DeSantis Tops Trump Among Florida Republicans In Hypothetical 2024 Battle: Poll
DeSantis Tops Trump Among Florida Republicans In Hypothetical 2024 Battle: Poll https://digitalarizonanews.com/desantis-tops-trump-among-florida-republicans-in-hypothetical-2024-battle-poll/
September 21, 2022 09:41 AM
In a new poll of Florida Republicans, former President Donald Trump fell flat against possible 2024 competitor Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).
DeSantis now holds a lead of 8 percentage points over Trump, 48% to 40%, according to the USA Today / Suffolk University poll.
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From left to right: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump.
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This stands in stark contrast to the results of another USA Today / Suffolk poll that was conducted in January, at which time Trump led DeSantis by 7 points, 47% to 40%.
“This doesn’t necessarily mean DeSantis would lead in any other GOP primary state,” David Paleologos, the director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said.
“But it is one data point suggesting a shift in preferences from GOP voters away from Trump and toward DeSantis from Republicans who know both potential combatants quite well,” he added.
Further, in a hypothetical 2024 battle against President Joe Biden, DeSantis is favored by a larger margin than Trump. The Florida governor received 52% to Biden’s 44%, whereas Trump is only favored by 47%. Regardless, both men are favored over Biden in the match-up.
In the November gubernatorial race, DeSantis similarly leads his Democratic opponent Charlie Crist, 48% to 41%.
DeSantis has been both praised and criticized for a recent move he made, transporting about 50 immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. With the action, he joins Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has also been transporting immigrants to several Democratic strongholds as the border crisis continues.
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This week, authorities in Texas announced the opening of a criminal investigation into the transportation of several immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard. “We all know that during a political campaign, things can get nasty, things can get out of hand,” said Democratic Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar during a news conference. “But when you are playing with human lives, of people that are already in a desperate situation … that does tend to bother me quite a bit.”
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Post Politics Now: Biden To Offer firm Rebuke Of Russias War On Ukraine During Address To U.N.
Post Politics Now: Biden To Offer ‘firm Rebuke’ Of Russia’s War On Ukraine During Address To U.N. https://digitalarizonanews.com/post-politics-now-biden-to-offer-firm-rebuke-of-russias-war-on-ukraine-during-address-to-u-n-2/
Today, President Biden will deliver a “firm rebuke” of Russia for its “unjust war” on Ukraine during an annual address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to a preview of the speech offered to reporters by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Biden is expected to urge other world leaders “to continue to stand against the naked aggression” by a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, Sullivan said. He is also expected to call for better preparation ahead of future pandemics.
The morning speech is part of a busy day in New York for Biden. His schedule also includes meetings with new British Prime Minister Liz Truss and U.N. Secretary General António Guterres.
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10:35 a.m. Eastern: Biden delivers remarks before the 77th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Watch live here.
11:45 a.m. Eastern: Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Guterres.
1:15 p.m. Eastern: Biden hosts a bilateral meeting with Truss.
4 p.m. Eastern: Biden delivers remarks at the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York. Watch live here.
7 p.m. Eastern: Biden hosts a reception for world leaders in New York.
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Insight: Biden speech shaped by countries unmentioned last year: Russia, Ukraine
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When President Biden addressed the United Nations a year ago to the day, he opened his remarks by talking about the devastating pandemic that had, at that point, claimed the lives of 4.5 million. He sought to mobilize the world to fight both climate change and terrorism.
And in his 33-minute speech, two countries were never mentioned: Ukraine and Russia.
It’s a reminder of how much can change over the course of a year, and how dramatically Russia’s invasion has reshaped and dominated the geopolitical stage.
Noted: Biden bookends his visit to New York with fundraisers
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Besides addressing a range of global affairs, President Biden is also using his trip to New York this week to raise money for fellow Democrats with the November midterm elections looming.
Shortly after arriving in Manhattan on Tuesday night, Biden attended a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee that raised nearly $2 million, according to the DNC. He is set to attend another DNC event on Thursday before returning to Washington.
Tuesday night’s event, which the DNC said drew about 100 donors, was held at the home of Henry Munoz III, a former DNC finance chairman. Among those in attendance were New York Mayor Eric Adams, former congressman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) and actor Robert De Niro.
Analysis: These states show how far Republicans will go on abortion bans
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Next week, Republicans in the South Carolina House will reconvene to consider a bill to amend the state’s “heartbeat” abortion ban.
It’s the finale of a handful of quick, but brief, legislative sessions where abortion was on the docket soon after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to the procedure in June, The Post’s Rachel Roubein writes in The Health 202. Per Rachel:
Roughly 15 states have banned most abortions, including prohibitions from conception with narrow exceptions or after fetal cardiac activity has been detected (which is often around six weeks of pregnancy). But most of those states took action when such abortion bans were merely hypothetical; their “trigger” laws and limits early in pregnancy were passed in anticipation of the high court eventually overturning Roe v. Wade.
Just two states — Indiana and West Virginia — acted after the decision overturning Roe v. Wade. They’re initial examples of how far GOP-led states are willing to go in banning abortions now that these laws are no longer hypothetical. Already, some GOP candidates have backed away from aggressive positions, and some Republican states are learning their political limits.
You can read the full analysis here.
On our radar: Biden meeting with new British prime minister in New York
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Aside from his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, President Biden has a busy schedule in New York on Wednesday, including a bilateral meeting with new British Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Biden was initially on a list of foreign leaders expected to meet with Truss ahead of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in London, but the White House said Saturday that the meeting would instead take place this week while Truss is attending the United Nations General Assembly.
Biden and Truss are expected to talk about the economic relationship between the United States and United Kingdom, including prospects for a trade deal, as well as Russia’s war on Ukraine.
On our radar: Check the voter registration deadline in your state
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Voters in more than half of the states will need to register before Election Day to cast a ballot in the 2022 midterm elections. The Post has compiled a list of registration deadlines to help you participate.
You can read the full list here.
Noted: Security Council reform is on Biden’s radar, national security adviser says
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President Biden is expected to discuss U.N. Security Council reform during his visit to New York, but U.S. officials have not yet determined whether he will do so publicly or privately, the president’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told reporters Tuesday.
Since its inception, the Security Council has given veto power to five nations: the United States, China, Britain, France and, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia, The Post’s John Hudson, Missy Ryan and Yasmeen Abutaleb note.
Analysis: Biden hopes Fed can tame inflation without a recession, but it’s a challenge
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While President Biden is in New York on Wednesday, another event will be playing out in Washington with implications for his presidency: The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates again.
Writing in The Early 202, The Post’s Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell note that the central bank’s moves to bring down inflation risk derailing the Biden administration’s efforts to keep unemployment low and avoid a recession.
The Fed is expected to raise rates by three-quarters of a percentage point Wednesday at the end of its two-day policy meeting. Some market analysts say the Fed could hoist rates by a full percentage point after federal inflation data came in unexpectedly hot last week.
On our radar: Biden expected to touch on pandemic preparation in U.N. speech
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In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, President Biden is expected to urge fellow world leaders to be better prepared for the next pandemic.
“One of the core things that the president wants to communicate when it comes to global health is that from the point of view of dealing with pandemics, what covid-19 should teach all of us is that we darn well better be much better prepared for the next one,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Tuesday in previewing Biden’s speech.
Our our radar: Biden to deliver ‘firm rebuke of Russia’s unjust war in Ukraine’
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President Biden will deliver “a firm rebuke of Russia’s unjust war in Ukraine” when he speaks Wednesday at the United Nations, and he will encourage world leaders to continue their opposition to Russia’s “naked aggression,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.
Biden will highlight that Russia, “a permanent member of the Security Council” of the United Nations, “has struck at the very heart” of the U.N. charter “by challenging the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty.”
The latest: U.N. chief says world is ‘gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction’
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U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said Tuesday that a breakdown in global cooperation amid Russia’s war in Ukraine is exacerbating the top threats to human existence, including food insecurity and climate change.
Guterres said problems such as poverty, indebtedness, online hate and harassment, and a loss of biodiversity are resulting from the international system’s failure to function, The Post’s John Hudson, Missy Ryan and Yasmeen Abutaleb report.
Per our colleagues:
“Divides are growing deeper. Inequalities are growing wider. Challenges are spreading farther,” Guterres said at the annual gathering of leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
“We have a duty to act. And yet we are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction,” he said.
The diagnosis was echoed by some of the more than 100 leaders attending the week-long event, but very little consensus emerged over how to bridge divides among nations deeply conflicted about how to respond to the war in Ukraine.
President Biden is scheduled to address the gathering in New York on Wednesday.
Noted: Garland meets Ukraine’s prosecutor general amid new signs of Russian atrocities
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Attorney General Merrick Garland and his Ukrainian counterpart, Andriy Kostin, signed an agreement Tuesday aimed at formalizing cooperation over joint efforts to prosecute alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces in the war in Ukraine.
The Post’s David Nakamura reports that the two men signed the memorandum of understanding after meeting at Justice Department headquarters in Washington, a show of partnership to step up international pressure amid evidence of new mass atrocities discovered after Ukrainian forces took back wide swaths of territory in recent weeks. Per our colleague:
The latest: GOP attorneys general back Trump in court fight over Mar-a-Lago docum...
GOP Attorneys General Back Trump In Court Fight Over Mar-A-Lago Documents
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Texas’s Ken Paxton and 10 other GOP state attorneys general came to the defense of former president Donald Trump on Tuesday in his legal fight over documents the FBI seized last month, filing an amicus brief in a federal appellate court that argued the Biden administration could not be trusted.
In a 21-page document that repeated numerous right-wing talking points but that experts said broke little new legal ground, the officials accused the Biden administration of “ransacking” Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of the former president, during an Aug. 8 court-authorized FBI raid and of politicizing the Justice Department.
The search, which stemmed from an investigation into whether Trump and his associates improperly took and held on to secret government papers, resulted in the discovery of numerous sensitive documents. Trump’s attorneys then asked for a special master to examine all of the approximately 11,000 seized documents and exclude those that may be covered by attorney-client or executive privilege. U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon agreed to the request and barred criminal investigators from using the material until the review is completed. The Justice Department contested parts of Cannon’s decision and asked the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to override her.
The amicus brief urges the appellate court to deny the appeal. “Given Biden’s track record, combined with his rhetoric demonizing anyone he disagrees with, the courts must be on high alert to the ways in which [the Justice Department] may abuse its power to punish President Donald Trump,” Paxton, whose office led the effort, said in a statement Tuesday.
The Utah Attorney General’s Office confirmed that the state has joined the amicus brief but declined to comment further. Representatives of the other attorneys general did not respond to requests for comment.
Officials at the Department of Justice could not be immediately reached late Tuesday.
Amicus briefs are documents filed by parties not directly involved in a legal contest to inform judges of additional, relevant information. But the one filed by the attorneys general reads more like a political document than a legal brief, legal experts said.
The attorneys general from Texas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Louisiana, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia do not elaborate on the core legal issues Trump is contesting — executive privilege and whether the documents found at his Florida estate were actually classified — according to John Yoo, a legal expert on executive privilege who reviewed the brief at The Washington Post’s request.
The term “executive privilege” is mentioned only once in the filing, and the text doesn’t provide new information that could help determine whether the government documents found at Trump’s property are classified. The privilege is usually invoked to shield executive branch communications from Congress or the courts, not from an agency within the branch itself, such as the Justice Department.
Instead, the GOP officials list a wide array of grievances against the Biden administration, including how it handled immigration law enforcement and its response to the coronavirus pandemic, that do not appear directly related to the case. They argue that the administration’s “questionable conduct” in policymaking and litigation means courts should treat the Justice Department’s appeal with caution.
The officials who signed the brief are “really good lawyers,” said Yoo, who worked in the George W. Bush administration’s Justice Department. But the brief is a political document that “just doesn’t address any of the issues at stake,” he said.
Paxton has previously used his office to intervene in courts on behalf of Trump and other right-wing causes. In 2020, Texas attempted to sue Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania over the 2020 presidential election, in a long-shot attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. The Supreme Court dismissed that case.
