NASSAU COUNTY, Lengthy Island (WABC) — Former President Donald Trump addressed a packed crowd inside Nassau Coliseum for a marketing campaign rally Wednesday evening — his first on Lengthy Island.

He leaned closely on his message on immigration at his rally in Uniondale, Lengthy Island, focusing the majority of his remarks on the topic.

“We’re simply destroying the material of life in our nation. And we’re not going to take it any longer. And you bought to do away with these individuals. Give me a shot,” Trump mentioned.

He ripped into Democratic management in New York Metropolis and state, blaming them for homeless individuals residing in what he known as “horrible, disgusting, harmful, filthy encampments,” and even the circumstances on the New York Metropolis subway, which he known as “squalid and unsafe” and promised to renovate.

“What the hell do it’s important to lose?” he mentioned in asking for his or her votes.

Trump has promised to hold out “the biggest deportation operation within the historical past of our nation” if he is elected in November. He has supplied no particulars on how such an operation would work.

Trump has targeted on immigration as a prime marketing campaign difficulty and made it a key focus of his remarks Wednesday.

“Have a look at what’s occurring,” he informed his crowd in New York. “Companies which might be fleeing, cash draining out of your state and tons of of 1000’s of unlawful migrants sucking your public sources dry.”

The massive rally got here simply days after the second obvious try on the previous president’s life in Florida over the weekend.

Forward of the rally, NewsCopter 7 confirmed massive crowds gathering within the afternoon amid tight safety. Lots of them bought to the rally 11 hours earlier than the Trump took the stage.

Greater than 60,000 tickets had been requested for the massive occasion though the ability solely seats 16,000. And whereas tens of 1000’s of his supporters could not get contained in the venue, they caught round simply to be close to the Republican presidential nominee, and watched his tackle on giant screens outdoors.

“It is great due to the camaraderie,” mentioned Trump supporter Pam Wissmamn. “It is all American. It would not matter when you’re Black, you are white, you are Asian or Latino it is simply all people coming collectively.”

Nevertheless, the rally drew not solely supporters, but in addition a counter protest by Haitian American group members outdoors the Coliseum.

“He has taken patriotism and tried to transform it into hatriotism,” mentioned one protester.

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Trump mentioned he plans within the subsequent two weeks to go to Springfield, Ohio, which has been the middle of false accusations from the previous president and his working mate JD Vance that members of town’s Haitian group are abducting and consuming cats and canine.

As for safety earlier than the occasion, regulation enforcement officers knocked down social media posts falsely reporting that explosives had been present in a automobile close to the deliberate rally on Wednesday morning.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder mentioned police questioned and detained an individual who “might have been coaching a bomb detection canine,” close to the positioning of the rally and “falsely reported explosives being discovered.”

Lt. Scott Skrynecki, a spokesperson for the county police, mentioned in follow-up messages that the particular person, who police haven’t but recognized, was a civilian and never a member of a regulation enforcement company.

He additionally mentioned the particular person was not working at or affiliated with the occasion.

The rally was Trump’s first on Lengthy Island, a suburban space simply east of New York Metropolis, since 2017.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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NEW YORK — The corporate behind Tupperware, the plastic kitchenware that revolutionized meals storage after World Struggle II and have become inextricably linked to the events the place girls in search of a measure of economic independence and enjoyable in midcentury America bought the colourful merchandise, has filed for chapter.

Tupperware Manufacturers, the Orlando, Florida-based client items firm that produces the enduring line of containers, mentioned it was in search of Chapter 11 chapter safety after struggling to revitalize its core enterprise and failing to safe a tenable takeover provide.

Regardless of having fun with the identical cultural ubiquity as Kleenex, Teflon and different manufacturers whose trademarked names are eponymous with whole product classes, Tupperware has suffered from waning gross sales, rising competitors and the restrictions of the direct-to-consumer advertising and marketing mannequin that after outlined its success.

The corporate mentioned Tuesday in its chapter submitting that customers shifting away from direct gross sales, which make up the overwhelming majority of its gross sales greater than a quarter-century after the primary Tupperware events, has hit the storied enterprise arduous.

