This Day In History: Little Rock Nine Enroll At Central High School In Arkansas
This Day In History: Little Rock Nine Enroll At Central High School In Arkansas https://digitalarkansasnews.com/this-day-in-history-little-rock-nine-enroll-at-central-high-school-in-arkansas/
This Day in History: Little Rock Nine enroll at Central High School in Arkansas
On this day in 1957, nine black students entered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, an all-white school.The students, known as the Little Rock Nine, were escorted into the school by the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.The nine that were chosen were Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed and Melba Pattillo Beals. They were chosen based on the criteria of excellent grades and attendance.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —
On this day in 1957, nine black students entered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, an all-white school.
The students, known as the Little Rock Nine, were escorted into the school by the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.
The nine that were chosen were Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed and Melba Pattillo Beals. They were chosen based on the criteria of excellent grades and attendance.
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Mike Pence's Former Chief Of Staff Said It's 'absurd' That Donald Trump Thinks He Can Declassify Documents By 'thinking About It'
Mike Pence's Former Chief Of Staff Said It's 'absurd' That Donald Trump Thinks He Can Declassify Documents By 'thinking About It' https://digitalarkansasnews.com/mike-pences-former-chief-of-staff-said-its-absurd-that-donald-trump-thinks-he-can-declassify-documents-by-thinking-about-it/
A former Mike Pence aide said it’s “absurd” that Donald Trump claimed he can declassify documents with his mind.
“If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified,'” Trump said earlier this week.
Marc Short, former chief of staff to Pence, said it would be “very difficult for the intelligence community to have a classification system if that was the case.”
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An ex-top aide to former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday threw cold water on Donald Trump’s claim that the former president declassified White House records using his mind.
Marc Short, who served as Pence’s chief of staff in the White House, said his claim is “absurd” in an interview with CBS News.
“I think it would make it very difficult for the intelligence community to have a classification system if that was the case,” he said.
Trump has so far denied all assertions of wrongdoing, saying initially that he had “declassified” the documents. He also said that “everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time.”
And on Wednesday, Trump said in a Fox News interview that presidents are able to declassify materials using just by thinking about doing so.
“There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump said. “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified.’ Even by thinking about it.”
Last month, the FBI executed a search warrant at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida and recovered several boxes containing classified records that Trump took with him from the White House once he left office, according to the court records made public.
The search unearthed more than two dozen boxes containing some “11,000 documents and 1,800 other items from the office and storage room,” according to court filings. Some of the boxes were distinctly marked as “top secret,” Insider’s Sonam Sheth reported.
Some of those materials include private and potentially sensitive documents like medical, tax and accounting records, the court said.
In legal proceedings over the recovered documents, an appeals court earlier this week said that there is “no evidence that any of these records were declassified.”
Under the Presidential Records Act, presidential records must be turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration upon leaving office.
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Trump National In RPV Ensnared In NY Lawsuit Alleging Fraud In Land Value Inflation
Trump National In RPV Ensnared In NY Lawsuit Alleging Fraud In Land Value Inflation https://digitalarkansasnews.com/trump-national-in-rpv-ensnared-in-ny-lawsuit-alleging-fraud-in-land-value-inflation/
Former President Donald Trump and three of his children used an illegal branding scheme to fraudulently inflate the value of the Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes by nearly $50 million in 2013, according to a sweeping lawsuit filed last week by the New York state attorney general
The 214-page civil complaint also alleges Trump, daughter Ivanka Trump, sons Donald Jr. and Eric, and senior executives at the Trump Organization pressured appraisers to submit an erroneous valuation in 2014 to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for the donation of an 11.5-acre conservation easement at the club, resulting in a hefty tax break.
From 2011 to 2021, the suit alleges, Trump and his co-defendants intentionally created more than 200 false and misleading valuations on annual Statements of Financial Condition for 23 assets nationwide, including the Rancho Palos Verdes golf course.
Prosecutors contend Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to induce banks to lend money to the Trump Organization on more favorable terms than would otherwise have been available, to satisfy loan obligations, obtain lower insurance premiums and gain tax benefits.
The lawsuit seeks to permanently bar Trump and his three children from serving as officers in any New York corporation. Moreover, it requests that the Trump Organization’s corporate certificate be revoked, which would effectively force the company to cease operations in New York.
Furthermore, the suit demands $250 million in restitution.
“For too long, powerful, wealthy people in this country have operated as if the rules do not apply to them. Donald Trump stands out as among the most egregious examples of this misconduct,” said a statement from Democratic Attorney General Letitia James, who vowed during her campaign for office that she would investigate Trump’s finances.
The Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment regarding the fraud claims or allegations surrounding the easement donation in Rancho Palos Verdes. However, Trump blasted James on Truth Social, the Twitter-like platform that he owns, saying she is engaging in “another witch hunt.”
“She is a fraud who campaigned on a ‘get Trump’ platform, despite the fact that the city is one of the crime and murder disasters of the world under her watch!” Trump said in a Wednesday post.
Donald Trump news conference at Trump National Golf Club, Los Angeles to announce a conservation easement grant to the Peninsula Land Conservancy to protect 11.5 acres as open space for scenic enjoyment and public use. Land is now in the area of the driving range along PV Dr South. (1/15/14 Photos by Brad Graverson/The Daily Breeze)
Value of course allegedly inflated
Construction on the Rancho Palos Verdes golf course, originally known as Ocean Trails Golf Club, started in 1997 and was nearly complete in June 1999 when a landslide dropped 300 yards of the 18th hole fairway into the Pacific Ocean.
Development of Ocean Trails ceased after the landslide and the property went into bankruptcy. VH Property Corp., a Trump Organization subsidiary, acquired the golf course out of bankruptcy in November 2002 for a reported $27 million, the lawsuit states.
Every year from 2011 to 2020, Trump National has operated with a net income at $1.5 million or lower, and in some cases less than $1 million, according to prosecutors. However, the suit says during most of that period the Trump Organization touted the valuation of the golf course in its financial statement as $23.8 million to $74.3 million.
As a result of the landslide, the property’s instability, and its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, the Trump Organization needed approval from the city of Rancho Palos Verdes to develop 16 planned lots on the driving range and putting green, the suit says.
In June 2011, a Trump Organization geologist produced a report stating that 104 shear pins, which are drilled into the ground to provide stability, would be required to develop the lots safely, according to the complaint.
Due to the difficulties in developing the 16 lots, the Trump Organization began to consider donating a conservation easement that would preclude any development but allow continued use of the area as a driving range and putting green, the suit states.
Nevertheless, for the purposes of a required Statement of Financial Condition, the Trump Organization allegedly inflated the value of the lots as if there were no practical limitations on development.
After the issuance of the 2012 annual financial statement, Sheri Dillon, who at the time was the Trump Organization’s tax attorney, allegedly hired two appraisers and an engineer to put a value on the potential easement donation.
“If this valuation met with the Trump Organization’s approval, the appraisers would then move on to provide a valuation suitable for supporting a charitable donation,” the suit says.
The Trump Organization allegedly conveyed to the appraisers that it believed the lots might be worth a total of $40 million or $50 million in what was described in the lawsuit as a “paper napkin analysis.”
In December 2012, the appraisers purportedly reached a preliminary conclusion that the lots’ development potential was about $17.7 million, prompting the Trump Organization to put the conservation easement project on hold.
Then, in 2013, to reach a total valuation of $225 million, the Trump Organization changed its method of valuing the golf club by utilizing a brand premium scheme, without disclosing the change in its financial statement in violation of generally accepted accounting principles, according to the suit.
The Trump Organization added a premium to inflate the value of the golf club, often up to 30% for the “Trump Brand,” but expressly claimed that brand premiums were not included, according to prosecutors.
The valuation was sabotaged when the Trump Organization finally decided to pursue the conservation easement project and began the process of obtaining the necessary formal appraisal to support the donation, prosecutors said.
In October 2014, the appraisers reached a preliminary valuation of around $27 million to $28 million for the driving range property, putting the value of each lot at $1.6 million to $1.7 million, lower than the $2.5 million used by the Trump Organization, the suit states.
Appraisers pressured
The appraisers allegedly were pressured by Trump to increase the value of the parcels, arguing that lots were in a more prestigious ZIP code than other lots on the property and could command a “ZIP code” premium.
However, as the appraisers began to prepare a formal appraisal, they lowered the value of the driving range property down to as little as $20.5 million after realizing that the costs associated with developing the lots had been underestimated, the suit states.
Still, Dillion and the Trump Organization allegedly persisted in pushing the appraisers to increase the value of the driving range parcel, which in turn would increase the value of the easement donation.
Ultimately the appraisers submitted a fraudulent appraisal to the Internal Revenue Service valuing the easement donation at $25 million, according to prosecutors.
In January 2015, the easement donation to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy was publicly disclosed. Dillion wrote to an attorney at the Trump Organization, advising against a press conference to avoid drawing undue scrutiny to the transaction, says the suit.
Advised not to tout donation
“Remind him (Trump) that the larger the value and the more he makes of it, then he is telling the world how large a tax deduction he is taking for it,” she wrote, according to the lawsuit. “In this case, this is tantamount to the US taxpayers paying Donald Trump to keep his driving range and use it for exactly what he is already using it for.”
Trump nevertheless held a press conference to announce the donation of the easement.
“It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a year, maybe a little longer than a year, and I decided to pull the trigger and do it,” Trump said the time, adding that giving up entitlements to develop the land “was not an easy thing to do” because it is valued at “much more than $25 million.”
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy, which has preserved 1,500 acres, did not respond to a request for comment regarding the donation.
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If Hes Elected The Stock Market Will Crash: Trumps 2020 Warning About Biden Comes True | The Daily Wire
‘If He’s Elected, The Stock Market Will Crash’: Trump’s 2020 Warning About Biden Comes True | The Daily Wire https://digitalarkansasnews.com/if-hes-elected-the-stock-market-will-crash-trumps-2020-warning-about-biden-comes-true-the-daily-wire/
A clip of former President Donald Trump arguing that the election of President Joe Biden would lead to a plummeting stock market circulated online on Friday after Wall Street saw a bloodbath.
The Federal Reserve increased targets for the federal funds rate by 0.75% on Wednesday afternoon, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks 30 of the most prominent companies on American exchanges, tumbling more than 500 points. After stagnating on Thursday, the index fell another 500 points by early Friday afternoon to 29,400. On January 20, 2021, the day of Biden’s inauguration, the Dow had closed slightly above 30,900.
“They said the stock market will boom if I am elected,” Trump said during a 2020 presidential debate. “If he’s elected, the stock market will crash.”
Nasdaq Performance 612 days in office
President Trump: +44.17
President Biden: -19.24%pic.twitter.com/DOitQP1a7h
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) September 23, 2022
According to conservative polling group InteractivePolls, which posted the clip from the debate to social media, the tech-heavy NASDAQ had risen 44% once Trump was 612 days into his first term. At the same point in Biden’s tenure, however, the index has fallen more than 19%.
Indeed, the United States economy has languished over the past two years under multiple disruptions — including labor shortages, supply chain bottlenecks, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine — all of which have contributed to worsening inflationary pressures.
Price levels between August 2021 and August 2022 rose 8.3%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, marking a slight moderation from an 8.5% year-over-year increase in July and a 9.1% year-over-year increase in June. Despite the moderation in year-over-year inflation, month-to-month prices for food, shelter, and medical services ticked upward, while core inflation — a metric that excludes food and energy, which tend to be more volatile — continued to rise.
Officials from the Biden administration have nevertheless claimed that the economy is strong. When Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy pressed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on a poll showing that 83% of Americans believe the economy is “poor or not so good” earlier this year, she doubled down on the notion that the economy has improved since Biden assumed office.
“What I’m trying to say to you is that the economy is in a better place than it has been historically,” Jean-Pierre said. “And so, we feel, here at this administration and other experts as well … we feel that we are in a good position to take on inflation. We are in a good position to really start really working on lowering prices.”
A key factor behind inflationary pressures has been the cost of energy. Biden has pushed renewable power while leasing less federal land for oil and natural gas drilling than any of his predecessors since World War II. At the beginning of his tenure, Biden also nixed expansions to the Keystone XL pipeline project.
The Federal Reserve has repeatedly increased interest rate targets in response to rising price levels. Officials also announced interest rate hikes of 0.75% in June and July — moves meant to discourage inflation by increasing the cost of borrowing money for businesses and consumers. To stimulate the economy after the lockdown-induced recession, the Federal Reserve had formerly pegged a near-zero target interest rate and purchased government bonds from the market.
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Analysis | 4 Charts That Show The GOPs 2022 Popularity Gap
Analysis | 4 Charts That Show The GOP’s 2022 Popularity Gap https://digitalarkansasnews.com/analysis-4-charts-that-show-the-gops-2022-popularity-gap/
A month ago, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said out loud what many Republicans were undoubtedly feeling. Effectively, the message was: We’ve got a shot at a good 2022 midterm election, but some of these Trump candidates could screw it all up for us.
At the time, there was evidence of a GOP candidate problem — especially in the lagging poll numbers of some key Senate candidates.
Today, there’s considerably more.
An increase in public polling at the tail end of the primary season reinforces McConnell’s point — and not just in the races he and others might have had in mind. While it doesn’t count the GOP out of potentially winning the House and Senate and some key governor’s races, candidate popularity presents a significant and unnecessary hurdle in what should, historically speaking, be a good election for Republicans.
Where it’s perhaps most evident: when you look at the image ratings for the candidates — i.e. whether people view the candidate favorably or unfavorably.
The Washington Post reviewed more than 20 recent polls across the most competitive states in the 2020 presidential election, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And in most cases, the Trump-aligned candidates that observers have pegged as being potential liabilities in those states look like exactly that.
Oftentimes, the polls show voters in these states will be pretty evenly divided on which party they want in power when it’s presented as a generic choice — but then they’ll side with the specific, more popular Democrat.
Here are some big races where these popularity gaps could come into play in November.
The gap is perhaps most pronounced in Pennsylvania, where both GOP Senate nominee Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano have trailed consistently in the polls.
Oz was broadly unpopular during the GOP primary, and he doesn’t appear to have improved his standing too much. In three recent polls — from Muhlenberg College, CBS/YouGov and Monmouth University — the percentage of people who viewed him unfavorably was double-digits higher than those who viewed him favorably. The Muhlenberg poll showed 29 percent of people liked him, while 53 percent disliked him. And the CBS/YouGov poll shows even 36 percent of Trump voters dislike him.
Oz’s opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), has middling approval numbers. But in each poll, Fetterman’s net favorability (i.e. positive views vs. negative ones) is more than 20 points higher than Oz’s, which helps explain Fetterman’s consistent edge in the race, which stands at around nine points in the FiveThirtyEight average.
The story is similar in the governor’s race, where Mastriano’s image ratings are about as bad as Oz’s; he’s also double-digits underwater in all three polls. (Monmouth, his best of the three polls, puts him at 36 percent favorable and 48 percent unfavorable.) And thanks to running against a Democrat who’s more popular than Fetterman, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Mastriano’s net image rating is consistently more than 30 points worse than his opponent.
Mastriano’s current average deficit is more than 10 points.
Perhaps the other two Senate races where this really comes into play are Ohio and Arizona.
Two recent polls show Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) with a net image rating 12 and 20 points better than Republican J.D. Vance. One of them — from Marist College — shows Democrats view Ryan by a favorably by a 76-point margin (79-3), but Republicans view Vance favorably by just a 45-point margin (58-13).
