Oil Prices Hit Nine-Month Low On Recession Fears https://digitalarkansasnews.com/oil-prices-hit-nine-month-low-on-recession-fears/
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LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Oil prices hit nine-month lows on Monday, driven down by an expected decline in fuel demand as rising interest rates raise the likelihood of global recession, with further price pressure coming from a surging U.S. dollar.
Brent crude futures for November settlement slipped by 82 cents, or 1%, to $85.33 a barrel at 1110 GMT. The contract fell as low as $84.51, the lowest since Jan. 14.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for November delivery dropped 74 cents, or 0.9%, to $78. WTI dropped as low as $77.21, the lowest since Jan. 6.
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Both contracts slumped by about 5% on Friday.
The dollar index that measures the greenback against a basket of major currencies climbed to a 20-year high on Monday. A stronger dollar tends to curtail demand for dollar-denominated oil.
The impact of a strong dollar on oil prices is at its most pronounced in more than a year, Refinitiv Eikon data shows.
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Meanwhile, interest rate increases imposed by central banks in numerous oil-consuming countries to fight surging inflation has raised fears of an economic slowdown and accompanying slump in oil demand.
“A backdrop of global monetary policy tightening by the key central banks to quell elevated inflation, and a splendid run-up in the greenback towards more than two-decade highs, has raised concerns about an economic slowdown and is acting as a key headwind for crude prices,” said Sugandha Sachdeva at Religare Broking.
Disruptions in the oil market from the Russia-Ukraine war, with European Union sanctions banning Russian crude set to start in December, has lent some support to prices.
Attention is turning to what the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies led by Russia, together known as OPEC+, will do when they meet on Oct. 5, having agreed at their previous meeting to cut output modestly.
However, OPEC+ is producing well below its targeted output, meaning that a further cut may not have much impact on supply.
Data last week showed OPEC+ missed its target by 3.58 million barrels per day in August, a bigger shortfall than in July. read more
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Protests Erupt In Russia's Dagestan Region Over Putin's Mobilization Orders
Protests Erupt In Russia's Dagestan Region Over Putin's Mobilization Orders https://digitalarkansasnews.com/protests-erupt-in-russias-dagestan-region-over-putins-mobilization-orders/
(CNN)Heated protests have broken out in some ethnic minority regions in Russia against Vladimir Putin’s mobilization orders, with activist groups and Ukrainian officials saying these minorities are being disproportionately targeted for conscription in the war.
Several videos posted to social media, which CNN geo-located to the predominantly Muslim region of Dagestan, show women in the capital Makhachkala pleading with police outside a theater.
“Why are you taking our children? Who attacked who? It’s Russia that attacked Ukraine,” they can be heard saying in the video. Groups of women then begin chanting “No war,” as the police officer walks away.
In other confrontations in the city, police can be seen pushing back against the protesters, with people being violently detained by police while others flee on foot.
The independent Russian monitoring group OVD-Info reported that several arrests were made, including that of a local journalist who was reporting on the day’s protests.
Makhachkala Mayor Salman Dadayev called for calm Sunday, urging people not to “succumb to the provocations of persons engaged in anti-state activities.”
“I urge you not to commit illegal acts, each of which will be assessed by the law enforcement agencies for legal consequences,” said Dadayev, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
In another video, filmed in the town of Endirei in Dagestan, a police officer is seen shooting his rifle into the air in an apparent attempt to disperse a crowd of protesters.
The protests come after Putin declared last Wednesday that 300,000 reservists would be drafted under an immediate “partial mobilization,” in a bid to reinforce his faltering invasion of Ukraine.
Though Russian authorities have said it would only affect Russians with previous military experience, the decree itself gives much broader terms, sowing fear among Russians of a wider draft in the future — and the implications for ethnic minorities.
“Since mobilization started, we are actually seeing a much greater push to get people from those (ethnic minority) republics to go to war,” said Anton Barbashin, the editorial director at Riddle Russia, an online journal on Russian affairs.
“Mobilization there seems to be in much greater disarray — people are being grabbed from universities,” told CNN. “It’s already starting to make people question the policy, like in Dagestan.”
In Russian-occupied Crimea, the mobilization order has prompted Tatar men — members of an indigenous ethnic group — to flee, said Ukraine’s presidential representative to Crimea.
“On the territory of the occupied Crimea, Russia focuses on the Crimean Tatars during the course of mobilization,” said Representative Tamila Tasheva on Ukraine’s Parliament TV Sunday. “Currently, thousands of Crimean Tatars, including their families, are leaving Crimea through the territory of Russia mostly for Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan.”
Former Mongolian President Elbergdorj Tsakhia also urged Putin to end the war on Friday, saying Mongol citizens in Russia were being forced to fight.
“I know, since the start of this bloody war, ethnic minorities who live in Russia suffered the most. The Buryat Mongols, Tuva Mongols and Kalmyk Mongols have suffered a lot,” he said. “They have been used as nothing more than cannon fodder.”
Anti-mobilization protests have spread across the country, with more than 2,350 people arrested since the announcement, according to OVD-Info.
At a protest in the far eastern city of Yakutsk on Sunday, a crowd of women chanted, “Give back our grandfathers!” Some residents in Sakha Republic, where Yakutsk is the capital, have been conscripted “by mistake” despite not being eligible for mobilization, illustrating the chaotic roll-out of Putin’s order.
And Crimea isn’t the only place facing an exodus; military-age men across Russia are choosing to flee rather than risk being conscripted. Video footage shows long lines of traffic at land border crossings into several neighboring countries, and surging airfares and sold out flights in recent days.
Four of the five EU countries bordering Russia have banned entry for Russians on tourist visas, while queues to cross land borders out of Russia to the former Soviet countries Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia were reportedly taking more than 24 hours to cross.
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Liz Cheney: If [Donald Trump] Is The Nominee I Won
Liz Cheney: “If [Donald Trump] Is The Nominee, I Won https://digitalarkansasnews.com/liz-cheney-if-donald-trump-is-the-nominee-i-won/
Rep. Liz Cheney — a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump — has signaled that she may leave the GOP, saying, “If [Trump] is the nominee, I won’t be a Republican.”
“I certainly will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn’t anywhere close to the Oval Office,” the Wyoming Republican told Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith at the paper’s festival on Saturday.
Cheney also said Saturday that she would be willing to stump for Democrats, the first time she has said so explicitly. The comments were made in response to a question about Wyoming gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, a supporter of Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
“I am going to do everything I can to make sure that Kari Lake is not elected,” Cheney said, to which Smith asked if that meant potentially campaigning for Democrats.
Cheney’s response: “Yes, it does.”
Cheney has served as the representative for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district since 2017 — but she was defeated soundly in her August primary against Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.
Cheney is the vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, one of only two Republicans on the committee. Cheney is also one of only 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. Both were positions that appeared to work against her during her campaign for reelection.
Only two of the 10 GOP House members who voted to impeach Trump survived their primary challenges, while three others were defeated and four chose to either retire or not seek reelection. According to NPR, the majority of candidates Trump endorsed in the 2022 midterms have prevailed, and also said that they support the former president’s false claims about the 2020 election.
In her concession speech last month, Cheney said, “We must be very clear-eyed about the threat we face and about what is required to defeat it. I have said since January 6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office, and I mean it.”
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) gives a concession speech to supporters during a primary night event on August 16, 2022 in Jackson, Wyoming. Alex Wong / Getty Images
Cheney’s term will end on Jan. 3, 2023. Speculation has brewed around a potential presidential bid for Cheney in 2024, but she has not made any definitive public statements one way or the other on the matter. When Smith asked Cheney whether she planned to announce her candidacy, Cheney deflected:
“What are we going to do to make sure that our kids know what it means to have peaceful transfers of power?” she responded. “And what are we going to do to make sure that we don’t contribute to the unraveling of the Republic? … That’s what I’m focused on.”
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OPINION | OLD NEWS: Inquiring Minds Want To Know Why Little Rock Judge Abruptly Resigned In 1922
OPINION | OLD NEWS: Inquiring Minds Want To Know Why Little Rock Judge Abruptly Resigned In 1922 https://digitalarkansasnews.com/opinion-old-news-inquiring-minds-want-to-know-why-little-rock-judge-abruptly-resigned-in-1922/
The Sept. 13, 1922, Arkansas Democrat reported Harry C. Hale’s abrupt resignation as municipal judge. (Democrat-Gazette illustration/Celia Storey)
One fine September, 100 years ago, Little Rock’s city court judge abruptly resigned after … some incident … at White City park.
What was it? I don’t know. The old newspapers won’t tell me.
Friend Reader should be familiar with his name, because he appears in these columns often enough: Municipal Judge Harry C. Hale.
The name also might sound familiar to Casual Reader because there were other Harry Hales in the news in 1922 — in particular, Maj. Gen. Harry C. Hale, a national war hero who sometimes took the cure at Hot Springs. This Harry was not that Harry.
This one was younger than the general and had been a very active Little Rock lawyer beginning in 1906, when he graduated among a good class of “young limbs of the law” from the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville.
In 1922, Harry C. Hale was municipal judge. But earlier he held other elective city positions, beginning with city attorney in 1910. A popular young campaigner, he won two terms. So, he was city attorney for four years. Then he was deputy prosecutor for four years, followed by almost four years as municipal judge.
When he first ran for city attorney, he introduced himself to voters in a letter published by the Arkansas Democrat on Nov. 21, 1909. He said he was born and raised in Missouri (in Shelbyville). He did not mention that his father, James C. Hale (1837-1904), had been a judge and a newspaper editor there, for a time editing the Shelbina Democrat. Harry C. wrote:
“Appreciating the advantages offered to young men by the State of Arkansas, I came to Little Rock and secured a clerical position in a railroad office. While so employed I entered the University of Arkansas Law School in 1904 and graduated from there in 1906. Took the bar examination in 1905 and have been practicing law since.”
I quite like his campaign slogan: “Competent and Appreciative.”
While at school in Fayetteville, he was a charter member of its new Augustus Hill Garland chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, the legal fraternity. Other founding members were Fred Clark Jacobs, Thomas O. Summers, James Kirby Riffel, William Russell Rose, Horace Earle Rouse, Ashbel Webster Dobyns and Hale’s future law partner, John Bruce Cox.
Other things we know about Hale from many news reports, social notes and classified ads:
He liked dogs and had a fox terrier puppy while living at 220 E. Fourth St. He survived a “serious operation” in 1909. He could sing and took part in community theater and musicales. He was teased for being a big fan of sometime presidential aspirant Rep. Champ Clark (D-Mo.), speaker of the U.S. House; and Hale wrote elaborate appeals to Little Rock’s City Council asking for a vacation to attend the national Democratic convention in support of Clark. But Hale also loyally supported Woodrow Wilson’s nomination for the presidency.
While city attorney, Hale nominated Scipio Africanus Jones to sit as a special municipal judge in a case in which Judge Fred Isgrig recused himself (see arkansasonline.com/926tom), and Hale may have been forced into fisticuffs with a white lawyer who objected to elevating the Black lawyer.
Hale also backed Mayor Charles E. Taylor’s powerful flex against vice, to shut down the city’s red light district and oust its brutal traffic judge, W.M. “Mack” Tweedy (see arkansasonline.com/926boo and also arkansasonline.com/200/1913).
Harry C. also did the city a service that remains useful to historians: He put about three years into revising the city statutes book, in 1915 publishing Digest of the City of Little Rock, Arkansas: Embracing the Ordinances and Resolutions of a General Character Passed by the City Council of Said City up to and Including the Session of September 21, 1914. (see arkansasonline.com/926code).
As municipal judge, he fined himself $5 for parking his car more than an hour on Main Street in October 1920.
And like his buddy Isgrig, Hale vocally opposed the Ku Klux Klan.
As Kenneth C. Barnes beautifully explains in “The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas,” a book everyone should pick up (arkansasonline.com/81joe), in the summer of 1922, the second, commercial version of the Klan started throwing its weight around politically. Casting itself as morals police and all-in for Prohibition, this Klan appealed to churchgoing Protestants and other citizens who were sick of the devastation wrought by alcohol abuse and crime in Arkansas.
On Sept. 13, 1922, after something that caused a disturbance at White City, the popular amusement park in Little Rock’s Heights neighborhood, he submitted his letter of resignation effective Oct. 1 to Mayor Ben Brickhouse.
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So, what happened in the park?
The closest the Democrat, Little Rock Daily News and the Arkansas Gazette come to divulging details appears to be a Sept. 13 report in the Democrat:
“Trouble on the dance floor at White City last Monday night between Judge Hale and the management of the park, and also between Judge Hale and Patrolman B.F. Morrison and Deputy Sheriff Clifton Evans, formed the basis for the complaints, it was understood, although Mayor Brickhouse and Chief Rotenberry declined to discuss the matter.”
The Gazette report Sept. 14 added the information that a complaint against Hale was lodged “informally” by a member of the City Council, that his conduct was “boisterous and unseemly” on the dance floor. Brickhouse had decided to submit it to Chief Burl Rotenberry’s Police Committee for review; but when told of that plan, Hale immediately resigned and the charge was dropped.
All three papers noted there was a chance Hale would move to California, where he had a job offer.
