neighbors who favor Bolsonaro. “This year the election is more important, because we already went through four years of Bolsonaro and today we can make a difference and give this country another direction.” Ukraine presses on with counteroffensive; Russia uses drones KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked the Ukrainian president’s hometown and other targets Sunday with suicide drones, and Ukraine took back full control of a strategic eastern city in a counteroffensive that has reshaped the war. Russia’s loss of the eastern city of Lyman, which it had been using as a transport and logistics hub, is a new blow to the Kremlin as it seeks to escalate the war by illegally annexing four regions of Ukraine and heightening threats to use nuclear force. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s land grab has threatened to push the conflict to a dangerous new level. It also prompted Ukraine to formally apply for fast-track NATO membership. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Sunday that his forces now control Lyman: “As of 12:30 p.m. (0930 GMT) Lyman is cleared fully. Thank you to our militaries, our warriors,” he said in a video address. Russia’s military didn’t comment Sunday on Lyman, after announcing Saturday that it was withdrawing its forces there to more favorable positions. 125 die as tear gas triggers crush at Indonesia soccer match MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — Police firing tear gas after an Indonesian soccer match in an attempt to stop violence triggered a disastrous crush of fans making a panicked, chaotic run for the exits, leaving at least 125 people dead, most of them trampled upon or suffocated. Attention immediately focused on police crowd-control measures at Saturday night’s match between host Arema FC of East Java’s Malang city and Persebaya Surabaya. Witnesses described officers beating them with sticks and shields before shooting tear gas canisters directly into the crowds. It was among the deadliest disasters ever at a sporting event. President Joko Widodo ordered an investigation of security procedures, and the president of FIFA called the deaths “a dark day for all involved in football and a tragedy beyond comprehension.” While FIFA has no control over domestic games, it has advised against the use of tear gas at soccer stadiums. Brawls are common among rival Indonesian soccer fans, so much so that the organizer had banned Persebaya supporters from Arema’s stadium. But violence still broke out when the home team lost 3-2 and some of the 42,000 Arema fans, known as “Aremania,” threw bottles and other objects at players and soccer officials. Witnesses said the fans flooded the Kanjuruhan Stadium pitch and demanded that Arema management explain why, after 23 years of undefeated home matches against Persebaya, this one ended in a defeat. Feds vow major aid for Hurricane Ian victims amid rescues FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — With the death toll from Hurricane Ian rising and hundreds of thousands of people without power in Florida and the Carolinas, U.S. officials vowed Sunday to unleash an unprecedented amount of federal disaster aid as crews scrambled to rescue people still trapped by floodwaters. Days after Ian tore through central Florida, carving a deadly path of destruction into the Carolinas, water levels continued to rise in some flooded areas, inundating homes and streets that were passable just a day or two earlier. With branches strewn across the grounds of St. Hillary’s Episcopal Church in Ft. Myers, the Rev. Charles Cannon recognized the immense loss during his Sunday sermon but also gave thanks for what remained. That included the church’s stained-glass windows and steeple. “People think they have lost everything, but you haven’t lost everything if you haven’t lost yourself,” he said. Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said the federal government was ready to help in a huge way, focusing first on victims in Florida, which took the brunt of one of the strongest storms to make landfall in the United States. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden plan to visit the state on Wednesday. Ian is long gone but water keeps rising in central Florida GENEVA, Fla. (AP) — Residents in central Florida donned fishing waders, boots and bug spray and canoed or kayaked to their homes on streets where floodwaters continued rising Sunday despite it being four days since Hurricane Ian tore through the state. The waters flooded homes and streets that had been passable just a day or two earlier. Ben Bertat found 4 inches (10 centimeters) of water in his house by Lake Harney off North Jungle Street in a rural part of Seminole County, north of Orlando, after kayaking to it Sunday morning. Only a day earlier, there had been no water. “I think it’s going to get worse because all of this water has to get to the lake” said Bertat, pointing to the water flooding the road. “With ground saturation, all this swamp is full and it just can’t take any more water. It doesn’t look like it’s getting any lower.” Gabriel Madling kayaked through 3 feet (1 meter) of water on his street, delivering sandbags to stave off water that was 2 inches (5 centimeters) from entering his home. Ousted Burkina Faso leader leaves country for Togo OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s ousted coup leader Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba left the country for Togo Sunday two days after he himself was overthrown in a coup, while the new junta urged citizens not to loot or vandalize. Damiba’s departure was confirmed by two diplomats who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. It was not known whether Togo was his final destination. Earlier Sunday, religious leaders who had mediated between the factions said that Damiba had offered his resignation as long as his security and other conditions were met. A junta representative later announced on state television that their leader, Capt. Ibrahim Traore, officially has been named head of state following the Friday coup that ousted Damiba. Their power grab marked Burkina Faso’s second military coup this year, deepening fears that the political chaos could divert attention from an Islamic insurgency whose violence has killed thousands and forced 2 million to flee their homes. It followed unrest in Ouagadougou, the capital, in which mobs on Saturday attacked the French embassy and other French-related sites, wrongly believing that they were sheltering Damiba. Along with agreeing not to harm or prosecute him, Damiba also asked Traore and the new junta leadership to respect the commitments already made to the West African regional bloc ECOWAS. Damiba, who came to power in a coup last January, had recently reached an agreement to hold an election by 2024. Yemen’s warring sides fail to extend UN-backed truce SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s warring sides have failed to reach an agreement to extend a nationwide cease-fire, the U.N. said Sunday, endangering the longest lull in fighting since the country’s bloody civil war began. In a statement, the U.N.’s envoy to Yemen called on all sides to refrain from acts of provocation as the talks continue, after the deadline of Oct. 2 for extending the agreement was missed. The U.N.-backed truce initially took effect in April, and raised hopes for a longer pause in fighting as ...

Election Officials Brace For Confrontational Poll Watchers https://digitalalaskanews.com/election-officials-brace-for-confrontational-poll-watchers/ By Associated Press Published: October 2, 2022, 3:15pm 6 Photos FILE – A Republican election challenger at right watches over election inspectors as they examine a ballot as votes are counted into the early morning hours, Nov. 4, 2020, at the central counting board in Detroit. Election officials across the country are bracing for a wave of confrontations in November as emboldened Republican poll watchers, many embracing former President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, flood polling places for the general election. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) Photo Gallery GOLDSBORO, N.C. — The situation with the poll watcher had gotten so bad that Anne Risku, the election director in North Carolina’s Wayne County, had to intervene via speakerphone. “You need to back off!” Risku recalled hollering after the woman wedged herself between a voter and the machine where the voter was trying to cast his ballot at a precinct about 60 miles southeast of Raleigh. The man eventually was able to vote, but the incident was one of several Risku cited from the May primary that made her worry about a wave of newly aggressive poll watchers. Many have spent the past two years steeped in lies about the accuracy of the 2020 election. Those fears led the North Carolina State Board of Elections in August to tighten rules governing poll watchers. But the state’s rules review board, appointed by the Republican-controlled Legislature, blocked the new poll watcher regulations in late September, leaving election officials such as Risku without additional tools to control behavior on Election Day, Nov. 8. “It becomes complete babysitting,” Risku said in an interview. “The back and forth for the precinct officials, having somebody constantly on you for every little thing that you do — not because you’re doing it wrong, but because they don’t agree with what you’re doing.” Poll watchers have traditionally been an essential element of electoral transparency, the eyes and ears for the two major political parties who help ensure that the actual mechanics of voting are administered fairly and accurately. But election officials fear that a surge of conspiracy believers are signing up for those positions this year and are being trained by others who have propagated the lie spread by former President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was riddled with fraud. In Michigan, groups that have spread falsehoods about that race are recruiting poll watchers. In Nevada, the Republican Party’s nominee for secretary of state, Jim Marchant, denies President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory and was a featured speaker at a party poll watcher training. Cleta Mitchell, a prominent conservative lawyer and North Carolina resident, is running a group recruiting poll watchers and workers in eight swing states. Mitchell was on the phone with Trump when the then-president called Georgia’s secretary of state in January 2021 and asked that official to “find” enough votes for Trump to be declared the state’s winner. Chris Harvey, who was Georgia’s election director in 2020 when Trump claimed the election was being stolen from him, recalled how swarms of Trump backers came as self-appointed poll watchers to observe the state’s manual recounts, harassing election workers and disrupting the process. Harvey fears a repeat this year. “The whole tension that we’re expecting to see at polling places is something we’re talking to election officials about, something we’re talking to law enforcement about,” said Harvey, who is advising a group of election officials and law enforcement before November. The laws governing poll watchers vary from state to state. Their role is generally to observe, question any deviations from required procedure and, in some states, lodge formal complaints or provide testimony for objections filed in court. The worries this year are similar to those during the 2020 election, when Trump began railing against mail voting and the Republican National Committee launched its first national operation in decades. It had recently been freed from a consent decree that limited its poll watching operation after it previously was found to have targeted Black and Latino voters. But voting went smoothly that November. Mitchell said her organization, the Election Integrity Network, is just trying to ensure that everyone follows the law. “We are not a threat,” she told The Associated Press during a text message exchange. “Unless you think elections that are conducted according to the rule of law are a threat. We train people to follow the law.” Risku said there were issues with poll watchers from both parties during the primary in May. But of the 13 incidents she reported to the North Carolina board from Wayne County, all involved Republicans. The Columbian is becoming a rare example of a news organization with local, family ownership. Subscribe today to support local journalism and help us to build a stronger community. In addition to the poll watcher who had to be ejected, Risku said another Republican poll watcher in her district waited after hours in the parking lot of the Mount Olive Train Depot early voting site until Chief Judge Susan Wiley began carrying boxes of marked ballots to her car. On two occasions, the man tried to follow her back to the elections office in Goldsboro, about a 20-minute drive. Recognizing that the job has become “a scary ordeal” in the last year, Risku said she has stepped up security before November and offered raises to entice precinct officials to stay. She expects many won’t return after this year. The North Carolina GOP chairman, Michael Whatley, said that’s not what the party is teaching its poll watchers. “What we saw in terms of some of the activities that were at play may have been coming from Republicans but were not things that we have been teaching people in our training sessions,” Whatley said. “What we want to do is make sure that we have people that are in the room that are going to be very respectful of the election officials at all times, be very respectful of the voters at all times and, if they see issues, then report them in.” He has declined to allow reporters to attend the training sessions, which he said have trained 7,000 potential poll watchers so far this year. As in many states, poll watchers are only permitted in North Carolina if they have been designated by the major parties. But in Michigan, organizations that register with local election offices also can provide poll watchers. A coalition of groups that have questioned the 2020 election are scrambling to get as many of their members in place as possible in the politically critical state. “The best I can do is put a whole bunch of eyeballs on it to make sure that anything that doesn’t look right gets a further look,” said Sandy Kiesel, executive director of the Michigan Election Integrity Fund and Force, part of a coalition that recruited 5,000 poll watchers for the state’s August primary. Kiesel said several of her coalition’s poll watchers and poll challengers — Michigan law allows one person to observe and another person to formally lodge challenges at precincts — were prevented from observing or escorted out of polling places in August. Michigan election officials are bracing for more confrontations in November. Patrick Colbeck, a former Republican state senator and prominent election conspiracy theorist who is part of Kiesel’s coalition, announced this past week that a comprehensive fall push to scrutinize every aspect of voting would be called “Operation Overwatch.” “They are talking about intimidating people who have the right to vote,” said Barb Byrum, clerk of Michigan’s Ingham County, which includes Lansing, the state capital. In a sign of the importance the state’s Republicans place on poll watchers, the GOP-controlled Legislature last week agreed to let election offices throughout Michigan start processing mailed ballots two days before Election Day — something most states with mail voting allow long before then — but only if they allow poll watchers to observe. The ballots are not actually counted until Election Day. In Texas, a new law allows every candidate to assign up to two poll watchers, raising the potential that observers could pack polling locations, particularly around big cities such as Dallas and Houston where ballots are the longest. According to records from the secretary of state’s office, more than 900 people in Texas already had received poll watching certification in the three weeks after the state opened required training on Sept. 1. Read More Here