The brief is “of course a political stunt,” said Jon D. Michaels, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who studies presidential powers. “The officials are playing to the fierce MAGA bases in their states,” he said.
Paxton’s office could not be immediately reached for comment late Tuesday.
Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett contributed to this report.
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Obituaries In Phoenix, AZ | The Arizona Republic https://digitalarizonanews.com/obituaries-in-phoenix-az-the-arizona-republic-21/
James N. Ciraulo age 80, beloved husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend passed away on August 11, 2022. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Sandra, sons, Jeffrey (Launa), Brett (Angelina) and daughter, Jennifer Hulsey (Vincent) and 3 grandchildren, Cole, Nathan and Natalie. Brother, Nick (Charlotte) of Albuquerque, NM. He is preceded in death by his parents, Nick & Anna. James was the Founder of Envoy Data Corporation for 27 years in Gilbert before he retired, and his sons took over the business. James was a member of the Men’s Club in Fountain Hills along with joining Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs for service and social. A Celebration of Life Mass will be held on October 1, 2022, 10am at Church of the Ascension, 12615 N. Fountain Hills Blvd, Fountain Hills, AZ 85268. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Arizona Humane Society or to a charity of your choice in his name.
Posted online on September 21, 2022
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Arizona LGMA Updates Food Safety Standards For 2022/2023 Growing Season Perishable News
Arizona LGMA Updates Food Safety Standards For 2022/2023 Growing Season – Perishable News https://digitalarizonanews.com/arizona-lgma-updates-food-safety-standards-for-2022-2023-growing-season-perishable-news/
Phoenix, AZ: The Arizona LGMA Food Safety Committee has approved multiple changes to the food safety standards (also known as metrics) that all Arizona LGMA members must adhere to. The changes went into effect September 16, 2022, and Arizona Department of Food and Agriculture auditors will begin verifying compliance in November when harvest starts for the 2022/2023 season.
“The Arizona leafy greens farming community works continuously to protect public health. These changes will impact more than 9 billion servings of lettuce produced by Arizona farmers this winter,” said C.R. Waters, Arizona LGMA Chairman.
The changes include:
· New Glossary Terms for risk and root cause analysis
· Minor editorial changes throughout
· Issue 4: Personnel Qualification and Training o Training requirements for those who conduct environmental hazard/risk assessments
· Issue 5: Environmental Assessments o Table 0: Updated to align buffer distances to California LGMA o New Pre-Harvest Product Testing SOP requirements
· Issue 8 through Issue 14: Are reorganized to better align specific, food safety best practices to on-farm production, handling and harvest practices.
· Issue 18- References have been updated to include current and available documents.
The updated best practices and a copy of the document with tracked changes can be found here https://www.arizonaleafygreens.org/guidelines
“Arizona LGMA empowers the leafy greens industry with tools to advance food safety,” said Teressa Lopez, Arizona LGMA Program Administrator “Training materials and event registration will be available at www.arizonaleafygreens.org/food-safety-training .”
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Arizona LGMA works to protect public health by cultivating food safety practices, verifying on-farm compliance, utilizing data for improvement and empowering industry with tools to advance food safety. www.arizonaleafygreens.org
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America's Gas Prices Rise For The First Time In 99 Days | CNN Business
America's Gas Prices Rise For The First Time In 99 Days | CNN Business https://digitalarizonanews.com/americas-gas-prices-rise-for-the-first-time-in-99-days-cnn-business/
New York CNN Business —
The historic streak of falling gasoline prices is over.
After sinking every day for more than three months, US gas prices edged higher – by a penny – to $3.68 a gallon, on average Wednesday, according to AAA.
That ends 98 consecutive days of falling pump prices, the second-longest such streak on record going back to 2005.
The last time the national average price for gasoline rose was June 14, when it hit a record of $5.02. Prices fell every day since then and Thursday would have marked the 100th straight day of declines.
The plunge in gas prices was driven by a series of factors, including stronger supply and weaker demand as drivers balked at high prices and unprecedented releases of emergency oil by the White House.
Another major factor that had been driving gas prices lower: Growing concerns of a global recession that could hurt demand for gas. People who lose jobs don’t have to drive to work, and even those with jobs pull back on their spending during recessions.
The strong dollar also helped to bring down the price of gas, because crude oil is priced in dollars. That means each dollar can buy more oil than it would if the value of the currency was stable or falling. The dollar index, which compares the value of the greenback to major foreign currencies, is up 15% this year. That also means oil prices are rising faster for countries that don’t use the dollar, which dampens global demand.
At the same time, Russia’s oil flows have held up better than feared despite sanctions and the war in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the sanctions that followed, that helped to spark the steep rise in oil and gas prices. The average price the day of the invasion stood at $3.54 a gallon, just a bit lower than it is today. Russia’s announcement Wednesday that it would increase its mobilization of troops helped lift crude oil futures 2% in global markets.
Gas prices will probably remain relatively close to the current levels in the near term, said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for OPIS, which tracks gas prices nationally for AAA.
“I don’t think you’ll see a major move higher or lower,” he said recently, ahead of Wednesday’s modest price rise. He said competing forces will affect prices in the near term.
US refining capacity remains limited. And OPEC along with other oil-producing nations recently agreed to cut production. Both put upward pressure on prices.
Meanwhile, seasonal factors, such as the end of the summer driving season and the annual end of the US environmental regulations requiring a cleaner, more expensive blend of gasoline during summer months, could help ease prices. Also pushing prices lower: Oil traders remain nervous about the state of the global economy.
“Crude has no speculative investment money behind it right now,” he said.
Wholesale gasoline futures point to sharply lower gas prices by the end of the year, with the possibility that gas under $3 a gallon could be common in much of the country by then, Kloza said. But he cautioned “futures prices are a notorious poor predictor of what the future will bring.”
Although sub-$3 gas remains rare – only 5% of America’s 130,000 gas stations are selling gas for under that price, according to OPIS – relatively cheap gas has become far more common with the months of decline. Nearly one station out of four nationwide is selling gas for less than $3.25 a gallon, and 56% are selling gas for less than $3.50 a gallon.
Cheaper gas has been a major boost to the US economy, easing inflationary pressure and giving Americans extra cash to spend. Since the typical US household uses about 90 gallons of gas a month, the drop in gas prices saves those households about $120 a month from what they had been paying since the peak in June.
A one-cent rise in gas prices is not a meaningful change for most drivers, and prices could slump again as global economic concerns grow along with fears that demand for fuel will keep sinking.
Yet if gas prices begin to rise that could undermine the Biden administration and the Federal Reserve’s efforts to keep inflation in check. Falling gas prices are the sole reason America’s consumer prices have remained steady overall during the past few months after rising sharply in 2021 and the beginning part of this year.
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Letters To The Editor: Sept. 21 https://digitalarizonanews.com/letters-to-the-editor-sept-21/
Green energy reality
Re: the Sept. 6 letter “Green energy myth.”
I am constantly amazed by the grumbling naysayers of alternative energy solutions. On Monday, we were again accused of being incapable of analyzing green energy problems. For me, I am envious of my good friends, in rainy Seattle of all places, who charge their electric car completely from their rooftop panels. They no longer care whether gas is $5 per gallon or $2 per gallon because they have moved on from that smoky reality. They do not need oil pipelines or long coal trains to support their quiet lifestyle. I ask our “shocked” writer, “who is the misguided one”?
In Tucson, we have seen an abundance of parking lot solar panels erected. When those employers start adding electric vehicle charging stations for their employees and customers, then we will be embarking on an effective and clean solution to our unhealthy carbon dependence. Too bad so many readers are dedicated to finding fault, instead of moving forward toward a cleaner, and certainly more healthy, future.
Howard Grahn
North side
Why gas prices are falling
Gasoline prices at the pump have dropped from about $5 a gallon to about $3.50 or so. The reason: a slowing economy and less demand for oil. Prices skyrocketed because of President Biden’s anti-petroleum rhetoric and executive orders on halting drilling and freezing oil/gas leases. The petroleum industry saw them in his cross hairs. We were coming out of the pandemic and demand for oil was high. That, coupled with Biden’s and Democrats’ trillions in spending, led to decades-high inflation, boosting gasoline prices and product costs. Now the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates, slowing the economy. Unemployment rose last month and jobs numbers were half what they were in July. New construction and new home sales are down. The combined effect has been less demand for oil, thus falling gasoline prices. Biden caused the high costs of gasoline and ironically, has caused them to be lowered. Not by any deliberate actions though, like increasing domestic production. Releasing strategic oil reserves was just cosmetic.
Rory Smith
Marana
Snake in wolf’s clothing?
U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters has been busy making his website less Trumpy. This despite his avowed supplication to the Trump gospel that won him the Republican nomination. Has Blake had some sort of epiphany? No. He’s just been advised that his extreme-right stance, as dictated by Masters’ master, will be a boat anchor. So he has gussied up his site to look as though he is somewhat rational. Don’t buy it! This snake will do and say just about anything to enhance his opportunity.
He has no beliefs that aren’t for sale. I call that spineless. A snake dressed up as a wolf. Blake the Snake … isn’t that a professional wrestler?
Scott Lukomski
Northeast side
CFSD school board election
I am a Catalina Foothills School District resident with three boys. This is a community I cherish, where I feel accepted and I seek to better through civic engagement. I am deeply troubled by the Back to Basics campaign. They are endorsed by Purple for Parents, a spinoff of a group the Southern Poverty Law Center designates a hate group.
These candidates intend to “abandon Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).” DEI honors the lived experiences of our diverse students, families, faculty and staff and also fosters empathy for those who are different from us. DEI is crucial to developing good citizens, good businesses and just societies. It is also the cornerstone of the Thrive 4 CFSD campaign. Amy Bhola, Amy Krauss and Gina Mehmert are volunteer moms who collaborate with our community to preserve our #1 AZ public school ranking and provide 100% curriculum transparency. Thanks to their service, District 16 continues our legacy of providing strong public education, empowering teachers, and ensuring all our children thrive authentically at CFSD.
Yvonne So
Foothills
Can’t be the only solution
When I worked on the Yuma Desalting test pilot project back in the ’80s we had a problem with fouling of the reverse osmosis membranes that was caused by algal slime. A clarification process was implemented that stopped this. The Carlsbad Desalination Project cited by another reader produces about close to 57,000 acre-feet of potable water per year and produces about 300,000 acre-feet per year of reject. In order to replace the 3 million acre-feet per year of Colorado River water would sterilize approximately 18 million acre-feet of ocean water per year. This would kill off vital phytoplankton that release more oxygen into our atmosphere than the forests do. This should be a partial solution, but not a complete one.
Dan Pendergrass
West side
Dobbs decision
Re: the Sept 7 letter “Dobbs v. Jackson.”
The letter writer seems to have a well-reasoned argument supporting Samuel Alito and the Dobbs Supreme Court decision re: abortion. Unfortunately, it is all based on one sentence, “Because abortion was always criminalized in law…” This statement is false. Abortion wasn’t criminalized anywhere in this country until the 1840s. And it wasn’t until 1910 that it was nationwide. So much for tradition.
Rich Bolton
Marana
Department of Justice
Re: the Sept. 8 letter “Department of un-justice.”
You may be registered as an Independent, and be a non-supporter of Donald Trump. However, most if not all of what you said was right out of the MAGA playbook. The information the MAGA’S are putting out is mostly distorted, if not an outright lie. Their intent is to confuse and enrage you (as well as to create fear in you), so you will act in ways that are not good for you or our country. Be skeptical and check the facts from a reliable source or several sources when you are bombarded with their rhetoric. Radio shows, the Internet and stations like Fox News are not held to the same accountability as major news outlets, although you can still get some distortion from them.
