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Katie Pavlich slams the hypocrisy behind the Democrats’ coronavirus rules ‘for thee, but not for me.’

A guest at former President Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash said he was forced to delete Instagram photos he posted of himself at the star-studded event on Martha’s Vineyard Saturday night.

Rapper Trap Beckham and his manager, TJ Chapman, posted Instagram photos of the food and décor at the event, as well as themselves smoking marijuana, which is legal in Massachusetts, but the photos were later deleted under the event’s photography ban, the New York Post reported.

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Beckham and Chapman both posted about having to delete the photos.

“Had to delete everything due to the rules,” Beckham said, the Post reported. “It was epic for sure. If any videos surface it’s going viral. He danced the whole time. Nobody ever seen Obama like this before.”

Chapman was visibly irritated after having to delete the evidence of his “epic” evening.

“Epic night last night,” he said in a video. “I posted some stories of myself. Didn’t think anybody gave a damn, and I guess they did. That’s not cool. That’s not cool.”

Singer Erykah Badu posted a video on Instagram of Obama holding a microphone and dancing onstage at the party, but it was later deleted Sunday morning.

“Y’all never seen Obama like this in your life,” Chapman said on Instagram afterward.

Guests were seen leaving Obama’s party just before midnight, the Post reported. A local Massachusetts police officer called the traffic situation in the small town a “s–t show” on his radio as people started to head home, the Post reported.

Chapman estimated that organizers spent at least $1 million on the event, which he labeled “the party of all parties.”

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Celebrity guests included Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Steven Spielberg, Bradley Cooper, Don Cheadle, Steven Colbert, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom and Rita Hanks.

The Obamas said they would scale back the guest list after facing backlash for hosting the party amid a nationwide uptick in COVID-19 cases due to the spread of the delta variant.

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Taliban seizes Kunduz, first major Afghan city to fall in vacuum left by US troop withdrawal – CNN

By Jennifer Hauser, Tara John and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN

Updated 10:06 AM ET, Sun August 8, 2021

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Two CPD Officers Shot, One Killed, In West Englewood – CBS Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) – A Chicago police officer was shot and killed Saturday night, and a second was critically wounded in the shooting in the West Englewood neighborhood.

“This evening, Chicago mourns the loss of one of its bravest and finest, and we have another officer who is struggling and fighting for his very life,” CPD First Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter said early Sunday morning outside University of Chicago Medical Center, where the wounded officers were taken after the shooting.

Carter said officers with the Community Safety Team conducted a traffic stop around 9 p.m. near 63^rd and Bell. Three people were in the car, two males and a female.

During the traffic stop, someone in the vehicle opened fire on police, who returned fire.

Two officers and one of the people in the car were wounded. Police said the two men who were in the car were in custody, including one who was shot and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious condition. Police were searching for the female who was in the car.

The wounded officers were taken to University of Chicago Medical Center. A 29-year-old female officer later was pronounced dead, and the male officer was in critical condition early Sunday morning.

The name of the officer who died has not been released.

“We ask the city of Chicago to pray for both officers, their families, their fellow officers who are struggling with the facts of this,” Carter said. “This is just another example of how the Chicago Police Department and these officers put their lives above that of others to protect the city day in and day out, selflessly. They go out here and do their jobs thanklessly. They do it without asking for anything. They do it because they love it. They do it because it’s something a higher calling for. And they do it because it’s the right thing to do.”

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she spent time with the slain officer’s family at the hospital.

“Obviously our hearts ache for the loss of life who succumbed to her injuries. She was very young on the job, but incredibly enthusiastic to do the work,” Lightfoot said. “We must remind ourselves every single day, our officers are fearless in the face of danger. They run into danger to protect us. We can never forget, never forget the sacrifices that they make every single day, as we speak, to protect people and neighborhoods, even in the face of violence.”

“It’s a very sad day, not just for the Chicago Police Department, but it is a very sad and tragic day for our city,” Lightfoot added.

“Tonight, we mourn,” the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police posted on Twitter.

Earlier, before the officer’s death had been announced, the union tweeted, “Lord, please look over these two Officers, keep them and every Officer out in the 8th District safe tonight. This career of service we all chose is one of sacrifice, but please Lord, not tonight. Not tonight.”

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— Fraternal Order of Police – Chicago Lodge #7 (@FOP7Chicago) August 8, 2021

Scores of officers gathered outside University of Chicago Medical Center overnight. A procession was expected to take the slain officer’s body to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office, where an autopsy will be conducted Sunday morning.