The corporate additionally cited rising public well being and environmental issues about plastic, inner inefficiencies that made it difficult to function globally, and the “difficult microeconomic surroundings” of the final a number of years for its monetary straits.

Tupperware mentioned it deliberate to proceed working in the course of the chapter proceedings and would search courtroom approval for a sale “in an effort to shield” the model.

Tupperware’s roots date to 1946. As the corporate tells it, chemist Earl Tupper discovered inspiration whereas creating molds at a plastics manufacturing unit. He set out on a mission to create an hermetic lid seal — much like the one on a paint can — for a plastic container to assist households get monetary savings on meals waste.

The model skilled explosive progress within the mid-Twentieth century, notably with the rise of direct gross sales via Tupperware events. First held in 1948, the events had been promoted as a method for girls to earn supplemental revenue by promoting their mates and neighbors the lidded bowls for holding leftovers.

The system labored so nicely that Tupperware ultimately eliminated its merchandise from shops. It additionally led Tupper to nominate Brownie Clever, who got here up with the home get together thought, as an organization government, a place that was uncommon for a girl on the time.

Within the a long time that adopted, the model expanded to incorporate canisters, beakers, cake dishes and all method of implements, and have become a staple in kitchens throughout America and ultimately, overseas as nicely. A newspaper reporter who went undercover to work as a footman in Buckingham Palace captured photos of the royal Tupperware on the breakfast desk of Queen Elizabeth II.

The story behind the corporate additionally confirmed up on TV screens and on stage, with depictions in PBS’ 2004 movie “Tupperware!” and the play “Sealed for Freshness.”

“For greater than 70 years, Tupperware Manufacturers has centered on a core goal – to encourage girls to domesticate the arrogance they should enrich their lives, nourish their households, and gas communities around the globe,” Tricia Stitzel, the corporate’s first feminine CEO, wrote as lately as 2018. “And we proceed to make choices, from our progressive merchandise to our strategic progress technique, which replicate this goal.”

Within the 2000s, Tupperware additionally diversified past its containers by buying magnificence and private care corporations, most of them direct-selling manufacturers like Avroy Shlain, Fuller Cosmetics, NaturCare, Nutrimetics and Nuvo.

Monetary analysts, nonetheless, criticized Tupperware in recent times for sticking with the direct gross sales mannequin and failing to evolve with the occasions, most notably the massive variety of girls who work outdoors the house.

“The truth is that the decline at Tupperware will not be new,” Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, mentioned in Wednesday commentary. “It is rather tough to see how the model can get again to its glory days.”

The corporate’s gross sales improved some in the course of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when People had been cooking and consuming extra at house. However total gross sales have been in regular decline through the years attributable to rising competitors from Rubbermaid, OXO and even takeout meals containers that customers recycle. Classic Tupperware additionally stays in demand as a collectible.

Total, gross sales for meals storage provides are up 18% in comparison with earlier than the pandemic, in accordance with figures from market analysis agency Circana. However regardless of that progress – and the continued recognition of meals storage movies on social media – the troubles for Tupperware remained.

Saunders defined that many shoppers have migrated to cheaper house storage manufacturers they’ll discover at Goal and Walmart. Amazon, the king of on-line retailers, additionally has its personal line.

Traditionally, Tupperware marketed its merchandise as higher-quality sturdy objects. However shoppers who’re in search of sturdiness are keen on extra sustainable supplies, akin to glass and chrome steel, mentioned Jennifer Christ, supervisor of client and business analysis for the Freedonia Group, a market analysis firm.

“There’s much less model loyalty than there was once,” Christ mentioned.

Previously few years, Tupperware tried just a few issues to increase its attain and appeal to new clients. It began promoting its merchandise on Amazon in addition to in shops at Goal and Macy’s. In 2019, the model additionally launched a line made with sustainable supplies and expanded it two years later.

However monetary troubles continued to pile up.