The municipal judge post paid $3,000 a year, but it required the judge to devote his full time to the office.
Replacing the judge required that Gov. Thomas McRae authorize a special election; but by Sept. 17, McRae had failed to do so, claiming that he could not until someone formally notified him Hale had resigned. And on Sept. 18, friends of Hale mounted a defense of his character to the council.
The Daily News reported that the Rev. Harry G. Knowles, Hale’s pastor at First Christian Church, spoke for him, as did the Rev. John Van Lear, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, and Alderman Isgrig. All pleaded with the council to withhold judgment until Hale had a chance to vindicate himself.
“Judge Hale addressed the caucus,” the News reported, “admitting the truthfulness of some of the charges against him, none of which seem to be any more serious than frivolous conduct, and promising that in the future he would conduct himself [in a manner] that would merit the entire approval of the public.”
The council then agreed with Alderman George Gay’s motion to postpone their decision for a month. Only one alderman demurred, H.B. Chrisp of the Ninth Ward, who happened to be the Klan-approved candidate for county and probate clerk. The Klan then took out ads announcing a meeting to discuss why the council hadn’t accepted Hale’s resignation.
On Sept. 24, Hale sent his resignation letter directly to McRae, and the governor accepted it and set the election to coincide with the General Election Oct. 3. Four candidates stepped forward. Three guesses who won.
The Klan-backed candidate, Troy W. Lewis, polled 4,400 votes; his nearest rival received 408.
What happened to Harry C. Hale after his name just about vanished off the face of Arkansas newspapers in 1922? That, I do know. Tune in next week.
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Roll Up Your Sleeve Time For A Flu Vaccine Health Officials Say
Roll Up Your Sleeve, Time For A Flu Vaccine, Health Officials Say https://digitalarkansasnews.com/roll-up-your-sleeve-time-for-a-flu-vaccine-health-officials-say/
Pharmacist Kara High of Springdale prepares a flu shot Monday Nov. 13, 2017 during a free flu shot clinic at Wedington Place Apartments in Fayetteville. Walgreens on Wedington Drive sponsored the flu clinic for seniors at the complex. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/J.T. WAMPLER)
Most adults should get vaccinated against the flu annually, according to health officials.
Local health units across the region are beginning to administer flu shots in the coming weeks, according to the Arkansas Department of Health. Each county health unit will host a community flu vaccine clinic, usually a day-long event, according to a state Health Department news release.
Shots will be available at no charge Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rogers Activity Center. The Benton County Health Unit is currently offering vaccines on site in Rogers and Siloam Springs, administrator Loy Bailey said.
River Valley residents can get a shot at the Sebastian County Health Unit in Fort Smith, according to administrator Matthew Hicks. The county health department will hold a flu vaccination clinic at Ben Geren Park from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Hicks said.
Residents seeking a vaccination should bring their insurance card, though those without insurance or flu shot coverage can receive the shot for free.
“We want Benton County residents to stay healthy this flu season,” Bailey said. “We encourage everyone to come to the community clinic or the local health unit to get their flu shot.”
Flu season in the United States is typically in the fall and winter, with cases usually peaking between December and February, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
September and October are the best times to get vaccinated this year, though vaccination in December or later can still help, according to the CDC.
A yearly flu shot is the best defense against the contagious respiratory illness, Bailey said.
Predicting the severity of a flu season is difficult, but the viral infection should not be taken lightly, according to Dr. Jennifer Dillaha, the state Health Department’s chief medical officer. The shot will help protect residents and their families, she said.
Habitual hand washing can also prevent infection, which can spread by coughing or sneezing as well as by touching objects with the virus on it and then touching the nose or mouth.
Older adults, young children, pregnant women, nursing home residents, people with chronic health conditions and smokers should get the vaccine because they are more likely to have serious health problems from contracting the flu, according to the Health Department.
The flu vaccine may cause some mild soreness and redness or a low fever or slight headache, but does not cause the flu. The shot protects against the different flu viruses expected to cause the most illness this season, according to the state Health Department.
The vaccine is not recommended for a small group of people. A life-threatening allergic reaction to a previous dose of the flu vaccine or an ingredient in the vaccine is one of the only reasons to avoid the shot, the department release states. However, people with allergies to ingredients can often still receive the vaccine safely when monitored at a doctor’s office, according to the department.
Everyone six months or older should receive a routine influenza vaccination, unless they have a specific health reason to decline, an Aug. 26 report by the CDC states.
During the 2021-22 flu season, Arkansas reported 26 influenza-related deaths, according to a May report by the state Health Department, up slightly from Arkansas’ 24 deaths the previous year.
Health care providers reported 14,807 positive flu tests to the Arkansas Department of Health’s online database from Sept. 27, 2021, to May 28, but that number reflects only a portion of the state’s total flu cases, the report says.
Nationally, the CDC estimates at least 8 million flu illnesses, 82,000 flu hospitalizations and 5,000 flu deaths from Oct. 1, 2021, through June 11.
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Hurricane Ian Barrels Towards Florida Influential Climate Group's China Connection And More Top Headlines
Hurricane Ian Barrels Towards Florida, Influential Climate Group's China Connection And More Top Headlines https://digitalarkansasnews.com/hurricane-ian-barrels-towards-florida-influential-climate-groups-china-connection-and-more-top-headlines/
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FBI's Matt Gaetz Operation Silenced An Effective GOP Voice
FBI's Matt Gaetz Operation Silenced An Effective GOP Voice https://digitalarkansasnews.com/fbis-matt-gaetz-operation-silenced-an-effective-gop-voice/
Prior to March 2021, Rep. Matt Gaetz was known for prominently pushing against Beltway groupthink.
The colorful Florida congressman had been one of the few Republicans to help win the public relations battle against the Russia collusion hoax, the conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump had stolen the 2016 election by colluding with Russia.
When Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., held secret hearings, selectively released information, and lied about coordination with the so-called whistleblower during the Ukraine impeachment hearings, Gaetz led a group of Republican congressmen in protest. The move, which enraged the corporate media and other partisans, helped unify Republicans in their eventual defeat of the impeachment stunt.
Following the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Gaetz defended concerns about election integrity, reminded Democrats of their support of nationwide riots the preceding summer, and criticized media and political overreaction to the rioters. He remains one of the very few Republicans to focus on the plight facing the men and women the Justice Department are targeting, just years after the department largely ignored the destructive nationwide riots that besieged the White House, federal courthouses, police precincts, and national monuments.
When Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., received praise from Beltway insiders for leading a small group of Republicans to join the Democrats’ second impeachment of President Trump, Gaetz immediately went to Wyoming to rally Republicans. The two had repeatedly sparred over Cheney’s support for lengthy and poorly managed foreign wars that Gaetz said did not serve American interests.
“We are in a battle for the soul of the Republican Party, and I intend to win it,” he said at a Jan. 28, 2021, rally in Cheyenne, long before she would be ousted from her leadership position in the House Republican conference. “You can help me break a corrupt system. You can send a representative who actually represents you, and you can send Liz Cheney home — back home to Washington, D.C.” Harriet Hageman delivered a humiliating primary defeat of Cheney less than two years later.
Gaetz was a frequent fixture on television, reportedly averaging 87 minutes a month on air during the 12 months prior to the end of March 2021. He was even considering leaving Congress to take a job as a cable news host.
Then on March 30, 2021, all that changed with the publication of an anonymously sourced report accusing him of possibly being a child sex trafficker.
A group of New York Times reporters who won awards for their roles pushing the Russia collusion lie penned an anonymously sourced article with a devastating headline: “Matt Gaetz Is Said to Face Justice Dept. Inquiry Over Sex With an Underage Girl.” The story was sourced to “three people briefed on the matter,” none of them identified in any way. The story contained no evidence against Gaetz of sex crimes, but much guilt-by-association. Late in the story, the pack of reporters admitted that no charges had been filed and that the “extent of his criminal exposure is unclear.”
Gaetz strenuously and immediately asserted his innocence and denied the accusations.
The Damage Was Done
On Friday, 18 months after he was accused of being a pedophile and child sex trafficker, the Washington Post published another anonymously sourced report. “Career prosecutors recommend no charges for Matt Gaetz,” said the article, published quietly on a Friday. Not only was he never convicted of any of the crimes he was alleged to have committed, he wasn’t even charged. And, if you believe the anonymously sourced claims, he isn’t going to be.
The damage was already done by the initial report, written by reporters who regularly regurgitate political leaks from Department of Justice and FBI sources.
“Matt Gaetz’s days in politics are likely numbered,” one CNN reporter claimed days after the initial report, noting how few people had come to his defense.
Of course, as even The Washington Post admitted, “Gaetz’s position is shaky. The allegations are of a sort that makes it very difficult for his colleagues to come to his defense. … [T]here’s an obvious political risk to vocally defending someone who might face sex-trafficking charges, so expect his political allies (including the former president) to remain fairly muted.”
That was the goal of the politicized leaks. Gaetz couldn’t very well critique the Department of Justice for their political prosecutions if he was a pariah who everyone thought was a pedophile.
On the year anniversary of the original Gaetz story, journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote that leaks “have the effect, and often the intent, of destroying someone’s reputation, convicting them of repellent crimes in the court of public opinion that will never be brought in a court of law, thus relieving the state of the requirement to prove the crime and depriving the accused the opportunity to exonerate themselves.”
That’s precisely what happened.
He was the target of multiple “Saturday Night Live” skits. “Gaetz is under investigation by the Justice Department for a number of crimes, including child sex trafficking and allegedly paying for sex,” The Washington Post said in a video report about the skits.
Politico reporters suggested the walls were closing in, writing, “Gaetz’s allies now fear that Greenberg is preparing to strike a deal with prosecutors to deliver Gaetz.” That was the tenor of coverage for months, even as Gaetz’s claims regarding being the target of criminal extortion were validated.
The Associated Press tried to tie Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the scandal.
“If Matt Gaetz is innocent of sex trafficking, why does he need an expensive criminal defense attorney from New York?” said one left-wing attorney who is popular with corporate media.
The Democrat-run Ethics Committee in the House typically waits to run investigations of members until after the Department of Justice finishes an investigation. In Gaetz’s case, the committee went out of its way to begin — and announce — an investigation into the embattled Florida member.
Cheney and other obsessed Never Trump activists (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) delighted in the anonymously sourced allegations against Gaetz. They didn’t publicly comment on Friday’s also anonymously sourced news.
Former Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff Marc Short even accused Gaetz of being a child trafficker just this past July after the congressman said Pence was a “nice guy” but that he would never be president.
“I don’t know if Mike Pence will run for president in 2024, but I don’t think Matt Gaetz will have an impact on that,” Short said. “In fact, I’d be surprised if he’s still voting. It’s more likely he’ll be in prison for child trafficking by 2024.”
War on Critics
The Department of Justice, the FBI, and the corporate media have a history of viciously attacking — usually through deceptive leaks and lies — anyone who threatens their power. Then-Rep. Devin Nunes was viciously attacked for his leading role in fighting the Russia collusion hoax. Selective leaks to propagandists at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other outlets were used to gin up ethics complaints, allege wrongdoing, slow down oversight, sideline effective pushback, and cover up massive malfeasance on the part of the agency.
The Department of Justice and the FBI are out of control. The propaganda press are operating as co-conspirators in the operations they run against the American people. Should Republicans be able to take control of one or both houses of Congress, their task of helping save the republic must begin with using their oversight and purse power to dramatically reign in bureaucratic tyranny.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is the Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist. She is Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College and a Fox News contributor. She is the co-author of Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court. She is the author of “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.” Reach her at mzhemingway@thefederalist.com
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Italy Shifts To The Right As Voters Reward Meloni https://digitalarkansasnews.com/italy-shifts-to-the-right-as-voters-reward-meloni/
By NICOLE WINFIELD, FRANCES D’EMILIO and GIADA ZAMPANO – Associated Press
ROME (AP) — A party with neo-fascist roots, the Brothers of Italy, won the most votes in Italy’s national elections, looking set to deliver the country’s first far-right-led government since World War II and make its leader, Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first woman premier, near-final results showed Monday.
Italy’s lurch to the far right immediately shifted Europe’s geopolitical reality, placing a euroskeptic party in position to lead a founding member of the European Union and its third-largest economy. Right-wing leaders across Europe immediately hailed Meloni’s victory and her party’s meteoric rise as sending a historic message to Brussels.
Near-final results showed the center-right coalition netting some 44% of the parliamentary vote, with Meloni’s Brothers of Italy snatching some 26%. Her coalition partners divided up the remainder, with the anti-immigrant League of Matteo Salvini winning nearly 9% and the more moderate Forza Italia of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi taking around 8%.
The center-left Democratic Party and its allies had around 26%, while the 5-Star Movement — which had been the biggest vote-getter in 2018 Parliamentary elections — saw its share of the vote halved to some 15% this time around.
Turnout was a historic low 64%. Pollsters suggested voters stayed home in part in protest and also because they were disenchanted by the backroom deals that had created the three governments since the previous election.
Meloni, whose party traces its origins to the postwar, neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, sounded a moderate, unifying tone in a victory speech early Monday that noted that Italians had finally been able to clearly determine who they wanted to govern.
