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CATOOSA, Okla. — The Missouri Southern women’s golf team finished off the 23rd annual NSU Golf Classic on Tuesday played at Cherokee Hills Golf Club.
Julianna Washka led the way for the Lions as she shot a 76 and finished tied for 19th with an 18-hole score of 153. Lily Allman shot a 163 over 18 holes to finish tied for 45th, while Filippa Guldberg finished seven strokes better than day one to shoot a 167 over 18 holes.
Kylie Carnes did not play today due to an injury, leaving the Lions with only three players and unable to post a team score.
Arkansas – Fort Smith finished ten strokes in front of second-place Northeastern State.
Rogers State was third, followed by Harding, Missouri Western, Arkansas Tech, Southwestern Oklahoma, Oklahoma Baptist, Southern Nazarene, Newman, Northwest Missouri, Southern Arkansas, Lincoln and Seminole State to round out the team scores.
Southern will be back in action next week as the Lions travel to Bolivar to compete in the Drury Fall Invitational next Monday and Tuesday at Silo Ridge Golf Course.
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Cheer Stars Father Shot After Entering Wrong Apartment In Arkansas
‘Cheer’ Star’s Father Shot After Entering Wrong Apartment In Arkansas https://digitalarkansasnews.com/cheer-stars-father-shot-after-entering-wrong-apartment-in-arkansas/
by: Andrew Epperson, Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Sep 13, 2022 / 08:56 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 13, 2022 / 08:56 PM EDT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK) – A man shot over the weekend at a Little Rock, Arkansas, apartment complex has been identified as the father of a reality television star.
Ronald Dunlap, 49, is the father of Cassadee Dunlap, who starred in the second season of “Cheer.” A police report showed he was shot several times after going into the wrong apartment early Saturday morning.
A family member told Nexstar’s KARK that Dunlap thought it was his apartment, but he actually lived in a different building.
Joshua Womack told KARK he was asleep and heard knocking on the door shortly after 3 a.m., but then the situation escalated.
“I heard a big, loud thud through the front door,” Womack said. “The door was actually knocked off the hinges. With that, he ended up bum-rushing it. It wasn’t like an accidental walk-in.”
Police said Womack shot Dunlap several times after reportedly finding the man in his kitchen.
Womack said he is temporarily living elsewhere while the scene is being investigated. Another person’s apartment door was struck by gunfire, but no other injuries were reported.
A police spokesperson told TMZ Dunlap is believed to have been intoxicated when he came to Womack’s apartment.
Dunlap’s family member said he is now stable and expected to survive.
No charges have been filed as of Tuesday.
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Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.
Smugglers put migrants in suitcases, empty water tanks, U.S. prosecutors allege
U.S. authorities unveiled indictments on Tuesday of a lucrative human smuggling operation that allegedly included moving migrants in suitcases and water tanks from the U.S.-Mexico border, as the Biden administration cracks down on groups fueling a record number of border crossings. Eight people, mostly U.S. citizens, were indicted for their roles in smuggling hundreds of people, some hidden in wooden crates on tractor-trailers with little ventilation, according to U.S. officials and related court documents. Another six co-conspirators were cited in the court record.
Alex Jones’ lies about Sandy Hook driven by profits, victims’ lawyer says at trial
A lawyer for families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting told a Connecticut jury on Tuesday that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones would never stop profiting from destructive falsehoods unless he pays for his lies about the massacre. The lawyer, Christopher Mattei, made his assessment during opening statements on Tuesday, nearly a decade after 20 children and six staff members were killed on Dec. 14, 2012, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Analysis-Despite U.S. inflation’s bite, Democratic voters are energized for midterms
The unexpected rise in inflation reported on Tuesday was an unwelcome blow for President Joe Biden’s Democrats, but a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Democratic voters just as enthusiastic as their Republican counterparts, pointing to a potentially close contest in November’s elections. Republicans remain favored to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives – with the Senate on a knife-edge – amid widespread dissatisfaction with Biden’s presidency and months of sharp price increases that the poll showed remain the top concern for Republican and Democratic voters alike.
U.S. lawmakers ask National Archives for accounting of Trump records
A congressional panel on Tuesday sought an urgent review by the U.S. National Archives after agency staff members acknowledged that they did not know if all presidential records from Donald Trump’s administration had been turned over. House of Representatives Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney also asked the Archives, the federal agency charged with preserving government records, to seek a written certification from the Republican former president that he has handed over all presidential records and classified materials.
Republican Graham proposes national ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham proposed new national restrictions on abortion on Tuesday, saying he wanted to help define Republicans on an issue seen as a potential albatross for his party in the Nov. 8 midterm elections. With control of the Senate up for grabs, and some jittery Republican candidates softening their positions on abortion, Graham announced legislation that would ban the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy nationwide.
Ken Starr, prosecutor in Clinton-Lewinsky investigation, dead at 76
Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to the impeachment of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1998, has died at age 76, his family said in a statement on Tuesday. Starr died on Tuesday in Houston from complications from surgery, his family said.
Biden celebrates ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ as food, rent prices climb
President Joe Biden celebrated his climate change and drug pricing law, The Inflation Reduction Act, on Tuesday on the White House lawn, highlighting Democrats’ commitment to progressive priorities even as high consumer prices continue to bite. Biden signed the $430 billion bill, seen as the biggest climate change package in U.S. history, into law last month in a low-key ceremony. The Tuesday event on the White House South Lawn brought together lawmakers, cabinet members, activists and interest groups who supported it, and gave Biden an opportunity to tout drug price caps, electric vehicle grants and a minimum corporate tax, key issues for his political base.
U.S. government makes contingency plans for rail shutdown
President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday made contingency plans aiming to ensure deliveries of critical goods in the event of a shutdown of the U.S. rail system while pressing railroads and unions to reach a deal to avoid a work stoppage affecting freight and passenger service. The potential shutdown, which could come as early as Friday, could freeze almost 30% of U.S. cargo shipments, stoke inflation, impede supplies of food and fuel, cost the U.S. economy about $2 billion per day and cause transportation woes.
Trump ally wins bid to bar photos of ‘lavish properties’ from foreign agent trial
A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled that prosecutors cannot show pictures of “lavish properties” owned by Tom Barrack, a former top fundraiser for Donald Trump, at Barrack’s upcoming trial on charges of acting as an illegal foreign agent. Barrack, a former private equity executive who prosecutors say acted as an agent of the United Arab Emirates, asked U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan last week to exclude evidence of his wealth, spending and lifestyle, arguing prosecutors were seeking to appeal to jurors’ “class bias” against wealthy people.
U.S. Senator thinks Twitter and Facebook may need a license to operate
U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham, a Republican critic of social media companies like Meta’s Facebook and Twitter, said on Tuesday that he wants create a way to regulate, and perhaps license, social media companies. Graham said that he was working on a measure — he did not say what form it would take — with Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, and Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican. Graham could not be reached for further comment and Warren and Hawley did not immediately return a call for comment.
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Paranoid Trump Meets With Lawyers On Golf Course https://digitalarkansasnews.com/paranoid-trump-meets-with-lawyers-on-golf-course/
There is some explanation now for Donald Trump’s recent surprise visit to the DC area, and it appears that he made the trip to meet with lawyers on his golf course. A video of Trump on the course was shot at a distance and showed the former president and his entourage riding around on golf carts. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen tweeted: “Many are asking me why Mr. Mushroom Putter was at his DC Golf Course (which is really in Virginia)? He says to play golf. My sources say he was meeting with 2 lawyers in secrecy and didn’t trust being at their offices. Notice there are no golf clubs on the cart!!!” It’s now becoming clear that Trump made the trip to DC not because an indictment against him was imminent, but it still seems very much related to the investigation and suggests the ex-president is extremely paranoid about the consequences he could be facing.
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Judge Unseals More Of FBI Affidavit On Search Of Trump
Judge Unseals More Of FBI Affidavit On Search Of Trump https://digitalarkansasnews.com/judge-unseals-more-of-fbi-affidavit-on-search-of-trump/
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge Tuesday unsealed additional portions of an FBI affidavit laying out the basis for a search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, showing that agents earlier obtained a hard drive after issuing a subpoena for surveillance footage recorded inside Mar-a-Lago.
A heavily redacted version of the affidavit was made public last month, but the Justice Department requested permission to show more of it after lawyers for Trump revealed the existence of a June grand jury subpoena that sought video footage from cameras in the vicinity of the Mar-a-Lago storage room.
“Because those aspects of the grand jury’s investigation have now been publicly revealed, there is no longer any reason to keep them sealed (i.e. redacted) in the filings in this matter,” department lawyers wrote.
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The newly visible portions of the FBI agent’s affidavit show that the FBI on June 24 subpoenaed for the records in June after a visit weeks earlier to Mar-a-Lago in which agents observed between 50 to 55 boxes of records in the storage room at the property. The Trump Organization provided a hard drive on July 6 in response to the subpoena, the affidavit says.
The footage could be an important piece of the investigation, including whether anyone has sought to obstruct the probe. The Justice Department has said in a separate filing that it has “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”
The Justice Department has been investigating the holding of top-secret information and other classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House. FBI agents during their Aug. 8 search of the home and club said they recovered more than 11,000 documents, including over 100 with classification markings.
Separately Tuesday, the Justice Department again urged U.S. District Aileen Cannon to lift her hold on core aspects of the investigation. Cannon last week granted the Trump team’s request for an independent arbiter to review the seized documents and weed out from the investigation any records that may be covered by claims of executive or attorney-client privilege.
She also ordered the department to halt its review of the records pending any further court order or the completion of a report by the yet-to-be-named special master. The department urged Cannon last week to put her order on hold and told the judge Tuesday that its investigation would be harmed by a continued delay of its ability to scrutinize the classified documents.
“The government and the public unquestionably have an interest in the timely enforcement of criminal laws, particularly those involving the protection of highly sensitive information, and especially where, as here, there may have been efforts to obstruct its investigation,” the lawyers wrote.
The Trump team on Monday urged the judge to leave her order in place. His lawyers raised questions about the documents’ current classification status and noted that a president has absolute authority to declassify information, though it pointedly did not say that Trump had actually declassified anything.
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List Of Russian Municipal Deputies Calling For Putins Resignation Grows To Nearly 50 Local Official Says
List Of Russian Municipal Deputies Calling For Putin’s Resignation Grows To Nearly 50, Local Official Says https://digitalarkansasnews.com/list-of-russian-municipal-deputies-calling-for-putins-resignation-grows-to-nearly-50-local-official-says/
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List of Russian municipal deputies calling for Putin’s resignation grows to nearly 50, local official says
From CNN’s Uliana Pavlova
Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during the Navy Day Parade in Saint Petersburg on July, 31. (Contributor/Getty Images)
Nearly 50 municipal deputies have now signed a petition demanding the resignation of President Vladimir Putin, 29 more than on Monday, according to one of those involved.
Ksenia Thorstrom, a municipal deputy of the Semenovsky District in Saint Petersburg, told CNN:
“Now we have 47 verified signatures. Their geography has expanded significantly.”
“My colleagues and I wanted to support the deputies from Smolninsky, who were recently summoned to the police and will soon have a trial,” Thorstrom said.
The petition says: “We, the municipal deputies of Russia, believe that the actions of its president Vladimir Putin are detrimental to Russia’s and its citizens’ future. We demand Vladimir Putin’s resignation from the post of the President of the Russian Federation.”
“We decided to make our appeal so short that there would be less reason to find any fault with it from the authorities and so that as many municipal deputies as possible would sign the petition,” Thorstrom said.
Last week, the deputies of the Smolninskoye municipality of St. Petersburg called on the State Duma of the Russian Federation to bring charges of treason against Putin in order to remove him from office due to the war in Ukraine. Now those deputies face charges of “discrediting” the Russian army, according to a tweet by one of them, Nikita Yuferev.
Municipal deputies are local officials with limited political influence. The petition follows Russia’s first regional and municipal elections since the start of the war, in which pro-Kremlin candidates were overwhelmingly successful.