National Archives Says It Still Doesn't Have All Trump White House Records https://digitalalaskanews.com/national-archives-says-it-still-doesnt-have-all-trump-white-house-records/ By Whitney Wild and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The National Archives has told the House Oversight Committee that certain presidential records from the Trump administration remain outstanding, citing information that some White House staff used non-official electronic systems to conduct official business. In a Friday letter to the panel’s chairwoman, New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney, the National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA, said it had been unable to obtain records from a number of former officials and will continue to pursue the return of similar types of Presidential records from former officials. But, “while there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should,” NARA said. Last month, Maloney requested in a letter that NARA seek a “personal certification” from former President Donald Trump that he has turned over all presidential records he “illegally removed” from the White House. The letter from the Archives is the latest development in the years-long pursuit from NARA to reclaim all records that belong to the federal government that were created during the Trump administration. NARA’s back-and-forth with Trump and his liaisons led earlier this year to the return by former administration officials and lawyers of boxes and envelopes full of records. NARA’s findings in one of those collections prompted a Justice Department investigation into the mishandling of classified records and a search in August at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida beach club. In its letter to Maloney, NARA cited a lawsuit filed last summer by the Justice Department asking a judge to order former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro to return federal records the DOJ says he wrongfully kept after leaving the administration. The DOJ said Navarro used a private mail account for presidential business, “such as the need for ventilators, the creation and deployment of National-Guard based rapid response teams, and the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID,” the DOJ filing said. According to the lawsuit, the National Archives learned of Navarro’s private account from the House committee investigating the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. “It is outrageous that these records remain unaccounted for 20 months after former President Trump left office,” Maloney said in a statement Saturday. “Former President Trump and his senior staff have shown an utter disregard for the rule of law and our national security by failing to return presidential records as the law requires.” In Friday’s letter, NARA referred questions about whether it intends to pursue criminal charges to the Justice Department. The-CNN-Wire & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved. Read More Here

Gov. Ron DeSantis Addresses Response To Florida Power Outages, Flood Damage https://digitalalaskanews.com/gov-ron-desantis-addresses-response-to-florida-power-outages-flood-damage/ Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses response to Florida power outages, flood damage bima of course has activated individual assistance for those in need of help recovering. You can visit disaster assistance dot gov or call 1 806 213362 so far, 87,000 people have registered for fema, make sure you take evidence the damage to your home. If you had flood damage and you have *** policy under the national flood insurance program, take pictures of the water line. Hopefully you took pictures when the water was still in there. That will help grease the skids for you to be able to submit your claims and be made whole as soon as humanly possible. We’re looking and we’ll have an announcement very soon to have *** disaster recovery center set up, certainly in, in lee County and in charlotte and likely in many other counties and as part of that effort, you can go, you don’t need to go in for fema. You can do *** lot of this online, but if you have questions, if you’re not getting what you need will be the people there. This issue. We also have folks from the state of florida there and then jimmy petronas, the CFO for the stay florida is setting up insurance villages so people can come in and meet with the carriers and make their claims. It’s interesting, you know, just looking around the state, we probably suffered more flood damaged and wind damage. You look at like *** charlotte county, they didn’t get the storm surge, they anticipated they did get wind damage. You did obviously get wind damage and leave. But I think if you look at some of the communities, you just had *** rising water and that was really the thing that was most devastating because you can have *** home that can be that can withstand hurricane winds, maybe there’ll be some damage, patch it up when you got *** torrent of water coming in, there’s really nothing that you can do about that. So that’s going to require *** lot of flood claims being filed. People are gonna have to rehab that and hopefully get their, their proceeds from the, from the flood program very, very quickly. Really proud of the first lady for her efforts, spearheaded www dot florida disaster fund dot org. They launched this basically the day after the storm and they’ve already raised more than $20 million to help relief efforts for people. And obviously *** lot of that is going to be done right here in the state of florida. And so we’re really excited about being able to help folks in *** variety of ways. You know, I was talking to some of the motorists coming in questions for me about fema, like fema told me I couldn’t get this last time or whatever fema is. You know, it’s *** bureaucracy and they’re gonna go buy whatever those regulations are. So you may have needs that don’t fit into one of their wickets. So florida disaster fund dot org, working with these private groups can help meet needs of people that would not be covered by fema. So it’s an important complement to what the state and every in these communities are doing overall. Also people I have wanted to come in and pitch in help and there’s ways to do that. If you go to www dot volunteer florida dot org, you can sign up for different volunteer opportunities and I know people would love to have, there’s been *** great outpouring of support, community and I’ve seen *** lot of resilience in this community of people that want to pick themselves is up and and they want to get their communities back on their feet and we really appreciate that spirit. And as I’ve said throughout the whole thing of this, you know, there comes *** time when this is not interest to the tv cameras anymore, but we understand the needs will persist long after the cameras are gone and we’ll be here, we’ll be helping every step of the way. Okay, Jim Eifert is going to talk about some of the efforts that the guard is doing. I’m bringing with me, Brigadier General Shawn Boyett, who is the joint Task force florida commander, he’s been the command and control. Um center node up in camp landing, north florida controlling all of the resources throughout the state. Um as obviously lee county collier and charlotte have become *** center of significant concern. We are continuing to migrate more forces down here. We currently have about 1200 Florida national guardsmen will probably be including increasing that in the coming days. To more than 2000. Again, just to get that presence in the streets, make sure that uh, there are no looting or crime waves that could be part of the natural disaster and then also assisting with the additional creation and expansion of the pods that we currently, these points of distribution like you see behind us. So I’m immensely proud of the guardsmen who stepped up at *** moment’s notice to be *** part of this, of this effort and I’ll pass it over to sean if he has any other words as *** general mentioned and the government and augment some of their outstanding comments. We look forward to continue to provide service to our community. These are your community soldiers. Each and everyone comes from *** community within florida. They’re proud to serve their, their fellow Floridian. So but with that I’ll turn it back over to the GET LOCAL BREAKING NEWS ALERTS The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Privacy Notice Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses response to Florida power outages, flood damage Gov. Ron DeSantis gave an update in Fort Myers Saturday afternoon on assisting Florida residents after Hurricane Ian.Over 1,100 rescues were performed as of 7 a.m. Saturday morning, and crews are continuing search and rescue efforts. DeSantis said utility crews are also actively working to restore power for those who experienced power outages. “Forty-eight hours after the storm leaving, up to over 54% of all people who had lost power have power back,” DeSantis said. He also said to help with connectivity problems in offline communities in southwest Florida, SpaceX is planning to deploy Starlink satellites. “We’re working with SpaceX, and we are expecting 120 additional large Starlink units to deploy to southwest Florida,” DeSantis said. Some will be delivered to Lee County, Charlotte County and surrounding counties, according to DeSantis. “As of right now, you’ve got about 73% of Lee County without power and 77% of Charlotte County without power. The county that has the most without power is currently Hardee County, and that is 88% without power,” DeSantis said. Verizon has deployed drones to help with recovery efforts and assess the damage.FDOT is continuing to inspect roadways and bridges to ensure their safety before opening them up to drivers, and over 1,300 FDOT team members have been sent out.According to DeSantis, FDOT closed a 12-mile stretch of I-75 as they continue to monitor the flood impact. Fuel has been brought to southwest Florida during the recovery efforts. “We have moved 1.6 million gallons of fuel into southwest Florida to support different spots,” DeSantis said. “All major ports are now open for fueling, and the fuel is going to be coming in.”The Florida Disaster Fund was established for financially assisting communities recovering from the hurricane. Find information on the Florida Disaster Fund on the website.DeSantis said FEMA assistance is additionally available for Florida residents and at least 87,000 people have registered for FEMA so far. To apply for FEMA assistance, visit here. For emergency service requests, Florida residents can fill out this form. Gov. Ron DeSantis gave an update in Fort Myers Saturday afternoon on assisting Florida residents after Hurricane Ian. Over 1,100 rescues were performed as of 7 a.m. Saturday morning, and crews are continuing search and rescue efforts. DeSantis said utility crews are also actively working to restore power for those who experienced power outages. “Forty-eight hours after the storm leaving, up to over 54% of all people who had lost power have power back,” DeSantis said. He also said to help with connectivity problems in offline communities in southwest Florida, SpaceX is planning to deploy Starlink satellites. “We’re working with SpaceX, and we are expecting 120 additional large Starlink units to deploy to southwest Florida,” DeSantis said. Some will be delivered to Lee County, Charlotte County and surrounding counties, according to DeSantis. “As of right now, you’ve got about 73% of Lee County without power and 77% of Charlotte County without power. The county that has the most without power is currently Hardee County, and that is 88% without power,” DeSantis said. Verizon has deployed drones to help with recovery efforts and assess the damage. FDOT is continuing to inspect roadways and bridges to ensure their safety before opening them up to drivers, and over 1,300 FDOT team members have been sent out. According to DeSantis, FDOT closed a 12-mile stretch of I-75 as they continue to monitor the flood impact. Fuel has been brought to southwest Florida during the recovery efforts. “We have moved 1.6 million gallons of fuel into southwest Florida to support different spots,” DeSantis said. “All major ports are now open for fueling, and the fuel is going to be coming in.” The Florida Disaster Fund was established for financially assisting communities recovering from the hurricane. Find information on the Florida Disaster Fund on the website. DeSantis said FEMA assistance is additionally available for Florida residents and at least 87,000 people have registered for FEMA so far. To apply for FEMA assistance, visit here. For emergency service requests, Florida residents can fill out this form. Read More Here

