Tues. 10:55 A.m.: Ryan Vance Up Their Campaign Efforts As Early Voting Approaches
Tues. 10:55 A.m.: Ryan, Vance Up Their Campaign Efforts As Early Voting Approaches https://digitalarkansasnews.com/tues-1055-a-m-ryan-vance-up-their-campaign-efforts-as-early-voting-approaches/
WARREN – U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, Democratic candidate for the Senate, today announced a “Workers First” bus tour throughout Ohio, and J.D. Vance, Republican candidate for Senate, is touring Ohio cities this week with Donald Trump Jr.
Ryan’s bus tour this week will make stops in Dayton, Lima, Toledo, Columbus, Mount Vernon, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Amherst. Additional events will be announced in the future.
Vance is campaigning Wednesday with Donald Trump Jr., the son of the former president, in Perrysburg, Caledonia and Columbus. On Thursday, Vance will be at a clambake in Strongsville and will campaign across the state Saturday.
The election is Nov. 8 with early voting beginning Oct. 12.
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Meyers Mocks Republican 'Commitment To America' Pamphlets: 'Not Helping' Accusations Of Being Trump 'Cult' (Video)
Meyers Mocks Republican 'Commitment To America' Pamphlets: 'Not Helping' Accusations Of Being Trump 'Cult' (Video) https://digitalarkansasnews.com/meyers-mocks-republican-commitment-to-america-pamphlets-not-helping-accusations-of-being-trump-cult-video/
Seth Meyers couldn’t help but be amused on Monday night by the fact that the Republican party’s plan for the future of the nation not only fits on a literal pamphlet, but that those pamphlets are being handed out. The late night host joked that that definitely doesn’t help stave off any jokes about Republicans being in a Trump-led cult of personality.
Last week, house minority leader Kevin McCarthy, flanked by Republican representative Elise Stefanik, announced Republicans’ new plan, called “A Commitment to America.” In doing so, he literally pulled out a pamphlet explaining the plan from his suit jacket pocket. The fact that it’s even able to be kept in a jacket reminded Meyers of something very different.
“I think it’s a bad sign when your plan for the future of the nation can be pulled out of your pocket like it’s an acceptance speech at the Emmys,” Meyers mocked. “‘You want us to lead the nation, oh my god, this is such a surprise! First off, I have to thank my agent and all the good people at A24 and oh no, they’re playing me off! Thank you, uh, Fox News! My kids, Zachary and Talulah go to bed! Mwah, mwah mwah!”
The late night host added that “the user manual for my dishwasher is thicker than that,” pointing out that even Fox News and other Republicans have questioned why the plan is so thin and lacking in “more details.”
He then called up more footage, this time of McCarthy giving the pamphlets to the hosts of “Fox & Friends” during a recent appearance. And, of course, the late night host honed in on their reactions.
“You know, we have accused Republicans of being in a cult of personality around Donald Trump, and they are not helping when they literally walk around handing out pamphlets,” Meyers mocked. “But at least the Fox News hosts look super psyched about it. That’s the way your kid looks when they’re expecting a PS5 for Christmas, and instead you give them a New York City T-shirt you definitely bought at the airport.”
You can watch the full “A Closer Look” segment in the video above.
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Chaps Baseball Announces 2023 Slate Lubbock Christian University Athletics
Chaps Baseball Announces 2023 Slate – Lubbock Christian University Athletics https://digitalarkansasnews.com/chaps-baseball-announces-2023-slate-lubbock-christian-university-athletics/
LUBBOCK, Texas – Lubbock Christian baseball coach Nathan Blackwood has released the 2023 Chap baseball schedule, announced on Tuesday, Oct. 4.
The 50-game schedule features 12, four-game Lone Star Conference series, with six of those series being played inside the confines of Hays Field. Each conference series will be played Friday-Sunday of that weekend, with Saturday being devoted to a doubleheader contest. LCU will also host nonconference midweek games against NAIA foes University of the Southwest and Wayland Baptist.
The Chaps open the season at home Feb. 3-5 against Cameron. The Aggies and the Chaps split last season’s series in Lawton, Okla. with Cameron winning the first two games before LCU rolled in the final two matchups, outscoring the Aggies 30-5 in 16 innings.
Lubbock Christian’s first road trek will be just down the road to Odessa for a four-game set against Texas Permian Basin Feb 10-12. The Chaps have won six straight over the Falcons, picking up the sweep in Hub City outscoring UTPB 61-11 in 32 innings last season. That includes a 23-5 win for LCU in seven innings, where the Chaps led 15-0 after three innings of play.
LCU returns home the next weekend, Feb. 17-19, looking for revenge against UT Tyler. The Patriots won three of four games against the then 25th ranked Chaps in Tyler last year to close out the regular season. Lubbock Christian has not fared well in the brief series against the Pats, going just 3-8.
In the first of just two trips out of the state of the Texas this season, LCU heads to Fort Smith, Arkansas Feb. 24-26 to face Arkansas Fort Smith. The two teams split the season series in Lubbock last year, with the Lions taking the final matchup 17-6 on opening weekend.
The Chaps will open March the same way they opened February, back home against a conference foe from the Sooner State, this time facing Oklahoma Christian Mar. 3-5. One of the oldest rivalries in the LSC will see it’s 85th meeting to open the series. LCU has won six straight against the Eagles, including a four-game sweep in Oklahoma City last season.
LCU is back on the road Mar. 10-12 to San Antonio to face St. Mary’s. LCU clinched the series over the Rattlers in a wild come-from-behind win at Hays Field last season, as the Chaps were down 11-7 heading into the eighth inning before scoring five runs and a walk-off home run by Grant Griffin gave Lubbock Christian the 12-11 win.
After a week off, the Chaps will face the University of the Southwest in a midweek contest on Mar. 20 at Hays Field. The two squads will meet for the 133rd time in program history, the last meeting being a 22-0 beat down by LCU on Mar. 21, 2017.
Conference play resumes for the Chaps against the defending Lone Star Conference and NCAA DII South Central Super Regional Champions Angelo State at home Mar. 24-26. The two teams split last year’s meeting in San Angelo, with LCU taking the first two games before falling in the final two, including a walk-off 4-3 win in seven innings for the Rams in game three.
March closes and April begins with the Chaps on the road in Laredo Mar. 31-Apr. 2 against Texas A&M International. LCU has won five in a row and nine of the last ten meetings against the Dust Devils, picking up a four-game sweep in Lubbock last season.
The Chaps will spend Easter weekend at home, hosting Texas A&M-Kingsville Apr. 6-8. The two teams will play their doubleheader matchup on Good Friday, Apr. 7. LCU won the series last season in Kingsville, but the Javelinas picked up an 8-3 win in game four to avoid the sweep.
The second midweek game of the season is set for Apr. 11 at Hays Field, as the Chaps host NAIA foe Wayland Baptist. The Pioneers have won three straight and five of the last six against LCU, including a 4-3 win in Lubbock for Wayland Baptist the last time these two teams met on Apr. 26, 2016.
In a rematch of the opening week of the 2022 Lone Star Conference Tournament, LCU will head to Austin, Texas to face St. Edward’s Apr. 14-16. The two teams split the regular season series in Hub City last season, before the Hilltoppers won two games of a best-of-three set to eliminate the Chaps from the LSC Tournament, winning 9-7 and then a 20-17 slugfest at Hays Field. The Chaps have lost four straight matchups against St. Edward’s.
The final regular season home stand for the Chaps will be a renewal of the Rivalry on the Range against West Texas A&M Apr. 21-23. The two teams split last season in Canyon. LCU is 24-8 all-time at Hays Field against the Buffs but have lost three straight at home.
The regular season concludes Apr. 28-30 in one final out-of-state trip to Portales, N.M. to face the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds. LCU won the series against Eastern New Mexico last season, concluding with a walk-off home run by Eduardo Acosta in the final game. The Chaps have won nine of the last ten meetings against the Greyhounds, as this will be the first trip for the Chaps to Portales since Apr. 8, 2014, an 8-7 win for Lubbock Christian.
Should the Chaps qualify for the Lone Star Conference Tournament, they will begin play in the best-of-three first round on May 5-7 with the highest seed hosting. LCU fell to St. Edward’s in two games at Hays Field last season in the opening round.
If the Chaps win, they will advance to the double-elimination LSC Championship Finals to be held May 11-13 at the highest seed remaining. In the 2021 LSC Finals, the Chaps fell to Angelo State in the opening contest, before winning elimination games against St. Edward’s and St. Mary’s. The Chaps could not force a deciding game in the Championship series, falling to Angelo State 10-3.
The NCAA Regionals will be held May 18-20 at the selected ranked team site, with the NCAA South Central Super Regional being played May 26-27 at the highest remaining seed. The Chaps last made the NCAA Regional in 2019, falling to Rogers State and host Angelo State in two straight games.
The Chaps have never made an NCAA Super Regional. If they do so and win the supers, the Chaps will head to Cary, N.C., and the USA Baseball Training Complex for the NCAA Division-II World Series June 3-10. LCU last made a world series run in 2011 at the NAIA level, falling to Concordia University Irvine 9-3 in the championship game in Lewiston, Idaho.
Times for all LCU baseball games can be found at lcuchaps.com. Tickets will be available for all home games shortly. All baseball contests during the regular season, both home and away, will be broadcast live on the Lone Star Conference Digital Network.
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Republican Herschel Walker Pledges To Sue Over Report He Paid For Abortion Live
Republican Herschel Walker Pledges To Sue Over Report He Paid For Abortion – Live https://digitalarkansasnews.com/republican-herschel-walker-pledges-to-sue-over-report-he-paid-for-abortion-live/
Walker campaign crisis in Georgia over abortion row turns heat up further in furious midterms battle for Senate
Herschel Walker, the controversial Republican candidate in Georgia for a vital US Senate seat, is attempting to weather the latest tempest that has tossed his midterm election campaign from turbulent into full-blown crisis.
The news broke last night that the former NFL football player turned political candidate, who is campaigning on a hard anti-abortion line, had paid for an abortion for a former girlfriend in 2009, according to a report by the Daily Beast.
As the Beast puts it in the strap below the headline to its report: “The woman has receipts – and a ‘get well’ card she says the football star, now a Senate candidate, sent her.”
Walker blasted out a top-line denial via Twitter, calling the story overall a flat-out lie, also calling it a “Democrat attack”, while the Beast insists its article is backed up to the hilt. Walker says he’ll sue the Beast today.
He also appeared on Fox News to blame politics, saying: “Now everyone knows how important this seat is and they [Democrats] will do anything to win this seat. They wanted to make it about anything except inflation, crime and the border being wide open.”
But Walker’s son, 23-year-old Christian Walker, then responded on Twitter. Yikes.
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The sitting Senator from Georgia whom Herschel Walker is challenging, Democrat Raphael Warnock, is striving to stay above the fray – maybe hoping the former running back will be hoisted by his own petard?
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The news broke last night that the former NFL football player turned political candidate, who is campaigning on a hard anti-abortion line, had paid for an abortion for a former girlfriend in 2009, according to a report by the Daily Beast.
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As the Beast puts it in the strap below the headline to its report: “The woman has receipts – and a ‘get well’ card she says the football star, now a Senate candidate, sent her.”
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Walker blasted out a top-line denial via Twitter, calling the story overall a flat-out lie, also calling it a “Democrat attack”, while the Beast insists its article is backed up to the hilt. Walker says he’ll sue the Beast today.
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Regarding the latest Democrat attack: pic.twitter.com/OjrDcGak95
— Herschel Walker (@HerschelWalker) October 3, 2022
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He also appeared on Fox News to blame politics, saying: “Now everyone knows how important this seat is and they [Democrats] will do anything to win this seat. They wanted to make it about anything except inflation, crime and the border being wide open.”
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But Walker’s son, 23-year-old Christian Walker, then responded on Twitter. Yikes.
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I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us.
You’re not a “family man” when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence.
— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 4, 2022
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I don’t care about someone who has a bad past and takes accountability. But how DARE YOU LIE and act as though you’re some “moral, Christian, upright man.” You’ve lived a life of DESTROYING other peoples lives. How dare you.
— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 4, 2022
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The sitting Senator from Georgia whom Herschel Walker is challenging, Democrat Raphael Warnock, is striving to stay above the fray – maybe hoping the former running back will be hoisted by his own petard?
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Good morning, US politics blog readers, it’s a lively start to the day as midterm election candidates for the US Senate are making news, so is Joe Biden, the CDC on Covid and pro-abortion politicians on the rights of women 100 days after the US Supreme Court ripped up Roe v Wade.
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Here’s what’s already cooking in Washington and midterm campaigns:
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Herschel Walker, the Republican challenging Democratic sitting Senator Raphael Warnock in the crucial state of Georgia this election, has pledged to sue the Daily Beast today over a story last night that, despite campaigning as an anti-abortion hardliner, he paid for an abortion for a former girlfriend in 2009. Walker says the story’s a lie. His son then called his father a liar; this thing is boiling over and scalding his Senate chances – fatally?
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Joe Biden has apologized to the family of the late Indiana Republican Jackie Walorski, admitting to a gaffe last week when he spoke at an event and was looking around for her, calling publicly “where’s Jackie?”, when the congresswoman had been killed in a horrific car crash in August. The US president invited her parents to the Oval Office to talk late last week, the New York Post reported.
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Biden and the vice-president, Kamala Harris, this afternoon will speak at the second meeting of the administration’s special task force on reproductive healthcare access, at the White House. Cabinet members will attend, including the health secretary, Xavier Becerra, and the education secretary, Miguel Cardona. That’s expected at 3.30pm ET, and the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, is scheduled to hold the daily press briefing at 1pm.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last night announced the CDC it will discontinue a country-by-country list of advisories that inform travelers of risk and restrictions in each relating to Covid-19. The federal agency will post a notice if there is a concerning variant emerging in a country or a significant change in travel recommendations.
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If the battle for control of the US Senate overall is on a knife edge in these midterm elections, certain states’ races are on a razor’s edge.
