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Police arrest suspect in abduction of Charlotte Sena, whose disappearance from upstate New York park prompted more than 100 to searchDrones, bloodhounds and an airboat were used in the search for a missing nine-year-old girl who had been camping with her family in upstate New York, officials said Sunday.Charlotte Sena was last seen bicycling on Saturday evening in Moreau Lake state park, about 35 miles (60km) north of Albany, and police said it was possible she was abducted. Continue reading...
Victory for a Putin-friendly populist has given Viktor Orban an ally and the rest of Europe a problemElections in Slovakia, a country of 5.5 million people on the eurozone's eastern flank, do not normally generate global headlines. But these are not normal times. Amid fears of growing cracks in western unity over Russia's war in Ukraine, the victory over the weekend of a pro-Putin populist committed to ending military aid to Kyiv sent an ominous signal.Slovakia has bigger problems than Ukraine," said Robert Fico, in the wake of a win that will have been a cause for satisfaction in the Kremlin. His Smer-SD party, which ran a campaign targeting irregular migrants, LGBTQ+ rights and support for Kyiv, will now seek to lead a coalition government. For Mr Fico, who has been the subject of corruption allegations, and was ousted as leader in 2018 in toxic circumstances, this was a remarkable comeback. For most of Europe, it is one with worrying implications on a number of levels.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
After winning the European title for the first time, the British women's team take on the might of the USA in AntwerpGreat Britain arrived at the Tokyo Olympics two years ago as heavy underdogs with low expectations. Not only were they a young and inexperienced group but they had to ignore ample criticism about the team composition after the omission of Becky Downie. At the end of a chaotic, unforgettable night in the team final, though, they held their nerve and emerged as surprise bronze medallists.The British team have continued to be the revelation Gymnasts can sometimes struggle to replicate such lofty successes, but a year later, they won a first world team silver medal on home soil in Liverpool. This year, they became European champions for the first time and finishing second in qualifying here showed they have not let up. Continue reading...
Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar, 68, victim of carjacking in Navy Yard neighborhood on Monday night but was not physically hurtThe US congressman Henry Cuellar was robbed of his car at gunpoint on Monday evening in Washington, but he was not physically harmed, according to his office.A statement from Cuellar's chief of staff said the 68-year-old Texas Democrat was parking his car when three armed assailants approached him and stole the vehicle, his phone, his computer tablet and his sushi dinner. Continue reading...
Two months after wildfires devastated West Maui, officials announce phased' reopening as residents struggle to surviveTwo months after a deadly wildfire tore through Maui, Hawaii, government officials said the western region of the island - the epicenter of the disaster - will reopen to tourists on 8 October.At a Maui county council meeting last week, hundreds of West Maui residents begged for more time to recover. Continue reading...
Ex-chief of staff confirms Trump's contempt for wounded or killed US soldiers and says: What can I add that hasn't already been said?'Going on record to confirm stories of Donald Trump's contempt for wounded and killed US soldiers and their families, and commenting on the former president's suggestion a top general should be killed, the former marines general and White House chief of staff John Kelly took in Trump's commanding lead in the Republican primary and said: God help us."What can I add that has not already been said?" Kelly, who was also homeland security secretary under Trump, told CNN on Monday. Continue reading...
Liz Truss's return, the PM's HS2 dithering, Mr Brexit himself: no Netflix doc could truly make sense' of this Tory conferenceI'm still heavily sedated after the triumphant return of Liz Truss to the Conservative party conference, less than a calendar year after she caused an unfortunate lab accident involving the entire country. The spectacle is so absolutely mad that it has almost pushed through to the other side and become an impressive tale of resilience that you might use to inspire kids. See that lady there, she fell off the horse, but she got right back on it like nothing happened." But no. Sorry, I'm simply not quite there yet. Liz Truss is the human equivalent of honking out a joke about a terrorist attack while they're still pulling bodies out of the rubble. She is a walking too soon?". The only place you should be seeing her this October is as a Halloween costume (foam cheese wedge not included).Instead, she's selling out the Last of Us suite at the Tories' Manchester conference hotel. Hand on heart, I would say Truss's attempt to reclaim her back catalogue is going slightly less well than Taylor Swift's. I don't know if you managed to catch her speech about how to create growth (Liz's version), but you may have heard that it was a rendition for which conference attendees were queueing up the stairs and down the corridors. This certainly serves as a reminder that the questionably popular should always hold their events in small rooms. Tell you what, if Truss can sell out one night in a single 400-seat regional theatre to non-rubberneckers, then I'll pretend this is her Eras tour. Until then, we might have to face the fact that being popular within the very odd world of Conservative party conference is the equivalent of having infectious diarrhoea pretty much anywhere else. Continue reading...
