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Keep The Ball Rolling Part 1

Rolling off of the success of the 1999 World Cup it was time for the U.S. to start developing a professional women's league. By this time the MLS had been operating since 1996 but also struggled to take off immediately. Differently than the MLS however, a women's professional league would prove to be a work in progress over a decade. Grant had even mentioned this idea in his post-World Cup story stating, “Whether the U.S. team accomplished its other mission--to generate a fan base and corporate support for a women's pro league--remains to be seen. Mark Abbott, the former CEO of Major League Soccer, is expected to present a business plan to the U.S. Soccer Federation by the end of the year for a proposed league that would begin play in 2001. The international soccer community, however, is circumspect. "There's a huge difference between the short focus of the World Cup, where all the stars are concentrated, and week-in and week-out games at a lower level," says FIFA spokesman Keith Cooper. "There are 30 outstanding, hard-core female players in the world. If you want a national league, say 10 teams, you only have three per team. There's a rapid falloff in talent from the top." This insight from 1991 would prove to be scarily accurate. Soccer was still new, and spectators only really wanted to see the big name players they read about in the paper or saw on TV. The Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) lasted from 2001-2003. The expenses of operating & travel, limited Tv rights, lack of funding for training facilities & equipment, and a lack of association to the men's league left the WUSA vulnerable, and thus collapsed just 2 years after its creation. The next professional women's soccer league would not be created in the US until 2009. In this 6 year gap, many players opted to play in European leagues in order to stay active. This practice of going overseas to be able to play was common for women before formal professional leagues were established, as it was really the only option to keep playing at a competitive level.  The Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS)  lasted until 2012, when it had to cease operation due to ongoing legal battles with the team magicJack’s owner Dan Borislow. Borislow was accused of a number of things, including the abuse of players. The back and forth legal proceedings left the WPS with nothing left to support another year of league play. In the decade after the iconic ‘99 tournament, coverage and general hype around the USWNT seemed to die down. The tournaments weren’t on home soil, and the team overall didn’t perform well enough to keep the attention of sports media and fans. Outside of official media like TV news, magazines, and newspapers, online media sites were quickly gaining popularity. A study done by journalist Roxane Coche followed the media coverage on Twitter of the governing body of both mens and womens, The US Soccer Federation, during the 2011 World Cup. While the USWNT lost to Japan in the final, it was a crucial tournament to remind the American public that they can still play. Social media gave female athletes and teams a platform of low-cost marketing while also reaching a much larger audience than traditional media, barriers that had previously prevented the team from reaching a steady league and adequate conditions.

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Happening Today: Barr, Cyclone Fani, Chicken, Peter Mayhew

What to Know

AG William Barr has now emerged as arguably the most divisive figure in Trump’s administration; Nancy Pelosi accused him of lying

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is getting some strong reaction on social media after advising people to not wash raw chicken

Peter Mayhew, the actor best known for his role as Chewbacca in Star Wars, died April 30 at his Texas home, according to a family statement

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William Barr Besieged by Allegations of Being President’s Protector

Attorney General William Barr portrayed himself as an apolitical elder statesman at his confirmation hearing. He declared he’d rather resign than be asked to fire special counsel Robert Mueller without cause and insisted the prosecutor he’d known for decades would never involve himself in a witch hunt as the president claimed. But now Barr has emerged as arguably the most divisive figure in Donald Trump’s administration. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused him of lying — a charge the Justice Department called reckless and false — and House Democrats are poised to hold him in contempt. His appearance this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee accelerated calls for his resignation after he said Trump had been falsely accused and he spun politically damning episodes in Mueller’s report in the president’s favor. Barr might have seemed an unlikely lightning rod given his long government career, his distance from Trump’s inner circle and his age, 68, that he said made him unconcerned with political advancement.

Cyclone Hits India’s East Coast; 1.2 Million Evacuated

Cyclone Fani tore through India’s eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and wind gusting up to 127 miles per hour and affecting weather as far away as Mount Everest. The India Meteorological Department said the “extremely severe” cyclone in the Bay of Bengal hit the coastal state of Odisha around 8 a.m., with weather impacted across the Asian subcontinent. Dust storms were forecast in the desert state of Rajasthan bordering Pakistan; heat waves in the coastal state of Maharashtra on the Arabian Sea; heavy rain in the northeastern states bordering China; and snowfall in the Himalayas. Around 1.2 million people were evacuated from low-lying areas of Odisha and moved to nearly 4,000 shelters, according to India’s National Disaster Response Force. Indian officials put the navy, air force, army and coast guard on high alert. Odisha Special Relief Commissioner Bishnupada Sethi said the evacuation effort was unprecedented in India.

‘Don’t Wash Your Raw Chicken’: CDC Warning Sparks Online Debate

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is getting some strong reaction on social media after advising people to not wash raw chicken. In a recent tweet, the CDC urged consumers to avoid washing raw chicken saying that “During washing, chicken juices can spread in the kitchen and contaminate other foods, utensils, and countertops.” According to the CDC, raw poultry is often contaminated with potentially harmful bacteria like Campylobacter, and, less frequently, Salmonella and Clostridium perfringens. Eating undercooked chicken, or anything contaminated by raw chicken and its juices can lead to food poisoning, the CDC warns. The USDA, which has for years advised against rinsing or soaking chicken prior to cooking, says any bacteria on the raw chicken, like salmonella, ride misting water droplets out from the sink in a process known as “aerosolization,” splattering the food-prep area in a 2-3 foot radius.

Breast Implants Tied to Rare Cancer to Remain on US Market

U.S. health authorities will allow a type of breast implant linked to a rare form of cancer to stay on the market. But the Food and Drug Administration said women should receive more information about potential risks when considering the implants. The announcement follows a March public meeting where dozens of women called for bolder steps on breast implant safety. Regulators said it is too soon to ban one type of textured implant recently linked to a rare form of lymphoma. They noted that these kinds of implants account for less than 10% of the U.S. market. The FDA is weighing new warnings and checklists for patients on potential complications and illnesses associated with the implants.

Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca of ‘Star Wars’ Films, Dies at 74

Peter Mayhew, the actor best known for his role as Chewbacca in the Star Wars series of science fiction films, died April 30 at his North Texas home, according to a statement from his family. Mayhew, who was born in London on May 19, 1944, died with his family by his side. He was 74. Mayhew, who stood 7 feet 2 inches tall, was the giant man inside the furry suit portraying the Wookiee Chewbacca in five Star Wars films beginning with the original trilogy released from 1977 to 1983. Mayhew put on the suit again for 2005’s Revenge of the Sith and then again most recently for 2015’s The Force Awakens, when he was reunited with Harrison Ford and their iconic spaceship the Millennium Falcon. In addition to films, Mayhew voiced the character in a number of cartoons and video games. Mayhew, who lived in Boyd northwest of Fort Worth, is survived by his wife Angie and three children. There will be a memorial service for friends and family on June 29.

Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds Expecting Baby No. 3

Blake Lively turned heads for all the right reasons at the New York City premiere of “Pokémon Detective Pikachu.” As it turns out, the Hollywood actress debuted her baby bump. In other words, the former “Gossip Girl” star and Ryan Reynolds are expecting their third child together. Blake was all smiles when she revealed her bump in Retrofête’s Rebecca Dress in metallic yellow. As for Ryan, he also looked more than excited as he posed for photos with his leading lady. The notoriously private couple are already proud parents to two kids. And while they try their best to give their children a private life, both parents have been able to gush about parenthood in rare interviews. And as so many moms and dads know, those first few months of parenthood can be filled with learning curves. Ultimately, both stars embraced every twist and turn with love, humor and patience.

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This capitol rioter accidentally admitted to two more felonies in court. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE:  https://www.thedailybeast.com/brandon-fellows-decides-to-represent-himself-in-court-accidentally-admits-to-two-new-felonies "A Capitol rioter who allegedly smoked weed in a senator’s office on Jan. 6 decided to represent himself in court on Tuesday—and it went exactly as badly as could have been expected. Washington, D.C. news network WUSA reports that the wild hearing opened with a judge advising Brandon Fellows against representing himself, but he ignored that warning and went on to bolster the case against him by admitting to two new felonies. “Most people do not do this,” U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden reportedly told Fellows. “I do not think this is a good idea… but I’m going to allow you to take the stand, if you wish.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst reportedly got Fellows to admit that he gained access to the Capitol through a broken window, and that he tried to get a previous judge removed from the case using the judge’s wife’s contact information. At the end of the hearing, McFadden ordered Fellows back into custody and told him: “You’ve admitted to incredible lapses of judgment here on the stand, not least of which was seeking to disqualify a New York state judge.”* *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 211013__TB04Jan by The Young Turks

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"Violent protests" vs "violent police"

Media scholars say that the way the US press covered protests changed in the summer of 1968, when Chicago cops turned the same violence on reporters that had previously been meted out to demonstrators. Finally, the press began to speak frankly and accurately about the source of violence, that it came from enraged, armed cops who acted with impunity to visit cruel violence upon protesters. During the current uprising, press accounts have located violence with demonstrators, using terms like "clash" that implied that protesters had come out to do battle with the police. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/its-time-to-change-the-way-the-media-reports-on-protests-here-are-some-ideas/ National press lead with headlines  like "A night of fire and fury across America as protests intensify" (Washpo) and "Appeals for calm as sprawling protests threaten to spiral out of control" (NYT). As Kendra Pierre-Louis writes for Nieman Lab, this carries on the long tradition of focusing on "annoyance" factors from protests, rather than protest as a means "to publicize grievances from people who typically exist outside of traditional power structures." At the most absurd end of the spectrum are headlines like WUSA's "Pepper spray caused a short stampede in Lafayette Park during a peaceful march honoring George Floyd" - as though pepper spray occurred without any human intervention. In @AskAKorean's excellent history of Korea's successful, government-changing protests, they describe the process by which "violent" protests became "peaceful" protests: what changed was that the police stopped beating people up. https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/03/white-nationalist-pogrom/#evidence That change occurred when the less-favored groups who'd led the protests in the face of unrestrained police violence (workers and students) were joined on the lines by members of favored groups (wealthy professionals), whom the police couldn't beat and kill with impunity. What brought them out? Largely the same factors that changed the dynamic in the US in 68: a shift in how the press apportioned responsibility for violence at demonstrations, from the people airing grievances to the armed public officials who hit, tortured and killed them. That shift is starting today. It started with the headline on Matthew Dessem's Slate story: "Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/george-floyd-protests-police-violence.html Other publications took cues from Slate: Zoe Schiffer's Verge article ran under the headline: "The protest was peaceful — then the cops arrived" https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21278285/peaceful-protest-oakland-george-floyd-police-violence-tear-gas Pierre-Louis sets out a slate of recommendations for press coverage of protests: * Address selection bias: years of underreporting of Black Lives Matter can make the protests seem sudden, but they're not - they represent an evolution in a large, well-organized movement * Mind how extreme protests capture disproportionate attention: the armed maniacs who stormed state capitals demanding an end to lockdown are fringe elements and unrepresentative of the national view * Excise the passive voice: not "police-involved shooting" - rather, "the police shot someone" * Watch for framing: "Peaceful protest" suggests that most protests aren't peaceful; "unarmed Black man" suggests that the default is "armed" * Confront racism: protests over racial discrimination and violence are legitimate; start your coverage with the grievance the protesters came to air, not how long traffic was held up for The best of the quotes in Pierre-Louis's piece come from U Minnesota journalism prof Danielle Kilgo, who I just added to my follows on Twitter. https://twitter.com/danikathleen