Meantime, at the scene of the shooting, officers were seen actively searching bushes, with police helicopters hovering overhead. Police also had blocked traffic on several streets around the scene of the shooting.

One woman who lives in the area said the block where the shooting happened is typically quiet.

“It’s an industrial area, so there are never any issues. No trouble whatsoever,” she said. “We’re usually worried about Western, down the street, but not right here.”

The officer who died is the fifth female Chicago Police officer to die in the line of duty, and the first woman CPD officer to die in the line of duty in 21 years.

Officer Alane Stoffregen, a police rescue diver, died during a training accident in June 2000.

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The last female officer shot and killed in the line of duty in Chicago was Officer Irma Ruiz, who was killed in 1988 while confronting a gunman at Moses Montefiore School.

Source Article from https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/08/08/chicago-police-officers-shot-west-englewood-63rd-bell/

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Gingrich rips Republican senators yielding to ‘phony bipartisanship’ to support ‘terrible’ infrastructure bill – Fox News

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Newt Gingrich warns Republicans not to fall for ‘phony bipartisanship’ in infrastructure bill

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., joins ‘Life, Liberty & Levin’

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., decried Republicans who are going along with a Democrat-led effort to pass two multi-trillion-dollar spending bills that supporters say are based on a need for infrastructure funding.

As a former House Speaker, Gingrich warned viewers on Sunday’s “Life, Liberty & Levin” that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is wielding his former gavel in the mold of “dictator” and continues to violate House rules and aggregate majority power more than any other speaker in history.

“The left really wants to destroy the America we know,” he warned.

“I am stunned at how much she has violated the rules and how much she’s aggregated power into one person and the damage that that’s doing to the institution. So the House is a different place than in the Senate, [where] you have this myth of comity.”

Gingrich added that given how Pelosi and her party are behaving, there is no reason for Republicans to trust that “bipartisan” legislation is truly that.

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Many Republicans who believe in that “myth of comity” continue to read left-wing media like the Washington Post and New York Times, Gingrich argued. They believe wholeheartedly in the appearance of bipartisanship.

“What if we could be friends? So [what if] I might have to sell out, but it’ll be so much positive for America to be able to say the word bipartisan,” he said, characterizing those lawmakers’ sentiments.

Gingrich went on to explain that voters must hold their senators accountable when they, as recent overtures appear to suggest, go ahead and pass far-reaching legislation that includes things “no Republican should vote for and that there’s no defense for.”

“I think the members in the Senate who are buying this totally phony bipartisanship in which the Democrats are going to write this bill – it’s going to be a terrible bill,” he said.

“And I think that the Republicans who did vote yes should really rethink that. They’ve got a few days ahead of them and they should really rethink [this]. The people who watch this show ought to call their senators and just say, ‘Have you lost your mind? Have you read the bill? Do you realize how bad it is?’”

He praised Republicans Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas for rightfully sounding the alarm on how truly partisan and extreme the purported “bipartisan” legislation is.

“Don’t tell me about the headline in the press conference. Look at what the Democratic staff have written into this bill,” Gingrich said.

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“And it will be very abhorrent to most Republicans and I think will become a major issue in primaries in the Republican Party.”

Gingrich predicted intraparty backlash among voters in the GOP if their elected officials help Democrats pass their far-left spending package. He compared it to how voters responded to Congress approving President Jimmy Carter’s transfer of the Panama Canal Zone back to the Panamanians. In 1977, the United States signed a treaty with then-Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos to surrender the canal they’d controlled since the early 1900s.

“[A] whole generation was wiped out in the Senate because they voted [to] give away the Panama Canal. And people just were furious and as American nationalists, they really resented doing it. And so they took it out on Republican senators and Democrats. I think this bill is going to be similar,” he said.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/media/gingrich-rips-republican-senators-yielding-to-phony-bipartisanship-to-support-terrible-infrastructure-bill

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6 killed in Alaska sightseeing plane crash identified – ABC News

JUNEAU, Alaska — Six people who were killed in a sightseeing plane crash were recovered and identified after crews initially struggled to reach the wreckage in southeast Alaska due to poor weather conditions.

Alaska State Troopers identified the pilot and five passengers late Saturday following the crash Thursday. The aircraft went down as the pilot was returning the passengers to Ketchikan from Misty Fjords National Monument.