US Forecast https://digitalalaskanews.com/us-forecast-106/ 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;59;39;62;37;Abundant sunshine;N;6;49%;2%;4 Albuquerque, NM;77;57;74;55;Thundershowers;N;8;52%;95%;3 Anchorage, AK;49;42;52;42;Showers around;ENE;6;72%;70%;1 Asheville, NC;57;49;65;44;Rather cloudy;NW;6;70%;2%;2 Atlanta, GA;76;53;76;53;Mostly sunny;ENE;7;62%;0%;5 Atlantic City, NJ;63;54;56;52;Very windy, rain;NNE;29;77%;100%;1 Austin, TX;88;57;89;60;Partly sunny;ENE;5;30%;2%;6 Baltimore, MD;58;49;54;48;Rain and drizzle;N;9;68%;99%;1 Baton Rouge, LA;86;54;85;58;Sunny and nice;NNE;7;52%;7%;6 Billings, MT;61;49;68;48;Mostly cloudy;SSW;8;66%;17%;2 Birmingham, AL;80;55;78;54;Sunny and nice;NE;7;57%;7%;5 Bismarck, ND;75;54;71;51;A p.m. t-shower;NW;7;70%;73%;3 Boise, ID;77;49;79;50;Sunshine;ENE;7;38%;0%;4 Boston, MA;56;47;58;47;Partly sunny, breezy;NE;16;55%;12%;3 Bridgeport, CT;58;45;61;46;Breezy;NE;15;51%;55%;3 Buffalo, NY;58;37;61;39;Partly sunny;ESE;7;53%;3%;4 Burlington, VT;57;33;59;34;Abundant sunshine;ENE;7;51%;6%;4 Caribou, ME;52;26;57;30;Plenty of sunshine;SSW;5;49%;4%;4 Casper, WY;72;42;64;39;Clouds and sun;NNE;7;62%;27%;4 Charleston, SC;75;58;68;52;Cloudy and cooler;N;11;70%;9%;1 Charleston, WV;60;48;69;41;Partly sunny, warmer;NNE;5;68%;1%;5 Charlotte, NC;69;54;68;45;Mostly cloudy;NE;10;69%;3%;2 Cheyenne, WY;66;46;66;43;Thundershowers;NNE;8;57%;77%;4 Chicago, IL;62;50;66;49;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;42%;0%;4 Cleveland, OH;60;48;61;47;Partly sunny;ENE;9;57%;4%;4 Columbia, SC;73;55;70;47;Cloudy;NNE;7;64%;5%;1 Columbus, OH;67;43;67;40;Partly sunny;NNE;6;53%;0%;4 Concord, NH;56;33;60;31;Mostly sunny;N;8;49%;2%;4 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX;82;57;87;59;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;33%;2%;6 Denver, CO;73;49;71;49;A stray t-shower;NW;6;52%;74%;4 Des Moines, IA;73;53;78;50;Mostly sunny;SE;9;49%;11%;4 Detroit, MI;65;42;64;42;Partly sunny;NE;7;47%;3%;4 Dodge City, KS;83;50;86;54;Sunny;S;15;27%;41%;5 Duluth, MN;59;53;69;56;Partly sunny, warmer;SSW;9;69%;14%;4 El Paso, TX;82;62;84;61;A shower in the a.m.;ESE;9;33%;95%;6 Fairbanks, AK;45;35;48;30;Mostly cloudy;NNE;6;68%;19%;1 Fargo, ND;70;57;77;56;A p.m. t-shower;SSE;12;46%;59%;3 Grand Junction, CO;67;51;71;50;Partial sunshine;ENE;7;63%;42%;5 Grand Rapids, MI;66;38;67;39;Mostly sunny;SE;5;48%;3%;4 Hartford, CT;59;44;63;44;Breezy in the a.m.;NNE;11;49%;26%;3 Helena, MT;62;46;69;48;Partly sunny;S;5;62%;5%;4 Honolulu, HI;85;74;85;73;Mostly cloudy;NE;8;62%;20%;3 Houston, TX;86;58;88;62;Partly sunny;E;6;41%;5%;6 Indianapolis, IN;72;45;69;44;Partly sunny;NE;7;50%;0%;4 Jackson, MS;84;54;83;56;Sunny and pleasant;NE;7;52%;5%;6 Jacksonville, FL;84;62;76;60;Partly sunny, nice;N;10;63%;16%;5 Juneau, AK;55;41;53;41;Partly sunny;NE;5;73%;27%;1 Kansas City, MO;78;53;83;55;Mostly sunny;SE;7;41%;5%;5 Knoxville, TN;64;51;73;47;Warmer;NE;7;61%;5%;4 Las Vegas, NV;94;70;94;70;Mostly sunny;NNW;7;31%;25%;5 Lexington, KY;71;48;71;42;Partly sunny;NE;8;61%;2%;5 Little Rock, AR;85;54;84;52;Sunny and pleasant;NE;7;46%;8%;5 Long Beach, CA;77;64;80;65;Low clouds, then sun;S;7;64%;0%;5 Los Angeles, CA;78;62;81;64;Turning sunny;SSE;7;70%;1%;5 Louisville, KY;75;49;74;44;Mostly sunny, nice;NNE;7;54%;0%;5 Madison, WI;67;44;68;44;Partly sunny;SSE;5;56%;4%;4 Memphis, TN;80;58;82;55;Sunny and pleasant;NE;9;42%;6%;5 Miami, FL;86;71;85;72;Partial sunshine;NE;7;57%;23%;7 Milwaukee, WI;62;48;64;46;Mostly sunny;SSW;7;52%;0%;4 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN;73;55;77;58;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;11;49%;10%;4 Mobile, AL;86;59;82;62;Sunny and nice;NNE;8;55%;11%;6 Montgomery, AL;82;54;79;56;Sunshine, pleasant;ENE;6;58%;3%;6 Mt. Washington, NH;39;26;39;33;Sunshine;ENE;11;29%;4%;4 Nashville, TN;80;52;77;47;Sunny and pleasant;NE;8;51%;3%;5 New Orleans, LA;84;65;82;67;Sunny and delightful;NE;8;51%;9%;6 New York, NY;58;48;60;48;Windy with clearing;NNE;20;54%;66%;3 Newark, NJ;58;46;59;47;Windy with clearing;NNE;19;55%;66%;2 Norfolk, VA;71;57;59;52;Rain and drizzle;NNW;20;80%;92%;1 Oklahoma City, OK;85;54;85;55;Sunny and warm;SSE;8;32%;2%;5 Olympia, WA;80;49;79;48;Warm with sunshine;NW;5;68%;4%;3 Omaha, NE;76;52;83;53;Partly sunny;SE;11;40%;9%;4 Orlando, FL;87;66;83;65;Mostly sunny;NNE;8;63%;12%;7 Philadelphia, PA;58;47;55;48;Rain and drizzle;NNE;15;70%;95%;1 Phoenix, AZ;96;76;97;76;Mostly sunny, warm;NE;6;32%;28%;5 Pittsburgh, PA;64;43;65;43;Partly sunny;N;5;54%;1%;4 Portland, ME;56;39;57;38;Mostly sunny;NE;9;54%;2%;4 Portland, OR;84;55;83;55;Partly sunny;N;4;56%;4%;4 Providence, RI;56;44;60;45;Windy in the morning;NNE;15;52%;26%;3 Raleigh, NC;66;51;60;46;Breezy with a shower;N;15;73%;82%;1 Reno, NV;80;46;81;46;Sunshine and warm;SW;6;33%;0%;5 Richmond, VA;64;49;54;46;Rain and drizzle;N;10;81%;72%;1 Roswell, NM;84;54;83;54;Partly sunny;S;9;38%;1%;6 Sacramento, CA;81;55;86;56;Sunny and warm;S;6;52%;1%;5 Salt Lake City, UT;74;53;76;51;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;43%;0%;5 San Antonio, TX;87;59;87;61;Partly sunny;E;7;40%;2%;6 San Diego, CA;72;66;77;67;Turning sunny;NW;9;71%;0%;5 San Francisco, CA;69;58;68;56;Low clouds breaking;WSW;11;69%;1%;4 Savannah, GA;77;58;72;52;Mostly cloudy;N;9;72%;11%;2 Seattle-Tacoma, WA;79;57;79;56;Mostly sunny;NNE;6;57%;4%;3 Sioux Falls, SD;81;55;79;57;Breezy;SSE;14;37%;57%;3 Spokane, WA;78;50;80;50;Sunny and very warm;ESE;4;52%;1%;4 Springfield, IL;75;46;73;39;Mostly sunny;E;6;45%;4%;4 St. Louis, MO;77;50;75;43;Mostly sunny, nice;ENE;6;44%;7%;5 Tampa, FL;87;63;85;64;Plenty of sunshine;NE;6;65%;7%;7 Toledo, OH;67;41;65;40;Mostly sunny;NE;6;53%;3%;4 Tucson, AZ;91;67;92;69;Mostly sunny;E;7;37%;15%;6 Tulsa, OK;84;51;86;53;Plenty of sunshine;SE;6;41%;3%;5 Vero Beach, FL;88;64;84;67;Mostly sunny;N;10;60%;29%;7 Washington, DC;59;49;54;48;Rain and drizzle;N;9;69%;96%;1 Wichita, KS;84;52;87;53;Sunny and very warm;SSE;9;31%;3%;5 Wilmington, DE;58;47;54;48;Rain and drizzle;N;15;71%;95%;1 _____ Copyright 2022 AccuWeather Read More Here

US Forecast https://digitalalaskanews.com/us-forecast-107/ 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;59;39;62;37;Abundant sunshine;N;6;49%;2%;4 Albuquerque, NM;77;57;74;55;Thundershowers;N;8;52%;95%;3 Anchorage, AK;49;42;52;42;Showers around;ENE;6;72%;70%;1 Asheville, NC;57;49;65;44;Rather cloudy;NW;6;70%;2%;2 Atlanta, GA;76;53;76;53;Mostly sunny;ENE;7;62%;0%;5 Atlantic City, NJ;63;54;56;52;Very windy, rain;NNE;29;77%;100%;1 Austin, TX;88;57;89;60;Partly sunny;ENE;5;30%;2%;6 Baltimore, MD;58;49;54;48;Rain and drizzle;N;9;68%;99%;1 Baton Rouge, LA;86;54;85;58;Sunny and nice;NNE;7;52%;7%;6 Billings, MT;61;49;68;48;Mostly cloudy;SSW;8;66%;17%;2 Birmingham, AL;80;55;78;54;Sunny and nice;NE;7;57%;7%;5 Bismarck, ND;75;54;71;51;A p.m. t-shower;NW;7;70%;73%;3 Boise, ID;77;49;79;50;Sunshine;ENE;7;38%;0%;4 Boston, MA;56;47;58;47;Partly sunny, breezy;NE;16;55%;12%;3 Bridgeport, CT;58;45;61;46;Breezy;NE;15;51%;55%;3 Buffalo, NY;58;37;61;39;Partly sunny;ESE;7;53%;3%;4 Burlington, VT;57;33;59;34;Abundant sunshine;ENE;7;51%;6%;4 Caribou, ME;52;26;57;30;Plenty of sunshine;SSW;5;49%;4%;4 Casper, WY;72;42;64;39;Clouds and sun;NNE;7;62%;27%;4 Charleston, SC;75;58;68;52;Cloudy and cooler;N;11;70%;9%;1 Charleston, WV;60;48;69;41;Partly sunny, warmer;NNE;5;68%;1%;5 Charlotte, NC;69;54;68;45;Mostly cloudy;NE;10;69%;3%;2 Cheyenne, WY;66;46;66;43;Thundershowers;NNE;8;57%;77%;4 Chicago, IL;62;50;66;49;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;42%;0%;4 Cleveland, OH;60;48;61;47;Partly sunny;ENE;9;57%;4%;4 Columbia, SC;73;55;70;47;Cloudy;NNE;7;64%;5%;1 Columbus, OH;67;43;67;40;Partly sunny;NNE;6;53%;0%;4 Concord, NH;56;33;60;31;Mostly sunny;N;8;49%;2%;4 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX;82;57;87;59;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;33%;2%;6 Denver, CO;73;49;71;49;A stray t-shower;NW;6;52%;74%;4 Des Moines, IA;73;53;78;50;Mostly sunny;SE;9;49%;11%;4 Detroit, MI;65;42;64;42;Partly sunny;NE;7;47%;3%;4 Dodge City, KS;83;50;86;54;Sunny;S;15;27%;41%;5 Duluth, MN;59;53;69;56;Partly sunny, warmer;SSW;9;69%;14%;4 El Paso, TX;82;62;84;61;A shower in the a.m.;ESE;9;33%;95%;6 Fairbanks, AK;45;35;48;30;Mostly cloudy;NNE;6;68%;19%;1 Fargo, ND;70;57;77;56;A p.m. t-shower;SSE;12;46%;59%;3 Grand Junction, CO;67;51;71;50;Partial sunshine;ENE;7;63%;42%;5 Grand Rapids, MI;66;38;67;39;Mostly sunny;SE;5;48%;3%;4 Hartford, CT;59;44;63;44;Breezy in the a.m.;NNE;11;49%;26%;3 Helena, MT;62;46;69;48;Partly sunny;S;5;62%;5%;4 Honolulu, HI;85;74;85;73;Mostly cloudy;NE;8;62%;20%;3 Houston, TX;86;58;88;62;Partly sunny;E;6;41%;5%;6 Indianapolis, IN;72;45;69;44;Partly sunny;NE;7;50%;0%;4 Jackson, MS;84;54;83;56;Sunny and pleasant;NE;7;52%;5%;6 Jacksonville, FL;84;62;76;60;Partly sunny, nice;N;10;63%;16%;5 Juneau, AK;55;41;53;41;Partly sunny;NE;5;73%;27%;1 Kansas City, MO;78;53;83;55;Mostly sunny;SE;7;41%;5%;5 Knoxville, TN;64;51;73;47;Warmer;NE;7;61%;5%;4 Las Vegas, NV;94;70;94;70;Mostly sunny;NNW;7;31%;25%;5 Lexington, KY;71;48;71;42;Partly sunny;NE;8;61%;2%;5 Little Rock, AR;85;54;84;52;Sunny and pleasant;NE;7;46%;8%;5 Long Beach, CA;77;64;80;65;Low clouds, then sun;S;7;64%;0%;5 Los Angeles, CA;78;62;81;64;Turning sunny;SSE;7;70%;1%;5 Louisville, KY;75;49;74;44;Mostly sunny, nice;NNE;7;54%;0%;5 Madison, WI;67;44;68;44;Partly sunny;SSE;5;56%;4%;4 Memphis, TN;80;58;82;55;Sunny and pleasant;NE;9;42%;6%;5 Miami, FL;86;71;85;72;Partial sunshine;NE;7;57%;23%;7 Milwaukee, WI;62;48;64;46;Mostly sunny;SSW;7;52%;0%;4 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN;73;55;77;58;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;11;49%;10%;4 Mobile, AL;86;59;82;62;Sunny and nice;NNE;8;55%;11%;6 Montgomery, AL;82;54;79;56;Sunshine, pleasant;ENE;6;58%;3%;6 Mt. Washington, NH;39;26;39;33;Sunshine;ENE;11;29%;4%;4 Nashville, TN;80;52;77;47;Sunny and pleasant;NE;8;51%;3%;5 New Orleans, LA;84;65;82;67;Sunny and delightful;NE;8;51%;9%;6 New York, NY;58;48;60;48;Windy with clearing;NNE;20;54%;66%;3 Newark, NJ;58;46;59;47;Windy with clearing;NNE;19;55%;66%;2 Norfolk, VA;71;57;59;52;Rain and drizzle;NNW;20;80%;92%;1 Oklahoma City, OK;85;54;85;55;Sunny and warm;SSE;8;32%;2%;5 Olympia, WA;80;49;79;48;Warm with sunshine;NW;5;68%;4%;3 Omaha, NE;76;52;83;53;Partly sunny;SE;11;40%;9%;4 Orlando, FL;87;66;83;65;Mostly sunny;NNE;8;63%;12%;7 Philadelphia, PA;58;47;55;48;Rain and drizzle;NNE;15;70%;95%;1 Phoenix, AZ;96;76;97;76;Mostly sunny, warm;NE;6;32%;28%;5 Pittsburgh, PA;64;43;65;43;Partly sunny;N;5;54%;1%;4 Portland, ME;56;39;57;38;Mostly sunny;NE;9;54%;2%;4 Portland, OR;84;55;83;55;Partly sunny;N;4;56%;4%;4 Providence, RI;56;44;60;45;Windy in the morning;NNE;15;52%;26%;3 Raleigh, NC;66;51;60;46;Breezy with a shower;N;15;73%;82%;1 Reno, NV;80;46;81;46;Sunshine and warm;SW;6;33%;0%;5 Richmond, VA;64;49;54;46;Rain and drizzle;N;10;81%;72%;1 Roswell, NM;84;54;83;54;Partly sunny;S;9;38%;1%;6 Sacramento, CA;81;55;86;56;Sunny and warm;S;6;52%;1%;5 Salt Lake City, UT;74;53;76;51;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;43%;0%;5 San Antonio, TX;87;59;87;61;Partly sunny;E;7;40%;2%;6 San Diego, CA;72;66;77;67;Turning sunny;NW;9;71%;0%;5 San Francisco, CA;69;58;68;56;Low clouds breaking;WSW;11;69%;1%;4 Savannah, GA;77;58;72;52;Mostly cloudy;N;9;72%;11%;2 Seattle-Tacoma, WA;79;57;79;56;Mostly sunny;NNE;6;57%;4%;3 Sioux Falls, SD;81;55;79;57;Breezy;SSE;14;37%;57%;3 Spokane, WA;78;50;80;50;Sunny and very warm;ESE;4;52%;1%;4 Springfield, IL;75;46;73;39;Mostly sunny;E;6;45%;4%;4 St. Louis, MO;77;50;75;43;Mostly sunny, nice;ENE;6;44%;7%;5 Tampa, FL;87;63;85;64;Plenty of sunshine;NE;6;65%;7%;7 Toledo, OH;67;41;65;40;Mostly sunny;NE;6;53%;3%;4 Tucson, AZ;91;67;92;69;Mostly sunny;E;7;37%;15%;6 Tulsa, OK;84;51;86;53;Plenty of sunshine;SE;6;41%;3%;5 Vero Beach, FL;88;64;84;67;Mostly sunny;N;10;60%;29%;7 Washington, DC;59;49;54;48;Rain and drizzle;N;9;69%;96%;1 Wichita, KS;84;52;87;53;Sunny and very warm;SSE;9;31%;3%;5 Wilmington, DE;58;47;54;48;Rain and drizzle;N;15;71%;95%;1 _____ Copyright 2022 AccuWeather Read More Here

