#Ap News

[archaalen]

@amtrak-official what's your opinion of this?

#ap news #florida #trains

[colferpics]

The hero of Chris Colfer’s next book series is no ordinary boy.

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers announced Tuesday that the actor and million-selling author is working on “Roswell Johnson Saves the World,” which the publisher calls a space fantasy that “combines the heart-pounding action of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’” and “thrilling real-world science.” The title character is an 11-year-old named for the city in New Mexico where mysterious debris found in 1947 led to conspiracy theories about alien life, which the boy himself will learn about first-hand.

“Roswell Johnson Saves the World” is scheduled for publication on June 4, 2024.

“I’ve never had so much fun writing a book,” Colfer said in a statement. “These characters had me laughing out loud and I spent hours researching everything from astronomy to entomology. After reading about Roswell’s adventures through space, I hope my young readers are as fascinated by science and our galaxy as I am. To quote the book, ‘Curiosity will fuel your imagination and take you places the fastest spaceship could never reach.’”

Colfer, who became famous for his Golden Globe-winning role as Kurt Hummel in “Glee,” is known to readers for such best-selling series as “The Land of Stories” and “Tale of Magic.”

#chris colfer #roswell johnson saves the world #ap news

[there-goes-trouble]

#human rights #the women protecting the right to play sports #news #ap news

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled Wednesday that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others.

The father of Anthony Huber, one of two men shot and killed by Rittenhouse, filed the lawsuit in 2021, accusing officers of allowing for a dangerous situation that violated his son's constitutional rights and resulted in his death. Anthony Huber's father, John Huber, also alleged that Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, conspired with law enforcement to cause harm to protestors. John Huber is seeking unspecified damages from city officials, officers and Rittenhouse.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman on Wednesday dismissed motions filed by Rittenhouse and the government defendants seeking to dismiss the civil rights lawsuit.

In allowing the case against Rittenhouse and the others to proceed, the judge said that Anthony Huber's death "could plausibly be regarded as having been proximately caused by the actions of the governmental defendants."

Rittenhouse attorney Shane Martin said in a phone interview that it's important to note the ruling doesn't address the merits of the case, it only allows it to proceed to the next phase.

"While we respect the judge's decision, we do not believe there is any evidence of a conspiracy and we are confident, just as a Kenosha jury found, Kyle's actions that evening were not wrongful and were undertaken in self defense," Martin said.

Attorneys and private investigators for John Huber spent over 100 hours trying to locate Rittenhouse, tracking down addresses in seven states before they found the home of his mother and sister in Florida. The lawsuit was served on Rittenhouse's sister, who said that he wasn't home. Adelman said that was sufficient to qualify as being served.

Rittenhouse had argued that the case against him should be dismissed because he wasn't properly served with the lawsuit. Adelman dismissed that, saying that Rittenhouse "is almost certainly evading service."

"Rittenhouse has been deliberately cagey about his whereabouts," Adelman wrote. "Although he denies living in Florida, he does not identify the place that he deems to be his residence."

Attorneys for the law enforcement and government officials being sued did not immediately return emailed messages seeking comment.

The ruling puts Anthony Huber's family "one step closer to justice for their son's needless death," said Anand Swaminathan, one of the attorneys for parents John Huber and Karen Bloom.

"The Kenosha officials that created a powder keg situation by their actions tried to claim that they cannot be held accountable for their unconstitutional conduct; that argument was soundly rejected today," Swaminathan said in a statement.

Rittenhouse was charged with homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangering for killing Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and wounding a third person with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle in the summer of 2020 during a tumultuous night of protests over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white Kenosha police officer.

Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in November 2021 after testifying he acted in self-defense. Rittenhouse's actions became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S.

Rittenhouse went to Kenosha from his home in nearby Antioch, Illinois, after businesses were ransacked and burned in the nights that followed Blake's shooting. He joined other armed civilians on the streets, carrying a weapon authorities said was illegally purchased for him because he was underage.

Rittenhouse first killed Rosenbaum, 36, in the parking lot of an auto dealership and as Rittenhouse ran from the scene he stumbled and fell. Anthony Huber, 26, struck Rittenhouse with his skateboard and tried to disarm him. Rittenhouse fell to the ground and shot Anthony Huber to death and wounded demonstrator Gaige Grosskreutz, 27.

This case is one of several ongoing civil lawsuits filed in the wake of the shootings. Grosskreutz last year filed a similar lawsuit against Rittenhouse.