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A History of Dominance: NC Courage - Guest Writer

The following article is guest written by Allison Uttaro. Allison has been an avid player and watcher of Women’s soccer her whole life. You can follow Allison on twitter @augold99. Allison’s piece today details a bit of National Women’s Soccer League history with background on its most dominant club.

The quarterfinals of the NWSL Challenge Cup begin tomorrow, and to no one’s surprise the North Carolina Courage is seeded first after a dominant performance in the preliminary round. They have played in the championship game each year since moving to Cary, NC in 2017, and won two of them. How does a team achieve such dominance in a league that otherwise brags about the parity between teams? Let’s look at the history, and some notable players who you’ll recognize.

This team began as the Buffalo Flash in 2009 in the USL W-League. This first season they reached the conference semi-final with a 10-3-3 record through the regular season and playoffs. In 2010, the Flash signed some notable players from abroad, including Canadian National Team player Kelly Parker and English National Team player Gemma Davison. The Flash finished the season undefeated and went on to win the W-League Championship. 

In 2011, the Flash announced plans to move up to the Women’s Professional Soccer League (WPS), the top-flight women’s soccer league at the time (NWSL’s predecessor). This move came with a plan to split home games between Buffalo, NY and Rochester, NY.  A deal was quickly reached with the City of Rochester to play in Rochester’s downtown Soccer stadium PAETEC Park, and the team’s name was changed to the Western New York Flash. A stadium with the capacity required for the WPS proved harder to find in Buffalo. The Flash set their sights on Niagara Field (set to be expanded to 4,000 seats) at Niagara University or All-High Stadium, owned by Buffalo Public Schools. An agreement could not be reached, and the Flash played their entire home schedule in Rochester. 

Star players came aboard as the Flash made their transition to the WPS. They drafted Alex Morgan with the first overall pick in the WPS draft and signed the Brazilian phenom Marta. The Flash achieved a 13-2-3 record for the 2011 season, the best in the league. They also set the attendance record for PAETEC Park (renamed Sahlen Stadium from 2011-2015) in a regular season matchup featuring hometown hero Abby Wambach, recently returned from the 2011 Women’s World Cup. The Flash earned home field advantage for the championship game and won on penalty kicks in front of another record crowd.  

Unfortunately, they wouldn’t have a chance to break those records. The WPS folded in 2012, as WUSA had before it. The team played the 2012 season in the semi-professional WPSL Elite League. Again they won the championship on penalty kicks. 

The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) was founded in 2013, and the Western New York Flash joined. Their dominance continued, claiming the shield for best performance in the regular season and making it to the first NWSL championship game. They ended up losing to the Portland Thorns, stymying the attempt for a fourth straight title in four separate leagues. 

The Flash experienced a playoff drought during the 2014 and 2015 seasons, and hired a new coach, Paul Riley. There was quite a bit of turnover on the roster too, and expectations were quite low for the 2016 season. In an inspiring underdog story, the Flash cruised into the playoffs, upset the #1 seeded Portland Thorns in extra time in the semi-finals, and defeated the Washington Spirit to hoist the NWSL trophy for the first time.

After the 2016 season the franchise rights were sold to the owners of North Carolina FC, and the team was rebranded again, this time as the North Carolina Courage. Many of the Courage’s current and future stars made the move with the team, including Samantha Mewis, Abby Ecerg, Lynn Williams, McCall Zerboni, Abby Dahlkemper, Kristen Hamilton, and Jessica McDonald. In 2017 they won the shield and advanced to the championship, losing to perennial rival Portland Thorns. 

In 2018 and 2019 the Courage secured the shield and the championship, defeating the Portland Thorns 3-0 in 2018 and the Chicago Red Stars 4-0 in 2019. They hold the record for the winningest season in NWSL history, just one game shy of an undefeated season in 2018. 

This year, in a non-traditional tournament-style season prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Courage is heavily favored to win the NWSL Challenge Cup. And given the history, today’s game against the struggling Portland Thorns looks especially enticing. Now if only CBS would break these matches out from behind their paywall and put them on TV!!

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The dumb outrage on twitter by the ‘nwsl media’ (and a few new fans) over the ‘mass exodus’ of USA players going to Europe is hilarious to me. This is literally nothing NEW, this has been a thing since the WPS, the only thing different is that now yall are paying attention to woso outside of the US and that a few more big EU mens clubs have added a womens team. 

The Damallsvenskan has always been a pretty popular destination to play abroad for US players (since at least the WUSA)...

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Comet pizza

is a former police officer, firearms instructor and expert witness on firearms, according to his IMDB profile. Welch’s father, Harry Welch Jr., is also credited on “The Mill,” according to IMDB. On social media, many of those who believe in the false PizzaGate theory are pointing to Welch’s past in movies as proof he is a “ crisis actor,” hired to carry out a “ false flag” operation at Comet pizza. MUTE The very first film from director/producer Kathy Sue Holtorf. Police had previously been investigating the threats against Comet.īrian Fallon, who was the press secretary for the Clinton campaign, tweeted about the incident Sunday: “The fake news MUST cease and MUST be taken down and the callers who attack us, the ones who are disparaging us online and blasting lies must be brought to justice. “For the last month, we have ALL filed police reports, called the FBI and NOTHING had been done to address the daily attacks, the harassment and the death threats we all received,” Terasol Bistor and Artisan Gallery, located near the pizza restaurant, said on Facebook on Sunday. The harassment also spread to nearby businesses. “I’ve done nothing for days but try to clean this up and protect my staff and friends from being terrorized.”Ĭomet’s general manager Bryan Reh told the Times, “It’s like trying to shoot a swarm of bees with one gun,” of the threats and messages he and the restaurant were receiving on social media. “From this insane, fabricated conspiracy theory, we’ve come under constant assault,” James Alefantis, Comet’s owner, told the Times in a November 21 report. The owners and employees of the Comet Ping Pong pizza place told the New York Times they received threats because of the debunked theory, which many have said was spread as “fake news” to try to bring down Hillary Clinton and her campaign. The “PizzaGate” conspiracy theory spread on social media, including Facebook and Twitter, and on Reddit, until it was banned from discussion on that website. #BREAKING tweeted a suspect armed w/ assault rifle taken into custody #pizzagate /1圎jxZdAZT The ‘PizzaGate’ Theory Spread on Social Media & Reddit Over the Past Month, Leading to Threats Against Comet Ping Pong “All this underground tunnel that helps them take the kids and transport them back and forth so they can do these rituals.”Īnother person entered the restaurant and live-streamed video during a busy dinner hour, the New York Times reports.Ģ. “They putting a lot of curses and spells over the city,” a woman who was trying to find the tunnels told WUSA. Other people have gone to the restaurant to search for the tunnels, WUSA-TV reports. Gareth Wade, who was eating pizza in the restaurant, told the Post a server came out and said, “A man had just walked into the building, passed us into the back of the building, he seemed to have a shotgun or a rifle-type of and said we ought to vacate the building.” Newsham said Welch surrendered about 45 minutes after he walked into the restaurant, according to the Post.Īn employee of the restaurant told the owner of a neighboring store, Bradley Graham, that Welch went into the kitchen of the restaurant, “presumably looking for the alleged tunnels” used to hide, torture and traffic children, the Post reports. “Didn’t make any eye contact, didn’t talk with anybody.” “His demeanor was bizarre, in that if you come in to a place to eat, you ask for a host or grab a seat at the bar,” bartender Lee Elmore told the news site. Welch fired at least one shot into the floor of the restaurant after it was empty, NBC Washington reports. The packed restaurant, located in the 5000 block of Connecticut Avenue, was evacuated, along with other nearby businesses. #Breaking : new video from scene at #cometpizza /hfMZs1XMrZ

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Over 1500 Virginia Residents Left With out Energy As a result of Of Rat

Residents in a single Northern Virginia group had been left rat-tled after a rodent worn out their energy on Friday. Over 1,500 residents within the Tysons, Virginia space skilled the outage at night time, in line with WUSA-TV. Peggy Fox, a spokesperson for Dominion Power in Northern Virginia, revealed the reason for outage on Twitter: a pesky little, curious critter. Fox wrote that the outage was on account of a rat “that infiltrated a bit of kit” and precipitated an outage that left 1,588 clients at midnight. The outage was resolved after simply over an hour, Fox wrote. Twitter customers joked concerning the outage and the rat’s involvement on Saturday. Originally published at San Jose News HQ

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Officer describes being assaulted during Capitol riot

Mike Fanone, a Washington, D.C, police officer, described being attacked by a mob during the Capitol assault in a disturbing account. Bruce Leshan of CBS affiliate WUSA-TV reports.

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George Floyd protests continue, pressure mounts on police and President Donald Trump

  11m ago Minneapolis City Council to hold emergency meeting on police department’s future

The Minneapolis City Council is holding an emergency meeting Friday afternoon to discuss the future of the city’s police department.