Ohio, unlike other states we’re focused on here, is increasingly a red state. But for these reasons, it’s looking like a headache for the GOP to win a race that should be in its column. The race is neck-and-neck.
In Arizona, there’s less quality public polling. But GOP nominee Blake Masters’s net favorability in a recent bipartisan AARP poll is minus-17 (37 percent favorable to 54 percent unfavorable), while Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is slightly popular. In both that and another poll, Masters’s net image rating is around 20 points worse than Kelly’s.
A McConnell-linked super PAC pulled out of the race this week, canceling $10 million in ad buys. Kelly leads by an average of 7.5 points.
Another nominee some have suggested could hurt the GOP is Kari Lake in the Arizona governor’s race. The evidence on that is less clear, and the race is polling tighter than the Senate race. But the same AARP poll showed Lake 10 points underwater (43 percent favorable to 53 percent unfavorable), while her opponent, Democrat Katie Hobbs, was slightly popular.
This popularity gap could also be important in a few other races.
One is the Michigan governor’s race, where Trump-backed Tudor Dixon was double-digits underwater in two recent polls — including an EPIC-MRA poll that pegged her favorable rating at just 24 percent and her unfavorable rating at 44 percent. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) remains popular, with a majority approving of her job performance. In both polls, her net image rating is 28 points better than Dixon’s, and she leads by double digits in the head-to-head matchup.
Another is the Wisconsin Senate race, where both a recent Siena College poll and a Marquette Law School poll showed fewer than 40 percent of voters like two-term incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes’s (D) net image ratings are nine and 15 points better. But the race is very tight.
In the similarly tight Wisconsin governor’s race, Trump-endorsed GOP nominee Tim Michels is less popular than Gov. Tony Evers (D) by similar margins.
Georgia and New Hampshire
In the final two races we’ll spotlight, the gap is less pronounced — but still exists in a way that could matter.
Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker is consistently both underwater and less popular than Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.), but the gap is usually between five and 10 points — which might help explain why he’s not underperforming as much as some of these other candidates, despite running a very uneven campaign. (Walker does lag behind GOP Gov. Brian Kemp’s performance in various polls, though. And the CBS/YouGov poll found a much larger gap in which candidate people like personally.)
And in New Hampshire, new GOP nominee Don Bolduc is 17 points underwater in a new University of New Hampshire poll (26 percent favorable to 43 percent unfavorable), compared to Sen. Maggie Hassan’s (D-N.H.) minus-nine image rating. Hassan led in that poll by eight points and has led Bolduc in every poll.
One thing we’ve alluded to — and which you’ll notice if you dig into these polls — is that these popularity gaps are often bigger than the margins in the actual head-to-head matchups. And there’s one main reason for that: partisanship.
As The Post’s Philip Bump recently wrote, the CBS/YouGov poll showed Fetterman led Oz on several key issues when it comes to voters’ decisions, often by double digits. Yet Fetterman led by just five points on the ballot test. That’s because party often wins out on voters’ decisions.
Even more telling: The same pollster showed that, in both Pennsylvania and Georgia, a majority of people supporting the Democrat said they were doing so primarily because they liked their candidate. But 8 in 10 supporters of the Republican said their vote was primarily about supporting their party or voting against the other candidate.
That’s undoubtedly in part because those Republican candidates aren’t exactly setting the campaign trail on fire. But those numbers also show that how much voters like a particular candidate is hardly their only consideration at the ballot box — and often, nor is it the most important one.
Indeed, what these polls suggest is that if Republicans can win in these states — and by extension win the Senate — it’ll be in large part because of a favorable environment and the ever-present pull of partisanship.
And it will apparently be in spite of some of the candidates they’ve put forward.
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3 People, Including 15-Year-Old, Shot At Kennywood https://digitalarkansasnews.com/3-people-including-15-year-old-shot-at-kennywood-2/
Three people were shot, including a 15-year-old, Saturday night at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Allegheny County police said.The shooting was the result of an altercation between two groups inside the park in front of the Musik Express ride, police said.Multiple agencies responded to the park around 10:49 p.m. Saturday after initial reports of shots fired.Police are now searching for a suspect. Officials describe him as a teenage male wearing a black hoodie and a COVID-19-style mask at the time of the shooting. Officers recovered a handgun inside the park.The three victims include a 15-year-old who was shot in the thigh, a 39-year-old who was shot in the leg, and, officials said, a second juvenile who arrived at a hospital with a graze wound. Several other people were treated for “trampling style” injuries, police said.Saturday was the park’s first public Phantom Fall Fest day of the season. The Halloween-themed event was scheduled to run from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday. The park was scheduled to open Sunday, but Kennywood’s website indicates that the park will now be closed and will reopen Sept. 30.In a series of tweets Saturday night on Twitter, park officials wrote: “The park is closed for the night and all guests have exited. We are aware of a situation that occurred this evening and are working with local law enforcement. The safety of our guests and Team Members are our top priority. Members of the park’s security, Allegheny County, and West Mifflin police departments were already on site and immediately responded.”A WTAE photojournalist saw multiple police markers in front of the Musik Express, near the entrance to the Phantom’s Revenge.While police said a handgun was recovered inside the park, all guests and employees to Kennywood “must pass through metal detectors at the entrance gate, and all bags, purses and coolers are subject to search,” the park’s website says. By 1:50 a.m. Sunday, Kennywood Boulevard reopened to traffic.This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates. Download the WTAE mobile app to stay connected with breaking news.
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. —
Three people were shot, including a 15-year-old, Saturday night at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Allegheny County police said.
The shooting was the result of an altercation between two groups inside the park in front of the Musik Express ride, police said.
Multiple agencies responded to the park around 10:49 p.m. Saturday after initial reports of shots fired.
Police are now searching for a suspect. Officials describe him as a teenage male wearing a black hoodie and a COVID-19-style mask at the time of the shooting. Officers recovered a handgun inside the park.
The three victims include a 15-year-old who was shot in the thigh, a 39-year-old who was shot in the leg, and, officials said, a second juvenile who arrived at a hospital with a graze wound. Several other people were treated for “trampling style” injuries, police said.
Saturday was the park’s first public Phantom Fall Fest day of the season. The Halloween-themed event was scheduled to run from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday.
The park was scheduled to open Sunday, but Kennywood’s website indicates that the park will now be closed and will reopen Sept. 30.
In a series of tweets Saturday night on Twitter, park officials wrote: “The park is closed for the night and all guests have exited. We are aware of a situation that occurred this evening and are working with local law enforcement. The safety of our guests and Team Members are our top priority. Members of the park’s security, Allegheny County, and West Mifflin police departments were already on site and immediately responded.”
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The park is closed for the night and all guests have exited. We are aware of a situation that occurred this evening and are working with local law enforcement. (1/2)
— Kennywood (@Kenny_Kangaroo) September 25, 2022
A WTAE photojournalist saw multiple police markers in front of the Musik Express, near the entrance to the Phantom’s Revenge.
While police said a handgun was recovered inside the park, all guests and employees to Kennywood “must pass through metal detectors at the entrance gate, and all bags, purses and coolers are subject to search,” the park’s website says.
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More: 15 year old shot in thigh, 39 year old shot in leg, another juvenile showed up at hospital with graze wound. Police say shooting was preceded by altercation between two groups. @WTAE
— Mike Valente (@ValenteWTAE) September 25, 2022
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Suspect is described as teenage male, with black hoodie and “COVID style” mask. @WTAE
— Mike Valente (@ValenteWTAE) September 25, 2022
By 1:50 a.m. Sunday, Kennywood Boulevard reopened to traffic.
This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates. Download the WTAE mobile app to stay connected with breaking news.
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Along The Caddo https://digitalarkansasnews.com/along-the-caddo/
On the dust jacket of “Remote Access,” a book about small public libraries from the University of Arkansas Press, there’s a photo of two men sitting in front of the library at Norman.
According to the text: “If ever architectural placement indicated a community’s attitude, it does in Norman. The town on the Caddo River has had a library for well over 80 years. The building measures 14 by 22 feet and sits by itself in the center of a town square that appears a bit out of scale for the size of the community. The one-story structure is dwarfed by trees and surrounded by a rock wall that delineates the central public space.
“This is no branch library; it belongs to no larger system. It receives no funding from the state or local government. While it is beloved and supported by the people of Norman, it is not technically a public library. It’s simply the Norman Library, and as such, it made its way into the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest freestanding library in North America.” In a cover story for today’s Perspective section, I outline why the stretch along the Caddo River from Norman in Montgomery County to Glenwood in Pike County could be the most likely spot in southwest Arkansas to attract Dallas-Fort Worth area residents who are looking to get away from it all. If that were to happen, we would see shops and restaurants filling old stone buildings in Norman and Caddo Gap.
This beautiful but remote part of the state seems ripe for revitalization as Americans, scarred by the pandemic, look for places with no traffic, little crime, a low cost of living, scenery and abundant outdoor recreational opportunities. The timber industry has long been the largest sector of the economy in this part of southwest Arkansas. If what has happened at Hochatown in southeastern Oklahoma is any indication, attracting wealthy Texans might be the next big thing.
Like Hochatown, Norman and Caddo Gap border the Ouachita National Forest. In addition to scenic beauty, this area has a rich history.
“According to Arkansas Archeological Survey findings, Native Americans inhabited areas near Caddo Gap dating back to the Dalton culture,” Hattie Felton writes for the Central Arkansas Library System’s Encyclopedia of Arkansas. “In the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, Caddo Indians lived and farmed here. For many years, historians believed that Hernando de Soto’s expedition in 1541 encountered and fought the Tula tribe near present-day Caddo Gap.
“The Arkansas History Commission erected a monument in 1936 to commemorate that conflict. However, historic and archaeological research now indicate that de Soto’s encounter with the Tula Indians occurred elsewhere. The first white settlers arrived before 1815, but settlement numbers remained low until the 1830s. During the 1830s and 1840s, settlers established a small gristmill, stores, a Methodist church and a toll bridge.” A Masonic lodge was started in the 1850s. In 1857, a post office known as Centreville opened. During the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Albert Pike purchased land in the area.
“Local tradition states that Pike built a two-story house and lived in the quiet community, reading and writing for nearly a year,” Felton writes. “He left suddenly in 1864, fleeing bushwackers who destroyed his home. After the Civil War, the post office changed its name from Centreville to Caddo Gap. The population grew to several hundred when the railroad came to Montgomery County. The community added a newspaper, a bank, hotels, a cotton gin, blacksmith shops, a school and a sawmill.” These days, visitors can stop at Gap Mercantile. Several outfitters provide canoe and kayak rental services on the Caddo.
Nearby Norman, known as Womble until 1925, had a population of 303 in the 2020 census. The high-water mark came in 1980 when the population was 539. Womble was created during construction of the Gurdon & Fort Smith Railroad. Lumber mills were established along the tracks as Northern-owned companies cut out the virgin pine timber.
“In 1905, plans were announced to extend the Gurdon & Fort Smith line from Glenwood, then its terminus, to Black Springs in Montgomery County,” writes historian Russell Baker. “The announcement brought a large number of land speculators, including Walter Womble Sr., into the area. In 1907, a dispute over rights of way halted the project several miles short of its goal. The Black Spring Lumber Co. abandoned plans to build a lumber mill at Black Springs and chose a site at the railhead instead.
“It was soon joined by Bear State Lumber Co. In 1907, Womble, taking advantage of the situation, acquired land and staked out a town, named Womble, in a field just north of the railhead. Its post office opened in July 1907 with Womble as postmaster. Within a year, Womble was a bustling village with hotels, churches, a newspaper and about 50 residents.” The town was incorporated in February 1910 with a population of 552. Four years later, it became home of the Ouachita National Forest’s Womble Ranger Station. Multiple attempts to have the Montgomery County seat moved from Mount Ida to Womble failed.
“In 1920, the Arkansas Presbyterian Church began an educational mission known as a mountain mission at Womble under the care of minister John T. Barr,” Baker writes. “The next year, a boarding school called Caddo Valley Academy opened to help educate the area’s ‘worthy but needy’ children. In 1924, the academy obtained a 37-acre site at Womble and began construction of a complex of buildings.
“The academy became a landmark in southern Montgomery County. During the 1930s, its operations were consolidated with those of the Norman School District. Meanwhile, Walter Womble and his supporters became a disruptive factor as they sought to move the county seat. His influence waned, especially after 1922 when he was replaced as postmaster. In 1925, his fellow citizens won a change of name for their community to Norman. Womble and his family moved to Fort Smith.” Barr, this area’s educational pioneer, was born in 1886. He first aspired to be a lawyer and politician but later dedicated his career to the Presbyterian Church.
“Barr’s first placement as a minister was in Womble, and he never left,” Laura Choate writes for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. “Prior to his arrival and establishment of Caddo Valley Academy, Womble had a public school system that provided basic courses through the eighth grade. There was a high school in town, but there weren’t enough qualified teachers to meet the criteria for accreditation. When Barr privatized the school, creating CVA, he recruited more qualified teachers so all 12 grades could be taught.
“CVA’s curriculum emphasized biblical teachings, though sectarianism was prohibited. Since CVA had students from numerous religious backgrounds, Barr felt it would be inappropriate to require students to follow the Presbyterian faith in order to graduate. Instead, the final four years of the students’ education included basic Bible classes in addition to the standard curriculum.” Due to financial assistance from the church, CVA was able to keep its tuition at $9 a year for juniors and $18 a year for seniors. The school moved into a new building in 1925 and began offering only junior high and high school classes. Some believe the town was named Norman in honor of a woman from California who made a sizable donation for the building.
Financial difficulties plagued CVA during the Great Depression, and the county school board reclaimed control from the Presbyterian Church. But Barr had established the town as an educational center for this rural region, leading to things such as that little library that still stands on the square.
Caddo Gap and Norman are small jewels in the Ouachita Mountains, just waiting to be discovered.
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James Buckley disputes points made by a lifelong Republican who wrote to cite lies by former President Donald Trump.
The first rule in reporting is to “check your facts.”
In relating the incident in which Mr. Trump mocked a disabled Washington Post reporter, Mr. Buckley defends Mr. Trump’s denial he had done this, claiming the man was “groveling,” and adding, “I do not know what he looks like.” The Washington Post version cites the reporter himself as having said, “Donald and I were on a first-name basis for years.”
As for Mr. Buckley’s claim that Mr. Trump “has shown much respect for military families,” he must not recall the furor over the well-documented statement by Mr. Trump that members of the military were “suckers” and “losers.” Are not soldiers members of these “military families?” My husband served during the Korean War and he is not a “loser.” He was a patriot who stepped forth in the service of his country.
Again, Mr. Buckley should do his research before defending Mr. Trump against claims of his lies.
As for his refusal to call John McCain a “hero” because he’d been a POW for five years during the Vietnam War, I would say that the many medals Sen. McCain earned before being shot down gave him the status of “hero,” as would the description “4F draft dodger” fit Donald Trump. Valor versus cowardice.
Mr. Buckley’s puzzling refusal to accept that Mr. Trump is a man who lies is a serious flaw in his own thinking. Where is his objectivity? He seems to think that Mr. Trump is “right,”no matter what Mr. Trump does that is clearly “wrong.”
