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GRAND JUNCTION — Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was sentenced Thursday to 9 years behind bars by a decide who labeled her a “charlatan” for her position in a 2021 breach of her personal county’s election system.

Peters will serve 60 days to 6 months within the Mesa County jail earlier than she is transferred to the state Division of Corrections.

Peters was handcuffed and brought to jail instantly after she was sentenced.

As deputies eliminated her from the courtroom, Peters on the final instantaneous raised her shackled fingers, fluttered a wave and a blew a kiss to her supporters within the packed courtroom.

Twenty-first Judicial District Choose Matthew Barrett handed down the sentence after saying Peters had discovered a approach to revenue off of lies and would proceed to take action if she remained out of jail.

“Your lies are well-documented and these convictions are critical,” he mentioned. “I’m satisfied you’ll do it yet again. You might be as defiant a defendant as this courtroom has ever seen.”

Based mostly on the seriousness of her crimes and the harm they brought about to belief in voting nationwide “jail is the one place” for Peters, Barrett mentioned. He added that the harm she brought about is “unmeasurable.”

Peters, 68, was convicted Aug. 12 of three counts of trying to affect a public official; conspiracy to commit prison impersonation; official misconduct; violation of obligation; and failure to adjust to an order of the Secretary of State.

The jury acquitted Peters of three counts: conspiracy to commit prison impersonation, prison impersonation and identification theft.

Peters didn’t testify throughout her trial, however in a rambling assertion earlier than sentencing, she used her time to put out her perception that elections are being stolen as a part of an unlimited nationwide conspiracy. Her garbled protection appeared like the numerous shows she had made on far-right, election-denier  podcasts.

Barrett stopped her at one level telling her, “that is utterly irrelevant.”  He had informed her 4 attorneys that quite a few instances throughout her trial once they tried to lift problems with voter fraud.

Barrett additionally referred to as out Peters for mendacity when she demonstrated her notorious videotaped try to kick a police officer in 2022. That incident had nothing to do together with her trial, however she included it in a litany of lies she mentioned have been a part of the case towards her. 

She bent over and kicked a leg within the air to point out how having her arm pulled had brought about that involuntary motion. Barrett referred to as that assertion “preposterous.” There was tittering all through the courtroom over her demonstration.

Peters veered from making an attempt to settle these outdated scores to creating bids for sympathy by invoking the reminiscence of her Navy Seal son who died in a parachute accident throughout a navy demonstration when Peters was working for workplace. She spoke about her father dying whereas she was in jail and her 95-year-old mom needing her now. She accused twenty first District Legal professional Dan Rubinstein of stealing her late husband by convincing him to file for divorce. Rubinstein has denied having something to do together with her divorce.

Peters bid for leniency: “I’ve lived my life with religion and honesty”

At one level in her assertion, Peters tearfully begged the decide for mercy.

“Your honor, I don’t deserve to enter a jail the place different individuals have dedicated heinous crimes,” she mentioned. “I’m not a prison. I’ve lived my life with religion and honesty.”

Peters provided the opportunity of going to a faith-based program in northern California the place she would work to assist individuals.

A minister from the Church of Glad Tidings who recognized himself as Pastor Dave Bryan had spoken in her protection. He informed Barrett that he might “take this large hairball” from Colorado by taking Peters out of the state to serve probation. 

“It’s my commentary {that a} storm is simply getting began with this trial,” he mentioned. “Tina Peters has realized her lesson and won’t be concerned in Colorado politics anymore.” He made that assertion earlier than Peters mentioned throughout her assertion that officers have failed to know that the election programs are fraudulent.

Peters informed Choose Barrett that jail can be tough for her as a result of she must sleep on a magnetic mattress for well being issues together with fibromyalgia and a earlier bout of lung most cancers that left her wanting breath at instances.

Those that spoke in Peters’ protection included Douglas Frank, who recognized himself as a Ph.D. physicist who has been “modeling elections” since he was a young person. 

Frank was on the crux of Peters’ prison saga when it started in 2021. He got here to Mesa County after she started questioning the outcomes of a Grand Junction municipal election. Voters had rejected a slate of right-wing candidates, and Peters mentioned on the time she didn’t suppose that was potential. 

She agreed to a plan hatched with Frank and different national-level election fraud conspiracy theorists who needed to attempt to present that Dominion Voting Methods ballot-counting gear fraudulently tallied votes. They wanted a county clerk who would give them entry to a Dominion system and Peters accommodated them.

“They discovered a straightforward mark,” testified Matt Crane, govt director of the Colorado County Clerks Affiliation who spoke for the prosecution Thursday.

Crane identified that Peters by no means bothered to complete her county clerk credentialing and she or he left a coaching session for brand spanking new clerks early. He mentioned he doesn’t consider she understood the system that she sought to undermine.

He mentioned whereas her actions have brought about different clerks and election officers across the state to obtain loss of life threats, “she has benefited from lies and willful ignorance.” He mentioned her lies have been changed into a way of revenue for her as she shills for donations on right-wing podcasts.