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White House official heralds “swift and stunning” Ukrainian advances on Russian-held territory
From CNN’s Betsy Klein
National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby answers questions during the daily briefing at the White House on August 4. (McNamee/Getty Images)
The White House reiterated some cautious optimism regarding Ukraine’s recent advances on Russian-held territory Tuesday, with John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, saying it has been “swift and stunning.”
“They certainly have some momentum, particularly up there in the northeast part of the country in that Donbas region. You saw just from that report how swift and how stunning their advances have been,” Kirby said during an appearance on “Good Morning America.”
“There is more fighting to go, though, and in particularly down in the south where the Ukrainians are also trying to break through near Kherson city. They’ve made some incremental progress there. They’re facing a stiffer Russian resistance down south, but clearly up in that northeast region, there’s some momentum here by the Ukrainians, there’s no doubt about it,” Kirby said.
He noted that “weeks of planning” went into the offensive.
Pressed on threats to Russian President Vladimir Putin inside Russia, Kirby said the US is watching closely.
“It is very interesting to see, isn’t it now, that he’s facing some public rebukes not just from opposition figures, but from actual elected officials inside Russia. That’s not insignificant, and we’ll see where this goes. And we’re already starting to see signs that they’re going to probably start to crack down on some of these dissident elected officials. We’ll watch this carefully. But it is noteworthy that now even elected municipal officials are coming out speaking against Mr. Putin,” he said.
When asked if the US believes the table has been set for a diplomatic settlement, Kirby said, “I don’t know that we know we’re there yet,” saying he would defer to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Mr. Putin has shown no inclination to stop the prosecution of this war against the Ukrainian people, as we saw with his retaliatory strikes and in Kharkiv just over the over the weekend. So I don’t think we’re there yet. Obviously, President Biden fully supports a diplomatic end of this war, an end that we’d like to see today if possible, but I just don’t know that we’re on the horizon right now,” he said.
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Governor of Russian region bordering Ukraine urges evacuation of some villages
From CNN’s Tim Lister
Vyacheslav Gladkov, center, speaks during a meeting with local residents in Belgorod, Russia, in July. (Oleg Kharseev/Kommersant/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images)
The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, has again urged civilians to leave villages close to the border with Ukraine.
Belgorod is adjacent to Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.
Gladkov said on Telegram Tuesday that he had been to the village of Zhuravlevka, and the situation there is “difficult, but all services are in place,” including law enforcement and border guards.
“We continue to persuade people who still remain in Zhuravlevka and Nekhoteevka to temporarily leave their homes,” he added.
Shelling along the border has affected communities on both sides, with homes damaged and grain fields set on fire.
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China responds to questions regarding an official’s remarks during a visit to Russia
From CNN’s Beijing Bureau
China’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday responded to questions about remarks regarding Ukraine during a visit to Russia.
A Russian statement on a visit by Li Zhanshu, Chinese chair of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, mentioned that Li said China “understands and supports Russia on issues that represent its vital interests, in particular on the situation in Ukraine.”
But a Chinese government readout on Li’s visit had no mention of Ukraine at all.
According to the official Xinhua News Agency, Li expressed China’s willingness to “continue to work with Russia to firmly support each other on issues concerning each other’s core interests and major concerns.”
Mao Ning, a spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Tuesday:
“As for China’s position on Ukraine, we have already presented it many times. This position is clear and consistent, and we call on all parties to achieve a ceasefire and stop the war as soon as possible through dialogue and consultation.”
Beijing has firmly refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – or even refer to it as a “war.” Instead, it has repeatedly laid the blame for the conflict on NATO and the United States.
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Moscow has not discussed a nationwide mobilization to boost its military campaign in Ukraine, Kremlin says
From CNN’s Anna Chernova
Russia’s Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov arrives for a meeting on Russky Island on September 6. (Valery Sharifulin/TASS/ZUMA Press)
After a Russian parliamentarian suggested the need to announce a nationwide mobilization to boost Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine, the Kremlin said there has been no discussion about it.
“Without full mobilization, without wartime footing, including of the economy, we will not achieve proper results,” State Duma deputy from the ruling United Russia party, Mikhail Sheremet, was quoted as saying to local media Ura.ru on Monday.
But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in a conference call Tuesday there is “no discussion of this for now.”
When asked about criticism from some popular Russian bloggers and commentators about Russia’s recent performance in Ukraine, Peskov said it illustrated “pluralism,” adding that Russians support Russian President Vladimir Putin and his decisions but warned there is a “fine line” when expressing critical opinions.
“As for other, critical points of view, as long as they remain within the framework of the law, this is pluralism. But there is a fine line, and one must be very careful here,” Peskov said.
11 hr 39 min ago
Pro-Russian officials claim Ukraine is making no progress toward southern city of Kherson
From CNN’s Tim Lister and Julia Kesaieva
People inspect the damage at a residential building destroyed by a strike in Mykolaiv on September 11. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)
Fighting continues in southern Ukraine along a wide front in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
Pro-Russian officials have insisted that a Ukrainian offensive is being contained.
In a video message close to the front lines, Kirill Stremousov, the Russian-appointed deputy head of Kherson region military administration, said that he was on the Kherson-Mykolaiv highway and that “no one is retreating and will not retreat.”
Stremousov said he had visited much of the front line around Kherson and the city was “reliably protected.” He maintained that Ukrainian forces had “no chance of breaking through the line of defense.”
“There is no threat to Kherson. Kherson will remain with Russia,” he said.
Ukrainian officials have provided few details about the progress of their offensive in the south, but claimed that some 500 square kilometers of territory had been taken — mainly along the borders of Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.
Natalia Humeniuk, spokeswoman for the Ukrainian military’s Operational Command South, said Tuesday that Russian forces continued to shell “peaceful settlements,” especially in the direction of the city of Kryvih Rih.
10 hr 47 min ago
CNN goes to Izium, a city recaptured by Ukraine after months of Russian occupation
From CNN’s Rebecca Wright, Sam Kiley, Olha Konovalova and Peter Rudden
An abandoned Russian armoured vehicle is seen near a village on the outskirts of Izyum on September 11. (Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images)
As a CNN team on the ground surveyed t...
Twitter Shareholders Vote Overwhelmingly In Favor Of Elon Musk's $44 Billion Takeover Deal
Twitter Shareholders Vote Overwhelmingly In Favor Of Elon Musk's $44 Billion Takeover Deal https://digitalarkansasnews.com/twitter-shareholders-vote-overwhelmingly-in-favor-of-elon-musks-44-billion-takeover-deal/
(CNN Business)Elon Musk may be fighting tooth-and-nail to get out of his deal to buy Twitter, but the social media company’s shareholders plan to hold him to it.
The vast majority of Twitter (TWTR) shareholders on Tuesday voted in favor of Musk’s $44 billion takeover deal, a value of $54.20 per share. The company’s stock opened Tuesday at just under $41 per share, nearly 25% below the deal price.
A preliminary count indicated that 98.6% of the votes cast on Tuesday were in favor of the deal, Twitter said in a statement.
“Twitter stands ready and willing to complete the merger with affiliates of Mr. Musk immediately, and in any event, no later than on September 15, 2022, the second business day following the satisfaction of all conditions precedent, which is the timeline required by the merger agreement.”
The vote came days after Musk’s third letter to Twitter seeking to terminate their deal, with this one pegged to a purported $7.75 million severance payment the company made to its former head of security, Peiter Zatko, who later blew the whistle about its alleged security and privacy vulnerabilities.
In the letter, Musk’s lawyers claimed the payment — said to have been made to Zatko and his lawyers on June 28 as part of a separation agreement — violated a provision of the acquisition contract. Twitter agreed not to provide any severance payments to employees in amounts outside “the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice,” according to the contract.
Twitter slammed Musk’s latest effort to get out of the deal as “invalid and wrongful.”
Musk first sent a letter to terminate the deal in July, alleging that Twitter violated the agreement by misrepresenting the number of spam and fake bot accounts on its platform. Twitter sued Musk to complete the acquisition, accusing the billionaire of using bots as a pretext to exit a deal that he developed buyer’s remorse over following a market decline.
Zatko testified in front of the US Senate on Tuesday about what he alleged are Twitter’s serious security and privacy vulnerabilities, including possibly having foreign intelligence agents on its payroll.
The case between Musk and Twitter is scheduled to go to trial on October 17.
— CNN Business’ Clare Duffy contributed to this report
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Armed Man In Clown Wig Hoping To restore Trump As President King Arrested At Dairy Queen In Pennsylvania
Armed Man In Clown Wig Hoping To ‘restore Trump As President King’ Arrested At Dairy Queen In Pennsylvania https://digitalarkansasnews.com/armed-man-in-clown-wig-hoping-to-restore-trump-as-president-king-arrested-at-dairy-queen-in-pennsylvania/
He wasn’t just clowning around.
An armed Pennsylvania man plotting to “restore (Donald) Trump as President king of the United States” was arrested at a Dairy Queen on Saturday.
Cops said Jan Stawovy, 61, threatened to kill “Democrats and liberals” and claimed he was protecting himself from “drug traffickers,” Pittsburgh NBC affiliate WPXI reported.
Stawovy was arrested in Delmont, about 20 miles east of downtown Pittsburgh.
Dairy Queen (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Police got a call about Stawovy driving erratically in the area, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
When cops caught up with Stawovy, he was spotted wearing a rainbow clown wig and walking into a Dairy Queen with a handgun.
Stawovy was quickly detained inside the store, WPXI reported. Cops later said they found two more guns and more than 60 bullets in his vehicle. Stawovy did not have a permit for the weapons, police said.
“Ofc. Stull detained the male and was able (to) prevent the possibility of a mass casualty incident,” Delmont police chief Timothy Klobucar said in a Facebook post. “I am grateful for Ofc. Stull’s fast response and actions (in) this incident that had the potential to end very differently.”
Stawovy was formally charged with making terroristic threats, carrying firearms without a permit and disorderly conduct.
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Panel: Archives Still Not Certain It Has All Trump Records
Panel: Archives Still Not Certain It Has All Trump Records https://digitalarkansasnews.com/panel-archives-still-not-certain-it-has-all-trump-records/
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The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is asking the agency to conduct an ‘urgent review’ of all the seized documents.
By FARNOUSH AMIRIAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — The National Archives is still not certain that it has custody of all Donald Trump’s presidential records even after the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago club, a congressional committee said in a letter Tuesday.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform revealed that staff at the Archives on an Aug. 24 call could not provide assurances that they have all of Trump’s presidential records. The committee in the letter asked the Archives to conduct an assessment of whether any Trump records remain unaccounted for and potentially in his possession.
“In light of revelations that Mr. Trump’s representatives misled investigators about his continued possession of government property and that material found at his club included dozens of ‘empty folders’ for classified material, I am deeply concerned that sensitive presidential records may remain out of the control and custody of the U.S. Government,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the chairwoman of the Oversight Committee, wrote in the letter.
The House committee has jurisdiction over the Presidential Records Act, a 1978 law that requires the preservation of White House documents as property of the U.S. government. The request is the latest development in a monthslong back-and-forth between the agency and the committee, which has been investigating Trump’s handling of records.
The request also comes weeks after the FBI recovered more than 100 documents with classified markings and even more than 10,000 other government documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The search came after lawyers for Trump provided a sworn certification that all government records had been returned.
Maloney and other Democratic lawmakers on the panel have been seeking a briefing from the National Archives, but haven’t received one due to the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation into the matter.
But the letter notes a call between Archives staff and the committee on Aug. 24, where lawmakers were informed that documents could still be missing.
As a result, Maloney wrote, the committee is asking the agency to conduct an “urgent review” of all of the government records that have been recorded from the Trump White House to determine whether any additional records remain unaccounted for and potentially in the possession of the former president.
In addition, the committee also asked for the Archives to get a personal certification from Trump “that he has surrendered all presidential records that he illegally removed from the White House after leaving office.”
The committee is asking the Archives to provide an initial assessment of this review by Sept. 27.
