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Updated: September 19, 2022 @ 3:13 pm
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As an already catastrophic Hurricane Fiona set its sights on the Turks and Caicos Islands after making landfall in the Dominican Republic and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the government of the British territory just south of Florida issued shutdown orders for three of its low-lying islands.
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Three people killed after two planes collided near Denver were identified Monday as the investigation into what went wrong continued. The Boulder County coroner’s office said the victims from Saturday’s crash of a Cessna 172 and a Sonex Xenos — a light, homebuilt aircraft — were Daniel Wilmoth, 22, Samuel Fisher, 23, and Henry Butler, 69. It didn’t say which men were on which plane, but the Xenos was registered to Butler according to Federal Aviation Administration records. The Colorado Sun reported the Cessna was registered to the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology. The school has a campus at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, where the Cessna took off from.
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A Montana judge says state health officials made “calculated violations” of his order earlier this year to temporarily stop enforcing a state law that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate. He also said he would quickly consider motions for contempt if the state continues to violate his order. District Court Judge Michael Moses in April temporarily blocked the state from enforcing the birth certificate law, and the state to return to a 2017 rule that allowed transgender residents to file an affidavit with the health department to update their birth certificate. On Friday, Moses clarified his order and issued the written order on Monday.
The judge overseeing the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has rejected a motion by his attorneys that she step down. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer turned down the request on Monday without comment. Cruz’s attorneys had accused Scherer of being biased after she chewed them out last week when they unexpectedly rested their case. They had called only 25 of their 80 expected witnesses. That meant prosecutors weren’t ready to begin their rebuttal case, causing a two-week hiatus. The 23-year-old Cruz pleaded guilty to the 2018 shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead. The trial is to determine if he is sentenced to death or life without parole.
ORLANDO, Fla. — The fixes have been addressed, so now it’s time to add some stress to ensure NASA’s Artemis I mission success.
ATLANTA — Singer Shawn Mendes made a major donation to bring the Wonder of Music program to patients at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who led a fruitless 14-month investigation into the state’s 2020 election results has appeared in court to represent a man accused of fraudulently requesting absentee ballots. Michael Gableman said he was temporarily representing Harry Wait in a preliminary hearing Monday before a Racine County judge. Wait is accused of election fraud and identity theft for requesting the ballots of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Racine Mayor Cory Mason and others. Vos fired Gableman in August after an investigation that found no evidence of voter fraud and cost taxpayers more than $1 million.
Israel’s prime minister has vowed to begin production at a contested Mediterranean natural gas field “as soon as it is possible.” The comments by Yair Lapid threaten to raise tensions with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group. Monday’s announcement came at a sensitive time in long-running efforts by a U.S. mediator to resolve a dispute over the countries’ maritime border. U.S. officials have said they are making progress, but need more time to reach a solution. Israel says the gas field lies within its exclusive economic zone. But Lebanon says it is in disputed waters. Hezbollah has threatened Israel over the maritime dispute.
I couldn’t see the lone piper. But it didn’t matter. As the sounds of the Scottish lament, “Sleep, Dearie, Sleep,” faded into the silence of Westminster Abbey, it finally struck me that Queen Elizabeth II was really gone. The queen loved bagpipes so much that she had a piper play under her window for 15 minutes every morning, so those notes disappearing into the ether had a sense of finality, in a grand, show-stopping way. Monday’s state funeral was filled with those kinds of moments as Britain said good-bye to its longest-serving monarch with all the pageantry the nation is known for.
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake has shaken Mexico’s central Pacific coast, setting off an earthquake alarm in the capital. There are no immediate reports of damage from the quake that hit at 1:05 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geologic Survey. Alarms for the new quake came less than an hour after a quake alarms warbled in a nationwide earthquake simulation marking major quakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017.
LONDON — Britain bade its final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, honoring its longest-reigning monarch with a state funeral that provided pomp in solemn circumstances, drew dignitaries from around the world and captivated a global television audience.