“A instrument slightly than a sufferer”

Frank additionally participates in these podcasts. He got here to Mesa County on the invitation of Peters and her pal, Sherronna Bishop, who was not an elected official and didn’t stay in Mesa County. Bishop was a Silt make-up artist who had served as U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s marketing campaign supervisor earlier than the 2 had a falling out. 

Bishop then grew to become concerned with individuals who consider that elections are fraudulent.

Frank and Bishop provided Peters a approach to show, previous to the 2022 mid-term election, that Mesa County’s election system was able to switching votes.

They employed Conan Hayes, a former professional surfer from California who Frank mentioned in the course of the sentencing was a “federally licensed, white-hat hacker.” Hayes traveled to Grand Junction to repeat the voting system laborious drive. Hayes’ task was to repeat the confidential data earlier than and after a normal improve to the system, referred to as a trusted construct. Trusted builds are carried out with the oversight of the Secretary of State’s Workplace previous to elections.

To get Hayes into the safe a part of the clerk’s workplace and into the trusted construct, Peters first needed to perform an elaborate scheme so he would have the required credentials. 

Trial testimony had laid out the main points of that scheme. Peters pretended to rent an area man, Gerald Wooden, as a pc advisor for the elections workplace. Peters obtained credentials for Wooden by skipping a few of the steps usually taken for a brand new rent. She informed totally different events concerned within the elections division that he was both a state worker, a contractor or a brand new worker within the motorized vehicle division.

Wooden’s badge was then utilized by Hayes to entry the room the place the “brains” of the voting system are situated and the place Peters had ordered safety cameras to be turned off previous to the breach. Hayes made copies of the laborious drive previous to the trusted construct. He then attended the trusted construct with representatives of Dominion and the Secretary of State’s Workplace who had been informed he was a county worker.

Wooden and his spouse, Wendy Wooden, spoke on the sentencing for the prosecution, laying out how Peters’ actions and lies had broken their lives. Wendy Wooden cried as she informed the decide that Peters and her co-conspirators had considered her husband as “a instrument slightly than a sufferer.”

Confidential information posted to web sites trafficking in political conspiracy theories

The confidential data that Hayes obtained from the voting system was unveiled throughout an election-conspiracy convention in South Dakota placed on by MyPillow CEO and election-denier Mike Lindell. Lindell had flown Peters and a few of her fellow conspiracy theorists to the convention. He promised that he had proof of election fraud. No proof was introduced.

However the data stolen from Mesa County’s voting system turned up on right-wing conspiracy web sites the place it set off alarm bells with state and county election officers. Peters asserted throughout her sentencing that she had not accredited that launch.

Not one of the data revealed within the breach was ever used to show election fraud. However within the nationwide election-conspiracy world it was held up because the Holy Grail that confirmed Dominion Voting Methods was monkeying with election outcomes. That assertion was based mostly on the truth that some information had been faraway from the system — a normal methodology of doing an improve that features putting in new information, in accordance with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Workplace. 

Mesa County — and your entire state — was in an uproar within the wake of Peters’ actions.

Jena Griswold, the Colorado Secretary of State, scrambled to place a substitute clerk in place to supervise the workplace and the upcoming election. Mesa County needed to pay substitute clerk, former Secretary of State Wayne Williams, to run the Mesa County election whereas nonetheless having to pay the absent Peters. The county additionally needed to change its election gear. 

Mesa County Commissioner Cody Davis, a Republican, addressed that within the sentencing. He mentioned county staff have spent months making an attempt to tally the monetary value of Peters’ crimes. He mentioned they estimate it value $1.4 million in legal professional and employees time, hand counting ballots to show the subsequent election was honest, and making an attempt to employees a clerk’s workplace that was in disarray.

“We needed to rent designated election officers whereas Ms. Peters was gallivanting across the nation,” he informed Choose Barrett.

Peters was in hiding for greater than a month after the Lindell convention. From her hiding place, which she revealed in the course of the sentencing was in Texas, she continued to hold out clandestine plots and plans to cowl up what she had accomplished. In trial testimony, it was revealed that she requested an elections workplace worker to steal the election pc from the safe room. She had her fellow conspirators purchase and use “burner” telephones that couldn’t be tracked. She had them use encrypted message programs to speak.

When Peters returned from hiding, she grew to become an icon for the election-denier crowd — domestically and throughout the nation. She grew to become often known as “Hero Tina” and “Clerk Peters,” labels that her social media followers nonetheless use. She unsuccessfully ran for Secretary of State.

A Lindell-produced documentary referred to as “Choice Code” that centered on her election breach was launched in 2022.  

She appeared at Mar-a-Lago with former President Donald Trump. She spoke at conferences with Lindell and different conspiracy theorists. She was a daily visitor on Steve Bannon’s “Conflict Room” podcast earlier than he was sentenced to jail for ignoring a congressional subpoena. She went on quite a few right-wing podcasts asking for cash for her protection — pleas that continued all through her trial and sentencing. 