Rittenhouse has maintained a high public profile, particularly on social media, where he is an outspoken advocate for gun rights. He has nearly 1 million followers on Twitter and has spoken at conservative gatherings.

#us politics #news #abc news #abc 7 Chicago #ap news #2023 #kyle rittenhouse #kenosha #kenosha protests #gun violence #gun rights #vigilantism #racial injustice #2020 protests #Wisconsin #Anthony Huber #Anand Swaminathan #John Huber #Shane Martin #Judge Lynn Adelman #wrongful death lawsuit

[mysharona1987]

Lol at thinking calling someone French is dehumanising.

#writing #france #french #ap news

[professorambrius]

Actor and Voice of Two-Face, Richard Moll Has Died

Actor Richard Moll Has died. He's best remembered as bailiff Bull on the popular TV series Night Court and the voice of Two-Face on Batman the Animated Series.

#My Post #Richard Moll #in remembrance #Actor #TV Actor #Voice Actor #Night Court #Batman the Animated Series #Two-Face #Harvey Dent #AP News

[sbrown82]

So, where the fuck are they supposed to go???

#florida #homeless #unhoused #poverty #public property #republicans #ron desantis #evil #article #ap news #sbrown82

[notfspurejam]

#mark gatiss #the motive and the cue #ap news #article

[generallemarc]

They're not even hiding it anymore, they're just overtly trying to tie basic internet anonymity to the entire cocktail of Current Bad Things. I get the feeling they didn't post this onto their own twitter account because they knew it'd get community noted.

#ap news #associated press

[artemisianwilderness]

Someone may have beaten me to this, but here's a link regarding the ICJ's initial decision on the genocide case brought before them by South Africa. They mention wanting Israel to limit civilian deaths and allow aid into Gaza, but did not agree on a cease fire at this time.

#Ramblings #Palestine #Gaza #West Bank #Israel #South Africa #U.N. #ICJ #International Court of Justice #AP News #world news #articles #status: read ✅️

[archaalen]

#ap news #us politics #colorado #right to repair

[yourapple56-blog]

Godspeed to you, Sir!

#ap news #obituary #louis gossett jr. #87 years old #first black to win supporting actor oscar

[nokingsonlyfooles]

But Couldn't You Protest More Conveniently (so we can ignore you)?

And, no. The answer to all this hand-wringing about the scary, uncivil college students is: no, if they sit down and shut up like you want, it's not much of a protest, so they will continue being loud and making you uncomfortable. You're complicit in a genocide and they're complicit in a genocide, and it should be uncomfortable. If you can ignore it and go on about your business, it won't stop.

This has been the playbook for a long time. The righteousness of civil disobedience is assigned retroactively. While it's going on, we just HATE it. Later, we can edit the narrative so that the counterculture was, actually, the culture, and only the worst people were against it. You know, if we feel like it.

I should mention, this is why we have a student loan crisis. Reagan responded to student protests by attacking their pocketbooks, assuming, like a cowardly conservative, that a threat that would shut him up would shut them up. Well, they're paying more than ever for the "privilege" of a degree that most entry-level positions will require of them, and they're still functioning as the conscience of the country. They're still not tired and scared and hopeless enough to let these things go without a fight.

It's a hard lesson to learn, but when you make yourself more convenient, you make yourself less relevant. Don't listen to all these voices insisting that the only way to get what you want is to ask nicely. So often, that won't get you anything at all.

#us news #ap news #protests #free palestine #stop the genocide

[xlntwtch2]

from this AP News article, printed Sept. 17, 2023...

"...However you slice the numbers, the gap between CEO pay and rank-and-file workers at all three companies is gigantic.

At GM, the median worker pay was $80,034 in 2022. It would take that worker 362 years to make Barra’s annual compensation.

At Ford, where the media pay $74, 691, it would take 281 years.

At Stellantis, with a median pay of 64,328 euros, it would take 365 years, although the company noted its its annual report that the disparity includes expenses related to Tavares’ one-time grant. Excluding that, the pay ratio is 298-1.

How extreme that disparity? It depends on the comparison.

It’s far above the typical pay gap at S&P 500 companies, which was 186-1 according to AP’s annual CEO pay survey, which uses data analyzed by Equilar.

And it’s astronomical by historical standards. According to a study of the 350 largest publicly traded U.S. firms by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, the CEO-to-Worker pay ratio was just 15-1 in 1965...

...for that worker to make Musk’s “realized compensation” that year, it would take more than 18,000 years."

tl/dr...