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Judge Unseals Additional Portions Of Mar-A-Lago Affidavit
Judge Unseals Additional Portions Of Mar-A-Lago Affidavit https://digitalarkansasnews.com/judge-unseals-additional-portions-of-mar-a-lago-affidavit/
Former President Donald Trump gestures while playing golf at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) Manuel Balce Ceneta AP
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A federal judge Tuesday unsealed additional portions of an FBI affidavit laying out the basis for a search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, showing that agents earlier obtained a hard drive after issuing a subpoena for surveillance footage recorded inside Mar-a-Lago.
A heavily redacted version of the affidavit was made public last month, but the Justice Department requested permission to show more of it after lawyers for Trump revealed the existence of a June grand jury subpoena that sought video footage from cameras in the vicinity of the Mar-a-Lago storage room.
“Because those aspects of the grand jury’s investigation have now been publicly revealed, there is no longer any reason to keep them sealed (i.e. redacted) in the filings in this matter,” department lawyers wrote.
The newly visible portions of the FBI agent’s affidavit show that the FBI on June 24 subpoenaed for the records in June after a visit weeks earlier to Mar-a-Lago in which agents observed between 50 to 55 boxes of records in the storage room at the property. The Trump Organization provided a hard drive on July 6 in response to the subpoena, the affidavit says.
The footage could be an important piece of the investigation, including whether anyone has sought to obstruct the probe. The Justice Department has said in a separate filing that it has “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”
The Justice Department has been investigating the holding of top-secret information and other classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House. FBI agents during their Aug. 8 search of the home and club said they recovered more than 11,000 documents, including over 100 with classification markings.
Separately Tuesday, the Justice Department again urged U.S. District Aileen Cannon to lift her hold on core aspects of the investigation. Cannon last week granted the Trump team’s request for an independent arbiter to review the seized documents and weed out from the investigation any records that may be covered by claims of executive or attorney-client privilege.
She also ordered the department to halt its review of the records pending any further court order or the completion of a report by the yet-to-be-named special master. The department urged Cannon last week to put her order on hold and told the judge Tuesday that its investigation would be harmed by a continued delay of its ability to scrutinize the classified documents.
“The government and the public unquestionably have an interest in the timely enforcement of criminal laws, particularly those involving the protection of highly sensitive information, and especially where, as here, there may have been efforts to obstruct its investigation,” the lawyers wrote.
The Trump team on Monday urged the judge to leave her order in place. His lawyers raised questions about the documents’ current classification status and noted that a president has absolute authority to declassify information, though it pointedly did not say that Trump had actually declassified anything.
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20 Facts You Might Not Know About https://digitalarkansasnews.com/20-facts-you-might-not-know-about/
True Grit is less a remake and more another adaptation of the same novel as the original True Grit film. That first movie was quite successful, but you could argue the 2010 version surpassed it. When you have the cast it did — not to mention the greatest directing duo of all time at the helm — you can make that sort of thing happen. Here are 20 true facts you might not know about True Grit.
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It’s based on a book
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True Grit was written in 1968 by novelist Charles Portis. It was quickly turned into a film. The first adaptation of True Grit was released in 1969. That film is also notable because it is the movie John Wayne won an Oscar for.
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The Coens made a more-faithful adaption
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Joel and Ethan Coen decided they wanted to adapt True Grit. Winning Best Picture for No Country for Old Men a couple of years earlier bought them a lot of goodwill. They were not interested in remaking the 1969 movie but in doing a fresh adaption of Portis’ novel. Ethan Coen said the book was funnier and was told through the perception of Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old girl seeking revenge for her father. This is what the Coens hoped to reflect.
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The movie was straightforward by Coens standards
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Scott Rudin was a longtime producer for Coen Brothers films, and he began talking up True Grit as sort of normal. Rudin said that the Coens were making a “formal, reverent” Western, adding that it was “very much of a piece with their other films, but it is the least ironic in many regards.”
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They did add a scene, though
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A faithful adaptation or not, the Coens didn’t do a to-the-letter retelling of Portis’ book. The scene where Maddie stays at the undertaker’s among the corpses to save money over staying at a boardinghouse? They invented that scene themselves.
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A wide net was cast to find Mattie
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By focusing more on Mattie than the 1969 film did, which was a vehicle for Wayne as Rooster Cogburn, the casting of that role proved vital. “We were aware if the kid doesn’t work, there’s no movie,” said Ethan to The New York Times . Open casting calls were held in Texas, with over 15,000 kids applying. In the end, Hailee Steinfeld won the role. It was her first feature film. Given the career Steinfeld has had, the Coens were clearly onto something.
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A double for Mattie was frequently needed
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Shooting with a 13-year-old co-lead can cause some complications vis-à-vis labor laws. For example, shooting after midnight with Steinfeld was not allowed, and the Coens needed to do a lot of night shoots. To work around Steinfeld’s availability, it is an adult double standing in for the teen actor in any night scene where you see Steinfeld from behind.
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Though Bridges was stepping into an iconic Wayne role, do recall the Coens’ intent to be faithful to the book. According to the actor, the first bit of direction the Coens gave him was to completely forget about the Wayne performance and do his own thing.
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Bridges is actually the third actor to play Cogburn
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Wayne famously played Rooster Cogburn, and Bridges’ turn is pretty indelible. Ah, but in between those two films, another actor stepped into the role. In 1978, there was a made-for-TV movie called True Grit: A Further Adventure. The actor Warren Oates stepped into the part for that project.
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Bridges is considerably older than his character
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Bridges was 60 when he played Rooster Cogburn, and Wayne was 62. In the book, though, Rooster is roughly 40. Of course, Cogburn was also a hard-living Civil War veteran. It’s quite likely a 40-year-old Rooster aged like a 60-year-old Bridges.
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Brolin, who plays the villainous Chaney, is third-billed in the film. You have to wait a while to see him, though. The actor does not make his first appearance until 78 minutes into the 110-minute movie.
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Damon used a tactile ploy to get his speaking pattern right
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Damon’s LaBoeuf splits his tongue quite severely, impacting how he talks. Damon wrapped a hair tie around his tongue to get the speaking style he wanted. The results speak for themselves…so to speak.
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Damon and Barry Pepper have played the same character
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Damon’s LaBoeuf and Pepper’s “Lucky” Ned Pepper are on the opposite sides in True Grit. Both have played a notable character from literature, though. In one of Damon’s breakthrough roles, he played the sociopathic social climber Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley. In 2005, in admittedly a lesser-known film, Pepper portrayed Ripley in Ripley Underground.
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A notable actor provides their voice
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Does Mattie’s lawyer, J. Noble Daggett, sound familiar? That wouldn’t be surprising. He’s voiced by J.K. Simmons, who had appeared in a couple of earlier Coen films and is likely best known for playing J. Jonah Jameson.
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They found a town to stand in for Fort Smith
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Fort Smith, Arkansas, from over a century ago, was not replicated with special effects. Instead, the Coen Brothers turned to the town of Granger, Texas. Its wide streets were perfect for what the Coens needed to recreate Fort Smith. While some fake buildings were added and some modern amenities covered up, no special effects were used to turn Granger into Fort Smith.
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The Coens shouted out a friend of theirs
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LaBoeuf, the Texas Ranger played by Matt Damon, runs down a list of aliases used by the criminal Tom Chaney. One of them is J. Todd Anderson. That is the name of a storyboard artist that has worked on several of the Coens’ films.
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This ‘True Grit’ is a mirror image of the first film in some ways
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Wayne’s Rooster wore an eye patch on his left eye, while Bridges’ Rooster wore it over his right eye. Meanwhile, Chaney has a powder mark on his left cheek in the 2010 film, while in the 1969 film, it was on his right cheek. Unsurprisingly, the Coen Brothers’ choices are the ones accurate to the novel.
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It was a surprise hit
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The Coens are critical darlings but don’t necessarily make crowd pleasers and box-office dynamos. True Grit changed that. It was released Christmas weekend, and it doubled its projected box office. By the end of its second weekend, it had made $87.1 million domestically. At this point, it was already the highest-grossing Coen Brothers film. When all was said and done, it had made $171.2 million domestically and $252.3 million worldwide, doubling the brother’s previous best-performing film.
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The brothers have a theory why the film was so successful
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Why was True Grit so successful compared to other Coen Brothers’ efforts? Both the brothers and Paramount’s Vice Chairman Rob Moore believe it’s because the film is PG-13 and a relatively tame one. Typically, the Coens make R-rated films, the kind with bodies in wood chippers and over 100 uses of the “f-word.”
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The Oscars loved it, too
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It wasn’t just audiences who dug True Grit. Joel and Ethan didn’t sell out to make that cash. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, with Bridges getting nominated for playing Rooster Cogburn. Steinfeld was nominated for Supporting Actress, and the film was up for Best Picture. However, True Grit didn’t win a single Oscar.
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Bridges might have won an Oscar if he hadn’t just done it
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Bridges was nominated for playing Rooster Cogburn, the role that Wayne won for. It’s rare for actors to win Oscars for the same character, and it didn’t happen here. However, had things played out differently, it might have. Bridges won his first Oscar in 2010 for his 2009 film Crazy Heart. This was seen, at the time, as a career achievement award. Many critics felt Bridges’ turn as Cogburn was the better performance, and if not for the win for Crazy Heart, there is a good chance Bridges would have won the Oscar for True Grit.
Chris Morgan is a sports and pop culture writer and the author of the books The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and The Ash Heap of History. You can follow him on Twitter @ChrisXMorgan.
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West Virginia Becomes 2nd State To Pass Strict Abortion Ban Post-Roe
West Virginia Becomes 2nd State To Pass Strict Abortion Ban Post-Roe https://digitalarkansasnews.com/west-virginia-becomes-2nd-state-to-pass-strict-abortion-ban-post-roe/
The West Virginia legislature Tuesday passed a bill to prohibit nearly all abortions, making it the second state to pass a new ban since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in June.
The state Senate passed the bill 22-7, after a brief debate Tuesday. The state House concurred and passed the bill in a 78-17 vote. The ban will take effect 90 days after passage.
West Virginia Republicans moved forward with the strict ban despite signs in other parts of the country that many American voters do not support the Supreme Court’s ruling and largely oppose the harshest restrictions on abortion. A similar effort to pass a near-total abortion ban in South Carolina fizzled out last week, and voters resoundingly rejected a ballot measure in Kansas that would have stripped abortion protections from the state constitution.
Abortion had been legal up to 20 weeks in West Virginia since July, when a state judge blocked a pre-Roe ban that dated back to the 19th century. The state borders several antiabortion strongholds in the Midwest and South, including Ohio and Kentucky. Abortion is legal east of the state line in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
In West Virginia, the Republican-controlled legislature reached a compromise over penalties for doctors who perform illegal abortions that had been a sticking point for some conservative lawmakers. The bill they passed, which now goes to Republican Gov. Jim Justice’s desk, bars abortion from implantation with narrow exceptions to save the pregnant person’s life or in cases of rape or incest, so long as the victim reports the crime.
Justice has indicated that he will sign a bill tightening state restrictions on abortion.
The exceptions for victims of rape or incest limit the procedure to before eight weeks of pregnancy, or 14 weeks for people who are under 18 years old. Doctors who violate the law may lose their medical licenses but will not face criminal penalties. Anyone other than a licensed physician with hospital admitting privileges who performs an abortion faces felony charges and up to five years in prison. Those who receive abortions do not face any penalties.
West Virginians support putting restrictions on abortion more than voters in most other states. A 2018 referendum on a constitutional amendment affirming that “nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires funding of abortions” passed with the support of about 52 percent of voters.
But some lawmakers raised concerns that harsh criminal penalties could drive doctors, especially obstetricians, out of the state at a time when some regions are known to be “maternity deserts” that already face physician shortages.
“You’re not concerned we could lose docs who are practicing OB because of this?” state Senate Minority Leader Stephen Baldwin (D) asked after the amended version of the bill was introduced, referring to obstetrics. He also questioned why the Senate was choosing to vote on the new language without giving physicians a chance to weigh in.