US Forecast https://digitalalaskanews.com/us-forecast-105/ 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;59;39;62;37;Abundant sunshine;N;6;49%;2%;4 Albuquerque, NM;77;57;74;55;Thundershowers;N;8;52%;95%;3 Anchorage, AK;49;42;52;42;Showers around;ENE;6;72%;70%;1 Asheville, NC;57;49;65;44;Rather cloudy;NW;6;70%;2%;2 Atlanta, GA;76;53;76;53;Mostly sunny;ENE;7;62%;0%;5 Atlantic City, NJ;63;54;56;52;Very windy, rain;NNE;29;77%;100%;1 Austin, TX;88;57;89;60;Partly sunny;ENE;5;30%;2%;6 Baltimore, MD;58;49;54;48;Rain and drizzle;N;9;68%;99%;1 Baton Rouge, LA;86;54;85;58;Sunny and nice;NNE;7;52%;7%;6 Billings, MT;61;49;68;48;Mostly cloudy;SSW;8;66%;17%;2 Birmingham, AL;80;55;78;54;Sunny and nice;NE;7;57%;7%;5 Bismarck, ND;75;54;71;51;A p.m. t-shower;NW;7;70%;73%;3 Boise, ID;77;49;79;50;Sunshine;ENE;7;38%;0%;4 Boston, MA;56;47;58;47;Partly sunny, breezy;NE;16;55%;12%;3 Bridgeport, CT;58;45;61;46;Breezy;NE;15;51%;55%;3 Buffalo, NY;58;37;61;39;Partly sunny;ESE;7;53%;3%;4 Burlington, VT;57;33;59;34;Abundant sunshine;ENE;7;51%;6%;4 Caribou, ME;52;26;57;30;Plenty of sunshine;SSW;5;49%;4%;4 Casper, WY;72;42;64;39;Clouds and sun;NNE;7;62%;27%;4 Charleston, SC;75;58;68;52;Cloudy and cooler;N;11;70%;9%;1 Charleston, WV;60;48;69;41;Partly sunny, warmer;NNE;5;68%;1%;5 Charlotte, NC;69;54;68;45;Mostly cloudy;NE;10;69%;3%;2 Cheyenne, WY;66;46;66;43;Thundershowers;NNE;8;57%;77%;4 Chicago, IL;62;50;66;49;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;42%;0%;4 Cleveland, OH;60;48;61;47;Partly sunny;ENE;9;57%;4%;4 Columbia, SC;73;55;70;47;Cloudy;NNE;7;64%;5%;1 Columbus, OH;67;43;67;40;Partly sunny;NNE;6;53%;0%;4 Concord, NH;56;33;60;31;Mostly sunny;N;8;49%;2%;4 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX;82;57;87;59;Mostly sunny;ESE;7;33%;2%;6 Denver, CO;73;49;71;49;A stray t-shower;NW;6;52%;74%;4 Des Moines, IA;73;53;78;50;Mostly sunny;SE;9;49%;11%;4 Detroit, MI;65;42;64;42;Partly sunny;NE;7;47%;3%;4 Dodge City, KS;83;50;86;54;Sunny;S;15;27%;41%;5 Duluth, MN;59;53;69;56;Partly sunny, warmer;SSW;9;69%;14%;4 El Paso, TX;82;62;84;61;A shower in the a.m.;ESE;9;33%;95%;6 Fairbanks, AK;45;35;48;30;Mostly cloudy;NNE;6;68%;19%;1 Fargo, ND;70;57;77;56;A p.m. t-shower;SSE;12;46%;59%;3 Grand Junction, CO;67;51;71;50;Partial sunshine;ENE;7;63%;42%;5 Grand Rapids, MI;66;38;67;39;Mostly sunny;SE;5;48%;3%;4 Hartford, CT;59;44;63;44;Breezy in the a.m.;NNE;11;49%;26%;3 Helena, MT;62;46;69;48;Partly sunny;S;5;62%;5%;4 Honolulu, HI;85;74;85;73;Mostly cloudy;NE;8;62%;20%;3 Houston, TX;86;58;88;62;Partly sunny;E;6;41%;5%;6 Indianapolis, IN;72;45;69;44;Partly sunny;NE;7;50%;0%;4 Jackson, MS;84;54;83;56;Sunny and pleasant;NE;7;52%;5%;6 Jacksonville, FL;84;62;76;60;Partly sunny, nice;N;10;63%;16%;5 Juneau, AK;55;41;53;41;Partly sunny;NE;5;73%;27%;1 Kansas City, MO;78;53;83;55;Mostly sunny;SE;7;41%;5%;5 Knoxville, TN;64;51;73;47;Warmer;NE;7;61%;5%;4 Las Vegas, NV;94;70;94;70;Mostly sunny;NNW;7;31%;25%;5 Lexington, KY;71;48;71;42;Partly sunny;NE;8;61%;2%;5 Little Rock, AR;85;54;84;52;Sunny and pleasant;NE;7;46%;8%;5 Long Beach, CA;77;64;80;65;Low clouds, then sun;S;7;64%;0%;5 Los Angeles, CA;78;62;81;64;Turning sunny;SSE;7;70%;1%;5 Louisville, KY;75;49;74;44;Mostly sunny, nice;NNE;7;54%;0%;5 Madison, WI;67;44;68;44;Partly sunny;SSE;5;56%;4%;4 Memphis, TN;80;58;82;55;Sunny and pleasant;NE;9;42%;6%;5 Miami, FL;86;71;85;72;Partial sunshine;NE;7;57%;23%;7 Milwaukee, WI;62;48;64;46;Mostly sunny;SSW;7;52%;0%;4 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN;73;55;77;58;Mostly sunny, warm;SSE;11;49%;10%;4 Mobile, AL;86;59;82;62;Sunny and nice;NNE;8;55%;11%;6 Montgomery, AL;82;54;79;56;Sunshine, pleasant;ENE;6;58%;3%;6 Mt. 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A New Justice At The U.S. Supreme Court, And An Idaho Wetlands Case Up First – Georgia Recorder https://digitalalaskanews.com/a-new-justice-at-the-u-s-supreme-court-and-an-idaho-wetlands-case-up-first-georgia-recorder/ When the U.S. Supreme Court opens its fall term on Monday, a few things will be different. A Black woman, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, will hear oral arguments for the first time ever. And the public will be allowed into the room for the first time since early 2020. The content of the term’s first case, though, will be familiar to many who have followed federal water policy for the past several years. The case is a challenge to the definition of “waters of the United States,” which delineates which wetlands the federal government can regulate under the Clean Water Act. The case, brought by an Idaho couple, could further restrict the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate environmental protections, just as one of the last decisions by the conservative majority in the most recent term curbed the agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gases. A history-making day Monday will be the first day Jackson joins the ritual of oral arguments in the ornate chamber as one of nine Supreme Court justices. Jackson, a Harvard Law School grad and former federal judge who grew up in Miami, took the oath of office in June following an often–contentious Senate confirmation process. On Friday, she took part in an investiture ceremony, which mirrors stylistic aspects of the swearing-in. The investiture, though, is purely symbolic. Jackson has been a member of the court since taking her oath of office. Although the event was only symbolic, President Joe Biden and a handful of top White House staff members, along with several members of Congress, including Rep. Hank Johnson of Lithonia and Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Cory Booker of New Jersey, all Democrats, attended the six-minute event. Booker, who is Black, brought tears to Jackson’s eyes at a fraught time in the confirmation hearing when he spoke of the importance of Jackson’s role in history and as a role model to young Black people. U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican who sits on the Judiciary Committee, was the only senator who voted against Jackson’s confirmation to attend Friday’s ceremony. His presence seemed intended to make a point about the need to respect institutions, even amid good-faith disagreement with individuals. In a statement, Sasse, who is white, said that he disagreed with Jackson’s judicial philosophy but that their disagreement was respectful and impersonal. He urged members of both parties not to attack the court itself. “Right now, there’s a lot of sound and fury about whether or not the Supreme Court has lost legitimacy,” Sasse said in the statement. “It’s a load of bunk. The Court’s legitimacy comes from its constitutional role, not the popularity of its opinions. I’m certain that I won’t agree with all of Justice Jackson’s opinions, but I’m not going to attack the credibility of the Court when we see things differently, and I wish more of my colleagues would take a similar approach.” During the March hearings at the Judiciary Committee, Sasse avoided the most salacious attacks on Jackson launched by other Republicans and bemoaned publicity-seeking “jackassery” in the chamber. Court’s legitimacy Jackson is not expected to affect the court’s ideological balance, as she replaced Stephen Breyer, who’d been among the court’s liberal minority before his retirement. With three justices appointed by former President Donald Trump, the court’s last term was its most conservative in decades, culminating with a ruling overturning Roe. v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that guaranteed the right to an abortion nationally. The three liberal justices, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and the since-retired Breyer, wrote a scathing dissent that the decision “undermines the Court’s legitimacy.” The court’s departure from its own precedent in the Dobbs case “calls into question this Court’s commitment to legal principle,” they wrote. “It makes the Court appear not restrained but aggressive, not modest but grasping. In all those ways, today’s decision takes aim, we fear, at the rule of law.” Americans’ opinions of the court have declined over the past two years, along with its rightward shift. A nationwide Marquette Law School poll conducted in September found 60% of respondents disapproved of the court, while only 40% approved. The results represented a 53-point drop in net favorability from the same survey in 2020, when twice as many respondents held favorable views as those with unfavorable views. Other events have also threatened the court’s reputation. Justice Clarence Thomas did not recuse himself from a case about the House Jan. 6 committee’s access to presidential records and was the sole justice to vote in favor of restricting those records. The records later showed that his wife, Nebraska native Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, had exchanged several texts with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows spreading false claims that the election was stolen. Additionally, a draft of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to news media months before it was published in what several experts said was an “unprecedented” breach of the court’s protocol that launched an internal investigation. New court rules, old issue Monday will mark the first time since March 2020 that the court will allow the public to attend oral arguments. Masks will be optional. The court will continue to live-stream audio from oral arguments, a practice the staid court only adopted while it limited attendance during the pandemic. The first oral arguments made under the new rules involve the EPA’s authority under the Clean Water Act to regulate “waters of the United States.” The 1972 law changed the criteria for what constituted a federally protected waterway away from one that is navigable to any “waters of the United States.” That definition has shifted since the law was passed, and particularly as the last three presidential administrations have enacted rules to define it. In 2015, President Barack Obama’s administration issued a definition that some, especially Republicans, viewed as expanding federal jurisdiction. His successor, Donald Trump, took steps to loosen the definition in 2020, but a federal court vacated that move in 2021. Last year, under Biden, the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers said they would interpret the phrase consistent with a pre-2015 definition while they worked on updating a more permanent version. A Supreme Court ruling will likely come before that rule is finalized. An Idaho couple, the Sacketts, own a parcel of land near Priest Lake in the state’s panhandle. Their land is within 30 feet of a tributary to the lake. The EPA has claimed that parcel is within its jurisdiction to regulate as a navigable waterway, and the Sacketts disagree. The Sacketts are among the many farmers and other private landowners seeking a reprieve from federal regulation of wetlands on their property. A federal appeals court ruled last year in favor of the federal agency, but the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case could mean it will overturn the lower court’s ruling. 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AP News Summary At 4:35 P.m. EDT https://digitalalaskanews.com/ap-news-summary-at-435-p-m-edt/ 10 torture sites in 1 town: Russia sowed pain, fear in Izium IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — An Associated Press investigation has found that Russian torture in the Ukrainian town of Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine for both civilians and soldiers. AP journalists located 10 torture sites in the town, including a deep sunless pit in a residential compound, a clammy underground jail that reeked of urine, a medical clinic, and a kindergarten. AP also spoke to 15 survivors of Russian torture and confirmed the deaths of eight men. All but one were civilians. The AP also found a former Ukrainian soldier who was tortured three times hiding in a monastery, and connected him with loved ones. The town has now been liberated by Ukrainian forces. Brazil holds historic election with Lula against Bolsonaro RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Polls have closed in Brazil in a highly polarized election that could determine if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office for another four years. The race pits far-right President Jair Bolsonaro against his political nemesis, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Recent polls have given da Silva a commanding lead, pointing to a chance that he might win the first round outright, without need for a runoff. Da Silva would have to get more than 50% of the votes cast Sunday, topping the total vote for Bolsonaro and the other nine candidates. Ukraine presses on with counteroffensive; Russia uses drones KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has attacked the Ukrainian president’s hometown with suicide drones. This comes as Ukraine has pushed ahead with its counteroffensive that has embarrassed the Kremlin. Ukraine took back control of the strategic eastern city of Lyman, which Russia had been using as a transport and logistics hub. That’s a new blow to the Kremlin as it seeks to escalate the war by illegally annexing four regions of Ukraine. Photos circulating online pointed to some battlefield movement for Ukraine, showing Ukrainian soldiers entering what appeared to be newly retaken settlements in the south and east. Pope Francis, meanwhile, on Sunday decried Russia’s nuclear threats against the West and appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop “this spiral of violence and death.” 125 die as tear gas triggers crush at Indonesia soccer match MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — Police firing tear gas after an Indonesian soccer match in an attempt to stop violence triggered a disastrous crush of fans that has left at least 125 people dead. Attention immediately focused on police crowd-control measures at Saturday night’s match between host Arema FC of East Java’s Malang city and Persebaya Surabaya. Witnesses described officers beating them with sticks and shields before shooting tear gas canisters directly into the crowds. President Joko Widodo ordered an investigation of security procedures and the president of FIFA called the deaths “a dark day for all involved in football and a tragedy beyond comprehension.” While FIFA has no control over domestic games, it has advised against the use of tear gas at soccer stadiums. Feds vow major aid for Hurricane Ian victims amid rescues FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — U.S. officials are vowing to unleash an unprecedented amount of federal disaster aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian as the death toll rises amid recovery efforts. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Deanne Criswell said Sunday that the government is ready to provide help days after Ian came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane and carved a deadly path of destruction through Florida and into the Carolinas. The monster storm killed at least 54 people, including 47 in Florida, and hundreds of thousands of people and businesses remain without power. Officials warn that flooding could still worsen in parts of Florida because all the rain that fell has nowhere to go, with waterways already overflowing. Ian is long gone but water keeps rising in central Florida GENEVA, Fla. (AP) — Residents living in parts of central Florida donned fishing waders, boots and bug spray and canoed or kayaked their way to their homes on streets where floodwaters continued rising Sunday despite it being four days since Hurricane Ian tore through the state. The waters flooded homes and streets that had been passable just a day or two earlier. Ben Bertat found 4 inches of water in his house by Lake Harney off North Jungle street in a rural part of Seminole County north of Orlando after kayaking to it Sunday morning. Only a day earlier, there had been no water. Mediator: Ousted Burkina Faso leader offers resignation OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Mediators in the West African nation of Burkina Faso say ousted coup leader Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba has agreed to resign so long as his security and other conditions are met. Hamidou Yameogo, a spokesman for the negotiations by religious leaders, said Sunday that the country’s new junta president has accepted those conditions. There was no immediate corroboration of Damiba’s official resignation, but the religious leaders said he made the offer in order to spare the country further bloodshed. Capt. Ibrahim Traore was named the country’s new leader on Friday in an announcement made on state television. Damiba, who came to power in a January coup, saw his popularity plummet as violence linked to Islamic extremists continued. Yemen’s warring sides fail to extend UN-backed truce SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The United Nations says that negotiations between Yemen’s warring sides have failed to extend a nationwide cease-fire, after an agreement was not reached before a deadline on Sunday. In a statement, the U.N.’s envoy to Yemen called on all sides to refrain from acts of provocation as the talks continue. The development dampers hopes that the 6-month-old ceasefire could have turned into a longer peace. The truce, which initially took effect in April, is the longest lull of fighting in Yemen’s civil war, now in its eighth year. The brutal conflict began in 2014, when the Iranian-backed Houthis seized the capital of Sanaa and much of northern Yemen and forced the government into exile. AP Top 25: Tide retakes No. 1 from UGA; Kansas snaps drought Alabama reclaimed No. 1 from Georgia in The Associated Press college football poll in one of the closest votes in the recent years. Two points separate the Crimson Tide from the Bulldogs. Six teams including Kansas made their season debut in the AP Top 25. The Jayhawks are ranked for the first time since 2009, which was the longest drought among current Power Five conference teams. The Crimson Tide received 25 first-place votes and 1,523 points. Georgia got 28 first-place votes to become the first team since Alabama in November 2019 to have the most first-place votes but not be No. 1. Trump: ‘King’ to some in Pennsylvania, but will it help GOP? MONONGAHELA, Pa. (AP) — The enthusiasm for Donald Trump’s brand of nationalist populism has cut into traditional Democratic strongholds in places such as Monongahela in western Pennsylvania. That’s where House Republicans recently outlined their election-year campaign agenda, called  “Commitment to America.” They’re hoping they can tap into the same political sentiment Trump used to attract voters. But it’s not clear whether the support that propelled Trump to the White House will be there on Election Day this November. Just as challenging for the Republican Party is whether Trump’s false claims of voter fraud will hurt the GOP if voters decide to sit out the election. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox! Read More Here