Final yr, the corporate sought further financing because it warned traders about its capacity to remain in enterprise and its danger of being delisted from the New York Inventory Trade.

The corporate obtained an extra non-compliance discover from the NYSE for failing to file its annual outcomes with the Securities and Trade Fee earlier this yr. Tupperware continued to warn about its capacity to remain afloat in more moderen months, with an August securities submitting pointing to “vital liquidity challenges.”

Shares for the corporate have fallen 75% this yr.

In Tuesday’s chapter petition, Tupperware reported greater than $1.2 billion in whole money owed and $679.5 million in whole property. It mentioned Tupperware at the moment employs greater than 5,450 workers throughout 41 nations and companions with over 465,000 consultants who promote merchandise on a contract foundation in practically 70 nations. Significantly in India, Tupperware was launched as a method for girls to personal their very own companies.

Many Tupperware sellers market the merchandise on-line, however many additionally make their gross sales throughout Tupperware events at their houses or neighborhood gatherings. Within the announcement of the submitting, the corporate maintained that there have been no present modifications to Tupperware’s impartial gross sales marketing consultant agreements.

Tupperware additionally pointed to goals to “additional advance Tupperware’s transformation right into a digital-first, technology-led firm,” probably signaling a transfer towards elevated reliance of gross sales on the model’s web site or maybe extra online-focused advertising and marketing, though the corporate didn’t present actual specifics.

In a press release, Tupperware President and CEO Laurie Ann Goldman acknowledged Tupperware’s latest monetary struggles and mentioned that the chapter course of is supposed to offer “important flexibility” as the corporate pursues this transformation. The model, she maintains, is not going anyplace.

“Whether or not you’re a devoted member of our Tupperware group, promote, prepare dinner with, or just love our Tupperware merchandise, you’re part of our Tupperware household,” Goldman mentioned in a press release. “We plan to proceed serving our valued clients with the high-quality merchandise they love and belief all through this course of.”

The corporate’s chapter submitting, although, faces opposition from Tupperware’s new lenders, who need the petition dismissed or transformed it to a Chapter 7 case, which might liquidate the corporate. Alternatively, they’re asking the courtroom for permission to take motion towards the corporate, which may enable them to gather debt they’re owed.

Inter Miami dejó a Leo Messi y sus jugadores estrella en la banca y firmó un empate por 2-2 frente a Atlanta United

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ATLANTA – Parecía que el Inter Miami ni siquiera necesitaba de sus mejores jugadores, ni de su director técnico para derrotar al Atlanta United y dar un paso más hacia su siguiente objetivo.

Pero cuando estaban adentro todas sus estrellas disponibles y después de desperdiciar jugadas para amarrar el partido, el Atlanta United le empató por 2-2 al Inter Miami frente a 67,795 personas en un abarrotado Mercedes Benz Stadium.

Miami ganaba por 2-1 hasta el minuto 84 con un cuadro titular alterno, que no incluyó de inicio y la mayor parte del partido a Lionel Messi, Jordi Alba, Federico Redondo, Luis Suárez, a quienes dieron descanso después de que apenas el sábado pasado habían derrotado al Philadelphia Union.

El propio director técnico, Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino, había advertido desde un día antes que pensaba rotar jugadores titulares para dosificar esfuerzos en una semana que tenían tres partidos programados. Después de Atlanta, el Inter Miami viaja a enfrentrar al New York Metropolis FC.

Messi entró hasta el minuto 61, después de que el sábado anterior jugó prácticamente 100 minutos su primer partido desde que se lastimó el tobillo derecho en la last de la Copa América.

Inter tampoco requirió de los servicios durante todo el juego de Sergio Busquets, Tomás Avilés, Diego Martínez y Martino; suspendidos por acumulación de tarjetas amarillas. El partido fue dirigido por el auxiliar ténico Jorge Theile.

Así, el Inter terminó su jornada de media semana con 68 puntos en el liderato de la Conferencia Este y de toda la Main League Soccer, donde aventaja por al menos 10 puntos a su más cercano perseguidor en la competencia por el Supporters Protect, que es el trofeo que otorgan al equipo con más puntos a lo largo de la temporada common.