'gigantic' and 'far above' and 'astronomical' differences between CEO compensation and workers salaries says it all

#about the UAW strike #9/17/23 #ap news #pay gap

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A year and a half before he was arrested in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting that left five people dead, Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb, forcing neighbors in surrounding homes to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him into surrendering.

Yet despite that scare, there's no public record that prosecutors moved forward with felony kidnapping and menacing charges against Aldrich, or that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado's "red flag" law that would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons and ammo the man's mother says he had with him.

Gun control advocates say Aldrich's June 2021 threat is an example of a red flag law ignored, with potentially deadly consequences. While it's not clear the law could have prevented Saturday night's attack — such gun seizures can be in effect for as little as 14 days and be extended by a judge in six-month increments — they say it could have at least slowed Aldrich and raised his profile with law enforcement.

"We need heroes beforehand — parents, co-workers, friends who are seeing someone go down this path," said Colorado state Rep. Tom Sullivan, whose son was killed in the Aurora theater shooting and sponsored the state's red flag law passed in 2019. "This should have alerted them, put him on their radar."

But the law that allows guns to be removed from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others has seldom been used in the state, particularly in El Paso County, home to Colorado Springs, where the 22-year-old Aldrich allegedly went into Club Q with a long gun at just before midnight and opened fire before he was subdued by patrons.

An Associated Press analysis found Colorado has one of the lowest rates of red flag usage despite widespread gun ownership and several high-profile mass shootings.

Courts issued 151 gun surrender orders from when the law took effect in April 2019 through 2021, three surrender orders for every 100,000 adults in the state. That's a third of the ratio of orders issued for the 19 states and District of Columbia with surrender laws on their books.

El Paso County appears especially hostile to the law. It joined nearly 2,000 counties nationwide in declaring themselves "Second Amendment Sanctuaries" that protect the constitutional right to bear arms, passing a 2019 resolution that says the red flag law "infringes upon the inalienable rights of law-abiding citizens" by ordering police to "forcibly enter premises and seize a citizen's property with no evidence of a crime."

County Sheriff Bill Elder has said his office would wait for family members to ask a court for surrender orders and not petition for them on its own accord, unless there were "exigent circumstances" and "probable cause" of a crime.

El Paso County, with a population of 730,000, had 13 temporary firearm removals through the end of last year, four of which turned into longer ones of at least six months.

The county sheriff's office declined to answer what happened after Aldrich's arrest last year, including whether anyone asked to have his weapons removed. The press release issued by the sheriff's office at the time said no explosives were found but did not mention anything about whether any weapons were recovered.

Spokesperson Lt. Deborah Mynatt referred further questions about the case to the district attorney's office.

An online court records search did not turn up any formal charges filed against Aldrich in last year's case. And in an update on a story on the bomb threat, The Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs reported that prosecutors did not pursue any charges in the case and that records were sealed.

The Gazette also reported Sunday that it got a call from Aldrich in August asking that it remove a story about the incident.

"There is absolutely nothing there, the case was dropped, and I'm asking you either remove or update the story," Aldrich said in a voice message to an editor. "The entire case was dismissed."

A spokesperson for the district attorney's office, Howard Black, declined to comment on whether any charges were pursued. He said the shooting investigation will also include a study of the bomb threat.

"There will be no additional information released at this time," Black said. "These are still investigative questions."

AP's study of 19 states and the District of Columbia with red flag laws on their books found they have been used about 15,000 times since 2020, less than 10 times for every 100,000 adults in each state. Experts called that woefully low and hardly enough to make a dent in gun killings.

Just this year, authorities in Highland Park, Illinois, were criticized for not trying to take guns away from the 21-year-old accused of a Fourth of July parade shooting that left seven dead. Police had been alerted about him in 2019 after he threatened to "kill everyone" in his home.

Duke University sociologist Jeffrey Swanson, an expert in red flag laws, said the Colorado Springs case could be yet another missed warning sign.

"This seems like a no brainer, if the mom knew he had guns," he said. "If you removed firearms from the situation, you could have had a different ending to the story."

#us politics #news #npr news #npr #Colorado #club q shooting #Anderson Lee Aldrich #red flag laws #gun violence #gun rights #gun control #felony kidnapping #menacing #bomb threat #Rep. Tom Sullivan #The Gazette #Second Amendment Sanctuaries #Sheriff Bill Elder #associated press #ap news #mass shootings #mass shooters

[mysharona1987]

An unusually deep and dark opening for a review about a movie aimed mostly at kids, imo.

Sounds like the writer was going through a philosophical crisis here.

#mario bros #mario #films #ap news