Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Wake-Up Call: 3 UVA Football Players Shot Dead


Three University of Virginia football players were shot dead and two others were wounded in a shooting on the school’s campus in Charlottesville. A former team member has been charged with the crime. The dead students were identified as Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Junior and D’Sean Perry. The attack occurred on a bus that had just returned to the campus from a class trip to Washington D.C.
Four University of Idaho students were found dead Sunday night in a house near the campus. Police in the town of Moscow said the deaths are being investigated as homicides but provided no other information.


Fox News reports The Washington Post took heat Monday for the outlet's initial headline for a story about the suspected University of Virginia shooter, who is accused of killing three people and injuring at least two others Sunday night. The 22-year-old suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., is a UVA student and former college football player and is now in custody, the police said Monday.  

In its initial post, the Washington Post tweeted that the suspect had a "troubled childhood, but then flourished," and the accompanying story had the same headline. The outlet deleted the tweet, but the headline still appeared on the PostLocal account. It then changed the headline to, "Suspected U-Va. gunman was scrutinized by threat assessment team for weapon, police say."

➤REPUBLICANS ON VERGE OF HOUSE MAJORITY: As the vote counts from last week’s midterms grind on, the Republicans are just one seat short of the 218 needed to reach a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressional races in two California districts and one upstate New York district were called for Republicans yesterday. Democrats got enough victories to get a majority in the U.S. Senate, although two races are still undetermined.

Daily Mail graphic 11/15/22

➤KATIE HOBBS WINS ARIZONA GOVERNOR’S RACE: Democrat Katie Hobbs has defeated Republican Kari Lake in the Arizona governor’s race, according to projections last night. Lake joins a growing list of Arizona election deniers who were defeated in the midterms, including U.S. Senate nominee Blake Masters and secretary of state nominee Mark Finchem. Lake did not immediately acknowledge that she lost the election. Instead, she tweeted: “Arizonans know BS when they see it.”

➤GIULIANI WILL NOT FACE LOBBYING CHARGES: Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said yesterday that they will not bring criminal charges against Rudy Giuliani after a long investigation into allegations that he violated the law while lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials. Prosecutors were investigating whether the Ukrainians asked that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine be fired in return for supplying compromising information on then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son. The ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, was fired in 2019.


➤FORMER VICE PRESIDENT COOLS ON TRUMP: Former Vice President Mike Pence told ABC News that he has not decided whether he will run for the presidency in 2024, but in any case he thinks that the voters will have “better choices in the future” than former President Donald Trump. Pence’s memoir, “So Help Me God,” is being published today. Excerpts indicate that Pence is highly critical of the former president, particularly in regards to his actions on January 6, 2020, the day of the riot at the U.S. Capitol.



🛫AIRLINES PAY UP FOR CANCELLED FLIGHTS: The airlines have paid more than $600 million in refunds to hundreds of thousands of customers for flights that were canceled or changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department of Transportation says it also is cracking down on six airlines that slow-walked refunds or tried to skirt the refund rules. The department assessed $8.1 million in civil penalties for violating the rules. Frontier Airlines was the only American airline that was fined.

🛬HERE’S HOW MUCH YOU’RE PAYING TO FLY TO SEE YOUR FAMILY FOR THE HOLIDAYS THIS YEAR:  After being cooped up for much of the pandemic people are traveling again, but if you’re planning to travel for the holidays you should know it won’t be cheap. A new study from Adobe reveals consumers have spent 11-billion-dollars more for domestic flights online this year, compared to the last pre-pandemic year, 2019. The increase is due to the increased number of bookings, but also due to inflation and generally higher prices. Study analyst Vivek Pandya adds, “We expect the momentum to carry through the holiday season, even as prices remain elevated above pre-pandemic levels.” And if you’re waiting until the last minute to book in hopes that prices will drop, don’t get your hopes up too high. Business Insider reports, "[Flights] are only likely to get more pricey the longer [you] procrastinate.”


➤ALEXA..FIND ME A JOBN: Amazon plans to lay off about 10,000 people in corporate and technology jobs, The New York Times reports. The web retailer has a global workforce of more than 1.5 million.

➤CRYPTO PANIC: Bitcoin investors are pulling their tokens from centralized cryptocurrency exchanges at a record pace since the collapse of FTX. The owners are keeping their coins in their virtual wallets, according to blockchain analyst firm Glassnode. FTX was briefly valued at $32 billion before it collapsed into bankruptcy in the midst of a run on deposits. Meanwhile, Reuters reports that at least $1.7 billion of customer funds have gone missing from FTX.

➤FLU CASES SOAR IN 7 STATES: A number of Southern states have hit the highest possible level of flu cases on the scale used by the Centers for Disease Control. As of the week ending November 5th, states including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia all have “very high” levels of flu-like illnesses. Washington D.C. is also hard-hit.


⚾ROOKIES OF THE YEAR: Seattle Mariners outfielder Julio Rodriguez was named American League Rookie of the Year yesterday. The runners-up were Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman and Cleveland Guardians outfielder Steven Kwan. Atlanta Braves outfielder Michael Harris II got National League Rookie of the Year honors. His teammate, pitcher Spencer Strider, finished second and the St. Louis Cardinals’ Brendan Donovan was third.

⚾CHICAGO CUBS RELEASE JASON HEYWARD: It’s official: The Chicago Cubs have granted Jason Heyward an unconditional release after seven seasons. The five-time Golden Glove winner had one year left of a record-breaking $184 million deal with the Cubs.

🏀TOP-RANKED SENIOR CHOOSES KENTUCKY WILDCATS: D.J. Wagner, the nation’s number one-ranked high school senior, has committed to the Kentucky Wildcats instead of the Louisville Cardinals. The 6-foot-3 guard from has been on college basketball recruiters' radar since his earliest days at New Jersey’s Camden High School.

➤PARALYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT: American Paralympic gold medalist Robert Griswold has been accused in a lawsuit of raping and sexually assaulting an intellectually impaired teammate at and after the Tokyo Olympics, according to The Washington Post. Griswold, who has cerebral palsy, won two gold medals in swimming at the Tokyo games. The alleged victim is autistic. Griswold did not respond to requests for comment from The Post.

🏈DESHAUN WATSON RETURNS TO PRACTICE: Disgraced Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has been cleared to practice this week, bringing him a step closer to returning from an 11-game suspension. Watson was accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women during massage therapy sessions that occurred while he was with the Houston Texans. He’ll make his debut for the Browns as early as their scheduled game against Houston on December 4th.

🏈NFL Monday Night Football: Washington Commanders 32, Philadelphia Eagles 21



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