The passengers who died were Mark Henderson, 69, and Jacquelyn Komplin, 60, both of Napa, California; Andrea McArthur, 55, and Rachel McArthur, 20, both of Woodstock, Georgia; and Janet Kroll, 77, of Mount Prospect, Illinois. The pilot was Rolf Lanzendorfer, 64, of Cle Elum, Washington.

All five passengers were on an excursion off the Holland America Line cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam. Ketchikan is a popular stop for cruise ships visiting Alaska, and cruise ship passengers can take various sightseeing excursions while in port.

Popular among them are small plane flights to Misty Fjords National Monument, where visitors can see glacier valleys, snow-capped peaks and lakes in the wilderness area.

The plane’s emergency beacon was activated about 11:20 a.m. Thursday when it crashed near the monument, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

A helicopter company reported seeing wreckage on a ridgeline in the search area, and Coast Guard crew members found the wreckage around 2:40 p.m. A Coast Guard helicopter lowered two rescue swimmers to the site, and they reported no survivors, the agency said.

However, poor weather and deteriorating visibility hampered early efforts to recover the bodies. Alaska State Troopers and members of the Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad made it to the crash site Saturday afternoon via a chartered Temsco helicopter.

The bodies of the six people who died will be taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Anchorage, the troopers said.

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash. The Federal Aviation Administration was also investigating.

Source Article from https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/killed-alaska-sightseeing-plane-crash-identified-79347136

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Andrew Cuomo’s lawyer says he ‘may have’ touched state trooper’s back – New York Post

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s personal lawyer kept up her attack on the credibility of some of his sexual harassment accusers Saturday, but admitted one reported instance may have been true.

“The governor may have very well touched the state trooper’s back,” Rita Glavin said during an interview Saturday night with Pamela Brown on CNN. “And she may have understood it one way and he understood it another way.”

The unidentified trooper, a member of the governor’s protective detail, told investigators the incident happened when Cuomo was standing behind her in an elevator, ran his finger down the middle of her back and said to her “Hey, you.”

She also said he ran his open hand over her abdomen as he held a door open for him, according to a report released Tuesday by Attorney General Letitia James.

She told investigators the latter incident left her feeling “completely violated.”

Glavin admitted Cuomo “may have very well touched the state trooper’s back.”

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Glavin said she did not believe the incidents as described in James’ report were criminal conduct.

Cuomo would address the trooper’s allegation personally “very, very soon,” the lawyer said.

Glavin’s comments echoed what she said in a Friday press conference, calling James’ report inaccurate and disputing the account of some of the 11 women mentioned in the report.

Gov. Cuomo has not stepped down.

“I believe that Lindsey Boylan is lying,” Glavin said about the former state worker who claims Cuomo made inappropriate comments to her and kissed her on the lips.

Another woman, identified as “Executive Assistant 1,” said Cuomo grabbed her breast under her blouse while she was at the Executive Mansion. She filed a criminal complaint against him Thursday.

“He did not grope her,” Glavin said.

Glavin called into question Lindsey Boylan’s credibility.

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Glavin admitted the governor does “slip” at times. Asked what that meant, Glavin said he will call people “darling” and “sweetheart” and ask about their personal lives. She also called him a hugger, which she said was not always welcome.

“People feel uncomfortable,” she said. “You can’t go around hugging and kissing everybody.”

Source Article from https://nypost.com/2021/08/07/andrew-cuomos-lawyer-says-he-may-have-touched-state-troopers-back/

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Chicago cop fatally shot in West Englewood; second seriously injured and fighting for his life – Chicago Tribune

The Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge #7, tweeted “Lord, please look over these two Officers, keep them and every Officer out in the 8th District safe tonight. This career of service we all chose is one of sacrifice, but please Lord, not tonight. Not tonight.”

Source Article from https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-2-officers-shot-west-englewood-20210808-ynzwgfvclzg4lgmlbsffv5peci-story.html

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Gavin Newsom tours California area devastated by wildfire damage – Fox News

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday toured the devastation caused by the Dixie Fire in the northern part of the state.

The fire has become the largest single wildfire in the state’s history, according to FOX 2 of the Bay Area.

“Our hearts ache for this town,” Newsom tweeted along with a photo of burned rubble that was once the Greenville post office. “Greenville—though this moment may seem insurmountable, we’ll be there to help you rebuild.”