Mr. Buckley’s defense of Mr. Trump’s attacks on our hallowed institutions — whether the intelligence community, the Justice Department, our carefully-structured voting system that protects the vote of all of us as American citizens, the integrity of the Fourth Estate through his “Fake News” claims — as well as Trump’s attempts to dismantle and disrupt these bulwarks of our democracy — make me wonder if Mr. Buckley is thinking clearly about these crucial challenges to our Republican system of government.
A question I have for Mr. Buckley is, “Do you stand with Donald Trump in his embrace of QAnon theory as espoused in his rally in Ohio?”
Where is his breaking point in his blind loyalty to the worst man to ever inhabit the presidency?
Joanne O’Roark
Santa Barbara
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Conservative Buries GOP For Standing By Trump's 'garbage' Candidates
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By Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune
Sept. 24, 2022
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney said she would do “whatever it takes” to make sure former President Donald Trump is not the GOP presidential nominee during the 2024 elections, including stumping for Democrats running against election deniers running as Republicans.
When asked by Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith if she would consider running for president toward that end, the Republican congresswoman reiterated she would do everything in her power to prevent the former president from representing her party in the next presidential election.
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“I certainly will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn’t anywhere close to the Oval Office,” Cheney said during the closing night of The Texas Tribune Festival.
Cheney, who lost to a Republican primary challenger in August but will continue as vice chair of the House Jan. 6 Committee until she leaves office in January, said she continues to identify as a Republican, celebrating the legacy of the likes of Ronald Reagan and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
But she said she would no longer be a Republican if Trump gets the party’s nomination in 2024.
“I’m going to make sure Donald Trump, make sure he’s not the nominee,” Cheney said. “And if he is the nominee, I won’t be a Republican.”
Cheney maintained that she is an ardent conservative on policy issues, voting in near lockstep with Trump’s legislative agenda when he was in office. But she warned a House Republican majority would give outsized power to members who have been staunch allies of the former president and his efforts to keep the White House, including U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Jim Jordan.
Cheney excoriated Trump for his failure to call off rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. She said without equivocation that any decision by the investigating committee about whether there should be criminal prosecution would be unanimous across the seven Democrats and two Republicans. She did not say whether the committee would decide in favor of a criminal prosecution.
“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,” Cheney said. “It was a multipart plan that he oversaw, he was involved in personally and directly.
“While leaders in Congress were begging him, ‘Please, tell the mob to go home,’ Donald Trump wouldn’t,” Cheney said. “And just set the politics aside for a minute and think to yourself, ‘What kind of human being does that?’”
The committee is gearing up to wrap up its work in the coming weeks and is slated to meet this Wednesday for another public hearing, offering no details about what will be discussed then. She said next week’s hearing is unlikely to be the committee’s last, despite committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., suggesting the opposite earlier this week.
When asked if she would like Trump to testify before the committee, she paused for a moment before offering the following: “Any interaction that Donald Trump has with the committee will be under oath and subject to penalty of perjury.”
Cheney suffered a precipitous loss in the Republican primary for her Wyoming seat for her role on the committee, and she said Saturday that she would not vote for the Republican nominee for her seat, Harriet Hageman, in the general election.
But she challenged the audience not to question her ability to keep fighting against Trump after she leaves the House.
When asked about her own presidential ambitions, Cheney demurred.
“It’s really important not to just immediately jump to the horse race and to think about what we need as a country,” Cheney said.
Her criticisms aren’t limited to the former president. Cheney also flatly said she does not believe House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy should ever become Speaker of the House, which would put him second in line to the presidency behind the vice president.
“At every single moment, when our time of testing came and Kevin had to make a decision … he’s made the politically easy-for-him, or the politically expedient, decision instead of what the country needed,” she said.
But Cheney didn’t give up hope in her party, saying: “I think we have to have a Republican Party that can be trusted to fight for” issues such as limited government and strong national security.
Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, is another vocal opponent of Trump. He called the former president a coward and the greatest “threat to our republic” in history in a campaign ad supporting his daughter’s primary run. Liz Cheney said that her father offered her a piece of advice on New Year’s Day this year: “‘Defend the republic, daughter.’ And I will,” she said.
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/24/liz-cheney-texas-tribune-festival/.
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'I Don't Want To Die For Someone Else's Ambitions': Men Across Russia Face Mobilization | CNN
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CNN —
Tension was in the air as a long trail of cars lined up near the Petkuhovo checkpoint on the border between Russia and Kazakhstan late Friday night.
Andrei Alekseev, a 27-year-old engineer from the city of Yekaterinburg, was among many men in the queue who were fleeing Russia in the wake of President Vladimir Putin’s mobilization orders.
Cars had to go through Russian and Kazakh border checks, both of which lasted about two hours.
Alekseev woke up to the news of Putin’s mobilization order on Wednesday morning and he knew he had to flee Russia. He met up with his friends that night to discuss their next steps and decided to avoid taking any risks and to leave Russia with no plan in mind.
On Saturday, Putin signed the law on military service, setting a jail term of up to 10 years for evading military duty due to mobilization, and up to 15 years in prison for wartime desertion.
The legal amendments also introduce concepts of “mobilization, martial law and wartime” to the Russian Criminal Code. Putin also signed a decree granting university students a deferment from mobilization.
“At the border, all the men were asked whether they served in the army and what is their military service category,” Alekseev told CNN.
“I felt that the border guards were very understanding, however, I had friends who crossed the border to Kazakhstan at a different checkpoint and they were met with grueling questions, it took them seven hours to cross,” he told CNN.
Suffering heavy losses in Ukraine this month amid Ukraine’s counter-offensive, Putin raised the stakes this week with the draft and his backing for referendums in the occupied territories in Ukraine.
The decree signed by Putin appears to allow for wider mobilization than he suggested in the speech that aired on Wednesday. According to the address, 300,000 reservists would be drafted to the front, breaking his promises earlier in the war that there would be no mobilization. However, the decree itself puts no cap on how many people can be mobilized.
“Mobilization is called ‘partial,’ but no parameters of this partiality, neither geographical, nor in terms of criteria, are specified,” Ekaterina Schulmann, a Russian political scientist, wrote on her social media page.
“According to this text, anyone can be drafted, except for workers of the military-industrial complex.”
Men aged 18 to 60 across Russia are now facing mobilization as reservists to fight Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine.
Once Alekseev and his wife crossed into Kazahstan, they found that all of the hotels in the border towns were booked, so the couple drove to Astana, the country’s capital, where they are now looking for an apartment.
“Three days ago, I did not think that I would be in Kazakhstan and looking for an apartment here. We are planning to stay for two months, then maybe go to Uzbekistan to renew the period of stay, I will look for work at international companies,” he told CNN.
Kirill Ponomarev, 23, who also fled Russia via a Kazakhstan border, said he struggled to book a ticket. The night before Putin’s address he was looking up tickets out of Russia.
“For some reason, I couldn’t buy a ticket, the night before while waiting for Putin’s speech. And then I fell asleep without buying a ticket, when I woke up, ticket prices jumped,” Ponomarev told CNN.
Men rushed to the borders exchanging tips on Telegram channels and among friends. One-way flights out of Russia sold out within hours of the mobilization announcement.
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 take over 24 hours to cross.
The Kremlin mocked Russians’ reactions by calling it a “hysterical and overly-emotional reaction.”
Meanwhile, protests broke out across Russia on Wednesday and brutal detentions followed with reports of detained protesters being handed draft letters at police stations. According to the independent monitoring group OVD-Info, more than 1,300 people were detained by authorities in at least 43 cities across Russia.
While all men aged below 60 in Russia now share the fear of getting drafted, Putin’s mobilization disproportionately affects poorer, more ethnically diverse regions of Russia, according to Alexandra Garmazhapova, president of the Free Buryatia Foundation, who spoke to CNN.
“In Buryatia, mobilization is not partial, everyone is mobilized. Summons come to students, pensioners, fathers of many children, people with disabilities,” she told CNN.
Garmazhapova, whose organization provides legal help to mobilised men and their relatives, says every day she hears multiple stories of people being drafted without any regard to age, military history or health conditions.
“Yesterday afternoon, a taxi driver went to refuel the car, and when he was standing at a gas station, a bus passed by with the recruits,” she told CNN.
“The bus stopped abruptly when they saw him and they stuffed him into this bus. They didn’t give him any things to take, nothing. His car was left at this gas station, then relatives took it away,” she said.
Those men who stayed behind in Russia, now take extra caution when leaving their house. Kirill, a 27-year-old IT professional from St. Petersburg who declined to give his surname, said he is starting to think about moving after most of his friends have already received draft letters.
“I adore St. Petersburg but I am starting to have thoughts about moving. Today, I lived another day and tomorrow it might not be safe for me to get into a taxi without a risk of getting drafted,” Kirill told CNN.
“For now, I am keeping an eye on the situation and how it develops. For me, going to war or going to prison are ‘bad options, so hopefully, I can avoid both,” he said.
Kirill, who is half-Ukrainian, said he cannot imagine going to war and killing Ukrainians. “I will not be able to explain my actions to relatives who are in Ukraine. We talk every day,” he said.
Some men were lucky to find out the news of mobilization orders from abroad. Ilya, 35, was on vacation with his family in Turkey when he received a text from his co-workers in Kurgan, a city in the Urals region of Russia, that his office had received a draft letter for him.
His wife and child returned to Russia while he stayed behind in Turkey. “I don’t want war, I don’t want to die for someone else’s ambitions, I don’t want to prove anything to anyone, it was a difficult decision to not return to Russia, very difficult, I don’t know when I can now see my family, my loved ones,” Ilya told CNN.
Ilya served in the Russian army years ago, so is considered to be in the reserve. “I am at a loss and do not know what to do, how to provide for my family being so far from them. I’m deep in debt because of such sudden forced decisions, and I’m just morally exhausted,” he said.
Since the start of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, economic sanctions on Russia made any international transactions close to impossible. Ilya said he wants to be reunited with his family.
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TV And Streaming Viewing Picks For September 25 2022: How To Watch NFL Week 3
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Basketball
Women’s
FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup
Group A, Sydney SuperDome, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Belgium vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina — ESPN+, 9:20 p.m.
Republic of Korea vs. United States — ESPN2, midnight
Communist China vs. Puerto Rico — ESPN+, 3:20 a.m. (Monday)
Canada vs. Australia — ESPN+, 6:20 a.m. (Monday)
Group A, Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Serbia vs. Mali — ESPN+, 11:20 p.m.
France vs. Japan — ESPN+, 1:50 a.m. (Monday)
College Soccer
Men’s
Portland vs. Utah Tech — Stadium College Sports Pacific, 10 p.m.
Women’s
Florida vs. Georgia — ESPNU, noon
Rutgers vs. Maryland — Big Ten Network, 1 p.m.
San Diego State vs. Wyoming — Stadium College Sports Central, 3 p.m.
Kansas vs. TCU — ESPNU, 4 p.m.
Auburn vs. Mississippi — SEC Network, 4 p.m.
Wake Forest vs. Virginia Tech — ACC Network, 5 p.m.
North Carolina State vs. Duke — ACC Network, 7 p.m.
College Volleyball
Women’s
LSU at Kentucky — SEC Network, noon
Purdue at Iowa — ESPN2, 1 p.m.
Louisville at Florida State — ESPNU, 2 p.m.
Auburn at Alabama — SEC Network, 2 p.m.
Stanford at Oregon — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Bay Area/Pac-12 Oregon, 3 p.m.
Arizona State at Colorado — Pac-12 Insider, 3 p.m.
Washington at UCLA — ESPNU, 6 p.m.
Wisconsin at Minnesota — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.
Drag Racing
NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series
NHRA Carolina Nationals, ZMax Dragway at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, NC
Qualifying Show 2 — FS1, 2 p.m.
Finals — FS1, 3 p.m.
Golf
LPGA Tour
NW Arkansas Championship, Pinnacle Country Club, Rogers, AR
Final Round
Featured Groups — ESPN+, 8 a.m.
Main Feed — Golf Channel, noon
PGA Tour
Presidents Cup, Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, NC
United States vs. International
Day 4 (Singles) — NBC/Peacock, noon
Live From the Presidents Cup — Golf Channel, 6 p.m.
PGA Tour Champions
Pure Insurance Championship, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach, CA
Final Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.
Horse Racing
America’s Day at the Races — FS1, 12:30 p.m.
America’s Day at the Races — FS2, 4:45 p.m.
MLB
American League
Houston at Baltimore — AT&T SportsNet Southwest/MASN, 1 p.m.
Toronto at Tampa Bay — MLB Network/Sportsnet/Bally Sports Sun, 1 p.m.
Anaheim at Minnesota — Bally Sports West/Bally Sports North, 2 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago White Sox — Bally Sports Detroit/NBC Sports Chicago, 2 p.m.
Seattle at Kansas City — Root Sports/Bally Sports Kansas City, 2 p.m.
Cleveland at Texas — Bally Sports Great Lakes/Bally Sports Southwest, 2:30 p.m.
Boston at New York Yankees — ESPN, 7 p.m./ESPN2 (Kay-Rod), 7 p.m.
National League
Atlanta at Philadelphia — MLB Network/Bally Sports South/NBC Sports Philadelphia, 1 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh — Marquee Sports Network/AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh, 1:30 p.m.
Milwaukee at Cincinnati — Bally Sports Wisconsin/Bally Sports Ohio, 1:30 p.m.
Washington at Miami — MASN2/Bally Sports Florida, 1:30 p.m.
San Diego at Colorado — Bally Sports San Diego/AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, 3 p.m./MLB Network, 4 p.m. (joined in progress)
San Francisco at Arizona — NBC Sports Bay Area/Bally Sports Arizona, 3:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Los Angeles Dodgers — Bally Sports Midwest/Spectrum SportsNet LA, 4 p.m.
Interleague
New York Mets at Oakland — MLB Network/WPIX/NBC Sports California, 4 p.m.
Plays of the Week — MLB Network, noon
Blue Jays Central — Sportsnet, 12:30 p.m.
Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown — ESPN, 6 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 7 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
NASCAR
NASCAR Cup Series
Playoffs — Round of 12
Texas 500, Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX
Race– USA Network, 3:30 p.m.
Countdown to Green: Texas — USA Network, 2:30 p.m.
NASCAR Cup Series Post-Race Show — USA Network, 7:30 p.m.
NBA
Golden State Warriors Media Day — NBA TV, 5 p.m.
NFL
Week 3
NFL on CBS — 1 p.m.
Buffalo at Miami
Cincinnati at New York Jets
Houston at Chicago
Kansas City at Indianapolis
NFL on Fox — 1 p.m.
Baltimore at New England
Detroit at Minnesota
Las Vegas at Tennessee
New Orleans at Carolina
Philadelphia at Washington
NFL on CBS — 4:05 p.m.
Jacksonville at Los Angeles Chargers
NFL on Fox — 4:25 p.m.
Atlanta at Seattle
Green Bay at Tampa Bay
Los Angeles Rams at Arizona
NFL Viewing Maps — the506.com
Sunday Night Football, Empower Field at Mile High, Denver, CO
San Francisco 49ers at Denver Broncos — NBC/Peacock/Universo, 8:20 p.m.
That Other Pregame Show — CBS Sports Network, 9 a.m.
NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m.
Sunday NFL Countdown — ESPN, 10 a.m.
Fantasy Football Now — ESPN2, 10 a.m.
Fox NFL Kickoff — Fox, 11 a.m.
Fantasy Football Pregame with Matthew Berry — Peacock, 11 a.m.