Inter dominó en posesión de balón todo el primer tiempo aunque con muy pocas oportunidades en la portería del Atlanta United hasta que Leonardo Campana pasó filtrado a David Ruiz, quien sólo frente al portero cruzó de derecha para el gol de la quiniela al minuto 29.

En la segunda parte, al minuto 56, un error del portero Callender terminó en el empate para el Atlanta United, cuando un disparo de Saba Lobjanidze se le fue por en medio de las piernas.

Poco duró el gusto a buena parte de los 67,795 que pagaron boleto en el Mercedes Benz Stadium de Atlanta porque Leonardo Campana puso de nuevo en ventaja a Miami con gran anotación en tiro libre directo al minuto 58.

Ese fue el detonante para que se le terminara el día libre de Messi, quien después de calentar alrededor de 10 minutos fue llamado para ingresar ante el júbilo y porras del estadio completo, incluyendo a los aficionados locales.

Atlanta United pareció motivarse con el ingreso de Messi y con el apoyo de su gente para dominar frente al arco de Miami buena parte del segundo tiempo, pero entre el portero Callender, quien se resarció en repetidas ocasiones del error del gol en contra, y la mala definición de los delanteros, nunca llegó el empate.

Alba y Redondo entraron al minuto 67 por Ruiz y Robert Taylor de manera respectiva. Suárez ingresó al 80 por Campana, ya sólo para cerrar el partido.

Pero al minuto 84, Aleksei Miranchuk anotó el empate con una buena definición en contra golpe.

El Inter Miami se quedará en Atlanta el jueves y viajará el viernes a New York para cumplir el tercero de sus partidos esta semana.

“Saturday Night time Reside” has set its first batch of hosts for Season 50, together with Ariana Grande, John Mulaney, Michael Keaton and extra.

Internet hosting for her first time, Jean Good will open the season on Sept. 28 with musical visitor Jelly Roll, adopted by an Oct. 5 episode hosted by Nate Bargatze that includes songs from Coldplay.

Grande will host “SNL” for the second time on Oct. 12 with musical visitor Stevie Nicks. Keaton will go to Studio 8H on Oct. 19 with Billie Eilish, and Mulaney will host on Nov. 2 with “SNL” first-timer Chappell Roan.

Good is contemporary off her third Emmy win for the Max comedy “Hacks,” whereas the Grammy-nominated Jelly Roll, who carried out on the Emmys, shall be performing in anticipation of his new album, “Superbly Damaged,” out Oct. 11.

Comic Bargatze, who continues his “Be Humorous Tour” by way of the autumn, returns to the “SNL” stage after internet hosting in 2023. Coldplay will be part of him within the band’s eighth look as musical visitor. The Chris Martin-led outfit will launch its tenth album, “Moon Music,” on Oct. 4.

Grande will lead “Saturday Night time Reside” forward of “Depraved,” coming to theaters Nov. 22, as Fleetwood Mac icon Nicks returns after her first “SNL” efficiency in 1983.

Keaton was final seen in “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” reverse Jenna Ortega and Winona Ryder, and his subsequent movie “Goodrich” will debut in theaters Oct. 18. He’ll be joined by Eilish in her fourth stint as “SNL” musical visitor, this time in help of her 2024 album “Hit Me Arduous and Comfortable.”

Mulaney, who was a author on “Saturday Night time Reside” from 2008 to 2013, will host for the sixth time. The Emmy winner and slapstick comedian stars within the new Broadway play “All In: Comedy About Love,” opening Dec. 11. Roan, who blew up this 12 months with songs like “Good Luck, Babe!” and “Sizzling to Go!,” will carry her energetic pop hits to Studio 8H for the primary time.

“Saturday Night time Reside” will rejoice its fiftieth season with a reside primetime particular on Feb. 16. The sequence airs on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET and streams on Peacock. NBC is owned by NBCUniversal, the father or mother firm of NBC Information.

“SNL” is produced in affiliation with Broadway Video. Lorne Michaels is the creator and govt producer.