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The governor, who faces a recall election next month over issues including his handling of the coronavirus, said he planned to overhaul wildfire prevention efforts when he was first elected in 2019 but a June report said he misrepresented the scope and success of forest management projects, according to NPR.

The CapRadio and the California Newsroom investigation also found the governor cut funding for fire prevention by $150 million.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom surveys Greenville homes leveled by the Dixie Fire on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, in Plumas County, California. Accompanying him is Cal Fire Assistant Region Chief Curtis Brown. (Associated Press)

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Newsom claimed that 90,000 acres of forest were treated with prescribed burns, forest thinning or other prevention efforts but only 12,000 acres were actually treated, the state’s own data showed, according to Scott Rodd who broke the story for CapRadio.

Rodd told NPR Newsom has declined interview requests from CapRadio but the head of Cal Fire, Thom Porter, said his department took the blame for the governor’s misstatements over a lack of communication.

Rodd said Porter added, “it’s hard to prevent future fires when there are current fires going on, especially in a year like last year, when you had a record number of blazes going at once.”

Recall challenger Kevin Faulconer, a former San Diego mayor, criticized Newsom’s handling of wildfires Saturday.

“#DixieFire is now the largest in CA history. Greenville tragically destroyed last night,” he tweeted. “Gavin Newsom’s failed ideas increase the danger of these fires. We need major fuel reduction, better #fire roads, and robust evacuation routes for every community. War footing. #wildfires.”

The Dixie Fire is the latest in a string of devastating wildfires in the state over the last few years spread by record heat, dry weather and strong winds.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks with law enforcement personnel while surveying damage to Greenville, which suffered extensive structure loss during the Dixie Fire, on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, in Plumas County, California. (Associated Press)

The fire has destroyed hundreds of homes and leveled much of the small town of Greenville, around 150 miles north of Sacramento.

Greenville’s roughly 1,000 residents were urged to evacuate Wednesday as the flames closed in and burned down various wooden buildings, some of which were more than 100 years old.

The Plumas County Sheriff’s Office warned residents Wednesday evening, “If you are still in the Greenville area, you are in imminent danger and you MUST leave now!!”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom examines a scorched utility pole while surveying Dixie Fire damage in Greenville on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, in Plumas County, California. Accompanying him is Cal Fire Assistant Region Chief Curtis Brown. (Associated Press)

Plumas County Supervisor Kevin Goss called the destruction “our biggest nightmare.”

“The Dixie Fire burnt down our entire downtown. Our historical buildings, families homes, small businesses, and our children’s schools are completely lost,” Goss wrote on Facebook Wednesday. “Every square inch of downtown holds countless memories for each member of our small community and ample amount of history from our ancestors.”

No injuries or deaths were immediately reported, but the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office said Friday evening that it is still working to get in touch with eight unaccounted-for individuals.

Dixie is the largest active fire in California at 446,723 acres and only 35% containment as of Saturday afternoon. More than 5,000 personnel are working to fight the fire. Pacific Gas & Electric said last month that the fire may have started when a tree fell on one of its power lines.

There were 17 active wildfires throughout the state on Saturday, according to Cal Fire.

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Some scientists blame climate change for the increase in wildfires over the past few decades. A 2016 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that “observed warming and drying have significantly increased fire-season fuel aridity, fostering a more favorable fire environment across forested systems.”

Fox News’ Paul Best contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gavin-newsom-tours-california-area-devastated-by-wildfire-damage

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The Taliban seize Kunduz, a key city in northern Afghanistan. – The New York Times

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Florida breaks record for new daily Covid cases for third time this week – NBC News

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Senate Advances Infrastructure Bill but Lone Republican Eager to Slow Approval to a Crawl – Slate

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The Albany County Sheriff Is Investigating A Criminal Complaint Against Gov. Cuomo – NPR

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, pictured July 14 in New York City, is being investigated by the Albany County sheriff’s office for a criminal complaint that the sheriff described as “sexual in nature.”

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The Albany County Sheriff’s Office says it is in the “very infant stages” of investigating a criminal complaint against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Authorities addressed the complaint for the first time Saturday, following news of the complaint being made public Friday.

The complaint — which Sheriff Craig Apple described as “sexual in nature” — came just days after the state attorney general’s office released a report detailing its own investigation into a string of public allegations of sexual misconduct against the Democratic governor.