The NFL Today — CBS, noon
Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, noon
Red Zone Channel — DirecTV Channel 703, 12:55 p.m.
Fantasy Zone Channel– DirecTV Channel 704, 12:55 p.m.
NFL RedZone — Check your local listings, 12:58 p.m.
NFL GameDay Live — NFL Network, 1 p.m.
NFL Today Postgame Show — CBS, 4 p.m.
NFL GameDay Live — NFL Network, 4:30 p.m.
Football Night in America — NBC, 7 p.m.
The OT — Fox, 7:30 p.m.
NFL GameDay Highlights — NFL Network, 7:30 p.m.
NFL Primetime — ESPN+, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday Night Football en Universo pregame — Universo, 8 p.m.
NFL GameDay Final — NFL Network, 11:30 p.m.
Peacock Sunday Night Final — Peacock, 11:30 p.m.
NHL Preseason
Buffalo at Washington — NHL Network/NBC Sports Washington, 2 p.m.
Winnipeg at Edmonton — TSN3/NHL Network, 6 p.m.
Calgary at Vancouver — Sportsnet/TVA Sports, 7 p.m.
Vegas at Colorado — NHL Network/KNTV/Altitude, 9 p.m.
NWSL
Portland Thorns vs. Chicago Red Stars — Paramount+, 4 p.m.
Kansas City Current vs. Washington Spirit — Paramount+, 5 p.m.
Orlando Pride vs. San Diego Wave — Paramount+, 7 p.m.
Angel City vs. Racing Louisville — Paramount+, 8 p.m.
Soccer
Men’s
Super Clásico, Bobby Dodd Stadium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Club América vs. Guadalajara — Telemundo/Universo, 4:30 p.m.//UniMás/TUDN, 4:55 p.m.
Línea de cuatro — TUDN, 7 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPN+, 8 p.m.
Sports News & Talk
SportsCenter — ESPN, 7 a.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN, 8 a.m
E60: The Great Imposter and Me — ESPNews, 8 a.m.
More Ways to Win — FanDuel TV, 8 a.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN, 9 a.m.
Daily Wager — ESPN2, 9 a.m.
E60: Project 11: Alex Smith’s Final Drive — ESPNews, 9 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 9:15 a.m.
Live on the Line — Stadium, noon
Contacto deportivo — TUDN, noon
The Rally Rewind — Stadium, 1 p.m.
E60: The Survivor — ESPN2, 2 p.m.
Boundless: France: 140 km Mountain Bike Race — Stadium, 2 p.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 2:15 p.m.
Boundless: Scotland: Scottish Highlands Quadrathon– Stadium, 3 p.m.
República deportiva — Univision, 3 p.m.
TrueSouth: Nashville — ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.
Red Bull Imagination — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Fubo Sports Network Presents — Fubo Sports Network, 5:45 p.m.
No Chill With Gilbert Arenas: Al Harrington — Fubo Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 9:45 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN, 10 p.m.
Contacto deportivo — TUDN, 10 p.m.
SEC Storied: The Play That Changed College Football — ESPNU, 11 p.m.
Zona mixta — Telemundo, 11:30 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, 11:30 p.m.
La jugada — Univision/TUDN, midnight
Boomer and Gio — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m. (Monday)
Keyshawn, JWill and Max — ESPN2, 6 a.m. (Monday)
Sport Today — BBC World News, 6:45 a.m. (Monday)
Tennis
Laver Cup
Team Europe vs. Team World, O2 Arena, London, England, United Kingdom
Day 2: Day Session — Tennis Channel, 8 a.m.
Day 2: Night Session — Tennis Channel, 2 p.m.
Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 1:30 p.m.
ATP Tour
San Diego Open, Barnes Tennis Center, San Diego, CA
Final — Tennis Channel, 6 p.m.
Courtside Live: Korea Open Tennis Championships (ATP)/Sofia Open (ATP)/Tel Aviv Open (ATP)/Parma Ladies Open (WTA)/Tallinn Open (WTA) — Tennis Channel, 11 p.m.
UEFA Nations League
League Phase — Matchday 6
League D — Group 1, Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella, Andorra
Andorra vs. Latvia — FS2, 8:50 a.m.
League D — Group 1, Stadionul Zimbru, Chișinău, Moldova
Moldova vs. Liechtenstein — Fox Soccer Plus, 9 a.m.
League C — Group 3, Dalga Arena, Baku, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan vs. Kazakhstan — FS2, 11:50 a.m.
League C — Group 3, TSC Arena, Bačka Topola, Serbia
Serbia vs. Belarus — Fox Soccer Plus, 11:50 a.m.
League A — Group 1, Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark vs. France — FS2, 2:30 p.m.
League A — Group 1, Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Wien, Austria
Austria vs. Croatia — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 p.m.
League A — Group 4, Johan Cruijff ArenA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Netherlands vs. Belgium — Fubo Sports Network, 2:33 p.m.
League C — Group 1, Tórsvøllur, Torshavn, Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands vs. Turkey — Fubo Sports Network 2, 2:35 p.m.
League A — Group 4, Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Wales vs. Poland — Fubo Sports Network 3, 2:35 p.m.
League C — Group 1, Stade de Luxembourg, Gasperich, Luxembourg
Luxembourg vs. Lithuania — Fubo Sports Network 8, 2:35 p.m.
UEFA Nations League Matchnight Highlights — FS1, 7 a.m.
UEFA Nations League Matchnight Highlights — Fox Soccer Plus, 11 p.m.
Women’s Super League
Chelsea vs. Manchester City — CBS Sports Network, 10:30 p.m. (same day coverage)
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Commentary Roundup: What Newspapers Around The State Are Saying
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Austin American-Statesman
Houston Chronicle
Sept. 16 editorial, “How cowardly can Greg Abbott be? He just showed us in George Floyd case.”
How cowardly can Gov. Greg Abbott get?
He showed us on Thursday. The state parole board finally rejected a posthumous pardon for George Floyd’s questionable 2004 drug conviction after months of uncertainty that wreaked of politics.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, not known to be a warm, fuzzy, compassionate entity, raised eyebrows in 2021 when it recommended that Abbott grant the posthumous pardon for Floyd, and then raised suspicions by abruptly rescinding it.
How did we get here?
The board’s vote to pardon Floyd had been unanimous. All that was left was Abbott’s approval, which he said he’d consider, before he suddenly went silent as the matter stalled. When the board took back its recommendation two months later, there was little explanation other than a procedural error that affected Floyd’s and 24 other requests.
Regardless, the decision had the desired consequence: Abbott, who is up for re-election and vying to be considered as a 2024 presidential contender, no longer had to make the tough choice between partisanship or justice.
— Houston Chronicle Editorial Board
San Antonio Express-News
Sept. 20 editorial, “Paxton intensifies election threat.”
SAN ANTONIO — Last month, Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion, the intent and consequence of which is all but certain to wreak havoc in county election offices across Texas in November. Allowing anyone to have access to ballots almost as soon as they’re counted will threaten the security of elections across the state.
In the press release accompanying his decision, Paxton tells Texans they deserve leaders “who work tirelessly to promote transparency in government and integrity in our elections.” He promises his office will continue to “lead from the front in the battle for election integrity, and we won’t back down until our elections are completely and totally secure.”
Boasts about transparency and integrity are curious coming from an indicted attorney general who has been accused by former staffers of corruption for which he’s reportedly under FBI investigation. Paxton is also being sued by the Texas State Bar for professional misconduct for filing a ridiculous lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results in four states to benefit former President Donald Trump, who espouses the Big Lie that the presidential election was stolen.
By federal law — Section 301 of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 — ballots must be kept secure for 22 months after an election. The process begins with ballots kept in lockboxes for 60 days before they’re transferred to another secure facility. The purpose is to preserve the integrity of the ballots in the event of recounts and challenges. Texas has always complied with that law, but Paxton’s legal opinion makes ballots a kind of community property, access to which any individual or organization can request after they’ve been counted.
A waiting period of 22 months has been arbitrarily slashed to as little as a day by Paxton, who sought the guidance of the secretary of state’s office, which recommended continued compliance with the existing waiting period. Paxton not only ignored that advice but went against his own. Votebeat , a nonpartisan news organization covering elections, reported that as recently as five days before issuing his Aug. 17 opinion, Paxton advised counties to stay with the 22-month waiting period.
Disrupting this chain of custody of the ballots will create chaos and put in dispute the results of elections, especially close ones — such as the one Paxton is in with Rochelle Garza, his Democratic challenger.
— San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board
Dallas Morning News
Sept. 19 editorial, “Ken Paxton’s delayed deposition another shady break from a Texas court.”
Ken Paxton must be the luckiest man in Texas. That, or there is something broken about the judicial system in this state.
Even as the attorney general’s 7-year-old securities fraud charges fester in criminal courts, a separate fraud lawsuit could have compelled Paxton to answer questions about the criminal case under oath. The two men who originally accused Paxton of defrauding them have tried for a good part of this year to get Paxton to sit down for a deposition in this civil case.
Paxton, who maintains he’s innocent, dodged and dodged a deposition date. And now, our colleague Lauren McGaughy reports that state District Judge Cynthia Wheless, in Paxton’s home of Collin County, has scheduled the attorney general to give his deposition almost a month after Election Day.
How many more slaps in the face must the electorate endure from Paxton and the courts? This is the second election cycle in which voters will decide whether to return Paxton to his seat with unresolved fraud allegations hanging over him.
— Dallas Morning News Editorial Board
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Sept. 21 editorial, “Ken Paxton once again sticks his nose where it doesn’t belong on behalf of Donald Trump.”
Attorney General Ken Paxton doesn’t always do right by Texas, but never question his loyalty to one man: Donald Trump.
Paxton showed it again Tuesday, rushing to weigh in on Trump’s battle over classified documents seized at his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago. The former president is fighting the Justice Department over whether an independent “special master” should review the documents at issue.
In a certain sense, it’s a classic Paxton case — there’s no interest or standing for the state of Texas and no particular insight or argument Paxton can bring to it. And the 21-page submission to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reads like it.
The state’s brief reads like a greatest hits list of diversions, distractions and irrelevancies. Paxton, writing on behalf of 10 other states who should also examine whether their AGs have enough real work to do, blasts the Biden administration on everything from immigration to the attempt to impose a COVID vaccine mandate on employers.
If you’re looking for a sharp takedown of Vice President Kamala Harris for her statement that the southern border is secure, you’ll find it in Paxton’s op-ed — er, sorry, legal brief. But if you’re interested in substantive discussion of the matter at hand, move on.
— Fort Worth Star-Telegram Editorial Board
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Budd Embraces Trump Abortion Opposition In N.C. Senate Race
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In competitive races across the U.S., Republican candidates are distancing themselves from their party’s most controversial policies and people — namely, abortion and former President Donald Trump — as Election Day approaches.
Not Ted Budd.
The North Carolina GOP Senate nominee is leaning into support for abortion restrictions and amity with the former Republican president as Democrats fight for an elusive victory in the Southern swing state.
Democratic optimism remains tempered given the state’s recent red tilt, but Democratic officials believe Budd, a low-profile congressman who emerged as the GOP’s Senate nominee largely because of Trump’s backing, gives them a real chance at flipping a seat — and holding the balance of power in Washington — this fall.
Disregarding his critics, Budd appeared alongside Trump at a rally in Wilmington Friday night, where the former president praised the candidate as “a conservative, America First all-star in Congress” and urged his supporters to turn out to vote. Budd, in turn, thanked Trump for returning to the state.
Related: Former president campaigns for the ‘Trump Ticket’ in North Carolina
The Budd campaign was eager to welcome Trump when the former president’s team called, according to adviser Jonathan Felts.
“Trump won North Carolina twice, and an in-person rally is helpful,” Felts said, suggesting Trump would help drive turnout, especially “with unaffiliated and/or undecided voters concerned about the economy.”
Others aren’t so sure.
“The more Trump emerges, the more Trump is in the news, the better for Democrats,” said David Holian, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Indeed, Trump remains overwhelmingly popular with Republican voters but is less appealing to the moderates and independents who often decide swing-state elections. Trump’s national favorable ratings have been roughly even with, or worse than, President Joe Biden’s in recent weeks.
Still, some North Carolina Democrats are far from confident in a state where they have suffered painful losses in recent years.
Democratic North Carolina Senate candidate Cheri Beasley speaks at an election night event hosted by the North Carolina Democratic Party after winning her primary race in Raleigh, N.C., May 17, 2022. Beasley has consistently outraised Republican opponent Ted Budd in the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Richard Burr and is benefitting from a recent upswing for her party’s fortunes in the closely divided state. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown, File)
Democratic skepticism comes despite the apparent strength of their Senate nominee, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, who has a decided fundraising advantage, a record of outperforming other Democrats in statewide elections and a moderate message. She would be the state’s first Black senator if elected.
Yet Beasley is also running against negative perceptions of her party.
Trump’s rise has fueled a growing sense among some voters in North Carolina, along with those in many other states, that the national Democratic Party has lost touch with the daily struggles of the working class and similar voting blocs. The Democratic-controlled Congress’ focus on climate change, for example, hasn’t helped inspire voters like Talmage Layton, a 74-year-old farmer from Durham.
Layton said he doesn’t know whether a North Carolina Democrat can make a difference on Capitol Hill in lowering gas prices or pushing back against climate change policies that other Democrats have embraced.
“That’s not anything against Cheri Beasley,” Layton said after a recent meeting with Beasley. “I’m a registered Democrat, and I would have no problem voting for a Democrat. But they’ve got to think about the little guy here.”
Not long ago, it looked as if the Democratic Party was poised to take over North Carolina politics.
In 2008, Obama carried the state, becoming the first Democrat to do so since 1976, and Democrat Kay Hagan upset GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole. Political experts predicted the Democratic Party would step to dominance as a result of increasing urbanization and out-of-state liberals moving in for tech jobs in the Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte regions.
But Republicans took over the state legislature for the first time in over 140 years following the 2010 election and retained it thanks to support from exurban and rural voters and favorably drawn districts. A decade later, Trump became a two-time North Carolina winner, though he won the 2020 election by just 1 percentage point.
While Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper managed to win reelection in 2020, Beasley was one of the party’s casualties. She lost a bid to remain chief justice to a Republican rival by just 401 votes.
Her near-miss turned her into a rising candidate in the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Richard Burr.
In one sign of strength, Beasley has consistently raised more money than Budd. And she appears to be generating momentum by seizing on abortion to energize women and independents, relying on the same playbook Democrats have used elsewhere.
Budd, meanwhile, has been outspoken in his opposition to abortion. He co-sponsored a House version of a national 15-week abortion ban introduced by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham that even Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell distanced himself from.
“My opponent has been in Congress for six years, and every opportunity he’s had to vote for North Carolina, he’s voted against us,” Beasley charged after meeting with farmers at a produce market in Durham before Graham’s bill introduction.
Meanwhile, Republicans in competitive elections in states like Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada and Arizona have distanced themselves from their rigid anti-abortion stances in recent weeks. Others have stripped their websites of references to Trump or his favorite talking points.
In Virginia, a Republican House candidate removed a Trump reference from her Twitter bio. In New Hampshire, Republican Senate nominee Don Bolduc abruptly reversed himself last week when asked about Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. After spending much of the last year echoing Trump’s lies, Bolduc told Fox News he had done more research and concluded, “The election was not stolen.”