Elain Geary
East side
Afghan refugees not all vetted
A newly released DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report showed that many of the 76,000 Afghan evacuees who rushed onto our military aircraft hastily departing from Kabul were not thoroughly vetted for security concerns. The report said “DHS may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.” DHS Secretary Mayorkas testified only about 13% of total evacuees were U.S. citizens or Legal Permanent Residents. Many of the Afghan evacuees never worked with our military in Afghanistan. After resettlement here, there have been numerous criminal cases involving refugees charged with a variety of crimes. Now a bipartisan group in Congress is about to provide legal status to these people. This same national security situation applies to our border, wherein over 1 million have been allowed entry under Biden not knowing of their backgrounds at home and the thousands that have entered escaping the Border Patrol. These are man-made disasters caused by President Biden!
Donna Davis
Northwest side
Something amazing
The moderate Democrat Party which seeks to unify the country and bring our democracy to a moderate center.
How is it that this party in control of all branches chooses to unleash the Justice Department and FBI on anyone that was remotely connected to the Rally in Washington on Jan. 6.
A woman who was identified anonymously has armed FBI agents show up at her door while her children were also called for interviews.
Banana republics seek to intimidate their political opponents and stifle First Amendment rights.
Thank you, Democrats who seek to protect our democracy.
Wait until our democracy unleashes its political operatives on you or your innocent relatives.
A list of subpoenas is readily available online along with a list of doors broken down with guns drawn and cuffs on suspicion of insurrection.
Connected to the only insurrection without weapons in which the only death was an unarmed female military veteran.
Thanks for working for our democracy!
Wait ’til democracy comes to your door.
Orwell!
Rich Barnes
East side
Are you trying to kill the Star?
First you move printing to Phoenix so half the sports scores are missing.
You change the delivery deadline so it’s impossible to read the paper at breakfast unless you’re retired.
Now I go to read the comics, the break I look forward to after wading through war and politics, and you’ve butchered them.
Don’t give me this “You can find them online.” If I start going online for my news I won’t need you.
Your fine local writers won’t matter if keep making it harder to read the news in a timely manner.
You are killing print journalism. You.
If you want to know the reason your circulation keeps dropping, find a mirror.
Guy Rovella
Midtown
No answers to question
Re: the Sept. 6 letter “Monsoons during climate change?”
The Star thankfully posted my previous letter asking why we still have our monsoon season during Global Climate Change (GCC) and Global Warming (GW). I have since read two letters negating my letter. One writer said how he had learned in school courses, where else, that the atmosphere is “boiling” thus causing our storms. Well, it takes the intense heat of May and June to draw up moisture from southern Mexico. Been occurring for a long time. I just took a flight to Hawaii wherein we were flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet. The atmospheric temperature outside the plane was a boiling 60 degrees below zero. Another writer said that climate and weather were not the same thing. Really? Monsoons are a climatic activity, not weather. He said I did not mention the floods in Pakistan or receding water levels in Lake Mead. My letter was not about that, I specifically asked the question about why we continue to have a monsoon season du...
Post Politics Now: Biden To Offer firm Rebuke Of Russias War On Ukraine During Address To U.N.
Post Politics Now: Biden To Offer ‘firm Rebuke’ Of Russia’s War On Ukraine During Address To U.N. https://digitalarizonanews.com/post-politics-now-biden-to-offer-firm-rebuke-of-russias-war-on-ukraine-during-address-to-u-n/
Today, President Biden will deliver a “firm rebuke” of Russia for its “unjust war” on Ukraine during an annual address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to a preview of the speech offered to reporters by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Biden is expected to urge other world leaders “to continue to stand against the naked aggression” by a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, Sullivan said.
The morning speech is part of a busy day in New York for Biden. His schedule also includes meetings with new British Prime Minister Liz Truss and U.N. Secretary General António Guterres.
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10:35 a.m. Eastern: Biden delivers remarks before the 77th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Watch live here.
11:45 a.m. Eastern: Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Guterres.
1:15 p.m. Eastern: Biden hosts a bilateral meeting with Truss.
4 p.m. Eastern: Biden delivers remarks at the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York. Watch live here.
7 p.m. Eastern: Biden hosts a reception for world leaders in New York.
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Analysis: Biden hopes Fed can tame inflation without a recession, but it’s a challenge
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While President Biden is in New York on Wednesday, another event will be playing out in Washington with implications for his presidency: The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates again.
Writing in The Early 202, The Post’s Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell note that the central bank’s moves to bring down inflation risk derailing the Biden administration’s efforts to keep unemployment low and avoid a recession.
The Fed is expected to raise rates by three-quarters of a percentage point Wednesday at the end of its two-day policy meeting. Some market analysts say the Fed could hoist rates by a full percentage point after federal inflation data came in unexpectedly hot last week.
On our radar: Biden expected to touch on pandemic preparation in U.N. speech
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In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, President Biden is expected to urge fellow world leaders to be better prepared for the next pandemic.
“One of the core things that the president wants to communicate when it comes to global health is that from the point of view of dealing with pandemics, what covid-19 should teach all of us is that we darn well better be much better prepared for the next one,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Tuesday in previewing Biden’s speech.
Our our radar: Biden to deliver ‘firm rebuke of Russia’s unjust war in Ukraine’
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President Biden will deliver “a firm rebuke of Russia’s unjust war in Ukraine” when he speaks Wednesday at the United Nations, and he will encourage world leaders to continue their opposition to Russia’s “naked aggression,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.
Biden will highlight that Russia, “a permanent member of the Security Council” of the United Nations, “has struck at the very heart” of the U.N. charter “by challenging the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty.”
The latest: U.N. chief says world is ‘gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction’
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U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said Tuesday that a breakdown in global cooperation amid Russia’s war in Ukraine is exacerbating the top threats to human existence, including food insecurity and climate change.
Guterres said problems such as poverty, indebtedness, online hate and harassment, and a loss of biodiversity are resulting from the international system’s failure to function, The Post’s John Hudson, Missy Ryan and Yasmeen Abutaleb report.
Per our colleagues:
“Divides are growing deeper. Inequalities are growing wider. Challenges are spreading farther,” Guterres said at the annual gathering of leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
“We have a duty to act. And yet we are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction,” he said.
The diagnosis was echoed by some of the more than 100 leaders attending the week-long event, but very little consensus emerged over how to bridge divides among nations deeply conflicted about how to respond to the war in Ukraine.
President Biden is scheduled to address the gathering in New York on Wednesday.
Noted: Garland meets Ukraine’s prosecutor general amid new signs of Russian atrocities
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Attorney General Merrick Garland and his Ukrainian counterpart, Andriy Kostin, signed an agreement Tuesday aimed at formalizing cooperation over joint efforts to prosecute alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces in the war in Ukraine.
The Post’s David Nakamura reports that the two men signed the memorandum of understanding after meeting at Justice Department headquarters in Washington, a show of partnership to step up international pressure amid evidence of new mass atrocities discovered after Ukrainian forces took back wide swaths of territory in recent weeks. Per our colleague:
The latest: GOP attorneys general back Trump in court fight over Mar-a-Lago documents
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Texas’s Ken Paxton and 10 other GOP state attorneys general came to the defense of former president Donald Trump on Tuesday in his legal fight over documents seized by the FBI last month, filing an amicus brief in a federal appellate court that argued the Biden administration could not be trusted.
The Post’s Andrew Jeong and Amy B Wang report that in a 21-page document that repeated numerous right-wing talking points but that experts said broke little new legal ground, the officials accused the Biden administration of “ransacking” Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of the former president, during an Aug. 8 court-authorized FBI raid and of politicizing the Justice Department. Per our colleagues:
McConnell-linked super PAC pulls out of Senate race in Arizona
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A super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has canceled nearly $10 million it had reserved for television ads in Arizona, an official with the group said Tuesday, pulling out of a battleground state where Republican challenger Blake Masters trails Sen. Mark Kelly (D) in the polls.
The Post’s Hannah Knowles and Azi Paybarah report that the spending cuts — which slash all of the super PAC’s remaining ad investments in Arizona — are another blow to a GOP candidate who has been significantly outraised by his Democratic opponent and outmatched on the airwaves. Per our colleagues:
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Tells Court Not To Trust Biden In Trump Records Case
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Tells Court Not To Trust Biden In Trump Records Case https://digitalarizonanews.com/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-tells-court-not-to-trust-biden-in-trump-records-case/
By Zach Despart, The Texas Tribune
Sept. 20, 2022
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday attacked the Biden administration in a federal court brief as part of a case involving the seizure of records from former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida.
Paxton, a Trump ally who has joined the former president in falsely claiming the 2020 election was marred by widespread voter fraud, filed a friend of the court brief in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He argued the government under President Joe Biden cannot be trusted to act appropriately in the case involving Trump.
Paxton alleged, in a meandering nine-page argument, that the Biden administration has acted unethically in several cases. Those instances were largely policy differences, such as attempting to put in place a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate, ending Trump-era immigration rules and extending a moratorium on evictions during the pandemic. Paxton also attacked the White House for its conduct unrelated to the federal courts or Trump, alleging that the administration sought to censor information about COVID-19 and also mislead the public about illegal immigration via the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Paxton said federal courts, as a consequence, should not trust statements by the Justice Department about the more than 10,000 documents agents seized from Trump’s Florida home in a court-authorized search on Aug. 8. Some of those documents had been designated with the highest security classifications, the Justice Department has said in court filings.
“At a minimum, this Court should view the Administration’s assertions of good-faith, neutrality, and objectivity through jaundiced eyes,” Paxton wrote.
The attorneys general of Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia joined the brief. Paxton said this was because their states had experienced the same unethical conduct by the Biden administration in court. With the exception of Kentucky, each of those states had joined Paxton’s unsuccessful lawsuit last year seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Friend of the court, or amicus, briefs have no formal role in deciding cases; judges are free to heed or disregard their arguments as they wish.
Though presidents appoint Justice Department officials including the attorney general and FBI director, the department historically has operated with a high degree of independence when investigations concern political figures. The current FBI director, Christopher Wray, was appointed by Trump. And Biden said he was unaware of the raid at Trump’s home until the former president disclosed it on social media.
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Hurricane Fiona Reaches Powerful Category 4 https://digitalarizonanews.com/hurricane-fiona-reaches-powerful-category-4/
WE CONTINUE TO TRACK THE TROPICS THIS MORNING. JASON: MEREDITH: — JASON: ANOTHER SYSTEM RIGHT NOW WE ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST ALEX ALECCI IS BACK THIS MORNING TO SHOW US WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE TROPICS. ALEX: THIS ONE HAS A 50% CHANCE OF DEVELOPING OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS. THIS ONE, NOT TOO MUCH. HURRICANE FIONA IS DOING A WHOLE LOT. IT WINDS UP TO 130 MILES PER HOUR. HURRICANE TRACK FORECAST IT TO WE CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE. TROPICAL WAVE INVEST 98 L. THIS IS SOMETHING WE ARE KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON. IT HASN’T DEVELOPED. WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE MODELS TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A CONSENSUS. IT SHOULD BE MOVING THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN AND MAKING A CURVE UP TOWARDS THE GULF. MODELS HINTING THIS WILL BE MAKING ITS WAY BACK UP TOWARDS THE EAST TOWARDS FLORIDA. SOMETHING TO KEEP AN EYE ON NEXT WEEK. CLOSER T
Hurricane Fiona reaches powerful Category 4
Hurricane Fiona had become a powerful Category 4 storm by Wednesday morning.Fiona was 105 miles north of Caicos Island and 755 miles southwest of Bermuda. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph and was moving north at 8 mph. “A turn toward the north-northeast with an increase in forward speed is expected by Thursday. On the forecast track, the center of Fiona will continue to move away from the Turks and Caicos today, and approach Bermuda late on Thursday,” the National Hurricane Center said. “Fiona is a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Additional strengthening is forecast through tonight. Some fluctuations in intensity are possible tonight and Thursday.”Increasing swells from Fiona will lead to a high risk of dangerous rip currents and hazardous boating conditions over the east central Florida coastal waters into late week and through the weekend. The government of the Bahamas has discontinued all warnings for Turks and Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas. SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for…* BermudaOther tropical disturbancesThe National Hurricane Center is tracking two other disturbances.One is Tropical Depression 8, and is not expected to pose a threat to land.However, meteorologists say Invest-98L is one to watch closely:KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WATCH IS ISSUEDStay tuned to WESH 2 News, WESH.COM, or NOAA Weather Radio for storm updates.Prepare to bring inside any lawn furniture, outdoor decorations or ornaments, trash cans, hanging plants, and anything else that can be picked up by the wind.Understand hurricane forecast models and cones.Prepare to cover all windows of your home. If shutters have not been installed, use precut plywood.Check batteries and stock up on canned food, first-aid supplies, drinking water, and medications.The WESH 2 First Warning Weather Team recommends you have these items ready before the storm strikes.Bottled water: One gallon of water per person per dayCanned food and soup, such as beans and chiliCan opener for the cans without the easy-open lidsAssemble a first-aid kitTwo weeks’ worth of prescription medicationsBaby/children’s needs, such as formula and diapersFlashlight and batteriesBattery-operated weather radioWHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WARNING IS ISSUEDListen to the advice of local officials. If you are advised to evacuate, leave.Complete preparation activitiesIf you are not advised to evacuate, stay indoors, away from windows.Be alert for tornadoes. Tornadoes can happen during a hurricane and after it passes over. Remain indoors, in the center of your home, in a closet or bathroom without windows.HOW YOUR SMARTPHONE CAN HELP DURING A HURRICANEA smartphone can be your best friend in a hurricane — with the right websites and apps, you can turn it into a powerful tool for guiding you through a storm’s approach, arrival and aftermath.Download the WESH 2 News app for iOS | AndroidEnable emergency alerts — if you have an iPhone, select settings, then go into notifications. From there, look for government alerts and enable emergency alerts.If you have an Android phone, from the home page of the app, scroll to the right along the bottom and click on “settings.” On the settings menu, click on “severe weather alerts.” From the menu, select from most severe, moderate-severe, or all alerts.PET AND ANIMAL SAFETYYour pet should be a part of your family plan. If you must evacuate, the most important thing you can do to protect your pets is to evacuate them too. Leaving pets behind, even if you try to create a safe space for them, could result in injury or death.Contact hotels and motels outside of your immediate area to see if they take pets.Ask friends, relatives and others outside of the affected area whether they could shelter your animal.