The congressional upper chamber has been split 50-50 since the 2020 presidential election, with Democrats only maintaining the upper hand because they have the White House and therefore the vice president, who also serves as president of the senate, has the deciding vote. Even then, when most legislation needs 60 votes to pass the senate and, in cases when 51 votes will do losing just one democratic senator sinks a bill, progress for the Democrats on 2020 election promises has been difficult.
But struggles notwithstand...
Stocks Roar Back From 2022 Low S&P 500 On Track For Best 2-Day Gain In 2 Years
Stocks Roar Back From 2022 Low, S&P 500 On Track For Best 2-Day Gain In 2 Years https://digitalarkansasnews.com/stocks-roar-back-from-2022-low-sp-500-on-track-for-best-2-day-gain-in-2-years/
Stocks surged Tuesday as Wall Street built on a sharp rally seen in the previous session and bond yields continued to fall.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 731 points, or 2.5%. The S&P 500 added 2.7%, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 3.1%.
Tuesday’s gains put the S&P 500 up 5.1% for the week and on track for its biggest two-day rally since March 2020.
Markets have had a strong start to the month, bringing a respite from the swift declines seen September and the prior quarter. On Monday, the Dow jumped about 765 points for best day since June 24. The S&P 500 advanced about 2.6% in its biggest one-day since July 27, and the Nasdaq added 2.3%.
“After falling more than 9% in September and extending its year-to-date decline to nearly 25% as of Friday’s close, we think the S&P 500 was looking oversold,” said Mark Haefele, chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management. “In addition, some of last week’s selling pressure may have been driven by quarter-end rebalancing, which has now ended.”
“With sentiment toward equities already very weak, periodic rebounds are to be expected,” he added. “But markets are likely to stay volatile in the near term, driven primarily by expectations around inflation and policy rates.”
Sentiment has improved these past two session as Treasury yields come off more-than 10-year highs. The 10-year Treasury yield traded at about 3.58% on Tuesday, down from more than 4% at one point last week.
Sentiment on Tuesday also got a boost as shares of Credit Suisse traded 4% higher. Earlier in the week there were concerns regarding the bank’s financial health. The bank told CNBC it would provide updates to its strategy alongside its third-quarter numbers.
Stocks extended their advance following job openings data pointing to a weakening in the labor market, leading some traders to bet the Fed could back off its aggressive tightening campaign sooner than expected.
S&P 500 heads for biggest 2-day rally since 2020
The S&P 500 is up more than 5% in the first two sessions of October, putting the broader market index on pace for its biggest two-day rally since 2020.
Energy has been the big outperformer during this stretch, rising 9.1%. Marathon Oil, APA and Devon are also among the S&P 500’s best performers week to date, gaining more than 13% each.
But it’s not just energy. The other 10 S&P 500 sectors are also up sharply during these past two days. What’s more, just four stocks in the S&P 500 are lower this week.
— Fred Imbert
Adam Parker says we’re underwriting a recovery that’s ‘a little too optimistic’
Trivariate Research’s Adam Parker says investors may be “a little too optimistic” on a 2023 recovery.
“I’ve been sort of warming to this idea in the last two to three weeks that the consensus view that we get a bottom and then recovery in 2023 might be wrong,” Parker said Tuesday on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street.
“We might have just a slower decline from a very strong nominal GDP now, and maybe 2024 numbers are a little bit below ’23, and maybe we’re underwriting a recovery that’s maybe a little too optimistic right now,” he added.
The CEO and founder at Trivariate Research advised investors to keep an eye on overstocked inventory levels in apparel, industrials and other sectors as they head into corporate earnings reporting season next week.
Parker also advised investors seek out stocks that have “relative estimate achievability” in order to outperform in a challenging environment.
“My suspicion is that we have kind of a equal 10% down, 10% upside over the next six months. That’s not great risk reward,” he said.
— Sarah Min
Market’s broad rally leaves just three stocks behind
Tuesday’s market rally is so broad that just three stocks are in the red in late morning trading, and none of those are down even 1% for the session.
The breadth marks a complete reversal of some of the market’s worst days in late November, when nearly every stock was falling and just a few utility and health care stocks were managing to tread water.
The lonely laggards on Tuesday are:
Teleflex
Netflix
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
— Jesse Pound
The Fed’s tightening is the wrong policy, according to Barry Sternlicht
Billionaire investor Barry Sternlicht thinks that the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hike path is the wrong call and it could further hurt the global economy and markets going forward.
“They are going to cause unbelievable calamites if they keep up their action, and not just here, all over the globe,” the chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Tuesday.
As evidence, he pointed to this year’s stock market rout as well as the stronger U.S. dollar roiling global currency markets.
Instead, the Fed should move slower and look more closely at economic data, he said.
Read more here.
—Carmen Reinicke
Shares of cruise operators and airlines jump
Cruise operators and airlines helped propel the S&P 500 as the index extended its rally on Tuesday.
Shares of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings added 8% shortly after 10 a.m. The rally follows news that the cruise operator is ending Covid testing, masking and vaccination requirements, effective Tuesday. Customers will still be subject to local Covid travel requirements.
Carnival gained more than 7%, and Royal Caribbean jumped 6.2%. Both cruise lines still require testing for unvaccinated passengers.
Shares of air lines also rallied. Delta and American each jumped 7%, while United added 6.5%.
—Darla Mercado
U.S. job openings fall for the month of August
There were about 1.1 million fewer job openings than expected in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday, providing a potential early sign that the massive U.S. labor gap is beginning to close.
Available positions totaled 10.1 million for the month, less than the 11.1 million FactSet estimate, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
Hires edged higher while total separations jumped by 182,000. Quits, or those who left their jobs voluntarily, rose by 100,000 for the month to 4.16 million.
— Tanaya Macheel, Jeff Cox
Stocks open higher as investors look to extend Monday’s rally
Stocks jumped to start the day Tuesday as Wall Street aimed to build on a sharp rally seen in the previous session.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 405 points, or 1.4%. The S&P 500 increased 1.6%, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 2%.
— Tanaya Macheel
No sign that the bear market bottom is in, DataTrek’s Colas says
Investors shouldn’t get too excited about the big start to October, as such rallies rarely signal the end of bear markets.
“History strongly suggests that [Monday’s] 2.6 pct S&P rally is neither healthy nor a sign that the index has troughed,” Data Trek Research co-founder Nicholas Colas wrote in his daily market note Monday.
In fact, Colas pointed out, the index posted average gains of 6.4% the day after the 2002, 2009 and 2020 bear market troughs. That indicates the market will need some stronger rallies before it can climb out of the difficult 2022 environment.
“The low for US equities only happens when geopolitical developments or fiscal/monetary policy reduces investor uncertainty,” Colas wrote.
—Jeff Cox
Stocks making the biggest moves premarket
Ferguson says there’s a ‘disconnect’ and traders shouldn’t expect Fed pivot
Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Roger Ferguson said on “Squawk Box” that traders appear to be reading too much into whether the Fed could change its hardline stance to fighting inflation.
“I think what’s going on in markets is they are building up on an expectations of some sort of pivot, which I personally believe is premature. The job of markets is to anticipate, and I think they’re anticipating something that would make their lives better so to speak,” he said.
The Bank of England announced a temporary bond buying program last week to calm financial markets in London, but the Federal Reserve has not hinted at any such program in the U.S. That move also appeared to be sparked by a budget proposal from U.K. politicians that unnerved bond traders.
Ferguson, who also worked as CEO of TIAA, said this week’s U.S. market rebound and pullback in Treasury yields is probably not what the Fed wants to see as it is evaluation how tight financial conditions are.
“There’s bit of a disconnect between the hope in the market versus the reality of the Fed,” Ferguson added.
— Jesse Pound
Credit Suisse shares rebound
Shares of Credit Suisse rose 4% in Tuesday premarket trading after falling as much as 10% the prior day.
The stock tumbled on Monday, before rebounding to close down nearly flat, after a Financial Times report said Credit Suisse executives are reassuring major investors on the financial health of the Swiss bank. Shares are down roughly 60% this year.
The bank said it would provide updates on its strategy alongside its third-quarter results, according to a statement to CNBC on Monday. Credit Suisse is reporting results later this month on Oct. 27.
“It would be premature to comment on any potential outcomes before then,” the statement read.
— Sarah Min
Rivian surges after hitting new production high
Shares of electric vehicle maker Rivian jumped nearly 9% in premarket trading Tuesday after the company announced on Monday that it had produced more than 7,000 vehicles in the third quarter.
That’s the company’s highest quarterly production to date. The company also said that it is on track to meet its 2022 production goals after having to cut the target in half earlier in the year due to supply chain issues.
Read more here.
—Carmen Reinicke
‘Cash is probably not trash,’ says BNY Mellon Investment Management
Conventional wisdom suggests that holding cash in an inflationary environment is not recommended...
Russia Feared To Be Planning Major Nuclear Test Near Border With Ukraine: Report
Russia Feared To Be Planning Major Nuclear Test Near Border With Ukraine: Report https://digitalarkansasnews.com/russia-feared-to-be-planning-major-nuclear-test-near-border-with-ukraine-report/
Russian President Vladimir Putin is feared to be planning a nuclear test on the border with Ukraine — while officials in Kyiv are already handing out potassium iodine pills to protect against a possible nuke strike.
NATO has issued an intelligence report to its members and allies warning that the Kremlin is planning to test so-called “doomsday” Poseidon nuclear torpedo drones, according to The Times of London.
Putin is feared to be planning the nuke test as proof he means his earlier threat to threat to “use all the means at our disposal.”
AP
Putin plans to test it near the Ukraine frontier as proof he is willing to make good on his threat to “use all the means at our disposal,” including weapons of mass destruction, sources told the paper.
NATO is reportedly warning that Putin will test a nuke near Ukraine’s border to back up his recent escalated threats.
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The reported warning comes as Russia is believed to have deployed some of its nuclear arsenals, including the world’s largest submarine, the Belgorod, which is capable of carrying the so-called “weapon of the apocalypse” Poseidon nukes.
A train spotted carrying weaponry to the frontlines was also thought to be run by the shadowy force responsible for the Kremlin’s nuclear arsenal.
A senior UK defense source told the Times that Putin will most likely display his readiness to use nukes somewhere in the Black Sea.
However, it is “not impossible” that Putin could fire a smaller, tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine itself, the report said.
That carries extra risk because “they could misfire and accidentally hit a Russian city close to the Ukrainian border, such as Belgorod,” the source added,
Putin has insisted he is “not bluffing” with his readiness to use his nuclear arsenal, and US officials have made clear they are taking the threats seriously.
Officials in Ukraine’s capital are also already taking steps to prepare for a possible strike there.
The city council of Kyiv said it is providing evacuation centers with potassium iodine pills, which can help block the absorption of harmful radiation by the thyroid gland if taken close to a nuclear attack.
The pills will be distributed to residents in areas contaminated by nuclear radiation if there is a need to evacuate, the city council said in a statement.
Experts believe Putin is clearly “getting desperate” amid humiliating failures on the battlefield.
“Given the quality of the decision-making in the Kremlin at the moment, nothing should be discounted,” James Rogers, director of research at the Council on Geostrategy, told the UK Times.
Others still hope that the escalation of rhetoric and movement of nuclear arms is just a warning to the West to keep out of Russia’s brutal war on its neighbor.
However, if Putin does launch a nuclear attack, it would “open up Pandora’s box” if NATO uses nukes in return, nuclear weapons expert Professor Andrew Futter told the Times.
“If the West uses nuclear weapons in response you really don’t know what comes next,” he warned.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said last week Washington had warned Moscow of “catastrophic consequences” if it used nuclear arms.
Russia is the world’s biggest nuclear power, with 5,977 warheads to the US’ 5,428, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
When it comes to tactical nuclear weapons — less powerful than the big bombs that could destroy large cities — Russia has about 10 times the number the US has.
Andrey Baklitskiy, a senior researcher at the UN’s Institute for Disarmament Research, stressed that nukes “are not something that you just employ and they solve all your problems.”
Using them remains “one of the biggest decisions in the history of Earth.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to discuss the alleged NATO warning, dismissing the Times of London report as Western exercises in “nuclear rhetoric.”
Russia’s threats come as North Korea fired a ballistic missile over neighboring Japan for the first time in five years early Tuesday.
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New Analysis Explains The Problematic Nature Of Trump's Violent Rhetoric
New Analysis Explains The Problematic Nature Of Trump's Violent Rhetoric https://digitalarkansasnews.com/new-analysis-explains-the-problematic-nature-of-trumps-violent-rhetoric/
Former President Donald Trump speaking at the “Rally to Protect Our Elections,” hosted by Turning Point Action at the Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, Gage Skidmore
A new analysis is breaking down the potential problems that could arise due to former President Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric.
In a new piece published by CNN, White House reporter Stephen Collinson began by explaining the trend that started in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. “The lesson of January 6, 2021, is that when extremism, conspiracies, and incitement reach a boiling point, they seek an outlet,” Collinson wrote.
“That recent history is loudly echoing amid a deepening sense that the country could be heading back to a dark political place as another Election Day looms. And sadly, in a such a toxic age, another violent eruption cannot be ruled out.”
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According to Collinson, Trump has an angle when it comes to getting the reaction he desires when circumstances are unfavorable to his agenda.
“Trump’s political model remains rooted in igniting anger among his supporters,” Collinson wrote. “The more outrageous his comments, the more that the ex-President and his supporters show disdain for Washington elites and the rules and conventions that constrain the presidency and government institutions”
“His political self-image emulates the militarism and brashness of foreign strongmen,” he added. “And in a sense, his refusal to temper his political speech, even at the risk of endangering others, demonstrates yet again his power over a party that largely refuses to rebuke him, however extreme he becomes.”
Collinson also expressed concern about the vast majority of Republican lawmakers refusing to push back against Trump.
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He pointed to a Wall Street Journal editorial published on Monday, October 3 as an example of the problem. That piece noted lawmakers’ silence on Trump’s latest attack leveled at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
“The ‘death wish’ rhetoric is ugly even by Mr. Trump’s standards and deserves to be condemned. Mr. Trump’s apologists claim he merely meant Mr. McConnell has a political death wish, but that isn’t what he wrote,” the news outlet said. “It’s all too easy to imagine some fanatic taking Mr. Trump seriously and literally, and attempting to kill Mr. McConnell.”