Testimony in her trial confirmed that the tentacles of her crime reached into the highest echelons and inside circles of the election-deniers near Trump — former New York Metropolis Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump Nationwide Safety Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and Overstock.com founder and CEO Patrick Byrne.

Byrne was on the cellphone with Hayes gleefully celebrating the breach when Hayes was accessing the Mesa County system.

Former Mesa County Commissioner Scott McInnis, a Republican, addressed all that unfavourable publicity when he mentioned that Peters’ actions additionally sullied his county’s status.

He mentioned the commissioners checked each allegation that Peters’ made and located that none have been correct. He referred to as her “a shame” to the county.

Peters laughed audibly when McInnis, a former U.S. Congressman, mentioned that. Choose Barrett took observe of the disruption.

Peters attorneys tried to cease sentencing with an eleventh hour submitting

The FBI has been concerned within the investigation associated to Peters’ case, however neither Bishop nor Hayes have been charged in reference to the breach.

FBI spokesperson Vicki Migoya mentioned she will be able to’t verify or deny any ongoing investigation which may result in federal prices towards Peters’ co-conspirators. 

Two of Peters’ former staff have already been convicted for his or her elements within the breach. Belinda Knisley, Peters’ former deputy clerk, pleaded responsible to a few misdemeanors in reference to the breach and was sentenced to 2 years of probation. Sandra Brown, a former elections supervisor, pleaded responsible to a felony and was sentenced to 2 months in jail. Each agreed to testify towards their former boss.

Of their testimony, they every referenced Peters saying “I’m fucked,” and “I’m going to jail” after authorities started digging into the breach.

Peters’ actions resulted in a tightening of state legal guidelines associated to county clerks. It’s now a felony to tamper with voting gear or to knowingly publish confidential details about voting programs. Key card entry and video surveillance is required for all voting programs. Crane identified that county clerks should additionally now be credentialed inside six months of taking workplace or they are often faraway from workplace.

One among Peters’ 4 attorneys, John Case, mentioned after the listening to Thursday that he plans to file an attraction of Peters’ sentence by midday Friday. 

Barrett had earlier turned down a protection request for a keep of sentence in order that Peters might stay free whereas appeals transfer by means of the system.

He additionally turned down a movement filed by protection attorneys in the course of the night time earlier than the sentencing asking that he delay the listening to based mostly on new proof that had come to gentle. Peters had been reported to authorities two weeks previous to her trial as a result of she violated a time period of her bail. She had taken a movie crew to the clerk and recorder’s workplace and spoke to staff of the workplace in entrance of the constructing. She was restricted from doing that. 

In denying the protection movement, Barrett identified that the details about the incident wouldn’t have helped Peters’ case. 

Barrett commented on the finish of the sentencing that he was incarcerating Peters instantly as a result of “jail is the place we ship of us who’re a hazard to all of us.” 

“You’re a charlatan,” he mentioned greater than as soon as. “You used your place to hawk snake oil.”

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MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes grew up taking part in video video games, together with “most likely tons of of hours” colonizing a distant planet within the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.

So when that very same sport studio, Firaxis, approached the tribal nation a quarter-century later with a proposal to make a playable character out of their well-known chief Tecumseh within the upcoming sport Civilization 7, Barnes felt a rush of pleasure.

“I used to be like, ‘This could’t be true,’” Barnes mentioned. “Do they need us to take part within the subsequent model of Civilization?”

Beloved by tens of tens of millions of avid gamers since its 1991 debut, Meier’s Civilization sequence sparked a brand new style of empire-building video games that simulated the actual world whereas additionally diverging into imaginary twists. It has captivated nerdy followers like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and a younger Barnes with its intricate and addictive gameplay and wealthy historic context.

Selecting amongst leaders that may vary from Cleopatra to Mahatma Gandhi, gamers construct a civilization from its first settlement to a sprawling community of cities, negotiate with or conquer neighbors, and develop commerce, science, faith and the humanities. Circana, which tracks U.S. sport gross sales, says it’s the bestselling technique online game franchise of all time.

However issues have modified because the early days of Civilization. After all, online game know-how has superior, however so too has society’s understanding of cultural appropriation and the significance of correct historic framing.

Firaxis dropped plans so as to add a historic Pueblo chief in 2010 after tribal leaders objected. The sport integrated a Cree chief in 2018 however confronted public criticism in Canada after its launch.

Builders knew that to correctly symbolize the Shawnee chief, they would wish the enter and blessing of the Shawnee folks.

For Barnes, it was a possibility to not solely showcase the ability and would possibly of the Shawnee but in addition a manner for tribal residents to see themselves represented in in style tradition in a brand new, imagined future for the tribe.

“For us, it’s actually a couple of cultural expression of cultural hegemony,” Barnes mentioned. “Why not us? Why not? After all we must be in a online game title. After all we must always see ourselves mirrored in each media. So we took benefit of the chance to make our star shine.”