During a Saturday news conference, Apple said if charges were to be brought in the case, he believes they would amount to a misdemeanor, or possibly a couple of misdemeanors.

Apple said his office received a call Wednesday afternoon from attorney Brian Premo that ultimately resulted in the complaint being filed.

“He indicated that he had a female client who wished to come forward and file an allegation of criminal conduct against the governor,” Apple said, noting that the Premo and his client were then forwarded over to investigators.

Apple was short on additional details about the allegation and the investigation.

“I can tell you that the complaint occurred in the city of Albany. I can tell you that the city of Albany and the state capital buildings are located in our great county,” Apple said.

The woman who brought the criminal complaint is also an unnamed executive assistant to Cuomo who was mentioned in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ report. The governor allegedly reached under the woman’s shirt and grabbed her breast, according to that report.

Cuomo’s communications director, Richard Azzopardi, told NPR in a statement that the governor’s office “proactively” referred the incident to the Albany police in March.

Apple acknowledged the high-profile nature of the case, but insisted that Cuomo’s position as a public figure would not affect the course of the criminal investigation.

“This is obviously a very high profile investigation. There is a lot of information out there. We have a lot of fact-finding to do. We have a lot of interviews to do,” Apple said. “I’m not going to rush it because of who he is — and I’m not going to delay it because of who he is.”

Attorneys for Cuomo have remained defiant in the days after the release of the state attorney general’s report, calling its findings “unfair and inaccurate.”

“I know the difference between putting together a case against a target versus doing independent fact-finding with an open mind,” Cuomo’s attorney Rita Glavin said Friday. “There has been no open-minded fact finding here.”

As the governor faces mounting pressure to resign, members of the state assembly — led by Democrats — say they support resuming impeachment proceedings that began in March if Cuomo does not resign.

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2021/08/07/1025772844/the-albany-county-sheriff-is-investigating-a-criminal-complaint-against-gov-cuom

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Dixie Fire nearing second largest fire in California History – KRCRTV.COM

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B-52s lead new US airpower onslaught to stop Taliban advances in Afghanistan – New York Post

The United States was sending B-52 bombers, AC-130 gunships and fighter jets into Afghanistan Saturday to turn back dramatic recent advances by the Taliban.

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers, the mainstay of American strategic airpower since 1952, were flying into Afghanistan from al-Udeid airbase in Qatar, The Times of London reported, citing Defense Department sources.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, stationed in the Arabian Sea, is contributing its F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets to the missions, but they are not involved in the bombing, the report states. Lockheed AC-130 Spectre attack planes, dubbed “the world’s deadliest gunship,” have also been sent into action.

The onslaught of American airpower comes as the Taliban makes territorial gains throughout Afghanistan in the wake of the near-total departure of U.S. forces ordered by President Biden.

A US Airforce B-52 Stratofortress heavy bomber drops bombs over Afghanistan.

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The city of Zaranj in Nimroz, a southwest province bordering Iran, was overrun by the Taliban Friday, making it the first provincial capital to fall since foreign troops began their withdrawal. Meanwhile, insurgents in the Afghan capital of Kabul, assassinated Dawa Khan Menapal, the government’s chief media officer, according to sources.

The deteriorating security situation forced the US Embassy on Saturday to urge American citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately.

“The defense sources insisted that there was every intention to continue with the airstrikes after August 31, the date set for the withdrawal of the last remaining US troops in Afghanistan,” the Times reports.

An Air Force Special Forces AC-130 gunship in Afghanistan.

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Source Article from https://nypost.com/2021/08/07/b-52s-lead-new-us-airpower-onslaught-to-stop-taliban-advances-in-afghanistan/

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Boater drowns in Lake Powell after jumping in to help his kids – Salt Lake Tribune

A Lake Powell boater is dead after jumping into the lake to assist his child who was struggling to stay above the water.

California resident Phil Chiang, 49, rented a ski boat at Wahweap Marina on Thursday for a day touring the lake with his family, according to a release from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

Around 1 p.m. they stopped in a cove near Warm Creek Bay, where two children went swimming without life jackets.

After one began struggling, Chiang, also without a life jacket, jumped in to help. After assisting the two kids back on board, he slipped underwater and did not resurface, the National Park Service reported

The children’s mother flagged down passing boats and called for help on a marine-band radio.

Several boaters stopped to help and dove down looking for Chiang. He was brought to the surface after at least 10 minutes underwater. The rescuers took him to the beach to perform CPR, but they could not resuscitate the victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Besides the park service, personnel from Kane County Sheriff’s Office and Utah State Parks responded to the emergency.