Trump White House’s Records Still Partly Missing At Archives (1) https://digitalalaskanews.com/trump-white-houses-records-still-partly-missing-at-archives-1/ By Billy House The National Archives said it still doesn’t have all of the records from White House staffers that it should have received when ’s presidency ended and is pursuing missing material, specifically electronic messages. “While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should,” , the Acting Archivist of the United States, said in a letter dated Friday to Representative . Trump bows his head during a Easter blessing in the Oval Office of the White House in 2020. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg The information request by the New York Democrat is coinciding with a court-ordered review of documents seized from Trump’s … To read the full article log in. © 2022 The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. All Rights Reserved Read More Here

Trump Truthfully Tells His Cult Rally Rabble That 'I Think They’d Like To See Me In Prison' https://digitalalaskanews.com/trump-truthfully-tells-his-cult-rally-rabble-that-i-think-theyd-like-to-see-me-in-prison/ Pathological liar Donald Trump doesn’t tell the truth very often. He has a record for blatantly lying during his occupation of the White House that President Biden – nor any future president – can ever hope to match. So when he does manage to say something truthful he deserves to get credit for it. Click here to Tweet this article Trump has spent the past two years whining about his having lost the 2020 presidential election. However, his efforts to prove any of his claims that the election was “rigged and stolen” from him have failed in more than sixty court challenges for lack of even a shred of evidence. It is that campaign to undermine democracy that has come to be known as the “Big Lie.” Even his own Attorney General, Bill Barr, said it was “bullshit.” RELATED: AG Bill Barr on Trump’s Big Lie: We Realized From the Beginning it Was Just Bull**** At his latest travelling salvation show, Trump rattled off his tedious litany of complaints and perceived victimhood. He repeated his well worn lines about the media, the election he lost, and always his seething hatred for all things democratic and his nemesis who bests him on all counts, President Biden. But on one matter Trump actually got something right at the end of a lie-riddled rant when he sobbed that… “They’re trying to wipe out free speech, crush religious liberty, confiscate your guns, indoctrinate your children, criminalize dissent, and even put their political opponents in prison. I think they’d like to see me in prison. Can you imagine? I think they’d like… You know why? You know why? Because they’re sick. They’re sick people.” Can you imagine? Can you imagine that law abiding Americans want politicians who commit crimes to be punished? Is it within your ability to grasp that people who incite violence in the process of staging a coup should be held accountable? Do you really believe that stealing highly sensitive national security materials, hoarding them in your hotel/home, and lying to the FBI about it should be prosecuted? Would you want authorities to investigate someone who committed bank and tax fraud for millions of dollars? For the record, most Americans would answer all of those questions in the affirmative. Recent polling shows that nearly six in ten voters think that Trump should face charges over the January 6th insurrection. Even a Fox News poll shows that voters think Trump’s theft of classified documents was wrong by a whopping 39 point margin (65% to 26%). As usual, just about everything else in Trump’s rally harangue is flagrantly false. It is Trump and his Republican comrades who have threatened free speech, literally proposing to ban books and censor media. They have fouled the notion of religious liberty by forcing their beliefs on everyone else. Their love affair with guns puts Americans at risk every day. And their idea of education is a true form of indoctrination that excises any historical facts that make conservatives uncomfortable, such as slavery and discrimination against minorities, immigrants, women, and LGBTQ. RELATED: Biden Was Wrong to Call MAGA Republicans Merely ‘Semi’ Fascist Trump’s complaints about people wanting to see him in prison run in stark contrast to his own advocacy of prison for his political opponents. He routinely accuses others of crimes without any facts to support his charges. His rallies regularly feature chants of “Lock [him/her] up,” for unidentified crimes and without trial or conviction. And just to demonstrate his raging hypocrisy, that chant was even taken up within minutes of his prison whining at Saturday’s rally. You really can’t make this up… NOTE: Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles from my website, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Read More Here

Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams to serve As Kelley School’s Poling Chair https://digitalalaskanews.com/former-u-s-surgeon-general-jerome-adams-to-serve-as-kelley-schools-poling-chair/ Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams will serve as the Poling Chair for the Kelley School of Business.   Adams will visit Bloomington Oct. 5-7 where he will meet with undergraduate and graduate students in Kelley’s Center for the Business of Life Sciences, according to a News at IU article. He will also meet with professors, Kelley’s Fry Scholars and the Kelley Office of Diversity Initiatives.  Adams served as U.S. Surgeon General from September 2017 to January 2021 under the Trump Administration. He also served as Health Commissioner of Indiana from October 2014 to September 2017.  Related: [IU seniors’ HotDrop app chosen for Techstars 13-week acceleration program]  Former Poling Chairs have included Mae C. Jemison, the first Black female astronaut, movie director Kristin Hahn and Elizabeth Acton, former Vice President of Ford Motor Company.  Read More Here

Trump: 'King' To Some In Pennsylvania, But Will It Help GOP? https://digitalalaskanews.com/trump-king-to-some-in-pennsylvania-but-will-it-help-gop/ By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent MONONGAHELA, Pa. (AP) — The Trump-Pence sign still hangs on the older building off Main Street in this historic town, a lasting vestige of the campaign fervor that roused voters, including many who still believe the falsehood that the former president didn’t lose in 2020 and hope he’ll run in 2024. The enthusiasm for Donald Trump’s unique brand of nationalist populism has cut into traditional Democratic strongholds like Monongahela, about 25 miles south of Pittsburgh, where brick storefronts and a Slovak fellowship hall dot Main Street and church bells mark the hours of the day. Republicans are counting on political nostalgia for the Trump era as they battle Democrats this fall in Pennsylvania in races for governor, the U.S. Senate and control of Congress. “Trump just came along and filled the empty space,” said Matti Gruzs, who stitches old blue jeans into tote bags, place mats and other creations she sells at the weekly Farmer’s Market downtown. “He’s still the king, and the kingmaker.” Against the backdrop of this picturesque place, House Republicans recently released their campaign agenda, hoping their “Commitment to America” can tap into the same political sentiment Trump used to attract not just Republican but independent and former Democratic voters. But it’s unclear whether the support that propelled Trump to the White House will be there on Election Day, Nov. 8. Perhaps even more challenging for the GOP is whether Trump’s false claims of voter fraud will cost the party if people believe, as the defeated president claims without evidence, the elections are rigged. Some may just decide to sit out the election. “It started out as a low-enthusiasm race,” said Dave Ball, the Republican Party chairman in Washington County, which includes much of western Pennsylvania. Ball said enthusiasm has been “building rapidly” — his main metric for voter interest in the elections is the demand for lawn signs. “We were wondering, at one point, you know, we were going to see any,” he said. “Right now, I can’t get my hands on enough.” But Amy Michalic, who was born and raised in Monongahela and works the polls during elections, said she hears skepticism from some voters, particularly Trump supporters, “who think my vote doesn’t count.” Trump’s claims of fraud have no basis in fact. Dozens of court cases filed by Trump and his supporters have been dismissed or rejected by judges across the nation, but he continues to challenge Joe Biden’s victory. In every state, officials have attested to the accuracy of their elections, and Trump’s own attorney general at the time, Bill Barr, said in 2020 there was no voter fraud on a scale to change the outcome. Michalic reminds skeptical voters in her hometown of the importance of voting and notes that in 2016, no one thought Trump could win. “Look what he did, he took Pennsylvania,” she said. At the Farmer’s Market on a recent afternoon, voters shared concerns that many people in the United States voice this election year — about the high prices of everything, about finding workers and good-paying jobs, about the culture wars. “Where do you start?” said Michelle DeHosse, wearing an American flag shirt as she helped vendors set up stands. DeHosse, who runs a custom-screen print and embroidery shop on Main Street, said she has had trouble hiring employees since the pandemic. While she said just cannot afford the $20 an hour and health care benefits many applicants demand, she understands that many workers need both. “It’s the economy that’s the biggest concern,” she said. Democrats were sparse among the voters, who didn’t seem to have strong feelings for their choices this fall for either of the Senate candidates, Democrat John Fetterman or the Trump-backed Republican Mehmet Oz. Several said they probably would vote party line. “I don’t like either one of them,” said Carolyn McCuen, 84, a Republican enjoying sunset with friends and McDonald’s coffee at a picnic table by the river. “Me either,” said another Republican, Sam Reo, 76, a retired mechanical engineer, playing oldies from the portable speaker he sets up for the group. Both still plan to vote. Support for the GOP candidate for governor, Doug Mastriano, who was outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, can be seen in the giant signs along Lincoln Highway, an east-west route across the state. Mastriano is a “folk hero around here,” said Gruzs, who recalled his regular updates broadcast during the pandemic. A history buff who home-schooled her children, Gruzs hasn’t missed a vote since she cast her first presidential ballot for Ronald Reagan. The same goes for her husband, Sam, a plumber. They moved here two decades ago from Baltimore, for a better life. Now a grandmother, she spends her days working on her crafts and listening to far-right broadcasts – Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk and others. She is not a fan of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. and isn’t convinced he has the toughness needed to push the party’s ideas forward. But she did attend the event at a nearby manufacturing facility where lawmakers outlined the GOP agenda. She was heartened to see far-right Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene at the event with McCarthy, and made sure to shake Greene’s hand. “If she’s behind him,” she said, trailing off. “It looked today he had enough behind him, pushing him.” Trump remains popular, and the sign hanging on the building off Main Street from his 2020 campaign was far from the only one still visible in the state, two years since that election. Several of the voters dismissed the investigations against Trump as nothing more than a “witch hunt” designed to keep him from running again office, despite the potentially serious charges being raised in state and federal inquiries. Some voters said they didn’t believe the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection, despite the violence waged by pro-Trump supporters trying to overturn Biden’s election. Those views stand in contrast to the hard facts of Jan. 6: More than 850 people have been arrested and charged in the insurrection, some given lengthy sentences by the courts for their involvement. Hours before the siege, Trump told a rally crowd to “fight like hell” for his presidency. Loyalists soon broke into the Capitol, fighting in hand-to-hand combat with police, interrupting Congress as it was certifying the election results. Five people, including a Trump supporter shot by police, died in the immediate aftermath. And if Trump runs again? “I wish he would,” said McCuen, a retired church secretary. “But I don’t know if he will.” —- Follow AP for full coverage of the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections and on Twitter, https://twitter.com/ap_politics Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Read More Here

Another Mass Shooting In Oakland — 2 Dead, 2 Wounded On North Edge Of City https://digitalalaskanews.com/another-mass-shooting-in-oakland-2-dead-2-wounded-on-north-edge-of-city/ Two people were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting Saturday night in Oakland’s Longfellow neighborhood on the north edge of the city near Emeryville, officials said. According to the Police Department, officers from Oakland and Emeryville responded to the 950 block of Apgar Street shortly before 10 p.m. and found two victims with catastrophic gunshot wounds. “Officers attempted life-saving measures on two victims, but unfortunately they succumbed to their injuries at the scene,” said Officer Darryl Rodgers. Two other victims were rushed to the hospital, he said, where they were in stable condition Sunday morning. No arrests were immediately announced. A woman who identified herself as Liz and said she was visiting the block at the time of the shooting told The Chronicle on Sunday that she was watching a movie with her boyfriend Saturday evening when she heard laughter and music coming from the backyard of a nearby home. More than an hour later she heard a noise that “sounded like fireworks” erupt from the home, followed by silence. Peering out her window, Liz saw a person laying on the home’s driveway. She ran outside and asked the victim, who she described as a teenage boy, if he was okay. “He said, ‘Help me, I’ve been shot,” Liz said. Seeing the victim bleeding from his leg, Liz said she removed her belt and, recalling a first aid class she had taken, wrapped the belt around the victim’s injury in a makeshift tourniquet. Liz waited with the victim until first responders arrived to render care and transport him to Highland Hospital. She said she was “still processing” the incident as of Sunday afternoon. “I helped him just like I hope everybody else would,” she said. According to the East Bay Times, the victims were Berkeley students attending a birthday party for a 17-year-old girl. The party, held in a rental property, had been going on for several hours when gunfire erupted, the newspaper reported. The 950 block of Apgar Street is lined with single and two-story homes, just east of San Pablo Avenue and north of West MacArthur Boulevard. Council Member Dan Kalb, who represents the area, called the shooting “tragic and sad.” “I am both saddened and angry that this shooting and several others around the city have happened over the past summer and now into the fall,” Kalb said in an interview Sunday. “We need to bring these shootings down.” The shooting was the latest in a wave of gun violence in Oakland, which has seen a rise in homicides since the start of the pandemic. As the Longfellow shooting unfolded, police were still trying to find the gunmen who shot and wounded six people on Wednesday at Rudsdale High School in the Eastmont Hills neighborhood, in what was believed to be a targeted attack. At least two shooters entered the King Estates campus, where Rudsdale High is located, at about 12:45 p.m., firing more than 30 shots, police said. As of Sept. 25, the city had reported 93 homicides, compared with 92 during the same time period in 2021, and 69 in 2020. Police officials said officers had confiscated 1,132 guns, compared with 1,199 in all of 2021. Demian Bulwa is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: demian.bulwa@sfchronicle.com Read More Here