NEW YORK (AP) — Recent off her Emmys win, Jean Sensible is taking her comedy to a brand new viewers — she’ll kick off “Saturday Evening Dwell’s” landmark fiftieth season.

NBC on Thursday introduced the lineup of hosts for the season, which premieres Sept. 28. Becoming a member of Sensible on the primary present shall be Jelly Roll because the musical act. He was additionally on the Emmys, singing throughout the ceremony’s in memoriam section.

Will probably be Sensible’s first time internet hosting “SNL” and Jelly Roll’s first time acting on the present. Sensible shared the information on Instagram, writing that internet hosting was a “bucket record” merchandise for her.

The remainder of the hosts and musical friends — save breakout sensation Chappell Roan, who will make her musical visitor debut in November — are returning to the sequence. Comic Nate Bargatze, who hosted final October to nice success, because of a sketch the place he performed George Washington, will host once more Oct. 5, with Coldplay because the musical visitor. Coldplay has beforehand carried out on the present seven occasions, and can ring within the eighth proper after the band’s latest album, “Moon Music,” releases.

Ariana Grande — who stars within the upcoming “Depraved” movie adaption — will host for the second time Oct. 12. She has beforehand been the musical visitor twice, however Fleetwood Mac icon Stevie Nicks will carry out for Grande’s episode. Nicks was a musical visitor as soon as prior, in 1983.

“Beetlejuice” star Michael Keaton will host on Oct. 19, the final present earlier than Halloween, in his fourth time on the present, and Billie Eilish shall be that night time’s musical visitor, additionally marking her fourth time on “SNL.”

“SNL” alum John Mulaney will return to the present as host for the sixth time on Nov. 2, with Roan because the music visitor. Mulaney, who labored as a author on the present earlier than making it huge as a humorist, is behind a few of “SNL’s” most well-known bits, like Invoice Hader as Stefon, a “Weekend Replace” common.

The fiftieth season has been extremely anticipated throughout the present’s summer season hiatus, with followers calling for Maya Rudolph to reprise her function as Kamala Harris and clamoring for Tim Walz-lookalike Steve Martin to make an look because the vice presidential candidate, a task he has since declined.

WASHINGTON – Congress has 12 days left to approve a short-term authorities funding invoice earlier than the shutdown deadline, although leaders within the Republican Home and Democratic Senate haven’t felt the necessity to begin negotiations simply but.

Home GOP leaders, as an alternative, tried to move a six-month persevering with decision Wednesday that carried with it a invoice requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, however had been unsuccessful.

The 202-220 vote within the Home, with two members voting current and 14 Republicans in opposition, got here shortly after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump known as on lawmakers to pressure a authorities shutdown as leverage to enact the voter ID legislation.

“If Republicans don’t get the SAVE Act, and each ounce of it, they need to not comply with a Persevering with Decision in any means, form, or type,” Trump wrote on social media, doubling down on a shutdown assertion he made final week.

The unsuccessful Home vote may present area for Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, to barter with the Senate.

However, with only one week left within the session earlier than Congress departs for a six-week election break, there’s not a lot time for leaders to seek out consensus, draft a invoice, maintain votes in each chambers, and safe President Joe Biden’s signature.

Johnson, requested repeatedly by reporters Wednesday about the potential for a shutdown, didn’t totally rule out a funding lapse starting on Oct. 1.

“We’ll see what occurs with the invoice,” Johnson stated earlier than the vote. “We’re on the sphere in the course of the sport, the quarterback is asking the play, we’re going to run the play.”

Blaming the Senate

Johnson criticized the Senate for not being additional alongside within the annual appropriations course of, looking for to position the blame for a stopgap spending invoice and a potential shutdown on that chamber.

The Senate Appropriations Committee accepted 11 full-year authorities funding payments with broadly bipartisan votes this summer season, however skilled challenges with the Homeland Safety funding measure.

The Home Appropriations Committee accepted all dozen of its payments alongside party-line votes and was in a position to transfer 5 of these throughout the ground with GOP assist, however not broad backing from Democrats.