CBS Minnesota reports the council will get an update on the Minnesota Department of Civil Rights’ investigation into MPD, and will vote on a court order demanding immediate changes.

Council President Lisa Bender and member Jeremiah Ellison tweeted Thursday that they plan to dismantle the police department.

Yes. We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety. https://bit.ly/3dzN7Yc

— Lisa Bender (@lisabendermpls) June 4, 2020

The city’s school district, the University of Minnesota and other agencies, organizations and businesses have severed ties with the department in the past 10 days since George Floyd died while being arrested.

  25m ago Dallas County is providing protesters with masks and hand sanitizer

Texas’ Dallas County is giving people protesting in its streets masks and hand sanitizer donated by the Dallas Mavericks, CBS DFW reports.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins is also advising protesters to stay six feet apart during demonstrations, and encouraged people to look for alternate ways to have their voices heard, worried they may inadvertently hurt the communities they aim to help.

“I think what you’re doing is an important thing. Again, if you could find a way to do it outside of a large crowd because of COVID because we know it is disproportionately affecting communities of color, please find a way to do that,” he said.

With a single-day record of 285 new COVID-19 cases in Dallas County on Thursday, Dallas’ City Manager T.C. Broadnax also expressed concern.

In a statement he urged “anyone who has been in close proximity of these large crowds to get tested at one of the city’s drive-thru community-based testing sites.”

  53m ago NFL stars call on league to condemn racism and systematic oppression

Patrick Mahomes, Saquon Barkley and Michael Thomas are among more than a dozen NFL stars who sent a passionate video message to the league about racial inequality. The 70-second video was released on social media Thursday night and includes Odell Beckham Jr., Deshaun Watson, Ezekiel Elliott, Jamal Adams, Stephon Gilmore and DeAndre Hopkins, among others.

Thomas, the New Orleans Saints wide receiver who has led the league in receptions the past two seasons, opens the video with the statement: “It’s been 10 days since George Floyd was brutally murdered.” 

The players then take turns asking the question, “What if I was George Floyd?” 

They demand the NFL state that it condemns “racism and the systemic oppression of black people. … We, the National Football League, admit wrong in silencing our players from peacefully protesting. … We, the National Football League, believe black lives matter.”

  7:49 AM NYC mayor says “This is NOT acceptable” after deliveryman detained under curfew

Protests were held for another day in New York City on Thursday. Police started handcuffing about a dozen demonstrators on Manhattan’s Upper East Side less than an hour after the city’s 8 p.m. curfew started. 

Social media video from the Upper West Side also showed officers detain a food delivery worker on the job, CBS New York reports.

The worker can be heard saying, “Are you serious? Look, look, look. I’m not even doing anything.”

“It tells me on the app that I can show you guys something,” the worker said.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio responded on Twitter overnight, saying, “Just got off the phone with @NYPDShea after seeing the troubling video of a delivery worker arrested by police while doing his job. This is NOT acceptable and must stop. Food delivery is essential work and is EXEMPTED from the curfew.”

Just got off the phone with @NYPDShea after seeing the troubling video of a delivery worker arrested by police while doing his job. This is NOT acceptable and must stop. Food delivery is essential work and is EXEMPTED from the curfew.

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) June 5, 2020

Police said the worker was released after his credentials were verified.

The food delivery app DoorDash said it’s working with city officials to determine what happened, adding, “Essential workers must be able to complete their work and feel safe and secure while doing so.”

The NYPD says approximately 200 people were arrested Thursday, many of them people who were continuing to march after the city’s curfew, which is aimed at containing violence and looting seen amid protests over George Floyd’s death. 

  7:20 AM 2 National Guardsmen injured by lightning strike during George Floyd protests in D.C.

Two National Guardsmen were injured after suffering the effects of a lightning strike near the White House on Thursday, officials said early Friday. CBS affiliate WUSA-TV reports the two service members were struck shortly after midnight within the Lafayette Park perimeter, where protests over the death of George Floyd continued for a seventh day.

Both of the officers were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, D.C. Fire and EMS officials said.

Shortly after midnight, #DCsBravest received a call for a report of 2 military personnel suffering the effects of a nearby lighting strike within the Lafayette Park perimeter. Both were transported with non life threatening injuries. pic.twitter.com/JvwRIHk74k

— DC Fire and EMS #StayHomeDC (@dcfireems) June 5, 2020

WUSA reported that the stormy weather cleared out many protesters, but some remained through the downpour in the area of Lafayette Square past midnight.   

  6:59 AM Activists paint Black Lives Matter sign on road by White House

Activists were busy Friday morning painting a giant “BLM” sign, for the Black Lives Matter movement, across 16th Street in Washington D.C. — right near the White House — as seen by reporter Matt Gregory of CBS affiliate WUSA TV. 

Artists painting “Black Lives Matter on 16th street. City has cleared the street till it’s finished. #DCProtests #getupdc @wusa9 #dc pic.twitter.com/diulqI8SnA

— Matt Gregory (@MattGregoryNews) June 5, 2020

Gregory said city authorities were keeping the road clear of traffic to let the painters finish.

A chain-link fence was erected around the White House on Thursday, effectively widening the security perimeter around the executive mansion after several nights of violent clashes between protesters, police and National Guard members.

The Trump administration has defended the forceful clearance of peaceful protesters from a park near the White House to enable Mr. Trump to walk to a nearby church for a photo-op this week. Meanwhile, photos of unidentified, armed officers donning face shields and protective gear standing guard near the White House have raised concerns among Democrats, who’ve warned the lack of identification could deny victims the ability to hold officers accountable if they engage in misconduct.

  6:44 AM Breonna Taylor’s neighbor sues police, says officers sprayed gunfire with “total disregard” for life

A neighbor of Breonna Taylor, the black woman shot to death in her apartment by police in March, has sued the police involved in the operation for firing “blindly” and sending rounds flying into her home, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Thursday.

Taylor was in bed with her boyfriend when a trio of armed men smashed through the front door. Gunfire erupted and Taylor was killed. The three men turned out to be plainclothes police detectives of the Louisville Metro Police, one of whom was wounded in the chaos and violence that night.

Taylor’s death, along with the subsequent death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, has fueled the protests since his death in Louisville and across the country.

According to the Courier Journal, the lawsuit filed in May by Taylor’s neighbor states that the three officers involved in the raid, after being confronted by Taylor’s boyfriend who opened fire first, believing the three men to be intruders, then began to “spray gunfire into Chelsey Napper’s apartment with a total disregard for the value of human life.”

Louisville police accused of using false information to obtain no-knock warrant for Breonna Taylor’s apartment

“A bullet that was shot from the defendant police officers’ gun flew inches past Cody Etherton’s head while he was in the hallway of Chelsey Napper’s apartment,” the suit states, referring to a man who was in Napper’s home at the time.

The suit claims rounds from the officers’ guns hit objects in at least four different parts of in Napper’s house, shattering a glass door.

  6:08 AM Congresswoman: Police reform package will be about “accountability”

Police reform legislation being drafted in the House will focus on “accountability” for officers, says Congresswoman Karen Bass. Bass, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, talked about the legislative package currently being written in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the protests against police brutality which have roiled the nation.

“The number one issue in policing is police accountability,” Bass said in an interview with CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett for this week’s episode of “The Takeout” podcast. She said she expected the final legislation would include several bills, such as Congressman Hakeem Jeffries’ proposal to ban police chokeholds.

“I’m inclined to push the envelope as far as we can because we have a moment now,” Bass said about the final proposal.

  5:44 AM Few arrests, mayor heckled, but a much more peaceful night of protest in New York City

The latest night of protests in New York City sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police was markedly calmer. Protesters again stayed on the streets past 8 p.m., in defiance of the citywide curfew that’s set to remain in effect through at least Sunday.

The city saw fewer violent clashes than in days past. But several videos posted to Twitter on Thursday night showed police aggressively confronting peaceful protesters — often resulting in arrest — in the Bronx and elsewhere. In other places, police watched but didn’t immediately move in, or made orderly arrests without the batons and riot gear of previous nights.

Earlier Thursday, a memorial service featuring Floyd’s brother Terrence Floyd was held at Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza, where the night before police had used batons and pepper spray on protesters who remained after curfew, videos show.

People walk over the Brooklyn Bridge following a memorial service for George Floyd, the man killed by a Minneapolis police officer in late May.

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NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea has defended his officers and the department’s overall use of force.

Mayor Bill De Blasio was booed and heckled at Floyd’s memorial. The mayor had previously praised the police for using “a lot of restraint” overall, but added that “if there’s anything that needs to reviewed, it will be.”

  5:41 AM Floyd’s “heinous murder” prompts South Africa to launch “Black Friday” campaign

South Africa’s ruling party says it is launching a “Black Friday” campaign in response to the “heinous murder” of George Floyd and “institutionalized racism” in the U.S., at home, and “wherever it rears its ugly head.”

A statement by the African National Congress says President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday evening was to address the launch of the campaign that calls on people to wear black on Fridays in solidarity.

The campaign is also meant to highlight “deaths by citizens at the hands of security forces” in South Africa, which remains one of the world’s most unequal countries a quarter-century after the end of the racist system of apartheid.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a South Africa leader who was involved in the struggle to end apartheid and is now an Under Secretary General of the United Nations, spoke with CBS News’ Pamela Falk from Johannesburg this week about the protests and where they might lead.  

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“A knee on a man’s neck that kills the man is like the virus which is like a knee on the necks of black American people which is killing them.

..they are really under a pandemic of racism”

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— Pamela Falk (@PamelaFalk) June 3, 2020

“People are feeling exhausted about us talking about racism. Try living it to know how exhausting it is to live it,” she said. “Those who cannot take talking about it, they haven’t lived it to know how much that it eats you from within. So, we need to make sure that we create conditions that will make people feel and touch the changes that are coming into their lives.”  

–CBS/AP

  5:39 AM Kanye West joins protest calling for end to Chicago Public Schools’ contract with police

Kanye West was in attendance Thursday evening for a protest rally in solidarity with George Floyd, who died at the hands of Minneapolis police last week. The rally was organized by activist and onetime mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green. It is intended to protest the $33 million contract that Chicago Police has with Chicago Public Schools.