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Hurricane Fiona had become a powerful Category 4 storm by Wednesday morning.
Fiona was 105 miles north of Caicos Island and 755 miles southwest of Bermuda. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph and was moving north at 8 mph.
“A turn toward the north-northeast with an increase in forward speed is expected by Thursday. On the forecast track, the center of Fiona will continue to move away from the Turks and Caicos today, and approach Bermuda late on Thursday,” the National Hurricane Center said. “Fiona is a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Additional strengthening is forecast through tonight. Some fluctuations in intensity are possible tonight and Thursday.”
Increasing swells from Fiona will lead to a high risk of dangerous rip currents and hazardous boating conditions over the east central Florida coastal waters into late week and through the weekend.
The government of the Bahamas has discontinued all warnings for Turks and Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas.
SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for…
* Bermuda
Other tropical disturbances
The National Hurricane Center is tracking two other disturbances.
One is Tropical Depression 8, and is not expected to pose a threat to land.
However, meteorologists say Invest-98L is one to watch closely:
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KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WATCH IS ISSUED
Stay tuned to WESH 2 News, WESH.COM, or NOAA Weather Radio for storm updates.
Prepare to bring inside any lawn furniture, outdoor decorations or ornaments, trash cans, hanging plants, and anything else that can be picked up by the wind.
Understand hurricane forecast models and cones.
Prepare to cover all windows of your home. If shutters have not been installed, use precut plywood.
Check batteries and stock up on canned food, first-aid supplies, drinking water, and medications.
The WESH 2 First Warning Weather Team recommends you have these items ready before the storm strikes.
Bottled water: One gallon of water per person per day
Canned food and soup, such as beans and chili
Can opener for the cans without the easy-open lids
Assemble a first-aid kit
Two weeks’ worth of prescription medications
Baby/children’s needs, such as formula and diapers
Flashlight and batteries
Battery-operated weather radio
WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WARNING IS ISSUED
Listen to the advice of local officials. If you are advised to evacuate, leave.
Complete preparation activities
If you are not advised to evacuate, stay indoors, away from windows.
Be alert for tornadoes. Tornadoes can happen during a hurricane and after it passes over. Remain indoors, in the center of your home, in a closet or bathroom without windows.
HOW YOUR SMARTPHONE CAN HELP DURING A HURRICANE
A smartphone can be your best friend in a hurricane — with the right websites and apps, you can turn it into a powerful tool for guiding you through a storm’s approach, arrival and aftermath.
Download the WESH 2 News app for iOS | Android
Enable emergency alerts — if you have an iPhone, select settings, then go into notifications. From there, look for government alerts and enable emergency alerts.
If you have an Android phone, from the home page of the app, scroll to the right along the bottom and click on “settings.” On the settings menu, click on “severe weather alerts.” From the menu, select from most severe, moderate-severe, or all alerts.
PET AND ANIMAL SAFETY
Your pet should be a part of your family plan. If you must evacuate, the most important thing you can do to protect your pets is to evacuate them too. Leaving pets behind, even if you try to create a safe space for them, could result in injury or death.
Contact hotels and motels outside of your immediate area to see if they take pets.
Ask friends, relatives and others outside of the affected area whether they could shelter your animal.
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Ukraine Live Updates: Putin Calls Up More Troops As His War Effort Falters
Ukraine Live Updates: Putin Calls Up More Troops As His War Effort Falters https://digitalarizonanews.com/ukraine-live-updates-putin-calls-up-more-troops-as-his-war-effort-falters/
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In a rare address, which was prerecorded, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia announced a partial mobilization of his military, effective immediately, stoking speculation that Mr. Putin could officially declare war and a nationwide draft.CreditCredit…Pool photo by Mikhail Klimentyev
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia accelerated his war effort in Ukraine on Wednesday, announcing a new campaign that would call up roughly 300,000 reservists to the military while also directly challenging the West over its support for Ukraine with a veiled threat of using nuclear weapons.
In a rare videotaped address to the nation, Mr. Putin stopped short of declaring a full, national draft but instead called for a “partial mobilization” of people with military experience. Though Moscow’s troops have recently suffered humiliating losses on the battlefield, he said that Russia’s goals in Ukraine had not changed and that the move was “necessary and urgent” because the West had “crossed all lines” by providing sophisticated weapons to Ukraine.
The speech was an apparent attempt to reassert his authority over an increasingly chaotic war that has undermined his leadership both at home and on the global stage. It also escalated Russia’s tense showdown with Western nations that have bolstered Ukraine with weapons, money and intelligence that have contributed to Ukraine’s recent successes in reclaiming swaths of territory in the northeast.
Mr. Putin accused the United States and Europe of engaging in “nuclear blackmail” against his country and warned that Russia had “lots of weapons” of its own.
“To those who allow themselves such statements about Russia, I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and some components are more modern than those of the NATO countries,” he said.
Mr. Putin also reaffirmed his support for referendums hastily announced on Tuesday that have set the stage for him to declare that occupied Ukrainian territory has become part of Russia. That annexation could potentially come as soon as next week.
Pro-Kremlin analysts and officials have said that at that point, any further Ukrainian military action on those territories could be considered an attack on Russia itself. Mr. Putin did not spell that out, but warned that he was ready to use all of the weapons in Russia’s arsenal to protect what the Kremlin considered Russian territory.
“If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people,” he said. “This is not a bluff.”
In announcing a call-up of soldiers, Mr. Putin was also responding to those in Russia who support the war but have criticized the Kremlin for not devoting the resources and personnel necessary to wage an all-out fight. Mr. Putin had previously avoided conscription in an effort to keep the war’s hardships as distant as possible from ordinary Russians, but the recent battlefield setbacks, and the drumbeat from pro-war nationalists for a more robust effort, apparently changed the calculation.
In a subsequent speech, Russia’s defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, put the number of new call-ups at 300,000 people, all of them with some military experience. The mobilization makes it mandatory by law for reservists who are officially called up to report for duty, or face fines or charges. Mr. Shoigu said that students would not be called up to fight and that conscripts would not be sent to the “special operation zone,” the term the Kremlin uses to refer to the war, though observers were skeptical of that claim.
Reaction from Western nations was swift, with British and European Union officials calling Mr. Putin’s move a sign that his war is failing. China, which has been an increasingly important ally of Russia, issued a brief statement from its Foreign Ministry that called for all parties “to reach a cease-fire through dialogue and negotiations.”
President Biden, in an interview with “60 Minutes” aired Sunday night on CBS, warned Mr. Putin against using nuclear weapons on the battlefield. “Don’t. Don’t. Don’t,” Mr. Biden said when asked what his message was to Mr. Putin. “You will change the face of war unlike anything since World War II.”
The number of Russian troops, including Russia-aligned separatists, members of private security companies and volunteers, does not currently exceed 200,000, according to estimates by military analysts and experts. If the partial mobilization is successful, the new recruits would more than double that amount, making it easier for Russia to defend hundreds of miles of front lines in Ukraine. However, observers say, most high-ranking personnel have already been deployed, and those called up will need further training and weapons.
Chris Buckley, Ivan Nechepurenko and Alina Lobzina contributed reporting.
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The eastern city of Bakhmut near the front lines in the Donbas region, on Monday.Credit…Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
In his provocative 20-minute speech on Wednesday announcing the call-up of hundreds of thousands more Russian soldiers, President Vladimir V. Putin also insisted that his top war aim — “liberating” Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region — remained unchanged and announced his support for referendums that would see that region and other occupied Ukrainian territory become part of Russia.
A day earlier, Russian proxy officials in four regions — Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, which are collectively known as Donbas, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south — announced plans to hold referendums over four days beginning on Friday. Russia controls nearly all of two of the four regions, Luhansk and Kherson, but only a fraction of the other two, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk.
The scheduling of the votes, which appeared to be coordinated, followed swift advances by Ukrainian forces, who routed Russians from the northeast in recent weeks and are on the offensive in the east and south. Analysts say that Russia has lost tens of thousands of troops, is struggling to recruit new soldiers and is facing a growing backlash, even from some allies, over its prolonged and bloody invasion.
U.S. officials have warned for months that Mr. Putin could use sham referendums in occupied areas — which many residents have fled amid fierce fighting — to try to legitimize the illegal annexation of parts of Ukraine.
Pro-Kremlin analysts and officials have said that if the territories are formally annexed, any further Ukrainian military action on those areas could be considered an attack on Russia itself. In his speech aired on Wednesday, Mr. Putin said he would “use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people” — a veiled reference to Russia’s nuclear arsenal.
“Russia can’t give up on people living close by to be torn apart by executioners and fail to respond to their desire to determine their own fate,” he said, referring to Ukrainians in occupied territory, even as reports continue to emerge of torture at the hand of Russian occupying forces.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who was expected to address the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, said in his nightly address before Mr. Putin’s speech aired that whatever “sham” vote is staged in occupied parts of Ukraine, his military would continue to fight to drive Russian forces from the country.
“We enjoy the full support of our partners in this,” Mr. Zelensky said. “So let’s maintain the pressure. Let’s preserve unity. Let’s defend Ukraine. We are liberating our land. And we are not showing any signs of weakness.”
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Remnants of destroyed Russian military vehicles on the outskirts of the recently recaptured town of Balakliya, Ukraine, last week.Credit…Nicole Tung for The New York Times
DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine — The announcement by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Wednesday of the mobilization of thousands of additional reservists comes as Russian forces contend with mounting battlefield setbacks and an emboldened Ukrainian military.
After nearly seven months of war and defeats around Ukraine’s two largest cities — Kyiv, the capital, and Kharkiv — the Russian war machine is struggling.
It will take months for the newly announced call-up of military forces to have any effect on the battlefield. But the mobilization is one of the clearest indicators yet that while Russia has an advantage over Ukraine in equipment and ammunition, it is losing the war when it comes to manpower.
Russia’s front line in the northeast has collapsed in recent weeks as poorly manned Russian defensive positions evaporated following a Ukrainian military breakthrough.