“We’ve had a lot of time where we could have involved docs, but now, today, we’re going to vote on this … and they haven’t had time to read it,” Baldwin said.
State Sen. Tom Takubo (R), who opposed the earlier version of the bill and advocated to remove criminal penalties for doctors, said he believed the new language addressed physicians’ fears that they could be prosecuted for trying to save the life of a patient suffering from a life-threatening pregnancy complication.
“I think once they read what is in this amendment, they will feel comfortable,” he said. “I feel this protects those physicians who are not trying to violate the law.”
Some antiabortion Republican senators opposed the amended bill because they felt it did not go far enough in limiting abortion.
“I’m confident that this bill shuts down the abortion clinic,” said state Sen. Eric Tarr (R), who urged his colleagues to vote no on the new language because he said it carved out too many exceptions.
“I’m also torn and disappointed that my vote now is to decide when do you execute an innocent,” he added. “If life is sacred, when does it become sacred?”
About 100 protesters gathered outside the Senate chamber Tuesday to oppose the bill and could be heard inside the state Capitol as senators discussed the bill. Some observers in the Senate gallery briefly disrupted the body after the amended bill was introduced, shouting their dissent.
Even though West Virginians broadly support some restrictions on abortion, advocates for abortion access say the bill is still at odds with the will of the state’s voters.
“West Virginia lawmakers are working to ban abortion in our state, dragging us back to the 19th century,” said Margaret Chapman Pomponio, executive director of WV Free, the state’s largest abortion rights advocacy organization. “They’re plowing ahead, despite recent polls showing that nearly half of West Virginians identify as pro-choice, and a strong majority oppose this draconian legislation.”
Some members of the state House proposed backing away from the bill and instead posing the question directly to voters. They brought up the ballot measure rejected in Kansas last month and suggested West Virginia voters might surprise lawmakers at the polls.
West Virginia’s governor has dismissed suggestions that voters should decide the state’s abortion laws directly.
“Coming down from the U.S. Supreme Court, this is the responsibility of our legislature and our attorney general,” Justice said in August.
Justice called legislators back to the West Virginia Capitol for a special session to consider more stringent abortion restrictions in July.
Days later, the state House passed an initial version of a near-total ban. But the bill stalled after the state Senate became gridlocked over criminal penalties for doctors performing illegal abortions that included fines and prison time. The Senate eventually passed a bill that stripped away many of the penalties for doctors, but the House refused to concur.
State senators and House delegates spent more than a month trying to reach a compromise that could get the bill passed in both chambers. Ultimately, the two chambers managed to find common ground and Tuesday passed the new version of the bill, without criminal penalties for doctors.
Earlier this year, Indiana lawmakers passed the first new abortion ban since the fall of Roe.
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Ukraine Liberates More Towns Pushes For Russian Troops To Keep Surrendering: Live Updates
Ukraine Liberates More Towns, Pushes For Russian Troops To Keep Surrendering: Live Updates https://digitalarkansasnews.com/ukraine-liberates-more-towns-pushes-for-russian-troops-to-keep-surrendering-live-updates/
The Ukraine military claimed Tuesday that it had downed one of Russia’s Iran-built drones as Kyiv’s counteroffensive continued to drive back the invaders from northeastern towns occupied since the early weeks of the war.
The Ukrainian military published images of wreckage from the drone, encountered near Kupiansk in Kharkiv province, where Ukraine troops have made a push in recent days into the strategically important city of Izyum.
In Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry tried to tamp down emerging unrest at the progress of the war, saying teams of attack helicopters are making more than five combat sorties every day to disrupt the counteroffensive near Izyum. Russian forces also shelled the center of Kharkiv, knocking out power and water in some areas of the city, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
Electricity had been fully restored in the region of Kharkiv by Tuesday evening, according to a Telegram post from Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
A major surge: Ukraine retakes more territory in a week than Russia captured in months
Russia has withdrawn many troops from the province, but claims this was a planned regrouping to increase efforts on the southern Donetsk front.
“The enemy is demoralized and is looking for ways to leave the occupied territories,” Ukraine’s Operational Command South said. “But the occupiers still have a lot of strength and power.”
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►In addition to leaving the Kharkiv region, Russian troops were also abandoning Melitopol in the south and heading toward Moscow-annexed Crimea, said Ivan Fedorov, the city’s mayor before the occupation.
►The U.N. said 129 loaded ships carrying more than 2.8 million tons of Ukrainian grain have left the Black Sea since an agreement was reached to lift a Russian blockade July 22, but fertilizer exports from Russia are still down despite being covered by the deal.
►Russia has spent more than $300 million since 2014 to try to covertly influence politicians and other officials in more than two dozen countries, the State Department said in a cable released Tuesday.
Ukraine tells Russian soldiers: ‘You don’t need this war. Surrender’
As newly liberated residents in some parts of Ukraine celebrate the Russian retreat and inspect the charred tanks left behind, Ukrainian authorities are working to persuade more of the invading troops to give up the fight.
Amid unconfirmed reports that large numbers of Russian soldiers have surrendered, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Maliar said the government is launching shells filled with flyers encouraging more of them to lay down their arms.
“Russians use you as cannon fodder,” the flyers read. “Your life doesn’t mean anything for them. You don’t need this war. Surrender to Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
US refrains from ‘spiking the ball’ over Ukraine’s gains
Admiration for what Ukraine has accomplished on the battlefield lately is warranted. Declaring victory? That would be premature, observers and U.S. officials say.
The Biden administration has refrained from publicly celebrating the Ukrainians’ stunning gains of the last few days — particularly in the northeast — which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said has led to up to 2,300 square miles of reclaimed territory.
The sight of Russian troops in hasty retreat has brought jubilation to Ukrainians, but National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declined to call it a turning point in a conflict that started more than 200 days ago, pointing out the unpredictability of war.
Kirby said Russia has problems with command, logistics and unit cohesion but still has a large and potent military with plenty of power — including nuclear weapons.
“They clearly still have a military capable of inflicting great damage,” he said.
Russian forces also maintain control of large swaths of the east and south, including the industrial Donbas region, where they remain in charge in one of the two provinces and part of the other.
“I agree there should be no spiking of the ball because Russia still has cards it can play,” said Philip Breedlove, a retired U.S. Air Force general who was NATO’s top commander from 2013 to 2016. “Ukraine is now clearly making durable changes in its east and north and I believe that if the West properly equips Ukraine, they’ll be able to hold on to their gains.”
Putin aide: Criticism of war allowed, ‘but the line is very, very thin’
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked about simmering criticism at home of the war effort, said it was permissible by law, but with limits. Peskov cited the adverse reactions as an example of “pluralism,” adding that Russians overall remain firmly in support of President Vladimir Putin. The Defense Ministry has taken a beating on Russian social media – and even among some Russian TV commentators – for what in some cases have been viewed as hasty, sloppy retreats.
“As for other points of view, critical points of view, as long as they remain within the law, this is pluralism, but the line is very, very thin,” Peskov said. “One must be very careful here.”
He said plans still call for continuing the war until goals are achieved. No plans to greatly increase troop strength through a draft have been made, he said.
Contributing: Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY; The Associated Press
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UA Little Rock Providing Access To Education Through Innovative Industry Partnerships
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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is expanding access to education for people in Arkansas and the capital city through innovative partnerships with business and industry leaders. These partnerships provide opportunities for working adults to achieve their goal of earning a college education. The new partnerships include CHI St. Vincent, Saline Memorial Hospital and Amazon.
Full-time employees at Saline Memorial and CHI St. Vincent may receive 10% off
tuition and fees at UA Little Rock. The discount is meant to help the hard-working
members of the health care industry start and finish their college career while keeping
their full-time jobs.
The Amazon Career Choice Program, an education benefit that empowers Amazon
employees to learn new skills, provides Amazon’s hourly workers in Central Arkansas
with access to UA Little Rock’s more than 60-degree programs. UA Little Rock is the
first university in Arkansas to be named an Amazon Career Choice Partner.
Since the partnership was announced in March, more than 110 Amazon employees have applied. There are now 46 Amazon employees taking classes at UA Little Rock this fall to pursue their educational goals in psychology, nursing and more. Program
participants are also eligible for a waived application fee, a 10% discount on
tuition and fees, and a $25-per-credit-hour book stipend.
“Amazon Career Choice is an awesome program that helps you go to school and has
other ways to help you succeed as well,” said Latasha Stanbach, a senior
interdisciplinary studies major and Amazon employee. “I will be glad to finally have a
college degree under my belt. I wouldn’t have been able to afford it without this
program.”
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Ferrari Purosangue: Unlike Any Other – Ferrari.com https://digitalarkansasnews.com/ferrari-purosangue-unlike-any-other-ferrari-com/
FERRARI PUROSANGUE
The Ferrari Purosangue is the first ever four-door, four-seater car in Ferrari’s history, but models with two rear seats have played a significant role in the company’s strategy since the very beginning. Now, in the culmination of 75 years of leading-edge research, Ferrari has created a unique car and the encapsulation of the Prancing Horse’s DNA, where performance, driving pleasure and comfort coexist in perfect harmony. And that’s why this new model was called Ferrari Purosangue – Italian for thoroughbred.
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From Obama To Trump Who Is And Isn't Among 500 Attending Queen's Funeral
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AROUND 500 world leaders and other dignitaries are set to attend the Queen’s funeral.
Invites to Britain’s biggest international event in decades have been sent almost everywhere — except Russia, Belarus and Myanmar.
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Around 500 world leaders and other dignitaries are set to attend the Queen’s funeralCredit: PA
The guest list for Monday’s ceremony is still being finalised, but it will include US President Joe Biden.
His predecessors did not attend Sir Winston Churchill’s state funeral in 1965 or George VI’s in 1952.
Beleaguered Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky is thought to have been invited but is highly unlikely to attend.
Each head of state can bring one other person.
But Aussie PM Anthony Albanese yesterday revealed he was also asked to bring ten who have made “extraordinary contributions to their communities”.
It is possible a handful of celebs might attend, such as Sir David Attenborough.
Guests have also been invited to a reception at Buckingham Palace on Sunday evening, where they will meet King Charles.
The Foreign Office is reported to have switched an extra 300 staff to planning.
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Sir Winston Churchill’s state funeral in 1965Credit: PA
One aide compared it to organising “hundreds of state visits” in days, as opposed to the usual two or three a year.
The public was also warned of travel chaos, with rail operators fearing the city could “reach bursting point” before Monday.
Trains are set to run through the night with 200 extra daytime services.
Meanwhile, hotel prices are soaring with the cheapest room at the Park Plaza County Hall London rocketing from £269 last Sunday to £1,299 this weekend.
FOREIGN ROYALS
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King Felipe of Spain and his wife Queen Letizia will be attendingCredit: Goff
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King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden are also likely to be members of the congregationCredit: Getty
ROYALS from across Europe are expected to attend the Queen’s funeral on Monday.
King Felipe of Spain and his wife, Queen Letizia, will be joined by King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium.
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden are also likely to be members of the congregation.
As are King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and wife Queen Maxima — whose style has been likened to Kate.
And Japan’s Emperor Naruhito is also expected — his first overseas trip since taking the throne in May 2019.
BRITISH ROYALS
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All of the Royal Family is expected to be present for the Queen’s historic funeralCredit: AP
THE entire Royal Family is expected to be present for the Queen’s historic final goodbye.
Her Majesty’s children, Charles, Anne, Edward and Andrew will all be there, along with their children.
That list includes Princes William and Harry and their cousins Peter and Zara Phillips, Beatrice and Eugenie and Louise and James.
It is not clear how many of the Queen’s great-grandchildren — including Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — will be there given the length and nature of the event.
WORLD LEADERS
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Former US President Barack Obama and several other former world leaders are believed to be on a standby list in case numbers are freed upCredit: AFP
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US President Joe Biden is understood to be among world leaders who will attend Her Majesty’s funeral on MondayCredit: PA
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French President Emmanuel Macron is also on the list of attendeesCredit: Jack Hill/The Times
US President Joe Biden — who met the Queen last year — is understood to be among world leaders who will attend Her Majesty’s funeral on Monday.