Collinson acknowledged that the violent rhetoric could come from both sides but he also highlighted the distinct difference in Trump’s case. “Violent rhetoric can be bipartisan,” he wrote, adding, “But there is little doubt that Trump’s behavior has contributed to an increasingly volatile political culture.
“Long before the Capitol insurrection, the ex-President injected a bullying and brutal tone in his campaign rhetoric. Month by month, Trump built an impression that violence was a legitimate tool of expressing political grievances – a process that came to a head on January 6 – and further eroded the idea that Americans’ differences should be settled at the ballot box rather than through violent action.”
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Why Are We Obsessed With Stories About Liars Grifters And Cheats?
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True crime documentaries and dramatized versions of stories ripped from the headlines, like Netflix’s Inventing Anna, have increasingly started to focus on stories about liars, grifters and cons. Northeastern experts say the trend is born out of a post-postmodern moment. Photo: Netflix
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Why are we obsessed with stories about liars, grifters and cheats?
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Lately it seems like people can’t get enough of a good lie. From true crime documentaries about the fraudulent Fyre Festival or dating app con man the Tinder Swindler to “Inventing Anna,” Shondaland’s dramatization of grifter Anna Sorokin, these stories of liars, grifters and cheats are nearly ubiquitous.
But stories about deception have been around since people first started telling tales around the campfire, so why have these films and TV shows become so popular recently?
To some extent these stories are an extension of the true crime wave, says Laurel Ahnert, an assistant teaching professor of media and screen studies at Northeastern. What is successful will continue to be successful, as producers capitalize on what people are consuming. But that doesn’t exactly explain why people are so fond of fraudulent fiction in the first place.
Ahnert says these stories are likely hitting a nerve with audiences because they speak to a “post-postmodern” concern: What is the truth in a world filled with lies?
“Lies can be just as impactful as the truth, and I think it’s registering a broader common anxiety about what happens after postmodernism,” Ahnert says. “It’s still an attachment to truth and a strong desire for truth, and I think what these shows and films register is a desire for ‘There must be truth in there somewhere. Expose the liar and get to the truth, to some degree.’”
Left to right: Laurel Ahnert, an assistant teaching professor of media and screen studies at Northeastern, William Sharp, an associate teaching professor of psychology and Don Fallis, professor of philosophy and computer science.Photos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University
At a time when many Republican politicians still believe former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” and disinformation spreads like wildfire online, there’s a perverse appeal in stories that put the liar front and center. Similar to the broader true crime genre, Ahnert says, there is a “weird doubleness” to what these films and TV shows give viewers, especially women, who make up the majority of true crime consumers.
“We’re in a world where everything is mediated and people want their fears affirmed and acknowledged back to them: that the world is much less trustworthy than it seems to be or that someone could be catfishing them,” Ahnert says. “It’s both acknowledging but amplifying those anxieties.”
William Sharp, an associate teaching professor of psychology at Northeastern, argues that these stories might also be a form of wish fulfillment for viewers, some of which is by design. Netflix’s “Inventing Anna” makes its central character, a Russian-born grifter who tricks New York City’s elite into thinking she is a rich German heiress, into a kind of Robin Hood figure. Despite Anna’s nationality, it’s a very American story about a self-made striver and underdog that is, as with many of these stories, easy to buy into, Sharp says.
“Television … or movies help us get a little bit of a release,” Sharp says. “We identify with the characters on the screen, so when characters on the screen get away with stuff, it’s almost like we did.”
By watching characters lie, cheat and steal, Sharp says we as the viewer can distance ourselves from the behavior while also acknowledging that–maybe, just maybe–we’d like to do it too. It’s a feat of psychological gymnastics.
“What is it that we’re disavowing of our own nature by labeling and calling the problem out over there?” Sharp says. “… Really what [we] want to say is, ‘I wish I was that person,’ but it comes out as, ‘I’m not that person. That’s not me.’ That’s a psychological flip.”
But the appeal of these stories might go even deeper than that. It turns out lying might be in our genes, says Don Fallis, a professor of philosophy and computer science.
Fallis points to the Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis, a still-debated concept in primatology, that posits the reason humans evolved the way they did was through social engagement and primitive forms of Machiavellian scheming. Early humans developed into social groups, which required more sophisticated social cognition to navigate. Those who worked their way up the social ladder had a higher chance of reproductive success, which is where lying comes into play.
“In that sort of situation, you start to develop motivations to keep other members of your group in the dark about what you have done or haven’t done,” Fallis says. “Then, as a result, you develop means to detect when other people in the group are not being what they appear to be. The Machiavellian Hypothesis is essentially that this situation fosters this arms race of getting better at deception and getting better at detecting deception.”
The hypothesis is far from a “settled story,” Fallis admits. But whether we’re watching the complex deceptive duels in Game of Thrones or the real-world cons pulled by the Tinder Swindler, Fallis says it’s hard to deny how naturally appealing these stories are for audiences.
“It’s not just that we’re liars and deceivers so we’re interested in reading fiction about liars and deceivers,” Fallis says. “It’s that lying and deception may be core to why we’re humans in the first place, and it’s certainly an important part of what makes us adult human beings.”
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Trumps Sues CNNfor Defamation Seeks $475 Million FISM TV
Trumps Sues CNN for Defamation, Seeks $475 Million – FISM TV https://digitalarkansasnews.com/trumps-sues-cnn-for-defamation-seeks-475-million-fism-tv/
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Former President Donald Trump proved Monday that his promise to hale CNN into court was sincere.
Months after first pledging to sue CNN, Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against the legacy media giant, who Trump says should be forced to pay him $475 million in punitive damages and additional compensatory damage pending a jury trial.
“A lawsuit was filed today against CNN, the once prestigious news channel that has devolved into a purveyor of disinformation, defamation, and Fake News, at a level which the American Public, and indeed the World, will not even believe is possible,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “For years I have watched this take place, often in disbelief, but the time has finally come to hold CNN responsible and legally accountable for their willful deception and defamatory statements made about me.”
CNN has indicated to multiple news outlets, among them NBC News, that it will offer no comment on the lawsuit.
In the suit, Trump’s legal team alleges CNN went beyond reporting only negatively about him and “sought to use its massive influence — purportedly as a ‘trusted’ news source —to defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically.”
At issue is Trump’s belief that CNN had, on 34 occasions, crossed the line between criticism and defamation. Most notably, the former president objects to the network’s frequent decision to compare Trump to Adolf Hitler and to use the phrase “The Big Lie” when describing Trump’s claims about a fraudulent 2020 presidential election. The phrase is indelibly linked, historically and connotatively, to the vile history of Hitler.
“Most notably, and, the subject of this complaint, is CNN’s persistent association of the Plaintiff to Adolf Hitler and Nazism,” the complaint reads. “When labels like ‘racist,’ ‘Russian lackey,’ and ‘insurrectionist’ did not have the desired effect to undermine the Plaintiff’s candidacy when running for President or the Plaintiff’s accomplishments as President, CNN upped the stakes to conjure associations between the Plaintiff and arguably the most heinous figure in modern history.”
The network’s penchant for Nazi comparisons was a deliberate attempt to damage Trump’s political future, Trump’s attorneys conclude.
“By publication of these defamatory statements, CNN has incited readers and viewers to hate, contempt, distrust, ridicule, and even fear the Plaintiff, causing injury to the Plaintiff, the Plaintiff’s reputation, and the Plaintiff’s political career,” the complaint reads.
Trump has been the originator and recipient of numerous forms of litigation since leaving office. He is currently embroiled in a well-documented criminal process with the Department of Justice over documents confiscated from his Florida home and is being sued by New York Attorney General Letitia James in civil court over his business dealings in the Empire State.
He was recently unsuccessful in a bid to sue Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, ABC, and individual Democrats like Rep. Adam Schiff over those parties’ claim that Trump colluded with Russia in his 2016 presidential election, a claim that has never been substantiated.
Trump alleged the defendants in that case had violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a law primarily meant to criminally punish organized crime.
Monday’s suit, which at 29 pages is about one-tenth the length of Trump’s Clinton-RICO effort, might be the first of several.
Trump has announced that he planned to file many more lawsuits against additional news outlets in the weeks and months to come.
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New Poll Illustrates The Depth Of Washington's Political Divide
New Poll Illustrates The Depth Of Washington's Political Divide https://digitalarkansasnews.com/new-poll-illustrates-the-depth-of-washingtons-political-divide/
For Republicans, the election in Washington is about the economy and crime. For Democrats it is about abortion, climate and protecting democracy. For both sides, it’s us vs. them. And keeping “them” out of power.
While Tiffany Smiley is showing ads about closed Starbucks in Seattle and the rising cost of deviled eggs and beer, Patty Murray’s featured a young woman from Texas who had to travel to a neighboring state for “reproductive healthcare.”
In an open-ended poll question asking, “What are the most important factors that will help you decide how to vote?”, Republican voters cited the economy #1, followed by party identification and crimen, then taxes and spending. Democrats named abortion #1, followed closely by party identification, then candidate attributes and environmental issues. The economy was #5.
What is new here is that party labels are near the top of the list of important voting factors. Voters have always taken party identification into account when deciding how to vote, but lately partisanship has played a stronger role in voting decisions.
What’s more, that partisanship is largely what political scientists call “negative partisanship.” For example, within the “party /ideology” category of vote factors, most of the answers were things like, “I will not vote for any Democrats” or “No Republicans until they rid themselves of Trump.”
The Dobbs decision was a wake-up call to Democrats and socially liberal Independents who may have been disheartened by the Red Wave narrative. Dobbs seems to have triggered awareness that not only are abortion rights in jeopardy, but that elections have consequences across a range of issues, so they had better pay attention.
Dobbs shifted the debate from the economy to the culture wars. It also flipped the election from being a referendum to a choice. Both these shifts give Democrats home-field advantage in Washington state.
Democrats have long had a numeric advantage in Washington, which is what made the January poll results so notable. They showed Republicans within three points of Patty Murray and the generic legislative vote. Could the Red Wave wash over Washington?
By July, after Dobbs, the Democrats’ advantage in party identification had grown from 7 to 20 points, taking Murray and the generic Democratic legislative and congressional candidates with it, to leads of 19-20 points.
By September, the Democratic party identification advantage was back down to 11 points, indicating that things are back to “normal.” Normal in Washington since 2008 has been about a 11-12-point identification advantage for Democrats.
January’s Red Wave and July’s Blue Surge were both mostly due to fluctuations on the Republican side. Republican identification bounced from 18% in July 2021 to 29% in January 2022 to 22% in July to 27% this month. Democratic identification in that same period only moved between 36% and 40%.
This suggests that more than abortion politics are at work. Donald Trump’s refusal or inability to leave the stage may have as much to do with the Republican fluctuation as the Supreme Court does. The January 6 hearings, the Mar-a-Lago search, and all the rest have been more in the news than the Dobbs decision over the past months.
National events and trends provide a context in which individual local elections take place. Elections are determined by voters’ thinking about a mixture of societal trends, local issues, personal circumstances and individual candidates. Most elections this year are in congressional and legislative districts, where individual candidates typically weigh more heavily.
But party identification is playing a larger role than ever. In an era of sharply defined partisanship and ideologically divided parties, these poll results suggest that Tip O’Neill’s famous maxim, “All politics is local,” has been flipped. It may be more accurate now to say that “All politics is national.”
Would the Red Wave have continued without the Dobbs decision? We’ll never know. These factors play differently in Washington than in Indiana or Florida. But it’s not hard to imagine that without the decision and the Trump circus, the election here would have had a quite different tenor.
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Oath Keepers Acted On Jan. 6 To Overthrow Government And Fight Biden
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Washington — Leaders of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group worked to “shatter a bedrock of American democracy” when they planned and executed a coordinated attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the Justice Department alleged in federal court Monday, on the first day of their trial.
“They banded together to do whatever was necessary, up to and including using force,” prosecutor Jeffrey Nestler told a jury at the trial of five members or affiliates of the group charged with seditious conspiracy and other crimes stemming from their alleged involvement in the Capitol breach.
Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and codefendants Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, and Thomas Caldwell were part of the group whose goal was to “stop by any means necessary the lawful transfer of power, including the taking up arms against the United States government,” Nestler said, during the government’s opening argument.
The defendants are accused of planning their attack on the Capitol as far back as November 2020, later amassing weapons and espousing violence with other coconspirators – both charged and uncharged individuals – and coordinating their movements on the day of the attack.
Nestler walked the jury through a summary of the government’s case, including the structure of the Oath Keeper’s operation with Rhodes at the helm. Meggs and Harrelson, the prosecutor explained, tag-teamed the group’s Florida contingent while Watkins spearheaded operations in Ohio, and Caldwell – not a bona fide member of the group – allegedly set into motion their “Quick Reaction Forces” (QRF), which stored weapons in a Virginia hotel.
Caldwell is accused of planning to use a boat to transport those weapons into Washington, D.C. That call to action never came, according to the government, and during his own opening argument, Caldwell’s attorney David Fischer denounced the characterization as “hogwash.”
“This is the biggest bait and switch in the history of the American justice system,” Fischer argued, “the QRF was not in the remotest way” designed to attack Capitol, but to provide health and safety support if needed.
On Jan. 6 itself, prosecutors alleged, Rhodes and his conspirators traveled to the Capitol, ready to use “the training, knowledge and experience” many of them gained during military to plot to overthrow the government. Many members of the Oath Keepers organization are military veterans.
Nestler said that the group’s calls for “civil war” and refusals to accept Biden as the “legitimate winner” of the 2020 presidential election came to a head as the Capitol was under attack. He argued the evidence at trial will show that they were waiting for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, a Civil War-era law that would have called on a militia of armed citizens to oppose Congress’ work.
“He needs to know that if he fails to act, then we will,” Rhodes is accused of writing about the former president.