Israel has announced the appointment of a new ambassador to Turkey. It is the latest sign of warming relations between the two countries following more than a decade-long rift. Israel’s Foreign Ministry said Monday that Irit Lillian, a senior diplomat already posted to Ankara, will serve as the new ambassador. She is the first person to hold the job since 2018. Once-warm relations began to deteriorate after the election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an outspoken critic of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. In a sign of rapprochement, Israel’s president visited Turkey to meet with Erdogan. And in June, the two countries said they were restoring full diplomatic relations.
DALLAS — Jeremy Allen White has been cast as Kerry Von Erich in A24′s upcoming biopic on the Von Erich family, “The Iron Claw.”
France’s foreign minister is urging Iran to take the last offer on the table to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with the United States and key powers, saying the window of opportunity “is about to close.” In a wide-ranging press conference on the sidelines of this week’s gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly, Catherine Colonna also said Monday that China must stop its “very aggressive” behavior toward Taiwan. She accused Russia of waging unjustified aggression against Ukraine “in a very brutal way” with shelling of civilian targets, violent acts, “rapes, torture and forced liquidation.”
The online travel agency Booking.com says it plans to add warnings to listings in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Booking.com said on Monday it would caution customers booking accommodations in Israeli settlements that they were traveling to a “disputed, conflict-affected or high-risk” area that “may pose greater risks.” The company did not say when the alert would take effect. The move would come as violence rises in the West Bank and as foreign companies face pressure from both Israel and the Palestinians over their business in the occupied territories. Most of the world considers the settlements, built on land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, to be a violation of international law.
The Grammy-nominated rapper Mystikal has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of raping and choking a woman at his Louisiana home and of possessing several drugs. Attorney Joel Pearce says the 51-year-old performer whose given name is Michael Tyler is innocent of all charges. Tyler entered the pleas on Monday in Ascension Parish court in Gonzales. Pearce says he has not been able to get copies of the two indictments, but they were read in court. Pearce says the next hearing is on Oct. 17, and prosecutors said they plan to bring up Tyler’s 2003 guilty plea to sexual battery as evidence of prior crimes.
Federal prosecutors seeking to keep a former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective in jail for allegedly preying on poor Black females have filed a motion containing graphic details of his alleged abuse of seven more girls and women. Roger Golubski faces a hearing Monday in which prosecutors will argue that he should stay in jail until his trial. Golubski was charged last week with six counts alleging civil rights violations against a woman and teenager. He has pleaded not guilty. In the filing Friday, prosecutors detailed other cases of abuse to bolster their argument that he should stay in jail. Golubski is not charged in those cases.
WASHINGTON — More Texans said they support the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a new poll that shows a 7-point jump from August.
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School disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic have set back children around the globe, from the United States to sub-Saharan Africa. At a summit Monday, world leaders are expected to make commitments to prioritize their school systems, many of which saw their budgets slashed when the pandemic hit. The percentage of 10-year-old children in poor and middle-income who cannot read a simple story increased to an estimated 70 percent –- up 13 percentage points — since before the pandemic shuttered classrooms. That’s according to a report from the World Bank, UNESCO and UNICEF.
A federal judge in Florida has ruled that a state prosecutor suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis will remain out of office while his court case against the Republican governor moves to trial. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle denied a motion Monday to reinstate Andrew Warren as state attorney of Hillsborough County as the lawsuit continues. DeSantis suspended Warren last month for signing statements that said he would not pursue criminal charges against seekers or providers of abortion or gender transition treatments, as well as policies about not bringing charges for certain low-level crimes. Trial dates have not yet been set.
A top Chinese health official warned people against having skin-to-skin contact with foreigners to avoid contracting monkeypox, spurring a backlash among the country’s dwindling expatriate community.
The operator of one of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power stations says it has detected a leak that will require the plant to shut down for maintenance if it’s to run beyond the end of the year. The announcement on Monday puts pressure on the German government to decide if it wants to stick to its plan of shutting all the country’s nuclear plants this year, to keep them on stand-by or to run them for as long as possible. Germany’s economy minister said earlier this month that he favors shutting one down and keeping two on stand-by. Opposition lawmakers and some in government want them to keep running, to help ease possible energy shortages.