Josh Kruger, 39, was shot seven times but there are no signs of forced entry and no arrests have been madeJosh Kruger, a 39-year-old Philadelphia-based journalist and activist, was shot and killed in his home early Monday morning.Kruger was shot seven times around 1.30am on 2 October and collapsed in the street after trying to contact someone for help. He was pronounced dead shortly after at a nearby hospital. Continue reading...
Judge says severing cases is not required to protect rights to a fair determination' of their guilt or innocenceA judge on Monday denied requests by three former Memphis officers to have separate trials in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop.Lawyers for Tadarrius Bean, Desmond Mills and Justin Smith had filed motions to sever their cases from Demetrius Haley and Emmitt Martin, arguing that they could not receive fair trials if they all face a jury together for the violent beating of Nichols on 7 January that was caught on police video. Continue reading...
Michael Zack III set to die Tuesday for the murder of Rayonne Smith, a bar employee killed in June 1996A man is scheduled to die by lethal injection over 25 years after he killed women het met in north Florida bars during a dayslong spate of crimes.Michael Zack III is set to die at 6pm Tuesday for the murder of Ravonne Smith, a bar employee he befriended and later beat and stabbed with an oyster knife in June 1996. He was also convicted and separately sentenced to life in prison for murdering Laura Rosillo, who he met at a bar in a nearby county. Continue reading...
Donald Trump gave our resentful reactionaries a playbook to copy. The vitriol will be hard to put back in the bottleAs a Swedish correspondent in the US, I have sometimes braced myself on trips back home for some drastic societal change I'd heard about, only to return home and find that things were in fact exactly as they'd always been. Drivers still followed the little white arrows on the road - government recommendations for maintaining safe distances between cars and a symbol of Swedish society's strong adherence to rules and compliance. On the evening news, bureaucrats would have heated debates about such things as infrastructure and highway tolls. Politics was reliably boring; a sure sign of a healthy democracy.But over the past few years, something has genuinely changed. The political discourse is aggressive, focused on the culture wars, and seems stuck in a constant mode of outrage. The shrill vocabulary often seems to be lifted straight from American cable news. Gun violence and gang crime is at record levels - September was the most violent month for shooting deaths on record - and has helped stoke a culture of fear and an ever-escalating political blame game over immigration and asylum policies.Martin Gelin is the US correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and the author of Den vita stormen: Rasismens historia och USA's fall (The White Storm: How Racism Poisoned American Democracy)Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
As the United Autoworkers strike continues, a collection ranging from board games to defensive weapons tells the story of organizing - and how little has changedA Hawaiian shirt branded with union logos that wouldn't look out of place on a hypebeast runway. Political cartoons roasting Ronald Reagan's anti-labor policies. Rusty weapons recovered from violent strikes. All of that and more can be found in the Reuther archives, an exhaustive repository of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union's artifacts from a century of strikes.The US is in the midst of the first strike by workers at all the big three car companies of Detroit in 80 years. It's been a galvanizing moment for autoworkers, with Joe Biden making a historic visit to the picket line.. Continue reading...
Kaiser Permanente workers push for improvements to staffing levels and wage increases after union contract expiresMore than 75,000 healthcare workers at the US's largest non-profit private healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente, are poised to strike on 4 October in the largest healthcare strike in US history.The workers' union contract expired at the weekend and staff are pushing for significant improvements to staffing levels and wage increases that account for recent high inflation. Continue reading...
Americans should feel encouraged by the tenacity of judges and prosecutors in holding Trump accountableThere's reason to feel a bit more secure about the strength of American democracy, notwithstanding Donald Trump's escalating threats.For one thing, a large bipartisan coalition in both chambers of Congress has beat back the House Maga Republicans' attempt to shut down the government.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.comGuardian Newsroom: How will the US presidential race unfold? On Thursday 2 November 8pm-9.15pm BST, join Devika Bhat, David Smith and Hugo Lowell and Joan E Greve for a livestream discussion on the 2024 US presidential election. Book tickets here Continue reading...