For designers at Firaxis, the partnership represented an opportunity to enhance a sport growth system that has been criticized by Indigenous leaders for misrepresenting their cultures, and for the Shawnee, it was a option to promote their language and historical past in a brand new manner.

In interviews with The Related Press, sequence founder Meier and different studio executives acknowledged previous missteps within the Civilization franchise’s informal therapy of historical past, together with the way it integrated Indigenous teams and colonization extra broadly.

That led to cautious thought and months of collaboration to “ensure it’s an genuine, honest recreation” of Shawnee tradition, mentioned sport producer Andrew Frederiksen, talking on a September go to to the tribe’s headquarters. That meant asking the Shawnee questions on what a Shawnee college or library constructing of the longer term would appear to be and creating new Shawnee phrases to explain futuristic ideas.

Meier, who began growing laptop video games within the Nineteen Eighties, mentioned the Shawnee partnership is “form of particular” and was borne out of conferences with Barnes the place the chief talked in regards to the challenges of preserving the Shawnee language. As a part of the partnership, Firaxis and its publishing label 2K Video games — subsidiary of gaming large Take-Two Interactive — are donating tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} in language revitalization packages and amenities.

When Shawnee actor Dean Dillon auditioned for a component that concerned talking the Shawnee language, he didn’t know he’d be voicing Tecumseh. The army and political chief from what’s presently Ohio united a confederation of Native American tribes to withstand U.S. westward enlargement within the early Nineteenth century.

“I simply gave it my finest shot,” Dillon mentioned. “After which just a few weeks later, I heard again and so they mentioned, ‘We’d wish to give you the position of Tecumseh.’ And my head exploded and I ran round the home yelling, ‘My gosh! My gosh!’”

“It was surreal, to say the least, to see Tecumseh’s face however to listen to my voice come out of that,” Dillon mentioned.

Whereas the franchise has at all times had Indigenous leaders, beginning with Montezuma of the Aztecs within the authentic 1991 sport, Meier mentioned sport builders on the time had been on the lookout for acquainted figures with out a lot thought into the load of historical past. Playable characters in that sport included Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong, whose totalitarian regimes had been nonetheless in many individuals’s reminiscence.

“We by no means realized folks would take it as significantly as they do,” Meier mentioned. “We at all times form of felt, ‘Right here’s a manner you can change historical past.’ Perhaps we will make Stalin an excellent man. However that may have been stretching issues a little bit too far.”

“We realized rather a lot as time went on,” he added. The seventh version, due out in February, will for the primary time get rid of barbarians — or at the very least not use that time period for hostile characters that aren’t a part of a playable civilization. Gamers can as an alternative create diplomatic relations with them.

And because the sport’s viewers expanded past the U.S. and Europe, with greater than 70 million video games offered worldwide, so too did gamers need their societies or heritage mirrored. Newer editions embrace themed music and spoken languages from dozens of playable civilizations, from the Māori folks of New Zealand to the Mapuche of South America.

“It’s now a badge of honor for a nation to be included in Civilization,” Meier mentioned. “We’ve been lobbied by completely different international locations, et cetera.”

That’s to not say everybody has been pleased about their inclusion in a sport centered round settling land and exploiting assets. Civilization is likely one of the pioneers of the style often called 4X — for “discover, develop, exploit and exterminate.”

After the franchise added a Nineteenth-century Cree chief to its gameplay in 2018, a outstanding Cree chief complained to the Canadian Broadcasting Company that it “perpetuates this delusion that First Nations had related values that the colonial tradition has, and that’s certainly one of conquering different peoples and accessing their land. That’s completely not in live performance with our conventional methods and worldview.”

One of many sport’s two resident historians, Andrew Johnson, mentioned the studio wished to make Tecumseh a playable chief, however after reaching out to some teachers, “we had been informed repeatedly, ‘No, this can be a actually unhealthy concept, and no person’s going to log off on this.’”

So Johnson instructed reaching out to Shawnee leaders on to ask what they assume, and the way it may assist them.

“I feel so typically you get folks assuming that illustration in Civ is a reward of some type. It’s not,” mentioned Johnson, who’s additionally an anthropologist who research Southeast Asia. “This can be a firm and we’re promoting a product and we’re utilizing a picture and likeness to make a revenue. And getting your ‘civ’ in Civilization doesn’t actually provide help to very a lot if you happen to’re struggling to protect your tradition.”

The sport studio and the tribal nation selected a partnership that may assist the Shawnee folks protect and develop a few of that tradition, notably language. Chief Barnes mentioned the tribe was in dire want of assets for language training, and creating dialogue for a Shawnee civilization of the longer term was one other manner to assist revitalize their language.

“Firaxis was asking questions on language we by no means would have thought to ask,” Barnes mentioned in September on the opening of a brand new language training middle in northeastern Oklahoma.

Barnes hasn’t had an opportunity to play the brand new model of the sport but, however he’s already imaging the longer term he can construct nearly, in addition to how doing so will encourage different Shawnee avid gamers. “What I do know is that with the efforts we’re making right here at present, I count on Shawnee to be spoken in 2500.”