The protest began at the Chicago Public Schools District Office and proceeded to Chicago Police Headquarters. West did not address the rally and only marched briefly. He wore a hoodie and mask and walked along with hundreds of people. 

As CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported, there have been calls for West to speak out and have more of a voice in recent days.

He has made a $2 million dollar donation to support the families of Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. Taylor was shot and killed by Louisville Metro Police in March, while three white men are charged with shooting and killing Arbery while he was jogging in Glynn County, Georgia.

–CBS Chicago

  5:38 AM Dallas police make it “duty of every employee” to intervene if excessive force used

Dallas Police Chief Reneé Hall has put a new rule on the force’s policy books making it “the duty of every employee” who witnesses the use of physical force “being inappropriately applied” or used longer than necessary “to either stop, or attempt to stop” the action in question.

A statement released Thursday by the Dallas Police said the new “Duty to Intervene” order was implemented by Chief Hall, “to create a culture where what happened to Mr. [George] Floyd does not happen again.”

“Millions watched a Minneapolis police officer suffocate Mr. George Floyd to death by applying pressure with his knee on the victim’s neck for nearly 9 minutes. His fellow co-workers either assisted or stood by and watched Mr. Floyd take his last breath. Had the officer’s partners intervened, the outcome might have been different,” the police said in the statement.

Dallas man says he was hit in eye with “non-lethal” police round at George Floyd protest

  5:16 AM Kansas City announces reforms to police procedures, but embattled chief staying put

Kansas City is reforming police procedures after criticism from black organizations about police conduct during nearly a week of protests as well as long-standing tension between the department and minorities, the mayor announced Thursday.

A coalition of civil rights organizations demanded Wednesday that Police Chief Rick Smith be fired. But Mayor Quinton Lucas said Smith would remain “as we weather our current crisis and also as we continue to address our issues related to violent crime and the high number of homicides in Kansas City.”

Lucas said after a closed meeting of the Kansas City Police Board of Commissioners that the city would ask an outside agency to review all police-involved shootings; create whistleblower protections for officers; end a department policy of not sending probable cause statements to prosecutors in officer-involved shootings; review officers’ use of tear gas and projectiles; and provide updates to the city council on the department’s community engagement efforts. 

A demonstrator confronts police officers during a protest on May 31, 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota while in police custody.

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Lucas said he hoped a review of tear gas and projectile use would lead to a new policy in the near future. 

The city announced Wednesday that $2.5 million in private funding has been donated to buy police body cameras.  

  5:14 AM Tacoma mayor says officers involved in black man’s death should be fired and be prosecuted

Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell issued a statement Thursday on the death of Manuel Ellis, confirming the four officers involved in his arrest had once again placed on administrative leave. Ramsdell offered his “most sincere condolences” to Ellis’ family and friends. Ellis, a 33-year-old black man, died on March 3 in handcuffs while being restrained on the ground by Tacoma police. 

He was found to have died of respiratory arrest due to hypoxia due to physical restraint, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office, which ruled his death a homicide.

Speaking Thursday night, Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards called for the officers involved to be fired and said they should be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”  

In a 12-minute police radio recording taken the night of Ellis’ death, he can be heard at one point saying, “I can’t breathe.”

“Our hope is that any investigations bring with them answers for everyone involved,” Ramsdell said.”I would also like to recognize the compassion and empathy our community has shown during this difficult time. We hear your anger, frustrations and hopes. I want you to know we continue to be committed to engaging with you on topics of safety, community policing and race, so that all people feel safe in Tacoma.”  

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Washington, D.C. is one of several major American cities that have been joined in protesting the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others. One man has received praise for his support of the protestors in the Nation’s Capital after he sheltered over 70 of them in his home overnight as the city’s curfew went into effect.

Rahul Dubey is the man at the center of what has been hailed as a heroic act in the press after a harrowing moment where protestors in Washington’s affluent Dupont Circle neighborhood were cornered into a side street and facing certain arrests and other crowd control tactics for being out past the 7 p.m. curfew on Monday (June 1).

As told to NPR, Dubey leaped into action and corralled the dozens of protestors into his residence and allowed them to stay overnight. Dubey’s act of kindness may have saved some of the peaceful gatherers from serious physical harm.

From NPR:

“They unleashed sheer hell on peaceful protesters right outside my stoop,” Dubey tells NPR’s All Things Considered. “I don’t know, I just flung the door open. And I just kept yelling, ‘Come in. Get in the house, get in the house.’ “

“Literally I can hear skulls being cracked,” he said, describing a scene that he recalls as pandemonium.

For around 10 minutes, he says, people flowed inside. As they did, Dubey shouted directions, hoping to find room for them all in his row house.

Even after Dubey was successful in getting in as many people inside his home, he says police pepper-sprayed his home in an attempt to rustle up the protestors for curfew violations. Across social media, people were moved by Dubey’s generosity.

The outlet took notice of local news outlet WUSA’s interview and shared it with their readers. It also noted that Dubey made firm rules of asking the protestors to stop thanking him and to stop asking to donate money to his Venmo.

I found this very inspiring, Rahul Dubey of DC who sheltered ~50 protestors on #SwannStreet last night, after emerging, gave this interview to @WUSA9 and @slazo88

“Our flag is hanging by a string”#2020Protests #savejenny #1stAmendment #compassion pic.twitter.com/S5uVzgrrQe

— Ian Glenn (@IanBGlenn) June 2, 2020

But the story has taken an unfortunate turn of sorts after the landlord of Dubey’s Swann Street home, Steve Maviglio, who currently resides in Sacramento, Calif., seemingly tried to take the spotlight off Dubey’s act and made it about the potential loss of property, as reported by The Washington Post.

“I appreciate what he did. I sympathize with the cause,” Maviglio shared with the Post. “But he wasn’t taking any risk by doing that. It was my property that he was putting at risk.”

Piling it on, Maviglio then noted that Dubey was three months behind on rent, which Dubey says isn’t true.

However, the larger story that remains intact is that Dubey helped save lives this past Monday.

This is Rahul. Rahul saved 62 DC protesters who were trapped for hours on his block by police. He allowed them to stay all night, fed them, gave them water, charged their phones, and most importantly kept them safe. This was no party, the police through pepper spray canisters pic.twitter.com/ZDpNkfXsoa

— suckmyunicorn (@suckmyunicornD) June 2, 2020

DC, tonight MPD cops under the authority of @ChiefNewsham and @MayorBowser unleashed tear gas into a private home that took in dozens of protesters after they were cornered off for arrests in a neighborhood.

This is an absolutely disgusting abuse of power by @DCPoliceDept. pic.twitter.com/Rq7nYLiGNT

— Alex Taliadoros (@AlexCTaliadoros) June 2, 2020

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The Interpreter: What Makes a Coup Succeed? Confidence, Consensus and a Sense of Inevitability

To understand what makes a coup succeed, as recently happened in Sudan and Algeria, or fail, as it did this week in Venezuela, it helps to consider the strange events in Libya a half-century ago.

For much of 1969, the county was filled with rumors of an imminent coup. In September, a handful of military vehicles rolled up to government offices and communication centers, and a terse statement announced the end of Libya’s decrepit monarchy.

Army units around the country, assuming that military chiefs were leading the coup and expecting them to show up at any moment, bloodlessly secured the rest of Libya. Foreign powers quickly recognized the new government. Nobody bothered to check who was leading the takeover.

A week later, an unknown 27-year-old army signal corps lieutenant announced that he and a few dozen low-level officers had in fact staged the coup. His name was Muammar el-Qaddafi.

If Libyans felt tricked, it was too late. Dislodging the officers would require a critical mass of Libya’s power brokers, citizens and foreign allies to come together against the new rulers, something they hadn’t managed even against the unpopular monarchy.

Mr. el-Qaddafi held power for 42 years.

This week in Venezuela, the opposition leader Juan Guaidó struggled to create that sense of inevitability for his plan to oust the president, Nicolás Maduro, but the military backing he called for never emerged.

His failure, alongside the success of recent movements to oust unpopular leaders in Algeria and Sudan, underscores the dynamics that typically make a coup succeed or fail. A historic lull in coups and revolutions appears to be ending, making these dynamics increasingly consequential well beyond Venezuela.

Confidence Games

We tend to think of coups as driven by angry protesters or rogue officers. But, in practice, they are almost always brought about by the country’s dominant political, military and business elite.

Those power brokers, after all, have the final say over whether a leader stays or goes. But they can only remove a leader if they act together — making any coup what Naunihal Singh, a leader scholar of coups, called a “coordination game.”

In Libya, Mr. el-Qaddafi was able to set off the political equivalent of a bank run, with much of Libya joining his takeover, because the government’s fall was widely assumed as imminent.

That sense of inevitability meant that each Libyan official assumed that the coup would succeed and that the new government would have wide backing, so they better go along.

Mr. Guaidó has been trying to cultivate a similar sense of consensus and inevitability among Venezuela’s power brokers.

Some of Mr. Guaidó’s failures have been tactical, such as issuing his call to action on Twitter, Mr. Singh said. Coup leaders traditionally favor national TV and radio stations because seizing them is a way to convince the country that they have already taken control.

Mr. Guaidó has also called on military leaders to join him, drawing attention to his lack of support.

“You don’t say ‘We can win if only we have your support.’ What you say is ‘We’ve already won,’” Mr. Singh said. “By making it seem like you’ve already succeeded, you get the support necessary to succeed.”

There is a deeper issue that has stalled attempts at removing Mr. Maduro: Venezuela’s power brokers, like its citizens and the wider international community, are deeply split.

Even if each individual political or business elite might be better off with Mr. Maduro gone, they cannot coordinate to create the necessary sense of inevitability. But many are receptive enough that the threat of a coup hangs over Venezuela.

It took 12 hours for Mr. Maduro to appear on TV announcing he was still in power — an ominously long delay.

Initiating a coup without that critical mass of elite support can be dangerous. When rogue officers tried to oust Turkey’s government in 2016, they appeared to signal for political support that never materialized. The attempt, and the government’s response, ended with dozens killed and the plotters in jail.

Demonstrating Inevitability

Turkey’s debacle underscored that a coup is less a military operation than a collective action problem.