“If we are called to govern this nation, we will do it for everyone, we will do it for all Italians and we will do it with the aim of uniting the people (of this country),” Meloni said. “Italy chose us. We will not betray (the country) as we never have.”
While the center-right was the clear winner, the formation of a government is still weeks away and will involve consultations among party leaders and with President Sergio Mattarella. In the meantime, outgoing Premier Mario Draghi remains in a caretaker role.
The elections, which took place some six months early after Draghi’s government collapsed, came at a crucial time for Europe as it faces Russia’s war in Ukraine and the related soaring energy costs that have hit ordinary Italian pocketbooks as well as industry.
A Meloni-led government is largely expected to follow Italy’s current foreign policy, including her pro-NATO stance and strong support for supplying Ukraine with weapons to defend against Russia’s invasion, even as her coalition allies stake a slightly different tone.
Both Berlusconi and Salvini have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. While both have distanced themselves from his invasion, Salvini has warned that sanctions against Moscow are hurting Italian industry, and even Berlusconi has excused Putin’s invasion as foisted on him by pro-Moscow separatists in the Donbas.
A bigger shift and one likely to cause friction with European powers is likely to come over migration. Meloni has called for a naval blockade to prevent migrant boats from leaving North African shores, and has proposed screening potential asylum-seekers in Africa, before they set out on smugglers’ boats to Europe.
Salvini has made clear he wants to return to the interior ministry, where he imposed a tough anti-migrant policy as minister. But it’s not clear he would get the post given he is currently on trial in Sicily for keeping migrants at sea. He may also face an internal leadership challenge after the League suffered an abysmal result of under 10% of the vote, with Meloni’s party outperforming the League in its northeastern stronghold.
On relations with the European Union, analysts note that for all her euroskeptic rhetoric, Meloni moderated her message during the campaign and has little room to maneuver given the economic windfall Italy is receiving from Brussels in coronavirus recovery funds. Italy secured some 191.5 billion euros, the biggest chunk of the EU’s 750 billion-euro recovery package, and is bound by certain reform and investment milestones it must hit to receive it all.
That said, Meloni has criticized the EU’s recent recommendation to suspend 7.5 billion euros in funding to Hungary over concerns about democratic backsliding, defending Viktor Orban as the elected leader in a democratic system.
Orban’s political director, Balazs Orban, was among the first to congratulate Meloni. “In these difficult times, we need more than ever friends who share a common vision and approach to Europe’s challenges,” he tweeted.
French politician Marine Le Pen’s party hailed the result as a “lesson in humility” for the EU.
Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s far-right Vox opposition party, tweeted that Meloni “has shown the way for a proud and free Europe of sovereign nations that can cooperate on behalf of everybody’s security and prosperity.”
Meloni is chair of the right-wing European Conservative and Reformist group in the European Parliament, which gathers her Brothers of Italy, Poland’s Law and Justice Party, Spain’s Vox and the Sweden Democrats, which just won big in elections on a platform of cracking down on crime and limiting immigration.
Thomas Christiansen, professor of political science at Rome’s Luiss University and the executive editor of the Journal of European Integration, noted that Italy has a tradition of pursuing a consistent foreign and European policy that is in some ways bigger than individual party interests.
“Whatever Meloni might be up to will have to be moderated by her coalition partners and indeed with the established consensus of Italian foreign policy,” Christiansen said in an interview.
The vice president of the European Parliament, Katharina Barley of the Social Democrats of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said Meloni’s victory was “worrying” given her affiliations with Orban and Donald Trump.
“Her electoral lip service to Europe cannot hide the fact that she represents a danger to constructive coexistence in Europe,” she was quoted as saying by German daily WELT.
Meloni proudly touts her roots as a militant in the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, or MSI, which was formed in the aftermath of WWII with the remnants of Mussolini’s fascist supporters. Meloni joined in 1992 as a 15-year-old.
During the campaign, Meloni was forced to respond after the Democrats used her party’s origins to paint Meloni as a danger to democracy.
“The Italian Right has handed fascism over to history for decades now, unambiguously condemning the suppression of democracy and the ignominious anti-Jewish laws,” she said in a multilingual campaign video.
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Pa. Counties Inundated With Records Requests By Election Deniers, Just As Officials Are Preparing For November Midterms https://digitalarkansasnews.com/pa-counties-inundated-with-records-requests-by-election-deniers-just-as-officials-are-preparing-for-november-midterms/
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AP News Summary At 5:47 A.m. EDT https://digitalarkansasnews.com/ap-news-summary-at-547-a-m-edt/
Ukrainians scared by Russia’s preordained referendums
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — After seven weary months of war, many Ukrainians fear more suffering and political repression awaits them. Kremlin-orchestrated referendums conducted under gun barrels portend Russia’s imminent annexation of four occupied regions. Many residents fled the regions before the referendums got underway, scared about being forced to vote or potentially being conscripted into the Russian army. The referendums, denounced by Kyiv and its Western allies as rigged, are taking place in the Russian-controlled Luhansk and Kherson regions, and in occupied areas of the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. Russian authorities are expected to announce the regions as theirs once the preordained vote ends Tuesday.
Italy shifts to the right as voters reward Meloni’s party
ROME (AP) — Near-final results show a party with neo-fascist roots, the Brothers of Italy, has swept Italy’s national elections. The victory looks set to deliver the first far-right-led government since World War II and make its leader, Giorgia Meloni, the first woman to become Italy’s premier. The country’s right-wing lurch immediately shifted Europe’s geopolitical reality, placing a euroskeptic party in position to lead a founding member of the European Union and its third-largest economy. Europe’s right-wing party leaders immediately hailed Meloni’s victory and her party’s meteoric rise as sending a historic message to Brussels. Near-final results showed Meloni’s center-right coalition netting some 44% of the parliamentary vote. Turnout was a historic low 64%.
From Yale to jail: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes’ path
PHOENIX (AP) — Oath Keepers militia group founder Stewart Rhodes was once a promising Yale Law School graduate. Rhodes was born in California and spent time in Nevada and once secured an Arizona Supreme Court clerkship. But Rhodes’ deep distrust of government and thirst for greatness led him down a different path. Rhodes built one of the country’s largest anti-government militia groups with members who’d eventually storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The 57-year-old Rhodes and four others tied to the group head to trial this week on charges of seditious conspiracy. It’s the most serious charge leveled by the Justice Department in its far-reaching prosecution of Capitol rioters.
Drone attack hits Ukraine; US vows ‘consequences’ over nukes
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An overnight drone strike near the Ukrainian port of Odesa has sparked a massive fire and explosion, hours after the United States vowed to take decisive action and promised “catastrophic consequences” if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The airstrike was the latest in a series of drone attacks on the key southern city in recent days. This one hit a military installation and detonated ammunition when it struck. Firefighters were struggling to contain the blaze, the Ukrainian military’s southern command said Monday.
Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis
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Ian strengthens into a hurricane, heads toward Cuba, Florida
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KHAIRPUR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s massive floods this summer have wiped out large swaths of crops. Now the country fears significant food shortages. One reason for concern is that the wheat planting season is fast approaching, but vast areas that would normally be planted with wheat are still underwater and may not drain in time. That could mean a smaller harvest down the line. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of small farming families have had their livelihoods and food stores wiped out. The cash-strapped government has been forced to turn to imports, but still hopes the upcoming wheat crop will come through.
13 dead, 21 wounded in school shooting in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman on Monday morning killed 13 people and wounded 21 others in a school in central Russia, authorities said. Russia’s Investigative Committee said in statement that seven children were among those killed in the shooting in the school in Izhevsk, a city about 960 kilometres (596 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region. The wounded were 14 children and 7 adults, the Committee said. Governor of Udmurtia Alexander Brechalov said in a video statement that the still-unidentified gunman shot himself. The school has been evacuated and the area around it has been fenced off, the official said. No details about the gunman’s motives have been released.
False claims, threats fuel poll worker sign-ups for midterms
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British pound plunges to new low as tax cuts spark concern
LONDON (AP) — The British pound has fallen to an all-time low against the U.S. dollar after the government pledged a sweeping package of tax cuts that have fueled concerns about its economic policy. The pound fell as low as $1.0373 Monday, before rallying to $1.0672 in early London trading. The British currency has lost more than 5% against the dollar since Friday, when Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng announced the biggest tax cuts in 50 years. It comes as the government plans to spend billions of pounds to help consumers and businesses struggling with high energy bills that are driving a cost-of-living crisis. The combination sparked investor concern about spiraling government debt.
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LR Solar Switch Led By Students https://digitalarkansasnews.com/lr-solar-switch-led-by-students/
An employee of NY State Solar, a residential and commercial photovoltaic systems company, installs an array of solar panels on a roof in this Aug. 11, 2022 file photo. (AP/John Minchillo)
The Little Rock School District is taking beginning steps to tap the power of the sun.
The School Board for the 22,000-student school system last week directed Superintendent Jermall Wright and his staff to solicit proposals from energy service companies to audit or evaluate the district’s energy consumption and propose how to meet at least some of those energy demands with solar power.
The board authorized the request for proposals at the urging of Central High School’s Young Leftist Club and others who first appealed to the board last November to consider alternative, sustainable energy sources.
The students made the appeal after district voters approved a financial plan to raise $300 million for building projects, including the new Marian G. Lacey Kindergarten through Eighth Grade School, a new traditional high school in northwest Little Rock, and a new classroom wing at Central High. Other projects include auditorium and field house upgrades and new roofs and windows at some campuses.
Wright, who has been the district’s chief executive since July 1, on Thursday thanked the students for their continued advocacy for renewable energy.
“We know you are not going to let us not move forward on the issue,” Wright told the students.
School Board member Ali Noland, who made the motion and an amended motion to authorize district staff to put out the request for proposals, said after the vote that getting to help the students reach their goal of moving the district to solar energy “has been the best thing I’ve done on the board.”
“The Central High students who are leading this effort deserve a great deal of praise and respect for their work,” Noland said.
“Other Arkansas school districts have already adopted solar energy because it just makes sense financially and is more environmentally responsible,” she continued. “I’m glad that the students and the community are pushing the district to move forward with this.”
The Batesville School District is a frequently mentioned Arkansas school system that has in the past few years used solar panels to provide electricity for school operations.
Kelsey Bailey, the Little Rock district’s chief deputy for business and operations, said the district has taken steps in recent years to conserve energy, including the installation of LED lighting, new school roofs and more efficient heating and air conditioning systems. But a solar energy contract reached with an energy service company will likely be a significant one, requiring a district commitment of 20 to 25 years, he said.
Bailey also said there are more than a dozen companies identified as qualified by the Arkansas Energy and Environment Department and those will be the companies to receive the request for proposals.
Noland amended the goal section of the proposal request. The initial goal called for the district’s selected alternative energy plan to offset as many kilowatt hours as possible. That was amended to add a goal of saving the district money.
The request for proposals was also changed to notify vendors that the district is open to energy saving ideas that could benefit the district in addition to solar power.
Several audience members addressed the board on the energy matter prior to the vote.
Scott Hamilton said he had been in the energy business for 32 years. He said the issue is complex and urged the board to “take your time” in making the decisions.
“Make sure there is a why, that you understand the why and you agree on the why,” Hamilton said.
Central student Tamara Tyler told the board that the world’s climate crisis is the most important issue of her generation. “Why are we waiting?” she asked about board action.
Another Central student Heather Jennings called for a move to solar panels. “Switching to solar has no downsides,” she said.
Those board members voting for the amended motion were Noland, Greg Adams, Sandrekkia Morning, Michael Mason, and Leigh Ann Wilson. Those opposed were Evelyn Callaway and Norma Johnson. Vicki Hatter, who attended the meeting by Zoom, did not vote on the final proposal.
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100 years ago
Sept. 26, 1922
HUNTSVILLE — Spurning patent bee hives and home-made contrivances for their comfort, bees belonging to Sam York at Smyrna have stuck their combs to a large shade tree in the yard of Mr. York. The combs are full of honey and hang down like huge hornet nests among the branches of the trees. Mr. York has refused to allow the combs to be removed from the tree.
50 years ago
Sept. 26, 1972
ARKADELPHIA — A four-year professional aviation program has been inaugurated this fall at Henderson State College here — the first such program at a college in Arkansas. Dr. Joe Wright, dean of the School of Natural Sciences, is administrator of the program… Wright said he got the idea of the aviation school from a similar program at Louisiana Tech… He said the school had contracted with Spa Flying Service of Hot Springs to provide the specialized aviation equipment and the planes necessary for the program.
25 years ago
Sept. 26, 1997
• Arkansas officially took control of Fort Chaffee on Thursday after signing a license giving possession of the 56-year-old federal installation to the Arkansas National Guard. … Outgoing Fort Chaffee Commander Army Lt. Col. David Pfleeger said Fort Chaffee served the nation and local community well as an installation that not only trained three armored divisions for World War II but also trained units that participated in recent military operations in Somalia, Haiti and the Persian Gulf… It was Sept. 8, 1941, that the Army announced it would acquire about 15,000 acres of land in rural Sebastian County southeast of Fort Smith for an Army training base. It was named Camp Chaffee. … Fort Chaffee made national headlines when Cuban refugees being held there for processing rioted in June 1980.
