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Overnight News Digest: Hurricane Ian is heading for Florida [1]
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Date: 2022-09-26
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Mississippi Today via Raw Story
The account echoes a similar allegation Mississippi Today published just over a week ago that the same nonprofit was forced to fire Hood’s wife in order to keep receiving welfare grant funding.
The allegation that Bryant leveraged his control of welfare spending to punish a political opponent comes in a two-year-old federal court filing released Friday after Mississippi Today successfully motioned to unseal the case.
A former professional wrestler and defendant in the Mississippi welfare scandal is alleging that he personally witnessed Republican Gov. Phil Bryant instruct an appointee to cut welfare funding to a nonprofit because its director supported Democrat Jim Hood in the 2019 governor’s race.
C/NET
That timing, NASA explained, was based on predicted weather criteria in the area and the decision to allow "time for employees to address the needs of their families and protect the integrated rocket and spacecraft system."
The space agency decided to stand down its launch teams and focus on preparing for a rollback on Saturday morning, deferring a final call to Sunday. On Sunday, NASA announced it would continue monitoring the storm, giving it every last opportunity for the rocket to remain on the pad and to shoot for an Oct. 2 launch date -- but on Monday, it was announced that the tangerine-hued rocket will be rolled back into the VAB starting at 11 p.m. ET .
NASA has temporarily called off the launch of Artemis I and will roll its mammoth Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center. The decision comes as Hurricane Ian threatens to travel north across Cuba and into Florida, bringing extreme winds and rain to the pad's vicinity.
BBC
Mr Snowden said afterwards that he felt vindicated by the ruling.
Mr Snowden, who faces espionage charges in the US, has made no public comments.
Mr Snowden, 39, has been living in exile in Russia since exposing the National Security Agency (NSA) programme affecting millions of Americans in 2013.
Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked extensive US intelligence surveillance operations, has been granted Russian citizenship.
Reuters
The 14 directors had voted unanimously on Thursday to recommend firing Claver-Carone after an independent ethics investigation found evidence he had engaged in an intimate relationship with a senior staffer for whom he had made employment decisions, including salary increases totaling more than 45% of base pay in less than one year.
MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) voted on Monday to fire Mauricio Claver-Carone, two people with knowledge of the vote said, after an investigation showed the only American president in the bank’s 62-year history had an intimate relationship with a subordinate.
Deutsche Welle
The British government has announced a new package of sanctions over Moscow's "referendums" in occupied regions of southern and eastern Ukraine. Residents of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions were voting for a fourth day on Monday, in what the UK has described as "sham referendums." The votes were announced after Ukrainian forces recaptured much of the northeastern Kharkiv region in a counter-offensive "Sham referendums held at the barrel of a gun cannot be free or fair and we will never recognise their results," British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said. "Today's sanctions will target those behind these sham votes, as well as the individuals that continue to prop up the Russian regime's war of aggression," he added. Among those sanctioned are 55 board members and directors from organizations that London says "continue to bankroll the Russian war machine," such as Gazprombank, Sberbank and Sovcombank.
Deutsche Welle
A man shot a Russian military officer at a recruitment office in the city of Ust-Ilimsk on Monday. Ust-Ilimsk is located in the sparsely populated Irkutsk region of southern Siberia. Suspect angered by call-up of reservists Investigators said the suspect was 25 years old. According to local media reports, the suspect walked into the office saying "no-one will go to fight" and "we will all go home now." Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "partial" mobilization for the war in Ukraine following Kyiv's counteroffensive in the northeastern region of Kharkiv. The call-up of reservists has stirred anger in parts of the population. A woman who identified herself as the man's mother said he was "very upset" after his friend, who had no prior military experience, received mobilization orders. "They said that there would be partial mobilization, but it turns out that they are taking everyone," local media cited the woman as saying.
Al Jazeera
Tehran, Iran – “Activating Starlink.” That is how billionaire Elon Musk generated headlines last week as he often does, in a few terse words on Twitter. This time, he was referring to the ongoing protests in Iran. He was making a promise to allow Iranians affected by state-imposed internet restrictions to use his satellite internet network operated by SpaceX. And the United States government said it would support his efforts by easing its sanctions on Iran by promoting the free use of the internet and issuing the necessary permits to make the process work. But while bringing the internet to Iran via a satellite link is not out of the question, a set of serious challenges make it highly improbable, at least in the short term.
Al Jazeera
Cubans have overwhelmingly approved a sweeping “family law” that would allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt, the electoral commission said, in a move that will also redefine rights for children and grandparents. More than 3.9 million voters – 66.9 percent – voted to ratify the new code while 1.95 million or 33 percent were opposed, National Electoral Council President Alina Balseiro Gutierrez said on state-run television on Monday. The 100-page “family code” legalises same-sex marriage and civil unions, allows same-sex couples to adopt children, and promotes equal sharing of domestic rights and responsibilities between men and women. Preliminary results from the electoral commission showed 74 percent of 8.4 million Cubans eligible to vote participated in the Sunday referendum.