Far-right congressman files motion after expressing outrage at speaker's bipartisan effort to avoid government shutdown. Plus, what do we really know about non-surgical cosmetic treatments?
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Revealed: individuals contacted by agency gave detailed accounts of abusive behavior they allegedly experienced or witnessedThe FBI has interviewed several individuals who have alleged they were abused by members of the People of Praise (PoP), a secretive Christian sect that counts conservative supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett as a lifelong member, according to sources familiar with the matter.The individuals were contacted following a years-long effort by a group called PoP Survivors, who have called for the South Bend-based sect to be investigated for leaders' handling of sexual abuse allegations. The body, which has 54 members, has alleged that abuse claims were routinely mishandled or covered up for decades in order to protect the close-knit faith group. Continue reading...
Heating his personal pool during a cost of living crisis? Donating millions to elite schools? The PM is banking on us filing this all apathetically under stuff rich people do'To kick off the Conservative conference, Laura Kuenssberg gave Rishi Sunak a first look, on air, at a word cloud of responses from the public to the question: What does Rishi Sunak stand for?" If you were building a reputation as a supervillain, the words looked great, but what about a prime minister? Unprecedented? Disastrous? The Rich", Rich People", Rich" and People" were four separate categories, by far the most ubiquitous; only Money" and Himself" came close. A few people knew he was a Conservative. There was an honourable mention of wealth", which is a little more courteous than rich", in so far as it's not something you are, it's something you have. Either way, one thing has cut through about the prime minister: he is really rich.It did come up, when he first took office a year ago, that his immense riches might pose a problem for him, just in the day-to-day stuff. Traditionally, people like their politicians to know the price of milk and how to pour a pint. This was always quite an easy fix for our esteemed public servants, who could learn these details ahead of a leadership bid.Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
In an extract from his memoir, the 13-year NBA veteran reveals the childhood tragedy he has kept secret for more than 30 yearsI've never told anyone this before, but my best friend died in my arms - and it was all because of basketball. It's a day I've kept tucked away in a corner of my mind for over 30 years, like the carefully folded contents of a weathered trunk, buried behind cobwebs and cardboard boxes in the farthest corner of an attic. Until I started writing this book, I hadn't spoken about what happened to anyone, including my parents and siblings. It's a guarded memory I've only revisited in moments of solitude on my road to the NBA, and I debated dredging up the past when my family has always been about moving forward. Still, what happened changed the course of my life, as well as theirs, and I can't possibly tell my story without it.When it happened, Chris was seven and I was six. We were two inseparable bundles of energy who lived in neighboring tenement buildings in the crime-ridden Washington DC, projects in the late 1980s. We'd met in kindergarten and our families had become familiar enough to know that where they found one of us, the other was most assuredly there, as well. We walked to school together in the morning and left together each afternoon for the corner bodega, where we shared a $2 turkey, cheese, and mayo hero in thick white deli paper we'd unwrapped barely out of the door. Then, it was off to one of the half dozen courts sprinkled within walking distance of our complex, where we played basketball until dusk warned us to get home. Continue reading...
Being within touching distance of the Ryder Cup action is a rare and precious experience - one unlikely to last much longerYou get a fluorescent green bib from the front desk, and it makes you look a bit like you're about to do community service, but you don't really mind, because what you've just been given is actually a golden key. One of the most precious items in the whole of sportswriting - right up there with your thesaurus, your dog-eared envelope full of expense receipts, and Wikipedia. You're about to enter a magical portal into a sunlit universe of big swings and perfumed shoulders, cigar smoke and mild swearing.There are times in this job when you feel the need to explain to people that actually, it's not as opulent and idyllic as it all seems. That there are deadlines and demands, brutally early starts and late nights, interminable hours spent in windowless rooms waiting for a man in a tracksuit to shower you in banalities, long train journeys with Jonathan Wilson. Then, of course, there are the moments that just need to be savoured and shared. Lean into the smugness. Come with me. We're going behind the ropes at the Ryder Cup. Continue reading...