Home and Senate leaders haven’t allowed the 2 chambers to start conferencing the payments which have both handed out of committee or off the ground, regardless of that being an everyday prevalence in previous years.

It’s extremely unlikely leaders will carry any extra of the full-year spending payments to the ground this fall, making the election outcomes the most important piece of the puzzle that can change between now and the top of the calendar 12 months.

McConnell: Shutdown could be ‘politically, past silly’

Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has repeatedly known as on his colleagues to keep away from a shutdown, although he hasn’t jumped in to barter a stopgap invoice and doesn’t appear inclined to take action.

“I feel we first have to attend and see what the Home sends us,” McConnell stated throughout a Tuesday press convention. “My solely commentary about this entire dialogue is the one factor you can’t have is a authorities shutdown. It might be, politically, past silly for us to try this proper earlier than the election as a result of, actually, we’d get the blame.”

McConnell then referenced the saying that there’s no “training within the second kick of a mule” and famous funding the federal government for a number of extra months will “finally find yourself being a dialogue between” Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer and Johnson.

“I’m for no matter avoids a authorities shutdown,” McConnell added.

Election 12 months drama

Leaning on a stopgap spending invoice has been an everyday a part of Congress’ annual appropriations course of for practically three a long time. Throughout that point, lawmakers have constantly didn’t approve all of the full-year authorities funding payments earlier than the Oct. 1 deadline.

The September battle to approve a seamless decision, which is meant to provide lawmakers a bit extra time to achieve bicameral settlement on the full-year spending payments, has turn out to be more and more dramatic with election-year politics ratcheting up the posturing this 12 months.

In divided authorities, any laws to fund the federal government should be bipartisan, or all of it however ensures a shutdown.

The Home’s failed six-month persevering with decision additionally wasn’t supported by most Senate Republicans.

GOP senators argued it was too prolonged and will have hindered that chamber’s skill to substantiate the following president’s Cupboard in the course of the first few months of 2025.

Senate Republicans and protection hawks within the Home additionally stated that leaving the Division of Protection on autopilot for half of the following fiscal 12 months was an abdication of Congress’ accountability and a risk to nationwide safety.

December finish date eyed

The ultimate stopgap spending invoice that Congress approves within the days forward will possible final by Dec. 20, the ultimate day this 12 months that Congress is scheduled to be in session. It is usually unlikely to incorporate the voter registration ID element.

That last, bipartisan persevering with decision may additionally embody a plus-up in spending for the Secret Service or a provision that enables the company to spend its stopgap allocation at a sooner fee to bolster Trump’s safety following two obvious assassination makes an attempt.

Florida Republican Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, chairman of the State-Overseas Operations spending panel, stated Wednesday that if he was a betting man, he’d count on Congress to move a stopgap spending invoice by mid-December.

“The very first thing is, we are able to’t have a shutdown,” Díaz-Balart stated. “I feel most individuals right here perceive that that will be catastrophic, notably when half the world is in flames.”

Throughout a authorities shutdown, some federal staff proceed reporting to the workplace with out pay whereas the remainder are furloughed till Congress approves a brand new funding invoice. All federal workers impacted by a shutdown obtain again pay.

A shutdown this October would have an effect on all of the departments and companies funded throughout the annual course of, together with the departments of Agriculture, Protection, Well being and Human Providers, Homeland Safety, and State.

Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson, chairman of the Inside-Setting appropriations subcommittee, stated he was certain there could be no shutdown however didn’t element how precisely Congress would dealer a bipartisan settlement within the days forward.

“I don’t suppose anyone needs to close the federal government down,” Simpson stated. “That’s not a viable choice.”

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With every batch of invoice signings and vetoes by Gov. Gavin Newsom, it’s turning into increasingly more noticeable: He isn’t approving many payments authored by state senators.

Is he holding their laws hostage to get the Senate to play ball on his particular session on gasoline costs?

His workplace says “no.”