Chiang’s is just one of many drowning deaths to occur this summer on Utah lakes. Most if not all of these deaths could have been prevented had the victims been wearing personal flotation devices, according to Utah State Parks.

Deer Creek and Pineview reservoirs, also popular boating destinations, have seen at least four drownings this summer in which the victims entered the water without life jackets.

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Hochul moves into spotlight as scandal roils Cuomo’s reign – Associated Press

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As New York’s lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and factory floors of each of the state’s 62 counties for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.

Now, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo facing possible impeachment over sexual harassment allegations, her next stop may be the state Capitol of Albany.

Hochul would become the state’s first woman governor if Cuomo were removed from office.

A centrist Democrat from western New York, she has worked deep in Cuomo’s shadow for her two terms in office, but this week joined the chorus of politicians denouncing the governor after an independent investigation concluded he had sexually harassed 11 women while in office.

“I believe these brave women,” Hochul wrote, calling Cuomo’s behavior “repulsive and unlawful” in a statement Tuesday.

She also acknowledged what has been simmering for months: The possibility she will become governor.

“Because lieutenant governors stand next in the line of succession, it would not be appropriate to comment further on the process at this moment,” she wrote.

To many New Yorkers, Hochul is an unknown quantity, serving since 2015 in a job that is mostly ceremonial. A typical afternoon in late July had her announcing job training funding in Utica, discussing manufacturing in Rome and touring downtown Cazenovia with the small town’s mayor.

That has been nothing like the attention-demanding appearances of the determinedly high-profile Cuomo, who does most of his business in Albany and New York City and whose daily coronavirus briefings were national events at the height of the coronavirus.

Hochul has not been part of Cuomo’s inner circle of aides and allies. Her name wasn’t mentioned in the investigative report, released by Attorney General Letitia James, that detailed not only the harassment allegations against Cuomo but also efforts by his staff to discredit some of his accusers.

But at 62, Hochul is an experienced politician, a veteran of 11 campaigns that have taken her from town board to Congress, the latter representing a conservative western New York district after a surprising 2011 win in a special election to fill a vacancy in the U.S. House.

“Pragmatic would be a good way to describe her,” said Jacob Neiheisel, an associate political science professor at the University at Buffalo. “Someone who is pretty good at reading the tea leaves and coming around to where her constituency is.”

Hochul’s office declined an interview request.

A steelworker’s daughter, Hochul, a lawyer, worked in Washington as an aide to former U.S. Rep. John LaFalce and later, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, both from New York, before holding her first public office, on the town board in Hamburg, near Buffalo.

From there, she became Erie County Clerk, where she made some news in 2007 for resistance to a plan by then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer to allow unauthorized immigrants get driver’s licenses. Hochul and another western New York clerk explored a plan to have police arrest immigrants who tried to apply.

“It will be a deterrent, and that’s what I’m looking for,” Hochul told The Buffalo News at the time.

Her next move was to Congress, where in 2011 she had a surprising win in a special election in a district that had been in Republican hands for decades. She lost a bid for reelection a year later to Republican Chris Collins, despite an endorsement by the National Rifle Association. Collins later resigned from the U.S. House and pleaded guilty to insider trading.

Hochul moved to the left, politically, when Cuomo tapped her as his running mate in 2014 after his first lieutenant governor, former Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy, decided not to run for reelection.

She backed New York’s SAFE Act, one of the nation’s toughest gun control laws, as well as the state’s Green Light Law, which let unauthorized immigrants get driver’s licenses.

Hochul has not publicly expressed whether she would pursue a full term in 2022 if she were to step into the role.

An upstate candidate running for any statewide office in New York faces a daunting challenge, but even more so for the governor’s office, which has historically drawn from New York City.

Neiheisel said given her record, it is difficult to predict what a “distinctly Hochul agenda” might look like, especially when faced with the state’s still-active pandemic response and a recovery that will involve billions of dollars in federal aid.

“Given how little she’s historically been in the news cycle, I really don’t think she has the kind of name recognition that you would expect of somebody who is suddenly being thrust into a position of maybe being governor,” Neiheisel said “She’s going to have to do an awful lot, really fast, in order for there to be a serious conversation for keeping that job.”