Rhodes’ attorney Phillip Linder said in his opening argument on Monday that Rhodes and his associates were there to provide aid and security to high-profile attendees of rallies in support of the former president, a defense Fischer and Watkins’ attorney, Jonathan Crisp, both reiterated.
Text messages released earlier this year reveal Oath Keepers members were discussing protecting people including Trump ally Roger Stone and rally organizer Ali Alexander in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6.
Out of context, their communications before and during the attack sound “ominous as Hell,” Crisp conceded, but the evidence at trial would not support the government’s claims, he said.
“Stewart Rhodes meant no harm to the Capitol that day. Stewart Rhodes did not have any violent intents that day,” Linder argued for his client, telling the jury Rhodes will testify in his own defense during a trial that is expected to last more than a month.
But Nestler told the jury that investigators will prove that Watkins, Harrelson, and Meggs were part of an “invading army” that allegedly formed a military-like “stack” to enter the Capitol building and push toward members of Congress including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as Rhodes coordinated from outside.
Prosecutors also showed the jury a picture of a patch they alleged was on Meggs’ clothing during the attack. It read, “I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.”
Using snippets of video evidence, Nestler walked the jury through what the government will argue is proof that the group coordinated to overthrow the government with force and prevent the peaceful transfer of power, a “core democratic custom.”
Linder told the jury that the government used the videos and inflammatory language in “an attempt to alarm and anger you.”
“Although it may look inflammatory, they did nothing illegal,” the Linder said of the defendants.
After the Capitol attack, Nestler told the jury, Rhodes allegedly met with an unnamed individual on January 10, 2021, in which he lamented that the group was not armed on Jan. 6 and attempted to pass a message to Trump that it was “still not too late,” to take action. According to the prosecutor, that conversation was secretly recorded.
But Linder claimed his client believed “in good faith” that Trump was set to invoke the Insurrection Act and any calls for undue violence were “free speech and bravado.” In all, defense attorneys argued throughout the day on Monday that the Oath Keepers felt as though Trump had “failed” them because they were never called to action on Jan. 6.
Prosecutors said they will allege at trial talk of the Insurrection Act was merely to provide the Oath Keepers with legal cover.
Attorneys for Kenneth Harrelson and Kelly Meggs, both of Florida, opted not to deliver opening arguments for their clients. Fischer, on Caldwell’s behalf, and Crisp, Watkins’ attorney, told the jury that at the time of their arrest, their clients both spoke freely with investigators in interviews.
“These are not the actions of someone who was trying to overthrow the government,” Crisp said, arguing that while Meggs did enter the Capitol, she was innocent of the more serious charges.
Prosecutors called their first witness Monday, FBI Special Agent Michael Palian, to present evidence about the alleged planning before the Capitol attack, the first aspect of the accused conspiracy.
Palian said he was one of 70 agents who responded to the call and went to the Capitol on Jan. 6 to assist members of the Senate, whom he said were “shocked” by the chaos of the day. Some, he said, were crying.
He also answered questions about the data extraction from some of the defendants’ cellphones.
On Rhodes’ phone, Palian said he found encrypted messages dating back to the period just after the 2020 presidential election. According to the messages, Rhodes wrote the day after the election that they were establishing a QRF in Washington, D.C., and planning to oppose Biden’s election.
Later in November 2020, Rhodes’ texted a group that they must “march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol” with references to the Serbian revolution.
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Post Politics Now: Biden To Mark 100 Days Since Supreme Court Overturned Roe V. Wade
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Today, President Biden is convening a meeting at the White House to mark 100 days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and assess the impact that has had on the country. Administration officials plan to discuss a White House report noting that abortion bans have taken effect in more than a dozen states and close to 30 million women of reproductive age now live in a state with a ban.
The event comes as Democrats seek to galvanize voters on the issue of abortion ahead of the November midterm elections. The report pointedly says that Republicans have blocked efforts to write reproductive protections into federal law and that “Republican elected officials at the state and national level have taken extreme steps to block women’s access to health care.”
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On our radar: Supreme Court examining Alabama’s congressional districts
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On the second day of its new term, the Supreme Court will hear more oral arguments, including in a case concerning the Voting Rights Act that civil rights groups say could undercut Black voting strength across the country.
The Post’s Robert Barnes reports that the court will consider whether the Voting Rights Act requires Alabama to create a second congressional district favorable to a Black candidate, a decision that could affect redistricting nationwide. Per Bob:
A lower court threw out the state’s map drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature, which gave Black voters a significant chance to elect a candidate in only one of the state’s seven congressional districts, even though African Americans make up more than a quarter of the state’s population.
But the Supreme Court stepped in, ordering that this fall’s elections will take place under the legislature’s map, and then later accepted the case for full briefing and argument.
Civil rights leaders fear the court will weaken federal protections about redistricting decisions that disadvantage minority communities. But Alabama, joined by other Republican-led states, says the Constitution forbids an extended consideration of race in drawing voting districts.
You can read previews of this case and others being heard by the Supreme Court this term here.
On our radar: White House officials to assess impact of court ruling on abortion
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President Biden is convening a meeting Tuesday at the White House to mark 100 days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and assess the impact that has had on the country.
Administration officials plan to discuss a White House report noting that abortion bans have taken effect in more than a dozen states and close to 30 million women of reproductive age now live in a state with a ban.
“As the President has repeatedly said, the only way to fully protect women’s access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care, including abortion, is for Congress to pass a law codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade,” says the report, written by Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council.
Noted: Trump sues CNN claiming defamation, seeks $475 million in damages
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Former president Donald Trump sued CNN on Monday, alleging defamation and seeking $475 million in punitive damages, a move that escalates his conflict with U.S. news organizations that have critically reported on his career.
The Post’s Kelly Kasulis Cho reports that the 29-page lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleges that CNN took part in a “campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander” that “escalated in recent months” because the network feared Trump would again run for president. Per Kelly:
Take a look: Democrats will hold the House, Pelosi tells Stephen Colbert
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), during an appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” predicted Monday that Democrats will hold the House in the midterms, pointing to her party’s performance in the 2018 and 2020 election cycles.
“We will hold the House by winning more seats,” Pelosi said. “We won the 40 seats, then we lost some when Trump was on the ballot, we lost some in the Trump districts, but we held enough seats to hold the House. He’s not on the ballot now.”
Pelosi, who doesn’t like to mention former president Donald Trump by name, quickly realized she had.
The latest: Herschel Walker denies report that he paid for girlfriend’s abortion
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Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia, on Monday denied a claim that he paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, saying in a televised interview on the Fox News Channel that the account published in the Daily Beast is a “flat-out lie.”
The Post’s Annie Linskey and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. report that Walker’s denial came after the Daily Beast published a detailed description from an unnamed former girlfriend who said that Walker encouraged her to have an abortion after she became pregnant while they were dating, wrote her a $700 check to pay for the procedure and then sent her a subsequent “get well” card.
The latest: White House condemns North Korean ballistic missile test
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The White House on Monday night condemned a “dangerous and reckless” decision by North Korea to launch a suspected intermediate-range missile over Japan.
“This action is destabilizing and shows [North Korea’s] blatant disregard for United Nations Security Council resolutions and international safety norms,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement.
She added that White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke with officials in Japan and South Korea and reinforced the United States’ “ironclad commitments” to their defense.
The latest: Trump’s lawyer refused his request in February to say all documents returned
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Former president Donald Trump asked one of his lawyers to tell the National Archives and Records Administration in early 2022 that Trump had returned all materials requested by the agency, but the lawyer declined because he was not sure the statement was true, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Post’s Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany report that, as it turned out, thousands more government documents — including some highly classified secrets — remained at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club. Per our colleagues:
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Why The Visa Process Could Be https://digitalarkansasnews.com/why-the-visa-process-could-be/
Tourist visas can be expensive and confusing to apply for.
The process may discourage some travelers from visiting the U.S.
Visa policies try to balance economic and national security priorities.
It can be hard for international visitors to get permission to come to the U.S.
Onyi Apakama knows this firsthand. She’s a first-generation American born to two Nigerian immigrants, and much of her family is still living overseas.
A convoluted and expensive tourist visa application process means her relatives have missed major milestones with family here in the U.S.
“It was definitely a sad thing because it was (my cousin’s) younger sister,” Apakama said. “She wasn’t able to attend her sister’s wedding.”
For Americans, it can be easy to forget how complicated international travel can be depending on your passport.
U.S. passport holders can access 186 international destinations without applying for visas in advance according to the Henley Passport Index, meaning we almost never need to go through the hassle and expense of filling out extra paperwork or turning up at a country’s embassy to prove ourselves before a trip.
But many visitors coming to the U.S. face a process that’s much more arduous.
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According to Esra Calvert, around 40% of international visitors to the U.S. need to apply for a visa to enter. Calvert is the principal at Esra Calvert Consulting, which focuses on data in the tourism industry.
“There is paperwork you have to do online, and you wait for your appointment time,” she told USA TODAY. “When your appointment time comes, you go to the embassy for an interview. You have to show proof of finances, what your plans are, very basic pieces of information just for proof that you’re going on vacation or a business meeting.”
In Nigeria, Apakama said, it can also be harder to get a visa appointment if your family isn’t politically well-connected.
Those extra barriers sometimes discourage people from applying for visas at all – to say nothing of those whose applications are rejected. That means the U.S. is potentially missing out on a lot of tourist dollars that would otherwise be generated every year.
According to the Department of Commerce, tourism accounted for $1.9 trillion in economic output in 2019.
“There’s so many choices for travelers,” Calvert said. “If a traveler has to wait for a year,” just to get their visa interview, they’re going to go somewhere else for vacation.
Raoul Bianchi, a reader in political economy at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of Economics Policy and International Business said that tourist visa applications disproportionately make it harder for people to travel from the developing world.
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“The global north/global south division is very stark,” he said in an interview. “There is an enormous disparity between wealthy Westernized countries and sub-Saharan Africa, South and Central America and South Asia.”
The process can be so opaque that experts suggest many visa applicants fear that talking about their experiences to the press could hinder their ability to get approved.
What does a tourist visa cost to visit the US?
According to the State Department, it costs $160 per person to apply for a tourist visa. They can be valid for up to 10 years, depending on the applicant’s nationality.
The fees are becoming more prohibitive for some travelers as inflation rises.
“The cost has gone up. And right now with inflation (and) the exchange rate, the Nigerian naira has gotten a lot weaker in the last year or six months,” Apakama said.
When she visited Nigeria in 2019 or 2020, it was around 350 naira to the dollar. Now it’s closer to 430 nairas to the dollar, meaning her relatives could wind up paying tens of thousands of naira just in visa fees for a whole family unit to visit.
In a statement, the State Department said those fees are nonrefundable and nontransferable, even if the application is rejected.
“The department’s consular operations are largely funded by fees for services. Visa fees charged are generally based on the cost to the department of providing visa services, and are determined through periodic studies of the cost of consular services, including visa services,” a spokesperson said. “This means that there is no profit to the U.S. government from the collection of fees. Rather the fee is in place to recover the cost to the U.S. government of providing the service.”
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Who is required to get a tourist visa to come to the US?
Visa requirements can change over time, and especially for visitors to the U.S., have gotten more stringent in recent decades.
“An average of two-thirds of the people around the world have to obtain a visa prior to departure. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and more recent terrorist attacks worldwide, have changed the discourse of immigration and international tourism within Europe and North America,” Pooneh Torabian, a lecturer in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago’s business school in New Zealand said in a statement. “Since Sept. 11, international travel has become more regulated in the name of safety and security, and international movement for ethnic minority citizens, specifically Arab and Muslim travelers, has been hindered.”
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Bianchi agreed and pointed out that visa policies often reflect a country’s broader geopolitical stances.
For example, soon after President Donald Trump took office, his administration enacted a ban on visitors from many Muslim-majority countries, a reflection of the president’s immigration priorities. Even since President Joe Biden reversed that policy, however, advocates say little has changed in practical terms.
“Quite often visa policies can be a reflection of bilateral diplomatic relations or a proxy for something else that’s going on,” Bianchi said.
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For visa applicants, Apakama said, the restrictions can feel like discrimination at a high level.
“Who are the folks that we as a country believe are going to contribute to the society and those who are not,” she said.
Many applicants feel there’s a human arbitrariness to the process too.
“My family members believe it’s whoever’s interviewing you that day and it’s just their mood,” Apakama said. When the visa interviewer seemed grumpy, her family felt their applications faced more scrutiny and were more likely to be denied.
The U.S. has visa waiver agreements with 40 countries including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and many European nations. Canadian citizens also usually do not need to apply for tourist visas to visit the U.S. Travelers using passports from countries not on the waiver list generally do need to apply for tourist visas before coming here.
Even when a visitor has a visa, border guards have the discretion to turn them away at passport control. Apakama said she’s had relatives who were denied entry after landing in the U.S. and put on flights back to Nigeria.
How long does it take to get a tourist visa for the US?
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. embassies and consulates have been struggling to keep up with visa applications, and in some places, the wait time for an appointment is now longer than a year.
“It’s discouraging visitors,” Calvert said. “All the hassle that travelers have to go through with the visa application process in this day and age, there could be some opportunities to bring the visa backlog numbers down.”
The State Department’s wait time calculator estimates that the consulate in Mumbai is now scheduling tourist visa appointments 848 days out, though the department says that extreme wait is an outlier.
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“We are reducing appointment wait times in all visa classes as quickly as possible, worldwide. In fact, visa processing is rebounding faster than projected, after a near-complete shutdown and freezing of resources during the pandemic,” a spokesperson said. “The wait time for a routine visa appointment at half of our overseas posts is less than four months, and at some posts is far shorter than that. Applicants who have urgent travel needs and can apply away from their own home country should seek to do so.”
Will US visas ever be easier to get?
Bianchi, from Manchester Metropolitan University, said visa policies are constantly in flux.
“There are tensions and conflicts within governments. They don’t work as a monolith,” he said. “You’ll get the tourism industry in alliance with the tourism ministries, but the ministries of the interior, or in your case the Department of Homeland Security, will be very much in favor of tightening visas because their concern is security.”
