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CANBERRA, Australia — The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of 40 Black Hawk helicopters to Australia for an estimated $1.95 billion, the latest move toward strengthening military ties between Canberra and Washington.
The Australian government requested the U.S.-designed aircraft in December 2021 after announcing they would be scrapping their fleet of MRH90 Taipan helicopters more than 15 years ahead of schedule because of ongoing performance concerns.
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Poland and Czechia have signed an agreement to protect Slovak airspace as Slovakia gives up its old Soviet-mad MiG-29 jets. The protection is meant to last until Slovakia receives new F-16s from the United States, something expected to happen in 2024. The agreement was signed at a Slovak airbase by the defense ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Slovakia has a fleet of 11 MiG-29 jets. Slovakia has said it may consider donating them to Ukraine under certain conditions. Since the start of the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, Ukraine has urged Western allies to provide it with warplanes to challenge Russia’s air superiority.
When Diane Swonk first attended the Federal Reserve’s annual economic conference in Jackson Hole in the late 1990s, there was a happy hour for women who attended the event. It barely filled a single table. Now, the “Women at Jackson Hole” happy hour draws dozens of female economists and high-level decision-makers, from the United States and overseas. “I’m just glad that now there’s a line for the ladies’ room,” said Swonk, who is chief economist for the accounting giant KPMG. It’s not just at Jackson Hole but also in the Fed’s boardroom where its leadership has become its most diverse ever.
Manchester United’s stand-in captain Bruno Fernandes has made it back-to-back wins for Erik ten Hag’s team by scoring the only goal in a 1-0 victory over Southampton in the Premier League. Fernandes steered in a cross from Diogo Dalot in the 55th minute as United followed up Monday’s win over Liverpool with another morale-boosting performance. Having started the season with two straight losses, United has now won consecutive league matches for the first time since February. It was also the team’s first clean sheet of the season, thanks in part to David de Gea’s reflex save to keep out a header from Joe Aribo in the 66th. Ronaldo and United’s new signing Casemiro came on in the second half.
Illinois voters have the chance to sign up to send their ballots for November and spring elections by mail — forever. Elections officials are sending applications for permanent permission to vote by mail to each of the state’s 8 million registered voters. No one is obligated to sign up. A 2021 law requires that every voter receive an application providing a choice to be on a permanent vote-by-mail list. The COVID-19 pandemic produced a boom in vote-by-mail, with one-third of all voters choosing that method in 2020. If you move, you must reapply. Elections officials remove voters' names from the rolls when eligibility cards they mail annually are returned to them as undeliverable.
From its “intercultural delivery room" to protocols for doctors to approve herbal treatments from trusted traditional healers, the largest public hospital in Chile’s southern city of Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous medicine. The hospital’s efforts validate cultural practices as Chile’s Indigenous groups — particularly its largest, the Mapuche — are fighting for rights and restitutions with more visibility than ever before. But they also restore a crucial spiritual component to health care, health professionals and patients say. “We take charge of the physical part, but without transgressing on the spiritual dimension,” said Cristina Muñoz, the certified nurse-midwife who launched new delivery practices at Hospital Base San José de Osorno.
A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified documents at President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. But plenty of questions remain, especially because half the affidavit, which spelled out the FBI’s rationale for searching the property, was blacked out. A Justice Department official has described the inquiry as in its early stages, suggesting more work is ahead as investigators review the documents they removed and continue interviewing witnesses. At a minimum, the investigation presents a political distraction for Trump as he lays the groundwork for a potential presidential run. And then there’s the obvious legal peril.
With a solemn ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis was poised to formally expand the ranks of churchmen now eligible to vote for his successor in case he dies or resigns — the latter a step he says he'd consider if the time comes. Of the 20 churchmen being raised to cardinal’s rank on Saturday, 16 are younger than 80 and thus eligible to participate in a conclave. That's the locked-door assembly of cardinals who cast ballots to elect a pontiff. The latest cardinals will include one bishop from the United States and a churchman representing the tiny Catholic flock in Mongolia. By now, the 85-year-old Francis has named more than half of the elector cardinals.
The Philippine coast guard says all 85 passengers and crew of an inter-island ferry that caught fire near its port destination south of Manila have been rescued and a search effort has been terminated. The last two passengers unaccounted for on the M/V Asia Philippines, which was carrying 47 passengers and 38 crewmembers, turned out to have taken a different ferry. They were earlier believed to be onboard the inter-island cargo and passenger vessel that was hit by fire on Friday as it approached the port in Batangas province, coast guard officials said. The ferry, which came from Oriental Mindoro province, was about a mile away from the Batangas port when smoke emerged from the second deck followed by flames, forcing many passengers to jump into the water.