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O’Brien reported from Windfall, Rhode Island.

Eminem killed off his alter ego Slim Shady along with his newest album, however he is making method for a brand new nickname: Grandpa.

The rapper introduced his daughter Hailie Jade is pregnant by a touching music video that may be a tribute to their relationship. Residence movies relationship again to 1999 and pictures of the father-daughter duo, together with movies from her Might wedding ceremony, are underscored by the emotional music “Short-term” within the video launched Thursday.

In a single clip of a current dwelling video, his daughter palms Eminem a jersey with the identify “Grandpa” emblazoned on the again with the #1. She additionally palms him ultrasound pictures, and he seems to be shocked.

The social media influencer confirmed the information of her being pregnant hours after the video was launched Thursday, with an Instagram submit. “Mother & dad est. 2025,” she captioned the submit.

Representatives for Eminem, 51, didn’t instantly return requests for remark.

“Short-term,” from Eminem’s newest album, “The Dying of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce),” is written as a comforting message to his daughter after he dies. “I’m watchin’ you proper now, child lady, I vow/I’ll shield you, your guardian angel,” he sings on the observe, which was launched in July.

The “Lose Your self” artist has all the time had a gentle spot for his daughter, often mentioning her in his songs and even writing full tributes to her like “Hailie’s Tune” and “Mockingbird.”

In “Mockingbird,” a fan favourite, Eminem sings, “What Daddy all the time inform you? Straighten up, little soldier,” a lyric he calls again to in “Short-term.”

Jade is Eminem’s sole organic daughter, whom he had along with his ex-wife Kim Scott. He additionally adopted two of Scott’s daughters from earlier relationships.

Nation music star Garth Brooks is being accused of rape and sexual assault in lawsuit filed Thursday.

An unnamed girl says she was repeatedly harassed by Brooks whereas working as his make-up artist and in 2019 was raped, including that he tried to color himself as a sufferer when he filed his personal lawsuit towards her final month.

In a press release offered late Thursday, Brooks denied the allegations. “I’ve been hassled to no finish with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future can be if I didn’t write a test for a lot of tens of millions of {dollars}. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”

In line with the lawsuit filed by the lady’s attorneys in a California Superior Courtroom, the lady, recognized solely as Jane Roe, had been contracted to do make-up for Brooks’ spouse, Trisha Yearwood, since 1999. She started experiencing monetary difficulties in 2019, and she or he says Brooks helped by providing her extra work.

The lady claims Brooks took benefit of her want for work. She says later in 2019 Brooks uncovered his genitals to her. In one other occasion, Brooks allegedly raped her in a Los Angeles resort suite whereas Brooks was getting ready for a Grammy tribute.

“With chilly disregard for Ms. Roe, when Brooks was completed, it was enterprise as traditional,” the criticism says. “Ms. Roe labored rapidly to model his hair and do his make-up for the occasion so he was on time.”

The lady says Brooks claimed to get a cryptic textual content message after the alleged rape that mentioned Brooks “ruined his life.”

At that time, she had not labored for Brooks for a number of months, main Brooks to suspect the lady’s husband could have despatched the textual content, the criticism says.

Brooks allegedly informed the lady, “That’s what I assumed. Oh crap! So, I used to be making an attempt to hunt you out to return discuss … or no matter I wanted to do, however simply, uh, I don’t wish to harm anyone, man. And simply … I simply felt unhealthy.”

All through her time working for Brooks, from 2017 to 2021, the lady claims he moreover despatched her sexually specific textual content messages, often modified garments in entrance of her and groped her commonly whereas she labored on his hair and make-up.

She is suing for sexual battery and assault, and is requesting financial and punitive damages, legal professional’s charges and a jury trial.

Brooks filed a federal lawsuit towards the lady final month, claiming she is making an attempt to extort him for cash and defame his character, in response to him not making her a salaried worker or paying for medical advantages.

He says the lady despatched him a letter in July claiming she was sexually assaulted and that Brooks was plotting to kill her, in accordance with his lawsuit.

Brooks claims he obtained one other letter the following month, wherein the lady mentioned she wouldn’t go public together with her submitting if he paid her tens of millions of {dollars}.

In his assertion, Brooks mentioned, “Hush cash, irrespective of how a lot or how little, continues to be hush cash. In my thoughts, meaning I’m admitting to conduct I’m incapable of — ugly acts no human ought to ever do to a different.”

He’s additionally requesting financial and punitive damages, legal professional’s charges and a jury trial, in addition to a declaration from the court docket that the lady’s claims are false.

“I belief the system, I don’t concern the reality, and I’m not the person they’ve painted me to be,” he mentioned.

The Atlanta Falcons had been down three factors, with lower than two minutes left and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in possession of the ball. You will by no means guess what occurred subsequent.

After a livid drive to ship the sport to OT, the Falcons shocked their NFC South foes on a 45-yard KhaDarel Hodge landing to win 36-30. The largest star of the evening: Kirk Cousins, who shook off a sluggish begin to his Falcons tenure with one of many greatest nights of his profession.