At a news briefing Wednesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has a famously contentious relationship with Cuomo, said he’s gotten to know Hochul over the last few years and “she strikes me as a very reasonable person.”

“I believe if Kathy Hochul becomes governor, she’ll be an honest broker,” he said. “We’ll be able to work together.”

In Buffalo, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz worked alongside Hochul when he was county comptroller and she was Erie County Clerk. He said he saw Hochul easily stepping into the governor’s office.

“I think it’s fair to say that if that did happen, we certainly would have a friend in Albany,” he said.

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Senate clears a key procedural hurdle on infrastructure bill – NBC News

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Judge orders utility PG&E to explain role in start of Dixie Fire that’s tearing through California – The Washington Post

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Photos of massive tent at Obama’s mansion raise questions of ‘scaled back’ birthday party – Fox News

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Celebrities and a massive tent were spotted in Martha’s Vineyard for former President Obama’s 60th birthday that his office said was “scaled back” to include just close friends and family amid concerns over the Delta coronavirus variant.

Drone footage obtained by Daily Mail showed large tents set up outside Obama’s massive Martha’s Vineyard estate along with a dance floor and several long tables.

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Additionally, several high profile celebrities reportedly made their way to the island including Jay-Z, Eddie Vedder, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Dwyane Wade, and Stephen Colbert.

Obama’s team had originally planned a lavish birthday with over 500 guests expected to attend but announced this week the party would be “scaled back” amid criticisms over holding such an event while the Delta coronavirus variant was surging across the country.

“Due to the new spread of the delta variant over the past week, the President and Mrs. Obama have decided to significantly scale back the event to include only family and close friends. President Obama is appreciative of others sending their birthday wishes from afar and looks forward to seeing people soon,” an Obama spokesperson said earlier this week.

Some celebrities reportedly didn’t make the cut and had their invitations revoked including Larry David, David Axelrod, Conan O’Brien, and David Letterman.

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Several social media users reacted to the photo of the large tent with criticism and suggested that the affair was larger than Obama’s team let on.

“This is the tent for Obama’s ‘scaled back’ birthday party where only close friends & family were said to attend,” conservative commentator Charlie Kirk tweeted. “Instead, multiple celebrities & politicians were seen.”

Kirk added, “Why is it that the same people telling you to stay home & social distance don’t think those rules apply to them?”

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“Because it’s all about their wealth and power and the little people need to shut up and work and pay their taxes and do as they’re told to advance the Oligarchy’s political agenda,” former Republican Congresswoman Nan Hayworth said in response to Kirk’s tweet.

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Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec tweeted a picture of the event with a sarcastic caption of “Scaled Back.”

Some criticism also came from residents on the island with one local reportedly saying that Obama had expanded the definition of what constitutes a “close friend.”

“His close friends apparently include his golfing buddies, politicians, celebrities,” the local said. Those people are here on the island and I doubt he’ll be turning them all away. He wants people to think this is going to be small and intimate, but I don’t think we have the same definition of intimate.”

The office of Barack and Michelle Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the crowd size from Fox News.

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Sheriff hails courage of woman accusing Andrew Cuomo of sexual misconduct – The Guardian

The sheriff of Albany county, New York, on Saturday repeatedly referred to a woman who filed a criminal complaint against Governor Andrew Cuomo, following her allegation of sexual misconduct, as a victim and touted her bravery in coming forward.

“I think we’ve all read the attorney general’s report, I think we all know what’s in it,” Sheriff Craig Apple told reporters during a press conference in the state capital on Saturday, adding: “At this point, I’m very comfortable and safe saying she’s in fact a victim.”

He was referring to the New York attorney general, Letitia James, issuing an explosive 165-page report earlier in the week that concluded that Cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women, including the one who then made a criminal complaint to the Albany sheriff, and had created a “climate of fear” in a “toxic” workplace.

Apple would not comment on the intricacies of his office’s investigation during the press conference, saying: “I cannot get into the nature of the specific allegations at this time; obviously, we’re at the very infant stage of this investigation.”

“We have a lot of fact-finding to do, we have interviews to conduct,” Apple said.

If the investigation turned up criminal behavior, “obviously, yes, it could lead to an arrest”, Apple said. Asked what kind of charges Cuomo might face if charges were to come down, Apple said he was “really on the peripherals of this, but it would probably be a misdemeanor” or perhaps several.