10 years ago
Sept. 26, 2012
EUREKA SPRINGS — The Great Passion Play, the long-running outdoor drama in Eureka Springs, will close after its season ends in late October unless the nonprofit receives financial help, its executive director said Tuesday… Since opening 45 years ago, the play has been seen by more than 7.5 million people, Executive Director Sam Ray said, but in recent years the Passion Play has been hit by declining ticket sales… The play, a re-creation of the last week of Jesus’ life, features more than 150 actors and animals in an outdoor amphitheater. It was started by Gerald L.K. Smith and his wife, Elna, after they built the 67-foot-tall Christ of the Ozarks statue atop Magnetic Mountain… Joe David Rice, director of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, said the Passion Play played a big role in transforming Eureka Springs.
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Russia School Shooting: At Least 6 Dead Dozens More Injured After Gunman Opens Fire
Russia School Shooting: At Least 6 Dead, Dozens More Injured After Gunman Opens Fire https://digitalarkansasnews.com/russia-school-shooting-at-least-6-dead-dozens-more-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire/
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At least six people are dead and 20 others are injured after a gunman opened fire at a school in central Russia on Monday morning.
It happened at a school in Izhevsk, the Udmurtia region’s capital. The shooter reportedly killed a guard and multiple children, according to the governor of the Udmurtia region, Alexander Brechalov.
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“There are victims among the children, there are wounded too,” Brechalov said.
FILE- The flag of Russia pinned on the map. (iStock)
The gunman reportedly shot himself.
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Brechalov said the school has been evacuated and the area around it has been closed off.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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European Markets Choppy; Sterling Slumps Against The Dollar
European Markets Choppy; Sterling Slumps Against The Dollar https://digitalarkansasnews.com/european-markets-choppy-sterling-slumps-against-the-dollar/
European stocks were choppy on Monday as investors continued to weigh the deteriorating economic outlook in the region.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 was down 0.2% by mid-morning, having recouped opening losses of roughly 0.6% before pulling back again. Utilities dropped 1.7% while tech stocks added 1.7%.
Concern for the global growth outlook has been increasing as inflation remains high and central banks resort to aggressive interest rate hikes to try to tame rising prices.
Shares in Asia-Pacific fell sharply on Monday as negative sentiment continues to weigh in on markets.
The British pound plunged to a record low on Monday, following last week’s announcement by the new U.K. government that it would implement tax cuts and investment incentives to boost growth. Britain’s internationally-focused FTSE 100 climbed in early trade on Monday amid the currency’s decline.
Investors in Europe are also watching Italy following a snap election on Sunday. The country is on course to elect its first female prime minister and the first government led by the far-right since the end of World War II.
Brent crude slides below $85 a barrel as dollar surges
Brent crude fell below $85 a barrel Monday, as recession fears mount and the U.S. dollar surged.
Brent futures for November settlement were trading down over 1% around $84.92 at 8 a.m. London time. West Texas Intermediate futures also fell to trade around $77.93.
Central banks around the world — including the U.S. and the U.K. — continue to hike interest rates in an effort to tackle inflation.
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Stocks on the move: Belimo up 7%, K+S down 8%
Shares of Swiss heating and ventilation manufacturer Belimo Holding climbed more than 7% in early trade after Berenberg upgraded the stock to “buy” and increased its price target, citing rising demand for home renovation.
At the bottom of the Stoxx 600, German chemical company K+S fell 8%.
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Giorgia Meloni and her far-right Brothers of Italy party top vote in Italian elections, exit poll shows
Giorgia Meloni seen speaking during the campaign. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the right nationalist and conservative party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli dItalia, FDI) held the conclusive electoral rally at Arenile, in the left-oriented district of Bagnoli, Naples.
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Italians are on course to elect the country’s first female prime minister and the first government led by the far-right since the end of World War II.
Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) party are set to gain 26.4% of the vote, according to an exit poll early Monday morning. The party is in a broad right-wing coalition with Lega, under Matteo Salvini, Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and a more minor coalition partner, Noi Moderati.
This alliance is set to win 44.43% of the vote, according to exit polls, enough to gain a parliamentary majority with the center-left bloc on 26.57%. Early projections from the actual election results are due Monday morning.
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Sterling hits record low against the dollar, as Asia-Pacific currencies also weaken
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Morningstar has revealed its pick of global stocks with the highest dividend yields, saying they stand out in an environment where many companies may not be able to maintain their dividends due to “economic strain.”
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Stocks prepare to test their lows in the final week of trading for September
Heading into the final week of trading for September, the Dow and S&P 500 are each down about 6% for the month, while the Nasdaq has lost 8%.
Both the Dow and S&P are now sitting 1.2% and 1.6%, respectively, above their lows from mid-June. The Nasdaq is 2.9% above its low.
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European markets: Here are the opening calls
European stocks are expected to open in negative territory on Wednesday as investors react to the latest U.S. inflation data.
The U.K.’s FTSE index is expected to open 47 points lower at 7,341, Germany’s DAX 86 points lower at 13,106, France’s CAC 40 down 28 points and Italy’s FTSE MIB 132 points lower at 22,010, according to data from IG.
Global markets have pulled back following a higher-than-expected U.S. consumer price index report for August which showed prices rose by 0.1% for the month and 8.3% annually in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday, defying economist expectations that headline inflation would fall 0.1% month-on-month.
Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, climbed 0.6% from July and 6.3% from August 2021.
U.K. inflation figures for August are due and euro zone industrial production for July will be published.
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Chapter 3: Disconnected Democrats In Pittsburgh | Crooked Media
Chapter 3: Disconnected Democrats In Pittsburgh | Crooked Media https://digitalarkansasnews.com/chapter-3-disconnected-democrats-in-pittsburgh-crooked-media/
How can Democrats reach disconnected voters? We talk to Biden voters in Pittsburgh who are fed up with national politics. Jon breaks down their responses with Pennsylvania Representative Malcolm Kenyatta, data expert Dan Wagner, and John Fetterman senior campaign strategist Rebecca Katz.
If you want to learn more about how you can take action in the fight for our democracy, head over to Vote Save America and Pennsylvania United: https://votesaveamerica.com/midterm-madness/
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[various voices]: Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump!
[news clip]: Photos put Senator Doug Mastriano in DC on January 6th—
[news clip]: In fact, he organized a bus trip to go down there—
[news clip]: He’s been asked to hand over documents and information about efforts to—
[news clip]: Undo the certification of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, which he called “compromised and corrupt.”
[clip of Doug Mastriano]: I pray that… we’ll seize the power that we had given to us by the Constitution, and as well by You, providentially. I pray for the leaders also in the Federal Government, God, on the Sixth of January that they will rise up with boldness…
Jon Favreau: Meet Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, the birthplace of American democracy. Mastriano is a State Senator who tried to help Donald Trump overturn the results of the last election, and he was at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. As governor, he’d have a lot of power over Pennsylvania’s elections, including what happens to the swing state’s 20 electoral votes, electoral votes that could easily determine the next president.
[clip of Doug Mastriano]: I’m Doug Mastriano, and I get to appoint the secretary of state, who’s delegated from me the power to make the corrections to elections, the voting logs, and everything. We’re going to clean it up…I might even have to reset voter registration and start all over again across the state. With the stroke of a pen, I can decertify every single machine in the state.
Jon Favreau: Doesn’t seem great. Also, Mastriano has ties to extremist Christian nationalist groups, opposes same-sex marriage and says he’d sign a law to ban abortion with no exceptions.
[clip of Doug Mastriano]: My body, my choice is ridiculous nonsense here.
Jon Favreau: But wait, there’s more! In 2014, Mastriano posed for a faculty photo at the Army War College, where he taught for a few years. For some weird reason, everyone in the picture was given the choice to dress up as a historical figure. Guess who was the only faculty member to choose confederate soldier? That’s right, Doug Mastriano – the State Senator who represents, Gettysburg! So yeah, that’s the guy running for governor of Pennsylvania. And even though the polls currently show him down by a few points, he could absolutely win. In 2020, Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by a little more than 80,000 votes– even though he turned out more Democratic voters than any presidential candidate in history. That’s because Trump’s MAGA base broke turnout records, too. Not sure if you’ve noticed, but they still seem pretty fired up.
[clip of President Trump]: Hello Pennsylvania, hello. [cheering] I’m thrilled to be back in this incredible Commonwealth with thousands of proud and hardworking…
Jon Favreau: So, once again, Pennsylvania will be one of the country’s biggest battlegrounds in this election. The campaign between Mastriano and Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro is one of the most consequential races in the country. Meanwhile, control of the Senate could come down to the contest between Republican nominee Mehmet Oz, a quack TV doctor from New Jersey, and Democratic nominee John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s 6’8” Lieutenant Governor, a hoodie-wearing, goatee-sporting progressive who was described in the Atlantic as “hacked together from spare parts in an oil-streaked Pittsburgh chopper garage.” So far, it seems to be working for him.
[news clip]: He has been leading in the most recent polls – and some of them by quite a bit.
Jon Favreau: The stakes in Pennsylvania – and for democracy – are huge. The question is, do enough people know that? Are enough people paying attention? Can John Fetterman, Josh Shapiro, and other Democratic candidates motivate enough of the voters who came out to defeat Trump in 2020 – especially when a lot of those voters are feeling disconnected from politics and disappointed with the direction of the country?
Alex Wallach Hanson: Our organization started because we are working-class people, and we come out of real life. And we saw that nobody in Western Pennsylvania from the Democratic party to Republican party to whatever political party you’re coming from, right, was actually talking to people in a day-to-day way about what their life was like.
Jon Favreau: That’s Alex Wallach Hanson – the field director for Pennsylvania United a group of nonprofit organizations who helped flip Pennsylvania to Biden in 2020.
Alex Wallach Hanson: Elections are a choice on one Tuesday in November where you gotta wake up and you go pick between two people, right? And or you pick to not vote. The vast majority of people in our community are not waking up with a preformed and prefigured analysis of politics and connecting it to their lives and how they see the world, because they’re not in organizations, they’re not connected to the political establishment. They’re not connected to any way where they touch power and see it show up in their lives. So when political establishment people, the media, when they tell this story of, oh, voters in Pennsylvania have been persuaded by the Republican party message or have been persuaded by, you know, the politics of fear and hate and division, that may be true for some people. But the vast majority of people who are voting are just showing up and picking between two people on that given day. And there’s so much complexity that goes into that.
Jon Favreau: I went to Pittsburgh earlier this summer to speak to some of the voters that Wallach was talking about. They’re people who aren’t that connected to politics and aren’t following the news that closely, but people who still usually show up on Election Day to pick between two candidates. They’re the kind of people that political scientist Yanna Krupnikov was telling us about in the first episode.
Yanna Krupnikov: In order to understand the divide between the parties, Democrats and Republicans, we have to understand this divide between those who pay a tremendous amount of attention, really focus on politics. And those who pay much less of attention politically.
Jon Favreau: In this focus group, I spoke with 9 disengaged Democrats. All were from the Pittsburgh area, none were daily news consumers, and while all of them are leaning towards voting in the midterms, only 3 said they’ll definitely cast a ballot. All of them voted for Biden in 2020, but two of them voted for Trump in 2016. For context, I talked to these voters a few days before the start of the January 6th hearings. We spoke about the hearings, democracy, abortion, the economy, inflation, guns, and of course, politics – including Pennsylvania’s big midterm races. A few weeks later, I sat down with a group of experts in Pennsylvania politics to help break down what the voters said.
Malcolm Kenyatta: So I’m Malcolm Kenyata. I’m a state representative here in Pennsylvania. And just not too long ago, I finished my bid for the US Senate and the Democratic primary, where I was the first openly LGBTQ person of color to run for us Senate in American history.
Rebecca Katz: My name is Rebecca Katz, I am the founder of new deal strategies and, uh, chief advisor to Senate candidate John Fetterman.
Dan Wagner: Nice to meet you all. My name’s Dan Wagner. I’m the chief executive officer of civics analytics. Uh, we’re a multi-purpose data science technology and analytics firm. And we do a lot of work supporting political campaigns, advocacy groups, et cetera, with their analytics challenges. Before this, I was the chief analytics officer for the 2012 Obama campaign, and that’s it.
Jon Favreau: After the break, we hear from Malcolm, Rebecca, Dan, and nine Pennsylvania voters.
Malcolm Kenyatta: Rebecca, I can’t believe this is the first-time meeting with all these guys! We didn’t even have our own coffee moment. Doing it with the Pod Save— [laughter]
Jon Favreau: Brought the whole crew together.
Rebecca Katz: [laughs] I don’t think I’ve seen you in like 15 years, maybe more.
Jon Favreau: I went to Pittsburgh to talk with voters who Democrats absolutely need if we want to win in November – people who cast their ballot for Joe Biden in 2020 but aren’t totally sure what they’ll do in the 2022 midterms. As you’ll hear, they feel pretty down about politics and the state of the country, and they’re not following the news as closely as you probably are. Afterwards, I got together with Dan, Malcolm, and Rebecca to talk about what we heard. Thank you all for doing this – Dan, I will go out on a limb and say that most Wilderness listeners are very politically engaged voters who follow political news quite closely. How do you think they compare with the broader electorate?