The previous Minnesota Vikings starter completed 42-of-58 for 509 passing yards, 4 touchdowns and an interception. He picked the Bucs aside within the drive to drive OT, then hammered them once more after the Falcons gained the second coin toss.

The Falcons’ comeback erased a superb evening for Baker Mayfield, who was 19-of-24 for 180 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions. The Tampa Bay run sport additionally mixed for 160 yards on 26 makes an attempt. However some late missteps spelled doom for a workforce that now not leads the NFC South.

This is the way it all performed out on Yahoo Sports activities.

MEMPHIS, Texas (KFDA) – A Blue Alert has been issued for a person wished within the involvement within the killing or severe harm of a legislation enforcement officer in Memphis.

Police in Corridor County are trying to find 33-year-old Seth Altman.

Based on officers, police have been delivering a warrant to Altman for a housebreaking cost.

Officers say the suspect fled out the again of the home and was confronted by the police chief who was shot by Altman.

Based on officers, the police chief was taken to Lubbock for medical remedy and is in steady situation.

Officers describe Altman as a six-foot-two white man weighing about 220 kilos. He’s carrying a blue t-shirt and blue denims.

Officers say Altman is believed to be armed and harmful.

For those who see him, don’t strategy him, name 9-1-1.

The Texas Rangers have been known as in to help for an tried capital homicide investigation.

Memphis ISD has delayed lessons till 10 a.m. this morning following this incident.

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Texas authorities issued a Blue Alert early Friday morning, and a statewide manhunt has begun for a person suspected of injuring an officer, in line with authorities.

Seth Altman, 33, who was final seen in Memphis, Texas, round 80 miles south of Amarillo, and is needed in reference to the harm of a legislation enforcement officer.

Altman is “wished for the involvement within the killing or critical harm of a legislation enforcement officer,” in line with the Texas Division of Security.

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Who’s Seth Altman?

Altman is described as a white male, roughly 6 toes 2 inches tall and 220 kilos. He has blue eyes and pink or auburn hair. He was final seen within the 200 block of South Fourth Avenue in Memphis round 11 p.m. Thursday, sporting a blue T-shirt and blue denims.

He’s thought of to be armed and harmful, reported Information 4 San Antonio. If noticed, name 911 and don’t method him.

Altman allegedly shot police officer, experiences state

Altman is believed to have shot a police officer Thursday night time, reported to BNO Information and CBS Austin.

The officer was shot a number of instances and was flown to the hospital.

The officer’s situation is unknown, in line with the information retailers.

What’s a blue alert?

A blue alert is issued for people who find themselves suspected of killing or significantly wounding native, state, or federal legislation enforcement officers, in line with the Texas Division of Security.

The Blue Alert Program was created in 2008 and is designed to make sure that suspects could be shortly apprehended.

The next standards should be met earlier than a Blue Alert could be issued underneath an individual’s title, in line with the division:

• A legislation enforcement officer will need to have been killed or significantly injured by an offender.
• Authorities should consider the suspect poses a critical threat or risk to the general public and legislation enforcement personnel.
• An outline of the suspect’s automobile, automobile tag, or partial tag should be out there so it may be broadcast to the general public.
• The investigating legislation enforcement company should suggest activating the Blue Alert to the Texas Division of Public Security.

This story remains to be creating and might be up to date as extra info is obtainable.

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Melania Trump has expressed help for abortion rights, placing her opinion at odds along with her husband’s view of the matter. In a video selling her forthcoming memoir, Mrs. Trump described ladies’s “particular person freedom” as an “important proper,” including her voice to a protracted line of Republican first girls who’ve supported authorized abortion entry regardless of their husbands’ public stances towards it.

In a black-and-white video posted on her X account on Thursday, Mrs Trump mentioned “there isn’t a room for compromise on the subject of this important proper that each one ladies possess from delivery: particular person freedom. What does my physique, my alternative actually imply?”

The clip coincided with the discharge of an excerpt from her memoir, “Melania”, set for publication on October 8, 2024. Within the guide, Mrs. Trump reportedly takes a clearer pro-choice stance, emphasising the significance of girls’s autonomy over their our bodies. “It’s crucial to ensure that ladies have autonomy in deciding their desire of getting youngsters, primarily based on their very own convictions, free from any intervention or stress from the federal government,” she writes.

She additional mentioned, “Why ought to anybody apart from the lady herself have the ability to find out what she does along with her personal physique? A girl’s basic proper of particular person liberty, to her personal life, grants her the authority to terminate her being pregnant if she needs. Proscribing a girl’s proper to decide on whether or not to terminate an undesirable being pregnant is identical as denying her management over her personal physique. I’ve carried this perception with me all through my total grownup life.”