Further east, in the mineral rich Donbas region, which Mr. Putin has pledged to capture, Ukrainian forces are being worn down after losing two strategically important cities over the summer, but have still clung to what territory remains under their control.
In the south, Russian forces concentrated there are dug in, slowing a Ukrainian offensive around the Black Sea port city of Kherson, but still are incrementally losing territory.
The world’s second largest military has suffered thousands of casualties according to some of the most modest Western intelligence estimates. Prison inmates have been sent to the front lines as cannon fodder. And despite honing artillery tactics and the use of drones, some of the most basic military skills remain lacking in Russian units.
In a rare recorded address to the nation, Mr. Putin stopped short of declaring a full, national draft but instead called for a “partial mobilization” of people with military experience.
In another speech, Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, put the number of call-ups at around 300,000 people. Even with some military experience, that amount of recruits will ...
CBD Life Sciences Inc. (CBDL) Announces Bladder Control Supplement
CBD Life Sciences, Inc. (CBDL) Announces Bladder Control Supplement https://digitalarizonanews.com/cbd-life-sciences-inc-cbdl-announces-bladder-control-supplement/
SCOTTSDALE, AZ / ACCESSWIRE / September 21, 2022 / Today CBD Life Sciences (OTC PINK:CBDL) through its wholly owned subsidiary, LBC Bioscience Inc. announces today that the company is working towards launching a bladder control supplement.
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Mortgage Demand Rises For The First Time In Six Weeks Despite Sharply Higher Interest Rates
Mortgage Demand Rises For The First Time In Six Weeks, Despite Sharply Higher Interest Rates https://digitalarizonanews.com/mortgage-demand-rises-for-the-first-time-in-six-weeks-despite-sharply-higher-interest-rates/
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Mortgage application volume increased last week for the first time in six weeks, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, despite a rise in interest rates.
Abrupt swings in rates and uncertainty on the overall direction of the housing market are likely at play.
The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) increased to 6.25% from 6.01%, with points decreasing to 0.71 from 0.76 (including the origination fee) for loans with a 20% down payment.
“Treasury yields continued to climb higher last week in anticipation of the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, where it is expected that they will announce – in their efforts to slow inflation – another sizable short-term rate hike,” said Joel Kan, an MBA economist, in a release.
Applications to refinance a home loan, which are usually very sensitive to big rate swings, actually rose 10% for the week, although they were still 83% lower than the same week one year ago. Part of that may have been due to the holiday adjustment the previous week. It also may have been that the very few borrowers remaining who could benefit from a refinance finally got off the fence, seeing that rates could climb even higher for the foreseeable future.
“The weekly gain in applications, despite higher rates, underscores the overall volatility right now as well as Labor Day-adjusted results the prior week,” Kan said.
Mortgage applications to purchase a home rose 1% for the week, but were 30% lower than the same week one year ago. Buyers are now seeing less competition in today’s pricey market, so some may be jumping in when they have the chance. Homes are sitting on the market longer and sellers are far more willing to negotiate than they were even three months ago.
Still, prices have not really eased much yet, and with rates as high as they are now, affordability is historically weak. The small weekly gain in mortgage demand really doesn’t represent the sharp correction going on in homebuying.
Mortgage rates shot even higher this week, according to a separate survey by Mortgage News Daily. It showed the average rate on the 30-year fixed just below 6.5% on Tuesday, ahead of the much anticipated Federal Reserve meeting Wednesday. Investors will be watching specifically for commentary not on a current rate hike but on what may be ahead.
“The forecasts will amplify whatever volatility we already may have seen with the rate hike decision. Additionally, [Fed Chairman Jerome] Powell’s press conference always has the potential to add additional volatility,” wrote Matthew Graham, chief operating officer at Mortgage News Daily.
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Arizona Non-Profit Asks Freeway Drivers To 'Share In Our Hope' Digital Journal
Arizona Non-Profit Asks Freeway Drivers To 'Share In Our Hope' – Digital Journal https://digitalarizonanews.com/arizona-non-profit-asks-freeway-drivers-to-share-in-our-hope-digital-journal/
A David size contribution is reaching a Goliath size audience
Sep. 21, 2022 / PRZen / MESA, Ariz. — The Creative Christian Media organization, M.King Media INC. is setting out to bring the Phoenix Metro Area, encouragement in Jesus Christ. This is being done in the form of a simple billboard message along highways that reads, “Share In Our Hope”.
“This September 2022 marks the beginning of our media organization’s 10th ministry season and for us, we have media that we feel can bless more people and show them a hope that only God can bring,” said M.King. “When God has given you ideas and creative media productions you got to let people know the hope that’s available in Christ in this uncertain time.”
M.King Media is currently being run part-time by M.King and only has enough contributions to share their message one billboard at a time, along highways on the weekends.
“You got to do what God is calling you to do with what you have,” said M.King. “You cannot let the love of money or the lack of money, hinder you from reaching your life’s full potential.”
If you would like to share in their hope, head to mkingmedia.com and experience their media for yourself.
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M.King Media INC. is a faith-focused non-profit based in Mesa, AZ. Founded in 2013, M.King Media has created more than 234 media projects and distributed them all over the world. M.King Media’s mission statement is “To Make Creative Christian Media That Point People to Jesus Christ.” For more info go to mkingmedia.com
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Tucson folks should be prepared for high temperatures. Temperatures are projected to be a scorcher today with temperatures reaching a high of 94, though luckily it will feel much cooler at 81. A 72-degree low is forecasted. How likely is it that it’ll rain on your picnic? The weather forecast calls for a 55% chance of rain. The Tucson area should see a light breeze, with winds only reaching 9 miles per hour, coming from Southeast. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Keep an eye on tucson.com for forecast information and severe weather updates.
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Putin sets partial military call-up, won’t ‘bluff’ on nukes
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a partial mobilization of reservists in Russia. The measure appeared to be an admission that Moscow’s war against Ukraine is not going according to plan after nearly seven months of fighting and amid recent battlefield losses for the Kremlin’s forces. The Russian leader also warned the West that he is not bluffing over using all the means at his disposal to protect Russia’s territory, in what apparently was a veiled reference to Russia’s nuclear capability. Putin has previously warned the West not to back Russia against the wall. Officials said the number of reservists to be called up is around 300,000.
Biden at UN to call Russian war an affront to body’s charter
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to make the case at the U.N. General Assembly that Russia’s “naked aggression” in Ukraine is an affront to the heart of what the international body stands. In his address Wednesday morning, the American president is looking to rally allies to continue to back the Ukrainian resistance. Biden also plans to meet on the sidelines of the General Assembly with new British Prime Minister Liz Truss and announce a global food security initiative. But White House officials say the crux of Biden’s visit to the U.N. this year will be a full-throated condemnation of Russia as its brutal war nears the seven-month mark.
US, Iran to speak at UN; Zelenskyy to appear from Ukraine
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Iran President Ebrahim Raisi are among those taking the spotlight on the second day of the world body’s first fully in-person meeting since the coronavirus pandemic began. But perhaps one of the biggest draws on Wednesday will be Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskky, who will be heard but not seen in the flesh. The 193-member assembly voted last week to allow Zelenskky to deliver a pre-recorded address because of his need to deal with Russia’s invasion, making an exception to its requirement that all leaders speak in person. Unsurprisingly, Ukraine has been the center of attention at the U.N. assembly, with world leader after world leader condemning Russia for attacking a sovereign nation.
Man sets himself on fire in apparent protest of Abe funeral
TOKYO (AP) — A man has set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister’s office in Tokyo in apparent protest of the state funeral for former leader Shinzo Abe. Kyodo News agency reported the man sustained burns but told police he set himself on fire with oil and a note found with him proclaimed his opposition to the Abe state funeral. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is in New York for the U.N. General Assembly meeting. The planned state funeral for Abe has become increasingly unpopular among Japanese as more details emerge about the ruling party’s and Abe’s links to the Unification Church, which built close ties with ruling party lawmakers over their shared interests in conservative causes.
EXPLAINER: What kept Iran protests going after first spark?
Protests have erupted across Iran in recent days after a 22-year-old woman died while being held by the morality police for violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code. The young woman had been picked up by Iran’s morality police for her allegedly loose headscarf, or hijab. Many Iranians, particularly the young, have come to see her death as part of the Islamic Republic’s heavy-handed policing of dissent and the morality police’s increasingly violent treatment of young women. This has led to daring displays of defiance, in the face of beatings and possible arrest. In street protests, some women tore off their mandatory headscarves, demonstratively twirling them in the air, or burned them.
Fiona threatens to become Category 4 storm headed to Bermuda
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Fiona is threatening to strengthen into a Category 4 storm as it lashes the Turks and Caicos Islands and was forecast to squeeze past Bermuda later this week. The storm was blamed for causing at least four direct deaths in its march through the Caribbean, where it unleashed torrential rain in Puerto Rico, leaving a majority without power or water as hundreds of thousands of people scraped mud out of their homes following what authorities described as “historic” flooding. Power company officials initially said it would take a couple of days for electricity to be fully restored but then appeared to backtrack late Tuesday night.
House to vote on election law overhaul in response to Jan. 6
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is preparing to vote on an overhaul of a centuries-old election law in an effort to prevent future presidential candidates from trying to subvert the popular will. The legislation under consideration Wednesday is a direct response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s efforts to find a way around the Electoral Count Act. That arcane 19th century law governs, along with the U.S. Constitution, how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners. Trump and a group of his aides and lawyers tried to exploit loopholes in the law to overturn his defeat.
At UN, hope peeks through the gloom despite a global morass
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Hope can be hard to find anywhere these days. That goes double for the people who walk the floors of the United Nations, where shouldering the weight of the world is a core part of the job description. And when world leaders are trying to solve some of humanity’s thorniest problems, it’s easy to lose sight of hope. And yet at the U.N. General Assembly this year, while there is lots of misery and pessimism, there are also signs of brightness poking through like clovers in the sidewalk cracks. The U.N. secretary-general says hope is an increasingly rare commodity, but he also says it persists.
Some 230 whales beached in Tasmania; rescue efforts underway
HOBART, Australia (AP) — About 230 whales are stranded on Tasmania’s west coast, just two days after 14 sperm whales were found beached on a nearby island. The pod stranded on Ocean Beach appears to be pilot whales. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania said Wednesday that at least half of them are presumed to still be alive. It says a team is assembling whale rescue gear and heading to the area. Two years ago, about 470 long-finned pilot whales were found beached on Tasmania’s west coast in the largest mass-stranding on record in Australia. The pilot whale is notorious for stranding in mass numbers, for reasons that are not entirely understood.
The Muscogee get their say in national park plan for Georgia
MACON, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds of Native Americans returned to their historic capital in Macon, Georgia, this weekend for the 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration. Nearly 200 years after the last Creek Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma to make way for slave labor in the Deep South, citizens of the Muscogee Creek Nation are celebrating their survival. They’re also supporting an initiative to put the National Park Service in charge of protecting the heart of the Creek Confederacy. A federal review is nearly complete, meaning Interior Secretary Deb Haaland could soon ask Congress to create the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve.
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Mail Ballot Fight Persists In Key States And Will Slow Count Including In Pennsylvania
Mail Ballot Fight Persists In Key States And Will Slow Count, Including In Pennsylvania https://digitalarizonanews.com/mail-ballot-fight-persists-in-key-states-and-will-slow-count-including-in-pennsylvania/
Former President Donald Trump and his allies seized on the drawn-out processing and counting in Pennsylvania during the 2020 election to fuel his false claims that fraud cost him victory in the battleground state.
Election officials worry that a replay could be on the horizon for November’s midterm elections, with high-stakes races on the state’s ballot for governor and U.S. Senate.
And it’s not just Pennsylvania. Michigan and Wisconsin are other crucial swing states that allow no-excuse mail-in ballots but give local election offices no time before Election Day to process them.
Election workers’ inability to do that work ahead of time means many of the mailed ballots may not get counted on Election Day, delaying results in tight races and leaving a gaping hole for misinformation and lies to flood the public space.