Others likely to accept the invitation are Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, New Zealand Premier Jacinda Ardern and Australian PM Anthony Albanese.
Former US President Barack Obama and several other former world leaders are believed to be on a standby list in case numbers are freed up by current dignitaries who have been invited not being able to attend.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is unlikely to travel, having not left his nation for two years due to the pandemic.
Vice President Wang Qishan could attend on his behalf.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi may also be there as will Brazil’s controversial President Jair Bolsonaro.
French President Emmanuel Macron, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany are also on the list of attendees.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will also be there, and is likely to be permitted to do so in a secure convoy.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Council, is expected.
A representative of rogue state North Korea is also likely to have been invited.
BRITISH POLITICIANS
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Ex-PMs Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Theresa May and Sir John Major are all believed to be attendingCredit: Splash
NEW Prime Minister Liz Truss heads Britain’s political line-up including all the Queen’s surviving former PMs who will be at Westminster on Monday.
Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Sir John Major are all believed to be certain to attend.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is also expected to be there along with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford.
NOT INVITED
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Ex-US president Donald Trump will miss out on the Queen’s funeralCredit: Getty
RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin was not invited following the invasion of Ukraine.
Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei will also not be there. Its state-run TV this week compared the Queen to Adolf Hitler.
Belarus, which has supported Russia on Ukraine, is also not on the guest list along with Myanmar, run by a military junta.
A limit on numbers means several former world leaders will miss out, including ex-US president Donald Trump.
RULES FOR GUESTS
THERE is a strict protocol in place for those attending Monday morning’s state funeral — and heads of state are not exempt.
Each world leader will be allowed to bring only one other person.
Guests have been asked to travel on commercial flights and not to use helicopters or private jets to fly into the capital.
They have also been asked not to travel to the Westminster Abbey service by car, and to leave their vehicle elsewhere due to tight security and road restrictions.
Instead the world leaders and dignitaries are likely to be bussed to the funeral for logistical reasons.
But US President Joe Biden will be an exception — and is expected to arrive in his bomb-proof Cadillac, dubbed The Beast.
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Beach Towns Spar With Nonresident Property Owners At Fourth Circuit
Beach Towns Spar With Nonresident Property Owners At Fourth Circuit https://digitalarkansasnews.com/beach-towns-spar-with-nonresident-property-owners-at-fourth-circuit/
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — A Virginia couple urged the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday to revive their claims that a county on North Carolina’s Outer Banks seized their property by barring them from visiting for 45 days during a Covid-19 travel ban.
From ramshackle shacks to pastel castles on stilts, much of North Carolina’s coast is decorated with a colorful array of beach houses. Many of these salt-battered structures sit empty during offseasons, enduring tides and hurricanes as they wait for the next wave of vacationers to inhabit them.
But, in 2020, a new kind of natural disaster arrived on The Tar Heel State’s shores. The Covid-19 pandemic shuttered businesses and sent parts of North Carolina into lockdown.
More than just sandy feet and crab shacks, Dare County is home to a permanent population of about 37,000. For locals, the county stretching along nearly 110 miles of shoreline is a place to work, attend school and to pick up groceries from the Food Lion.
Aiming to slow the deadly virus’ spread in the area, the local government made a controversial decision. In March 2020, the Dare County Board of Commissioners released an emergency declaration that prohibited entry into the county by nonresident visitors. Violations of the order were punishable as a Class II misdemeanor.
Linda and Joseph Blackburn, represented by attorneys with the firms Pritchett & Burch and Finn & Yeoman, filed a federal class action against the county in the Eastern District of North Carolina in May 2020 challenging the travel ban.
For the Blackburns, this is about more than a missed getaway. They argue the rule was tantamount to the county seizing their private property without offering compensation.
U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan granted the county’s motion to dismiss the claims in September 2020. Its six municipalities – the Towns of Duck, Southern Shores, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head and Manteo – were also named as defendants in the case.
The ban allowed citizens of nearby Currituck, Tyrrell and Hyde counties to visit, but kept the Blackburns from their Hatteras Island vacation home for 45 days. They appealed Flanagan’s order to the Richmond-based Fourth Circuit.
“Our clients were ousted from their property as were most of the nonresident property owners in that county,” said Lloyd C. Smith III, who represented the property owners during oral arguments on Tuesday.
U.S. Circuit Judge Julius Richardson, a Donald Trump appointee, swiftly pushed back against Smith’s claim.
“As I read the order, it says that nonresident property owners may not enter Dare County but, if on March 19, if I was a property owner and I showed up to my house and I moved in on the 19, is there any suggestion that this ordinance would have kicked me out on March 21?” Richardson asked, referring to the date the emergency rule took effect.
Smith responded that it was his understanding that the nonresident property owner in Richardson’s hypothetical would be forced to leave the county.
“I don’t see where I get that conclusion. The ordinance obviously does not say that. It says you may not enter Dare County, but that doesn’t mean you must leave Dare County. Those are different phrases,” Richardson said. “I don’t see anything in any of the regulations or the record other than your brief that suggests that you had to leave on March the 21 if you were already present.”
After Smith repeated his interpretation of the rule, U.S. Circuit Judge G. Steven Agee, a George W. Bush appointee, interjected to ask whether the ordinance prohibited the Blackburns from renting out their property to locals.
The attorney said there was no rule against it, but contended that the main issue was the owners’ lack of access to their property.
“I still possess land even though I’m not sitting on it at the very moment from a property perspective, right? So, they possessed the property,” Richardson said.
They still technically owned the property, Smith said, but argued that possession “is defined by the Supreme Court as actually being able to go upon it.”
“Here in Dare County the effect [of the rule] built a fence all the way around the Blackburns’ property on all sides and they couldn’t get to it. Now they might have been trapped in it if, as you said earlier, they wouldn’t have to leave, but for the majority of the nonresident property owners, they were completely blocked off from their property,” Smith said.
Brian Castro, who represented Dare County during arguments, said that “there was no ouster” of property owners.
Additionally, he said, the Blackburns admitted in their complaint that the county was responding to a public health crisis.
“They admitted that the county had the authority to issue this order. The only question now is whether there was a taking, whether they were due compensation. And as has been noted here, they have not alleged any substantial diminution in property value whatsoever,” he said.
Castro added that asking the local government to compensate every nonresident homeowner would not be feasible.
This is especially true, he said, in a part of the country that is familiar with mandatory evacuations during events such as hurricanes.
“When you purchase a secondary vacation home, or you purchase a plot of land, there is no reasonable investment-backed expectation that you’d be able to use that property at your whim, particularly during a pandemic or when there’s a contagious disease or other type of emergency within that zone,” he said, adding, “In times of emergency, the use cannot be unfettered.”
Richardson and Agee were joined on the panel by U.S. Circuit Judge Allison Jones Rushing, a Trump appointee.
The panel allowed both sides to speak longer than regularly permitted due to the importance of the case. It did not indicate when a ruling will be released.
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White House Grapples With Labor Dispute As Rail Disruptions Threaten Economy
White House Grapples With Labor Dispute As Rail Disruptions Threaten Economy https://digitalarkansasnews.com/white-house-grapples-with-labor-dispute-as-rail-disruptions-threaten-economy/
A labor dispute years in the making threatens to halt freight and passenger railroads across the country, potentially grinding the supply chain to a standstill and dealing the U.S. economy a major blow – to the tune of $2 billion a day – if not resolved by Friday.
President Joe Biden, at least three of his Cabinet secretaries and members of Congress are attempting to avert a strike in an all-hands-on-deck effort to finalize negotiations between union officials and railroad companies. If an agreement is not reached, the impasse could mark the first railroad strike in nearly three decades and would likely deal a blow to Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
Most of the 13 unions involved in negotiations have reached an agreement with the National Carriers’ Conference Committee, which represents BNSF, CSX, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific railways. Two union holdouts – the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the SMART Transportation Division, which represent engineers and conductors – recently rejected a compromised deal brokered by a presidentially appointed board of arbitrators over sick leave and attendance policies.
Even though the engineers and conductors represent about one-fourth of the 60,000 total union members who work for the railroad, their absence should they not reach an agreement would freeze the freight rail system, which carries roughly 30% of all U.S. goods, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
As the deadline grows near, more than 30 major U.S. industries that stand to be significantly affected are calling on Congress to intervene.
“The U.S. rail network moves critical agricultural inputs and significant quantities of agricultural products,” which included crop, dairy, food and livestock organizations, among others, the groups wrote in a Sept. 8 letter to the Senate Commerce and House Transportation and Infrastructure committees.
“These essential items are transported by rail to domestic facilities and to ports for export abroad,” they wrote. “A complete stoppage of the rail system would lead to shutdowns or slowdowns of rail-dependent facilities resulting in devastating consequences to our national and global food security.”
The consequences are already being felt in some parts of the country.
Amtrak announced Monday that it is preemptively suspending service on long-distance routes from Chicago to Los Angeles, Chicago to Seattle, Chicago to San Francisco and a portion of its routes that run from Los Angeles to San Antonio.
“Amtrak is closely monitoring the ongoing freight rail – rail labor contract negotiations,” it said in a statement. “The negotiations do not involve Amtrak or the Amtrak workforce. While we are hopeful that parties will reach a resolution, Amtrak has now begun phased adjustments to our service in preparation for a possible freight rail service interruption later this week.”
Virtually all of Amtrak’s 21,000-mile railroad system outside of the Northeast Corridor is operated on tracks owned and maintained by freight railroads, according to the Association of American Railroads. It cautioned that its initial suspensions “could be followed by impacts to all Long Distance and most State-Supported routes,” and that a strike would “significantly impact” routes outside of the Northeast.
The threat of a strike comes as Biden, the self-proclaimed “most pro-union president” ever and one who has spent much of his political career traveling Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor line from his home state of Delaware to the nation’s capital, leans into his organized labor roots ahead of a midterm election that will depend on the get-out-the-vote energy that unions are known for and on which Democrats often depend.
“The fact is you guys own me,” he told a pro-union crowd last week in Pittsburgh, where he participated in one of the country’s largest and oldest Labor Day parades. “You’ve been with me from the beginning.”
His administration’s early tenure has overlapped with a new wave of worker mobilization and unionization efforts, including at major companies like Kellogg’s, Starbucks and Amazon, among employees of major news conglomerates and even among congressional staffers.
Roughly 14 million Americans belong to a union, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the average union membership rate across the U.S. was 10.3% in 2021 – slightly lower than the 10.8% membership rate in 2020 but unchanged from 2019. Membership has trended down since 1983, the first year for which union data is available.
The timing ahead of the midterms couldn’t be worse for Democrats, who have notched a string of significant legislative wins in the run-up to Election Day and look poised to maintain control of the Senate in an election year that was once assumed to be a blockbuster take-back for the GOP.
Instead, Democrats have been gaining momentum in the homestretch to Nov. 6: Gas prices are down, more than 20 million student loan borrowers are set to have their debts canceled and K-12 schools are underway in the most normal back-to-school since the onset of the pandemic. Moreover, Democrats are reaping the upside of the primal rage released in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and former President Donald Trump is embroiled in multiple investigations, most notably over his role in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and whether he mishandled classified documents.
But a railroad strike stands to upend much of that.
“A national rail strike would be an economic disaster – freezing the flow of goods, emptying shelves, shuttering workplaces, and raising prices for families and businesses alike, but that is exactly what is likely to happen in less than four days,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne Clark said in a statement. “If action is not taken, the nation’s rail service will come to a halt, the negative impacts of which cannot be understated.”
Notably, the threat of a strike comes as consumer prices rose 0.1% in August, after being unchanged in July, as rising food and shelter costs offset the improvement in energy prices, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Tuesday. The new figures, which Republicans pounced on, included some worrisome indications that price increases were taking hold across the board, despite some improvement in gas, used vehicles and air fares – though analysts underscored that the number is backward-looking and that other signs point to some slowdown in the rate of inflation.