The elites who determine a coup’s outcome are typically too numerous and dispersed to communicate directly. And they are risk-averse. The coup leaders’ task is to persuade each elite that all the others will join in, spurring them to move in unison.

This often means marshaling protesters and foreign governments to the cause, creating the appearance of consensus.

That is why Venezuela’s power struggle is partly playing out over a seemingly technical issue: Mr. Guaidó’s claim to be the legitimate president.

A leader’s legitimacy works like modern currencies. The paper itself has value only because consumers treat it as having value. Likewise, a leader is legitimate only as long as his country’s citizens and institutions treat him as legitimate.

If enough Venezuelan citizens and institutions are swayed to treat Mr. Maduro as no longer legitimate, then he will cease to be legitimate in practice.

But a critical mass still treat him as legitimate, if only passively. Venezuela itself is a case in point: Even as runaway inflation has rendered its currency near valueless, citizens continue to use it.

Manufacturing Popular Consensus

Mr. Guaidó’s challenge may be that he is trying to solve two problems at once. He is trying to use hints of elite defection from Mr. Maduro’s government to spur a wider popular uprising. And he is trying to use protests to encourage more elite defections.

Those two audiences, in any movement to unseat a government, tend to want mutually exclusive outcomes. Elites typically want to uphold the status quo. Citizens usually want deeper changes: democracy, which threatens elites’ power, and rule of law, which might threaten elites’ income and even their freedom.

In Zimbabwe in 2017, this contradiction became apparent only after elites complied with protester demands to oust Robert Mugabe, the longtime leader. Rather than delivering democracy, they installed another insider.

The protests most likely provided the necessary spur for Zimbabwe’s elites to coordinate in removing Mr. Mugabe. Still, they put their own interests first, using the protests as an excuse to switch out an unreliable old leader for a new one. The coup may have been a success for Zimbabwe’s elites, but arguably not for its citizens.

Protesters in Algeria and Sudan, after successfully pushing for the ouster of their own aging despots, are watching for a similar bait-and-switch.

Both coups were textbook cases: Powerful and tightly unified elites, who would have coordinated with relative ease, seized on protests to remove a weak and unpopular leader.

The odds of a coup leading to democracy are slim. Since World War II, democracy followed only one in four instances in which a dictator was removed from office.

Even when coup leaders begin a real transition to democracy, they will often ensure that the elite’s privileges and rights remain in place, all but guaranteeing that full democracy cannot take hold until the old elite quite literally die out.

Still, for citizens in countries without meaningful elections, protests calling on their elite to remove the leader by force might be the only plausible way to force change.

Amy Erica Smith, an Iowa State University political scientist, wrote for the website Vox that conditions in Venezuela heighten odds of a coup leading to democracy, citing “a discredited authoritarian regime; a history of citizen-led resistance against the regime; an alliance between democratic politicians and the military; a history of partisan electoral competition.”

Still, the same conditions that have made Mr. Maduro’s government unusually resistant to coup attempts — a divided elite and population, deep corruption in the military, a deadlock among foreign powers — could make establishing democracy difficult.

“History is littered with cases of military-supported transitions of power,” Ms. Smith wrote, “that are supposed to lead to elections and democracy … and don’t.”

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Atlanta: Two remark lawmakers boom they won’t toughen a bill this 12 months that can produce a fresh coastal metropolis. Dispute Sen. Ben Watson and remark Accumulate. Jesse Petrea, every Savannah Republicans, made the announcement Tuesday referring to the proposed metropolis of Chatham Islands. Residents of Wilmington, Whitmarsh, Talahi and Oatland islands possess expressed opposition to incorporation, the lawmakers acknowledged. The motion to invent what might perchance perchance maybe be Chatham County’s 2nd-ideal metropolis, with an estimated inhabitants of 26,000, began after one other lawmaker sought to consolidate the Savannah metropolis and Chatham County governments. That switch sparked opposition amongst residents of the islands. Nonetheless, metropolis-county consolidation has stalled because of an absence of local toughen. A ogle by the University of Georgia learned the islands might perchance perchance also finance their like metropolis authorities if a local likelihood sales tax were imposed.

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Honolulu: Dispute Condo and Senate leaders, with the toughen of Gov. David Ige, on Tuesday unveiled an extended record of measures to opt housing, early childhood education and incomes, with a remark level of curiosity on alleviating the struggles of Hawaii’s working families and wretched. It’s the predominant joint bill bundle from the two legislative chambers since 2004. “The Condo and Senate members had been working with out a doubt laborious over the duration in-between to address a instruct that is required to all of us – that's the cost of residing in Hawaii,” Condo Speaker Scott Saiki acknowledged at a news conference. The proposals restful must restful be drafted into payments, swagger committees and the pudgy Condo and Senate, after which mark the governor’s signature sooner than they might be able to develop into law. The fresh legislative session began Wednesday. The measures consist of growing the hourly minimum wage from the fresh $10.10 to $13 by 2024.

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Boise: Unusual legislation launched Tuesday would require voters who wish to expend part in a closed presidential predominant to affiliate with that occasion 90 days sooner than the predominant. The Condo Dispute Affairs Committee voted Tuesday to befriend a hearing on the legislation. Republicans close their primaries in Idaho, while Democrats attain no longer. Republicans are concerned some voters might perchance perchance also affiliate with their occasion to throw a predominant vote to a less standard candidate extra inclined to lose in the classic election. Non-presidential, closed primaries in Idaho already possess a 60-day occasion affiliation reduce-off date. The time closing dates are basically based on the closing day candidates can file to hasten for political web site of job. Idaho Secretary of Dispute Lawerence Denney acknowledged the attorney classic’s web site of job in a Dec. 5 letter acknowledged it had certain closed presidential primaries in Idaho compose no longer possess this sort of reduce-off date.

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Chicago: Dispute regulators boom they're investigating apparent violations of a rule intended to cease marijuana stores from stockpiling weed from a single cultivator while also reminding stores that they're required by law to befriend ample product on hand for medical patients. Fair correct over per week after the remark’s leisure pot sales kicked off Jan. 1, the Illinois Division of Monetary and Respectable Regulation despatched a letter to dispensaries Friday announcing they were responsive to violations and probing whether stores were illegally sourcing extra than 40% of their product from one grower. The law is geared toward combating pot growers from stepping into outlandish agreements with remark stores and guaranteeing all stores possess a sort of merchandise from assorted sources.

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Indianapolis: A 102-12 months-frail man who is Indiana’s oldest remark employee is retiring after nearly six an extended time on the job, announcing that “your body tells you when it’s time to switch.” Bob Vollmer plans to picture back to work for the closing time Feb. 6 as a surveyor for the Division of Pure Sources. The southern Indiana man, whose mom lived to be 108, joined the remark company in 1962. The World War II mature restful travels Indiana amassing technical field data and confirming boundary lines for DNR-managed properties, but he acknowledged his body at closing is telling him it’s time to retire. Vollmer acknowledged he plans to use his retirement devoting himself to reading and farming. He also plans to expend journeys to about a of the South Pacific islands he used to be on all over his wartime provider with the U.S. Navy.

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Ames: A person sentenced closing month to 16 years in penal complex after he burned a overjoyed pride banner argued sooner than his trial that the attorney appointed to describe him had a conflict of hobby because she is a lesbian, newly released court data point out. Adolfo Martinez used to be arrested in June after he stole a pride banner placing at Ames United Church of Christ and burned it outdoors a close by membership. Martinez admitted his actions were pushed by his detest of overjoyed other folks. He unsuccessfully argued for dismissal of a charge in opposition to him of third-level arson in violation of particular person rights – detest crime, contending that his prosecution would violate his First Modification lawful to free speech. To boot to the arson detest crime, he used to be learned responsible in November of harassment and reckless use of fire or explosives.

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Topeka: The remark began issuing fresh customized license plates Wednesday that emphasize the remark’s growing use of renewable energy. The “Powering the Future” plates feature wind generators profiled in opposition to a demolish of day. Wind-generated energy in Kansas grew sixfold from 2009 to 2018, and a picture closing 12 months acknowledged the remark used to be the nation’s top producer of wind energy, with extra than 36% of total electrical energy coming from wind energy. “I'm overjoyed that this license plate make comes on the heels of Kansas being ranked first in the nation for percentage of electrical energy produced by wind,” Gov. Laura Kelly acknowledged. “On the identical time, it's a demonstrate of an expanding alternate that contributes so unheard of to the commercial fabric of our remark.” Residents can relate the plates through their county treasurer’s web site of job for $45.50, plus typical registration expenses and taxes.

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Colossal Cave: Colossal Cave National Park is offering free tours Monday in honor of slain civil rights chief Martin Luther King Jr. The park can accommodate 70 other folks on every Colossal Passage tour. The free tours Jan. 20 will leave from the visitor heart at 9: 30 a.m., 10: 30 a.m., 11: 30 a.m., 12: 30 p.m., 1: 30 p.m. and 2: 30 p.m. CST. The 3/4-mile, 1 1/4-hour tour requires a lope down and up a steep direction to the Historical Entrance and entails 160 steps. The tour explores a canyon passageway and discusses a 19th-century saltpeter mining operation and the cave’s geologic origins. Tour members must capture up their free tickets in the visitor heart sooner than the tour.

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Unusual Orleans: The U.S. Fish and Plant life and fauna Carrier is proposing expenses for the utilization of eight national natural world refuges in southeast Louisiana and will more than doubtless be brooding about lottery alligator hunts on six of its refuges. The two together might perchance perchance also elevate about $120,000 for the Southeast Louisiana National Plant life and fauna Refuges Complex, about two-thirds of the money from user permits, project chief Neil Lalonde acknowledged Monday. The user expenses might perchance perchance maybe be $20 for an annual enable or $5 for a one-day enable, a news launch acknowledged. Of us age 60 and over might perchance perchance also receive a $5 annual swagger, and these below age 18 would no longer need a enable. Two permits might perchance perchance maybe be wished to receive into all eight refuges administered by Southeast Louisiana National Plant life and fauna Refuges Complex workforce.