“That time between the polls closing on election night and the last vote being counted is really being exploited by people who want to undermine confidence in the process,” said Al Schmidt, a Philadelphia election commissioner during the 2020 presidential election who is now president and CEO of the good-government group Committee of Seventy.
The first step in processing mailed ballots, or pre-canvassing, is a routine but crucial administrative task that allows election workers to verify voters’ signatures and addresses, or spot problems that could be fixed by voters. Once ballots are deemed valid, they are removed from their envelopes — another time-consuming task — so they are ready to be counted on Election Day.
Not in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, vote-count outliers. Thirty-eight 38 other states — including Republican-controlled ones such as Florida, Georgia and Texas — allow mailed ballots to be processed before Election Day, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, even brags about producing results on election night — a pointed criticism he made during a recent stop in Pennsylvania.
For the three critical battleground states, such objections fall flat. Efforts since 2020 to give local election workers more time before Election Day to process mailed ballots have died in Republican-controlled legislatures.
Instead, Republicans in those states have sought to tighten restrictions on voting by mail — provisions vetoed by Democratic governors.
“Counting the ballots should be driven by security, not speed,” Wisconsin state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a Republican, said earlier this year as lawmakers were considering legislation on the issue. “Why would we want to give bad actors the chance to see ballots prior to Election Day?”
Republicans helped kill a bipartisan bill that would have allowed more time for processing mailed ballots in Wisconsin amid claims that it would give partisans more time to cheat or leak vote counts early — another unfounded conspiracy theory promoted as a way to explain Trump’s loss.
Like Pennsylvania, election workers in Michigan and Wisconsin must wait until Election Day to start the pre-canvassing of mailed ballots.
For now, in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, requests for absentee ballots are running below 2020’s rate, relieving some of the burden on local election offices.
Still, Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said it’s “a total guess” when counting will finish in Wisconsin’s most populous county. She hopes it will wrap up by 11 p.m. on election night. A late rush of dropped-off ballots — as happened in 2020 — isn’t expected this year, she said, because courts banned the use of drop boxes.
In Michigan in 2020, lawmakers agreed to give clerks in more populous cities and towns 10 hours on the day before Election Day to process mailed ballots. Clerks unsuccessfully sought a similar provision for this year.
The Republicans who control the Pennsylvania Legislature have refused to allow early processing of mailed ballots unless it comes packaged with provisions Democrats don’t want, such as banning drop boxes and expanding voter identification requirements.
County election officials say they are grateful the state approved $45 million in election administration grants to help them buy ballot processing equipment and pay for workers to help. But they still face the work of processing well over 1 million mailed ballots just as they are running the November election. A number of them do not expect to finish processing mailed ballots until at least the day after the election — even after working through the night.
The Pennsylvania House Republicans’ lead lawmaker on election legislation said allowing counties to process ballots before Election Day must be combined with “election integrity” measures.
“Once a ballot is opened, you remove the outside envelope from the ballot, you remove any ability to question anything in that election system,” said Republican state Rep. Seth Grove. “So you have to guard the front end of it a lot better.”
Those who advocate for earlier processing say observers can watch the pre-canvassing of mailed ballots, increasing transparency, and note that it is allowed by many other states.
“If people want to observe the process,” said Lee Soltysiak, the chief operating officer of Montgomery County in Pennsylvania, “they’re more likely to do it at 3 p.m. and not 3 a.m.”
All three states flipped to support Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and are still being buffeted by conspiracy theories about Trump’s loss.
Among those is that election workers falsified ballots in the middle of the night in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee and other Democratic-leaning cities across battleground states lost by Trump, despite no such evidence emerging for nearly two years since the election.
Death threats to election officials followed the arguing, as did a flurry of litigation designed to keep Trump in office. In the middle of the counting, two men inspired by Trump’s election lies and armed with guns drove from Virginia to where ballots were being tallied in Philadelphia.
Trump continues to peddle the conspiracy theories, repeating this month during a rally in Wilkes-Barre that Pennsylvania’s vote in 2020 was “a rigged election.”
Fearing a repeat of the false claims from two years ago, Democrats in the Pennsylvania Legislature continued to push Republicans to bring up a pre-canvassing bill — without any poison pills — for a vote.
“That bill will not run,” said Democratic state Rep. Scott Conklin. “Why won’t it run? Because if it runs, it takes away the conspiracy theories. It takes away the fact that what they’re saying is nonsense and not true.”
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Iranian Women Burn Their Hijabs As Hundreds Protest Death Of Mahsa Amini
Iranian Women Burn Their Hijabs As Hundreds Protest Death Of Mahsa Amini https://digitalarizonanews.com/iranian-women-burn-their-hijabs-as-hundreds-protest-death-of-mahsa-amini/
(CNN)In the video, a massive crowd cheers as a woman lifts a pair of scissors to her hair — exposed, without a hijab in sight. The sea of people, many of them men, roar as she chops off her ponytail and raises her fist in the air.
It was a powerful act of defiance Tuesday night in the city of Kerman, Iran, where women are required to wear hijabs in public — and just one of the many protests taking place across the country following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in police custody last week.
Thousands took to the streets Tuesday night, with videos of protests emerging from dozens of towns and cities — ranging from the capital Tehran to more traditionally conservative strongholds like Mashad.
Footage shows some protesters chanting, “Women, life, freedom.” Others can be seen setting up bonfires, scuffling with police, or removing and burning their headscarves — as well as destroying posters of the country’s Supreme Leader and shouting, “Death to the dictator.”
In one video in Tehran, young protesters march around a bonfire on the street at night, chanting: “We are the children of war. Come on and fight, and we’ll fight back.”
Almost all the provincial towns in Iran’s Kurdish region, including Kermanshah and Hamedan, have seen demonstrations as well.
The protests are striking for their scale, ferocity and rare feminist nature; the last protests of this size were three years ago, after the government hiked gas prices in 2019.
Witnesses tell CNN that the Tuesday night demonstrations appear to be “flash protests” — meaning groups form and disperse quickly, to avoid run-ins with Iran’s security forces after the escalating violence of the last week.
A source said there was at least one instance of a heavy-handed police response on Tuesday, near Iran’s Enghelab (“Revolution”) Square on the western side of Tehran University — historically a rallying point for protests.
“Two young men were hit and beaten up by plainclothes police and anti-riot police, then dragged to the van in front of (the) subway entrance gate,” an eyewitness told CNN. “A wounded girl lying on the sidewalk was taken by ambulance to the hospital, and five others arrested on the north side of Enghelab Square.”
At least five protesters were fatally shot during demonstrations in the Kurdish region over the past few days, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Norwegian-registered organization monitoring rights violations in Iran.
It said another 75 were injured in other cities over the weekend.
The protests erupted after the death of Amini, who was stopped and detained by Iran’s morality police last Tuesday.
Iranian officials said that Amini died last Friday after suffering a “heart attack” and falling into a coma following her arrest.
However, her family said she did not have a pre-existing heart condition, according to Emtedad news, an Iranian pro-reform media outlet which claimed to have spoken to Amini’s father.
Edited security camera footage released by Iran’s state media appeared to show Amini collapsing at a “re-education” center where she was taken to receive “guidance” on her attire.
Iran’s morality police are part of the country’s law enforcement and are tasked with enforcing the strict social rules of the Islamic Republic, including its dress code that mandates women wear a headscarf, or hijab, in public.
An aide to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei promised a “thorough investigation” into Amini’s death during a meeting with her family in their home on Monday, according to Iran’s semi-official Nour News agency.
Abdolreza Pourzahabi, Khamenei’s representative in Iran’s Kurdish province, said the Supreme Leader “is sad” and that the family’s sorrow “is his sorrow too,” according to Nour.
He added that he hopes the family shows “good will to help bring back calm in society.”
During a news conference, also on Monday, Greater Tehran Police Commander Hossein Rahimi denied “false accusations” against the Iranian police, saying they had “done everything” to keep Amini alive.
He added that Amini had not been harmed physically during or after she was taken into custody, and called her death “unfortunate.”
Since Amini’s death, the internet monitoring website Netblocks has documented internet outages since Friday — a tactic Iran has previously used to prevent the spread of protests.
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Gila River Receives Branding On Arizona Coyotes Home Jerseys
Gila River Receives Branding On Arizona Coyotes Home Jerseys https://digitalarizonanews.com/gila-river-receives-branding-on-arizona-coyotes-home-jerseys/
SCOTTSDALE, AZ – The Arizona Coyotes and Gila River Resorts & Casinos have announced a multi-year partnership extension agreement that provides Gila River with the branding entitlement on the Arizona Coyotes official home jerseys. The announcement marks the first time in NHL history that a Native American-owned gaming enterprise will have its logo on an NHL team jersey. The Gila River Resorts & Casinos logo will be on the Coyotes’ black Kachina jerseys for all home games played at Arizona State University’s Mullett Arena beginning in October for the 2022-23 season. Additionally, Gila River will be the season-long presenting sponsor and participate in a variety of community activations throughout the season.
“We are thrilled to announce our extended partnership to add the Gila River Resorts & Casinos logo to our beloved home jerseys,” said Xavier A. Gutierrez, Coyotes President & CEO. “Gila River has been a long-term partner for the Coyotes and we are grateful for their tremendous loyalty and support over the years. Like the Coyotes, Gila River prides themselves on their commitment to excellence and to positively impacting our community. We look forward to having Gila River’s distinguished and respected name and logo on our incredibly popular black Kachina jerseys.”
“Gila River is honored to be the first-ever Native American-owned gaming enterprise to have its logo on an NHL jersey,” said Kenneth Manuel, CEO of Gila River Resorts & Casinos. “As local leaders, we have developed an incredible partnership with the Arizona Coyotes driving positive change in the community as well as bringing world class hockey to the Valley. We are thrilled to embark on this historic journey paving the way for other Native American gaming enterprises.”
Gila River Resorts & Casinos is hosting a jersey reveal party on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at the Wild Horse Pass location in Chandler, AZ. Coyotes’ fans are invited to attend to get a sneak peek look at the new jersey patch. The event starts at 5:30pm and guests will have the opportunity to win Coyotes memorabilia and prizes.
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James Orison Rhead Jr. Obituary (2022) https://digitalarizonanews.com/james-orison-rhead-jr-obituary-2022/
In loving and grateful memory of James Orison Rhead, Jr.
A large red parka, stuffed with apples and granola bars so we didn’t have to stop for lunch, is how we skied with our dad as he yodeled down the slopes, hurrying to catch one more ride before they closed the chair lift. He was a dad who buckled everyone’s ski boots and carried our skis, but made sure we took responsibility for remembering to bring our equipment by coming up with The Big Six: skis, boots, poles, hats, gloves, goggles. When we were too cold to continue on, he told us to be tough, but then rubbed our icy hands, and put his big warm gloves on them.
Our view of life began 12 feet in the air – but we always trusted Dad to catch us. He expanded our horizons by taking us on trips to fascinating places, seeing Shakespeare plays, or helping us build the largest sandcastle on the beach. The only times we complained were when we ran out of gas while driving to Utah because Dad refused to stop.
Jim, as he was known, was born January 14, 1939 in Salt Lake City, UT to “Tony” and Verda Rhead. He was the second of four children – Roberta Jackson, Mike, and Sylvia Merrill. This large man, who was such a large presence in so many people’s lives, passed away on September 15, 2022, surrounded by the family he loved. Every grandchild visited or called to express their love and thanks for the impact their grandpa had been in their lives.
Jim met the love of his life Karin Day at South High School and continued dating while attending the University of Utah. They married in the Salt Lake Temple in 1961. Jim and Karin have six children, Elizabeth, (Rod Brown), Kristen (Doug Sweeney), James (Kristin), Alisyn (Steve Owen), Jill (Wayne Mortensen), and Amy (Steven Offen). He and Karin also have 26 amazing grandchildren, and 20 adorable great grandchildren, who are almost as good-looking and smart as him – with two more on the way.