Biden, seeking to do some damage control on the narrative, put out a statement saying the new data represents progress in batting down global inflation, noting the $1.30 decrease in a gallon of gas since the start of the summer, the slowing in the price of food at grocery stores last month and the increase in real wages over the last two months.
“Overall, prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months,” he said. “That is welcome news for American families, with more work still to do.”
“It will take more time and resolve to bring inflation down,” he said.
In a letter to Congress, Neil Bradley, the executive vice president and chief policy officer at the chamber said that if an agreement cannot be reached Congress must intervene and impose the recommendations of the Biden administration’s Presidential Emergency Board, which Congress did in 1982 and again in 1986.
Biden signed an executive order over the summer that established a three-member emergency board after union officials and railroad companies failed to reach an agreement during the mediation process. At the time, the National Mediation Board, which provides mediation services for contract disputes for the railroad and aviation industries, cautioned that the standoff could “threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of the country of essential transportation service.”
The emergency board’s deal would put in place a 24% wage increase spread across several years, annual bonuses of $1,000 and an additional paid day off. Workers would also receive modest improvements to health benefits.
“While not perfect, these recommendations represent the best framework for an agreement that addresses the most significant concerns for all sides,” Bradley wrote. “Otherwise, allowing the negotiations to continue will bring further economic uncertainty to the American business community and consumers.”
Congress returned from recess this week for the last work period ahead of the midterms. A pair of Senate Republicans introduced a joint resolution on Tuesday that would require unions and freight railroads to accept the recommendations of a presidential emergency board to avert a strike or lockout, but it’s unclear whether Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California plan to intervene in the issue. Two House subcommittees are also slated to meet Thursday to assess the freight rail system.
“A rail strike would be counterproductive for everyone involved and would have devastating impacts on our entire economy,” Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, who introduced the measure along with Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, said in a statement on Monday. “While there is still time for the remaining parties to reach voluntary agreements to end this dispute, it is time to bring this matter to a close.”
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Trump Circle Subpoenas Point To Wider DOJ Investigation Of Big Lie
Trump Circle Subpoenas Point To Wider DOJ Investigation Of Big Lie https://digitalarkansasnews.com/trump-circle-subpoenas-point-to-wider-doj-investigation-of-big-lie/
Last week, a freshly indicted Steve Bannon told listeners on his radio show that the feds were, once again, coming for MAGA. The FBI had conducted 35 “raids” on Trump allies and GOP officials, he said.
At first, it was unclear what he was referring to. But recent reporting shows that Bannon, while getting the “raid” part wrong, underballed the total count.
Per multiple reports, FBI agents served nearly 40 people connected to Trump’s super PAC and the effort to create fake slates of electors with subpoenas last week, in some cases reaching to the high-ranking officials in the former administration.
The subpoenas suggest that federal prosecutors are examining Trump’s attempt to stay in office after losing the election not only as it concerned Jan. 6, but in its broader, fuller form: from the decision to claim that the election was fraudulent after Biden pulled ahead in key states, to the choice to create false slates of electors, and to the planning of rallies where Trump and others egged on crowds to pressure Mike Pence into unilaterally rejecting Biden electoral votes.
The subpoenas appear to follow the trail blazed by the Jan. 6 Committee, which in 2021 and the early months of 2022 issued its own batches of subpoenas to some of those who received them last week.
Only some of those who received the DOJ subpoenas have had their identities confirmed.
The FBI also, the New York Times reported, took a phone belonging to two Trump advisers: Boris Epshteyn, a co-commentator on Bannon’s podcast, and Mike Roman, a Trump adviser who made his name in the 2008 election by claiming that the “New Black Panther Party” was intimidating voters en masse.
Roman resurfaced in 2016 as a Trump adviser, and played a key role in the 2020 electors scheme by reportedly delivering false elector slates to Capitol Hill, where they were to be presented to Vice President Mike Pence.
The overall scope of the probe isn’t really clear at this point, though it seems to have two tracks: Trump’s PAC, Save America, and the fake electors scheme.
Other reports say that the subpoenas are seeking information about speakers at the Jan. 6 rally at the Ellipse, where Trump and others addresses supporters before they broke into the Capitol. Women for America First, the group that organized the rally, received a subpoena.
The fake electors scheme stands at the heart of Trump’s effort to overthrow the election, and saw the Trump campaign organize slates of fake electors in states across the country that it had lost. People signed documents falsely claiming that they had been selected as electors for the states in question, allowing, in the minds of Trump campaign attorneys, the states to either “recertify” them as the “real” victors of the 2020 election, or to give Mike Pence a way to “choose” them as the legitimate electors from the states.
It’s not clear under what statutes the investigation is proceeding.
Among those who received subpoenas were Bernie Kerik, the Rudy Giuliani associate, and Dan Scavino, Trump’s social media guru, and Stephen Miller, the Trump adviser.
The Times reported that the subpoena to Kerik came from the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, and asked about the fake electors scheme.
Other recipients of the subpoenas are less well-known. William Russell, a special assistant to Trump, reportedly got one, as did Brian Jack, the Trump White House’s political director.
In a Monday night broadcast, Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson said that his producers had obtained a copy of one subpoena that went out to an unknown recipient.
He said that the subpoena asked for information about, among other things, “Any claim that the Vice President and/or the President of the Senate had the authority to reject or choose not to count presidential electors.”
Carlson added a list of names of those who he said had received subpoenas, including many members of the legal team that assembled around Trump to argue that the 2020 presidential election result should be overturned.
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U.S. Christian Majority Could Fade In Coming Decades Models Find
U.S. Christian Majority Could Fade In Coming Decades, Models Find https://digitalarkansasnews.com/u-s-christian-majority-could-fade-in-coming-decades-models-find/
The United States has long prided itself on people’s freedom to choose whatever religion they like. The majority has long chosen Christianity.
By 2070, that may no longer be the case, according to the Pew Research Center. If current trends continue, Christians could make up less than half of the population — and as little as a third — in 50 years. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated — or “nones” — could make up close to half the population. And the percentage of Americans who identify as Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and adherents of other non-Christian faiths could double.
Those are among the major findings of a new report from Pew regarding the United States’ religious future, a future in which Christianity, though diminished, persists, while non-Christian faiths grow amid rising secularization.
Researchers projected possible religious futures for the United States using a number of factors, including birthrates, migration patterns, demographics including age and sex, and the current religious landscape. They also looked at how religion is passed from one generation to another and how often people switch religions — in particular Christians who become nones, a number that has been increasing in recent years.
Researchers projected four different scenarios, based on differing rates of religious switching, from a continued increase to no switching at all. The unaffiliated were projected to grow under all four.
Currently, about a third (31 percent) of Christians become disaffiliated before they turn 30, according to Pew Research. Twenty-one percent of nones become Christian as young adults. Should those switching rates remain stable, Christians would make up 46 percent of the population by 2070, while nones would comprise 41 percent.
If disaffiliation rates continue to grow but are capped at 50 percent of Christians leaving the faith, 39 percent of Americans are projected to be Christian by 2070, with 48 percent of Americans identifying as nones. With no limit placed on the percentage of people leaving Christianity and with continued growth in disaffiliation, Christians would be 35 percent of the population, with nones making up a majority of Americans (52 percent).
If all switching came to a halt, Christians would remain a slight majority (54 percent), and nones would make up 34 percent of Americans, according to the model.
Non-Christian faiths would rise to 12 to 13 percent of the population, largely because of migration, in each scenario. Migration does affect the percentage of Christians, as most migrants to the United States are Christians, said Conrad Hackett, associate director of research and senior demographer at Pew Research Center. “Still the greatest amount of change in the U.S., we think currently and in the future, will come from switching,” he said.
Researchers stressed that the report contained projections that are based on data and mathematical models, and are not predictions of the future.
“Though some scenarios are more plausible than others, the future is uncertain, and it is possible for the religious composition of the United States in 2070 to fall outside the ranges projected,” they wrote.
One reason for the decline in the proportion of Christians and the growth among the nones in the models is age. While Christians have more children than nones, they also skew older. Pew estimates that the average Christian in the United States is 43, which is 10 years older than the average none.
“The unaffiliated are having and raising unaffiliated children while Christians are more likely to be near the end of their lives than others,” Stephanie Kramer, a senior researcher at Pew, wrote in an email.
Using mathematical models, Pew also has projected the future of religion around the world. Those models were adapted for different regions, Hackett said. Muslims, for example, tend to have the youngest population and the highest fertility rates, he said, driving the growth of that faith. But in the Persian Gulf states, migration has brought many Christians from other countries to the region as temporary workers.
The current report takes advantage of the amount of data collected about the U.S. religious landscape. Researchers also looked at intergenerational transmission for the first time, Kramer said.
“The variables we use to study that were: What is the mother’s religion? And what is the teen’s religion?” she said. “If that was a match, we consider the mother’s religion transmitted.”
Researchers also looked at a relatively new trend of disaffiliation among older Americans. Sociologists have long focused on younger people, who are most likely to switch religions. But in the United States and other countries, older people are starting to switch at growing rates themselves.
“It’s not as large-scale, but it’s still significant,” Hackett said. “And it’s contributing to the religious change that we have experienced and that we expect to experience in the years ahead.”
Hackett said that the projections for the country do not show the end of Christianity or of religion in general, which he expects to remain robust. And most nones, while claiming no religion, do not identify as atheists. Instead, Kramer said, the United States appears to be going through a pattern of secularization that has happened in other countries, though “we may be a bit behind.”
Other factors outside the model — such as changing immigration patterns and religious innovation — could lead to a revival of Christianity in the United States, according to the report. But none of its models shows a reversal of the decline of Christian affiliation, which dropped from 78 percent in 2007 to 63 percent in 2020, according to Pew research.
In the report, researchers note that “there is no data on which to model a sudden or gradual revival of Christianity (or of religion in general) in the U.S.”
“That does not mean a religious revival is impossible,” they wrote. “It means there is no demographic basis on which to project one.”
— Religion News Service
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King Charles III May Bring New Approach To Defender Of The Faith
King Charles III May Bring New Approach To ‘Defender Of The Faith’ https://digitalarkansasnews.com/king-charles-iii-may-bring-new-approach-to-defender-of-the-faith/
LONDON — At her coronation in 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was anointed with sacred oils by the archbishop of Canterbury and pledged to rule not just according to British laws, but the “laws of God,” in her role as “Supreme Governor of the Church of England” and “Defender of the Faith.”
She was true to that vow. Her devotion to “Jesus Christ, Prince of Peace” was a fundamental and defining, though sometimes overlooked, pillar of her life.
Now, as her son Charles III takes over, he has by all accounts accepted the responsibilities of his religious titles without reservation. But he will bring a markedly different personal vision of religion and spirituality to the role.
“The queen was very explicit about her Christian faith, but Charles’s is of a different nature,” said Ian Bradley, professor emeritus of cultural and spiritual history at the University of St. Andrews, who has written extensively about faith and the monarchy. “His is more spiritual and intellectual. Charles is more of a ‘spiritual seeker.’ ”
While the monarch’s authority within the church is largely ceremonial, it still matters. The king will formally approve all new bishops, for example. And pronouncements of the crown, especially on something as personal as faith in God, carry a special weight.
Particularly in her later years, Queen Elizabeth II was clear about expressing her beliefs, often citing the “guiding light” of Jesus, especially in her annual televised Christmas message watched by millions of people.
Many trace her shift in tone to her Christmas address of 2000, when she said, “For me, the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life.”
The queen was sometimes referred to as the “last true believer,” said Stephen Bates, the Guardian newspaper’s longtime, now retired, religious affairs and royal correspondent. “She is the most religious sovereign since the [Protestant] Reformation” of the 16th century, he said.
While public assertions of faith are second nature — if not required — for U.S. leaders, they are unusual in Britain, a highly secular nation, where an aide to former prime minister Tony Blair once quipped, “We don’t do God.”