Iraq’s caretaker prime minister has warned that the political crisis in the country is threatening security achievements made in past years. Mustafa Al-Kadhimi’s warning on Saturday is a clear indication of the dangers of one of Iraq’s worst political crises in years. It's the result of disagreements between followers of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and rival Iran-backed groups since last year’s parliamentary elections. Al-Sadr won the largest share of seats in the October elections but failed to form a majority government. His bloc later resigned from parliament and his supporters last month stormed the parliament building in Baghdad. Al-Sadr has demanded that parliament be dissolved and early elections held.
A deadline has passed with no resolution over whether Texas will settle a dispute over claims it discriminated against minority residents in how it distributed flood relief money from Hurricane Harvey. The federal government says the Texas General Land Office violated civil rights law when it provided less funding to minority residents for flood mitigation projects. The land office maintains its actions were not discriminatory. Friday’s deadline came on the five-year anniversary of when Harvey’s torrential rainfall inundated the Houston area for days. Houston resident Mal Moses, whose home was damaged during Harvey, hopes the federal government forces the state to distribute the funding fairly.
NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 27, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Tenorshare 4uKey for Android is used by millions of users worldwide on Windows and macOS. With the help of this software, users can remove all types of Android screen locks and bypass FRP on Samsung devices within a few minutes. This time…
TOKYO (AP) - Results from Japanese football:
Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer remains confident that Oscar Piastri will drive for his team next season when the matter is decided by a Formula One board. Alpine is in dispute with its reserve driver Piastri. He said he doesn’t want promotion to the Alpine seat vacated by Fernando Alonso and has been linked to the vacant McLaren slot for 2023. The matter will go before F1′s Contract Recognition Board next week. Szafnauer says “we’ll have the CRB decide which contract that Oscar signed takes precedence.” If Piastri forces a move then Alpine could replace him with Daniel Ricciardo.
A few states have been amending or repealing “pay-to-stay” laws that require former prisoners to reimburse states for the cost of their jail stays, sometimes at daily rates exceeding what they would have paid to stay in a luxury hotel. Connecticut became the latest state to tweak its law this summer. Even with the changes, some former prisoners remain deep in debt. A Connecticut woman who was billed nearly $84,000 for her 2 1/2 year prison stay has filed a federal lawsuit saying that even after reforms, the state's law is unconstitutional.
African heads of state, representatives of international organizations and private business leaders are in Tunisia for the eighth iteration of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development. The Japanese government created the triennial event in 1993 to promote growth and security in Africa. Economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a food security crisis worsened by Russia’s war in Ukraine, and climate change are some of the topics expected to define the two-day conference starting Saturday. While 30 African heads of state and government planned to attend the event, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is attending remotely. He tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the summit.
Ukrainian authorities say Russian forces fired missiles and artillery on two cities across the river from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. Concerns persist about safety at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after it was temporarily knocked offline on Thursday. The governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region said Saturday that Grad missiles and artillery shells hit the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, each located about 10 kilometers from the nuclear plant. Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused the other of shelling the plant complex, raising fears that the fighting could trigger a catastrophe. Authorities began distributing iodine tablets Friday to residents who live near the plant in case of a radiation leak.
Serbia's president says the country won’t allow a pan-European LGBTQ Pride event to take place in its capital next month. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced the decision to cancel the Sept. 12-18 EuroPride celebration, citing threats from right-wing extremists and fears of clashes. Members of the European Pride Organizers Association chose Serbia’s capital three years ago to host the annual event. Vucic said Saturday that a crisis with neighboring Kosovo and economic problems were among the reasons why the Balkan nation’s authorities didn't think they could handle EuroPride, which features a Pride parade. He said, “This is a violation of minority rights, but at this moment the state is pressured by numerous problems.”
A Libyan official says clashes have broken out between rival militias in Libya’s capital, killing at least one civilian and wounding five others. An emergency services spokesman said Saturday a comedian known for his social media videos died after he was shot in the chest. The spokesman says at least five other civilians were wounded in the clashes that centered in the capital city of Tripoli. Footage circulated online showed houses and vehicles apparently damaged from the fighting. The violence is the latest escalation to threaten the relative peace after nearly a decade of civil war in Libya, where two rival sets of authorities are locked in a political stalemate.
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SEATTLE — Pitcher Cody Webster didn't realize the magnitude of what he and his friends had accomplished until he saw the front page of a Chicago newspaper during an airport layover.
PITTSBURGH — Pitt had its annual kickoff luncheon Friday, and the keynote speaker was former star running back LeSean McCoy. Pitt will open the season Thursday against old rival West Virginia in a nationally televised edition of the Backyard Brawl.