Jim relished his time with family. You could find Jim cheering on, or coaching his kids on the baseball or football fields, the basketball and volleyball courts, at a swim or track meet, the tennis court, or in the stands of the football field watching his girls cheer. And the support didn’t end when grandchildren came along. He loved to hear and join his family in singing, even when Mom had to pound his note a little louder on the piano. He was proud of everyone’s musical abilities and academic accomplishments. He didn’t carry a megaphone, but he was everyone’s biggest cheerleader.
His love of basketball made the gym his second home – and ours all too frequently. He loved the old joke that there will be basketball in heaven because the scriptures talk about the courts on high. He had many proud basketball achievements in his life. He helped take the University of Utah team to the Final Four in 1961. He was selected to play in the College All Star Game in 1961, which his West Team won. He continued playing on church teams, with city leagues, and with various Senior Olympic teams until Covid hit, which forced him to quit playing at the young age of 81. After suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, he will now be free to play again.
His large head was filled with so much trivia and knowledge, we all used him as a resource before Google existed. In his arsenal were a lot of not-so-great jokes, plenty of puns, and The Grinch in its entirety. Losing at Trivial Pursuit and hearing phrases like “make a note of it” and “it’s just one of those things you pick up along the way” became a part of our lives.
Jim graduated from the University of Utah with honors in 1961, where he served as Freshman Class President. He went on to earn a Masters in Business Administration from the U of U in 1962. He could read 1,000 words a minute, and was proud that he taught speed reading to The Honorable Sandra Day O’Conner prior to her term on the United States Supreme Court.
He served one year in the Army when his National Guard unit was called up during the Berlin Crisis. And of course, he played on the base’s basketball team. He eventually made his way to Arizona after being hired by Western Savings and Loan. Later he became President of Paragon Hotels, developing and managing hotels and resorts.
At night we held hands for family prayers and passed a squeeze Dad started afterwards before hugging each other goodnight. Over the last ten years you may have been warmly greeted in the hall of the Arizona Mesa Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His testimony of the Savior was known by all who knew him. He served faithfully in many ways at church, such as Bishop of the Phoenix 16th Ward, working with the youth, and teaching seminary and the gospel doctrine class. We teased him that there were so many markings and notes in his scriptures they were difficult to read.
One of Jim’s gifts was his love for others, making people feel good, and inspiring them to be better. He was big in stature as well as in heart, humor, love, fun, adventure, generosity, and faith. He embodied the scripture in John 13:34-35, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
His large presence will be missed on this earth. But we know Jim is having a wonderful time reuniting with good friends, and beloved family members, including his parents, his sister Sylvia, and his sons-in-law Doug Sweeney and Curtis Randall, as well as all the family he never knew. Heaven will now be filled with his good sense of humor and friendly smile. Thank goodness the eternities are a long time, because he will have many people to greet and tell stories with – and this gives us great comfort.
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Published by Legacy on Sep. 21, 2022.
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Steve Richards Obituary (2022) Helena Independent Record
Steve Richards Obituary (2022) Helena Independent Record https://digitalarizonanews.com/steve-richards-obituary-2022-helena-independent-record/
Steve Richards
Dec. 31, 1979 – May 23, 2022
Steve Richards passed away unexpectedly on May 23, 2022, in Phoenix, AZ.
Steve was born in Butte, MT, on December 31, 1979, to Joe Richards and Patti Beavis/James. He attended schools in Helena, MT, and graduated from Capital High in 1998. He grew up camping in the mountains of Montana, playing outdoors, making forts, hanging out with friends and hunting with Tracey, his stepfather.
Steve was an avid baseball player. He played many years, from little league to the All Stars, to the American Legion Helena Reps and Senators. Many hours were spent learning to throw the ball in the yard with anyone who could catch his throw, which usually meant Tracey. Japan was next on his list. Making the team who would travel to Japan to play for the Senators. He was an outstanding pitcher on the team, and he will always be our #5.
After high school, he went on to the University of Mary in Bismarck, ND, where he had received a baseball scholarship. After College, he decided to move to Arizona to learn a trade, which he soon picked up Heating and Air Conditioning experience from Joe, his father. At the time of his death, he was working for himself. He loved the warm weather of Arizona. Golfing was a specialty of his.
Steve was preceded in death by his grandparents, Al and Allie Beavis and Dick and Lorraine Richards of Butte. He is survived by his father, Joe Richards of Butte; mother, Patti James of Helena; stepfather, Tracey James of Helena; sister, Stephanie Graber of Helena; and brothers: Joey, Patrick, and Justin. Numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Cremation has taken place and a private family service will be held at a later date.
Memorials in Steve’s name can be made to a charity of the donor’s choice.
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Trump To Face Sexual Battery Suit Under New Survivors Law
Trump To Face Sexual Battery Suit Under New ‘Survivors’ Law https://digitalarizonanews.com/trump-to-face-sexual-battery-suit-under-new-survivors-law/
E. Jean Carroll, the journalist who claims she was raped by Donald Trump decades ago in a New York department store, is planning to sue him for sexual battery under the state’s new “survivors” law later this year—and her attorneys now want to question Trump under oath.
In an August letter to a New York federal judge that was just made public Tuesday, Carroll’s lawyer notified the court that severe legal action was on the horizon.
The issue was brought up in court filings related to Carroll’s current lawsuit against the former president. She sued Trump while he was still at the White House, claiming she was defamed when Trump said the journalist’s revelations in her memoir were lies, adding a piggish line about how “she’s not my type.”
Although the underlying accusations deal with sexual assault claims against the real estate billionaire, the nature of the legal dispute wasn’t primed to go after Trump for the actual alleged assault.
That’s changed.
Roberta A. Kaplan, the journalist’s lawyer, explained in her letter to the judge that Carroll is now preparing to file a separate lawsuit under New York’s Adult Survivors Act “on the earliest possible date,” which is Nov. 24.
Kaplan also explained that Trump—as he has done in nearly every court case of late—is refusing to turn over court-mandated evidence.
Trump “remains unwilling to produce any documents in discovery,” not “a single document,” Kaplan wrote.
That’s why, she said, Trump should be dragged into a room for a deposition that will question him under oath—an embarrassing exercise that could elicit damning information from the former president. And given that it’s a civil case, any question Trump refuses to answer can be interpreted in the worst light possible—even as an admission.
Kaplan’s letter was written to another Kaplan: U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who is overseeing the defamation case and had previously instructed both parties to share information with each other. (There is no known relation between the two.)
In a pithy response on Aug. 11, Trump lawyer Alina Habba accused Carroll’s lawyer of misleading the judge in the way she “repeatedly mischaracterizes the discovery efforts that have been undertaken by the parties to date.”
“Indeed, the letter contains numerous misstatements which are seemingly intended to make it appear as if [Trump] is not complying with his discovery obligations,” Habba wrote. “This is simply not the case.”
However, Habba’s letter revealed that—once again—Trump is hiding behind the presidential seal and waiving around expired credentials to keep evidence out of the public’s hands. Habba defended Trump’s use of “executive privilege” to prevent Carroll from obtaining some documents related to the way he verbally attacked her character while he was at the White House.
Carroll’s next lawsuit could have a dramatically different—and more serious—result than the current defamation case.
In the current legal fight, Trump managed to employ the Department of Justice to defend him, leaving taxpayers on the hook for what was clearly a personal battle. However, any lawsuit under New York’s rape survivor law would target him directly while he’s no longer in office.
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Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: Putin Calls Up Russias Reservists Amid War Setbacks Backs Annexation Plans
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Russian President Vladimir Putin makes an address to the nation in this still image taken from video released by Russia’s Presidential Press Service on Wednesday. (Presidential Press Service/Via Reuters)
Updated September 21, 2022 at 3:46 a.m. EDT|Published
September 21, 2022 at 1:56 a.m. EDT
RIGA, Latvia — Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of troops in an address to the nation on Wednesday, framing the move to call up reservists as an attempt to defend Russian sovereignty against a West that seeks to use Ukraine as a tool to “divide and destroy Russia.”
His speech comes as Ukraine is in the midst of a counteroffensive and as Kremlin-backed officials press ahead with referendums that could result in Moscow annexing occupied parts of Ukraine — an act that would mark a major escalation in the conflict. World leaders gathering in New York for the U.N. General Assembly have widely condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, describing it as a threat to global order and world peace. Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
Here’s what to know:
Putin’s speech also included a threatening reference to Russia’s nuclear arsenal: “With a threat to the territorial integrity of our country, to protect Russia and our people, we of course will use all the means at our disposal, this is not a bluff.”
A successful Ukrainian counteroffensive has forced a major Russian retreat in the northeastern Kharkiv region in recent days, as troops fled cities and villages they had occupied since the early days of the war and abandoned large amounts of military equipment. In his regular nightly address, Ukraine’s president said the situation on the front line “clearly indicates that the initiative belongs to Ukraine.”
Volodymyr Zelensky is set to address the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, after members voted to exempt him from a rule for in-person speeches at this year’s session. Russia and six other countries voted against it.
U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said that a breakdown in global cooperation amid Russia’s war in Ukraine is exacerbating the top threats to human existence, including food insecurity and climate change.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive forced a major Russian retreat in Kharkiv region
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A successful Ukrainian counteroffensive has forced a major Russian retreat in the northeastern Kharkiv region in recent days, as troops fled cities and villages they had occupied since the early days of the war and abandoned large amounts of military equipment. In his regular nightly address on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation on the front line “clearly indicates that the initiative belongs to Ukraine.”
Russia is likely targeting hydro infrastructure in the Kharkiv and Luhansk regions in a bid to threaten Ukrainian positions along the Donets River, according to analysts from the Institute for the Study of War. Ukraine’s military said Russian forces unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a dam east of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. The claims could not be independently verified by The Washington Post.
White House: U.S. will never recognize Russian claims to annexed territory
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The United States will never recognize Russian claims to annexed territory, White House spokesman Jake Sullivan said Tuesday, describing the referendums as violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty. “Sham referendums have no legitimacy,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter. Some analysts noted that annexation helped trigger World War II.
Kremlin-backed authorities have declared plans for staged referendums
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Kremlin-backed authorities in occupied areas have declared plans for staged referendums to approve joining Russia, which could dramatically escalate the war. The referendums — illegal under international law and widely denounced by Western officials — are set to take place Sept. 23 to 27.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, urged Ukrainians in occupied territories to “be vigilant and not give their passport data to the strangers.”
Analysts warn that if Russia annexes the territories, it may declare any attacks on those areas by Ukrainian forces an attack on Russia, using it as a trigger for a full military mobilization or for the use of nuclear weapons.
Putin makes threatening reference to Russia’s nuclear arsenal
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Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech also included a threatening reference to Russia’s nuclear arsenal: “With a threat to the territorial integrity of our country, to protect Russia and our people, we of course will use all the means at our disposal, this is not a bluff.”
Putin orders partial military mobilization, says war in Ukraine will continue
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In a speech to his nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of troops, framing the move to call up reservists as an attempt to defend Russian sovereignty against a West that seeks to use Ukraine as a tool to “divide and destroy Russia.”
Putin, insisting the war in Ukraine will continue, repeated his false claims that Russia is clearing out “Nazis” from eastern Ukraine. The war’s main goals, he said — “the liberation of the entire territory of Donbas — have been and remain unchanged.”
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Trump Rape Accuser Plans Suit Under New NY survivors Law
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By Larry NeumeisterThe Associated Press
Tue., Sept. 20, 2022timer2 min. read
NEW YORK (AP) — A writer who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room intends to file another lawsuit against him under a new New York law letting sexual assault victims sue over attacks that happened decades ago.
A lawyer for the columnist, E. Jean Carroll, notified a federal judge of her intent to sue in an August letter entered in the public record Tuesday. The suit would allege sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
In the letter, the lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, also said she plans to depose Trump in the defamation case that Carroll already had pending against the former president. The deposition would have to occur by Oct. 19, when discovery in the case must be completed for a planned February trial.
Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In an Aug. 11 letter to the court that was also posted in the public file Tuesday, she objected to the new lawsuit.
Habba wrote that letting Carroll file the new claim now “would be extraordinarily prejudicial” to Trump, given the looming trial deadlines in the defamation case.