With no end to the conflict in sight, politicians and the public must not waver in our resolve to support the wartorn countryThe blue and yellow flag still flies high over Britain's town squares and public buildings, signalling our unwavering and enduring solidarity with Ukraine's war effort.Well, in theory, anyway. For you can feel the fatigue descending now, like heavy autumn mist pooling in the bottom of a valley; a sort of strange public torpor, quietly smothering the high emotion of the early days of the war. Having leapt too quickly at the assumption that Kyiv couldn't possibly hold out against the mighty Russian army, British public opinion then swung wildly towards what has turned out to be an equally unrealistic idea, namely that plucky Ukraine could somehow achieve a David v Goliath victory over the rusting superpower within the year. We could put up with one winter of rocketing gas bills, surely, if that was the price to be paid for peace in Europe. Only now it's the second winter of not daring to turn on the central heating, and the stories emerging from the frontline are no longer of Ukrainian farmers cheerfully towing away stranded tanks with their tractors, but of a grinding war of attrition that could last up to a decade.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Far-right congressman files motion after expressing outrage at speaker's bipartisan effort to avoid government shutdownCongressman Matt Gaetz, a hard-right Republican of Florida, introduced a motion to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker on Monday, expressing outrage over the Republican leader's successful efforts to avoid a government shutdown this weekend.I have enough Republicans where at this point next week, one of two things will happen: Kevin McCarthy won't be the speaker of the House, or he'll be the speaker of the House working at the pleasure of the Democrats," Gaetz told reporters after he filed the motion. I'm at peace with either result because the American people deserve to know who governs them." Continue reading...
About 400 people took part in the search Monday, including state and local police, forest rangers and volunteer firefightersA nine-year-old girl who vanished during a family camping trip in upstate New York was found safe Monday following a two-day search, authorities said.Charlotte Sena was located in good health" and a suspect is in custody" in connection with her disappearance Saturday evening, New York state police said in a statement. Continue reading...
After the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the US vowed to hold Saudi Arabia accountable. Biden has done the oppositeFive years ago, Jamal Khashoggi walked into Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul to pick up a document he needed in order to marry his Turkish fiancee. The journalist never walked out. Inside the consulate, he was ambushed by a 15-member Saudi hit team, who suffocated him and dismembered his body with a bone saw. The death squad then slipped out of Turkey on two charter planes owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.Since then, Mohammed bin Salman - Saudi Arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler, who, according to US intelligence officials, approved Khashoggi's assassination - has managed a near complete rehabilitation of his increasingly autocratic regime. Prince Mohammed has met with Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders; he's positioning Saudi Arabia as a global tourism destination; and he's plowing ahead with plans to build Neom, his $500bn futuristic city in the desert. The prince has spent more than $6bn on investments in football teams, golf tournaments and other sports deals. He's pouring billions more into Silicon Valley tech companies - all part of an effort to whitewash the kingdom's abysmal human rights record. Continue reading...
Trump was a quiet presence inside court, but outside he said deranged' judge overseeing case should be out of office'Not many defendants would dare to brand the judge overseeing their case deranged", call for them to be kicked out of office and dismiss the suit against them as a witch-hunt". Not many defendants are Donald Trump.On the first day of a civil fraud case that could decide the future of his business career, Trump cut an angry, uncomfortable figure. This is a judge that should be out of office," he told reporters as the court broke for lunch. This is a judge that some people say could be charged criminally for what he's doing." Continue reading...
Ex-president rails against judge and prosecutors accusing him of years-long fraud they say inflated his wealth by as much as $2.2bnDonald Trump attacked the judge and New York prosecutors who have charged him with orchestrating a years-long fraud on Monday as state prosecutors accused the former president of using the scam to inflate his wealth by as much as $2.2bn.Trump arrived at a New York court just a few miles south of Trump Tower on Monday for the first day of a fraud trial that could see the former president and his family business paying hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and that has already threatened to end his business career in the city where it started. Continue reading...
Eight men tell BBC Panorama they attended events involving sex acts run for Mike Jeffries and his partner, some after sexual auditions'The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch has been accused of exploiting young men for sex at events he and his partner hosted in the US and around the world, according to a BBC investigation.Most of the men also allege that a middleman, who was hired by the fashion brand's former boss Mike Jeffries, sexually auditioned" them by requesting or offering to perform oral sex on them, before the young men were introduced to him and his partner, Matthew Smith. Continue reading...
Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that abortion pill prescriptions would now be available by telephone or onlineNew York City public hospitals will now offer abortion care via telehealth, placing them among the first public health systems in the US to do so.The city's mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Monday that abortion pill prescriptions would now be available by telephone or online, adding that such access can happen from the comfort of your home". Continue reading...
Doug Larsen and family killed shortly after taking off from Canyonlands airfield, about 15 miles north of MoabA state senator from North Dakota, his wife and their two young children died when the small plane they were traveling in crashed in Utah, a senate leader said Monday.Doug Larsen's death was confirmed on Monday in an email that the Republican state senate majority leader David Hogue sent to his fellow senators and was obtained by the Associated Press. Continue reading...
The quest for Pure Conservatism is afoot, and the former PM is not short of ideas. The problem is that they're all really terribleWhen two tribes go to war ... Or three. Or four. The real action at this year's Tory party conference is all taking place on the fringes. Almost no one believes that Rishi Sunak can win the next election and the leadership hopefuls are making their pitch for the hollowed-out soul of the party. The main hall is a dead zone. A theatre of charades where ministers on autopilot trot out a whole load of cliches they don't believe to a handful of dozing delegates who aren't listening. The speeches are delivered as if they were written by ChatGPT channelling a below-average 12-year-old. That's being kind in the case of Lucy Frazer, Mark Harper and Claire Coutinho.It's like gatecrashing a parallel universe. One where all the normal rules of politics are broken. A party conference is normally where people and politicians come together to share their worldview. Confirmation bias. Or, when times are tough, to bunker down and reassure themselves that all is well with their world even if the world is against them. Continue reading...
The prospect of defeat has liberated the party to lurch further to the right. Shame on the centrists who encourage this rabbleI want to scare the shit out of you," Frank Luntz, a focus-grouper to the US right, proclaimed to the Tory party audience. He hardly needed to. You know the average age of the Labour voter? 38-40. The average age of the Tory voter? Deceased." Nervous laughs. At every whither the future" event, speakers quote the YouGov poll showing only 1% of 18-24s back their party. For under-50s, it's barely better. The very word Conservative" is poison and young cohorts are staying with Labour as they age.Tory afflictions will fill Labour with glee this week. So many fractions of factions and so many contenders jostling for a bald man's comb, amid wails of the wiser who know it's almost all over. Like the ancient mariner, they pluck the sleeve of any passing journo to spill their tales of woe, no holding back.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
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Jackpot is fourth largest in Powerball history, with one in 292.1m odds, after 32 consecutive drawings without winnerAn estimated $1.04bn Powerball jackpot will be up for grabs on Monday night, tempting players to spend a couple dollars on a long shot chance at instant riches.The prize is the world's ninth-largest lottery prize behind earlier drawings of Powerball and Mega Millions, the other nearly nationwide lottery game. The jackpot is the fourth largest in the history of Powerball. Continue reading...
Robert Wayne Lee, 40, made contact online with suspected pedophiles and record videos of in-person confrontationsA man who gained a sizable social media following by posing as a child online to lure out alleged sexual predators was shot to death late last week during a confrontation at a restaurant in Michigan.Two men have been arrested in connection with the killing of 40-year-old Robert Wayne Lee, also known to his followers as Boopac Shakur. Continue reading...
Trump and his adult sons could lose business licenses and face up to $250m in penalties - even as he rises in the pollsDonald Trump laps the Republican field and leads Joe Biden, but the judiciary is unimpressed. Since Tuesday, the 45th president went zero-for-three in New York and DC courtrooms. After all the smoke cleared, his financial assets and personal freedom remain in jeopardy.On Monday, his latest trial begins in Manhattan. He and his adult sons face civil fraud charges. Last Tuesday a New York trial judge found that Trump had defrauded his lenders and insurers. In hindsight, The Art of the Deal bordered on the art of the steal.Lloyd Green is an attorney in New York and served in the US Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992 Continue reading...
From Max Homa's brilliance in a lost cause to Rory McIlroy's car park incident, our team share their best moments from ItalyPlayer of the tournament Rory Rocky" McIlroy was due a massive Ryder Cup, and he delivered one. McIlroy was Europe's top points scorer for the first time. Beyond bare statistics, his off-course influence galvanised the winners. Continue reading...