• Newsom spokesperson Izzy Gardon: “We typically announce payments within the order wherein the Governor evaluations them. The timing of his actions shouldn’t be tied to any broader legislative dynamics.”

Nonetheless, listed below are the numbers for the reason that common session ended Aug. 31: Newsom has signed 50 Meeting payments and vetoed six. He has signed only one Senate invoice and vetoed one other. Monday, the governor signed just one measure: Meeting Invoice 2867, which is aimed toward serving to California residents recuperate artwork and different private property stolen through the Holocaust.

Newsom known as the particular session simply hours earlier than lawmakers had been purported to adjourn for the yr so he might push an power invoice bundle that didn’t go within the common session. Whereas the Meeting gaveled into session, Senate President Professional Tem Mike McGuire balked on the name and declined to convene his members, however later added he would solely reply the decision if the Meeting agreed on the payments first. The Meeting might vote on payments on Oct. 1.

When requested for touch upon Newsom’s lack of motion on Senate payments, McGuire spokesperson Kerrie Lindecker replied: “This query is greatest directed to the Governor’s Workplace.”

Sen. Scott Wiener has a few high-profile payments on Newsom’s desk, and he’s holding occasions to attempt to persuade the governor to signal them. Monday, the San Francisco Democrat joined medical doctors, pharmacists and sufferers in assist of his invoice that will tighten rules on pharmacy profit managers — intermediaries between drug producers and insurance coverage firms — in hopes of lowering prescription drug costs. And right now, Wiener plans to collect with the Nationwide Group for Girls, youth teams and others to push his laws on synthetic intelligence security that has drawn nationwide consideration and is strongly opposed by Large Tech.

Reminder: Newsom has a whole lot of payments left to resolve earlier than his Sept. 30 deadline. CalMatters is monitoring a number of the most noteworthy.

CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media enterprise explaining California insurance policies and politics.

MUNICH (AP) — Safety has tightened at Oktoberfest within the wake of final month’s lethal knife assault in Solingen in western Germany, and officers warned revelers to count on longer traces at entry factors as metallic detectors can be deployed for the primary time within the Bavarian beer pageant’s 189-year historical past.

Authorities say there are not any particular threats to the world’s largest folks pageant, which begins Saturday with the conventional keg-tapping in Munich and runs by way of Oct. 6. Some 6 million contributors, many sporting conventional lederhosen and dirndl attire, are anticipated over the course of the occasion.

The stepped-up safety comes after an Aug. 23 assault in Solingen that left three lifeless and eight wounded. A 26-year-old Syrian suspect was arrested. He was an asylum-seeker who was presupposed to be deported to Bulgaria final 12 months however reportedly disappeared for a time and averted deportation. The Islamic State militant group has claimed accountability for the violence, with out offering proof.

The violence left Germany shaken and pushed immigration again to the highest of the nation’s political agenda. In response, the Inside Ministry prolonged short-term border controls to all 9 of its frontiers this week. The closures are set to final six months and are threatening to take a look at European unity.

The consequences of the Solingen assault — and different latest violence throughout Germany — will even be felt at Oktoberfest. Hand-held metallic detectors can be used for the primary time, with police and safety workers utilizing them on a random foundation or following suspicious exercise.

“We’ve got needed to react to the truth that assaults with knives have elevated in latest weeks and months,” Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter instructed The Related Press throughout a media tour of the pageant grounds to focus on the brand new safety measures. “We are going to do all the things we are able to to make sure that no one involves Oktoberfest with a knife or different harmful weapons.”

Along with some 600 cops and a pair of,000 safety workers, extra than 50 cameras can be unfold throughout the grounds of the pageant — which can be fenced off as properly. Competition-goers are also prohibited from bringing knives, glass bottles and backpacks.

Oktoberfest isn’t any stranger to elevated safety all through its historical past. In 2016, authorities applied tighter measures in response to a collection of assaults, together with when a German teenager fatally shot 9 folks at a Munich mall earlier than killing himself.