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Augusta: Proposed changes to a an extended time-frail settlement between the remark and American Indian tribal groups might perchance perchance also give the tribes extra authority in long-debated matters a lot like gambling and fishing rights. A project force handed its suggestions to the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee, which began brooding about them Tuesday. The suggestions consist of a call to verify the tribes’ rights to befriend watch over looking, fishing and land use, the Portland Press Herald reviews. One other advice is to enable tribes to feature casinos below a compact negotiated amongst tribal leaders, the federal authorities and the remark. The duty force spent extra than six months placing together the suggestions, which would impact four federally identified tribes in Maine. Penobscot Nation Chief Kirk Francis acknowledged the changes possess “potential for extensive impacts on some highly deprived other folks and some very proud governments.”

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Annapolis: Gov. Larry Hogan has launched the awarding of nearly $9 million in tax credit for remark residents with student mortgage debt. The administration says 9,600 applicants were eligible for the Pupil Loan Debt Reduction Tax Credit score. That entails 6,331 who attended in-remark institutions who will every receive $1,000 in tax credit. There had been 3,269 eligible applicants who attended out-of-remark institutions who will receive $813 every in tax credit. “It's miles severe that we leer for methods to aid these in our remark crippled by student mortgage debt,” Hogan acknowledged in an announcement announcing the tax credit. “This program helps Maryland taxpayers pay off student debt, while closing in the workforce and having a particular impact on the remark economic system.”

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Boston: A police officer used to be so infuriated after a difference with one other driver on an web site motorway that he despatched the person a spurious $790 quotation and a curt demonstrate that read, “Try combating this… I dare you!” prosecutors boom. Officer Christopher Curtis used to be released on private recognizance after pleading no longer responsible Tuesday to forgery, ogle intimidation and deceptive an investigation. Neither he nor his attorney commented outdoors court. Curtis is on unpaid administrative leave, a Boston Police Division spokesman acknowledged. The assorted driver told investigators he used to be driving south on Interstate 93 north of the metropolis March 1 when he seen a white pickup truck coming near the again of his car. The motive force, who used to be no longer identified in court data, acknowledged the pickup driver honked at him, sped toward his car, merged into the lane on his lawful after which veered again into the left lane, nearly forcing him into the median barrier, in step with court data.

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Detroit: Six weeks into the leisure marijuana industry in the remark, sales possess exceeded $10 million. The high-water mark of $10,090,446 in sales also formula that $1,675,014 in revenues from a 10% excise tax and 6% sales tax flowed into remark coffers. Michigan marijuana fanatics were ready to birth buying lawful weed Dec. 1, roughly 13 months after voters licensed a ballotproposal that legalized marijuana use and possession for anybody who is no longer decrease than 21. The proposal, which passed 56-44%, also enables for fogeys to develop up to 12 vegetation of their residence for private use. Appropriate now, the sales are taking place at 16 marijuana retail stores that possess gotten remark licenses and had been ready to launch. There are 35 stores that had been licensed by the remark, but many are waiting to launch till they possess ample marijuana merchandise to meet the question.

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Duluth: Union snowplow drivers went on strike in northeastern Minnesota, where a winter climate advisory used to be posted as snow moved into the remark. Teamsters Native 320 official Brian Aldes acknowledged the strike in St. Louis County began Wednesday. Union members voted overwhelmingly Saturday to reject the county’s final contract provide, citing components connected to health care and amassed sick leave. “These hardworking employees manufacture a day-to-day dedication to force into blizzard stipulations when most other folks cease away from inclement climate,” Erik Skoog, the union’s chief negotiator, acknowledged in a Facebook put up. “These employees use nights, holidays, and weekends clearing roads in unpleasant stipulations and is no longer going to proceed to be 2nd class employees.” County officers possess a contingency understanding to befriend roads plowed. Public works supervisors and workforce in assorted departments are qualified and licensed to feature the snowplows, county spokeswoman Dana Kazel says.

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Starkville: A rain-swollen lake in rural north Mississippi rose no longer decrease than a foot overnight amid forecasts of additional downpours, holding heavy stress on a dam Wednesday that officers acknowledged used to be in pain of failing. An inspection of the earthen dam at Oktibbeha County on Tuesday resulted in warnings that it used to be in pain of failing and suggestions that web site residents evacuate. With as unheard of as 5 inches of rain forecast by the weekend, workers were monitoring a soggy landslide that stoked the fears. Oktibbeha County’s emergency director, Kristen Campanella, acknowledged the lake level’s rise endangered about 130 properties and 9 highways downstream. Mississippi has one among the easiest numbers of dams that pose dangers and are in wretched or unsatisfactory condition, in step with a two-12 months investigation by the Linked Press.

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St. Louis: Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has filed what she calls an unheard of federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the metropolis, the local police union and others of a coordinated and racist conspiracy geared toward forcing her out of web site of job. Gardner, the metropolis’s elected prosecutor, also accused “entrenched pursuits” of intentionally impeding her efforts to reform racist practices that possess resulted in an absence of have faith in the criminal justice intention. The lawsuit alleges civil rights violations as effectively as violations of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Gardner is black. The named defendants are white. The lawsuit names the metropolis of St. Louis;the St. Louis Police Officers Affiliation; its industry manager, Jeff Roorda; and Gerard Carmody, a certain prosecutor who indicted an investigator employed by Gardner. It also names Carmody’s son and daughter, who helped in his investigation, and a dilapidated police officer who sued over Gardner’s use of non-public attorneys connected to Carmody’s investigation.

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Helena: Dispute lawmakers and members of the final public weighed in Tuesday on whether the Legislature must restful swap to annual 45-day classes in wish to assembly every assorted 12 months for 90 days, as they attain now. The 2019 Legislature passed a bill to ogle the root of conserving one session to address policy and one other to plot a two-12 months funds. Montana is one among 4 states with out an annual legislative session. Some lawmakers suggested shorter classes might perchance perchance also allow early life to aid in the Legislature, announcing that leaving a job for 45 days every 12 months will more than doubtless be simpler than lacking 90 days of labor every assorted 12 months. Dispute Sen. John Esp, R-Mountainous Timber, acknowledged assembly extra on the total might perchance perchance also aid build working relationships amongst the lawmakers, allowing them to raised aid the other folks of Montana. Sen. Dee Brown, R-Hungry Horse, acknowledged she supports annual classes but suggested limiting the option of payments that can also be launched every session.

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Omaha: The remark suffered extra than $3.4 billion in losses from disastrous climate closing 12 months, in step with a federal picture. The bomb cyclone in March prompted quite a lot of the wretchedness, acknowledged the National Centers for Environmental Data, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The rain and snowmelt runoff resulted in picture flooding in eastern Nebraska and in Iowa, and the storm intention integrated a blizzard that struck most of western Nebraska. The bomb cyclone “used to be an unheard of tournament, in scope and size and impact on the remark of Nebraska,” Bryan Tuma, assistant director of the Nebraska Emergency Administration Company, told the Omaha World-Herald. “I don’t issue we’ve ever somewhat experienced one thing indulge in this sooner than.”

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Las Vegas: MGM Resorts Global is promoting the remark estate sources of the MGM Big on the Las Vegas Strip to a joint enterprise for approximately $2.5 billion. The joint enterprise entails private-equity and loyal estate company Blackstone Team and MGM Verbalize Properties LLC. MGM Resorts anticipates money proceeds of roughly $2.4 billion. The joint enterprise will more than doubtless be owned 50.1% by MGM Verbalize Properties and 49.9% by Blackstone. This would maybe also additionally occupy the remark estate sources of Mandalay Bay from MGM Verbalize Properties and rent every properties to MGM Resorts for an initial rent of $292 million. The final cost of the two transactions is $4.6 billion. The Mandalay Bay used to be the remark of a 2017 capturing that left 58 other folks ineffective. It's miles the deadliest mass capturing in neatly-liked U.S. historical past.

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Portsmouth: An organization that welcomes troops passing through Portsmouth Global Airport has launched plans to trade its operations because of elevated threats at airports. The president of the Pease Greeters, Frank Lasorsa, wrote to members that because of “elevated possibility stages,” greeters’ actions will trade to address potential threats. Greeters will restful greet troops but will no longer present food, drinks and giveaways, and the ideal flight data made on hand to greeters will more than doubtless be through public websites. “As soon as a Greeter determines there might perchance be troop flight scheduled for arrival, Greeters might perchance perchance also simply restful come at the airport to toughen our courageous men and women,” Lasorsa wrote. “Sharing any certain flight data on social media is strongly melancholy.” The Pease Greeters Care Equipment program will swagger on, but greeters will no longer raise any items to present to particular person provider members.

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Jersey Metropolis: Three police officers who had been credited with combating further bloodshed all over closing month’s deadly assault on a kosher market are being promoted. Mayor Steven Fulop appointed officers Kendric Jackson, Mariela Fernandez and Raymond Sanchez to the inferior of detective at a ceremony at Metropolis Hall on Wednesday. Sanchez and Fernandez were amongst the predominant to answer after David Anderson and Francine Graham stormed the market and killed three other folks in an anti-Semitic assault. Both officers suffered accidents and were treated and released from a health facility after the attacks. Anderson and Graham died after a prolonged shootout with police. Before attacking the market, they shot and killed Jersey Metropolis Police Detective Joseph Seals in what authorities possess acknowledged used to be an opportunity come upon in a cemetery a pair of mile from the retailer.

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Albuquerque: The remark’s ideal water utility has began running its first aquifer storage effectively, and officers boom extra voice injection wells are planned throughout the utility’s provider web site through Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. Attempting out of the fresh intention began this week. The effectively will allow excess floor water to be saved underground for later use, holding it protected in opposition to any losses due to evaporation. Officers boom the $1 million effectively is an component of a bigger water management technique that also entails conservation and reuse. The effectively injects water extra than 1,200 toes underneath the floor at a charge of 1,750 gallons per minute. The volume of water injected yearly will rely on the quantity of excess floor water on hand from the San Juan-Chama Drinking Water Venture.

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Albany: The comptroller says the remark once extra is paying unheard of extra in federal taxes than it receives in federal spending. A picture released Tuesday says Unusual York paid $26.6 billion extra in federal taxes in the fiscal 12 months ending in 2018 than in received again in federal funds. Unusual York has viewed a spot dating again to 2013, when it totaled $19.9 billion. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the balance jumped in 2018, when Unusual Yorkers paid $4 billion extra in taxes as federal spending increased by $1.5 billion. DiNapoli says the continuing building makes it severe that the upcoming 2020 census is lawful and maximizes the remark’s inhabitants rely. The comptroller’s picture says Unusual York is one among lawful seven states that sends extra to the federal authorities than it receives.