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Briefs https://digitalalaskanews.com/briefs/ Assn condemns attack on docs In the context of attack on Senior Oncology Surgeon Dr. Irfan Ansari on Saturday night, Dr. Rajesh Kumar Secretary (Association of Healthcare Providers – India) Jharkhand Chapter has condemned the incident and the violence against doctors in Jharkhand. The criminals opened fire on his Innova vehicle while he was returning home from MuskanHospital in Chas. The Association of Healthcare Providers – India has appealed for investigating the matter and arresting the criminals on priority. The Association has requested Government to kindly ensure that the adequate legal and other protections is accorded to the members of the medical profession while they are serving the society. Durga Puja Pandal inaugurated at CIP Durga Puja Pandal inauguration of Shri Shri Durga Puja committee, CIP, Ranchi was held October 1. Pandal was inaugurated by Associate Professor of Psychiatry cum Administrative Officer I/c and acting Director, Dr Avinash Sharma. CIP durga puja celebration is very old and unique. This puja celebration both out patients and in patient takes active participation along with doctors, students and staff of the institute. LIC Mutual Fund to launch LICMF Multicap New Fund LIC Mutual Fund today announced the launch of LICMF Multicap Fund (“LICMF Multicap”), an open-ended equity scheme, which would invest across all market capitalization categories. LICMF Multicap Fund would invest a minimum of 25 per cent each in Large, Mid and Small Cap stocks, with the balance of 25 per cent providing flexibility to the fund manager to invest across market capitalization, at his discretion following a disciplined approach. The New Fund Offer (NFO) opens on Thursday, October 6, 2022, and would close on Thursday, October 20, 2022. The scheme would reopen for ongoing subscription from Wednesday, November 2, 2022. BAU students visited Punjab University A 70-member team of agricultural graduate students of Ranchi Agricultural College, run under Birsa Agricultural University, visited Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) Ludhiana on Saturday. The student team was very excited in the campus of the country’s second oldest agricultural university, established in the year 1962. During the visit, the students visited the Dr MS Randhawa Library and Museum of History Agriculture of the University received information regarding hand-picking of wheat Kalyan Sona variety by farmers. Under the guidance of Dr. Arun Tiwari in-charge of North India Tour and Dr. Sheela Barla, got detailed information about the important role of the University in India’s Green Revolution. CMPDI  celebrated Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary CMPDI  celebrated the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Late Lal Bahadur Shastri at CMPDI(HQ), Ranchi. Shri S.K. Gomasta, Director (Technical/CRD)  and Shri A.K.Rana, Senior Advisor (Mining) and other employees paid floral tributes and paid homage to the Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri. Speaking on this occasion, Director (Technical/CRD), SK Gomasta said that October 2 is observed as International Day of Non-Violence. The whole world accepts Bapu’s ideals of Truth and Non-violence and the entire nation is remembering Mahatma Gandhi. He further said that today we also celebrate the birth Anniversary of second Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri ji who led the country in difficult times. Fire in many shops at Tharpakhna in Ranchi A fire broke out in a shop located in Thapkhana under Lalpur police station area of the capital Ranchi on Sunday morning and the flames were so strong that it engulfed many nearby shops. Due to the fire, the goods kept in many shops were burnt to ashes. Here the police reached there after getting information about the incident. Simultaneously, the fire brigade of the fire department also reached the spot and started extinguishing the fire. Short circuit is suspected to be the reason behind the fire. However, till n Read More Here

5 Signs The World Is Headed For A Recession | CNN Business https://digitalalaskanews.com/5-signs-the-world-is-headed-for-a-recession-cnn-business/ New York CNN Business  —  Around the world, markets are flashing warning signs that the global economy is teetering on a cliff’s edge. The question of a recession is no longer if, but when. Over the past week, the pulse of those flashing red lights quickened as markets grappled with the reality — once speculative, now certain — that the Federal Reserve will press on with its most aggressive monetary tightening campaign in decades to wring inflation from the US economy. Even if that means triggering a recession. And even if it comes at the expense of consumers and businesses far beyond US borders. There’s now a 98% chance of a global recession, according to research firm Ned Davis, which brings some sobering historical credibility to the table. The firm’s recession probability reading has only been this high twice before — in 2008 and 2020. When economists warn of a downturn, they’re typically basing their assessment on a variety of indicators. Let’s unpack five key trends: The US dollar plays an outsized role in the global economy and international finance. And right now, it is stronger than it’s been in two decades. The simplest explanation comes back to the Fed. When the US central bank raises interest rates, as it has been doing since March, it makes the dollar more appealing to investors around the world. In any economic climate, the dollar is seen as a safe place to park your money. In a tumultuous climate — a global pandemic, say, or a war in Eastern Europe — investors have even more incentive to purchase dollars, usually in the form of US government bonds. While a strong dollar is a nice perk for Americans traveling abroad, it creates headaches for just about everyone else. The value of the UK pound, the euro, China’s yuan and Japan’s yen, among many others, has tumbled. That makes it more expensive for those nations to import essential items like food and fuel. In response, central banks that are already fighting pandemic-induced inflation wind up raising rates higher and faster to shore up the value of their own currencies. The dollar’s strength also creates destabilizing effects for Wall Street, as many of the S&P 500 companies do business around the world. By one estimate from Morgan Stanley, each 1% rise in the dollar index has a negative 0.5% impact on S&P 500 earnings. The No. 1 driver of the world’s largest economy is shopping. And America’s shoppers are tired. After more than a year of rising prices on just about everything, with wages not keeping up, consumers have pulled back. “The hardship caused by inflation means that consumers are dipping into their savings,” EY Parthenon Chief Economist Gregory Daco said in a note Friday. The personal saving rate in August remained unchanged at only 3.5%, Daco said — near its lowest rate since 2008, and well below its pre-Covid level of around 9%. Once again, the reason behind the pullback has a lot to do with the Fed. Interest rates have risen at a historic pace, pushing mortgage rates to their highest level in more than a decade and making it harder for businesses to grow. Eventually, the Fed’s rate hikes should broadly bring costs down. But in the meantime, consumers are getting a one-two punch of high borrowing rates and high prices, especially when it comes to necessities like food and housing. Americans opened their wallets during the 2020 lockdowns, which powered the economy out of its brief-but-severe pandemic recession. Since then, government aid has evaporated and inflation has taken root, pushing prices up at their fastest rate in 40 years and sapping consumers’ spending power. Business has been booming across industries for the bulk of the pandemic era, even with historically high inflation eating into profits. That is thanks (once again) to the tenacity of American shoppers, as businesses were largely able to pass on their higher costs to consumers to cushion profit margins. But the earnings bonanza may not last. In mid-September, one company whose fortunes serve as a kind of economic bellwether gave investors a shock. FedEx, which operates in more than 200 countries, unexpectedly revised its outlook, warning that demand was softening, and earnings were likely to plunge more than 40%. In an interview, its CEO was asked whether he believes the slowdown was a sign of a looming global recession. “I think so,” he responded. “These numbers, they don’t portend very well.” FedEx isn’t alone. On Tuesday, Apple’s stock fell after Bloomberg reported the company was scrapping plans to increase iPhone 14 production after demand came in below expectations. And just ahead of the holiday season, when employers would normally ramp up hiring, the mood is now more cautious. “We’ve not seen the normal September uptick in companies posting for temporary help,” said Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter. “Companies are hanging back and waiting to see what conditions hold.” Wall Street has been hit with whiplash, and stocks are now on track for their worst year since 2008 — in case anyone needs yet another scary historical comparison. But last year was a very different story. Equity markets thrived in 2021, with the S&P 500 soaring 27%, thanks to a torrent of cash pumped in by the Federal Reserve, which unleashed a double-barreled monetary-easing policy in the spring of 2020 to keep financial markets from crumbling. The party lasted until early 2022. But as inflation set in, the Fed began to take away the proverbial punch bowl, raising interest rates and unwinding its bond-buying mechanism that had propped up the market. The hangover has been brutal. The S&P 500, the broadest measure of Wall Street — and the index responsible for the bulk of Americans’ 401(k)s — is down nearly 24% for the year. And it’s not alone. All three major US indexes are in bear markets — down at least 20% from their most recent highs. In an unfortunate twist, bond markets, typically a safe haven for investors when stocks and other assets decline, are also in a tailspin. Once again, blame the Fed. Inflation, along with the steep rise in interest rates by the central bank, has pushed bond prices down, which causes bond yields (aka the return an investor gets for their loan to the government) to go up. On Wednesday, the yield on the 10-year US Treasury briefly surpassed 4%, hitting its highest level in 14 years. That surge was followed by a steep drop in response to the Bank of England’s intervention in its own spiraling bond market — amounting to tectonic moves in a corner of the financial world that is designed to be steady, if not downright boring. European bond yields are also spiking as central banks follow the Fed’s lead in raising rates to shore up their own currencies. Bottom line: There are few safe places for investors to put their money right now, and that’s unlikely to change until global inflation gets under control and central banks loosen their grips. Nowhere is the collision of economic, financial, and political calamities more painfully visible than in the United Kingdom. Like the rest of the world, the UK has struggled with surging prices that are largely attributable to the colossal shock of Covid-19, followed by the trade disruptions created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As the West cut off imports of Russian natural gas, energy prices have soared and supplies have dwindled. Those events were bad enough on their own. But then, just over a week ago, the freshly installed government of Prime Minister Liz Truss announced a sweeping tax-cut plan that economists from both ends of the political spectrum have decried as unorthodox at best, diabolical at worst. In short, the Truss administration said it would slash taxes for all Britons to encourage spending and investment and, in theory, soften the blow of a recession. But the tax cuts aren’t funded, which means the government must take on debt to finance them. That decision set off a panic in financial markets and put Downing Street in a standoff with its independent central bank, the Bank of England. Investors around the world sold off UK bonds in droves, plunging the pound to its lowest level against the dollar in nearly 230 years. As in, since 1792, when Congress made the US dollar legal tender. The BOE staged an emergency intervention to buy up UK bonds on Wednesday and restore order in financial markets. It stemmed the bleeding, for now. But the ripple effects of the Trussonomics turmoil is spreading far beyond the offices of bond traders. Britons, who are already in a cost-of-living crisis, with inflation at 10% — the highest of any G7 economy — are now panicking over higher borrowing costs that could force millions of homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments to go up by hundreds or even thousands of pounds. While the consensus is that a global recession is likely sometime in 2023, it’s impossible to predict how severe it will be or how long it will last. Not every recession is as painful as the 2007-09 Great Recession, but every recession is, of course, painful. Some economies, particularly the United States, with its strong labor market and resilient consumers, will be able to withstand the blow better than others. “We are in uncharted waters in the months ahead,” wrote economists at the World Economic Forum in a report this week. “The immediate outlook for the global economy and for much of the world’s population is dark,” they continued, adding that the challenges “will test the resilience of economies and societies and exact a punishing human toll.” But there are some silver linings, they said. Crises force transformations that can ultimately improve standards of living and make economies stronger. “Businesses have to change. This has been the story since the pandemic started,” said Rima Bhatia, an economic ...

Former White House Adviser: No 'Problems' In Trump's Handling Of Classified Information https://digitalalaskanews.com/former-white-house-adviser-no-problems-in-trumps-handling-of-classified-information/ Former Trump administration adviser H.R. McMaster has said that former President Donald Trump did not appear to mishandle classified information during his time there, as the Department of Justice (DOJ) continues its investigation into the former president. “There were systems in place. I don’t know what happened to those systems, but I was never uncomfortable with it while I was there,” McMaster told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “While I was there, I did not see any problems in handling of classified information.” McMaster, a retired general, served as one of Trump’s top advisers from 2017 to 2018. On Sunday, he said he wasn’t aware of any issues regarding how the Trump White House handled documents. The FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August and took boxes of documents, including materials that were allegedly marked “classified” and “top secret.” On social media, Trump has said that he declassified the documents while president and added in a later interview that he had broad declassification powers while he was in office. In court filings, the DOJ launched an investigation into Trump’s handling of the materials after the National Archives indicated that some recovered documents were classified earlier this year. A Florida district judge sided with Trump’s lawyers in his bid to obtain a special master to review the materials that were taken during the raid while ordering a halt to the DOJ’s investigation of the materials. But the DOJ appealed that order and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that the DOJ can continue to use the Mar-a-Lago documents. New Filing On Sept. 30, the DOJ moved to expedite its appeal of an order appointing a special master and said its inability to access the non-classified documents is still hampering significant aspects of its investigation on the retention of government records at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The Justice Department is asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to order all papers be filed in the case by Nov. 11, and hold any necessary hearing in the case as soon as that briefing is completed. Trump’s lawyers oppose the request, the government said. Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich told news outlets: “After having weeks to prepare their arguments, the DOJ is now picking an unnecessary fight over a nine-day difference in filing timelines.” The Justice Department said that because it is currently barred from accessing the roughly 11,000 non-classified documents seized in the search, it cannot examine documents that were stored alongside the classified materials. Reuters contributed to this report. Follow Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York. Read More Here

