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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Wake-Up Call: One Suspect In Canadian Stabbings Found Dead

The Suspects
Canadian police said Monday that one of the two suspects in the killing of 10 people in a series of stabbings Sunday was found dead. They said that 31-year-old Damien Sanderson's injuries were not self-inflicted, and that the other suspect, his 30-year-old brother Myles Sanderson, may be injured and is still at large. Eighteen people were also injured in the stabbings that began around 5:30 a.m. local time Sunday in the province of Saskatchewan. Victims, both dead and injured, were found at 13 separate locations at the James Smith Cree Nation Indigeneous community and the nearby town of Weldon. Police alleged the suspects targeted some of the victims while others appeared to have been chosen at random. They didn't give a motive for the stabbings, but a senior Indigenous leader, the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, suggested they could be drug-related.

➤UKRAINIAN NUCLEAR PLANT GOES OFFLINE AFTER FIRE CAUSED BY SHELLING: The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine that's in the middle of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, leading to escalating concerns about a possible radioactive disaster, went off Ukraine's electricity grid Monday because of a fire caused by shelling. 


The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is the U.N. nuclear watchdog, said it was told by Ukrainian authorities that the last transmission line was disconnected in order to put out a fire, adding, "The line itself is not damaged, and it will be reconnected once the fire is extinguished." Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of attacking the plant, which Russian forces took over soon after the invasion, but is still operated by Ukrainian staff. The developments came days after IAEA inspectors arrived at the plant to assess the situation there amid the heightened fears, and a day ahead of their report being due to the U.N. Security Council today. Two IAEA experts were left at the plant.

➤BIDEN SEEKS TO SEPARATE 'MAINSTREAM REPUBLICANS' FROM 'EXTREME MAGA' 'TRUMPIES':  At a Labor Day event Monday in Wisconsin, President Biden again sought to separate what he called "mainstream Republicans" from those he cast as "extreme MAGA" and "Trumpies," after his prime time speech last Thursday in which he said there's a threat to America's democracy from the, quote, "extreme ideology" of former President Donald Trump and his followers. That speech had drawn a blistering response from Republicans who accused Biden of trying to divide the country, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy charging the president was choosing to, quote, "divide, demean and disparage his fellow Americans."


Biden said yesterday at Milwaukee Laborfest, "I want to be very clear up front: Not every Republican is a MAGA Republican. Not every Republican embraces that extreme ideology. I know because I’ve been able to work with mainstream Republicans in my whole career." But he continued, "The extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division." He also referred to them as "Trumpies," and said that Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who's running for re-election, is one of them.

 
➤JUDGE GRANTS TRUMP'S REQUEST FOR SPECIAL MASTER FOR MAR-A-LAGO DOCS: A federal judge yesterday granted former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to review documents retrieved from his Mar-a-Lago Florida estate early last month when the FBI executed a search warrant. The order also temporarily stopped the Justice Department from using the government records for their investigation into the presence of the documents, including some that were top-secret, at Mar-a-Lago. However, a separate assessment by the U.S. intelligence community of the risk posed by that apparent mishandling of the classified records will be allowed to continue. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's decision means an outside legal expert will review the documents to remove any that might be personal or protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege. The Justice Department had objected, saying a special master wasn't necessary since a review had already been done to look for any potentially privileged documents. It also argued Trump wasn't entitled to the return of any of the records since he's no longer president and therefore the documents don't belong to him, and that personal items taken were mixed in with classified information, giving them potential evidentiary value. The Justice Department didn't say if it would appeal.

➤POLL: AMERICANS INCRESINGLY CONCERNED ABOUT POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Americans are increasingly concerned about political violence, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll, with nearly two-thirds, 64 percent, believing there will be an increase in the coming years, up from 57 percent who felt that way last December and 51 percent in January 2021, a substantial increase in a relatively short period of time. At the same time, an overwhelming 86 percent say violence is always unacceptable, with no difference between parties. But the concern about political violence is tied to a view of growing divisions in the country, with 80 percent believing the U.S. is more divided now than it was during their parents' generation. The poll asked how Republicans and Democrats see members of the other party. About half from each, 49 percent of Republicans and 47 percent of Democrats, see members of the other party as enemies, with a slight majority, 51 percent of Republicans and 53 percent of Democrats, instead seeing them as political opponents, and therefore presumably able to work out difference through our political system. Looking ahead, a majority of 54 percent believe the U.S. will be less of a democracy a generation from now than it is today. But while just one-third are optimistic Americans can come together and work out their differences, younger people are much more optimistic about it.

Liz Truss
➤LIZ TRUSS TO BE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Liz Truss will become Britain's new prime minister, after the Conservative Party announced yesterday that she'd been elected as their new leader. The 47-year-old Truss, who's currently foreign secretary, beat former Treasury head Rishi Sunak in a vote by some 170,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party. She will take over as prime minister today. Truss is succeeding Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who announced on July 7th that he would be stepping down, forced to resign after a series of ethics scandals. Under Britain’s parliamentary system, the Conservative Party, which Johnson led, was allowed to hold an internal election to select a new party leader and prime minister without holding a country-wide general election.