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That push and pull means making visas more accessible is usually a slow and contested process. In the meantime Calvert said, the U.S. will keep missing out on potential tourist dollars.
“I’m concerned about price as a barrier and these visa regulations,” she said. “Travel shouldn’t be that difficult. How do we keep the world open?”
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North Little Rock Police: 3 Dead In Apartment Fire
North Little Rock Police: 3 Dead In Apartment Fire https://digitalarkansasnews.com/north-little-rock-police-3-dead-in-apartment-fire/
by: Miriam Battles
Posted: Oct 4, 2022 / 06:44 AM CDT
Updated: Oct 4, 2022 / 07:02 AM CDT
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – North Little Rock police said that three people are dead after an apartment fire early Tuesday morning.
According to the North Little Rock Police Department, officers and the North Little Rock Fire Department responded to Shorter College Garden Apartments just before 2:30 a.m. Officers said that they responded to Building 8 in reference to the fire.
Officials with the NLRPD have not released the identities of the victims at this time. Police confirmed that the victims were adults.
Officers said that detectives were notified and responded to the scene to assist the Fire Marshalls with the investigation.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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Hikers cross a creek. (Contributed photo by Getty Images)
Hikes visit Devil’s Den, Buffalo
Hill ‘N Dale hiking club will hike Thursday at Devils Den State Park 3.1 miles on the Yellow Rock Loop and 2 miles out and back on the Monument Trails.
The group will hike on Oct. 12, 3 miles out and back to Hawksbill Crag in the Buffalo River area. There is also the option to hike to Amber Falls and Compton Double Falls, 2.5 mile bushwack out and back, or Lost Valley, 2 miles out and back.
Interested hikers should contact Bev Munstermann, 479-721-2193 or munster@olemac.net. For more information go to bvhikingclub.com.
Celebrate at Runway
The fourth annual Runway Bike Park Anniversary Celebration will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the bike park at the Jones Center in Springdale.
The park, Pedal It Forward NWA and Buddy Pegs youth biking academy will have cycling events and activities for children and families. It includes a BMX stunt demonstration, bike parade, bike decorating station, lawn games and inflatable fun. Loaner bikes will be available,
Visit thejonescenter.net/bike-park-party for more information.
See birds at Ninestone
Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society will host a field trip to Ninestone Land Trust in Carroll County on Sunday. Meet at Ninestone at 9 a.m. Audubon membership is not required to attend.
A variety of birds will be seen, as well as rare and unusual native plants and geological features. Visit nwarkaudubon.org/placestobird.htm for directions. Call Joe Neal, (479) 521-1858 for details.
Walk in Hot Springs
Ozark Hill Hikers, affiliated with the American Volkssport Association, invite all walkers to join three walks Saturday and Sunday in Hot Springs.
The walks will be 5, 6 or 10 kilometers. Registration for all three walks will be Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 8 to 9:30 a.m. in the lobby of The Hot Springs Hotel, 305 Malvern Ave. in Hot Springs.
Membership dues to the Ozark Hill Hikers are $12 per year prorated $1 for each month remaining in the calendar year. For more information, email bvvohh@gmail.com or call (479 381-9366.
Habitat help needed
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and Hook, Line and Sinker Outdoors are hosting Beaver Lake Habitat days on Oct. 14-15.
Volunteers are needed to help sink trees in the Blue Springs area on the upper end of the lake. Meet at the Blue Springs launch ramp at 8 a.m. Work goes to 3 p.m.
Game and Fish staff need help loading trees onto barges, tying blocks and sinking the trees in Beaver Lake. Each volunteer will need to bring lunch, a life jacket, sunscreen, bug spray, work gloves and wear work boots.
Volunteers should register with Jon Stein with Game and Fish at jonathan.stein@agfc.ar.gov or text to (479) 640-6422.
Forest comes alive
Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area will host The Living Forest event from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 22.
Guided hikes on the 0.25-mile Ozark Plateau Trail will feature volunteers in fun costumes as various animals of the forest. They’ll explain to children and adults why they’re important to the forest and what people can do to help them. Hikes with no more than 15 people depart the visitor center every five minutes.
Hikes are geared for children ages 4-7. Children are encouraged to wear costumes if they’d like. Children and adults can make crafts while waiting for their hike to start. After each hike, s’mores and cider will be served in the outdoor education pavilion.
Check in at the visitor center no later than 3 p.m. For details call the visitor center, (479) 789-5000.
Apply for youth grants
The Ozark Society Foundation is accepting applications for its Youth Engagement Grant through October 22. Nonprofit organizations within the foundation’s focus region that work with youth under age 18 in environmental and conservation efforts are encouraged to apply for up to $3,000 in grant funding.
Projects should actively engage youth in conservation efforts that have tangible outcomes. Hands-on learning, service learning, community projects, and advocacy is encouraged. Applicants must be affiliated with a 501c3 nonprofit or school located in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri or the Caddo, Bossier, Webster, and Claiborne parishes of Louisiana.
Grant awards will be announced in December. To apply for the grant, visit https://www.ozarksociety.net/foundation/foundation-youth-grants/.
Cruise to lake’s loons
Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area will host pontoon boat trips on Beaver Lake to see loons and other waterfowl at 10 a.m. Nov. 5 and Nov. 12.
Chances are good to see loons, several duck species, gulls and bald eagles. Knowledgeable birders with the Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society will be on each trip. Cruises last about two hours and visit wide-open water areas of the lake that are attractive to waterfowl.
Passengers should bring binoculars, but binoculars are available on the boat. There is no restroom on the boat.
Cost is $15. Minimum age is 16. Call the park visitor center, (479) 789-5000 to register.
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TV And Streaming Viewing Picks For October 4 2022: How To Watch Penultimate MLB Regular Season Games
TV And Streaming Viewing Picks For October 4, 2022: How To Watch Penultimate MLB Regular Season Games https://digitalarkansasnews.com/tv-and-streaming-viewing-picks-for-october-4-2022-how-to-watch-penultimate-mlb-regular-season-games/
All Times Eastern
College Football
B1G Live: Football Coaches Press Conferences — Big Ten Network, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.
SEC Inside: LSU at Auburn — SEC Network, 8 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.
College Golf
Men’s and Women’s
Blessings Collegiate Invitational, Blessings Golf Club, Fayetteville, AR
Day 2 — Golf Channel, 4:30 p.m.
College Central — Golf Channel, 4 p.m.
College Soccer
Men’s
Rutgers vs. Maryland — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
College Volleyball
Women’s
Air Force at New Mexico — Stadium, 8:30 p.m.
CONCACAF League
Semifinal
Leg 1, Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Real España vs. Alajuelense — TUDN/YouTube, 9 p.m.
Golf
Golf Today — Golf Channel, 2 p.m.
Golf Central — Golf Channel, 7:30 p.m.
LaLiga
LaLiga News — ESPN+, 9 a.m.
Mixed Martial Arts
UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje (05/07/2022) — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
UFC Ultimate Knockouts: Hispanic Heritage Month-Part 1 — ESPN2, midnight
DC & RC — ESPN2, 12:30 a.m. (Wednesday)
MLB
American League
New York Yankees at Texas — MLB Network/YES/Bally Sports Southwest, 2 p.m.
Detroit at Seattle — Bally Sports Detroit/Root Sports, 6 p.m.
Kansas City at Cleveland — Bally Sports Kansas City/Bally Sports Great Lakes, 6 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Boston — Bally Sports Sun/NESN, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Baltimore — Sportsnet/MASN2, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox — Bally Sports North/NBC Sports Chicago, 8 p.m.
New York Yankees at Texas — YES/Bally Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Anaheim at Oakland — Bally Sports West/NBC Sports California, 9:30 p.m.
Detroit at Seattle — Bally Sports Detroit/Root Sports, 9:30 p.m.
National League
Washington at New York Mets — MASN/SNY, 4 p.m.
Atlanta at Miami — Bally Sports South/Bally Sports Florida, 6:30 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati — Marquee Sports Network/Bally Sports Ohio, 6:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh — Bally Sports Midwest/AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.
Arizona at Milwaukee — Bally Sports Arizona/Bally Sports Wisconsin, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at New York Mets — MASN/SNY, 7:30 p.m.
San Francisco at San Diego — NBC Sports Bay Area/Bally Sports San Diego, 9:30 p.m.
Colorado at Los Angeles Dodgers — AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain/Spectrum SportsNet LA, 10 p.m.
Interleague
Philadelphia at Houston — TBS/NBC Sports Philadelphia/AT&T SportsNet Southwest, 8 p.m.
MLB Central — MLB Network, 9 a.m.
Blue Jays Central — Sportsnet, 6:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 5 p.m.
MLB on TBS Leadoff — TBS, 7:30 p.m.
MLB on TBS Closer — TBS, 11 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Wednesday)
MLS
Charlotte FC vs. Columbus Crew — WAXN/WSOC/Bally Sports Great Lakes, 7 p.m.
Inter Miami vs. Orlando City SC — WFOR/WAMI/WRBW, 8 p.m.
NASCAR
NASCAR Race Hub — FS1, 6 p.m.
Dale Jr. Download — Peacock, 6 p.m.
NBA Preseason
Detroit at New York — TNT/Bally Sports Detroit Extra/MSG Network, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Miami — Bally Sports North Extra/Bally Sports Sun, 7:30 p.m.
New Orleans at Chicago — TNT/NBC Sports Chicago Plus, 9:30 p.m.
Utah at Portland — AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain/Root Sports Plus, 10 p.m.
NBA Today — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NBA Today — ESPN, 8:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, midnight
NBA G League Preseason
Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 at G League Ignite — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
NFL
Good Morning Football — NFL Network, 7 a.m.
NFL Now — NFL Network, 1 p.m.
NFL Now — NFL Network, 2 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
Speak — FS1, 4:30 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
NFL Total Access — NFL Network, 7 p.m.
Tua — FS1, 8 p.m.
Inside the NFL: Week 4 — Paramount+, 9:30 p.m.
NHL Preseason
NHL Global Series, Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin, Germany
San Jose Sharks at Eisbaren Berlin — NHL Network/NBC Sports California, 2 p.m.
Carolina at Buffalo — NHL Network/MSG Western New York, 7 p.m.
New York Islanders at Philadelphia — NBC Sports Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Ottawa at Montreal — TSN5/TSN2/RDS, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at St. Louis — Bally Sports Midwest app, 8 p.m.
Arizona at Vegas — KTNV, 10 p.m.
Los Angeles at Anaheim — Bally Sports SoCal, 10 p.m.
Pre-Season Bonus Coverage — NHL Network, 10:30 p.m.
Soccer
Fútbol club — TUDN, 7 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPN+, 8 p.m.
Línea de cuatro — TUDN, 8 p.m.
Sports News & Talk
SportsCenter — ESPN, 7 a.m.
The Carton Show — FS1, 7 a.m.
The Early Line — SportsGrid, 7 a.m.
Get Up — ESPN, 8 a.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN2, 8 a.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN2, 9 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Peacock, 9 a.m.
The Morning After — SportsGrid, 9 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 9:45 p.m.
Campus Insiders — Stadium, 10 a.m.
30 for 30: The Gospel According to Mac — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
The Rally Rewind — Stadium, 10:30 a.m.
Up & Adams — FanDuel TV, 11 a.m.
Fantasy Sports Today — SportsGrid, 11 a.m.
B1G Today — Big Ten Network, noon
The Jim Rome Show — CBS Sports Network, noon
SportsCenter — ESPN, noon
The Rich Eisen Show — The Roku Channel, noon
Live on the Line — Stadium, noon
SportsCenter — ESPN, 1 p.m.
The Short List — Nxt Lvl Sports, 2 p.m.
This Just In — ESPN, 2 p.m.
The Immortals — Nxt Lvl Sports, 2:30 p.m.
In Play — ACC Network, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
Ferrall Coast to Coast — SportsGrid, 3 p.m.
Jalen & Jacoby — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
ACC PM — ACC Network, 4 p.m.
Around the Horn — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
Time to Schein — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN, 6 p.m.
50+ Years of Sport — Stadium, 7 p.m.
E60: Truth Be Told — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Airing It Out With Housh & Scandrick — Fubo Sports Network, 7 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
50+ Years of Sport — Stadium, 7:30 p.m.
Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers — ESPN, 8:45 p.m.
ESPN Films: Yankees-Dodgers: An Uncivil War — ESPN, 9 p.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 9:45 p.m.
All ACC — ACC Network, 10 p.m.
The B1G Show — Big Ten Network, 10 p.m.
The Last Dance: Episode 5 — ESPN, 10 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, 11 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN, midnight
Contacto deportivo — Univision/TUDN, midnight
TMZ Sports — FS1, 12:30 a.m. (Wednesday)
Boomer and Gio — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m. (Wednesday)
Keyshawn, JWill and Max — ESPN2/ESPNU, 6 a.m. (Wednesday)
Sport Today — BBC World News, 6:45 a.m. (Wednesday)
Tennis
Center Court Live: Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships (ATP)/Astana Open (ATP)/Agel Open (WTA)/Jasmin Open Monastir (WTA) — Tennis Channel, 10 p.m.
UEFA Champions League
Group Stage — Matchday 3
Group C, Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany
Bayern München vs. FC Viktoria Plzeň — UniMás/TUDN, 12:30 p.m.
Group D, Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France
Olympique de Marseille vs. Sporting CP — Paramount+/ViX+, 12:45 p.m.
Group A, Johan Cruijff ArenA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ajax vs. SSC Napoli — Paramount+/ViX+, 2:45 p.m.
Group A, Anfield, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Liverpool vs. Rangers — Paramount+/ViX+, 2:45 p.m.
Group B, Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges, Belgium
Club Brugge vs. Atlético Madrid — Paramount+/ViX+, 2:45 p.m.
Group B, Estádio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal
FC Porto vs. Bayer 04 Leverkusen — Paramount+/ViX+, 2:45 p.m.
Group D, Waldstadion, Frankfurt, Germany
Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Tottenham Hotspur — Paramount+/ViX+, 2:45 p.m.
Group C, Stadio San Siro, Milan, Italy
Internazionale Milan vs. Barcelona — Univision/TUDN, 2:50 p.m.