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Asheville: A local advocacy crew has began a petition to expend a leer at to receive Amazon to cease promoting an animal entice that can maybe misfortune bears. The crew Abet Asheville Bears is appealing straight to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and has gathered 32,000 signatures. The petition asks the corporate to cease promoting steel-jaw, leg-befriend traps. Certain foothold traps are lawful in North Carolina. Nonetheless they’re illegal to utilize on black bears. The traps are lawful for animals a lot like foxes and coyotes. The crew says the gadgets also desire runt bears. Jody Williams, a spokesman for Abet Asheville Bears, says Amazon has replied to the crew about the petition. She says the corporate acknowledged it would ahead the suggestions to the appropriate other folks.

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Bismarck: Bismarck Public Colleges is believed to be the predominant district in the remark to like an airplane. The college board has given administrators the swagger-ahead to desire a Cessna 150, single-engine plane for the coed aviation program at the district’s Profession Academy. District industry manager Darin Scherr says the plane will cost between $15,000 and $30,000 looking on its condition, in step with the Bismarck Tribune. Owning a plane in wish to renting one will save money for the district, as effectively as for the families of faculty students in this system. Using a rental plane prices families $10,850 a 12 months and the district $6,650. Ownership will drop that by nearly half of, to $5,350 a 12 months for families and $2,963 for the district, in step with Scherr. That entails yearly prices, a lot like insurance and hangar rental, as effectively as prices for engine and propeller overhauls, which occur every four years.

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Cleveland: A union representing the white Cleveland police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-12 months-frail black baby fiddling with a pellet gun outdoors a game heart, will inquire of an appeals court to overturn the officer’s firing. A Cuyahoga County mediate closing month upheld an arbitrator’s decision that Timothy Loehmann needs to be fired for failing to present an evidence for on his Cleveland job software program that he had been beforehand pushed aside from a suburban police department. Loehmann and his practising officer were cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the loss of life of Tamir in November 2014. The newborn used to be shot by Loehmann within seconds of a cruiser pushed by Patrolman Frank Garmback skidding to a cease near him. “We issue our enchantment has advantage and preserve up for having a overview by the Court of Appeals,” union attorney Henry Hilow told cleveland.com.

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Oklahoma Metropolis: The governor wants the remark’s college superintendent to be appointed in wish to elected, which would give the governor extra energy over public education. Gov. Kevin Stitt didn't specify if he wished to nominate the placement or wished the remark Board of Education to manufacture the choice. Stitt already appoints six of the seven board members. Stitt acknowledged he’s pissed off by his small ability to impress education policy. “When the governor’s elected by all 4 million Oklahomans, the other folks issue that he or she’s supposed with a conception to switch in and manufacture some assorted moves on education to receive outcomes,” Stitt acknowledged. “That’s lawful overall sense. That’s what I believed when I was sitting in Tulsa in the industry world. That’s what other folks in Oklahoma issue.” Of nearly 4 million Oklahomans, 644,579 voted for Stitt to develop into governor.

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Salem: Trendy snowstorms possess boosted the Pacific Northwest’s beforehand anemic snowpack to almost typical stages statewide in precisely two weeks. The ideal enhancements in what is called “snow-water the same” – the quantity of water contained in the snowpack – are in the Hood, Sandy and Lower Deschutes basins. These areas were at 26% of typical Dec. 30 and are literally at 90% of typical, the Capital Press reviews. Closing 12 months seen one thing identical unfold in Oregon, when a chain of storms hit in February that boosted what had been a lagging level of snow-water the same. This 12 months statewide, the snow-water the same increased from 45% of typical to 79% of typical between Dec. 30 and Jan. 14, in step with the USDA Pure Sources Conservation Carrier, which tracks the measurements. Snowpack is a actually vital source of water for farms, especially in Eastern Oregon.

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Harrisburg: The remark Condo voted Tuesday to force public companies to put up agendas on their websites no longer decrease than a day sooner than the conferences at which connected votes are held. Dispute representatives unanimously licensed the proposed amendments to the remark Sunshine Act. The prime sponsor, Accumulate. Aaron Bernstine, R-Lawrence, acknowledged the bill will aid manufacture certain governments attain no longer operate in the shadows. “When our electorate know what is going to more than doubtless be discussed at a gathering earlier than time, they might be able to greater expend part in a authorities in a meaningful formula,” Bernstine acknowledged. Officers would no longer be allowed to vote on one thing that used to be no longer on the posted agenda, excluding when an emergency has arisen that threatens life or property or when the sphere at hand is understanding to be extremely minor and does no longer possess spending money. Objects might perchance perchance also also be added to agendas all over conferences by a majority vote.

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Providence: The governor has plot an aggressive timeline to energy the electrical grid fully by renewable energy, but it with out a doubt’s an attainable unbiased, the remark’s performing energy commissioner acknowledged Wednesday. Acting Commissioner Nicholas Ucci acknowledged his web site of job will use the relaxation of this 12 months growing suggestions and insurance policies to meet the unbiased by 2030 and analyzing the commercial, environmental and energy intention impacts. In her Dispute of the Dispute address to lawmakers Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo launched she will designate an executive relate that aims to manufacture the remark the predominant in the nation to be powered fully by renewable energy by the tip of the final decade. The observation drew a standing ovation. The remark is already positioned to meet extra than a 3rd of its electrical energy question with renewable energy sources by 2024, Ucci acknowledged.

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Columbia: Supporters of a bill that can ban nearly all abortions need some leaders in the remark Senate to clutch they won’t let the proposal quietly die. An complete lot of them packed a Statehouse lobby Wednesday to demand a vote on the bill whose handiest doubtless obstacle to turning into law is passing a two-thirds procedural vote in the Senate. There are ample Democrats and Republicans from less conservative districts to befriend blocking off the bill. Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey has acknowledged several events sooner than the 2020 legislative session began this week that Republicans don’t possess the votes and that he sees no must cease debate on assorted components indulge in tax reform, education or promoting remark-owned utility Santee Cooper for several days for a filibuster that in step with his vote-counting math can’t be beat. That’s what happened in 2018 to a identical abortion ban bill.

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Sioux Falls: The Metropolis Council has passed an ordinance denouncing acts of detest and racism after equal rights organizations and others known as on the metropolis to attain extra to answer to racist incidents. Mayor Paul TenHaken brought what he known as an “anti-detest” decision to the council in remark to send a message that Sioux Falls is a welcoming web site for all religions, races and sexual orientations. Councilors took their turns Tuesday night voicing toughen. Councilor Janet Brekke acknowledged the choice is a particular step toward driving detest out of the community but eminent that it's miles lawful a starting up level. In September, South Dakota Voices for Peace organized a march in the metropolis after a black teen used to be subjected to racial slurs in downtown Sioux Falls. Video of what happened used to be posted on social media and considered broadly.

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Nashville: Amtrak is in discussions to raise passenger rail provider again to the capital and expand routes in Memphis. Company representatives traveled to Nashville to focus on about their suggestions with remark legislators Tuesday afternoon. Two of the proposed lines would join Memphis to Chicago and Nashville to Atlanta with stops in Murfreesboro, Tullahoma and Chattanooga. The ideal Amtrak stops in Tennessee are in Memphis and Newbern-Dyersburg. Nashville provider halted in 1979 when the Floridian line from Chicago to Florida used to be shut down to avoid losing money. Nonetheless Tune Metropolis’s mercurial-growing inhabitants has caught Amtrak’s peek again.

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Bellaire: A minor has been charged with manslaughter in the deadly capturing of a 16-12 months-frail high college student, prosecutors acknowledged. The minor and one other person were arrested about 31/2 hours after the Tuesday afternoon capturing at a high college in Bellaire, a suburb southwest of Houston. A spokesman for the Harris County District Attorney’s Place of job acknowledged Wednesday that the minor might perchance perchance maybe no longer be identified because of privateness licensed guidelines and didn't straight answer assorted questions. Authorities also haven’t released classic non-figuring out data about the alleged shooter, along side the person’s age or intercourse. Police acknowledged they received a call about the capturing about 4 p.m., and the victim died later at a health facility. There had been conflicting media reviews about whether the capturing happened inside or outdoors the college.

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Salt Lake Metropolis: Personalized license plates that spark a pair of complaints will receive further scrutiny amid questions on how a plate emblazoned with the phrase “DEPORTM” might perchance perchance also be on the boulevard despite strict remark principles and earlier objections. If extra than one person reviews a remark plate, this might perchance occasionally doubtless maybe also simply now be flagged for further consideration and reviewed by the attorney classic’s web site of job, acknowledged Scott Smith, who oversees the motor-autos division as executive director of the Utah Tax Price. “The safety catch here is the classic public,” Smith told lawmakers at a hearing Wednesday that came after a photograph of the “deport” plate won standard consideration on-line. Among assorted principles, Utah prohibits conceitedness plates that remark contempt for any escape, faith or political conception. License plates don’t raise unlimited freedom of speech rights, he acknowledged.

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Montpelier: Advocates held a homelessness consciousness day and memorial vigil Wednesday. Concerned electorate and homeless provider services planned to earn at the Statehouse to focus on with lawmakers and “renew their dedication to raze homelessness” in Vermont. Basically based on a one-day rely, 1,089 Vermonters were learned to be homeless on a single night in January 2019, tournament organizers acknowledged. That used to be a 15% drop from a one-day rely in 2018, but “homelessness remains to be a considerable instruct for Vermonters, especially because 23% of these counted were early life,” organizers of the tournament acknowledged. A vigil used to be planned at noon on the Statehouse steps, where legislative leaders and Lt. Gov, David Zuckerman, who lawful launched that he’s running for governor, were anticipated to focus on. Wednesday’s actions were subsidized by the Vermont Coalition to Close Homelessness, Chittenden County Homeless Alliance and Vermont Life like Housing Coalition.