Meanwhile, Budd’s campaign refused this week to say whether he would accept the 2022 election results, having already voted to block certification of the 2020 election.
Such positions will almost certainly appeal to Trump’s base, but political operatives say Budd needs sizable support from moderate, independent voters to be successful. Unaffiliated voters this year surpassed Democrats to become the largest bloc of registered voters in the state.
“Regardless of what your faith background is, you’re dealing with skyrocketing energy prices. You’re dealing with high grocery costs. You’re dealing with high crime. You’re dealing with economic uncertainty,” Budd said after speaking to pastors recently in Greenville. “And so I want to make life better for all North Carolinians and people in our country by the things that I support.”
As Budd has struggled to keep pace with Beasley’s fundraising, outside groups have come to his aid.
The McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have spent $17.3 million combined on advertising opposing Beasley, according to Federal Election Commission filings. The Senate Majority PAC, which supports Democratic candidates, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have spent close to $4 million in North Carolina while investing far more in high-profile contests in states like Pennsylvania and Arizona.
“We’re committed to making sure voters continue seeing and hearing the truth about Ted Budd,” Senate Majority PAC spokesperson Veronica Yoo said.
An arm of the pro-abortion-rights EMILY’s List announced this month spending $2.7 million to criticize Budd on abortion as well.
During a recent stop at Perkins Orchard in Durham, Beasley chatted with farmers who gathered around picnic tables and near fresh pumpkins for sale. Some said afterward they were glad to see her interest in their plight.
Jason Lindsay, 34, a first-generation Black farmer from Rocky Mount, said he’s been frustrated with the divisive political environment but is encouraged by Beasley.
“Her temperament here today gave me the first sign of hope that I’ve had in a long time,” he said.
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Amir-Abdollahian: Nuclear Deal Dependent On US Determination Goodwill
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The Iranian Foreign Minister says the US informed Iran in recent days that it had the required determination and goodwill to reach a nuclear deal.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (AFP)
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Saturday that the United States has sent a message in recent days on its determination and goodwill to reach a deal.
Amir-Abdollahian told IRNA that his meetings with counterparts from different countries were focused on removing sanctions imposed against Iran.
The Iranian Foreign Minister said that in his meetings with EU and E3 officials, he had affirmed Iran’s determination and seriousness to reach a nuclear deal, pointing out that it was the US side that needed to show the courage to take action.
According to the top Iranian diplomat, the US side frequently announced in recent days that it had the required determination and goodwill to reach a deal, adding that Iran responded to the Americans by saying that they needed to translate so into action.
Amir-Abdollahian pointed to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, highlighting that it was noticed by world leaders.
The Foreign Minister also mentioned that he presented a report on regional development at the Non-Aligned Movement meeting on Palestine and elaborated on the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation.
Last week, Amir-Abdollahian stressed that the United States must end its economic terrorism against Iran, instead of shedding crocodile tears.
On Thursday, Raisi remained steadfast in his stance on nuclear negotiations with foreign powers, saying he saw no benefit in a deal that would not end UN nuclear watchdog probes into uranium traces in the nation.
“How can we have a lasting agreement if these probes are not closed?” the Iranian President said at a news conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Raisi had noted on Wednesday that some countries consider Iran a threat due to its nuclear program, reiterating that “Iran is not seeking to build or obtain nuclear weapons and such weapons have no place in our doctrine.”
He stressed that in 2015, Iran accepted the nuclear agreement but faced the US withdrawal from it.
Read more: AEOI head to participate in IAEA conference, meet with Grossi
Tehran cooperated with IAEA on alleged nuclear sites
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Spokesperson, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said last week that Iran fully cooperated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding three sites the UN nuclear watchdog claimed to have been “undeclared nuclear sites” in Iran.
Kamalvandi rejected a statement made by IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi claiming that there has been a lack of monitoring of Iranian sites, stressing that Grossi’s words had “no legal basis.”
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has been fully cooperative regarding the three alleged sites brought up by the agency and has sent information and answers to the agency’s questions and has also held meetings to resolve the ambiguity,” he noted.
The AEOI spokesperson called on the IAEA not to make judgments based on fabricated documents the Israeli occupation provided with specific political goals in mind.
That type of judgment is against the principle of neutrality and professionalism, Kamalvandi stressed. “Since the IAEA has audited all of Iran’s declared nuclear materials and there are no disagreements over the calculated materials, simply observing contamination in a few places cannot be considered as implying the presence of undeclared nuclear materials.”
After the IAEA’s statement and demands regarding the safeguards and monitoring of the nuclear sites, Iran’s envoy to the UN nuclear agency, Mohsen Naziri Asl, said the three safeguards claims raised by the agency are a “two-decade-old issue,” but Tehran still appropriately and constructively cooperated with the IAEA to resolve them.
The IAEA’s Board of Governors adopted in early June a draft resolution submitted by the US and the E3, criticizing Iran for what they claim were incomplete answers given to the IAEA on uranium traces at “undeclared sites”.
These claims were quickly refuted by the head of the AEOI, Mohammad Eslami, who said that Iran has neither secret or unwritten nuclear activities nor unreported nuclear sites.
It is noteworthy that the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers back in May 2018 under Trump’s presidential term, after which he revived sanctions on Iran as part of the “maximum pressure” campaign he launched against the country and which President Joe Biden continues to impose. His administration, however, has repeatedly admitted that the policy has been a mistake and a failure.
Read more: Iran urges IAEA not to yield to ‘Israel’s’ pressure
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Jan. 6 Mob Leader Found Guilty May Receive 50-Year Prison Sentence
Jan. 6 Mob Leader Found Guilty, May Receive 50-Year Prison Sentence https://digitalarkansasnews.com/jan-6-mob-leader-found-guilty-may-receive-50-year-prison-sentence/
The man charged with breaking into the Capitol building was described by his lawyer as just “confused” in an attempt to lessen his sentence for chasing a lone police officer.
Douglas Jensen at the Jan. 6 riots (Axios)
US Justice Department prosecutors released a statement on Friday that Douglas Jensen of Iowa may receive more than 50 years in prison following a federal jury’s decision in Washington DC on Friday to convict him over leading a group of Donald Trump supporters to chase a police officer around the US Capitol on the day of the Jan. 6 riots.
The QAnon conspiracy follower was seen in multiple photos of the riots as he donned a black T-shirt with a large “Q” on it, and the prosecuting party claimed that Jensen gathered and mobilized the group of supporters at the Capitol in 2021 as Congress was about to certify Joe Biden’s win over former President Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Jensen was among the first 10 people to invade the facility, and per the prosecutors’ allegations, he climbed a wall at the Capitol and observed mob members barge into the Senate wing entrance’s windows and doors, before joining in on cornering a lone Capitol police officer, Eugene Goodman.
Goodman was chased up the stairs leading to the outside of the Senate chamber, with Jensen believed to have been carrying a knife with a three-inch blade in his pocket as he barked at the officers and ordered other police officers to step back and detain Trump’s then-VP, Mike Pence, who was threatened by Jensen’s mob to be hanged if he didn’t stop Biden’s certification for the electoral college win. He was located in Iowa and arrested by authorities two days later.
Goodman testified during Jensen’s trial on Friday, as prosecutors exhibited video footage of him carrying a baton in one hand in defense. Jensen’s attorney described his client as “a terribly confused man” whose mindset was triggered by the ideology of QAnon and Covid lockdowns and further asserted that Jensen did not physically harm anyone at the time. However, it took the jury a mere four hours to convict Jensen as charged with five felonies: assaulting police, obstructing a congressional proceeding, interfering with law enforcement, entering a restricted building, and disorderly conduct with a dangerous weapon.
In her testimony in July, White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson painted Trump as an angry, defiant president who was enabling armed supporters to avoid security screenings on the morning of January 6. More evidence and charges are bound to be brought up, as most recently, the chief records of the National Archives, Laurence Brewer, has requested that the US Secret Service investigate the possible unauthorized deletion of text messages on telephones belonging to the agency between January 5 and 6, 2021, the period during which Republican riots stormed the White House in an attempt to overturn the election results.
It isn’t usual that US district courts give the harshest available punishment to convicts, even if they decide to go through the trial or plead guilty in advance, knowing that the harshest sentence given to anyone guilty of contributing to the deadly Capitol attack was seven years and three months.
On the other hand, Goodman was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal by the Senate for leading the violent gang of rioters away from politicians who eventually ended up certifying Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election.
A bipartisan Senate conclusion reported seven deaths and more than 140 police officers injured as a result of the attacks and more than 870 people had been charged with roles in the insurrection.
Read more: FBI arrests Republican candidate for Michigan governor over Jan. 6
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Theres A Reason Even Donald Trump Is Mocking The Vacillating J.D. Vance: Brent Larkin
There’s A Reason Even Donald Trump Is Mocking The Vacillating J.D. Vance: Brent Larkin https://digitalarkansasnews.com/theres-a-reason-even-donald-trump-is-mocking-the-vacillating-j-d-vance-brent-larkin/
Updated: Sep. 25, 2022, 5:56 a.m.|
Published: Sep. 25, 2022, 5:55 a.m.
Former President Donald Trump looks on with an expression that appears to be halfway between a smile and a grimace as J.D. Vance, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Ohio, speaks at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar)AP
CLEVELAND — The rags-to-riches story detailed in J.D. Vance’s runaway best seller touched the heart of Susan Lord, a longtime English professor at Kent State University. When students returned to her classroom in the late summer of 2021, she made the book required reading.
“I like books about people who struggle and then succeed,” explained Lord, a lifelong Greater Clevelander who has taught English, composition and English honors courses at KSU for 32 years.
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Tropical Storm Ian About To Have rapid Intensification Florida Track Is Uncertain
Tropical Storm Ian About To Have ‘rapid Intensification,’ Florida Track Is Uncertain https://digitalarkansasnews.com/tropical-storm-ian-about-to-have-rapid-intensification-florida-track-is-uncertain/
Tropical Storm Ian is expected to have “rapid intensification” today, grow into a major hurricane in the next 48 hours and eventually hit Florida – but many questions remain including when, where and how strong the storm will be at the time of landfall.
In its 5 a.m. Sunday update, the National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Ian had maximum-sustained winds of 50 mph. The storm was located about 345 miles south-southeast of Grand Cayman and moving to the west-northwest at 12 mph. A hurricane warning is in effect for Grand Cayman and a hurricane watch is in effect for parts of Cuba.
“The NHC intensity forecast calls for rapid intensification to begin later today, and forecasts Ian to be a major hurricane when it nears western Cuba in about 48 hours,” the NHC said in its early Sunday update. By Tuesday, the storm is expected to become a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph and a Category 4 on Wednesday with winds of 140 mph.
Computer forecast models agree Ian will hit Florida, but don’t agree on where. “There are still significant differences regarding the exact track of the storm, especially after 72 hours,” the NHC cautioned.
Two models, the UKMET and ECMWF, show the storm will make landfall in west-central Florida. Two other models, the GFS and HWRF, show the storm moving more west and take Ian into the central or western Florida panhandle.
This early Sunday morning satellite image shows Tropical Storm Ian spinning south of Cuba. (NOAAA/National Hurricane Center)
The hurricane center’s current forecast track for the storm basically splits the difference between the different models with the NHC’s best guess. “It cannot be overstated that significant uncertainty remains in Ian’s long-range prediction,” the NHC cautioned.
“Regardless of Ian’s exact track and intensity, there is a risk of dangerous storm surge, hurricane-force winds, and heavy rainfall along the west coast of Florida and the Florida Panhandle by the middle of the week, and residents in Florida should ensure they have their hurricane plan in place, follow any advice given by local officials, and closely monitor updates to the forecast,” the hurricane center said.
Across Central Florida, residents were spending part of the weekend preparing for Ian’s possible arrival.
A Target store near Millenia had very few gallon bottles of water left on Saturday, as signs on the shelves limited purchases to four cases or bottles per customer.
5AM Update | Uncertainty in the long-term track & intensity forecast of TS Ian is higher than usual. Direct impacts to E central FL remain uncertain, but windy conditions & heavy rainfall will be possible into the middle of next week. Continue to monitor the forecast for updates. pic.twitter.com/e9uA7j42D9
— NWS Melbourne (@NWSMelbourne) September 25, 2022
“This is the third store I visited today,” said Maritza Osorio, who was leaving Target for a fourth location. “If not, we’ll have to try again tomorrow.”
There was fewer foot traffic through a Home Depot in the same plaza, with many people carrying water in their carts as others shopped for slabs of plywood to be used as shutters, along with other items.
The National Hurricane Center’s key messages for Tropical Storm Ian and its impact on Florida and elsewhere. (NOAA/National Hurricane Center)
Though it’s not yet clear whether, or how strongly, Ian will hit if it strikes Central Florida, people like Gary Wilson aren’t taking any chances. He’s had his hurricane kit ready with supplies weeks into the beginning of the season and was at Home Depot for final preparations, just in case.
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“If anything happens, I’m ready,” Wilson said.
On Saturday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a state of emergency order for all of the Sunshine State – expanding an order he issued Friday that declared in an emergency in two dozen counties. DeSantis also mobilized the National Guard to assist with storm prep and recovery.
The earliest reasonable arrival of tropical-storm-force winds from Ian. (NOAA/National Hurricane Center.)
“This storm has the potential to strengthen into a major hurricane and we encourage all Floridians to make their preparations,” DeSantis said in a statement. “We are coordinating with all state and local government partners to track potential impacts of this storm.”
President Joe Biden also declared an emergency for the state, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, to coordinate disaster relief efforts and provide assistance to protect lives and property.
The president postponed a scheduled Sept. 27 trip to Orlando due to the storm.
Cristóbal Reyes of the Sentinel staff and the Associated Press contributed to this report
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Richard Lee Frye, 85, died Sept. 18, 2022, at his residence in Hot Springs, Ark.
He was born Sept. 28, 1936, in Bloomington, Ind., to James Everett Sr. and Ella (Harding) Frye.
Richard graduated from Bloomington High School, class of 1955. Following graduation, he married his high school sweetheart, Marjorie Reynolds. They celebrated 67 years of marriage in August. Richard was a member of the Church of the Open Door in Hot Springs, Ark. He enjoyed playing and coaching football and basketball, during the 1980s and ’90s, he coached various YMCA youth teams. Richard also was a member of the Men’s Senior Olympic basketball team, where over a period of 15 years, they won several National Championships.
In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by four brothers: James Everett Frye Jr., Edward L. Frye, Robert E. Frye and John N. Frye.
Survived by, in addition to his wife, Marjorie (Reynolds) Frye, his two daughters, Jeri Frye (Hutto, Texas), Sheri Frye, two sons, Jeff Frye and Joel Frye, all of Hot Springs; Wells grandchildren, Treat grandchildren and Frye grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren; two sisters, Marjorie Edwards, Spencer, Ind., and Judie Clark, Bloomington, Ind.
A gathering of family and friends will be held Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, at the Church of the Open Door, 700 South Ave., Hot Springs, Ark. Visitation will be from 1-2 p.m., with the celebration of life beginning at 2 p.m.
Arrangements by Arkansas Cremation, 10515 W. Markham St., Suite B1, Little Rock, AR 72205.
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Readers Dish On Why They Are Republican Democrat Or Independent | Letters
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Editor’s note: Last week, we ran a letter asking Democrats why they were Democrats. The response was so overwhelming we opened the floor to Republicans and non-affiliated voters as well. In this space, we have collected all the responses we received, minus a few that didn’t meet our criteria for publication (usually lack of the information we need to verify a letter-writer.)