Fútbol central — UniMás/TUDN, noon
UEFA Champions League Today — CBS Sports Network, 2 p.m.
The Golazo! Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
UEFA Champions League Post Match Show — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m.
Misión Europa — TUDN, 5 p.m.
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520K Floridians Wait For Power As Rebuilding Begins After Hurricane Ian
520K Floridians Wait For Power As Rebuilding Begins After Hurricane Ian https://digitalarkansasnews.com/520k-floridians-wait-for-power-as-rebuilding-begins-after-hurricane-ian/
Video above: The latest on the impacts of IanNearly a week after Hurricane Ian smashed into Florida and carved a path of destruction that reached into the Carolinas, more than half a million statewide residents faced another day without electricity Tuesday as rescuers continued their search for those trapped inside homes inundated with lingering floodwaters.U.S. officials vowed Sunday to unleash a massive amount of federal disaster aid as crews scrambled to rescue people stranded by the storm. GALLERY: Hurricane Ian causes tornadoes, flooding across South Florida At least 99 people have been confirmed dead in Florida and four in North Carolina, according to ABC News. Search and rescue efforts were still ongoing in Florida, where more than 1,600 people have been rescued statewide.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Arcadia on Sunday afternoon, about 30 miles inland from where Ian made landfall. The rural area didn’t get the storm surge experienced by coastal communities, but standing water from floods remained four days after the storm.“This is such a big storm, brought so much water, that you’re having basically what’s been a 500-year flood event,” DeSantis said. Video below: The last news conference from Florida officials on IanIan knocked out power to 2.6 million customers across Florida when it roared ashore with 150-mph (241-kph) winds and pushing a powerful storm surge. About 520,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without electricity Monday evening, down from a peak of 2.6 million. But that is still nearly the same amount of customers in all of Rhode Island.Eric Silagy, Chairman and CEO of Florida Power & Light — the largest power provider in the state — said he understands the frustrations and said crews are working as hard as they can to restore power as soon as possible. The utility expects to have power restored to 95% of its service areas by the end of the day Friday, he said.A utility spokesperson said the remaining 5% comprises mostly cases where there’s a special situation making it difficult to restore power, such as the home being so damaged it can’t receive power or the area still being flooded. Those outages do not include customers whose homes or businesses were destroyed.Another major electricity provider in the hard-hit coastal region — Lee County Electric Cooperative — said Monday it expects to hit the 95% mark by the end of Saturday. That figure does not include barrier islands like Sanibel that are in its service area.Video below: WPBF 25 drone video shows the devastation in Fort MyersPower restoration is always a key challenge after major hurricanes when high winds and flying debris can topple power lines that distribute electricity to homes or in more severe storms, damage major parts of the electric infrastructure such as transmission lines or power generation.Silagy said the utility has invested $4 billion over the last 10 years to harden its infrastructure by doing things such as burying more power lines, noting that 40% of its distribution system is now underground. The utility is also using more technology like drones that can stay aloft for hours to get a better picture of the damage to the system, and sensors at substations that can alert them to flooding so they can shut off parts of the system before the water hits.Silagy said he’s seen during Ian where those investments have paid off. On Fort Myers Beach, for example, where so many homes and businesses were wiped away, concrete utility poles remain standing, he said. Silagy said the company also didn’t lose a single transmission structure in the 8,000 miles (12,875 kilometers) they have across Florida. Deanne Criswell, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said the federal government is focusing first on victims in Florida, which took the brunt of one of the strongest storms to make landfall in the United States. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden plan to visit Florida on Wednesday. Informational: 2022 WPBF 25 First Warning Weather Hurricane Survival GuideMeanwhile, rescue and salvage efforts across Florida remained difficult. In DeSoto County, northeast of Fort Myers, the Peace River and tributaries reached record high levels, and boats were the only way to get supplies to many of the county’s 37,000 residents.Video below: Central Florida family saved during water rescueIan washed away bridges and roads to several barrier islands. About 130 Florida Department of Transportation trucks started work on building a temporary bridge to Pine Island and, by the end of the week, should be finished on a structure drivers can carefully traverse at slow speeds, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a news conference Monday.The governor said a similar temporary bridge is planned for nearby Sanibel, but will take more time. Fort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson on Sunday defended Lee County officials from accusations that they were slow in ordering evacuations Tuesday ahead of the storm, a day later than some other counties in the area.“Warnings for hurricane season start in June. So there’s a degree of personal responsibility here. I think the county acted appropriately. The thing is, a certain percentage of people will not heed the warnings regardless,” Anderson said on the CBS show “Face the Nation.” Video below: EF2 tornado damage in Delray Beach, which was one of the three tornadoes in Palm Beach County during Hurricane Ian
Video above: The latest on the impacts of Ian
Nearly a week after Hurricane Ian smashed into Florida and carved a path of destruction that reached into the Carolinas, more than half a million statewide residents faced another day without electricity Tuesday as rescuers continued their search for those trapped inside homes inundated with lingering floodwaters.
U.S. officials vowed Sunday to unleash a massive amount of federal disaster aid as crews scrambled to rescue people stranded by the storm.
GALLERY: Hurricane Ian causes tornadoes, flooding across South Florida
At least 99 people have been confirmed dead in Florida and four in North Carolina, according to ABC News. Search and rescue efforts were still ongoing in Florida, where more than 1,600 people have been rescued statewide.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Arcadia on Sunday afternoon, about 30 miles inland from where Ian made landfall. The rural area didn’t get the storm surge experienced by coastal communities, but standing water from floods remained four days after the storm.
“This is such a big storm, brought so much water, that you’re having basically what’s been a 500-year flood event,” DeSantis said.
Video below: The last news conference from Florida officials on Ian
Ian knocked out power to 2.6 million customers across Florida when it roared ashore with 150-mph (241-kph) winds and pushing a powerful storm surge.
About 520,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without electricity Monday evening, down from a peak of 2.6 million. But that is still nearly the same amount of customers in all of Rhode Island.
Eric Silagy, Chairman and CEO of Florida Power & Light — the largest power provider in the state — said he understands the frustrations and said crews are working as hard as they can to restore power as soon as possible. The utility expects to have power restored to 95% of its service areas by the end of the day Friday, he said.
A utility spokesperson said the remaining 5% comprises mostly cases where there’s a special situation making it difficult to restore power, such as the home being so damaged it can’t receive power or the area still being flooded. Those outages do not include customers whose homes or businesses were destroyed.
Another major electricity provider in the hard-hit coastal region — Lee County Electric Cooperative — said Monday it expects to hit the 95% mark by the end of Saturday. That figure does not include barrier islands like Sanibel that are in its service area.
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Power restoration is always a key challenge after major hurricanes when high winds and flying debris can topple power lines that distribute electricity to homes or in more severe storms, damage major parts of the electric infrastructure such as transmission lines or power generation.
Silagy said the utility has invested $4 billion over the last 10 years to harden its infrastructure by doing things such as burying more power lines, noting that 40% of its distribution system is now underground. The utility is also using more technology like drones that can stay aloft for hours to get a better picture of the damage to the system, and sensors at substations that can alert them to flooding so they can shut off parts of the system before the water hits.
Silagy said he’s seen during Ian where those investments have paid off. On Fort Myers Beach, for example, where so many homes and businesses were wiped away, concrete utility poles remain standing, he said. Silagy said the company also didn’t lose a single transmission structure in the 8,000 miles (12,875 kilometers) they have across Florida.
Deanne Criswell, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said the federal government is focusing first on victims in Florida, which took the brunt of one of the strongest storms to make landfall in the United States. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden plan to visit Florida on Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, rescue and salvage efforts across Florida remained difficult. In DeSoto County, northeast of Fort Myers, the Peace River and tributaries reached record high levels, and boats were the only way to get supplies to many of the county’s 37,000 residents.
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Come On In: What Its Like At An ABF/ArcBest Hiring Event
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CARLISLE, Pa. — LTL carrier ABF demonstrated at a hiring event last week how it is speeding up the application process to get drivers in seats as quickly as possible.
“They could walk out of here with a job offer,” Andy Campbell, manager of field recruiting for ABF Freight said at the hiring day event, held at the company’s big distribution center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, barely a mile from Interstate 81 and within a half-hour of several other key interstates, including the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 83.
ABF is a subsidiary of ArcBest (NASDAQ: ARCB). The events are a new feature for the company that began in 2021.
FreightWaves was invited by ArcBest to witness an ABF hiring day at its
And yes, when the applicants walk in, there’s a table to the right where it looks like the office staff brought their excess Halloween candy.
Campbell is based near the ABF facility in Dayton, Ohio, but was in Carlisle along with other recruiting staff members, several of whom came from the company’s headquarter in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Andy Campbell, standing, in the first room job applicants visited during ABF hiring day in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
A job offer is contingent upon passing the industry’s ubiquitous drug test, which gets performed onsite, Campbell said. And if an offer is issued, the applicant can walk out with a job that puts him or her on a path to eventually claim a sign-on bonus that ranges from $5,000 to $10,000.
There is also a physical test that Campbell said involves “some lifting but nothing crazy.”
The Carlisle event was the 40th of 2022 and the 55th since the program started last year, Campbell said. After the focus group discussions that led to the creation of the program, the first event was in Carlisle. The recent event then is the program swinging full circle by returning to south central Pennsylvania. Carlisle is big enough that Campbell added he would expect to do two or three a year there.
Campbell described that first Carlise event as “very successful, but with each one you do, you fine-tune the process.” The next hiring day event is in Denver, October 12-13.
He estimated he has done between 8,000 and 9,000 interviews in his 20 years with ABF and that in many of them, “sometimes, they share a lot of things whether you want to know it or not.”
And as the hiring days piled up across the country, Campbell said he learned that the issues might differ among locations. “Folks are living different types of lifestyles,” he said. “New Jersey is going to be different in Ohio and that’s going to be different than in California.”
Andy Campbell, ABF
The advertising to get people through the door is done through outlets ranging from billboards to social media.
Hiring days are two-day events. The Carlisle one was unique because it was the first one that involved a Friday-Saturday combination. The largest event in the history of the program was in Chicago, where Camptbell said they had approximately 320 people come through the door in two days and did 280 interviews.
At the hiring event, several tables with laptop computers were set up to allow applicants to fill out an application, though some already had done so online. For those who had, and a record of their employment could be produced, the length of that document could vary widely; Campbell said one of the applicants in Carlisle had a 38-page employment record, all because of the wide range of employers that somebody like a truck driver might have in an industry with turnover that can reach 100%.
If the preliminary discussions with the recruiters in that first room think there’s room for further discussion, an interview follows that lasts as much as 45 minutes.
In the first two hours of the Carlisle event, FreightWaves counted roughly 15 applicants, some of whom were there when the doors opened at 7 a.m.
Tony was one of the early visitors. Tony, who requested that his last name not be used, told FreightWaves as he was exiting the ABF building that he was gainfully employed in a local manufacturing facility and in fact was a supervisor. Yet he wanted to explore opportunities with ABF, having heard about the hiring day through social media.
Tony said the process “went smooth and went well.” But there was a problem: He didn’t want to work the hours that were available for a job in which he’d be enrolled in the driver development program, where the company trains an employee to get their commercial driver’s license on their way to being a driver. That job carried a sign-on bonus of $5,000. So Tony departed after the interview.
“I needed to agree to be available for a certain shift,” he said, specifying that the shift was a 3 to 11 p.m. position. And he couldn’t do that for reasons he didn’t specify.
(That driver training program, Campbell said, is a function of the fact that the company “can’t afford to wait on somebody else. All our trainers for the most part are ABF employees.”)
He appeared nonplussed that his tire kicking at ABF didn’t result in an employment opportunity; he could just stay in his manufacturing job. And Campbell said that was pretty normal when asked about the nervousness level of the candidates.
“It depends on the situation,” he said. “If they are just exploring and they are pretty well suited in their current job, then they are not going to be as nervous as somebody who doesn’t know how they’re going to pay the bills next week.”
Campbell said the applicants who show up at a hiring day are “a pretty good mix of people who are employed and unemployed.”
Success for ABF would be measured if somebody walks through the door and can be training for their new job within seven to 10 days, Campbell said.
The process can take longer for a position like a driver that must comply with various Department of Transportation rules. When it’s a driver, a discussion needs to be held that includes such subjects as driving history and any possible DUI violations.
But that isn’t the case for a forklift operator, which Campbell described as “a very important job at this facility.”
A walk through the Carlisle distribution center, which is about a mile to hoof it from one end to the other and back, drives home the role of a forklift driver in a successful LTL loading operation. The best analogy would be to look at the game world: Is it more like Tetris or is it more like Jenga?
Tetris was the analogy used by Carlisle service center manager David Kaelin on a walk past the roughly 330 doors at Carlisle. But you can imagine Jenga too, as cargo of all shapes and sizes is placed into mostly ABF trucks — there are also purchased transportation trucks visible at the facility — and needs to be put into trucks in such a way to maximize yield, the revenue per hundredweight figure that is the key benchmark that separates out the successful LTL companies for those that can’t be considered elite. When LTL executives on an earnings call talk about “mix” being positive or negative for their company, it’s easy to see where the work of a forklift operator is definitely a cog in that process as well.
There’s another aspect of hiring at ABF that is not the case at most trucking companies: Most of the applicants would be looking at — even if they don’t know it — a job that is represented by the Teamsters. In its 10-K filing with the SEC for 2021, ArcBest said 82% of its workers are covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
Driving jobs out of the Carlisle facility involve going no more than 600 miles per day. Kaelin said if a driver goes that far and needs to get off the road due to hours of service restrictions, they are put up in a hotel.
And on the grounds of the Carlisle facility, there was nary a sleeper berth in sight, except for some purchased transportation. Otherwise, it was a sea of daycabs.
ABF has been in a net hiring mode, not surprising for a company that even with the latest stock market slide has managed to post a two-year gain of about 136%, according to Barchart.
Not everybody is in that position, and Campbell said that’s a benefit. “If you have other carriers doing layoffs, we might have the need for some of their job skills,” he said. “So come see us.”