I had my first Fantasy draft this week in the OFFL — Our Frivolous Fantasy League. The OFFL has been around since 1985, the longest running Fantasy league that I’m aware of. Here are my bold predictions for players taken in Rounds 1 to 5.
My college football preseason top 25:
FORT WORTH, Texas — Do not blame Tyron Smith.
ATLANTA — Vince Dooley was 21-4 against Kentucky, 21-1-1 against Vanderbilt, 19-6 against Georgia Tech. That’s what you’d call a baseline. Never — well, almost never — did Dooley’s Georgia lose to somebody it shouldn’t have.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The preseason lists are out, the ones that try and project which college football player has the best chance of winning the best individual award in all of college football, i.e. the Heisman Trophy.
Officials say flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,000 people and displaced thousands more since mid-June. The new death toll announced Saturday comes a day after Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif asked for international help in battling deadly flood damage in the impoverished Islamic nation. The United Nations issued a flash appeal for aid. The monsoon season, which began in June this year, has lashed Pakistan with particularly heavy rains and rescuers have struggled to evacuate thousands of marooned people from flood-hit areas. The crisis has forced the government to declare a state of emergency. Monsoon season in Pakistan usually runs from July to mid September.
Diplomats from around the world have failed to reach agreement on a United Nations treaty designed to protect marine life on the high seas. A fifth round of talks ended in impasse early Saturday when negotiations at United Nations headquarters in New York were suspended after two weeks. Environmentalists had hoped the talks would close a gap in international marine protection measures by setting rules for protecting biodiversity in two-thirds of the world’s ocean areas that are outside of national jurisdictions. The negotiations centered on how to share benefits from marine life, establish protected areas, prevent harm from human activity, and help poor countries gain ocean exploration skills.
Ronald Tyra knew it was time to flee when the 100-acre blaze across the street began igniting spot fires as it raced down the mountain. Tyra sped from his Klamath River, California, home with little more than the clothes on his back.
PHILADELPHIA — Green Party candidates seeking spots on the statewide ballot in November received a boost this summer from a group of Philadelphia-area Republicans, including one with a problematic history when it comes to elections.
UNDATED (AP) — The Big Ten sent shockwaves in late June with the additions of Southern California and UCLA in 2024. That led to last week’s announcement of a seven-year rights deal with Fox, NBC and CBS that will see the conference receiving at least $1 billion a year. In 2020, the SEC sold …
Authorities have transferred hundreds of asylum-seekers away from a makeshift camp outside an overcrowded migrant reception center in the northeastern Netherlands. The move came after a damning report called the area where about 700 people were sleeping rough this week a health hazard. A team from the Inspectorate for Health Care and Youth said after visiting the temporary camp outside the center in the village of Ter Apel that there was “a serious risk of outbreaks of infectious diseases as a result of the total lack of hygiene.” A spokesman for the government’s asylum-seeker accommodation organization said Saturday that about 400 asylum-seekers were moved overnight to alternative accommodations in different municipalities.
UNDATED (AP) — Florida A&M will be without 20 ineligible players and down to only eight available offensive linemen when it plays at North Carolina on Saturday night. Athletic department spokesman Josh Padilla says a combination of players being academically ineligible and transfers havi…
UNDATED (AP) — The Big Ten sent shockwaves in late June with the additions of Southern California and UCLA in 2024. That led to last week’s announcement of a seven-year rights deal with Fox, NBC and CBS that will see the conference receiving at least $1 billion a year. In 2020, the SEC sold …
UNDATED (AP) — The Big 12 is going into its 12th and final season as a 10-team conference. Oklahoma State's only Big 12 championship came in 2011, the league's first season with 10 teams. Oklahoma State come up inches short in last year's conference title game in a loss to Baylor. Mike Gundy…
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Auburn athletic director Allen Greene is stepping down with five months left on his initial five-year deal. Greene was Auburn's first Black athletic director. Auburn announced that Greene had informed President Christopher Roberts of his decision this week, citing profess…
The sick and weakened dolphin calf was drowning in a tidal pool on Thailand's shore when fishermen found him. Conservationists advised the fishermen how to provide emergency care until the calf could receive veterinary attention at a marine research center. The baby was nicknamed Paradon, or “brotherly burden,” because those involved knew saving his life would be no easy task. The Irrawaddy dolphin native to shallow Asian waters is considered a vulnerable species because of habitat loss, pollution and illegal fishing. Paradon has had a month of round-the-clock care with staff and volunteers to hold him up in the water, clean his tank and provide him milk. He's still weak but seems to be on the road to recovery.
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Attention Please read Matthew chapter 24 in the Bible.