Guns! That is why I changed several years ago, after being a Republican for 75 years to becoming a Democrat when the Republican Party refused to protect us from AR-15s and large capacity magazines.
Since then, I have seen Republicans opposing immigrants, gay people, and transgender people, all in the name of “traditional mores and customs.”
Democrats favor making it easy to vote, letting felons vote, and are “woke” — trying to help people. See Matthew 25:35-40.
Alice Schmidt Orlando
I am no longer affiliated with a political party. I was a Republican state legislator in the 1960s, but the party has become the modern day Dixiecrats. I prefer progress to regression.
Therefore, rather than to be tied to a party, I prefer to research candidates and support like-minded persons instead of a party. Until we have open primaries (I prefer ranked choice voting) candidates will continue to appeal only to their base and this further divides and hampers compromise.
Choice Edwards Clermont
After 62 years of voting for the best candidate after my own research, I mostly voted for the party that represents: Very little government intervention; low taxes; respect for the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and leaders who govern as if they were the Bible; resolve to keep us safe and prosperous.
Those reasons and principles happen to spell the Republican Party (at the local, state, and federal levels).
Robert C. (Bob) Hurbanis Orlando
With gratitude for the question, permit me to answer as a registered, lifelong Republican who has supported the Democratic agenda for the last decade.
My answer is quite simply that I find more, if not most, of the Democratic Party agenda attuned to the principles of social justice taught by my Roman Catholic Christian faith, as I understand them. Currently, Pope Francis engages the global existential issues impacting the dignity of all people. Examples include climate change, immigration, housing, war and other injustices.
I see these injustices as threatening human beings and their habitat in all the world including the United States. My faith has led me to vote as I pray, to bring about a world of peace and justice.
B. H. Pflumm Longwood
I grew up in a home with two Republican parents at the time of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. I watched as they responded negatively to anybody who opposed the war.
Also, I witnessed the upheaval caused by the enrollment of the first Black child in the private school where my mother taught. They even questioned whether they should close in response to the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. These and other events made me come to the belief that being a Republican is not what I wanted to be and so I have become a Democrat.
Cate Buckley Cocoa
I’m not really Democrat or Republican. I don’t view myself or my life through that lens. I have a set of core beliefs. I know what is right and wrong. I don’t need a book of scripture to explain it to me.
I’m a big believer in fairness, honesty and compassion. I try to see both sides of an issue and make the decision that best aligns with those values. Neither party has all of the answers. Texas is just as big a mess as California.
George Washington hated the idea of political parties. I think he had the right idea.
Corey Jon Carlson Casselberry
Next time you call 911, drive down the highway, drink a glass of clean water or receive your Social Security check, know these are the priorities fought for and supported by the Democratic Party. We all enjoy everyday benefits of living in America including Social Security, health care, public education, law enforcement, roads, police, clean drinking water, libraries, military, etc.
Being financially successful doesn’t absolve people from paying for the things we all benefit from. People, pay your taxes and be proud to be an American with so many benefits. Stop the freeloading just because of your financial success.
Tom Gill Belle Isle
I am a Republican (I call myself a Jeffersonian Republican) because I strongly believe in the basic conservative values expressed by Thomas Jefferson. Our government should provide us with a safe environment to conduct our lives (military and police protection) and otherwise pretty much leave us alone.
Our tax dollars are far better administered locally than nationally. To summarize: “The best government is the least government.” The current Republican Party is not right on target with this concept, but it comes closer than the alternative.
Tom Rose Umatilla
The answer to “Why are you a Democrat?” is easy: because I care about every man, woman and child. I want them to have affordable health care and housing. I want the poor and suffering seeking a better life for their families to be treated humanely. I want everyone to be free from gun violence and discrimination. I want our children and grandchildren to be able to enjoy real democracy and have a fighting chance as the earth gets hotter and hotter.
In short, I want everything Republican “leaders” oppose.
Brad Bole Orlando
Why am I a Republican? The short answer: The Bay of Pigs. I was 19 years old when I cast my one and only vote for a Democratic president: JFK. Then, after Eisenhower had set up a plan for getting rid of Castro and communism from Cuba, JFK proceeded to dump off the Cuban freedom fighters and then pulled the naval fleet away, leaving the freedom fighters to be slaughtered.
Current Democrats only want to talk about the October fuss-up with Russia without admitting the cause of Russia’s attempt to place nuclear missiles into Cuba. I decided that a political party with built-in weak foreign policy was not for me. Just look at today for this same weakness: An open border and a war started by Russia, thumbing its nose at the United States. I sincerely hope that President Biden is talking tough to Vladimir Putin via behind-the-scenes contacts, because his open speeches are simply weak and actually encourage Putin to threaten nuclear war.
My second reason is that the Democratic Party has moved to replace our capitalistic society with socialism (a strong central government that controls everything).
Robert E. Wittmeyer Orlando
These honest opinions are exactly what people need to read. I hope they do.
To quote Will Rogers: “I’m not a member of any organized political party … I’m a Democrat.” The party, notably in Florida, can’t seem to get its act together. However, if America is to exist 200 years from now, capitalism must be adapted to maintain a large and strong middle class.
Republican moves to make the rich richer are penny wise/pound foolish, an “I got mine, who cares about the future?” A robust middle class pays taxes and spreads prosperity across a wide swath of people. In every historic time Congress came close to taking in more tax revenue than it had to spend (check out Bill Clinton’s term), you’ll find a strong middle-class — and usually a Democrat.
Kerry Smith Winter Springs
In my Tuesday letter to the editor I purposely didn’t preach about my political party, because I was looking for reasons why Democrats are Democrats. This has been a long-time interest of mine. But I think you can deduce from my letter that I’m a conservative Republican.
As I said on Wednesday I couldn’t be more proud of the Opinion staff for taking on this question I posed.
Robert Coleman Longwood
I am registered as a nonpartisan voter because I believe in unity and being registered for a political party is divisive. Actually, discussing party politics in the U.S. becomes disunifying. Commitment to one’s political party becomes greater, more important than concern for what is best for human beings.
Often both parties have answers, or pieces of answers, that can address the variety of problems we have in this country but the divide between them, based on preserving a terribly low level of unity within “the party,” overwhelms the possibility of developing the ideas that might solve a problem.
And that -party unity, when you seriously examine it, isn’t true unity. True unity is when people of differing backgrounds and beliefs can come together and – through the spark of differing perspectives and ideas — create a solution that in many cases neither side had thought of. Mankind is one, but party politics can make people believe the “other party” is a totally different species.
Rosemary Closson Sanford
I believe the best pregnancy outcomes result from wanted, planned pregnancies and women forced to bear children will not follow recommended health advice.
I believe in climate change, and the need to protect our only planet.
I believe clean water is a right of all human beings.
I believe health care is a necessity and should be accessible and affordable.
I believe the diversity of America is what has made us great and should be protected. E pluribus unum.
I believe that disease and pandemics are real and national experts should be making evidence-based recommendations on vaccines and prevention.
I believe that Social Security and Medicare are essential for the health and security of older and disabled citizens.
I believe that student debt is a result of changes in the lending practices which led to compounded interest and futility of repayment.
I believe that meaningful, productive employment should result in a living wage.
I believe our election system is secure and...
Former Players Coaches Pay Homage To Legendary St. Annes Coach George Loss Who Passed Away Last Week At The Age Of 90
Former Players, Coaches Pay Homage To Legendary St. Anne’s Coach George Loss, Who Passed Away Last Week At The Age Of 90 https://digitalarkansasnews.com/former-players-coaches-pay-homage-to-legendary-st-annes-coach-george-loss-who-passed-away-last-week-at-the-age-of-90/
FORT SMITH — George Loss was a walking oxymoron, at least when it came to his last name, because he didn’t lose much over his 28-year career as a football coach, especially early on.
Loss guided what could be considered the first small-school dynasty in the state when he led Fort Smith-based St. Anne’s Academy, a private Catholic school located at the top of Garrison Avenue, to a 116-15-3 record from 1954-1966 with two of the longest winning streaks in state history.
Loss, who passed away recently at age 90, succeeded John Lunney as the coach of the Buffaloes, continuing a winning tradition.
Loss led St. Anne’s to a 38-game winning streak that started with the final game in 1962 against Stilwell, Okla., the week after losing to Rogers, which finished 10-0.
St. Anne’s then reeled off three-straight perfect seasons of 11-0 in 1963, 10-0 in 1964 and 10-0 in 1965 before a 6-0 loss at Spiro, Okla., in 1966 ended the run.
“Coach Loss was the teacher elite,” said Leon Sparks, who played for Loss in the 1960-62 seasons. “He wouldn’t let us go in until we ran the play perfectly. We would run one more play 40 times until we got it perfect. Then after that, we had to hit the hill a bunch of times. That’s how we got our conditioning.”
Under Loss, St. Anne’s moved its home games from Andrews Field to Hunt’s Park because of his relationship with Clarence Higgins, the Boys Club director from 1945-1971. Loss used the steep hill that goes up behind Hunt’s Park that borders Oak Cemetery for conditioning.
“Oh, that hill,” said Ralph Obana, who played for Loss from 1961-63. “He was hard-nosed and tough. I came from public school and played at Darby Junior High, and the coaches had very colorful language, but I never heard Coach Loss utter a cuss word.”
“We were the best-conditioned team in our conference, he made sure of that,” said Paul Sparks, Leon’s younger brother, who played on the 1962-64 teams. “He was a heck of a coach. He taught the fundamentals and conditioning fluently, every day. Blocking and tackling, we worked on that every day. It was quite an experience.”
In 1963, St. Anne’s beat Clarksville 20-13 in the second game of the year, and Loss wasn’t satisfied with his team’s effort.
“They were good,” Paul Sparks said. “We were running plays in practice, and we ran it ‘one more time’ 30 times because somebody was messing up. Then we ran the hill 20 times up and down. Then we went down on the football field and ran around the goalposts, and then we ran 100s and then 60s. That week we played Clarksville. We beat them, but the second half we were just dead. He asked me the next week why we didn’t play hard the second half. Our legs were gone. We didn’t have anything left. He eased up that next week, but that’s the way he was.”
Loss’ teams, like most teams during that time, was run-oriented. He liked the Split-T formation similar to the Dead-T.
“We didn’t pass much,” Obana said. “We didn’t need to, but most teams passed then when they needed to.”
St. Anne’s finished No. 1 in Class A in the final Associated Press poll in 1964 and 1965, which can be considered state championships before the modern era of the playoffs that began in 1968. The Arkansas Sports Writers Association, the predecessor to the state’s AP poll, first voted on a high school poll in 1959 or he might have a couple of earlier No. 1 finishes.
The ’65 team was indisputable. The Buffaloes gave up just two touchdowns all season, to Charleston and Paris, and recorded eight shutouts.
In the 1957 through 1960 seasons, St. Anne’s was 42-0-1. The Buffaloes went 43 games without a loss, suffering a 13-13 tie at Paris in 1958, before a 6-0 loss at Springdale in 1961, getting a touchdown called back due to a penalty during the game.
“They called a hold on Champ Thomas,” Leon Sparks said. “Martine Bercher scored the touchdown. We would have kicked the extra point and beat them 7-6. The next year, we beat them 31-0 here.”
Thomas and Bercher both went on to play for Frank Broyles and the Arkansas Razorbacks. Ben Beland was another who went on to play big-time college football at the University of Nebraska for Bob Devaney. On that staff was Tom Osborne and Monte Kiffin.
Bercher is the most widely known of the Buffaloes, scoring 23 touchdowns on the ’60 team that outscored opponents by a 396-59 mark. Bercher went on to an All-American career at the University of Arkansas.
Loss was named to the Arkansas Coaches Association All-Star staff in 1958 and was the head coach of the West team in 1965 with Van Buren native and then-Springdale head coach Rex Yerby and Alma head coach Gene Bradley, a quarterback at Van Buren under Clair Bates, as assistants.
Legendary Alma coach Frank Vines was on the West team in ’65 under Loss.
“The All-Star game, you think of fun and games, he went down to play football,” Vines said. “We worked. It was all work and no play.”
Vines had signed to play with Ouachita Baptist University, and the All-Star game proved to be his preseason workout. Loss conducted two-a-day practices and an intra-squad scrimmage, and after the midweek scrimmage that week Vines moved up to the first-team unit to start in the All-Star game.
“It was great for me,” Vines said. “He got me in football playing shape that week. It was hard, but I was impressed especially with the work ethic and what he demanded out of his players.”
Loss was old school before there was old school.
“I could see how St. Anne’s was so successful,” Vines said. “He was that kind of coach. He was the old-timey coach that you did everything based on hard work.”
Paul Sparks joined Vines in that All-Star game and was captain of the West team along with Fort Smith’s Lyndell Bland.
“We did the same grind that we did at St. Anne’s,” Paul Sparks said. “It was the same thing: line drills, blocking, tackling and all that stuff.”
Loss developed his winning ways at Hartford under Wallace Hunton. During the time that Loss was at Hartford, they won seven district championships in football, basketball and track, including a Class B state title in track.
In 1948 and 1949, Loss played for Hartford teams that went to the state playoffs in football during the abbreviated period of postseason play in the state.
In 1948, Hartford gave up just two touchdowns in the regular season with seven shutouts in nine games before losing, 21-13, in the first round of the Class B playoffs to Dermott, which had quarterback Lamar McHan who went on to star for the Arkansas Razorbacks.
In 1949, Hartford lost to Osceola, 35-7, in the first round of the playoffs.
Loss then went to the College of the Ozarks, which competed in the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference, and started every game for four years. He was an All-AIC guard and named to the University of the Ozarks Hall of Fame in 1967.
As soon as he graduated, he was hired as a 21-year-old to coach St. Anne’s for an annual salary of $3,600 in 1954.
In 1959, Loss gave a young coach straight out of college named Billy Bock his first coaching job as an assistant after his graduation from the College of the Ozarks. Bock was the offensive coordinator for St. Anne’s and started the baseball and basketball programs at the school, winning two state baseball titles.
Loss, the perfectionist, and the young Bock proved to be a perfect combination of good cop, bad cop.
“I blocked a punt one time at Bentonville, and Coach Loss came over to me and wanted to know why I didn’t get on the ball,” Paul Sparks said. “I told Coach that I didn’t know where it was. I felt bad, but Coach Bock came over to me and whispered to me, ‘Good job.’ You just had so much respect for Coach Loss, you wanted to play hard for him.”
Loss left St. Anne’s after the 1966 season when Perryville, Mo., called and offered him more money. He coached them to a 7-3 record, and Father George Tribou called and offered him $100 more a year to replace Mike Malham Sr. at Little Rock Catholic.
Loss coached Catholic for 10 years, winning 29 games in his first three years there behind the greatest quarterback in school history in Jimmy Doolittle, who was selected the Associated Press Super Team quarterback in 1970.
Loss left Catholic after consecutive 3-9 seasons as head coach but was still the winningest active coach in the state at the time after winning 71 games in his 10 years there.
Retired Fort Smith Northside coach Joe Fred Young was the head coach at Little Rock Central and coached against Catholic and Loss the first four years Young was at Central, and the two developed a friendship.
“I was single at the time, and George and I got together quite frequently and played bridge,” Young said. “The fact I was single, he took the opportunity many times to set me up with a potential wife.”