“We have a kind of unease about our politicians and our leaders expressing their faith, and to some extent this extends to the monarchy,” Bradley said. “It’s seen as un-British.”
Despite declining church membership and influence in daily British life, the monarch remains a powerful church symbol; British coins feature the queen’s likeness and letters in Latin that stand for, “By the Grace of God, Queen and Defender of the Faith.”
As his mother was, Charles is a regular churchgoer and clear that his faith is Christian. In his first address to the nation, on the day after the queen died, Charles cited his “responsibility” to the Church of England, “in which my own faith is so deeply rooted.”
“In that faith, and the values it inspires, I have been brought up to cherish a sense of duty to others, and to hold in the greatest respect the precious traditions, freedoms and responsibilities of our unique history and our system of parliamentary government,” he said. It was notable how quickly he placed faith into the context of the more secular “values” and “duty.”
In a 73-year lifetime of being a king-in-waiting, when he was able to speak more freely than he now can as monarch, Charles appeared to stake out a less doctrinaire religious and spiritual stance — even giving it its own title.
Charles said in a 1994 documentary that he was more a “defender of faith” than “the faith.” He questioned the impulse to prioritize one particular interpretation. “People have fought to the death over these things,” he said, “which seems to me a peculiar waste of people’s energy, when we’re all actually aiming for the same ultimate goal.” Instead, he said, he preferred to embrace all religious traditions and “the pattern of the divine, which I think is in all of us.”
When presented with the question again more than two decades later, he clarified his remarks, saying: “It’s always seemed to me that, while at the same time being Defender of the Faith, you can also be protector of faiths.”
The “Defender of the Faith” title dates to the 16th century, when it was granted by Pope Leo X to King Henry VIII for his defense of Catholicism. When Henry broke with the Catholic Church, he held on to the title, but now he was defending the Anglicanism of the Church of England.
Charles has long been an advocate for environmental causes, with a passion that Bradley described as “eco-spiritual.” In his 2010 book, “Harmony,” Charles issued a call for a “sustainability revolution” to reverse environmental threats to the planet, which he blamed in part on “the spiritual dimension to our existence” being “dangerously neglected during the modern era.”
In the book, Charles took issue with “empiricism,” the view that since science cannot prove the existence of God, God must not exist. That kind of thinking, he wrote, “elbows the soul out of the picture.”
In an increasingly multicultural nation with a full rainbow of faiths, Charles has long expressed interest in and support for all forms of belief, particularly Islam and Judaism.
His mother also crossed new boundaries in that regard. She was the first British monarch to enter a mosque. Unlike predecessors, she met a succession of popes. On her 60th year on the throne, in 2012, she said the church “has a duty to protect the free practice of all faiths in this country.”
Pope Francis, as well as British Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh leaders, have all praised Elizabeth effusively since her death.
As the queen was sharing more about her faith, British society was becoming more secular.
According to the National Center for Social Research, church membership has dropped sharply over time, with only 12.5 percent of Britons in 2020 considering themselves members of the Church of England, down from nearly 36 percent in 1985. Of those who considered themselves Anglican in 2020, more than 40 percent said they “never” attend services.
Similar to the United States, British society has in recent years become less reliant on and structured around institutions that were once bedrocks of daily life. The center’s research showed that people who claimed “no religion” rose from 34.3 percent in 1985 to almost 49 percent in 2020.
As the number of worshipers drops, hundreds of historic churches have been taken out of service and turned into apartments, offices, pubs, spas, shops and even sporting centers with rock-climbing walls.
The church has changed in important ways, including a decision in 2002 to allow divorced people to remarry in the church. Three years later, Prince Charles and his longtime partner, Camilla Parker Bowles — both divorced — were married in a civil ceremony that was blessed immediately afterward in a chapel at Windsor Castle by the archbishop of Canterbury.
Now king, Charles is the first divorced monarch since Henry VIII — although two of Henry’s prolific string of marriages technically ended in annulment, not divorce.
It was not until 2018, when Charles’s son Prince Harry married American actress Meghan Markle in the same chapel where his father’s marriage had been blessed, that a royal wedding of a divorced partner happened with the full blessing of the church.
Still, Charles’s admitted adultery (with Camilla) during his marriage to Princess Diana before their divorce in 1996 doesn’t sit right with some British people.
“Hard to celebrate a man who has been an adulterer and has well-known if arcane religious views,” said Bates, the former Guardian correspondent. “If the monarchy stumbles, where does that leave the established church?”
In some ways, Charles’s brand of faith — with greater focus on spirituality than dogma — puts him more in line with the British public.
Bradley said a small movement within the church already wants to see it formally uncoupled from the monarchy and the government. In a country with so many faiths, and so many people who don’t identify with any faith, Bradley said critics of the church wonder “if it can really still claim to be the church of the nation.”
“He has given us a lot of confidence,” said Zara Mohammed, head of the Muslim Council of Britain, the largest group representing the U.K.’s approximately 3 million Muslims. “We regard him as an admirer of Islam and a friend of British Muslims. It’s brilliant to see how he grasps how the U.K. has changed. He sees a more holistic picture and the power of all faiths and diverse communities working together.”
While it’s unlikely that any change in monarch would bring people back into the Church of England, Charles could be a more relatable “Defender of the Faith” for some church members.
“He represents those people who perhaps don’t have a vibrant faith, but have a sense that there is loving God,” said Andi Britt, 58. Britt is a human resources executive for IBM in London, who came with his wife, Jane, on Sunday morning to place flowers in the queen’s honor at Buckingham Palace.
“He represents a faith and a God who welcomes people, regardless of how close they feel,” said Britt, who described himself as a “committed Christian” and Church of England member. “I think he represents many people who are just not as sure, or who don’t have such strong convictions — people of faith, different faiths, or no faith.”
Boorstein reported from Washington.
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Biden Admin Official Hit With Ethics Complaint For Role In Federal Oil Leasing Pause
Biden Admin Official Hit With Ethics Complaint For Role In Federal Oil Leasing Pause https://digitalarkansasnews.com/biden-admin-official-hit-with-ethics-complaint-for-role-in-federal-oil-leasing-pause/
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FIRST ON FOX: A federal watchdog group filed an ethics complaint Tuesday against Laura Daniel-Davis, a senior Interior Department (DOI) official, for potentially working on behalf of her former employer’s interests.
The group Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) accused Daniel-Davis, the DOI’s current principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management, of violating federal conflict of interest regulations and the Biden administration’s ethics pledge for her activity related to oil and gas leasing in Alaska, according to the complaint first obtained by Fox News Digital.
The complaint alleged that Daniel-Davis’ prior role as the chief of policy and advocacy for the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), a major environmental organization, influenced her decision to implement the DOI’s oil and gas leasing pause in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the northern region of Alaska. The NWF joined an August 2020 lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s decision to award the ANWR leases while Daniel-Davis was still with the group.
“At minimum, this connection creates a reasonable appearance of impropriety,” the PPT complaint stated. “At worst, it suggests that Ms. Daniel-Davis may have participated personally and substantially in a particular matter in which her former employer was an interested party.”
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Laura Daniel-Davis, the DOI’s principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management, is pictured during a Senate confirmation hearing on Feb. 8. Daniel-Davis has yet to be confirmed to be the agency’s assistant secretary for land and minerals management. (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee)
“This warrants immediate investigation to determine whether Ms. Daniel-Davis improperly participated in a particular matter involving her former employer,” it continued.
On June 1, 2021 — less than a year after NWF joined the lawsuit challenging the ANWR leases and months after Daniel-Davis joined the administration — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland ordered a pause on all oil and gas leases throughout the refuge. The order gave implementation authority to the assistant secretary for land and minerals management, a vacant position Daniel-Davis has been nominated for, and the principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management, Daniel-Davis’ current position.
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That same day, Daniel-Davis issued letters to lessees prohibiting lease operations and suspending lease rentals in ANWR in accordance with the authority Haaland gave her.
The PPT’s complaint Tuesday noted that Daniel-Davis’ letters mirrored the NWF’s legal complaint filed in August 2020. Both concluded that the Trump administration hadn’t conducted the proper environmental analyses of the ANWR leases.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visits Grand Junction, Colorado, on July 23, 2021. (McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)
“the circumstances could cause a reasonable person to question Ms. Daniel-Davis’ impartiality on this matter,” PPT continued in its complaint. “The Department took substantially similar action to the relief requested by Ms. Daniel-Davis’ former employer.”
“Ms. Daniel-Davis was a senior employee of the National Wildlife Federation at the time it filed the complaint seeking to invalidate the lease sales and enjoin seismic activity from proceeding,” it added. “And Ms. Daniel-Davis cited arguments that were similar to those advanced by her former employer in the lease suspension letters.”
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In addition, a records request obtained by PPT showed that Daniel-Davis organized an internal DOI meeting about “arctic litigation” on May 10, 2021, shortly before Haaland’s order. The meeting “raises questions” about Daniel-Davis’ role in discussions related to the ANWR leases, according to the watchdog group.
NWF and the other environmental organizations involved in the August 2020 lawsuit, meanwhile, have agreed to halt their litigation pending DOI’s revised decision on the ANWR leases which is expected to be issued in November. Daniel-Davis, who in 2020 said the U.S. must “quickly leverage every means possible to reduce carbon emissions,” is leading the review.
Former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt green-lit the ANWR leasing program on Aug. 17, 2020. The NWF and other environmental groups challenged the the decision days later. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“Oil and gas leasing in ANWR is such a hot-button issue, it would make sense for DOI to avoid anything that could create even a whiff of impropriety,” PPT Director Michael Chamberlain told FOX News Digital. “But ethics considerations don’t appear to have played a part in DOI’s calculus.”
“Despite the Biden Administration’s constant assertions that it is the most ethical in history, this is not the first – or second or third – incident Protect the Public’s Trust has uncovered at Secretary Haaland’s Department of the Interior in which the public could question officials’ adherence to their ethics obligations,” he added. “Not unrelated, the American public’s trust in its government continues its rapid descent.”
PPT filed the complaint Tuesday with DOI Inspector General Mark Greenblatt, DOI ethics official Heather Gottry and Office of Government Ethic Director Emory Rounds. PPT requested that the officials initiate an investigation into the allegations.
DOI Secretary Haaland is pictured alongside President Biden during a White House event. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
In December, Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, similarly asked Greenblatt to investigate Daniel-Davis and three other DOI officials over potential conflicts of interest.
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“These individuals have made key decisions to overturn, review, and delay resource development projects and land management plans in Alaska that they and their former employers or clients were actively opposing prior to their appointments,” Sullivan wrote to Greenblatt.
“I ask that you supply all relevant information requested below so we may have a full understanding of these appointees’ apparent and likely conflicts of interest,” he continued. “I further ask that your office consider opening an ethics investigation into the work of these appointees, as required by law.”
The Interior Department didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer at Fox News Digital
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29% Of Border Migrants Failed To Show Up For Check-Ins: Audit
29% Of Border Migrants Failed To Show Up For Check-Ins: Audit https://digitalarkansasnews.com/29-of-border-migrants-failed-to-show-up-for-check-ins-audit/
Nearly a third of illegal immigrants released during the early months of the Biden migrant surge last year failed to show up for required check-ins, according to a new inspector general’s report that said Homeland Security is having a tough time tracking all the people it’s setting free.
Officials blamed the sheer crush of people rushing the border, saying they were sacrificing record-keeping accuracy for the sake of speed in processing people.
The dangers of that approach, though, are that officials can cut corners in cases of vulnerable migrants, such as children.
The inspector general said border authorities didn’t always record the names of family members who were accompanying children, making reunification more difficult later on.
It’s the same problem that plagued the Trump administration in 2019, when the “zero tolerance” border policy led to thousands of children being separated and unable to be reunited with parents.
Despite the passage of two years and promises of improvements, the inspector general found the government still lacks a dedicated system to track the children’s movements from Homeland Security to the Health and Human Services Department, forcing officials to rely on emails.