W https://digitalalaskanews.com/w-7/ lev radin/Shutterstock Hillary Clinton seems pretty adamant that another White House bid is not in the cards for her (via CBS News). But the 2016 candidate swearing off the notion of another campaign for the top job hasn’t stopped people from speculating about Clinton potentially going up against Donald Trump once again in 2024. After all, the Democrat told Norah O’Donnell in September that if the controversial conservative attempts to re-stake his claim on the Oval Office, “he should be soundly defeated.” Now a top political advisor is claiming that the former first lady’s recent comments about the state of the country hint at her plans for the future, which fly in the face of what Clinton has said about running for president again. Dick Morris, who previously worked for Bill Clinton and now advises Trump, is of the opinion that the former senator’s open criticism of immigration policy signals the possibility of an opportunity for her to run as a “moderate” in the upcoming election (via Daily Mail). Specifically, Morris pointed to Clinton speaking out against “open borders” while he was guesting on John Catsimatidis’ Cat’s Roundtable on WABC radio. “Hillary is just dusting off Bill’s playbook that I wrote for him and applying it herself this year,” Morris said. But he had more to say on the matter, to be sure. Democrats may need Hillary in 2024 Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images According to Dick Morris, Democrats have fallen out of love with the President and “are planning to dump Biden” (via New York Post). So who will left-leaning voters get behind instead? During the same provocative radio interview, the advisor named Hillary Clinton as a potential candidate who could win over former Joe Biden supporters. Morris went so far as to predict exactly when the former candidate will announce her White House bid, saying the declaration will come after the upcoming midterm elections. According to him, if Republicans win back control of the legislature, Clinton can say, “See, the left cost us the House and the Senate.” And then, she’ll be the moderate alternative. “I know that’s her strategy because it’s the strategy I designed for Bill Clinton in 1992,” he claimed. Meanwhile, poll after poll supports the notion that Democrats are against Biden running for re-election in 2024 (via The Fresno Bee). It looks like Kamala Harris, who recently suffered a viral gaffe, and Clinton, are neck-and-neck for who voters would prefer to see on the ticket. Read More Here

“Don't Get Under My Skin”: Millionaire WWE Legend Once Warned Donald Trump During Their First Meeting https://digitalalaskanews.com/dont-get-under-my-skin-millionaire-wwe-legend-once-warned-donald-trump-during-their-first-meeting/ From being a member of the WWE Hall of Fame to serving as the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump has led one of the most intriguing lives. Trump, a close friend of Vince McMahon, is one of the most well-known individuals to have engaged in professional wrestling and is also quite passionate about it. Notably, he competed in a match with The Big Man and shaved McMahon’s hair. ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad However, despite being the prominent person in the company. Once, WWE legend Stone Cold Steve Austin warned him during his first confrontation in the company. ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad For those who are unaware, Trump and McMahon had a feud that took place in 2007, WrestleMania 23. And both sides formally agreed to the Battle of the Billionaire contract before the match. Subsequently, Austin rushed to the stage during the contract signing and warned the former US President. What warning did Stone Cold give to Donald Trump? The Texas Rattlesnake rushed onto the stage, snatched the mic out of Mr. McMahon’s hands, did a formal introduction, and informed Trump that he was now in his arena. Thus, Austin would decide how to act and deal with others, and he urged Trump not to frustrate him. ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad He stated, “You know Donald lately I have been seeing you on TV shows and all you got to say is tell the people, you are fired. Let me tell you something, you not gonna told Stone Cold fired, because I don’t work for you. He never gonna work for you.” “Do you understand what I’m saying? I think it’s only fair to give a man fair warning, so I’m gonna break it down to you like this. Donald in this ring don’t get under my skin. Don’t rub me the wrong way. Don’t ruffle my feathers. Basically, long story short, I’m telling you not p*** me off.” Austin, however, cautioned him. After the end of the bout between Bobby Lashley and Umaga, Lashley was hailed as the Trump representative. To shave McMahon’s head, Austin joined the WWE Hall of Fame. Indeed, it was among the most well-known matches in the company’s history. ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad Watch This Story: WWE Superstars With The Highest Number of WrestleMania Matches What are your memories of the match? Tell us in the comments section. Read More Here

Biden Continues To Compare Student Loan Handout To PPP, Slams Republicans As Hypocrites https://digitalalaskanews.com/biden-continues-to-compare-student-loan-handout-to-ppp-slams-republicans-as-hypocrites/ President Biden on Saturday again slammed Republicans who received small business relief loans during the COVID-19 pandemic but now criticize his action to forgive hundreds of billions in student loan debt. During a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation event in Washington D.C., Biden compared his executive action to cancel $10,000 of federal student loan debt for certain borrowers making less than $125,000 per year, and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) established by the CARES Act, which passed Congress with bipartisan support during the Trump administration. Several Republicans who are now critical of Biden’s student loan handout ran small businesses, or were associated with companies, that applied for and received PPP loans in 2020 and 2021, which have since been forgiven. “I don’t wanna hear a word from those members of Congress, if you notice, whose families got tens of thousands of dollars and several million dollars in pandemic relief loan forgiveness,” Biden said Saturday. “The same ones criticizing. Give me a break. Come on.” President Biden speaks about the ongoing federal response efforts for Hurricane Ian from the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) HOUSE REPUBLICANS CALL OUT BIDEN’S ‘CLOWN’ ATTACK COMPARING COVID LOANS TO STUDENT DEBT HANDOUT The White House Twitter account sparked a firestorm on social media in August after it targeted and shamed several prominent GOP members by name for taking out PPP loans, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Kevin Hern, R-Okla., and Mike Kelly, R-Penn. The New York Times published an article boasting about the attempt by the White House to paint Republicans as hypocrites but acknowledged in the seventh paragraph that the comparison “is not perfectly equivalent.” President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, at the Ronald Reagan Building, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, in Washington.  ((AP Photo/Evan Vucci)) WHITE HOUSE RUTHLESSLY SHAMES GOP CRITICS OF BIDEN STUDENT LOAN HANDOUT, GETS SLAMMED: ‘HATCH ACT VIOLATION?’ “The P.P.P. loans were effectively designed to be forgiven,” The Times wrote. “The federal government offered them without the traditional standard of vetting for business loans in an effort to quickly distribute money to businesses that were struggling during the first years of the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly every company with 500 or fewer workers qualified for the low-interest loans, which were forgiven so long as the money went to permitted costs.” During his address Saturday, Biden also slammed Republicans for criticizing him over the Inflation Reduction Act, a climate and health care bill that experts predict will do little to curb inflation. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition And Health in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Yuri Gripas/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “I’m so sick of Republicans saying we’re the big spenders. Give me a break. Give me a break,” Biden said, claiming the bill will reduce the federal deficit by $300 billion over the next 10 years. “As a result, we can afford – I know I’m getting banged up by the Republicans, but bring it on – we can afford to cancel $10,000 in student debt and 20,000 bucks if you had a Pell Grant for Americans making under $125 grand,” he said. Jessica Chasmar is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Jessica.Chasmar@fox.com and on Twitter: @JessicaChasmar. Read More Here

Woman At Trump Rally 'apologizes To Humanity For Voting For The Antichrist Obama' https://digitalalaskanews.com/woman-at-trump-rally-apologizes-to-humanity-for-voting-for-the-antichrist-obama/ CONTINUE READING Show less Read More Here

’Cocked Or Decocked’ — NYT’s Maggie Haberman Exposes Donald Trump’s Transphobic & Anti-Gay Rhetoric | EDGE Media Network https://digitalalaskanews.com/cocked-or-decocked-nyts-maggie-haberman-exposes-donald-trumps-transphobic-anti-gay-rhetoric-edge-media-network/ Sunday October 2, 2022 Donald Trump  (Source:NBC) Does it surprise anyone that Donald Trump was transphobic and anti-gay during this tenure at the White House? The Daily Beast reports that in her new book “Confidence Man,” New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reports Trump was a “boorish homophobe obsessed with sexuality and appearing masculine—often to the horror of his aides—and details a number of instances, over the course of decades, when Trump’s true colors shone through.” In one of the more sensational pieces of reporting, Haberman recounds an incident while the ex-President was preparing a debate against Hillary Clinton in 2016 with his advisor Reince Priebus. The topic turned to same-sex bathrooms with Priebus playing the role of a female transgender student asking Trump if they could use the girl’s bathroom. “In playing the role of a female transgender student, Priebus asked Trump whether this hypothetical student could still use the girl’s bathroom. “Without missing a beat, Trump said he had a question,” Haberman writes. “Cocked or decocked?” Trump asked. The group assisting Trump offered a “blank stare” and were taken aback. “Decocked?” an unspecified individual in the room responded. “Trump then began making ‘a chopping gesture.’ “‘With cock or without cock?’ he said.” Haberman continues that at that point his advisers realized “Trump wanted to know if the imaginary student had transitioned and undergone bottom surgery.” Asked why it would matter, Trump shot back: “What if a girl was in the bathroom and someone came in, lifted up a skirt, and a schlong was hanging out?” Throughout her book Haberman points out how Trump often used homophobic slurs, according to employees of the ex-president. “They also recalled Trump mocking gay men, or men who were seen as weak, with the words ‘queer’ or ‘faggot.'” The Daily Beast adds: “Trump also tended to bully those who were gay, not to their faces. Instead, behind closed doors. “In particular, former Trump Organization executive Alan Marcus said Trump would ‘belittle’ another executive that Trump believed was gay as a ‘queer’ and ‘bragged that he paid the executive less.'” Haberman added that Trump also have strange obsessions over whether or not specific people both inside and outside his orbit were gay. He cited for an example Jason Miller, one of Trump’s key advisors. “Trump deemed that the latter ‘likes the ladies,'” writes the Daily Beast. “Trump, according to the book, further said of Miller: ‘You know how sometimes someone turns out to be gay later and you knew? This guy, he isn’t even like one percent gay.'” Read More Here

Tesla Delivered 343,000 Vehicles In The Third Quarter Of 2022 https://digitalalaskanews.com/tesla-delivered-343000-vehicles-in-the-third-quarter-of-2022/ A Tesla Model Y on display inside a Tesla store at the Westfield Culver City shopping mall in Culver City, California, U.S., on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Electric vehicle makers Tesla just posted third-quarter vehicle production and delivery numbers for 2022. Here are the numbers: Total deliveries Q3 2022: 343,000 Total production Q3 2022: 365,000 Deliveries are the closest approximation of sales reported by Tesla, and they fell short of analysts’ expectations 364,660 vehicles, according to estimates compiled by FactSet-owned Street Account. Tesla also said in its report the company produced 19,935 of its higher priced Model S and X vehicles, and 345,988 of its more popular Model 3 and Y vehicles during Q3. Total production increased from the prior quarter of 2022, when Tesla said it made 258,580 vehicles. During the year-ago quarter, Tesla reported deliveries of 254,695 vehicles, and that it had produced 237,823 cars including just 8,941 Model S and X vehicles, which are the company’s more expensive sedan and SUV with falcon-wing doors, respectively. In the third quarter of 2022, Tesla faced soaring commodity prices, executive turnover (with the notable departure of AI leader Andrej Karpathy in July) and growing pains at its new factories in Germany and Texas. Tesla has not historically disclosed its vehicle production and delivery numbers by region. In July this year, Tesla had to suspend most of its Shanghai factory production temporarily to make upgrades to the plant. By the month of August, however, the company’s production and deliveries in China had rebounded, according to China Passenger Car Association data. In the U.S., at the end of the second quarter, Tesla laid off an entire AI office and made other headcount cuts. Musk also mandated that all Tesla employees should work at a Tesla office at least 40 hours per week, even if they were previously allowed to work remotely. After that, some employees were dismissed and others chose to resign, while those who returned to the office found over-crowded conditions that persisted through the third-quarter, making it hard to get work done normally at some of the companies facilities, including its first U.S. car factory in Fremont, California, and battery plant outside of Reno, Nevada. By September, executives speaking at an all-hands meeting with employees at the Nevada Gigafactory were celebrating new production records, and lauding employees’ hard work. As CNBC previously reported, Tesla execs said at that time August had been a record month for the Fremont factory in terms of production, and that Tesla’s relatively new factory in Austin, Texas, had hit a 1,000 cars per-week production rate on a seven day rolling basis, a promising milestone. Read More Here

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