And several times he uttered a version of a refrain that has become the mantra of probably every hiring manager at almost every company in the U.S. “Everybody is looking for top talent. It is such a competitive market as far as finding employees.”
In an industry with as much turnover as one finds in trucking, Campbell said it is not unusual to have former employees return and start anew with ABF.
There weren’t any results to declare at the end of the visit. It was ongoing when FreightWaves departed, and the results of drug tests means a final conclusion on the number of ultimate hires from the hiring day will have to wait.
But a few days later, Campbell did provide FreightWaves with a statement. “We were pleased with the candidates we had the opportunity to connect with during the event,” he wrote in an email. “We continue to refine our process with the goal of onboarding values aligned, top talent that will help ABF serve our customers with excellence.”
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Trump Filed A Defamation Case Against News Channel
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Trump filed a defamation case against news Channel…
On Monday, donald trump, a former US president, sued CNN for defamation. Along with filing the lawsuit, he has sought $4.75 million in damages from Cable television news Network (CNN). CNN has been accused by trump of defaming him. In this case, trump filed a lawsuit in the US district Court of florida on Monday. Know what is the whole matter-
Trump made these allegations on CNN
Donald trump has written in a 29-page document related to his lawsuit that CNN has been covering news targeting him for a long time. He wrote that CNN has launched a campaign to defame me. They have come to know that I am going to contest the presidential election again in 2024, so lies are being spread against me as a conspiracy. At present, CNN has not responded to this.
Trump has already made statements against CNN
It is also worth knowing that donald trump was elected President of America in 2016. Since then, he has been associated with controversies till he lost the election in 2020. During this also he had given many statements against CNN. Not only this, he has also been accusing media organizations like the New York Times of fake news.
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There’s new details in the investigation into whether Trump and his allies tried to interfere in Georgia’s 2020 election results.
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America Is At A Turning Point This Midterm Campaign Season. The Choice Is Critical | Opinion Pennsylvania Capital-Star
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By Jonathan C. Rothermel
The casual references to the empirically false claim of a 2020 stolen presidential election is a cancer on our democratic system. It is a cancer that threatens the health and well-being of U.S. democracy. The sanctity of elections is paramount to a thriving democracy, and if citizens cannot trust the mechanism by which the will of the people is executed, then our prognosis as a country is not good.
The validity of the 2020 election is not a debatable political issue like abortion or gun control are. Yet, in a recent Monmouth poll, 29 percent of Americans, including 61 percent of Republicans, still believe that President Joe Biden won due to voter fraud.
It is important to try to make sense of why so many people feel this way.
When most Americans went to bed on election night on Nov. 3, 2020, it appeared that Donald Trump was on his way to a second term. By the time folks woke up the next day, the situation had changed dramatically. For many Americans, the simple explanation was Biden votes were somehow “discovered” or simply “added” to the vote count illegally overnight – an obvious indication of fraud.
The U.S. Census reported that 43 percent of all voters cast their ballot by mail in 2020. In fact, the Biden surge was fully expected due to the higher proportion of mail-in and absentee ballots that went to Biden. According to the Pew Research Center, 58 percent of Biden voters voted by mail or absentee ballot versus 32 percent of Trump voters.
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The sheer volume of mail-in ballots was a challenge for election officials, especially during a pandemic, who in most cases could not begin counting mail-in ballots until Election Day or even after polls had closed on Election Day.
According to the U.S. Constitution, individual states determine the time and manner of elections, which can be quite different from state to state. Unless one is familiar with this dynamic of federalism and understood that Biden voters were more likely to vote by mail, it is reasonable that Trump-supporting Americans would initially be concerned the day after the election.
To add to that concern, many Americans can relate a story whereby a deceased relative or person they know who moved outside of the state received a mail-in ballot. It is true that this occurred in several instances, but that alone does not equate to voter fraud.
The fraudulent act only occurs if that ballot is actually filled out and submitted. A comprehensive Associated Press investigation of voter fraud in the 2020 election identified less than 475 cases in six battleground states.
In addition, receiving an application for a mail-in ballot in some states, such as Pennsylvania, is the first step of the vote-by-mail process. This is sometimes confusing to people. In other words, simply receiving an application to vote by mail is not the same as receiving a mail-in ballot. In all but a handful of states, an application must first be submitted, and then a mail-in ballot is sent to the applicant.
Finally, so many Americans believe that the election was stolen because the political leaders who they admire and trust told them it was so. Donald Trump had already planted the seed of his intention not to accept the election outcome, in the event he lost, months prior to the election.
Unfortunately, Trump has used this as a way to galvanize his own political support as witnessed at the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021.
Beyond this, he now uses this claim as a litmus test for those seeking his endorsement. Sadly, grown men and women are forced to kiss the ring of Trump, while he basks in their idolatry towards him. During a rally in Ohio, Trump ridiculed Ohio Republican senatorial candidate, JD Vance, by saying that JD Vance was “in love” with Trump and is “kissing my a**” for support.
According to fivethirtyeight.com, “out of 552 total Republican nominees running for office, we found 201 who fully denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election.” Another 62 candidates raised questions and would not say whether the election was legitimate. This is not a good sign heading into the 2022 midterm elections.
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It was fair to initially raise concerns over the possibility of a fraudulent election in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election. However, the time for relying on a gut-feeling, an isolated story that one heard, an unverifiable report, innuendo, or a politician who has something to gain by perpetuating a false narrative is over.
For the sake of our democracy, it is time to fully reckon with facts. Concerns over a fraudulent presidential election have been highly scrutinized and fully investigated, including by judicial court proceedings and even prominent conservatives. The empirical record has unequivocally shown that there is no truth to the widespread belief that the election was stolen.
Elections are the vanguard of a democracy. In 2016, despite winning the national popular vote but losing the Electoral College, Hillary Clinton conceded to Trump the day after the election. Two days after the election, then President Barack Obama invited President-elect Trump and his wife to the White House to help facilitate a smooth transition.
While many Republicans – including several among Trump’s own inner circle – have accepted the election outcome and repudiated the “stolen election” narrative, others are still clinging to it for their own political gain. It is up to the American people to call them out on this.
Acknowledging the validity of our electoral system does not take away one’s Republican card. In fact, perpetuating the false claim undermines Republicans legitimately held conservative views on actual debatable issues.
The upcoming 2022 midterm elections is a critical juncture. Will we be a country that continues down the path of illiberal democracy, or will we take back our democracy? Left untreated, the cancer that currently plagues US democracy will spread.
Opinion contributor Jonathan C. Rothermel is a political science professor at Commonwealth University-Mansfield. His work appears frequently on the Capital-Star’s Commentary Page. Readers may follow him on Twitter @ProfJCR.
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Trump Who Was Furious Because Of The Accusations Against Him The Case Against The Big Challan Was Dismissed Pipa News
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Spectrum News/Siena College Poll: Williams And Conole Wage Close Race
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Republican Brandon Williams draws 45% of support from voters in New York’s 22nd Congressional District compared to the 40% of voters backing his Democratic opponent, Francis Conole, an exclusive Spectrum News/Siena College poll released Tuesday found.
The district in Central New York, comprising Madison, Oneida, Onondaga and part of Oswego counties, is part of a region that has long been a battleground area for both parties in Congress and could be a key seat as they vie for control of the House of Representatives this election season.
The survey of 453 voters was conducted from Sept. 25 to Sept. 28 and has a margin of error of 5.1 percentage points.
Both candidates remain broadly unknown with voters with just over a month until Election Day, the poll found. More than half of voters, 55%, have no opinion of Conole, while 62% have no opinion of Williams.
The race could come down to independent voters, who hold concerns over the economy as well as the direction of the country. For now, they are siding with the Republican.
Williams handily leads Conole with independent voters, 51% to 28%, the poll found. At the same time, a majority of voters in the district by a wide 63% to 25% margin, believe in the United States is on the wrong track.
The economy and inflation were picked by 63% of voters as either the top or second-most pressing issue for them, followed by threats to democracy, abortion and crime.
The 22nd Congressional District, newly redrawn by an independent special master appointed by a state court, has encompassed previous districts seen as key political battlegrounds. Republican Rep. John Katko, who represents the current 24th Congressional District, is retiring at the end of the year.
Katko was among the Republican lawmakers to back the impeachment of former President Donald Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump is broadly unpopular in the district: 58% of voters hold an unfavorable view of him compared to 35% of voters who hold a favorable view. President Joe Biden, however, is also unpopular: 53% of voters view him unfavorably while 42% do not.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat seeking a full term this year, draws divided support with Republican Lee Zeldin among voters in the district. The poll found 47% of voters support Zeldin; 44% plan to support Hochul.
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Trump Sues CNN For Defamation Seeking $475 Million
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Trump sued CNN over a “long track record of criticizing him.” Credit: Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0
Former US President Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation on Monday, seeking $475 million in punitive damages and claiming the network had carried out a “campaign of libel and slander” against him.
Trump claims in his lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that CNN had used its considerable influence as a leading news organization to defeat him politically.
He claims in the 29-page lawsuit that CNN had a long track record of criticizing him but had ramped up its attacks in recent months because the network feared that he would run again for the presidency in 2024.
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“As a part of its concerted effort to tilt the political balance to the left, CNN has tried to taint the plaintiff with a series of ever-more scandalous, false, and defamatory labels of ‘racist’, ‘Russian lackey’, ‘insurrectionist’, and ultimately ‘Hitler’,” the lawsuit claims.
It also lists several instances in which CNN appeared to compare Trump to Hitler, including a January 2022 special report by host Fareed Zakaria that included footage of the German dictator.
The Republican, who in 2020 lost a re-election bid to Democrat Joe Biden, has not said whether he would seek re-election.
Back in February, Trump heralded the abrupt resignation of CNN’s president Jeff Zucker calling Zucker a “world-class sleazebag” that “heeded ratings and real-news-challenged CNN for far too long.”
“(Zucker) has been terminated for numerous reasons, but predominantly because CNN has lost its way with viewers and everybody else. Now is a chance to put Fake News in the backseat. Jeff Zucker is gone — congratulations to all!” Trump said at the time.
The lawsuit comes as the ex-president faces a criminal investigation by the Justice Department for retaining government records at his Mar-a-Lago estate in the southern state after leaving office in January 2021.
And last month, Trump and three of his children were served with a lawsuit alleging “years of bank, tax and insurance fraud”.
New York attorney general Letitia James is suing the former US leader, his family, and the Trump Organisation.
If successful, it could halt Trump’s ability to do business in the state for years – and even includes a referral for possible federal prosecution.
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Stocks Sterling Rally After UK's Tax Climbdown Injects Some Confidence
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Britain scraps small part of tax plan; markets relieved
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LONDON/SYDNEY, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Global stocks climbed for a second day on Tuesday, after Britain’s decision to ditch part of a controversial tax-cut plan and slightly paler expectations for aggressive central bank action returned some confidence to investors.
UK Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng on Monday announced the government would back down on reversing a tax break for top earners that formed part of a package aimed at boosting growth.
This measure only makes up a small part of the 45 billion pounds in unfunded tax cuts that sent the pound crashing to record lows and wreaked havoc in the gilts market.
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But it was enough to soothe some of the recent angst in the market and, together with emergency bond buying from the Bank of England, sterling was set to make up most of the losses incurred since the mini budget was unveiled on Sept. 23.
Adding to the sense of relief among investors, who endured one of the most volatile quarters in recent history in the three months to September, was Australia’s central bank, which lifted interest rates by far less than expected. .
A weaker read of U.S. manufacturing activity helped temper expectations for more hefty rate rises by the Federal Reserve.
However, some analysts said this optimism may be misplaced.
“My firm view, however, is that this will not be the case. While, technically, having a dual mandate, the Fed have effectively become a single-issue central bank; that issue being bringing inflation back to the 2% target,” Michael Brown, chief strategist at CaxtonFX, said.
“Unless we see a few months of consecutive improvement in inflation data, it’s tough to envisage any sort of pivot, with another 75 bps hike remaining my base case for next month’s decision. It’s tough to be long risk with that on the radar.”
The MSCI All-World index (.MIWD00000PUS) was last up 0.8% on the day, while stocks in Europe enjoyed a decent bounce, with the Stoxx 600 (.STOXX) trading almost 2% higher and London’s FTSE (.FTSE) gaining over 1%.
The pound , meanwhile, gained 0.6% against the dollar to trade at $1.1390. Sterling has risen by more than 10% since the mini-budget.
The dollar slid against a basket of major currencies , as the euro and the pound made upward headway and Treasury yields slipped in light of a shift in investor expectations for the path of U.S. interest rates.
U.S. benchmark 10-year yields fell by nearly 20 basis points on Monday, having topped 4.0% just last week. They were last down 7 bps at 3.5795%.
“Noticeably, that move lower was entirely driven by a fall in real yields, with inflation breakevens moving higher on the day, which is again a sign that investors are pricing in a much less aggressive reaction from the Fed,” Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid said in a daily note.
In trade thinned by holidays in China and Hong Kong, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) rose 1.7%, led by gains in Australia.
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After September, when global bonds witnessed one of the biggest sell-offs in decades and any currency other than the dollar appeared to crumble, market watchers said a snap back, aided by better sentiment in the UK market, was not unusual, but would likely be short-lived.
“The about-face … will not have a huge impact on the overall UK fiscal situation in our view,” said NatWest Markets’ head of economics and markets strategy John Briggs.
“(But) investors took it as a signal that the UK government could and is at least partially willing to walk back from its intentions that so disrupted markets over the past week.”
S&P 500 futures rose 1%, following a 2.6% bounce for the index (.SPX) overnight, suggesting a second day of gains may be in the offing on Wall Street later.
Other indicators of market stress are still flashing red. The CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX) remains elevated and above 30. Shares (CSGN.S) and bonds of Credit Suisse hit record lows on Monday as worry about the bank’s restructuring plans swept markets, although some of these losses reversed on Tuesday.
Japan’s yen hit 145 to the dollar on Monday – a level that prompted official intervention last week – and was last at 144.65, while the euro was up 0.6% at $0.9878, about three cents above last week’s 20-year trough.