While at Central, Young recalled a game when he had Houston Nutt as a quarterback against Catholic.
“It was hard for me when we played somebody that I was close to and we’d win,” Young said. “We played them when Houston was a sophomore at War Memorial Stadium. They had us down 21-0, and right before half they got us for a safety and made it 23-0. We came back in the second half and scored three times and made three two-point conversions to beat George 24-23. It was one of those weird things.”
Loss paid Young the ultimate compliment.
“George told me that he and I were just alike in the way we coached, the way we treat our players and our beliefs,” Young said. “I thought that was quite a compliment because George was really an accomplished football coach.”
Even after he retired from coaching, Loss would stop by to see Young and his staff often.
“When George would come back to Fort Smith, he would always come by and visit,” Young said. “He knew Cham...
Philippines On Red Alert As Super Typhoon Noru Approaches | CNN
Philippines On Red Alert As Super Typhoon Noru Approaches | CNN https://digitalarkansasnews.com/philippines-on-red-alert-as-super-typhoon-noru-approaches-cnn-2/
CNN —
The Philippines has issued an extreme emergency alert as Super Typhoon Noru approaches.
The storm, known locally as Super Typhoon Karding, reached super typhoon status early on Sunday morning local time in the Philippines after suddenly intensifying.
“The highest emergency preparedness and response protocol has been activated in Metro Manila, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, and the Bicol region,” said the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
It urged the public to take care, adding strong winds are expected to hit within the next 18 hours
The typhoon is expected to make landfall in the northern part of Quezon or the southern part of Aurora in the evening, said the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on a live hourly television bulletin.
It said it does not rule out an earlier landfall in Polillo Islands in the afternoon.
Schools in multiple cities including Muntinlupa City and Aurora suspended classes for Monday, September 26, due to the approaching storm.
According to CNN Weather, Noru now has winds equal to a category 5 US hurricane.
It is expected to bring large waves and storm surge, torrential rains, and winds in excess of 200 kph (124 mph) to Luzon over the next 24 hours.
PAGASA issued a signal warning level four for the Polillo Islands in anticipation of extensive damage that could be caused by the storm.
The warning comes after the storm rapidly intensified in the early hours of Sunday.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center said it had strengthened from a 140 kph (85 mph) typhoon to a 250 kph (155 mph) super typhoon in just six hours.
PAGASA also issued level two and three warnings for much of Luzon, including metro Manila.
Meanwhile, authorities in Japan said Sunday that two people had been killed in landslides caused by Tropical Storm Talas.
One person is missing after his car fell into a river, Shizuoka Prefecture government reported.
The prefecture saw its heaviest daily rainfall on record, including a record rainfall of 416.5 mm (over 16 inches) in Suruga-ku, Shizuoka City, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
During the downpour, the prefecture urged 1,200,000 households – approximately 3 million people – to evacuate.
More than 1,000 houses and a large number of roads in the prefecture were flooded, it said, adding that multiple bridges have collapsed.
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GM Shifts Course, Will Call Workers Back To Office https://digitalarkansasnews.com/gm-shifts-course-will-call-workers-back-to-office/
GM employees who have been working remotely due to the pandemic will be required to return to the office at least three days a week, starting later this year, the automaker confirmed Friday.
An internal message to employees, first obtained by Automotive News and confirmed by GM on Friday, attributed the shift in GM’s Work Appropriately policy to the progress made against the pandemic, saying “the COVID-19 situation has dramatically improved.”
“As the COVID landscape has dramatically improved, and as we accelerate our transformation and enter a rapid launch cycle, we are evolving Work Appropriately to drive the best collaboration, enterprise mindset and impact. Effective later this year, employees who transitioned to working remotely some or all of the time during the pandemic will pivot to a more regular in-person work cycle, and they will now be expected to work three days on-campus each week,” GM spokesperson Maria Raynal said in a statement via email Friday. “We’re committed to maintaining flexibility to ensure our employees can attend to personal commitments, and we will share details with them in the coming weeks.”
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According to an article in Crain’s Detroit business, GM’s message to employees was attributed to “the senior leadership team,” listing CEO Mary Barra, President Mark Reuss and 12 other top executives. The message, which also cited the desire to encourage more collaboration moving forward did not say specifically when the new policy would take effect.
On April 20, 2021, GM laid forth a new philosophy that signaled a culture shift for the 113-year-old automaker called Work Appropriately.
Work Appropriately gave many salaried employees flexibility to work wherever they could best do their job. GM viewed it as a hiring and retention tool because GM has more access to talent by not requiring all its employees to move to Michigan or make daily commutes.
GM’s new return-to-office plan couldn’t come fast enough for the Renaissance Center. The site of GM’s headquarters effectively became a ghost town when COVID-19 sent office workers packing to work from home. Among them: roughly 5,000 GM employees.
GM has been unable to provide any figures on how many employees show up to RenCen offices daily because Work Appropriately means the number fluctuates daily.
Without them, it was quite quiet. Back in June, it was questioned about what was going to happen to the RenCen because of how empty it became, plus GM owns part of the building.
Since the pandemic, RenCen lost Deloitte LLP as a tenant, and Blue Cross Blue Shield moved about 50 of its 2,000 workers to a smaller office in Detroit.
Free Press staff writer Jamie Lareau contributed.
Free Press staff writer JC Reindl contributed.
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Fighting Fit: Trial To Show Oath Keepers Road To Jan. 6
‘Fighting Fit’: Trial To Show Oath Keepers’ Road To Jan. 6 https://digitalarkansasnews.com/fighting-fit-trial-to-show-oath-keepers-road-to-jan-6-2/
FILE – 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 next week. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
The voting was over and almost all ballots were counted. News outlets on Nov. 7, 2020, had called the presidential race for Democrat Joe Biden. But the leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group was just beginning to fight.
Convinced the White House had been stolen from Republican Donald Trump, Stewart Rhodes exhorted his followers to action, suggesting they emulate a popular uprising that brought down Yugoslavia’s president two decades earlier. He published a version of his appeal online, headlined, “What We The People Must Do.”
“We must now … refuse to accept it and march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol,” Rhodes declared to fellow Oath Keepers.
Authorities allege that Rhodes and his band of extremists would spend the next several weeks amassing weapons, organizing paramilitary training and readying armed teams outside Washington with a singular goal: stopping Joe Biden from becoming president.
Their plot would come to a head on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors say, when Oath Keepers wearing helmets and other battle gear were captured on camera shouldering their way through the crowd of angry Trump supporters and storming the Capitol in military-style stack formation.
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.
The trial is the biggest test so far for the Justice Department’s efforts to hold accountable those responsible for the attack on the Capitol, a violent assault that challenged the foundations of American democracy. 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. Prosecutors will try to show that the insurrection for the Oath Keepers was not a spur-of-the-moment protest but part of a serious, weekslong plot to stop the transfer of power.
The trial could shed new light on Trump’s attempts to cling to power. It comes amid growing legal peril for the former president, who faces multiple investigations, including one by the Justice Department into his handling of sensitive government documents.
Defense lawyers for the Oath Keepers will tell jurors the government case is all a lie.
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 the president’s big outdoor rally behind the White House. 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.
Rhodes’ lawyers have signaled that their defense will focus on his belief that Trump would take that action.
“When he believed that the President would issue an order invoking the Insurrection Act, he was prepared to follow it. When that invocation did not come, he did precisely nothing,” Rhodes lawyers wrote in court documents.
“The Government would like this Court to believe that is sedition, when in fact, it is the opposite. It is loyalty to an oath taken in defense of the Country.”
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Rhodes founded the Oath Keepers in 2009 and it has grown into one of the largest anti-government groups in U.S. history. It recruits past and present members of the military, first responders and police officers, and promotes the belief that the federal government is out to strip citizens of their civil liberties. It portrays its followers as defenders against tyranny.
On Nov. 9, 2020, less than a week after Election Day, 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. He urged those on their way to Washington to stop at Arlington National Cemetery to see the graves of thousands of people who died fighting for the United States.
“They were willing to give up their entire life,” Rhodes told them. “Most of us are in our 50s or 60s or older. You’ve lived a good life. You’ve lived way past the age of these young men. … And if you don’t stand up now, everything they fought for and died for will be fought for nothing.”
Some Oath Keepers would stay outside Washington but be “prepared to go in armed if they have to,” Rhodes said on the call. If they failed to “save” the country, Rhodes predicted there would be “a bloody, bloody civil war.”
After the call, another Oath Keeper, Watkins, told people who expressed interest in joining her Ohio militia group about “military-style basic” training planned for early January, prosecutors say. The Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers held training in “unconventional warfare.”
Watkins told one recruit, “I need you fighting fit” by the inauguration, which was Jan. 20, 2021. Watkins later predicted their “way of life” would be over if Biden became president.
“Our Republic would be over. Then it is our duty as Americans to fight, kill and die for our rights,” she wrote in another message.
By December, Rhodes and the Oath Keepers had set their sights on Congress’ certification of the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, prosecutors say.
Trump’s Dec. 19 tweet about a “big protest in D.C. on January 6th” that he predicted would “be wild” seemed to energize the Oath Keepers.
Days later, Meggs — the leader of the Florida chapter– wrote in a Facebook message: “Trump said It’s gonna be wild!!!!!!! It’s gonna be wild!!!!!!! He wants us to make it WILD that’s what he’s saying. He called us all to the Capitol and wants us to make it wild!!!”
During an interview Dec. 22 with a regional Oath Keepers leader, Rhodes described Jan. 6 as “hard constitutional deadline” for stopping Biden from becoming president.
On Dec. 23, Rhodes 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. Many would have their “mission-critical gear stowed nearby just outside D.C,” he wrote, warning that they might have to “take to arms in defense of our God given liberty.”
In late December, the Oath Keepers were making plans for “quick reaction force” teams to be stationed at a Virginia hotel in order to shepherd weapons into the city quickly if needed, prosecutors say. In one message days before the Capitol attack, Caldwell suggested getting a boat to ferry “heavy weapons” across the Potomac River into the Oath Keepers’ “waiting arms.”
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, including an AR-platform rifle, magazines, mounts, sights and other equipment, according to court documents.
“There is no standard political or legal way out of this,” Rhodes wrote in a message on New Year’s Eve.
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Oath Keepers from across the country began traveling to the Washington area.
Rhodes had instructed them 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 in the case of one member who has pleaded guilty.
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. Surveillance footage shows Oath Keepers rolling bags, large bins and what appears to be at least one rifle case into the hotel.
On the morning of the riot, one of the quick reaction force team members warned on a podcast about the prospect of violence: “We are applying as much pressure as we can. The only and obvious next step is to go into armed conflict but hoping very much that that doesn’t happen.”
Trump delivered his speech at the Ellipse behind the White House, repeating his false claims about a rigged election and urging his supporters to “fight like hell.” The crowd started marching to the Capitol, eventually fighting past police barricades.
As word began spreading that people were storming the Capitol, Rhodes wrote: “All I see Trump doing is complaining. I see no attempt by him to do anything. So the patriots are taking it in their own hands. They’ve had enough.”
At the Capitol, the Oath Keepe...
And, Of Course, Wives Are Always Right https://digitalarkansasnews.com/and-of-course-wives-are-always-right/
It all started in a joking way … I carried two glasses of iced tea outside to a table, then my husband came up a minute later and asked, “Which one is mine?” (I add a little sugar to mine, he likes his tea plain.) I flippantly replied, wives are always right — so my tea is on the right.” Now I often jokingly add this expression as we are ending a “discussion.”
But this is what happened one late-August morning as we were finishing an early breakfast. He looked out the glass door and exclaimed, “There’s a bloom on that Clematis vine by the deck!” I looked where he was pointing, but did not see any bloom and said, “You must be looking at a funny-shaped leaf because that particular Clematis blooms in April — the dark purple ones on the other side of the yard are the only ones that bloom all summer. “
He insisted — so I opened the door, walked out on the deck and looked carefully — and I came back in and announced, “No blooms. Wives are always right.” Then … we both marched out — and he pointed out one actual, but almost-invisible bloom.
Now, why did I miss it? It was quite understandable — and could easily happen to anyone. I even took photos from several different angles to indicate how easy it was to be deceived. I listed the reasons I was fooled:
Early morning light on an overcast morning was very dim. 2. The flower was “pointed” away from me, so that I was looking at the underneath side of the petals, which were a pale green like the leaves, rather than being a light purple like the upper side.
“Everyone knows” that this Clematis (which looks almost exactly like the wild variety so common around here) blooms in early spring, and the label on this plant from Moose Valley even said, “blooms in early spring.” Now it was late August.
4. And, of course, wives are always right.
OK, so I was mistaken. Now … have you ever been fooled? Take a deep breath, sit down and think hard before asking yourself the next question: “Who won the 2020 presidential election?” Note that this question has nothing to do with motives as to why President Trump claimed victory. Was he given bad information? Was it wishful thinking? Etc.?
We can almost never determine another person’s thinking — but that is not the question here. So just look at the two entities most likely to know all the intricate workings of an election, to see what actually happened. We, the on-the-ground voters in rural Idaho, were not there to oversee the tabulating of votes — but first our Department of Justice, and second, our court system, both have the ability to investigate any irregularities in the system — which both groups repeatedly did. Both United States Attorney General William Barr (appointed by President Trump) and over 60 court cases (many of them tried before federal judges appointed by President Trump) determined that the election was legitimate. Surely Attorney General William Barr and the federal courts knew what was really happening? I also checked the well-known information-organization — Snopes.com — to make sure those last statements are accurate — but please check out any non-biased sources for yourself, on your own, and let me know if you find anything different.
So, how did so many people in our country get fooled? Stated in a generalized way, I was fooled about the clematis blossom because of:
Various factors can make it very difficult to discern reality (in my specific case: dim light, plus leaves and underneath-side of petals being similar in color, etc.)
Looking at situation from only one angle, from a distance.
Relying on everyone’s “common knowledge.”
Seeing with my own eyes, but already convinced I was 100% right.
Some of the above four generalized factors which led me to be deceived about the clematis can perhaps also affect decisions which others make when answering the question of “Who won the 2020 Presidential election?” It took me three “looks” to see the clematis bloom — so others may want to take more “looks” at the 2020 Presidential election.
As Mark Twain reportedly said, “It’s a lot easier to fool people —than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.” But take heart, all of us are fooled some of the time. The important thing is to pick ourselves up … and to check out the facts … and to keep on “looking.” (Personally, I think that President Trump legitimately lost the 2020 presidential election because there is no evidence to the contrary.)
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Hochuls Inner Cuomo: Shes Agreeing To Just One Debate Just Days Before The Election
Hochul’s Inner Cuomo: She’s Agreeing To Just One Debate Just Days Before The Election https://digitalarkansasnews.com/hochuls-inner-cuomo-shes-agreeing-to-just-one-debate-just-days-before-the-election/
The headline in another newspaper last August, days after she’d taken over as governor, read: “Kathy Hochul Wants to Make One Thing Clear: She Is Not Cuomo.” The even-keeled, collaborative woman who succeeded the domineering, sometimes vindictive man promised to run New York differently.
Unfortunately, in at least one key area, Hochul seems to have taken close notes from her predecessor. Like Andrew Cuomo four and eight years ago — who was also guarding a large lead in the polls and a huge fundraising advantage — she’s rebuffed her opponent’s attempts to debate more than once before the election. While politically understandable, that deprives many voters of the close-up compare-and-contrast that’s crucial to their final decision.