He said of the women coming forward and alleging sexual misconduct by Cuomo: “I commend all of them for coming forward. This is a very tough time and for something that, you know, is going to put a lot of stress and pressure and pressure on a victim. I give them all the credit in the world.”

Apple also said that his office would investigate the complaint just like any other allegation, despite its publicized nature. “It’s obviously a high-profile investigation. I mean, it’s the governor,” Apple said. “We treat victims the same, we investigate the same – this one just has more eyes on it.”

Apple was also asked how he could reassure people who are questioning whether this was politically motivated, which has been alleged.

“I had a female victim come forward, which had to be the hardest thing she’s ever done in her life, and make an allegation of criminal conduct against the governor. I think as far as the sheriff’s office – I am elected as well – I think that we have a proven record in this area, this region, of helping people, taking care of people,” Apple said.

On Tuesday, James said Cuomo had violated federal and state civil laws against workplace harassment and retaliation. Two days later, the first criminal complaint in the scandal was filed.

A former aide to the governor and alleged victim of his conduct, referred to in James’s report only as “Executive assistant #1” to protect her identity, spoke with the sheriff’s office on Thursday to accuse Cuomo of groping her breast in Albany last November.

Four criminal prosecutors – the district attorneys in the New York city borough of Manhattan and Albany, Westchester and Nassau counties – had already announced that they would review the evidence James gathered.

Cuomo has denied inappropriately touching the women or inappropriate sexual conduct and has so far resisted calls to resign. After the attorney general’s investigation was released on Tuesday, Joe Biden was among the powerful Democratic figures calling for Cuomo’s resignation.

Meanwhile, on Friday afternoon the leaders of Cuomo’s legal team conducted an online briefing in which they sought to undermine the evidence in the report and claimed it was politically motivated. “There’s been no open-minded fact-finding here in this investigation. This investigation was conducted in a manner to support a predetermined narrative,” said the lawyer Rita Glavin.

The state assembly is in the process of preparing to almost certainly formally impeach the third-term Democratic governor and remove him from office if he doesn’t quit first.

The executive assistant told investigators that Cuomo called her to the governor’s mansion in November last year, led her into a room, closed the door, slid his hand under her blouse and cupped her breast over her bra, according to the investigators’ report.

The attorney general’s report detailed how the former aide to Cuomo had said to James’s team of investigators: “I have to tell you it was – at the moment I was in such shock that I could just tell you that I just remember looking down seeing his hand, seeing the top of my bra and I remember it was like, a little – even the cup, the kind of bra that I had, to the point I could tell you doesn’t really fit me properly, it was a little loose, I just remember seeing exactly that.”

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Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/07/andrew-cuomo-criminal-complaint-albany-sheriff

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For G.O.P., Infrastructure Bill Is a Chance to Inch Away from Trump – The New York Times

Instead, the response was crickets.

Ms. Collins and Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, calmly pointed out that Mr. Trump had supported a much larger infrastructure plan in the past but failed to deliver. Mr. Portman, who had personally called Mr. Trump to encourage him to back the legislation, politely suggested that Mr. Trump change tactics and embrace the plan.

When the time came to vote to advance the measure on the Senate floor, the coalition of mostly moderate members found that, contrary to Mr. Trump’s efforts, the number of conservative senators supporting their plan had increased, not decreased — with members of Republican leadership, including Mr. McConnell and Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, who is also retiring, joining their ranks.

Senator Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota, said some of his constituents were “mad as hell” about his support for the bill — particularly about the idea of doing something that would make President Biden look good. But rather than follow Mr. Trump’s lead, he has made a point of talking up the agreement on conservative talk radio shows.

“I firmly believe that people — the longer they live with it, the more they look at it, the more they hear about it, the more they’ll like it, including conservatives,” Mr. Cramer said.

Several Republican aides said the developments left them feeling that while Mr. Trump’s influence over the Senate was not gone, he was diminished.

Indeed, many Republicans said they were puzzled over the point Mr. Trump was trying to make. The former president had proposed a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package while in office, so his opposition to a leaner bill seemed motivated either by personal pique or a simple desire to see his successor and the opposing party fail.

“It’s not really so clear what Trump’s substantive objection is here,” said Philip Wallach, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. “He’s certainly not saying doing an infrastructure bill is bad; he spent his whole four years talking about how great it would be. So all he’s really saying is, ‘Working with Democrats is bad.’ And for a lot of these senators from closely contested states, they figure their electoral base just doesn’t agree that bipartisanship is bad.”

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