Her stance is in stark distinction to her husband, who has taken credit score for serving to overturn “Roe v. Wade”, the 1973 Supreme Court docket choice that had enshrined the constitutional proper to abortion. In her guide, Mrs. Trump argues towards authorities interference in ladies’s private selections, stating that proscribing a girl’s proper to decide on is akin to denying her management over her personal physique.

Melania’s feedback align her with different Republican first girls who’ve supported abortion entry, together with Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan, and each Barbara and Laura Bush. Nonetheless, not like these ladies, who made their views recognized after their husbands left workplace, Mrs. Trump is talking out whereas Donald Trump is actively searching for re-election. This has led to hypothesis concerning the political implications of her timing, with some analysts suggesting it may enchantment to swing voters upset over the overturning of “Roe v. Wade”.

Journalist and creator Kate Andersen Brower was shocked by Mrs. Trump’s feedback, given her previous alignment along with her husband’s views. “She’s very a lot been in step with her husband, so how did she spend all these years watching him derail one thing that she appears to care about?” Brower remarked. Nonetheless, she famous that Mrs. Trump’s stance appears “diametrically opposed” to Donald Trump’s on this challenge.

Republican strategist Rina Shah, nevertheless, dismissed the concept that Mrs. Trump’s feedback had been politically motivated to assist her husband. “The notion of Mrs. Trump attempting to assist out her husband doesn’t observe with the Melania we all know,” Shah mentioned. “At this level, it doesn’t change something, and he or she is aware of that.”

Abortion entry has turn out to be a key challenge within the 2024 election, with Donald Trump’s fluctuating place on the matter drawing important consideration. Lately, Trump acknowledged that he would veto any federal abortion ban, regardless of being credited with creating the situations for “Roe v. Wade”’s reversal by appointing a conservative majority to the Supreme Court docket. His rival, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, has seized on this challenge, portraying Trump as a menace to ladies’s autonomy.

The Harris-Walz marketing campaign responded to Mrs. Trump’s remarks by highlighting the stark distinction between her views and people of her husband. “Sadly for the ladies throughout America, Mrs. Trump’s husband firmly disagrees along with her which explains that multiple in three American ladies dwell beneath a Trump Abortion Ban that threatens their well being, their freedom, and their lives,” marketing campaign spokeswoman Sarafina Chitika mentioned.

Because the election approaches, Melania Trump’s feedback spotlight a rising divide between the Republican Get together’s management and a wider citizens more and more supportive of abortion rights. Whether or not her views will impression the marketing campaign stays to be seen, however they definitely add a brand new dimension to the dialog surrounding ladies’s rights in America.

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The revelation of Melania Trump’s staunch protection of a lady’s proper to an abortion in her upcoming memoir might hurt—and even assist—her husband, former President Donald Trump, forward of November’s presidential election, specialists instructed Newsweek.

“It’s crucial to ensure that girls have autonomy in deciding their choice of getting kids, primarily based on their very own convictions, free from any intervention or strain from the federal government,” the Republican nominee’s spouse writes in her ebook, titled Melania, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.

“Why ought to anybody apart from the lady herself have the ability to find out what she does along with her personal physique?” Melania provides, in keeping with the British newspaper, which obtained a duplicate of the ebook forward of its publication on October 8.

“Limiting a lady’s proper to decide on whether or not to terminate an undesirable being pregnant is identical as denying her management over her personal physique.”

Newsweek has contacted Melania Trump’s workplace and the Trump marketing campaign for remark.

The previous first woman has seldom aired her political beliefs in public and has been noticeably absent from the marketing campaign trial as her husband seeks to return for a second time period within the White Home.

Nonetheless, the revelation that Melania’s views on abortion seem to vary considerably from her husband’s comes simply weeks earlier than the November 5 election.

Polls present an in depth race between Trump and the Democratic vp Kamala Harris might be determined by small numbers of voters in essential swing states. Abortion stays a prime challenge, with a survey final month by the Pew Analysis Middle discovering that half of People say that abortion is essential to their vote, together with greater than a 3rd of Republicans.

Harris has made defending abortion rights central to her marketing campaign and mentioned that reproductive rights nationwide could also be threatened by a second Trump presidency.

“Sadly for the ladies throughout America, Mrs. Trump’s husband firmly disagrees along with her which explains that a couple of in three American ladies dwell beneath a Trump abortion ban that threatens their well being, their freedom and their lives,” Harris marketing campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika mentioned in an emailed assertion to Newsweek.

“Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear: If he wins in November, he’ll ban abortion nationwide, punish ladies and prohibit ladies’s entry to reproductive well being care,” Chitika added.

In the meantime, anti-abortion activists and spiritual conservatives have grown more and more annoyed with Trump. He has sought to current himself as extra average on abortion amid the anger because the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade, regardless of taking credit score for appointing justices who voted in 2022 to strike down the nationwide proper to abortion.

Since then, 13 states have banned abortion in virtually all circumstances; and 22 ban or prohibit the process sooner than the usual set in Roe v. Wade, which allowed abortion till fetal viability, usually thought of to be 23 or 24 weeks.