Dan Wagner: They look nothing like them. I mean, part of our job unfortunately, is to be analytical. And part of it is to stereotype. The average Pod Save America listener is probably late thirties, probably 80% are likely white, probably 50, 50 males, female. It’s probably concentrated 50% plus in urban areas, is probably entirely college educated, fill in the gaps. They probably share a similar cultural standard, a same standard of living standard, same feelings of anxiety about recent policy, et cetera. And, the average non-Pod save America person probably has...
Trump’s ‘Special Master’ Delay Is Already Backfiring https://digitalarkansasnews.com/trumps-special-master-delay-is-already-backfiring/
Former President Donald Trump has learned time and again that the best way to kill legal action is to first delay it. And while Trump’s “special master” gambit initially showed promise in that regard, the tactic may have actually backfired and put him on a fast-track collision course with the federal government he once led.
Two separate court decisions last week have empowered the FBI to move swiftly in its investigation against Trump for mishandling classified information.
“Who knows what’s still at Mar-a-Lago? Who knows where the rest of it is? It’s obvious that Trump can’t be trusted—and neither can his lawyers. But at least the bluff has been called on using the courts to delay this,” said Carl W. Tobias, a University of Richmond law school professor.
Trump’s preemptive strike last month—a lawsuit against the feds—tried to block the FBI from reviewing the documents seized at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago mansion. That legal fight has now been split in two. On one end, a court-appointed “special master” in Brooklyn is combing through some of the seized materials to figure out if any of them can be held back from the feds due to the former president’s “executive privilege.” On the other end, a Trump-friendly federal judge in South Florida has gone out of her way to stop the FBI from even touching the classified files, a decision that just reached a highly conservative appellate court.
But neither one is going well for Trump.
His insistence on slowing down the investigation by forcefully inserting an independent referee has blown up in his face. Raymond Dearie, the semi-retired Brooklyn federal judge specifically brought in to second-guess the Justice Department, has actually used his special master role to speed up the review.
On Friday, Dearie set an Oct. 28 deadline to know what documents Trump actually wants to hold back from the DOJ on the head-scratching theory that a former president can cite “executive privilege” that somehow supersedes the current executive branch.
In doing so, Dearie is moving significantly faster than the instructions he received to wrap things up by the end of November from the Trump appointee down south who played along with the intended delay tactic, U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon.
Dearie is even bringing in reinforcements. In an order Thursday, Dearie said he’s tapping retired magistrate judge James Orenstein to help sort through the gargantuan mountain of 11,000 documents—and without hesitation ordered Trump to pay him $500 an hour to do it.
Tobias called Dearie’s decision to recruit Orenstein “a master stroke.”
“That will expedite matters exponentially, and that’s all good. The whole point of this litigation is to delay,” Tobias said. “[Dearie] has a reputation as a no-nonsense, very professional, very experienced jurist… he has cut through the bullshit offered up by Trump’s lawyers and gotten to the point,” Tobias said.
The sped-up timeline means the DOJ will know sooner which non-classified documents it can access—and use as evidence that Trump kept and altered government records that don’t belong to him.
For example, previous court filings disclosed that investigators recovered documents showing that “certain pages of presidential records had been torn up,” a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 2071 that bars anyone from ever again holding a political office in the United States. Those same documents could also support the other federal charge they’re considering against the former president, 18 U.S. Code § 1519, because the feds “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the [Mar-a-Lago] storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.” That second criminal charge carries the threat of a 20-year prison sentence.
“Judge Cannon tried to throw a lifeline of delay, and it didn’t work… [Dearie] is the kind of judge who’s been around a long time. He’s not going to tolerate wasted time. And he’s not going to be played,” said George Washington University law school professor Stephen A. Saltzburg, who has twice served as a special master himself.
Dearie is wasting no time and already set up a follow-up court hearing on Oct. 6 to ensure the review is moving along. The compressed timeline puts Trump in the position where any legal games—and obvious delay tactics—happen just as the dozens of Republicans he’s endorsed enter their final weeks of political campaigning before the general election.
Meanwhile, the more menacing aspect of the FBI’s investigation is now free to proceed at full speed. Special agents can now once again access the classified files they seized, the evidence at the very heart of the most serious criminal charge Trump faces: violating the Espionage Act by keeping “Top Secret” documents lying around at his busy club and putting the security of the nation at risk. That law, U.S. Code § 2071, comes with the threat of prison time and could also bar him from ever running for president again.
Last week, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals took a close look at Cannon’s decision to halt the FBI and sided with the DOJ—despite the fact that two of the three judges on the panel were appointed by Trump himself.
The court even called out Trump for publicly claiming it was fine for him to have classified records because he’d already declassified them—maybe even in his head, as he mused to Fox News. The appellate panel noted that Trump’s lawyers have yet to make that argument before Dearie (perhaps, as some have pointed out, because lying to a judge would cost them their license to practice law).
“[Trump] suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was president. But the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. And before the special master, [Trump] resisted providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents,” the panel wrote.
And they added this scathing line, toppling future arguments that Trump had any excuse.
“In any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal. So even if we assumed that [Trump] did declassify some or all of the documents, that would not explain why he has a personal interest in them,” they wrote.
Saltzburg said Trump’s legal team, still high from the victory in front of Cannon, “completely miscalculated with the 11th Circuit.”
Legal scholars told The Daily Beast that last week’s court decisions had the effect of tightening the noose around Trump’s neck.
“It looks a lot different than it did last week thanks to Judge Dearie and thanks to the two Trump appointees on the 11th Circuit who cut through the garbage. I think they have some measure of self-respect. And they understand what’s going on here. Maybe they actually care about national defense and national security. What a concept,” Tobias said.
“These decisions will make it go much faster,” said Noah Bookbinder, president of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which has spent considerable time and effort seeking to hold Trump accountable for years.
However, Bookbinder warned that the DOJ isn’t likely to actually give the American public what so many people crave.
“I cannot imagine that, even if they were ready, that the Justice Department would bring charges in this case before the election,” he said, citing the agency’s vague, 60-day principle to not intentionally interfere in elections. “There’s not a reason under the Justice Department’s policy—Donald Trump’s not a candidate for anything in November 2022—but construing the policy broadly, an indictment could affect the election. And I can’t imagine they would go there.”
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Cheney won't Be A Republican If Trump Becomes Presidential Nominee
Cheney “won't Be A Republican” If Trump Becomes Presidential Nominee https://digitalarkansasnews.com/cheney-wont-be-a-republican-if-trump-becomes-presidential-nominee/
US Representative Liz Cheney claims she will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn’t anywhere close to the Oval Office.
Representative for Wyoming Liz Cheney (Zumapress)
US Representative Liz Cheney stressed that she will do “whatever it takes” to prevent former US President Donald Trump from securing the Republican Party (GOP) nomination for the presidency in 2024.
Cheney, a rare Republican critic of Trump, pointed out said during the Texas Tribune Festival that she will exit the GOP if the former President wins the nomination process.
“I certainly will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn’t anywhere close to the Oval Office,” Cheney told Texas Tribune CEO, Evan Smith.
The Representative for Wyoming underlined that she is “going to make sure Donald Trump, make sure he’s not the nominee,” claiming that “if he is the nominee, I won’t be a Republican.”
During the festival, Cheney, the vice chair of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack select committee, considered that “One of the things that has surprised me the most about my work on this committee is how sophisticated the plan was that Donald Trump was involved in and oversaw every step of the way.”
“It was a multipart plan that he oversaw, he was involved in personally and directly,” she added. “Just set the politics aside for a minute and think to yourself, ‘What kind of human being does that?’”
Cheney said that Americans should not doubt her ability to fight former US President Donald Trump even after leaving office.
It is noteworthy that Cheney voted with Trump 93% of the time while in office, according to Newsweek.
“Knowing what I know now, I would not have voted for Donald Trump,” the US Representative claimed during the interview.
But Cheney did not confirm whether she will run for president in 2024, saying that “It’s really important not to just immediately jump to the horse race and to think about what we need as a country.”
Cheney defeated by Trump-backed Harriet Hageman
During the US primary election in August, Wyoming voters ousted Cheney for former Republican National Committee member and Trump-backed attorney Harriet Hageman.
Cheney was one of only two members of the Republican Party to join the Jan. 6 select committee.
All 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after his supporters attacked the US Capitol building in January last year were singled out in what many deemed a vengeance campaign.
An end to Cheney’s whirlwind six-year
Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, was defeated decisively, capping off a whirlwind six-year congressional career.
She was elected in 2016 and took over as chair of the House Republican Conference two years later.
However, in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Cheney voted to impeach Trump and began publicly condemning him, prompting her removal as conference chair.
She was appointed to the Jan. 6 investigative panel by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, becoming vice chair and the face of its public hearings in June and July.
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False Claims Threats Fuel Poll Worker Sign-Ups For Midterms
False Claims, Threats Fuel Poll Worker Sign-Ups For Midterms https://digitalarkansasnews.com/false-claims-threats-fuel-poll-worker-sign-ups-for-midterms/
Amanda Rouser poses for a photo in front of a recruiting desk for new poll workers at Atlanta City Hall on Sept. 14, 2022, in Atlanta. Rouser was motivated to serve as a poll worker for the first time during the upcoming midterm election by false allegations of fraud against a Georgia poll worker after the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Sudhin Thanawala)
ATLANTA (AP) — Outraged by false allegations of fraud against a Georgia elections employee in 2020, Amanda Rouser made a vow as she listened to the woman testify before Congress in June about the racist threats and harassment she faced.
“I said that day to myself, ‘I’m going to go work in the polls, and I’m going to see what they’re going to do to me,’” Rouser, who like the targeted employee is Black, recalled after stopping by a recruiting station for poll workers at Atlanta City Hall on a recent afternoon. “Try me, because I’m not scared of people.”
About 40 miles north a day later, claims of fraud also brought Carolyn Barnes to a recruiting event for prospective poll workers, but with a different motivation.
“I believe that we had a fraudulent election in 2020 because of the mail-in ballots, the advanced voting,” Barnes, 52, said after applying to work the polls for the first time in Forsyth County. “I truly believe that the more we flood the system with honest people who are trying to help out, it will straighten it out.”
Barnes, who declined to give her party affiliation, said she wants to use her position as a poll worker to share her observations about “the gaps” in election security and “where stuff could happen afterwards.”
Nearly two years after the last presidential election, there has been no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines. Numerous reviews in the battleground states where former President Donald Trump disputed his loss to President Joe Biden have affirmed the results, courts have rejected dozens of lawsuits filed by Trump and his allies, and even Trump’s own Department of Justice concluded the results were accurate.
Nevertheless, the false claims about the the 2020 presidential contest by the former president and his supporters are spurring new interest in working the polls in Georgia and elsewhere for the upcoming midterm elections, according to interviews with election officials, experts and prospective poll workers.
Like Rouser, some aim to shore up a critical part of their state’s election system amid the lies and misinformation about voting and ballot-counting. But the false claims and conspiracy theories also have taken hold among a wide swath of conservative voters, propelling some to sign up to help administer elections for the first time.
The possibility they will play a crucial role at polling places is a new worry this election cycle, said Sean Morales-Doyle, an election security expert at The Brennan Center for Justice.
“I think it’s a problem that there may be people who are running our elections that buy into those conspiracy theories and so are approaching their role as fighting back against rampant fraud,” he said.
But he also cautioned that there are numerous safeguards to prevent a single poll worker from disrupting voting or trying to manipulate the results.
The Associated Press talked to roughly two dozen prospective poll workers in September during three recruiting events in two Georgia counties — Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta and where more than 70 percent of voters cast a ballot for Biden, and Forsyth County north of Atlanta, where support for Trump topped 65 percent.
About half said the 2020 election was a factor in their decision to try to become a poll worker.
“We don’t want Donald Trump bullying people,” said Priscilla Ficklin, a Democrat, while taking an application at Atlanta City Hall to be a Fulton County poll worker. “I’m going to stand up for the people who are afraid.”
Carlette Dryden said she showed up to vote in Forsyth County in 2020 only to be told that she had already cast a mail-in ballot. She said elections officials let her cast a ballot later, but she suspects someone fraudulently voted in her name and believes her experience reflects broader problems with the vote across the country.
Still, she said her role was not to police voters or root out fraud.
“What I’m signing up to do is to help others that are coming through here that may need assistance or questions answered,” she said.
Georgia was a focus of Trump’s attempts to undo his 2020 election defeat to Biden. He pressured the state’s Republican secretary of state in a January 2021 phone call to “find” enough votes to overturn Biden’s victory in the state and seized on surveillance footage to accuse the Black elections worker, Wandrea Moss, and her mother, Ruby Freeman, of pulling out suitcases of fraudulent votes in Fulton County. The allegation was quickly knocked down, but still spread widely through conservative media.
Moss told the House Jan. 6 committee that she received death threats and racist messages.
At a farmer’s market in the politically mixed suburb of Alpharetta north of Atlanta, Deborah Eves said she was concerned about being harassed for working at a voting site but still felt compelled to sign up.
A substitute teacher and Democrat, Eves visited a recruiting booth set up by Fulton County officials next to stands selling single origin coffee, honey and empanadas.