The pageant’s organizer, Clemens Baumgärtner, promised a protected public house, presumably “the most secure place in Germany” in the course of the 16 days of Oktoberfest.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed 5 AI-related payments on Tuesday, inserting new duties on huge on-line platforms like Fb and X, and limiting how studios can exploit the likenesses and voices of performers.

The three payments that take care of elections construct on a separate legislation that Newsom signed 5 years in the past, making it unlawful to maliciously distribute misleading audio or visible media that attempt to discredit a candidate within the instant run-up to an election. One of many new payments expands the timeframe laid out in that legislation from 60 days to 120 days earlier than an election. (Additionally in 2019, Newsom signed a invoice giving folks the flexibility to sue those that make or share sexual deepfakes depicting them with out their consent.)

One other of the brand new payments, often called the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act, forces giant on-line platforms to dam customers from posting “materially misleading” election-related content material as Californians put together to solid their vote—this implies content material that tries to depict a candidate, elected official, or election official, saying or doing one thing that they didn’t actually say or do.

“Advances in AI over the previous couple of years make it straightforward to generate hyper-realistic but utterly pretend election-related deepfakes, however [the new law] will be certain that on-line platforms decrease their impression,” stated Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park), who proposed the invoice.

The third of the election-related payments covers electoral advertisements, making certain that any AI-generated or “considerably altered” content material comes with a disclosure.

Deceptive AI content material this 12 months

This 12 months’s momentous election has already featured some deceptive AI content material, most notably deepfakes distributed by presidential candidate Donald Trump that falsely depicted megastar Taylor Swift and her followers as supporting him. That incident prompted Swift to publicly endorse Trump’s rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump has additionally shared AI-generated pictures that presupposed to exhibit his help amongst Black voters, and that depicted somebody resembling Harris addressing a gathering of communists. The latter instance would possible be the form of factor that may be lined by California’s new legal guidelines, as would faked audio posted by X proprietor Elon Musk that had Harris saying she was the “final range rent.”

There are as but no federal legal guidelines masking election deepfakes, however there are already state-level legal guidelines masking the topic—with various levels of power—in 20 different states, from Washington and New York to Texas and Florida.

California’s efforts are significantly notable due to the state’s giant inhabitants, and the truth that huge on-line corporations akin to Meta are positioned in it.

Newsom has clashed with Musk over California’s efforts, and the tycoon responded to Newsom’s signing of the legal guidelines by claiming that he had made parody unlawful.

Actors’ rights

California is in fact additionally the normal residence of the U.S.’s film trade, and the entertainment-related legal guidelines that Newsom simply signed are an enormous win for SAG-AFTRA, the media professionals’ union.

One ensures that performers and actors can’t discover their voices or likenesses being replicated by AI with out their permission—all contracts should embody phrases about this, with the performer getting their say throughout negotiations.

The opposite offers with digital replicas of deceased performers, making certain that these can’t be commercially used with out the consent of their estates.

“It’s a momentous day for SAG-AFTRA members and everybody else as a result of the AI protections we fought so arduous for final 12 months at the moment are expanded upon by California legislation due to the legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom,” stated union president Fran Drescher, who’s greatest recognized for her roles in The Nanny and This Is Spinal Faucet.

Newsom stated the brand new legislation would permit California’s iconic leisure trade to “proceed thriving whereas strengthening protections for employees.”

The massive one

The governor stated yesterday that there have been three dozen AI-related payments awaiting his signature. However probably the most momentous could be SB 1047, a pivotal AI security invoice that may drive AI corporations to make sure that their fashions can’t be used to trigger “essential harms” like organic assaults or large crimes.

This has brought on livid debate within the AI group, with some akin to OpenAI and “Godmother of AI” Fei-Fei Li, saying it could hurt the sector within the U.S., and others akin to Musk and Anthropic calling for its passage.

Additionally on Tuesday, Newsom stated at a Salesforce convention that SB 1047 may have an “outsized impression” and even perhaps a “chilling impact” on the open-source AI group.

“I can’t remedy for every little thing,” he stated, indicating that he isn’t completed assessing the invoice’s stability between tackling demonstrable and potential dangers.

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