Trump has mentioned that it might be a political catastrophe for Republicans searching for to win again key teams, together with suburban ladies, to take excessive positions on abortion. Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters each time the difficulty has been straight on the poll since Roe v. Wade was overturned, and measures to guard entry to abortion will go earlier than voters in 10 states in November, together with in battlegrounds Arizona and Nevada.

This week, Trump mentioned he would veto a nationwide abortion ban for the primary time after repeatedly declining to take action throughout a debate in opposition to Harris final month. He has usually mentioned that abortion legislation ought to be left to the states and expressed help for exceptions in circumstances of rape, incest and to guard the lifetime of the mom.

In August, Lila Rose, the founding father of the anti-abortion group Reside Motion, mentioned that Trump’s stance meant he was “dropping pro-life votes” and that it was mistaken for his supporters “to demand that pro-life activists be endlessly loyal to Trump in response to repeated betrayal.”

After Melania’s protection of abortion rights in her memoir was reported, Kristan Hawkins, the president of College students for Lifetime of America, mentioned it was “laborious to comply with the logic” of placing out the ebook earlier than the election and “undercutting President Trump’s message to pro-life voters.”

Melania Trump’s protection of abortion rights is “a major growth that would have advanced ramifications for Donald Trump’s marketing campaign,” Craig Agranoff, a professor of political advertising and marketing at Florida Atlantic College, instructed Newsweek.

“It creates a right away stress with Trump’s established stance on abortion, which has been strongly aligned with the pro-life motion. In an election the place his capacity to mobilize his base is important, any deviation, particularly from somebody as shut as his partner, can seem as disunity, which could concern staunch anti-abortion voters.”

The timing of the memoir “provides a layer of unpredictability,” Agranoff mentioned, including that it might “present ammunition for Trump’s opponents, who might use Melania’s stance to query his authenticity or consistency on this challenge. For these in search of causes to mistrust his commitments, this second might be a catalyst.”

Agranoff mentioned it’s doable that it might function an “October shock”—an sudden twist within the ultimate weeks of a presidential marketing campaign that would influence the end result.

“However whether or not it is a assist or a hindrance relies on how the marketing campaign manages to border the dialog within the coming weeks,” Agranoff added. “A unified message from the marketing campaign might be important to make sure that this revelation does not overshadow Trump’s efforts to shore up his base.”

Diana Mutz, a professor of political science and communication on the College of Pennsylvania, mentioned the transfer might be strategic since Trump’s “sturdy anti-abortion stance is a political legal responsibility for him within the U.S.”

Anti-abortion voters “have nowhere to go, even when they’re sad with it,” Mutz instructed Newsweek.

Agranoff agreed that it might be helpful to Trump. “Provided that Trump is fighting sure average or swing voters, Melania’s extra progressive stance might soften his picture of their eyes,” he mentioned.

“It might painting him as extra ideologically versatile or independent-minded, relying on how the marketing campaign chooses to spin it. This might attraction to suburban voters or ladies who is likely to be on the fence about supporting him however really feel alienated by extra excessive positions on reproductive rights.”

Grant Davis Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse College in New York, mentioned he believes it’s possible to assist greater than damage Trump’s marketing campaign.

Trump and his working mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, “have struggled to beat the Democratic narrative that they wish to cross a nationwide ban on abortion,” Reeher instructed Newsweek.

“Each Trump and Vance have argued that they don’t wish to see a nationwide ban, and that the matter is finest left to the states, the place some will cross bans, and others, such a New York, will prolong the suitable to an abortion past that offered by Roe v. Wade. Melania Trump’s views might be seen to bolster that place, in that she lives in a state with sturdy abortion rights.”

Nonetheless, Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern College in Boston, mentioned that Melania Trump’s views are unlikely to have a lot influence in any respect.

“I count on this revelation can have a negligible impact on the dynamics of the race,” he instructed Newsweek.

Panagopoulos added that there’s a historical past of first women having opposing positions to their spouses. “Laura Bush supported same-sex marriage and abortion rights, whereas her husband held reverse views on the problems as president, and it did not appear to matter a lot,” he mentioned.

“In spite of everything, Melania Trump isn’t on the poll, and he or she wouldn’t be the president if Republicans win in November,” Panagopoulos mentioned.

Chelsea made a profitable debut within the third-tier Convention League as Renato Veiga, Pedro Neto, Christopher Nkunku and Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor all scored in a 4-2 win over Belgium’s KAA Gent at Stamford Bridge.

After Neto and Veiga had scored early in every half, Tsuyoshi Watanabe briefly threatened a comeback for the guests when pulling a aim again within the fiftieth minute.

However Nkunku’s seventh aim of the season and a primary Chelsea aim for Dewsbury-Corridor ensured a cushty win for Enzo Marsca’s facet regardless of a late comfort effort from Omri Gandelman.

Elsewhere within the Convention League on Thursday, Fiorentina, who reached the ultimate within the final two seasons, beat Welsh facet New Saints 2-0.

Info from The Related Press contributed to this report.