Wednesday, Hochul finally agreed to debate GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin on Oct. 25, which is four days before early voting begins and two weeks before Election Day. Better late than never, but late — and set for cable’s NY1 rather than broadcast. Zeldin, holding out for multiple debates across the state, has yet to agree.
Hochul should give Zeldin more than one debate. (AP)
In 2014, Cuomo assented to just one one-on-one debate with Rob Astorino — on radio — and in 2018 played more games, trying to put as many candidates as possible on stage before participating in a broadcast debate against Marc Molinaro two weeks before the election.
We understand that no incumbent who’s the odds-on favorite is going to commit to a half-dozen debates, but voters deserve better than one measly opportunity to see the two contenders for our state’s top job compare their visions and resumes in an unscripted forum. Indeed, Hochul should jump at the chance to contrast her views on gun safety, reproductive rights and immigration to Zeldin’s, which are retrograde.
For 35 years, the U.S. Commission on Presidential Debates has overseen a series of informative faceoffs between general election foes. Donald Trump whined and complained, as he always does, but even he participated. Instead of returning to square one every four years, why can’t New York figure out something similar?
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Kremlin stages votes in Ukraine, sees protests in Russia
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched new strikes on Ukrainian cities as Kremlin-orchestrated votes took place in occupied regions of Ukraine to create a pretext for their annexation by Moscow. In Russia, hundreds were arrested on Saturday while trying to protest President Vladimir Putin’s order to mobilize more troops to fight in Ukraine. Kyiv and its Western allies say the votes underway in four regions of Ukraine are a sham with no legal force. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged residents to undermine “this farce.” He also encouraged people called up to fight to desert or sabotage the Russian military. Ukraine’s presidential office said the latest Russian shelling killed at least three people and wounded 19.
Florida emergency declared as Tropical Storm Ian strengthens
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency across his entire state as Tropical Storm Ian gains strength over the Caribbean and is forecast to become a major hurricane in coming days. An emergency order DeSantis initially issued for two dozen counties was expanded to a statewide warning on Saturday. The governor is encouraging residents and localities to prepare for the storm, which could lash large swaths of Florida. The National Hurricane Center said Ian is forecast to rapidly power up to a hurricane by Sunday and a major hurricane as soon as late Monday. It’s expected to move over western Cuba before approaching Florida in the middle of next week.
Flashes of bold UN talk on feminism, masculinity, patriarchy
Few men in power have delved deeply into gender equality on the main stage of the United Nations this month. But the ones who did went there boldly. They claimed feminist credibility, sold “positive masculinity” and resolutely demanded an end to The Patriarchy. Gender equality is as one of the U.N.’s primary goals. It has long been a safe talking point for world leaders, and there were many brief and polite mentions of progress made toward female empowerment. There were also some leaders who did not say the words “women” or “girls” at all during their time on stage. At other times, a a word considered a dirty word by many for generations was used proudly. Feminism.
Canadian military to help clean up Fiona’s devastation
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian troops are being sent to assist the recovery from the devastation of storm Fiona, which swept away houses, stripped off roofs and knocked out power across the country’s Atlantic provinces. After surging north from the Caribbean as a hurricane, Fiona came ashore before dawn Saturday as a post-tropical cyclone, battering Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec with hurricane-strength winds, heavy rains and huge waves. Defense Minister Anita Anand says troops will help remove fallen trees and other debris, restore transportation links and do whatever else is required for as long as it takes. She hasn’t specified how many troops will be deployed. No fatalities or serious injuries have been confirmed, though police say a woman is listed as missing.
Poverty and inflation: Egypt’s economy hit by global turmoil
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For decades, millions of Egyptians have depended on the government to keep basic goods affordable. But a series of shocks to the global economy and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have endangered the social contract in the Middle East’s most populous country, which is also the world’s biggest importer of wheat. It is now grappling with double-digit inflation and a steep devaluation of its currency, prompting oil-rich Gulf Arab countries to once again step in with financial support as talks with the International Monetary Fund drag on. The possibility of food insecurity has raised concerns.
Italians vote in election that could take far-right to power
ROME (AP) — Italians are voting in a national election coming at a critical time for Europe. Soaring energy bills, largely caused by the war in Ukraine, have households and businesses fearful they can’t keep the heat or lights on this winter. Sunday’s balloting for Italy’s Parliament might yield the nation’s first government led by the far-right since the end of World War II. Opinion polls had indicated Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party, with its neo-fascist roots, would be the top vote-getter. Polls opened at 7 a.m. (0500GMT). The counting of paper ballots was expected to begin shortly after they close at 11 p.m. (2100 GMT), with projections based on partial results coming early Monday morning.
‘Fighting fit’: Trial to show Oath Keepers’ road to Jan. 6
It’s been a long road to the upcoming Capitol riot trial of the the leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers. But the prosecution’s case against Stewart Rhodes covers a lot more than just the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. Rhodes and four co-defendants are facing the difficult-to-prove charge of seditious conspiracy. Prosecutors will try to show that for the Oath Keepers, the siege wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment protest but that it was part of a weekslong plot to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power from election-denier Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Jury selection begins Tuesday in federal court in the nation’s capital. The trial is expected to last several weeks.
West works to deepen sanctions after Putin heightens threats
WASHINGTON (AP) — How will American leaders and their allies respond if President Vladimir Putin seeks to escalate his way out of his bad situation on Ukraine’s battlefields? Putin this week renewed threats of claiming more Ukrainian territory, and even using nuclear weapons. U.S. and European leaders have made clear they will try to double down on the same tactics that have helped put Russia in a corner in Ukraine. That means more financial penalties and international isolation for Russia, more arms and other backing for Ukraine. There’s no sign of the United States and NATO matching Putin’s intensified nuclear threats with the same bluster, which could raise the risks of escalating the conflict.
GOP quiet as Arizona Democrats condemn abortion ruling
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Democrats are vowing to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law first enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances. Democrats on Saturday looked to capitalize on an issue they hope will have a major impact on the midterm elections. Top Democrats implored women not to sit on the sidelines this year, saying the ruling sets women back to an era when only men had the right to vote. Republican candidates have been silent since the ruling, which said the state can prosecute doctors and others who assist with an abortion unless it’s necessary to save the mother’s life.
Saudi Arabia’s triumphant week reclaims the West’s embrace
NEW YORK (AP) — Saudi Arabia appears to be leaving behind the stream of negative coverage the killing of Jamal Khashoggi elicited since 2018. Once again enthusiastically welcomed back into polite and powerful society, it is no longer as frowned upon to seek their investments and accept their favor. Saudi Arabia’s busy week of triumphs included brokering a prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia, holding a highbrow summit on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, marking the country’s national day, hosting the German chancellor and discussing energy supply with top White House officials. The pivot is drawing focus back to the crown prince’s ambitious re-branding of Saudi Arabia and its place in the world.
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Liz Cheney On If She Prefers Democrats Hold House Majority: 'It's A Tough Question'
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AUSTIN, Texas – Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said that she was unsure whether she would prefer Democrats hold their majority in the House of Representatives during the upcoming midterm elections, arguing that the threat posed by some Republicans who challenged the 2020 presidential election may outweigh her policy differences with the left.
“It’s a tough question. I think that the policies of the Biden administration, there are a lot of bad policies, for example – what we’re seeing now with inflation, what we’re seeing with respect to government spending,” Cheney said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Saturday.
“I think it’s really important though, as voters are going to vote, that they recognize and understand what the Republican Conference consists of in the House of Representatives today, and how much power the election deniers, the people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and Jim Jordan, how much power those people will have in a Republican majority.”
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Cheney, who was one of 10 House Republicans to vote for Trump’s impeachment and is now the vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, was defeated in the Republican primary last month by Harriet Hageman.
Trump and other top GOP officials had endorsed Hageman, a longtime figure in Wyoming politics.
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Republicans are expected to take a 13-seat majority in the upcoming midterm elections, according to the latest Fox News Power Rankings.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy confidently predicted last month that the GOP will win the majority and that he will be the next Speaker of the House.
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Republican congressional candidate Harriet Hageman speaks at a campaign event in Wyoming. Natalie Behring/Getty Images
Cheney also railed against other Republican candidates for statewide office who have questioned the results of the 2020 election, such as Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano and Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
“Partisanship has to have a limit,” Cheney said Saturday, adding that she would campaign for Democrats if necessary. “There’s got to be an end.”
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Her comments came days after the House passed Cheney’s Presidential Election Reform Act, which would amend the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to make clear that the vice president only plays a ministerial role in certifying electoral college votes.
The bill was in response to Trump’s failed attempt to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to challenge the electoral vote count on Jan. 6, 2021.
Cheney declined to elaborate on what she plans to do once her time in Congress is up, including whether she’ll mount a presidential bid in 2024, but did say her attention will shift to keeping Trump out of the White House.
“I’m going to make sure Donald Trump, I’m going to do everything I can to make sure he is not the nominee, and if he is the nominee, I won’t be a Republican,” she said.
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GoLocalProv | Politics | Primaries End With Calm Before Political Storm The Sunday Political Brunch September 25 2022
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Okay, the primaries are over for 2022, and today marks 44 days until Election Day, November 8th. The trends are not boding well for the party in power, but is there enough time to turn the tide? Let’s “brunch” on that this week!
“Primary Lessons” – If I’ve learned one lesson over and over in the five decades I covered American politics, it’s that economic conditions trump all other issues. Economic decline put Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush out of the Oval Office, and a severe downturn prevented John McCain from winning the White House. This past week the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by three basis points for the third time this year. Inflation, while declining over the past two months, remains at a near 40-year-high. The inflation report due out on October 13th will be the last one before Election Day. It will be crucial and decisive.
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“And There’s More Bad Economic News” — Gas prices I paid this week were at $3.49, down sharply from the $5.00 a gallon in June, but still well above the $2.53 average when President Joe Biden took office. So, things have improved marginally in the past few months, but probably not enough to help Democrats who control both chambers in Congress as we approach the midterms. Fair or not, the party in power usually bears the brunt of the blame.
“Manchin in the Middle, AGAIN!” – This should be a surprise to no one. Senator Joe Manchin is in the middle of the effort to pass a CR, or Continuing Resolution, to prevent a government shutdown on October 1st. For his part, Manchin wants permitting for the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline which is set to run from the rich natural gas fields of West Virginia to a facility near Roanoke, Virginia, and then off to domestic and foreign markets. One goal is to cut spiking natural gas prices, Manchin said. “So, when do you ever see that we’re going to change the permitting, so we can have the American people get relief from the high cost?” Manchin pondered. “When you take a pipeline, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, nothing puts more product into the market quicker and helps relieve the shortages that we have right now,” Manchin added.
“Not So Fast, say Environmentalists” – The Mountain Valley Pipeline, or MVP, is only 20-miles from completion. Environmentalists worry about pollution and even went to federal court to get the project shut down for a time. Senator Bernie Sanders (I) Vermont, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) Massachusetts, are among the biggest critics in Congress. “Mister President, I rise this morning to express my strong opposition to the so-called ‘side-deal’ that the fossil fuel industry is pushing to make it easier for them to pollute the environment and destroy the planet,” Sanders said on the Senate floor. The problem for Sanders and other environmentalists is that Manchin has the support of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and President Biden, who needed Manchin’s support to pass the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Like it or not, that’s how business often gets done in the Capitol.
“The Dynamics of a Government Shutdown” – Another problem for Democrats is the Mountain Valley Pipeline deal is part of the proposed Continuing Resolution to prevent a federal government shutdown on October 1st. Not only are key liberal Senate Democrats against the deal, more than seventy House Democrats also consider it a poison pill and may oppose the CR to keep the government open. Right now, if the government shuts down over this single issue, it will be easy for the Republicans to blame Biden, Schumer, and Manchin for crafting the provision. I predict the pipeline gets pulled from the CR at the 11th hour.
“Trump’s Troubles” – This past week, Attorney General Letitia James (D) New York, filed a $250 million dollar lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, and his three eldest children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. James said the Trumps inflated their personal wealth to get larger loans for which they would otherwise not qualify. The AG called the Trumps’ actions, “persistent and repeated business fraud.” In addition to the fines, she wants the Trumps banned from operating any businesses in New York State.
“The Potential Fallout” – Now that the primary season is over for 2022, we can repeat the analysis of the Washington Examiner, which reported of 236 Trump-endorsed candidates nationwide, 217 won and just 19 lost. That’s a 93 percent success rate. I mention this because I spoke with a candidate who was expecting a Trump endorsement soon for the November general election. “Now I don’t know if I want it,” he told me. “What if Trump gets indicted?” he pondered. Trump’s troubles have emboldened other GOP candidates, especially after the raid on Mar-a-Lago that many Republicans – both Trump supporters and critics – felt was highly politicized and unfair. Will a backlash motivate Republican and independent voters in November? Or will some Trump-backed candidates face “guilt by association?” Stay tuned!
“Trump Candidate Gets Trumped” – In the internet age, it’s easier than ever to track down public records on just about anyone. That’s why people (especially candidates) need to be careful about “resume padding.” A classic case in point, is Ohio Congressional candidate J.P. Majewski, who campaigned on being a combat veteran during the War on Terror. Now, according to the Associated Press, Majewski was in fact in the Air Force servicing U.S. aircraft based in Qatar, an ally nation where we staged our planes. Look, that’s noble enough service that would earn the respect of voters. You signed up, wore the uniform, and did your job. People would salute that, even if you did not serve in combat. This Trump-backed candidate had a real shot to defeat a longtime Democrat incumbent, but that hope may vanish. In a House where the majority may be decided by a single vote, this was an epic fail.
Mark Curtis, Ed.D., is Chief Political Reporter for the seven Nexstar Media TV stations serving West Virginia, its five neighboring states and the entire Washington, DC media market. He is also a MINDSETTER contributing political writer and analyst for www.GoLocalProv.com and its affiliates.
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Philippines On Red Alert As Super Typhoon Noru Approaches | CNN
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CNN —
The Philippines has issued an extreme emergency alert as Super Typhoon Noru approaches.
The storm, known locally as Super Typhoon Karding, reached super typhoon status early on Sunday morning local time in the Philippines after suddenly intensifying.
“The highest emergency preparedness and response protocol has been activated in Metro Manila, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, and the Bicol region,” said the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
It urged the public to take care, adding strong winds are expected to hit within the next 18 hours
The typhoon is expected to make landfall in the northern part of Quezon or the southern part of Aurora in the evening, said the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on a live hourly television bulletin.
It said it does not rule out an earlier landfall in Polillo Islands in the afternoon.
Schools in multiple cities including Muntinlupa City and Aurora suspended classes for Monday, Sept. 26, due to the approaching storm.
According to CNN Weather, Noru now has winds equal to a category 5 US hurricane.
It is expected to bring large waves and storm surge, torrential rains, and winds in excess of 200 kph (124 mph) to Luzon over the next 24 hours.
PAGASA issued a warning for the Polillo Islands in anticipation of extensive damage that could be caused by the storm.
The warning comes after the storm rapidly intensified in the early hours of Sunday.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center said it had strengthened from a 140 kph (85 mph) typhoon to a 250 kph (155 mph) super typhoon in just six hours.
Earlier on Sunday the PAGASA has issued a signal warning level four for the Polillo Islands in anticipation of extensive damage and level two and three warnings for much of Luzon, including metro Manila.
This is a developing story. More to come
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