The Guardian
Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy’s far-right League, has promised that his alliance with Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy will deliver a long-lasting government, as Italians begin to digest the outcome of an election that will bring about the country’s most rightwing government since the end of the second world war. Final results gave the coalition control of both houses of parliament with 44% of the vote and confirmed a swing in the balance of power in the Italian far right towards Meloni as her party made spectacular gains in the League’s northern strongholds of Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Meloni is expected to be given a mandate from the president, Sergio Mattarella, to form a government after 13 October, meaning she could take office by the end of next month.
The Guardian
A gunman with a swastika on his T-shirt has killed 15 people, including 11 children, and wounded 24 at a school in Russia, investigators have said. The attacker, a man in his early thirties who was named by authorities as Artem Kazantsev, killed two security guards then opened fire on students and teachers at School Number 88 in Izhevsk, where he had once been a pupil. He then killed himself. Russia’s investigative committee, which handles major crimes, said it was looking into the perpetrator’s suspected neo-Nazi links. “Currently investigators … are conducting a search of his residence and studying the personality of the attacker, his views and surrounding milieu,” the committee said in a statement. “Checks are being made into his adherence to neo-fascist views and Nazi ideology.”
The Guardian
Keir Starmer will attempt to take on the mantle of Tony Blair on Tuesday by describing Labour as the “political wing of the British people” as he accuses the Tories of losing control of the economy and ceding the political centre. In his keynote speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool, Starmer will set out his stall for the next general election by saying his plans show that Labour is once again “the party of the centre ground”. He will state that Labour now offers the country a “fresh start” after the turbulence of successive Conservative governments, and will commit to getting the UK “out of this endless cycle of crisis”. “What we’ve seen from the government in the past few days has no precedent,” he will say, a view on the economic disarray of recent days shared by many jittery Tory MPs. “They’ve lost control of the British economy – and for what? For tax cuts for the richest 1% in our society.”
The Guardian, Australian Edition
At the height of the mouse plague in Australia last year, the floors of farm sheds were alive with mice. Like a heaving grey carpet, the rodents scuttled around wheat silos, infested machinery and ran through people’s homes. Farmers across the state of New South Wales used shovels to clean up the carcasses each morning as they battled to control the outbreak with available poisons. As desperation rose, then-deputy premier of New South Wales, John Barilaro, called for an immediate solution: authorise widespread outdoor use of the highly toxic second generation rodenticide, bromadiolone, known as “napalm for mice”. Around the world, bromadiolone is heavily restricted to mainly indoor use, usually by professionals, because of the risk of mass deaths to native wildlifesuch as eagles, owls, falcons and other animals who eat mice.
CNN
The day before the 2020 election, Roger Stone, the long-time Republican operative and ally of former President Donald Trump, said in front of a documentary film crew that he had no interest in waiting to tally actual votes before contesting the election results. “F**k the voting, let’s get right to the violence,” Stone can be heard saying, according to footage provided by a Danish documentary film crew and obtained by CNN. The clip is one of multiple pieces of footage obtained by CNN that the filmmakers also shared with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. The filmmakers tell CNN they came to an agreement to share certain clips with the committee after a subpoena for the footage was signed by the panel’s chairman, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, and delivered to the filmmakers in Copenhagen about two months ago.
NPR
It's hard to pinpoint when exactly the questions started coming in. Angelyn Nichols, an administrator for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, thinks it was sometime in early 2021. What she does know is that no one really expected them in the first place, and no one expected them to keep coming – week after week, and now, year after year. That's because the questions involved a decades-old teaching concept many educators thought was settled, uncontroversial territory: the idea that, in order to learn, students need to know how to manage themselves and get along with others. "Principals were being asked, 'Can you talk to me about how you use social-emotional learning in your school? Are there connections to critical race theory?" says Nichols, who coordinates professional learning for the district. "Families were asking at a PTA meeting. Parents were asking their child's classroom teacher."
CNN
The migrant says he had been living on the streets of San Antonio for nearly a month when he met a woman named “Perla” who made a compelling offer. She offered him clothes, food and money, he told CNN, and in exchange, he would go out and find other migrants to serve as passengers on flights to Massachusetts. She gave him $10 McDonald’s gift cards to be given to those migrants who agreed to board the flights, and she told him to say that they and their kids would be treated well upon arrival. “She had told me that the people who were going to Massachusetts, before I sent them, she had told me that they were going to receive them. They were going to be given shelter, a place to stay. They were going to help them with the language, and those who had children, they were going to study,” he said.
x This Tweet is fucking deep!
Totally believable and scary AF!
And they don't like to be called Fascists?
Maybe they should stop acting like them! pic.twitter.com/tCcbRpSkva — 🏴☠️ Bob Lawrence 💔 --Obama is #1 (@TrumpluvsObama) September 26, 2022
CNN
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