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Rocky Mount: A county college board has determined no longer to replace its dress code to ban shows of the Accomplice flag. The Roanoke Times reviews the choice adopted months of debate in Franklin County, which is outdoors Roanoke in western Virginia. Many college board members acknowledged this sort of ban might perchance perchance also violate college students’ rights to free speech and spur lawful challenges. An modification adding the ban to the dress code failed 4-4, and the vote on passing the dress code with out it used to be 7 to 1. Penny Blue, the board’s handiest black member, used to be the sole “no” vote. She had proposed the measure closing tumble when the board used to be brooding about changes to its dress code. She argued the flag used to be an emblem of white supremacy. Other members acknowledged they personally detested the flag but raised concerns about free speech. College officers cited a 2000 court case in Kentucky that can also possess lawful precedent in Virginia. The Kentucky college’s strive to ban the flag failed.

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Seattle: One 12 months after Microsoft launched it used to be committing $500 million toward realistic housing in the online site, it’s upping that by half of. The further $250 million will present a line of credit to aid the Washington Dispute Finance Price finance about 3,000 additional items of realistic housing, Jane Broom, the corporate’s senior director of philanthropies, acknowledged in a blog put up Wednesday. Microsoft’s like success has helped the remark snort economically, with Amazon and numerous tech companies expanding. Nonetheless as it has, the cost of housing has skyrocketed. Homelessness is a severe instruct, and even other folks with lovely heart-income jobs, a lot like teachers and nurses, had been priced out of the cities where they work.

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Charleston: The Condo of Delegates on Wednesday licensed a bill that can penalize physicians who don’t present health facility treatment to a baby born after an abortion strive. Lawmakers passed the bill 93-5 despite questions on what use it would aid, since composed licensed guidelines provide protection to newborns, and the remark bans abortions after 20 weeks. “This bill does utterly nothing,” acknowledged Del. John Doyle, a Democrat from Jefferson County. “It proposes to manufacture one thing illegal that is already illegal.” Some Republicans in the GOP-controlled chamber conceded that the bill, which would field medical professionals to self-discipline from their licensing board, is extra about sending a political message than solving an ongoing instruct.

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Wausau: Metropolis officers voted Tuesday night to trade the language of the now-accepted “snowball ordinance,” making it lawful to throw snowballs on metropolis property once extra. This would maybe doubtless expend cease by the week’s raze, Metropolis Council President Lisa Rasmussen acknowledged. A metropolis ordinance that technically banned snowball fights used to be a runt a part of a bigger ordinance banning other folks from throwing objects a lot like stones and arrows on metropolis-owned property. It used to be before all the pieces believed to had been adopted in 1962. Nonetheless, Metropolis Attorney Anne Jacobson did some extra digging and acknowledged it’s been on the books since no longer decrease than 1884 that you are going to be ready to’t throw snowballs on public property, even with a small of assorted language. The Metropolis Council determined to rethink the law after some negative national headlines this past holiday season. Barstool Sports known as Wausau “the worst metropolis in The united states” for outlawing snowball fights.

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Laramie: The University of Wyoming has requested $12 million from the remark to fund extra than half of of a renovation and expansion project for its College of Legislation. The law college project didn't manufacture it into the university’s formal question vetted by the Dispute Construction Division and Republican Gov. Mark Gordon’s web site of job closing 12 months sooner than going to the Legislature in December, Laramie Boomerang reviews. “We were designing the flexibility and didn’t know the cost of the flexibility over the summer,” Dean Klint Alexander told the Joint Appropriations Committee on Friday. The project is designed so that you can add about 19,000 square toes and upgrade about 23,000 square toes of composed web site in remark to compare a pair of clinics into the building, officers acknowledged. The college’s fresh clinics present $3.5 million of free lawful services and products every 12 months, and that can also manufacture bigger with greater services and products, Alexander acknowledged.

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Guard Shoots Man Trying to Get Into Fox Station in DC

A security guard shot a man who broke through two doors and entered the lobby of WTTG, the local Fox station in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon.

The suspect, 38-year-old George Odemns, said he wanted Fox 5 to make contact with President Donald Trump, sources told News4. D.C. Police Commander Melvin Gresham said at a press conference that he could not confirm that possible motive.

D.C. police said Odemns was trying to get into the building on Wisconsin Avenue NW at Harrison Street. He kicked out the glass of two doors and was able to enter the lobby.

A female security guard told Odemns to stop as he continued into the main building, according to police reports. When he didn't stop, she fired.

Sources also told News4 that the guard tried to subdue Odemns with pepper spray.

Odemns was not armed, Gresham said. No one else was injured.

Odemns was taken to George Washington University Hospital with a wound to the upper body. He remains in stable but critical condition.

Police say he was charged with second-degree burglary, which carries a sentence of two to 15 years if a conviction is made.

Odemns is homeless and has a history of contacting local news stations, including Fox 5, WUSA and News4, in long, rambling emails. In August, he was charged with assault on a police officer who was attempting to break up a verbal argument, according to police documents.

Fox 5 staffers wrote about the incident on Twitter as it unfolded.

"Everyone is okay," anchor Jim Lokay tweeted. "Sources tell us suspect tried to get into our secure building. Security guards opened fire."

"Man was conscious as he was transported into ambulance a few minutes ago. Surreal to be reporting on this," wrote reporter Lindsay Watts about 3:30 p.m.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said she met with police chief Peter Newsham to discuss the situation.

Police said the call for the shooting was made about 3 p.m. They are checking surveillance cameras in the area for more information.

No further information was released immediately on the intruder's motive. Police did not identify the security guard or specify her whereabouts.

Stay with NBC4 and NBCWashington.com for more on this developing story.

Source: https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Fox5-WTTG-Security-Guard-Shoots-Man-Trying-to-Get-Into-Building-498232931.html

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by Jeff Taylor ten/nine/2018

A transgender student at a Virginia center college was kept out of both of those male and female locker rooms for the duration of a college protection drill meant to get ready college students for gatherings these kinds of as a mass capturing.

The college, located in Stafford County, instructed college students to find shelter in the boys’ and girls’ locker rooms, but lecturers could not agree on which a person the trans woman should enter. LGBTQ advocacy team Equality Stafford shared news of the event on Fb, sparking a community outcry. The title of the college is currently being withheld to defend the student’s id.

“The student was pressured to check out the grownups charged with her treatment, debate the safest place (for the other college students) to have her shelter,” the write-up reads. “During this debate, she was instructed to sit in the gym with a teacher until eventually the drill was comprehensive, away from her peers and determined as diverse. Following some extra debate, she was produced to sit in the locker home hall way, by the doorway away from her peers. This occurred because the youngster, in addition to currently being a model student, also happens to be transgender.”

“Let me be crystal clear. During an event that prepares small children to survive an attack by true assailants, she was handled as if she was so a lot of a hazard to peers that she was still left exposed and susceptible. These gatherings come about throughout our state ideal now but this a person occurred below,” the write-up, which at time of crafting has well over 1,000 shares, proceeds.

The team is calling on anxious citizens to show up at tonight’s college board meeting.

Universities spokesperson Sherrie Johnson introduced the adhering to statement, WUSA-nine experiences:

Stafford County General public Universities does not comment on person student incidents to prevent divulging private information. Even so, the new superintendent has asked for a critique of all protocols and treatments to guarantee that all small children are handled with dignity and regard. We acquire these kinds of issues pretty critically and they will be tackled. The welfare of all college students is of the utmost value for SCPS.

A news report from that outlet follows.

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A Racist White Woman Was Caught On Camera Assaulting A Pregnant, Black Service Member

In today’s political climate, seeing racism has become more and more “normal” every day. Sadly, people believe with the President being who he is and openly ignorant, it’s okay to do the same. They could not be more wrong.

Racism and ignorance are never okay. And, when people see instances of racism–they are just as outraged now, as they ever were (if not more). One white woman was caught on camera assaulting a black, pregnant, member of the United States Army in a restaurant and the Internet has become outraged over the incident.

According to Twitter, the woman in the video is 71-year-old Judy Tucker. The fight happened over a parking spot. WUSA 9 reported that the officers, Treasure Sharpe and Stephanie Mitchell were going to a Cheddar’s in Macon, Georgia. The two backed into a parking spot. Tucker claims the two “cut her off” when she was trying to pull into a spot. She and her son verbally assaulted the two women, all the way into the restaurant, where Tucker pushed the officer after she said she was pregnant. Both ladies were in uniform.

This thug struck Black Army officer who was pregnant in the face. Her name is Judy Tucker. The incident started over a parking space Judy’s son, Robbie, called the women “black lesbian bitches.” Judy tried to play victim, but was deemed “the primary aggressor” Bye, Judy. https://t.co/bzqDxy9m6s

— Liberty and Justice for Some (@VtheEsquire) April 16, 2018

The video shows both Tucker and her son being very aggressive with both women.

The person who posted the video on YouTube claims:

This Gentleman & his mom was hostile about the two soldiers not waiting for them to reverse back into there handicap parking spot for her handicapped husband instead they went around and proceeded to park in there own separate parking spot. . So he then followed them inside the restaurant being verbally abusive calling them black lesbians shouting ” the military lets lesbians serve ? So at that point i start recording & heres the VIDEO .

After the incident was reported, Tucker was arrested and charged with battery. She was later released on $650 bail. After the video went viral online, Twitter was outraged and shutting down this kind of behavior.

this time the cuffs were placed on the correct person! pic.twitter.com/QmPBP6PDG8

— CaliPrincess (@JustTelli) April 17, 2018

Good.

I hope she’s getting charged with a hate crime.

— TH!S 🔛 New Albums (@ReptusSanctus) April 18, 2018

I love this song !!! Bye, Judy. #BLM pic.twitter.com/21h30GACrS

— Jadey (@Lovinglypsycho) April 17, 2018

Idc I’ll say it again, I would have gladly risked going to mast for them. GLADY. To put your hands on a woman especially a pregnant woman who was no threat to you is unacceptable and disgusting.

— Ya Granny. (@Ayee_Kels) April 18, 2018

Someone on Twitter found their business pages, as well, and began trolling them.

pic.twitter.com/Km5mXiafVk

— R. (@ry__yah) April 17, 2018

Also, they have 3 business pages. People have gave them negative reviews. I’ll post their business pages in this thread pic.twitter.com/yqGQVYQ9NR

— R. (@ry__yah) April 17, 2018

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