“I feel like our government is ‘we the people, and ’we the people’ need to step up and do things like poll working so that we can show that nobody’s cheating, nobody’s trying to do the wrong thing here,” she said.
Allison Saunders, who worked at a voting site for the first time during the state’s May primary, said she believes Moss and Freeman were targeted because they are Black. Saunders, a Democrat, was visiting the farmer’s market with her son.
“More people that look like me need to step up and do our part,” said Saunders, who is white. “I think it’s more important to do your civic duty than to be afraid.”
Threats after the 2020 election contributed to an exodus of full-time elections officials around the country. Recruiters say they have not seen a similar drop in people who have previously done poll work — temporary jobs open to local residents during election season. But some larger counties around the country have reported that they are struggling to fill those positions.
Working the polls has long been viewed as an apolitical civic duty. For first-time workers, it generally involves setting up voting machines, greeting voters, checking that they are registered and answering questions about the voting process.
Elections staff in the U.S. generally do not vet the political views of prospective poll workers deeply, although most states have requirements that seek to have a mix of Democratic and Republican poll workers at each voting location.
Forsyth County’s elections director, Mandi Smith, said she was not worried about having people who believe the last presidential election was fraudulent serve as poll workers. The county provides training that emphasizes the positions are nonpartisan and that workers must follow certain rules.
“It’s a very team-driven process, as well, in the sense that there are multiple poll workers there and you are generally not working alone,” she said.
Ginger Aldrich, who attended the county’s recruiting event, said she knows people who believe the last election was stolen from Trump. Their views made her curious about what she described as the “mysterious” aspects of the voting process, such as where ballots go after they leave the voting site.
“There’s going to be some people that are unscrupulous, and they are going to spend all this time figuring out how to beat the system,” said Aldrich, who is retired.
While she believes there is fraud in elections, she said she was willing to use her experience as a poll worker to try to convince people that there were no problems in her county with the midterm elections.
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Recent release “Gushvin” from Page Publishing author Rustin Starkey introduces Arthur Davis and his old hunting buddy, Henry. The cold and snowy Altai Mountains of Mongolia prove troubling as they chase the infamous and deadly cat Arthur has named Gushvin.
HARRISON, Neb., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Rustin Starkey, who was born in 1998 and has been writing since his junior year of high school, has completed his new book “Gushvin”: a compelling novel about two good friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime hunt. With a dangerous and truly lethal cat on the loose, Arthur and Henry must overcome countless obstacles, such as other hunters encroaching on their territory, cold, snowy weather, and their own personal demons.
Author Rustin Starkey takes readers into the world of his story, writing, “It was cold. Arthur Davis sat in front of the fire and gazed off at the setting sun, something he hadn’t seen for a couple of months. Even after being in Mongolia for a little over a year now, he was still in awe of the rugged mountains. They were nothing like anything he had ever seen. He had been to the mountains of Alaska to kill a polar bear in 1870, to the Andes mountains in 1872 to hunt cougars, and still, he couldn’t get over the beauty of the Altai mountains. He sat warming by the fire, reminiscing of time not so long ago at his Kentucky home, smoking his pipe, writing in his journal of his hunting trips and old war stories from the Civil War ten years prior to his current predicament. Although he was mesmerized by the beauty of the mountains and ever so rare sunset that he could only see through a valley in the mountains on this evening, he was haunted by the harshness of the wilderness here. It was always so cold, and the air thin in such high altitudes.”
Published by Page Publishing, Rustin Starkey’s mesmerizing tale follows the duo as they persevere until they bag their game.
Readers who wish to experience this enthralling work can purchase “Gushvin” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
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Kayleigh Mcenany Net Worth Age Wiki Family Biography And Latest Updates Kemi Filani News
Kayleigh Mcenany Net Worth, Age, Wiki, Family, Biography And Latest Updates – Kemi Filani News https://digitalarkansasnews.com/kayleigh-mcenany-net-worth-age-wiki-family-biography-and-latest-updates-kemi-filani-news/
Kayleigh Mcenany net worth, age, wiki, family, biography and latest updates.
Kayleigh McEnany is a conservative political commentator and author from the United States.
Kayleigh McEnany: Profile summary
Name
Kayleigh McEnany
Net Worth
$2 Million
Date of Birth
18 April 1988
Age
34 Years Old
Birth Place
Tampa, Florida, United States
Currently Live In
Tampa, Florida, United States
Profession
Political Commentator and Author
Nationality
American
Religion
Christian
Ethnicity
White American Descent
Hometown
Tampa, Florida, United States
Zodiac Sign
Aries
School/High School
Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa
College/University
Georgetown University of Foreign Service in Washington D.C.
Education Qualification
Graduate
Kayleigh McEnany: Wiki/Biography
Born on 18 April 1988, Kayleigh McEnany’s age is 34 Years Old as of 2022. She was raised in Tampa, Florida, United States. She holds an American nationality and has a belief in the Christian religion. She completed her early schooling at the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa.
After that, she enrolled herself at Georgetown University of Foreign Service in Washington D.C. where she completed her graduation and majored in international politics. She studied politics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She also attended the University of Miami School for one year and shifted to Harvard University where she acquired a JD degree in honours in 2016. Since her childhood, she had a great interest in journalism and wanted to establish her career in the same field. Her zodiac sign is Aries.
Kayleigh McEnany: Family, Husband & Relationships
Kayleigh McEnany’s parents are Michael and Leanne McEnany. Kayleigh McEnany’s father’s name is Michael McEnany, who founded his construction company, named “McEnany Roofing”. Kayleigh McEnany’s mother’s name is Leanne McEnany, she is a housewife.
She also has two siblings. Her brother’s name is Michael McEnany, who is a doctor and her younger sister’s name is Ryann Jessica McEnany.
Kayleigh McEnany’s marital status is married. She was married to Sean Gilmartin, who is a Baseball player by profession. They tied a knot in November 2017. Since then they have been enjoying their married life with each other. She has one daughter named Blake Avery Gilmartin.
Father Name
Michael McEnany
Mother Name
Leanne McEnany
Brother Name
Michael McEnany
Sister Name
Ryann Jessica McEnany
Boyfriend
Sean Gilmartin
Marital Status
Married
Husband Name
Sean Gilmartin
Children
Blake Avery Gilmartin (Daughter)
Kayleigh McEnany: Physical Appearance
Kayleigh McEnany is a beautiful hot and gorgeous woman with an attractive and charming personality. She owns a beautiful hot and curvaceous figure with attractive body measurements and a beautifully shaped slim body type. Her figure measurements are approximately 35-29-38 inches.
She is about 5 feet, and 7 inches in height and her body weight is around 60 Kg. She has long and shiny blonde colour hair and blistering blue colour beautiful and mesmerizing eyes.
Kayleigh McEnany: Career
Political Internship
Kayleigh McEnany first got involved in politics in 2004 as a high school sophomore when she volunteered with the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign. This experience helped launch her career in politics and eventual transition into television. During her initial college days, the 18-year-old Kayleigh McEnany interned for Tom Gallagher, who ran against Charlie Christ in the primary for Governor of Florida in 2006. Later, she interned in the White House Office of Communications, where her job was to write media briefings.
Political Commentator
While staying at the University of Miami School of Law, Ms. McEnany joined CNN, where she appeared as a co-host on CNN’s “The Point,” a primetime political panel-based show, She also made television appearances on shows such as America Live w/ Megyn Kelly, Cavuto, Fox News’ Red Eye, The Mike Huckabee Show, The Real Story w/ Gretchen Carlson, and Varney & Co. She supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Earlier, in 2015, she was highly critical of Trump, and she criticized him on CNN and Fox Business, where she said,
Donald Trump has shown himself to be a showman” and it was “unfortunate” and “inauthentic” to call him a Republican.”
In 2015, she also criticized Donald Trump’s racist comment about Mexican immigrants. In an exchange on CNN in late June 2015, she said,
To me, a racist statement is a racist statement. I don’t like what Donald Trump said.” [15]
While Kayleigh McEnany was a Harvard law student, Michael Marcantonio, a fellow summer associate at the white-shoe law firm Kirkland & Ellis and a Democrat, advised her at a Manhattan rooftop cocktail party in the summer of 2015 that –
Donald Trump is going to be your nominee, if “a smart, young, blond Harvard graduate” wanted “to get on television and have a career as a political pundit, you would be wise to be an early backer.” [16]
On August 5, 2017, McEnany left CNN, and she hosted “Real News Update,” a 90-second webcast on Trump’s personal Facebook page.
Republican Supporter & Strategist
Since her college days, Kayleigh McEnany has strongly supported the Republican Party. On August 7, 2017, she was appointed the national spokesperson of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Since her appointment as the national spokesperson, Ms. McEnany has proved on many occasions that she is a loyal fighter for Mr. Trump.
White House Press Secretary
On April 7, 2020, Kayleigh McEnany was hired as White House press secretary by Mark Meadows (White House chief of staff); replacing Stephanie Grisham. Her appointment as White House press secretary was officially announced the next day, i.e., April 8, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany during a White House press briefing
As a White House press secretary, Ms. McEnany has defended Trump’s statements on several occasions, including the one when he suggested at a press conference that the coronavirus could be treated with disinfectant injections; while defending trump’s suggestion, she said that his remarks were taken out of context. During her first public press briefing on May 1, 2020, when asked by an Associated Press reporter:
Will you pledge to never lie to us from that podium?”
McEnany replied:
I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.”
Kayleigh McEnany: Net Worth
McEnany is estimated to be worth $5 million.
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Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power In Atlantic Canada After Fiona Rumbles North | CNN
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The storm named Fiona slammed into Canada’s eastern seaboard with hurricane-force winds and torrential rainfall Saturday, pulling buildings into the ocean, collapsing homes, toppling trees and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people.
Fiona first wreaked havoc in the Caribbean as a hurricane before moving up the Atlantic and making landfall again as a post-tropical cyclone. The storm ripped a path of destruction in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland before weakening and moving out to sea Sunday.
Now, officials are beginning to account for the damage brought forth to the region.
Nova Scotia, where Fiona first made landfall during the early morning hours Saturday, was hit hard by the storm. Powerful winds toppled trees and power lines, washed out roads, littered neighborhoods with debris, and in many cases, snapped whole power poles in half, officials said.
Officials are prioritizing power restoration after Fiona ravaged power lines and communication networks across the province, Premier Tim Houston said Sunday morning.
“Getting roads cleared, giving space to the crews to do what needs to be done, that’s the most important thing right now,” Houston said. “It will take time.”
One person in Newfoundland reportedly died in the storm. Houston said there haven’t been too many reports of serious injuries, though about 200 people are currently displaced from their homes.
“The damage is significant, but right now that the priority right now is getting power back to people, getting people to a safe shelter, getting, you know, some return to normal,” he said. “That will take time when we come out of this.”
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
Rene Roy/Wreckhouse Press/AP
A home fights against high winds caused by Fiona in Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador, on Saturday, September 24. The home has since been lost at sea.
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
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A worker clears fallen trees and downed wires in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday.
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
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Waves pound the shores of Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, as Fiona made landfall on Saturday.
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
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A man clears limbs and debris from his street in Halifax on Saturday.
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
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Residents stand in floodwaters following the passing of Fiona on Saturday in Shediac, New Brunswick.
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
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Workers lift a downed wire to allow machinery to access fallen trees in Halifax on Saturday.
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
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A sailboat lies washed up on shore Saturday in Shearwater, Nova Scotia.
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
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Georgina Scott surveys the damage on her street in Halifax on Saturday.
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
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Restaurant tables are turned upside down in Halifax ahead of Fiona on Friday, September 23.
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
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Francis Bruhm places sandbags around the doors of the Nova Scotia Power building in Halifax on Friday.
Photos: Fiona slams Canada’s Atlantic coast
Darren Calabrese/AP
A pedestrian shields themselves with an umbrella while walking along the Halifax waterfront on Friday.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that the government approved Nova Scotia’s request for federal assistance and that Canadian Armed Forces will be deployed to help out in the region. The Prime Minister said residents lived through a “terrifying” 12 hours Saturday.
“People have seen their homes washed away, seen the winds rip schools’ roofs off,” Trudeau said. “And as Canadians, as we always do in times of difficulty, we will be there for each other.”
In Prince Edward Island’s Charlottetown, police shared images of downed power lines over buildings, fallen trees blocking roadways and piercing through structures. The region’s utility, Maritime Electric, said it was concerned about people out walking and driving on streets where there is widespread damage from downed power lines and possible live wires.
Several provinces were impacted by the heavy winds and rain, but none more than Nova Scotia. As of Monday morning, more than 284,400 customers were still without power across Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick – including more than 190,400 in Nova Scotia, according to Poweroutage.com.
Nearly three quarters of Nova Scotia lost electricity as Fiona pushed through, Houston said Saturday. Peak wind gusts of 171 km/h (106 mph) were recorded in the province’s town of Arisaig Saturday. Meanwhile, Wreckhouse in Newfoundland saw 170 km/h (105 mph) gusts.
Poor weather conditions have hampered power restoration efforts, Nova Scotia Power President and CEO Peter Gregg said Saturday. More than 900 power technicians were on their way to the area, but some customers may experience power outages for several days, he said.