The Duchess of Sussex for California senator? Now where could they possibly have got that idea?The Duchess of Sussex is not, following the death of Dianne Feinstein, going to be the new senator for California. No, she was never in the frame, and no, her ultimate aim is not the White House. The ink was barely dry on the story in the MailOnline, and assorted rightwing titles globally, that Meghan was the long shot", before the real candidate, Laphonza Butler, was announced.Butler, incidentally, is a politician with a hinterland, a former union leader, once adviser to Kamala Harris, and currently president of Emily's List, a scheme to get more Democratic pro-choice women elected. What kind of mad hubris, outrageous self-regard, would lead an ersatz princess and failed podcaster to think she was better suited to the role? Well, none, necessarily. Meghan occupies a peculiar place in the international media imagination, where they can say almost anything about her, stick in a few sources say" and speculations", and their evergreen story is ready to go, a tale of the prideful wokerati, oversharing, overprivileged, hypocritical. She is like an avatar for the ultimate, in-your-grill liberal.Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
For the most part, the US newspapers gave Europe credit for their comprehensive victory in Rome as they regained the titleFor triumphant European golf fans, the galling thing about America's relationship with the Ryder Cup is that much of the US simply does not care about the tournament. On Sunday most sport fans in the States were discussing Taylor Swift's appearance at an NFL game, the final day of the MLB regular season or Jrue Holiday's trade to the Boston Celtics.But that's not to say that no one cares. And, for the most part, the US press gave Europe credit for a comprehensive victory. Europe's Ryder Cup triumph was down to meticulous planning, clever leadership and a strategy of drawing on the competition's history," wrote Tom Hamilton and Mark Schlabach of ESPN. They also complimented Europe captain Luke Donald and his vice-captain, Edoardo Molinari. Continue reading...
Watchdog group says entities backed by Leonard Leo have invested over $9m in dark web' of special interest groupsThe rightwing activist Leonard Leo has helped fund a network of groups involved in a crucial US supreme court case that could fundamentally weaken the federal government's ability to hold corporations to account, a leading watchdog said as the conservative-dominated court prepared for its new term.Leonard Leo spent years stacking the court with ideological kindred spirits," said Caroline Ciccone, president of Accountable.US. Now he's funding a dark web of special interest groups to push an extreme agenda." Continue reading...
Monsoon season usually brings summer thunderstorms for about three months each year starting in JuneAfter a summer of extreme heat, Arizona's most populous city is in the record books again. This time Phoenix is notching a record for dry heat.The National Weather Service said Sunday that the monsoon season this year in the arid south-west dropped only 0.15 inches (.38 centimeters) of rainfall from 15 June to 30 September. That's the driest since the agency began keeping records in 1895. The previous mark was 0.35 inches in 1924. Continue reading...
Association of Flight Attendants accuses airline of fostering anti-union culture, including illegal company unions'Flight attendants at the largest regional airline in the US, SkyWest, are seeking to unionize the airline, taking on what they claim is an illegal company union and pushing back on alleged retaliatory firings of two flight attendants who were leaders of an organizing campaign.Flight attendants at SkyWest, which operates flights for Delta, United, American Airlines and Alaska Airlines, are currently represented by the SkyWest Inflight Association (SIA), a work group that does not purport to be a union and is supported and funded by the airline itself, according to a handbook for SIA representatives. Continue reading...
The European team celebrated wildly after securing an outstanding 16-11 victory over the US at the Ryder Cup. They chanted and sang as they took in their win. Celebrations went on until the early hours of the morning Continue reading...
After losing my parents, I've become a caregiver for my aunts, uncles and older friends. I love it - aside from all the tech support, of courseIt's 4.30pm and I'm cutting up prosciutto for my 89-year-old uncle so he can take his evening pills with something in his stomach. Something other than the orgy of Mini Magnum ice-cream bars that he and my aunt just wolfed down while I was intercepting the pizza delivery guy.What kind of a midlife fool do they take me for? As if I wouldn't notice the sticky aftermath smeared all over their guilty faces. Not to mention hearing their entire covert" operation when I came back into the house. Busted. They forgot to turn on their hearing aids and couldn't hear a thing they were doing, or how loudly they were doing it - the freezer drawer slamming, the wrappers crackling, the gleeful squeals and smacking lips. Those sly dogs. Continue reading...
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