➤COAST GUARD SUSPENDS SEARCH FOR NINE MISSING AFTER FLOATPLANE CRASH: The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search Monday afternoon for nine people who were missing after a floatplane crash Sunday in Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. The body of a 10th person was recovered after the crash was reported Sunday afternoon. The Northwest Seaplanes flight left Friday Harbor, a popular tourist destination in the San Juan Islands, and was headed to Renton Municipal Airport. The plane went down about halfway through the flight, with witnesses reporting seeing it nosedive into the water. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to investigate.

➤ISRAELI MILITARY...AL JAZEERA JOURNALIST LIKELY KILLED BY SOLDIER: The Israeli military said Monday that there was a, quote, "high probability" that Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was mistakenly killed by an Israeli soldier, as it released the results of its investigation into the deadly May 11th shooting during a raid in the occupied West Bank. However, it said no one would be punished for the shooting. A senior military official told reporters there was a, quote, "very high likelihood" that Abu Akleh was mistakenly shot by an Israeli soldier in an armored vehicle who thought he was aiming at a militant. The military initially clamed Abu Akleh, who was covering the raid, might have been killed by Palestinian gunmen during a battle with Israel troops. Palestinian officials and Abu Akleh’s family accused the Israeli army of evading responsibility for her killing, and Al Jazeera’s local bureau chief said the report was, quote, "clearly an attempt to circumvent the opening of a criminal investigation."


➤HILLARY CLINTON: 'SUGGESTIVE' UPSKIRT PHOTOS LED HER TO START WEARING PANTSUITS: Hillary Clinton said in an interview aired Sunday that she started wearing her signature pantsuits after upskirt photos were taken of her while she was first lady. The former secretary of state said on CBS Sunday Morning that it happened during a state visit to Brazil in 1995, with photographers shooting her from below while she was wearing a skirt. She said, "I was sitting on a couch and the press was let in. There were a bunch of them shooting up." Some of the photos, in which Clinton's underwear appeared to be visible, were later used in ads for a Brazilian lingerie brand. Clinton continued, "All of a sudden the White House gets alerted to these billboards that show me sitting down -- I thought my legs were together -- but the way it's shot, it's sort of suggestive. And then I also began to have the experience of having photographers all the time. I'd be on a stage, I'd be climbing stairs -- and they'd be below me. I just couldn't deal with it, so I started wearing pants."
 
➤CANADIAN TIKTOK INFLUENCER DIES IN FIRST SOLO SKYDIVING JUMP: A 21-year-old Canadian TikTok influencer fell to her death during her first solo skydiving jump late last month, according to reports. College student Tanya Pardazi, who had more than 100,000 TikTok follwers, died on August 27th at Skydive Toronto, where she had completed a course before her first jump, CTV News Toronto reported, citing a friend. Skydive Toronto confirmed a 21-year-old's death in a Facebook statement that didn't identify Pardazi by name. It said the skydiver, quote, "released a quickly rotating main parachute at a low altitude without the time/altitude required for the reserve parachute to inflate." Skydive Toronto said it's working with police as they investigate.

🎾AMERICAN TIAFOE UPSETS NADAL IN U.S. OPEN FOURTH ROUND: Number 2 Rafael Nadal was upset by 22nd-seeded American Frances Tiafoe 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in their U.S. Open fourth round match yesterday to reach just the second major quarterfinal of his career. On the women's side, top-seeded Iga Swiatek beat unseeded Jule Neiemeier to make it into the quarterfinals, coming back for the 2-6, 6-4, 6-0 win after dropping the first set. Other winners included Number 8 Jessica Pegula, the highest-ranked U.S. woman, and Andrey Rublev.


⚾YANKEES' JUDGE HITS MLB-LEADING 54TH HOMER: The New York Yankees' Aaron Judge hit his MLB-leading 54th home run in the Yankees' 5-2 win over the Minnesota Twins yesterday, 18 ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies' Kyle Schwarber. Judge has homered in three straight games and five of his last seven, and his blistering pace has him on pace to hit 65 home runs this season, four more than Roger Maris' American League record set in 1961.

 
🏈TRUBISKY IS STEELERS STARTING QUARTERBACK: It's now official that Mitch Trubisky will be the Pittsburgh Steelers' starting quarterback for the season opener against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, with him listed as the first-string quarterback on the team's first official depth chart yesterday. He got the job over first-round draft pick Kenny Pickett and longtime Steelers backup Mason Rudolph. Earlier in the day, Trubisky, a veteran signed to a two-year, $14.2 million contract in free agency, was voted one of five team captains by his teammates.

🏈JETS COACH SALEH SAYS 'POSSIBLE' QB WILSON STARTS GAME 1: The New York Jets said Monday that quarterback Zach Wilson worked out for the first time since having arthroscopic knee surgery on August 16th for a torn meniscus, and head coach Robert Saleh said, quote, "it's possible" that he could start Game 1 Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens. Saleh stated, "Looked good, felt good. . . . we'll have an answer for everybody on Wednesday." However, ESPN said the "realistic outcome" is that Wilson will have at least another week to recover, and backup Joe Flacco will start Sunday.

🏈HARBAUGH: PLAYERS SHOULD GET REVENUE SHARE FROM EXPANDED CFP: Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday that players should get a share of the revenue generated by the expanded College Football Playoff. Speaking at his weekly news conference, Harbaugh said, "I do believe the players should receive a revenue share from the massive TV deals that have been worked out." A plan to expand the CFP from the current four teams to 12 was approved Friday, and could began as soon as 2024.



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