Drone video shows 50-foot waves and 100 mph winds inside Hurricane Fiona
In Nova Scotia’s capital, Halifax, strong winds uprooted trees and downed power lines, sending sparks flying and lights flickering off.
A Halifax apartment complex’s roof collapsed, forcing about 100 people to leave for a shelter, Mayor Mike Savage told CNN Saturday.
“The magnitude of this storm has been breathtaking,” Savage later said at a Saturday news conference. “It turned out to be everything predicted.”
Osborne Head in Nova Scotia received 192 mm (7.55 inches) of rain and Crowe Brook in New Brunswick got 107 mm (4.2 inches), among other heavy rainfall amounts across the provinces.
In Newfoundland, video showed buildings floating in water and submerged cars under heavy rains. A woman was rescued from the water after her house collapsed, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She was taken to a hospital; the extent of her injuries wasn’t immediately known, police said.
Port aux Basques, a town at the southwest tip of Newfoundland, was also one of the worst-hit areas, Trudeau said Saturday.
“We’re seeing devastating images coming out of Port aux Basques,” he said. “Obviously as we see the images of houses falling into the sea, of waves destroying property and buildings, our first thought needs to be for people.”
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Sunday recovered the body of a 73-year-old woman who had been washed out to sea the day before in Port aux Basques.
“The woman was last seen inside the residence just moments before a wave struck the home, tearing away a portion of the basement,” police in a press release.
This is the first death attributed to Fiona in Canada. The storm claimed at least six other lives along its path – one in Guadeloupe, three in Puerto Rico and two in the Dominican Republic.
First responders in Port aux Basques were dealing with multiple electrical fires, residential flooding and washouts.
“We’ve got a total war zone here, we’ve got destruction everywhere,” Port aux Basques Mayor Brian Button said in a video update, warning that more storm surges are expected.
Port aux Basques is now under a boil water order, and power was still out for many residents. Concrete barriers were also set up around areas that were rendered “danger zones” by the storm, the mayor said.
The Port aux Basques tide gauge recorded a maximum total water level of 2.73 meters (8.96 feet) – topping its previous record of 2.71 (8.89 feet) meters set in 2017, according to the Canadian Hurricane Centre.
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Korea's Kospi Tumbles 3%; Asia-Pacific Markets Drop As Negative Sentiment Remains
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Australian LNG producer Woodside is a buy: Atlas Funds Management
Woodside has the lowest production costs among Australian LNG producers, and is not subject to the “political meddling” that its peers are under, Atlas Funds Management said.
Santos and Origin Energy face pressure to keep gas for local consumption instead of exporting it, Atlas’ Chief Investment Officer Hugh Dive told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”
“There are a lot of moves and political meddling there to conserve gas into the East Coast… gas in Woodside is exported up into East Asia,” he said.
Woodside is located in West Australia whereas peers like Santos and Origin are located on the East Coast of Australia and may be forced to sell their energy locally at a discounted price.
— Su-Lin Tan
British pound drops to record low
The sterling fell to a record low in Asia’s morning, briefly shedding more than 4% to $1.0382.
It later recovered slightly to $1.0513.
The dollar index — which trades against a basket of six currencies including the euro, yen and sterling — gained about 1%.
— Abigail Ng
U.S. Treasury yields jump as Asian markets tumble, 2-year Treasury hits 4.3%
CNBC Pro: Asset manager says one FAANG stock looks ‘very attractive’ in the medium term
Macao casino stocks get boost from Hong Kong quarantine changes
Shares of Macao casino operators jumped following Hong Kong’s announcement on changes to its hotel quarantine policy for inbound travelers.
Sands China jumped more than 18%, Wynn Macau rose 9.33% and Galaxy Entertainment also gained 9%. Casino and entertainment resorts developer SJM Holdings also jumped 13%.
Hong Kong could potentially recover 3-4 percentage points of GDP upon a full reopening, Andrew Tilton, chief Asia-Pacific economist at Goldman Sachs said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia.”
—Jihye Lee
Bank of Korea sees the Fed raising rates by another 75 basis points, governor says
The Bank of Korea expects the U.S. Fed to hike rates by another 75 basis points at its upcoming meeting in November.
“We see the Fed raising interest rates by 75 basis points at the next meeting, and another shock could come from how much they’ll hike after that,” Bank of Korea governor Rhee Chang-yong told lawmakers in Seoul.
Reiterating median forecasts that show the Fed will hike rates to 4.4% by the end of 2022, Rhee said, “Markets are still digesting the shocks from this adjustment.”
“Nobody expected the [Fed] terminal rate to rise this much.”
When asked about reports of currency swap agreements between the U.S. and South Korea, Rhee said “there have been exchanges of information” between the two countries, without elaborating further.
—Jihye Lee
CNBC Pro: Morningstar reveals its top high-dividend global stocks — and gives three 30% upside
Morningstar has revealed its pick of global stocks with the highest dividend yields, saying they stand out in an environment where many companies may not be able to maintain their dividends due to “economic strain.”
Pro subscribers can read more here.
— Ganesh Rao
China raises FX risk reserve ratio to support yuan strength
The People’s Bank of China announced Monday it would increase the risk reserve requirement on foreign exchange forward sales to 20% from 0%, effective Tuesday. The move makes selling the yuan more expensive.
The currency has weakened in the last several weeks, hitting two-year lows against the U.S. dollar, which has strengthened globally. Analysts say Chinese officials have signaled that they are taking action to stop the currency from falling further.
China’s onshore and offshore currency stood past the 7.15 mark against the greenback in early Monday Asia hours.
—Iris Wang
CNBC Pro: Dan Niles predicts when the S&P 500 might bottom, and reveals how he’s profited this year
Asian currencies weaken against the greenback
The Japanese yen lost ground against the U.S. dollar in Asia’s morning trade, changing hands at 143.60.
The offshore Chinese yuan weakened to 7.1475 per dollar.
South Korea’s won was at its weakest levels since 2009, trading at 1,423 against the greenback.
Australia’s dollar, meanwhile, strengthened slightly to $0.6532.
— Abigail Ng
Stocks prepare to test their lows in the final week of trading for September
Heading into the final week of trading for September, the Dow and S&P 500 are each down about 6% for the month, while the Nasdaq has lost 8%.
Both the Dow and S&P are now sitting 1.2% and 1.6%, respectively, above their lows from mid-June. The Nasdaq is 2.9% above its low.
— Tanaya Macheel
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Internships Provide SAU Students With Valuable Experience
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College students have had to face many problems over the years. The issues range from staying up late to getting to class on time the following day, balancing rigorous courses and a hectic social calendar, and making sure that their backpack never runs out of college-student snacks.
But perhaps the issue that concerns college students the most is also the most important: How do I get a job after graduation? And more specifically, that question is narrowed to this: It seems every potential employer wants to hire someone with experience, but as a student, how do you get that experience without a job?
There are, however, opportunities for students to gain that valuable workplace experience. One such opportunity is the Rankin College of Business Internship Program at Southern Arkansas University. The Internship Program works with students each semester, placing them in professional job settings in their degree field. That experience gives students a head start on their careers.
Six College of Business students took part as interns during the spring semester, and nine more completed internships this summer. In addition, four graduate students in the College of Business also participated in internships this summer.
One of those students is Naija White, who participated in the Tjuanna Byrd Internship Program in the summers of 2021 and 2022. The Tjuanna Byrd program is for women of color who are pursuing a degree in a STEM field. White, a 2019 Lafayette County High School graduate, interned at Windstream in North Little Rock in 2021.
Her time there saw her attending company meetings, shadowing coding assignments, and fixing bugs on the Windstream website.
After earning her degree in information systems in May 2022, White again participated in the program. Her last internship was with Stone Bank in Little Rock as an IT support representative. White said she would recommend the SAU internship program to other students in the College of Business. “It’s a great program. It opened a lot of different doors for me,” said White. “It really helps you network with other interns and with professionals. It gives you knowledge in the field you want to pursue.”
Faith Lonigro used her experience in the Internship program to help land her first job following graduation. Lonigro worked in the Logistics Department for J.B. Hunt in northwest Arkansas, where she spent half her time shadowing other employees and the rest working with brokers and customer representatives. “I really enjoyed my time at J.B. Hunt,” said Lonigro. “They were really helpful and nice, and I got experience on the supply chain side.”
Lonigro graduated from SAU in December 2021 with a degree in supply chain management.
With her degree earned in the classroom and experience earned on the job, she landed a job with Lanxess in El Dorado, where she works with the production schedule for the company. “My internship helped me with my job search and getting my first job,” said Lonigro. “If I hadn’t had the internship, I probably wouldn’t be here.”
Desiah Williams, a junior in the Rankin College of Business, participated in the Internship Program for the first time this summer. Like White, she also earned a spot in the Tjuanna Byrd Summer Internship Program. Williams, a 2019 graduate of Bearden High School, completed an internship with Arvest Bank in Rogers in the IT and security department.
Dr. Robin Sronce, dean of the Rankin College of Business, believes the Internship Program is a great program that helps students move toward the careers they want. “We’re very proud of our Internship Program,” said Sronce. “It allows the Rankin College of Business to work with both businesses and our students. And it’s an opportunity for our students to gain invaluable workplace experience.”
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1 Killed In Midtown Shooting Along Street With Popular Nightlife
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One person is dead following an early Sunday morning shooting on a row of popular restaurants and bars in Sacramento, authorities said. Detectives believe at least two people fired guns during a fight. The shooting happened just before 1 a.m. near the intersection of 28th and J streets, the Sacramento Police Department said in a release. Officers found a man with gunshot wounds near the intersection and immediately started life-saving efforts. He died near James Marshall Park, which is near the intersection, according to authorities. Detectives have learned that a disagreement started at Barwest Midtown. Authorities told KCRA 3 that the victim went to a car to get a gun and then began shooting at the suspect. “We understand the worry, downtown is a generally safe area,” said Sgt. Zach Eaton, spokesperson for the Sacramento Police Department. “We have had a couple of instances this year where we’ve had some bad shootings and some tragic shootings in our downtown. However, if you take a step back and look at the overall of what’s been going on downtown it’s generally a safe area to be in we have a lot of resources down there.” Sacramento police have yet to release information on the suspect or victim as they continue to investigate. No arrests have been made.Detectives did find two separate caliber casings at the scene, authorities told KCRA 3.Community reacts to shootingMany in midtown on Sunday afternoon hope the violent crime doesn’t taint the area.”It’s getting out of hand I hope the city, you know gets a hold of it, you know it’s bad for business it’s bad for the people who live in downtown,” said Anthony Tafoia, who told KCRA 3 he’s worried about his little sister who lives down the block. “It’s scary to just think that if she’s here and that happened I would literally freak out.”The usually busy brunch spot was shuttered close after the shooting.”We certainly understand the concern of community members who go downtown and do not feel safe, and we’re doing everything in our power to make sure that they feel safe when they go downtown and enjoy the incredible entertainment district we have in our city,” Eaton said.The Sacramento Police Department encourages any witnesses with information regarding this investigation to contact the dispatch center at 916-808-5471 or Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers at 916-443-HELP (4357). Callers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward up to $1,000. Anonymous tips can also be submitted using the free “P3 Tips” smartphone app. One other deadly shooting has happened in the immediate area of where this shooting happened Sunday morning, according to data compiled by KCRA 3. That shooting happened back in January. This is a developing story, stay with KCRA 3 for the latest.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
One person is dead following an early Sunday morning shooting on a row of popular restaurants and bars in Sacramento, authorities said. Detectives believe at least two people fired guns during a fight.
The shooting happened just before 1 a.m. near the intersection of 28th and J streets, the Sacramento Police Department said in a release.
Officers found a man with gunshot wounds near the intersection and immediately started life-saving efforts. He died near James Marshall Park, which is near the intersection, according to authorities.
Detectives have learned that a disagreement started at Barwest Midtown. Authorities told KCRA 3 that the victim went to a car to get a gun and then began shooting at the suspect.
“We understand the worry, downtown is a generally safe area,” said Sgt. Zach Eaton, spokesperson for the Sacramento Police Department. “We have had a couple of instances this year where we’ve had some bad shootings and some tragic shootings in our downtown. However, if you take a step back and look at the overall of what’s been going on downtown it’s generally a safe area to be in we have a lot of resources down there.”
Sacramento police have yet to release information on the suspect or victim as they continue to investigate. No arrests have been made.
Detectives did find two separate caliber casings at the scene, authorities told KCRA 3.
Community reacts to shooting
Many in midtown on Sunday afternoon hope the violent crime doesn’t taint the area.
“It’s getting out of hand I hope the city, you know gets a hold of it, you know it’s bad for business it’s bad for the people who live in downtown,” said Anthony Tafoia, who told KCRA 3 he’s worried about his little sister who lives down the block. “It’s scary to just think that if she’s here and that happened I would literally freak out.”
The usually busy brunch spot was shuttered close after the shooting.
“We certainly understand the concern of community members who go downtown and do not feel safe, and we’re doing everything in our power to make sure that they feel safe when they go downtown and enjoy the incredible entertainment district we have in our city,” Eaton said.