“To permit Plaintiff to drastically alter the scope and subject matter of this case at such time would severely prejudice Defendant’s rights. Therefore, Plaintiff’s request must be disregarded in its entirety,” Habba said.
Kaplan declined to comment.
Carroll, a longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine, wrote in a 2019 book that Trump raped her during a chance encounter at a Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s. Trump denied it and questioned Carroll’s credibility and motivations.
Because the alleged attack happened so long ago, Carroll would ordinarily have missed legal deadlines to sue Trump. So she initially sued him instead for defamation, saying he smeared her reputation while denying the rape allegation.
Last spring, however, New York lawmakers passed the Adult Survivor’s Act, which provides a one-year “look back” that enables adult survivors of sexual attacks to bring civil claims when they otherwise would be barred.
The law, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in May, was modeled after the Child Victims Act, which provided a similar window to bring lawsuits for people who had been sexually assaulted when they were children. That law expired a year ago.
A deposition would require Trump to answer questions from Carroll’s lawyers under oath about her allegations. Carroll’s legal team in February had said they were willing to skip a deposition in order to get the lawsuit to trial more quickly. Kaplan, in her letter to the court, said she now needed to question Trump because his lawyers had turned over so few documents relevant to the case.
In her letter to the court, Habba made no mention of the plans to depose Trump, but she did complain that Kaplan’s letter was “filled with misrepresentations and inflammatory statements.”
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Putin sets partial mobilization in Russia, threatens enemies
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia as the fighting reaches nearly seven months. Putin’s address to the nation on Wednesday comes a day after Russian-controlled regions in eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans to hold votes on becoming integral parts of Russia. The Kremlin-backed efforts to swallow up four regions could set the stage for Moscow to escalate the war following Ukrainian successes on the battlefield. The referendums, which have been expected to take since the first months of the war, will start Friday in the Luhansk, Kherson and partly Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.
Biden at UN to call Russian war an affront to body’s charter
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to make the case at the U.N. General Assembly that Russia’s “naked aggression” in Ukraine is an affront to the heart of what the international body stands. In his address Wednesday morning, the American president is looking to rally allies to continue to back the Ukrainian resistance. Biden also plans to meet on the sidelines of the General Assembly with new British Prime Minister Liz Truss and announce a global food security initiative. But White House officials say the crux of Biden’s visit to the U.N. this year will be a full-throated condemnation of Russia as its brutal war nears the seven-month mark.
US, Iran to speak at UN; Zelenskyy to appear from Ukraine
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Iran President Ebrahim Raisi are among those taking the spotlight on the second day of the world body’s first fully in-person meeting since the coronavirus pandemic began. But perhaps one of the biggest draws on Wednesday will be Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskky, who will be heard but not seen in the flesh. The 193-member assembly voted last week to allow Zelenskky to deliver a pre-recorded address because of his need to deal with Russia’s invasion, making an exception to its requirement that all leaders speak in person. Unsurprisingly, Ukraine has been the center of attention at the U.N. assembly, with world leader after world leader condemning Russia for attacking a sovereign nation.
Man sets himself on fire in apparent protest of Abe funeral
TOKYO (AP) — A man has set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister’s office in Tokyo in apparent protest of the state funeral for former leader Shinzo Abe. Kyodo News agency reported the man sustained burns but told police he set himself on fire with oil and a note found with him proclaimed his opposition to the Abe state funeral. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is in New York for the U.N. General Assembly meeting. The planned state funeral for Abe has become increasingly unpopular among Japanese as more details emerge about the ruling party’s and Abe’s links to the Unification Church, which built close ties with ruling party lawmakers over their shared interests in conservative causes.
EXPLAINER: What kept Iran protests going after first spark?
Protests have erupted across Iran in recent days after a 22-year-old woman died while being held by the morality police for violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code. The young woman had been picked up by Iran’s morality police for her allegedly loose headscarf, or hijab. Many Iranians, particularly the young, have come to see her death as part of the Islamic Republic’s heavy-handed policing of dissent and the morality police’s increasingly violent treatment of young women. This has led to daring displays of defiance, in the face of beatings and possible arrest. In street protests, some women tore off their mandatory headscarves, demonstratively twirling them in the air, or burned them.
Fiona threatens to become Category 4 storm headed to Bermuda
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Fiona is threatening to strengthen into a Category 4 storm as it lashes the Turks and Caicos Islands and was forecast to squeeze past Bermuda later this week. The storm was blamed for causing at least four direct deaths in its march through the Caribbean, where it unleashed torrential rain in Puerto Rico, leaving a majority without power or water as hundreds of thousands of people scraped mud out of their homes following what authorities described as “historic” flooding. Power company officials initially said it would take a couple of days for electricity to be fully restored but then appeared to backtrack late Tuesday night.
House to vote on election law overhaul in response to Jan. 6
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is preparing to vote on an overhaul of a centuries-old election law in an effort to prevent future presidential candidates from trying to subvert the popular will. The legislation under consideration Wednesday is a direct response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s efforts to find a way around the Electoral Count Act. That arcane 19th century law governs, along with the U.S. Constitution, how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners. Trump and a group of his aides and lawyers tried to exploit loopholes in the law to overturn his defeat.
At UN, hope peeks through the gloom despite a global morass
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Hope can be hard to find anywhere these days. That goes double for the people who walk the floors of the United Nations, where shouldering the weight of the world is a core part of the job description. And when world leaders are trying to solve some of humanity’s thorniest problems, it’s easy to lose sight of hope. And yet at the U.N. General Assembly this year, while there is lots of misery and pessimism, there are also signs of brightness poking through like clovers in the sidewalk cracks. The U.N. secretary-general says hope is an increasingly rare commodity, but he also says it persists.
Some 230 whales beached in Tasmania; rescue efforts underway
HOBART, Australia (AP) — About 230 whales are stranded on Tasmania’s west coast, just two days after 14 sperm whales were found beached on an island nearby. The pod stranded on Ocean Beach appears to be pilot whales. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania said Wednesday that at least half of them are presumed to still be alive. The department says a team was assembling whale rescue gear and heading to the area. Two years ago, about 470 long-finned pilot whales were found beached on Tasmania’s west coast in the largest mass-stranding on record in Australia. The pilot whale is notorious for stranding in mass numbers, for reasons that are not entirely understood.
The Muscogee get their say in national park plan for Georgia
MACON, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds of Native Americans returned to their historic capital in Macon, Georgia, this weekend for the 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration. Nearly 200 years after the last Creek Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma to make way for slave labor in the Deep South, citizens of the Muscogee Creek Nation are celebrating their survival. They’re also supporting an initiative to put the National Park Service in charge of protecting the heart of the Creek Confederacy. A federal review is nearly complete, meaning Interior Secretary Deb Haaland could soon ask Congress to create the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve.
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Steven Thomas Allard Obituary (2022) Winona Daily News
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Stephen Thomas Allard
WINONA – Stephen Thomas Allard, 59, of Winona, MN, passed away on Friday, September 16, 2022.
Stephen was born May 2, 1963, in Manchester, New Hampshire to Maurice and Joan (Tierney) Allard. He graduated from Manchester Central High School before going on to receive both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of New Hampshire and his doctorate from the University of Wyoming. He leaves behind his beloved daughter, Katherine, with whom he shared his love of learning and exploration. Stephen was formerly married to Sheila McDermott.
In 2002, Stephen moved to Winona, MN to begin his career as a professor at Winona State University. After serving for 19 years as a faculty member in the Department of Geoscience, Stephen retired from the university in December of 2021. During his tenure at WSU, Stephen served on several committees and taught 13 different courses drawing on his expertise in hard rock and structural geology.
Stephen was dedicated to teaching and mentoring students through field-based research, leading courses and field trips throughout the United States, notably the many summers spent in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He was an active researcher and advised more than 40 undergraduate research students, leading to presentations at regional, national, and international conferences. He served as Advisor to the Geology Club for 17 years and mentored countless students during his years of service. After retirement, he received the status of Professor Emeritus by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees.
Stephen is survived by his daughter, Katherine Allard, raised in Winona, MN; parents: Maurice and Joan Allard of Manchester, NH; siblings: David Allard and his wife, Elizabeth of Mesa, AZ; Donna Doherty and her husband David of Orland, ME; and Barbara Ciarla of Concord, NH; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews; and his students, closest friends, and WSU colleagues.
A gathering of friends and family will be held Friday, September 23, 2022, from 6-8 p.m. at Fawcett Junker Funeral Home, Winona, MN.
In lieu of flowers, and to continue to support field trips and field experiences for WSU Geoscience majors, memorials can be sent to the Stephen T. Allard Memorial Fund c/o, Winona State University Foundation, 175 W. Mark St., Somsen Hall 204, Winona, Minn. 55987; www.winona.edu/foundation/.
Services entrusted to Fawcett Junker Funeral Home & Crematory, Winona, MN. Online condolences can be left at www.fawcett-junkerfuneralhome.com.
Published by Winona Daily News on Sep. 21, 2022.
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Remembering The Life Of Helen MacNeill 1926 – 2022 https://digitalarizonanews.com/remembering-the-life-of-helen-macneill-1926-2022/
Beverly – Helen Barbara (Howland) MacNeill, age 95, of Beverly, MA, passed away peacefully at Ledgewood Nursing Home surrounded by her family on September 14, 2022. She was born in North Woodstock, NH, September 23, 1926.
Helen, who went by Barbara or Barb grew up on a small farm on East Side Rd, near the Pemmigewassett River with her parents, Herman and Margaret (Smith) Howland and her sister Florence. She graduated from LinWood, High School in North Woodstock and later attended Yankton College in Yankton, SD. Returning from college Barbara waitressed at the White Tower restaurant in Lynn. While waitressing at the White Tower she met a handsome veteran named George MacNeill who became her husband for 49 years.
Barbara went on to earn her Real Estate Broker’s license and worked at the Jack Conway Real Estate office in Salem. She ended her working career as a “Lunch Lady” for the Beverly School system.
Barbara started her family in Lynn and had three children George Jr., Ronald and Roy. Barb and George would eventually move to Beverly. There she devoted herself to her children being involved with Cub Scouts, PTO and Demolay mothers club. She was also a member of the Mayflower Society.
Barbara loved the outdoors, gardening, road trips to the White Mountain along the Kancamagus highway and camping trips to Sebago Lake. She loved the camp in Derry, NH spending time there with family. She enjoyed her Thursday night penny ante poker with her girlfriends, and dancing with George on Saturday nights. She loved knitting and crocheting, making numerous blankets for family and friends. Later in life she could be found most mornings sipping a coffee and shooting the breeze at her local Dunkin. She was a lover of life and always found a way to make people smile with her quintessential New England wit. She especially loved attending her grandchildren’s recitals and sporting events.
Barbara was predeceased by her parents, husband George MacNeill Sr., and sister Florence Carkin, son Roy Mac Neill Sr., stepson David MacNeill, and grandson Roy MacNeill Jr.
Survived by her sons George MacNeill Jr. of Pattaya City, Thailand and Ronald and (Kathleen) MacNeill of Beverly and her stepdaughter Lucy (MacNeill) Minnihan of Mesa, AZ., daughter un-law Jeri Heupler, grandchildren Ronald (Ronnie) MacNeill Jr. and (Hilary Davis), Haillie Jenness, Jacob and (Nicole) MacNeill, Liana MacNeill and (Jacob Seaton) of Phoenix, AZ, Michael and (Mollie) MacNeill of Phoenix, AZ, Alicia MacNeill, Deborah Kings, Renee and (David) Kolar, Dawn and (Mark) Bojanowski, David MacNeill Jr, Kimberly May, Sean and (Erica) Minnihan, Scott and (Kathy) Minnihan, Timothy Minnihan, and Daniel and (Gloria) Minnihan and 22 great-grandchildren.
A Celebration of Life for Barbara MacNeill will be held at the Danversport Yacht Club, 161 Elliott Street Danvers, MA 01923. Saturday November 12, 2022 at 11:00 A.M. with a reception to follow.
In lieu of flowers please make a contribution to your favorite charity in Barbara’s name.
Published on September 21, 2022
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