“More volatility is almost certainly assured as FX markets re-focus on U.S. recession risks, which continue to build,” said ANZ senior economist Miles Workman, with U.S. jobs data on Friday the next major data point on the horizon.
Oil held overnight gains on news of possible production cuts, and Brent futures were last up 43 cents to $89.29 a barrel.
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Trump Sues CNN For Defamation Seeking $475 Million
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The former president has a history of threatening, and occasionally filing, lawsuits against media organizations whose coverage he deems unfair.
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Former President Donald J. Trump accused CNN of escalating a “campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander.”Credit…Brittany Greeson for The New York Times
Published Oct. 3, 2022Updated Oct. 4, 2022, 4:35 a.m. ET
Former President Donald J. Trump sued CNN on Monday, claiming that the network defamed him and demanding $475 million in damages.
Over the course of his business and political career, Mr. Trump has frequently threatened to sue media organizations over news coverage that he deems unfair or disrespectful. Although he rarely followed through, his attacks on the media became a staple of his political messaging and have often been cited in fund-raising entreaties in the run-up to this year’s midterm elections.
In 2020, his re-election campaign sued The New York Times and The Washington Post over opinion articles that linked Mr. Trump to Russian interference in American elections. His suit against The Times was dismissed; the suit involving The Post is pending.
Mr. Trump’s complaint against CNN was filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The lawsuit alleges a “campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander” that, Mr. Trump asserts, has recently escalated “as CNN fears the plaintiff will run for president in 2024.”
The 29-page suit cites numerous times when CNN hosts and guests criticized Mr. Trump over his policies and his questioning of the 2020 presidential election result. It also laments that some guests have invoked Adolf Hitler and the history of Nazi Germany in criticizing Mr. Trump’s behavior. Among the on-air guests cited as having defamed Mr. Trump is the singer Linda Ronstadt.
A CNN spokesman declined to comment.
A footnote in the lawsuit shows that Mr. Trump’s representatives contacted CNN in July to give notice of prospective litigation and request that the network stop referring to Mr. Trump’s comments about the 2020 election as “lies.” According to the suit, CNN declined Mr. Trump’s request and replied, “You have not identified a single false or defamatory statement in your letter.”
In 2019, Mr. Trump threatened CNN with a lawsuit over “unethical and unlawful attacks.” CNN called that threat “a desperate P.R. stunt.” A suit never materialized.
In Monday’s suit, Mr. Trump’s lawyers justified their demand for $475 million in damages in part by alleging that CNN’s coverage has caused the former president to suffer “embarrassment, pain, humiliation and mental anguish.”
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Little Rock Crowd Enlightened By SEC Network Host Burns
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The SEC Network’s Peter Burns has confirmed his life’s three turning points throughout his present career. His first opportunity to do so in Little Rock was not missed.
Burns, who said his trip to Little Rock on Monday was a lifetime first, has been a studio host on the SEC Network since 2014.
Five and a half years after his points of change were published in The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge, Burns’ hometown, and 45 minutes after he spoke of them in a vestibule outside a DoubleTree Hotel banquet hall used for the Little Rock Touchdown Club’s weekly banquet, he highlighted the stories for the luncheon crowd.
In order, Burns’ dark to pitch-black stories tell how his first wife — until then the love of his life, he said — left him without warning, that he was later fired from a dream job for a dubious, legitimate cause, and, finally, that a good friend was murdered in a mass shooting remembered among the American mar of its sort now spread across a generation.
Burns’ friend Jessica Ghawi was among the 12 killed by a shooter at a movie theatre in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colo., in July 2012.
“It’s weird how sometimes in the middle of the worst days of your life, they end up becoming important to you,” said Burns as he waited between a radio interview and his address to the luncheon crowd. “I never wanted to go back and wonder what would’ve happened if I would have done this or that.”
Burns said a lack of self-awareness and examination led to his firing from a Denver radio station where he had started building a foundation for his career. It was yet another lesson learned, he said.
“That was the best thing that could have happened to me,” Burns said. “Once I lost that job, I was like, ‘This is my favorite thing to do in the world.’ It made me ask myself, how are you going to stay humble and be appreciative of every opportunity you get? Without that, I don’t think I would have had the opportunity to do what I do now.”
The first of the three life-changing stories for Burns came in 2007 when he arrived home from a trip away for work to find his house empty and his first wife gone for good.
“That was out of the blue,” Burns said. “It was like losing someone in a car accident. It was just crazy. After that, I just started working really hard. It was like, you know what, I’m going to bounce back. As a result, I started getting a lot of opportunities, and that’s when I started flying a little bit too close to the sun.”
Burns’ mention of ancient Grecian myths referred forward to the basis of his radio station dismissal.
For his luncheon audience, Burns offered his obligatory opinion of the Arkansas Razorbacks’ 49-26 football loss to Alabama at Reynolds Razorback Stadium on Saturday.
“I saw three different games,” Burns said.
Alabama led 28-0 in the first half but Arkansas was within 28-23 in the third quarter before Alabama ran away in the fourth.
Raised by adoptive parents, both Cuban immigrants, Burns teasingly cursed luncheon master of ceremonies David Bazzel after Bazzel brought up Burns’ relationship with his father.
“You wrote, ‘I don’t know who my father is, but I know who my dad is,’ ” Bazzel said. ” ‘He’s the man who adopted me and chose to love me unconditionally before he ever met me, and he changed my life forever.’ “
“Damn you, Dave,” Burns said as his eyes watered from an emotional response similar to another from the previous hour.
As has every LR Touchdown Club speaker this fall, Burns spoke of his admiration for Sam Pittman, the Razorbacks’ head football coach, during an interview on KABZ-FM, 103.7, with hosts Justin Acri and Wess Moore.
“It was Father’s Day, and I posted a picture and said something like, ‘Hey, my dad is my everything; he’s my best friend,’ ” Burns said. “I didn’t think anything about it, walked into the [College World Series] suites saying hi to everybody, and Sam, in the middle of a game, comes up and he goes, ‘Hey. Come over here.’ I thought, ‘Oh no. Sam’s going to rip me about something I said.’ He goes, ‘That picture you posted with your dad, I cried.’ This wasn’t him having to kiss up or anything, not that he would ever have to do that for me.” it was such a real moment.’
“It was such a real moment. If you are in a recruit’s living room, and you have an interaction with Sam Pittman, how in [the] hell are you going to say no.”
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Ukraine Pushes Further Into Territory 'annexed' By Moscow; Poorly Trained Russian Conscripts Dying Just Days Into Fighting
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Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the east and south of the country continues to build momentum, with President Zelenskyy announcing last night that there were “new liberated settlements in several regions.”
On Monday, Ukrainian forces saw more successes on the battlefield, pushing through Russian defenses in the south of the country, as well as consolidating their hold on territory around Lyman in the eastern Donetsk region, and looking to push further into neighboring Luhansk.
President Putin announced Russia was annexing both regions last Friday, as well as Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south, but Moscow’s hold on them looks increasingly fragile with none of the regions fully occupied by Russian forces.
In his nightly address, the Ukrainian president said “fierce fighting continues in many areas of the front” but said an increasing number of occupying forces were trying to escape and “more and more losses are being inflicted on the enemy army.”
Zelenskyy said Russian men who had been mobilized to fight in Ukraine just a few weeks ago were already dying in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s upper house greenlights annexation, Putin’s signature will seal it
Russian President Vladimir Putin on a screen at Red Square as he addresses a rally and a concert marking the annexation of four regions of Ukraine — Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — in central Moscow on Sept. 30, 2022.
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Ukraine’s upper house of parliament has approved laws incorporating four regions of Ukraine that Russia announced it was annexing last week, into the Russian Federation.
The move to annex Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk — following sham referendums in the occupied regions on whether to join Russia — was internationally condemned, with Ukraine and its allies calling the votes illegal and illegitimate.
Despite the prospect of further sanctions in response to the annexation, Russian lawmakers have plowed ahead with the legal process to annex the territories. The State Duma, or lower house of parliament, yesterday approved the annexation and the upper house, the Federation Council, today unanimously approved legislation ratifying the annexation.
It now remains for Russian President Vladimir Putin to put his signature to the documents to complete the formal annexation process.
(From left) The Moscow-appointed heads of Kherson region Vladimir Saldo and Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin and Luhansk separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik listen to the Russian national anthem after signing treaties formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin in Moscow on Sept. 30, 2022.
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It’s still unclear where the boundaries of Russia’s new so-called “territory” are, with none of the regions fully occupied by Russian forces and with Ukrainian troops making advances into Donetsk in the east and Kherson in the south.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that the DPR and LPR (so-called “people’s republics in eastern Ukraine) will become a part of the Russian Federation according to their current boundaries but that Russia will consult with the residents of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia over where the borders of those regions are set.
When asked whether the parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that are now under control of the Ukrainian army are Russian or Ukrainian territory, Peskov said “I have nothing more to add to what I said right now.”
— Holly Ellyatt
What’s happening in the war? Here’s the latest assessment by defense analysts
Ukraine’s counteroffensive continues in the south in the Kherson region and in the northeast, with Ukrainian forces looking to push further into the Donetsk region and toward Luhansk. Here’s how defense analysts at the Institute for the Study of War assessed Ukraine’s progress late on Monday:
Ukrainian forces have made substantial gains around Lyman and in northern Kherson Oblast [a province or region] over the last 24 hours. The Russian units defeated on these fronts were previously considered to be among Russia’s premier conventional fighting forces.
Ukrainian forces made advances on the Oskil River-Kreminna line toward the Luhansk Oblast border.
Ukrainian forces advanced in northern Kherson Oblast.
Ukraine recaptures Lyman, a key logistics hub for Russian forces.
Institute for the Study of War
Summing up Ukraine’s progress following the recapturing of Lyman (a key logistics hub for Russian forces in the area) on Saturday, analysts at the ISW wrote that the country’s forces “continued to make substantial gains around Lyman and in Kherson Oblast in the last 48 hours.”
“Ukrainian and Russian sources reported that Ukrainian troops made significant breakthroughs in northern Kherson Oblast between October 2 and 3. Geolocated footage corroborates Russian claims that Ukrainian troops are continuing to push east of Lyman and may have broken through the Luhansk Oblast border in the direction of Kreminna.”
The ISW noted again that Russian groupings in northern Kherson Oblast and on the Lyman front were largely comprised of units that had been regarded as among Russia’s premier conventional fighting forces before the war but said “their apparent failures to hold territory against major Ukrainian counter-offensive actions is consistent with ISW’s previous assessment that even the most elite Russian military forces are becoming increasingly degraded as the war continues.”
— Holly Ellyatt
Zelenskyy says there are newly liberated settlements in several regions
Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the northeast and south of the country continues to build momentum, with President Zelenskyy announcing last night that there were “new liberated settlements in several regions.”
On Monday, Ukrainian forces saw more successes on the battlefield, pushing through Russian defenses in the south of the country, as well as consolidating their hold on territory around Lyman in the northeast Donetsk region, and looking to push further eastward into Luhansk.
President Putin announced Russia was annexing both regions last Friday but Moscow’s hold on them looks increasingly fragile.
Wreckage of a car marked with a Russian military symbol “Z” at a Russian military base, which Ukrainian forces destroyed by HIMARS during a counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast, on Sept. 26, 2022 in Balakliia, Ukraine. Balakliia was under Russian occupation for half a year. On Sept. 10, Ukraine’s armed forces liberated the city.
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In his nightly address, Zelenskyy didn’t name the newly liberated towns but said “fierce fighting continues in many areas of the front” but said an increasing number of occupying forces were trying to escape and “more and more losses are being inflicted on the enemy army.”
Zelenskyy said Russian men who had been mobilized to fight in Ukraine just a few weeks ago were already dying in Ukraine.
“Among the dead occupiers we can already see those who were taken [brought to fight in Ukraine] just a week or two ago. People were not trained for combat, they have no experience to fight in such a war. But the Russian command just needs some people – any kind – to replace the dead. And when these new ones die, more people will be sent. This is how Russia fights. That’s how it will lose as well,” he said.
“No sham referenda, announcements about annexations, conversations about the borders they invented and drew somewhere, will help them,” he added, referring to a set of fake referendums in Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine that led to Moscow announcing their annexation last week, a move branded as illegitimate and illegal by Ukraine and its allies.
— Holly Ellyatt
Elon Musk is publicly rebuked by Zelenskyy over his Twitter poll
SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk takes part in a joint news conference with T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert (not pictured) at the SpaceX Starbase, in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., August 25, 2022.
Adrees Latif | Reuters
American tech billionaire Elon Musk drew public ire from Ukraine’s top officials after the Tesla CEO posted a Twitter poll asking the public to agree or disagree with what he claimed is the most likely outcome of Russia’s invasion.
“F– off is my very diplomatic reply to you,” Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk, wrote in response to Musk’s tweet.
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy responded with a Twitter poll of his own. “Which Elon Musk do you like more,” Zelenskyy asked. “The one who supports Ukraine” or “The one who supports Russia.”
What Musk calls a “highly likely” outcome presumes that Russia accomplishes several of its major goals, including permanently annexing Crimea, using referendums to determine the fates of 4 other attempted annexations, and prohibiting Ukraine from joining NATO.
For Ukrainians, these outcomes would never, ever be acceptable.
— Christina Wilkie
Photos show destroyed Russian armored vehicles left behind in Izium, Kharkiv
Ukrainian forces transport Russian vehicles and missile launch pads left behind by the Russian forces in Izium, Kharkiv, Ukraine on October 02, 2022.
Metin Aktas | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images
Over the weekend Ukrainian forces seized the strategic city of Lyman and continued a stunning counteroffensive in the northeast of the country.
The following photos show destroyed Russian armored vehicles and tanks left behind as Ukrainian forces battle for Izium, Kharkiv and continue to push east through Russian lines.
Destroyed Russian armored vehicles left behind by the Russian forces in Izium, Kharkiv, Ukr...
Rex Tillerson To Testify At Corruption Trial Of Trump Adviser MsnNOW
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