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“This was a daunting task, considering more than 125,000 unaccompanied migrant children were transferred to HHS in FY 2021,” the audit found. “Two DHS officials in the field responsible for transferring unaccompanied children stated they received upwards of 500 to 600 emails daily. Other officials noted receiving more than 50 emails per day — all to facilitate transfers.”
The administration insisted — and the audit agreed — that things have improved, with better record-keeping.
“DHS remains committed to improving the effectiveness of information technology systems used to track migrants from apprehension to release or transfer,” Jim H. Crumpacker, the department’s liaison to the inspector general, said in an official response to the new report.
Still, the report was a devastating look at the Biden administration’s early struggles with the border.
More than 1.6 million migrants were nabbed illegally crossing the border in fiscal year 2021 — a 314% increase over 2020 — amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Legal crossers were supposed to prove they had been vaccinated or had negative tests in order to enter, but illegal crossers sometimes made it through without any testing, the audit found. That’s because the Border Patrol didn’t typically test for COVID, but instead screened for symptoms.
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“DHS does not require COVID testing, even prior to release into the United States,” the audit found.
The report also challenges Homeland Security’s contentions that migrants are following through on the conditions of their release.
The inspector general looked at nearly 112,000 migrants who were released between March and September 2021 under Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s directive to exercise prosecutorial discretion. More than 32,000 of them — 29% — failed to show up for their first check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement within 60 days.
At the beginning of that period, the department often wasn’t recording addresses where migrants said they would go once they were released.
By late last year, 99% of released migrants did have addresses attached to their files — though the inspector general said the information was riddled with errors, such as migrants giving incomplete addresses or giving locations that duplicated other migrants.
Analysts have told The Washington Times that’s an indication of fraud.
The inspector general’s office said it plans a follow-up assessment of the addresses migrants are listing.
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Suspect Charged With Murder For Killing In Walmart Parking Lot
Suspect Charged With Murder For Killing In Walmart Parking Lot https://digitalarkansasnews.com/suspect-charged-with-murder-for-killing-in-walmart-parking-lot/
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Anthony J. Perez and Casey Lewis argued over money in the Walmart parking lot Sept. 4 at Lewis’ silver mini van, and Perez shot Lewis in the back, according to prosecutors who filed murder charges Tuesday against Perez.
The two shopped in Walmart in the 4200 block of Commerce Drive, leaving the store around 8:30 p.m. Sept. 4, and heading to Lewis’ van parked in aisle 6 close to the western entrance to the store, according to prosecutors.
“Lewis was screaming at him and he was concerned it would draw attention to them and police would be called,” Perez told police after his Sept. 9 arrest in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to prosecutors.
“When Lewis would not drive them away from Walmart, he got his handgun out of the glove box to intimidate Lewis,” Perez told police, according to prosecutors.
Perez told police he fired two shots inside the van to show Lewis he was serious about wanting to leave, according to prosecutors.
Lewis got out of the van, prosecutors said Perez told police, and as she walked towards the rear of the van, Perez said he fired another shot.
“Lewis grabbed her back and screamed,” prosecutors said Lewis told police.
While they were inside the van, they were not visible on Walmart security cameras, but as Lewis walked to the rear of the van, video surveillance cameras show her falling to the asphalt parking lot. She died there after several passerbys tried to help.
Prosecutors charged Perez, 29, of Lafayette, with murder and murder in the commission of a felony.
They also charged Perez with attempted kidnapping with a deadly weapon, attempted kidnapping with serious bodily injury, attempted criminal confinement with a deadly weapon and attempted criminal confinement with serious bodily injury.
Prosecutors also charged Perez with unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent offender, intimidation with a deadly weapon, pointing a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm by a domestic batterer and carrying a handgun with a felony conviction.
Additionally, prosecutors filed two sentence-enhancing charges of unlawful use of a firearm and being a habitual offender.
Last week, prosecutors filed a charge of escape against Perez, accusing him of cutting off his GPS ankle bracelet, which was part of his community correction sentence for his possession-of-meth conviction.
Little Rock police arrested Perez Friday on the escape warrant, and Lafayette police have since interviewed Perez, who remains incarcerated in Arkansas.
Reach Ron Wilkins at rwilkins@jconline.com. Follow on Twitter: @RonWilkins2.
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Stocks Fall On Hotter-Than-Expected Inflation Data
Stocks Fall On Hotter-Than-Expected Inflation Data https://digitalarkansasnews.com/stocks-fall-on-hotter-than-expected-inflation-data/
Updated Sept. 13, 2022 3:11 pm ET
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped more than 1,000 points Tuesday after hotter-than-expected inflation data dashed investors’ hopes that cooling price pressures would prompt the Federal Reserve to moderate its campaign of interest-rate increases.
Investors sold everything from stocks and bonds to oil and gold. All 30 stocks in the blue-chip average declined, as did all 11 sectors in the S&P 500. Only five stocks in the broad benchmark were in the green in recent trading. Facebook parent Meta Platforms dropped 8.3%, BlackRock declined 7.2% and Boeing fell 6.4%.
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What Time Will Mike Episodes 7 & 8 (Finale) Air On Hulu And Disney Plus? Release Date And More Details Explored
What Time Will Mike Episodes 7 & 8 (Finale) Air On Hulu And Disney Plus? Release Date And More Details Explored https://digitalarkansasnews.com/what-time-will-mike-episodes-7-8-finale-air-on-hulu-and-disney-plus-release-date-and-more-details-explored/
Hulu’s limited series Mike, focusing on Mike Tyson’s tumultuous boxing career, is coming to an end with the series finale episode airing this week.
Episode 7 and 8 are all set to air on Thursday, September 15, at 3 am ET/midnight PT. The first four episodes are currently available on Disney+ and the rest will soon be available. The episodes are expected to be around 45 minutes long.
Created by Steven Rogers and directed by Craig Gillespie, the eight-part limited series explores the story of the dynamic and controversial life of boxing icon Mike Tyson.
Here’s everything viewers need to know about the series finale.
All we know about episode 7 and 8 of Mike
The seventh episode, titled Cannibal, is likely to focus on Tyson’s infamous fight with Evander Holyfield and the notorious bite that would seal Tyson’s fate in the history books for the wrong reasons. Details about the eighth episode, titled Phoenix, aren’t currently available.
The series stars Trevante Rhodes as Tyson, Russell Hornsby as Don King, Harvey Keitel as Cus D’Amato, Laura Harrier as Robin Givens, Grace Zabriskie as Camille D’Amato, Oluniké Adeliyi as Lorna Mae, TJ Atoms as Barkim, Li Eubanks as Desiree Washington, Garland Whitt as Imam Siddiq, Diesel Madkins as Ray Ray, Theo Haddon as Lloyd, Arischa Conner as Dr. Maya Angelou, Lance E. Nichols as Captain Joe and Ian Lyons as Alan Dershowitz.
Karin Gist is the executive producer. Other executive producers include Claire Brown, Craig Gillespie, Steven Rogers, Bryan Unkeless, Scott Morgan, Tom Ackerley, Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara, Darin Friedman, Anthony Hemingway, Anthony Sparks, Samantha Corbin-Miller and Trevante Rhodes.
Episode 6 recap
The previous episode, titled Jailbird, was directed by Tiffany Johnson and written by Samantha Corbin-Miller. It aired on Thursday, September 8 and saw Tyson in prison, but with his boxing skills, he became not just the baddest man on the inside but also the outside.
Tyson was serving jailtime for a r*pe charge after he was called out for the same. He hustled his way into getting a television, a wired phone, donuts, and essentially running the prison.
As always, Tyson found people who wanted to guide him on a better path. His original bunk mate mentored him and found Islam through Iman, whose prayer room he used to run his business, and even Maya Angelou came to visit him.
More about the series
The official trailer for the mini-series dropped in July and featured the tumultuous path of the legendary heavyweight boxer, portrayed by Trevante Rhodes, who gave a more detailed look to Tyson’s most infamous moments— from biting Evander Holyfield’s ear, his prison sentence, and even his interaction with his white Bengal tiger.
The synopsis for the series reads:
“Focusing the lens on Mike Tyson, the series examines class in America, race in America, fame and the power of media, misogyny, the wealth divide, the promise of the American Dream, and ultimately our own role in shaping Mike’s story.”
Stream the series finale of Mike on Hulu on Thursday, September 15 at 3 am ET/ 12 midnight PT.
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Ukraine piles pressure on retreating Russian troops
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops are piling pressure on retreating Russian forces, pressing a counteroffensive that has produced major gains and a stunning blow to Moscow’s military prestige. As the advance continued Tuesday, Ukraine’s border guard services said the army took control of Vovchansk — a town just 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Russia seized on the first day of the war. Russia acknowledged that it has withdrawn troops from areas in the northeastern region of Kharkiv in recent days. It was not yet clear if the Ukrainian blitz could signal a turning point in the nearly seven-month war. But the country’s officials were buoyant and released footage showing their forces burning Russian flags.
Plane carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin lands in London
LONDON (AP) — A plane carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II has landed in London where crowds have gathered along a route to Buckingham Palace. The military C-17 Globemaster touched down at RAF Northolt which is an air force base in the west of the city about an hour after it left Edinburgh in Scotland. The queen’s body is making a final journey from Balmoral Castle in northern Scotland, where the monarch died Thursday at age 96 after 70 years on the throne. It will be driven past thousands of people who gathered in the rain along roadsides to pay their last respects. King Charles III and other members of the late queen’s close family will meet it at Buckingham Palace.
US inflation still stubbornly high despite August slowdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lower gas costs slowed U.S. inflation for a second straight month in August, but most other prices across the economy kept rising — evidence that inflation remains a heavy burden for American households. Consumer prices rose 8.3% from a year earlier and 0.1% from July. But the jump in “core” prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, was especially worrisome. It outpaced expectations and ignited fear that the Federal Reserve will boost interest rates more aggressively and raise the risk of a recession. Fueled by high rents, medical care and new cars, core prices leaped 6.3% for the year ending in August and 0.6% from July to August, the government said Tuesday.
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Ukraine piles pressure on retreating Russian troops
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops are piling pressure on retreating Russian forces, pressing a counteroffensive that has produced major gains and a stunning blow to Moscow’s military prestige. As the advance continued Tuesday, Ukraine’s border guard services said the army took control of Vovchansk — a town just 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Russia seized on the first day of the war. Russia acknowledged that it has withdrawn troops from areas in the northeastern region of Kharkiv in recent days. It was not yet clear if the Ukrainian blitz could signal a turning point in the nearly seven-month war. But the country’s officials were buoyant and released footage showing their forces burning Russian flags.
Plane carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin lands in London
LONDON (AP) — A plane carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II has landed in London where crowds have gathered along a route to Buckingham Palace. The military C-17 Globemaster touched down at RAF Northolt which is an air force base in the west of the city about an hour after it left Edinburgh in Scotland. The queen’s body is making a final journey from Balmoral Castle in northern Scotland, where the monarch died Thursday at age 96 after 70 years on the throne. It will be driven past thousands of people who gathered in the rain along roadsides to pay their last respects. King Charles III and other members of the late queen’s close family will meet it at Buckingham Palace.
US inflation still stubbornly high despite August slowdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lower gas costs slowed U.S. inflation for a second straight month in August, but most other prices across the economy kept rising — evidence that inflation remains a heavy burden for American households. Consumer prices rose 8.3% from a year earlier and 0.1% from July. But the jump in “core” prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, was especially worrisome. It outpaced expectations and ignited fear that the Federal Reserve will boost interest rates more aggressively and raise the risk of a recession. Fueled by high rents, medical care and new cars, core prices leaped 6.3% for the year ending in August and 0.6% from July to August, the government said Tuesday.
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Trump Faces New Legal Threats Amid Investigation Into 'Stop The Steal' Fundraising Scheme
Trump Faces New Legal Threats Amid Investigation Into 'Stop The Steal' Fundraising Scheme https://digitalarkansasnews.com/trump-faces-new-legal-threats-amid-investigation-into-stop-the-steal-fundraising-scheme/
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