In one of the final conversations I had with my mom, she made a joke about “Hider in the House.”
The average American’s credit score is 716 according to FICO, the company that created the most-used credit scoring formula. FICO publishes this data every six months, and this is the third time in a row that the average credit score has been 716.
ATLANTA — The estate for late country legend and longtime Atlanta resident Kenny Rogers is placing some of his memorabilia and personal effects up for auction next month.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge hearing the case of Hillsborough County’s ousted state attorney appears to favor a trial over immediately reinstating Andrew Warren to decide the issue “once and for all.”
Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases are prompting U.S. health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts. Infections rates for some STDs, including gonorrhea and syphilis, have been rising for years. But recently released statistics show that that last year the rate of infectious syphilis cases reached its highest since 1991 and the total number of cases rose 26% to hit its highest since 1948. Experts are calling for reducing stigma, broadening screening and treatment services, and supporting the development and accessibility of at-home testing
Germany’s defense minister says her country will provide Ukraine with four additional self-propelled howitzers and ammunition. Christine Lambrecht said Monday that the ten howitzers already supplied by Germany and eight from the Netherlands “have proven themselves in battle.” “Ukraine is full of praise of the system and has expressed a desire for more howitzers,” she said. “In order to further support Ukraine in its brave fight against the brutal Russian attack, Germany will grant this request.” Lambrecht said the Panzerhaubitze 2000 model howitzers recently underwent refurbishment.
CHICAGO — The smash hit Goodman Theatre production of “Good Night, Oscar” is headed to Broadway in the spring with most of its original Chicago cast — including its acclaimed star, Sean Hayes, likely to be a formidable contender in the upcoming awards season.
PHILADELPHIA — A group of nearly 60 veterans from Pennsylvania signed a letter deriding Republican candidate for governor Doug Mastriano for being photographed wearing a Confederate Army uniform, calling it “shameful” and saying it’s “an insult to those of us who served and those who continu…
King Charles left a short-and-sweet handwritten message atop the coffin of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, during her funeral Monday in London.
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Minnesota sixth-year wide receiver Chris Autman-Bell will have season-ending surgery on his right leg. The injury is a big loss for the unbeaten Gophers as they begin Big Ten play without their best pass catcher. Autman-Bell was hurt in Minnesota’s 49-7 win over Colorado on Saturday. He landed awkwardly while trying to catch on off-target throw in the second quarter. The procedure will take place on Wednesday. The Gophers will apply to the NCAA for a medical redshirt that would allow him to return for a seventh season.
When poet Amanda Gorman was invited to read a newly developed poem at the U.N. General Assembly, the young sensation took a deep look at how societal issues like hunger and poverty have impacted Earth’s preservation. Gorman wanted to express the impact of unity through her poetic words on the opening day of the 77th session Monday in New York. The 24-year-old created the poem titled “An Ode We Owe” in hopes of bringing all nations together to tackle various issues of disparity along with preserving the planet. In an interview with The Associated Press, she says the world’s problems may seem monumental, but they’re “too large to be stepped away from.”
Andrew Sean Greer’s “Less Is Lost” is the highly anticipated follow up to his 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning novel “Less,” a satire about an American abroad who travels the globe from Mexico to Germany to Japan to avoid going to an ex-boyfriend’s wedding. Like that earlier novel, which was lauded for its musical prose, “Less is Lost” is affecting and funny. This time, gay middle-aged author Arthur Less has launched a road trip across the United States in a van, stopping at literary gigs to raise enough money to pay a decade of back rent on his late lover’s home.
In movie theatres and pubs, on giant screens and smartphones, people watched and pundits droned on as Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in London flooded the airwaves live across time zones and continents. On the other side of the English Channel in staunchly republican France, broadcasters scrapped normal programming to carry up to 12 hours of live footage Monday. Sipping her drink in an English pub in Paris, Martine Paranthoen said she had “a little bit of a tight heart … because for me the queen was immortal.” In South Africa, some of the coverage was accompanied by discussions on how — or even whether — the queen’s life should be celebrated in the former British colony.