The Sacramento Police Department encourages any witnesses with information regarding this investigation to contact the dispatch center at 916-808-5471 or Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers at 916-443-HELP (4357). Callers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward up to $1,000. Anonymous tips can also be submitted using the free “P3 Tips” smartphone app.
One other deadly shooting has happened in the immediate area of where this shooting happened Sunday morning, according to data compiled by KCRA 3. That shooting happened back in January.
This is a developing story, stay with KCRA 3 for the latest.
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'Fighting Fit': Trial To Show Oath Keepers' Road To Jan. 6
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Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, center, speaks during a rally June 25, 2017, outside the White House in Washington. Hundreds of pages of court documents in the case against Rhodes and four co-defendants, whose trial opens with jury selection Tuesday, in Washington’s federal court, paint a picture of a group so determined to overturn Biden’s election that some members were prepared to lose their lives to do so.
Susan Walsh ~ Associated Press, file
The voting was over and almost all ballots were counted. News outlets on Nov. 7, 2020, had called the presidential race for Joe Biden. But the leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group was just beginning to fight.
Convinced the White House had been stolen from Donald Trump, Stewart Rhodes exhorted his followers to action.
“We must now … refuse to accept it and march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol,” Rhodes declared.
Authorities allege Rhodes and his band of extremists would spend the next several weeks after Election Day, Nov. 3, amassing weapons, organizing paramilitary training and readying armed teams with a singular goal: stopping Biden from becoming president.
Their plot would come to a head on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors say, when Oath Keepers in battle gear were captured on camera shouldering their way through the crowd of Trump supporters and storming the Capitol in military-style stack formation.
Members of the Oath Keepers stand on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. The trial of the founder of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and four associates charged with seditious conspiracy in the attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to begin this week.
Manuel Balce Ceneta ~ Associated Press, file
Court documents in the case against Rhodes and four co-defendants — whose trial opens Tuesday with jury selection in Washington’s federal court — paint a picture of a group so determined to overturn Biden’s victory that some members were prepared to lose their lives to do so.
It’s the biggest test for the Justice Department’s efforts to hold accountable those responsible for the Capitol attack. Rioters temporarily halted the certification of Biden’s victory by sheer force, pummeling police officers in hand-to-hand fighting as they rammed their way into the building, forcing Congress to adjourn as lawmakers and staff hid from the mob.
Despite nearly 900 arrests and hundreds of convictions in the riot, Rhodes and four Oath Keeper associates — Kelly Meggs, Jessica Watkins, Kenneth Harrelson and Thomas Caldwell — are the first to stand trial on the rare and difficult-to-prove charge of seditious conspiracy.
The Oath Keepers accuse prosecutors of twisting their words and insist there was never any plan to attack the Capitol. They say they were in Washington to provide security at events for figures such as Trump ally Roger Stone before Trump’s big outdoor rally near the White House on Jan. 6. Their preparations, training, gear and weapons were to protect themselves against potential violence from left-wing antifa activists or to be ready if Trump invoked the Insurrection Act to call up a militia.
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Rhodes’ lawyers have signaled their defense will focus on his belief that Trump would take that action. But Trump never did, so Rhodes went home, his lawyers have said.
On Nov. 9, 2020, less than a week after the election, Rhodes held a conference call and rallied the Oath Keepers to go to Washington and fight. He expressed hope that antifa (anti-fascist) activists would start clashes because that would give Trump the “reason and rationale for dropping the Insurrection Act.”
“You’ve got to go there and you’ve got to make sure that he knows that you are willing to die to fight for this country,” Rhodes told his people, according to a transcript filed in court.
By December, Rhodes and the Oath Keepers had set their sights on Congress’ certification of the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, prosecutors say.
On Dec. 23, he published an open letter on the Oath Keepers website declaring that “tens of thousands of patriot Americans, both veterans and nonveterans” would be in Washington. He warned they might have to “take to arms in defense of our God given liberty.”
As 2021 approached, Rhodes spent $7,000 on two night-vision devices and a weapon sight and sent them to someone outside Washington, authorities say. Over several days in early January, he would spend an additional $15,500 on guns, magazines, mounts, sights and other equipment, according to court documents.
Rhodes had instructed Oath Keepers to be ready, if asked, to secure the White House perimeter and “use lethal force if necessary” against anyone, including the National Guard, who might try to remove Trump from the White House, according to court documents.
On Jan. 5, Meggs and the Florida Oath Keepers brought gun boxes, rifle cases and suitcases filled with ammunition to the Virginia hotel where the “quick reaction force” teams would be on standby, according to prosecutors. A team from Arizona brought weapons, ammunition, and supplies to last 30 days, according to court papers. A team from North Carolina had rifles in a vehicle parked in the hotel lot, prosecutors have said.
At the Capitol, the Oath Keepers formed two teams, military “stacks,” prosecutors say.
Some members of the first stack headed toward the House in search of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., but couldn’t find her, according to court documents. Members of the second stack confronted officers inside the Capitol Rotunda, prosecutors allege.
Rhodes isn’t accused of going inside the Capitol but was seen huddled with members outside after the riot. Rhodes and others then walked to the nearby Phoenix Park Hotel, prosecutors say.
In a private suite there, Rhodes called someone on the phone with an urgent message for Trump, according to an Oath Keeper who says he witnessed it. Rhodes repeatedly urged the person on the phone to tell Trump to call upon militia groups to fight to keep the president in power, court papers say. The person denied Rhodes’ request to speak directly to Trump.
“I just want to fight,” Rhodes said after hanging up, according to court papers. Authorities have not disclosed the name of the person they believe Rhodes was speaking to on the call.
That night, Rhodes and other Oath Keepers went to dinner in Virginia. In messages over the course of the evening, they indicated their fight was far from over.
“Patriots entering their own Capitol to send a message to the traitors is NOTHING compared to what’s coming,” Rhodes wrote.
Rhodes returned to Texas after the Jan. 6 attack and remained free for a year before his arrest in January 2022.
In interviews before he was jailed, he sought to distance himself from Oath Keepers who went inside the Capitol, saying that was a mistake. He also continued to push the lie the election was stolen and said the Jan. 6 investigation was politically motivated.
For full coverage of the Capitol riot, go to https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege
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Trump News Live: Jan 6 Committee aware Of White House Call To Rioter As Ex-President Facing Legal Peril
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Former president Donald Trump claims he can declassify top secret documents just ‘by thinking about it’
New excerpts from Maggie Haberman’s interviews with Donald Trump reveal the former president’s thoughts on spurious voter fraud lawsuits, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Mitch McConnell and what he was doing as a mob of his supporters breached the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021.
The House select committee investigating the attack will reconvene for its first public hearing since July on 28 September.
Congressman Jamie Raskin said the panel is “aware” of allegations that a White House switchboard patched a call from a rioter as the attack was underway, among “thousands of details” that the committee is investigating.
US Rep Adam Schiff has also has rebuked Mr Trump’s claim that he could declassify documents at the centre of a separate probe led by the US Department of Justice into his Mar-a-Lago estate simply by saying so, claims that “don’t demonstrate much intelligence of any kind,” according to the congressman.
Legal analysts have argued that the former president has put his lawyers in a precarious legal situation, after a federal judge demanded proof of Mr Trump’s dubious claims.
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Eric Garcia: ‘AOC sparked the Trump lawsuit. She’s a better politician than you think’
Not only did her questioning of [Michael] Cohen lead to [New York Attorney General Letitia James’s] lawsuit, but the specific allegations — that Trump inflated his worth and lied about his wealth — did a particular wound to the former president. Trump projects an image — one beloved by his fans — of a highly competent emperor of New York business. That image is now being dismantled, and he’s starting to look like he could be a con artist, just in time for the midterms and the runup to the 2024 presidential election.
Alex Woodward26 September 2022 04:00
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Trump took ‘nothing of great urgency’ from the White House. Then came the Mar-a-Lago raid
Months before federal law enforcement recovered boxes of classified documents from his Florida home, Trump told Maggie Haberman that he took “nothing of urgency” with him when he left the White House.
The former president sat down with The New York Times journalist in the summer of 2021 for an interview for her upcoming book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.
In an adapted excerpt from the book, published in The Atlantic on Sunday, Ms Haberman details the moment that Mr Trump denied removing documents from the White House when he left office.
Alex Woodward26 September 2022 03:00
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Chris Christie: Trump’s ‘self-inflicted wounds’ will be a legal liability
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie said Trump’s dismissals of the many allegations against him are pushing him closer to “self-indictment”.
His comments to ABC’s This Week on Sunday come as the former president falsely claimed to Fox News personality Sean Hannity that “you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it” and that declassification “doesn’t have to be a process” as his lawyers and federal prosecutors kick off a legal battle over top secret documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago.
“These are all self-inflicted wounds,” Mr Christie said. “His lawyers aren’t fighting any of this in court. They’re really not. They’re not putting forward any of these arguments. He’s putting forward all these arguments on television.”
Alex Woodward26 September 2022 02:00
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QAnon, the Big Lie and misogyny: What we learned from Trump’s latest rally
Trump rallied in North Carolina on Friday night, days after he faced a bombshell lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James, and while he’s mired in legal battles and investigations on multiple fronts.
The Independent’s Eric Garcia has the highlights:
Alex Woodward26 September 2022 01:00
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ICYMI: Man charged with assault for tapping Giuliani on the back signals potential $2m lawsuit for false arrest
A man charged with assault and jailed for more than 24 hours in June for touching Rudy Giuliani’s back in a Staten Island supermarket has signalled a potential lawsuit against New York City for $2m for his false arrest.
Video captured Daniel Gill, then an employee of the store, touching Mr Giuliani on the back with his hand inside a ShopRite market while the former mayor was supporting his son Andrew’s unsuccessful run for the Republican nomination for governor.
“What’s up, scumbag?” Mr Gill said, according to a notice of a claim that was filed on 22 September.
Alex Woodward26 September 2022 00:30
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Trump fans raise their fingers in a QAnon salute at his latest rally. Security tried to stop them
The Independent’s Eric Garcia was on the ground in North Carolina as Trump’s supporters raised their fingers in an apparent reference to QAnon’s “where we go one, we go all” slogan – the second time this has happened at one of his campaign-style rallies.
QAnon – a far-right, wide-ranging conspiracy theory movement that embraces Mr Trump’s baseless claims about election fraud, among other beliefs – has centred Mr Trump as a heroic figure battling a “deep state” and Democratic officials and other figures who will face violent retribution with his election and return to power.
Lisa Pyle, who wore a hat with the Q symbol, told The Independent that she appreciated his use of Q symbolism.
“I think it’s wonderful,” she said, but added she likely would not vote in 2022. “Would you vote in a broken election if you knew? If you knew the truth?”
Alex Woodward26 September 2022 00:00
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Trump claims he wasn’t watching Capitol attack on television, despite witness testimony
Trump told New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman that he was “having meetings” and “not watching television” while a mob of his supporters breached the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021.
But former White House officials have repeatedly testified to the House select committee investigating the attack that then-President Trump was in the dining room next to the Oval Office and watching it unfold on screen.
Alex Woodward25 September 2022 23:30
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ICYMI: Mike Lindell under investigation over identity theft and damage to computer connected to voting machine
MyPillow founder and prominent, prolific election fraud conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell is under federal investigation for a number of alleged crimes related to his efforts to upend the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The Independent’s John Bowden reports:
Alex Woodward25 September 2022 23:01
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Trump claimed he took ‘nothing of great urgency’ from White House – months before Mar-a-Lago raid
Trump told New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman he took “nothing of great urgency” with him when he left the White House, months before 11 boxes of classified documents were seized by federal law enforcement at Mar-a-Lago.
In an adapted excerpt from her book book, published in The Atlantic on Sunday, Ms Haberman details the moment that Mr Trump denied removing documents from the White House when he left office:
“He demurred when I asked if he had taken any documents of note upon departing the White House— ‘nothing of great urgency, no,’ he said,” she writes.
Mr Trump then proceeded to contradict himself by mentioning letters sent by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un which he had taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, she writes.
Alex Woodward25 September 2022 22:30
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Chris Christie: Trump pushing himself closer to ‘self-indictment’ with incriminating TV statements
Former New Jersey governor and one-time GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie said Trump’s ongoing, very public dismissals of the mounting allegations against him are pushing him closer to “self-indictment”.
“The more you absolutely antagonize with nonsense arguments on television that your lawyers won’t make in court – because they’re afraid they’ll be sanctioned if they do because they have no evidence – you’re pushing yourself closer to a self-inflicted indictment,” he told ABC’s This Week on Sunday.
“And I don’t want to see that happen just because I don’t think it’s good for our country, but he’s pushing himself in that direction,” he said.
His comments come as the former president lost his legal battle to block the US Department of Justice from reviewing classified materials recovered at Mar-a-Lago last month.
Trump falsely claimed to Fox News personality Sean Hannity this week that “you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it” and that declassification “doesn’t have to be a process.”
“These are all self-inflicted wounds,” Mr Christie said. “His lawyers aren’t fighting any of this in court. They’re really not. They’re not putting forward any of these arguments. He’s putting forward all these arguments on television.”
Alex Woodward25 September 2022 22:00
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