đź”— Articles: Saturday 18.May.2024
WashPo: Biden’s debate moves set off a mad scramble at CNN — and in Trumpworld
The only thing left was for the campaigns and the country to figure out what had happened. Disagreements about the debate conditions and the agreement’s significance flared even as voters began hearing the news. At 10:56 a.m., CNN announced terms that largely followed the demands Biden had announced earlier that morning — a first meeting in June, organized by a network on Biden’s suggested list, with no live audience.
CleanTechnica: Biden-Harris Administration Enacts Law Banning Importation of Russian Uranium
Yesterday, President Joseph R. Biden signed into law H.R.1042, the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act. The passage and signing of this law will ensure the U.S. will no longer be reliant on imported uranium fuel from the Russian Federation. It will ban the import of Russian uranium and revive domestic nuclear fuel production by unlocking $2.72 billion recently appropriated by Congress, at the request of the President, to expand our domestic uranium enrichment and conversion capacity.
Good news if you hold Cameco stock.
CBC: Toronto eliminated from PWHL playoffs after surrendering 2-0 series lead to Minnesota
Taylor Heise scored twice, including the winner in the third period, as Minnesota downed Toronto 4-1 on Friday, roaring back from a 2-0 series deficit to take the best-of-five PWHL semifinal 3-2.
Om Malik: A startup’s “tablet” gears up to take on Apple’s iPad
I am a tablet nerd. I have been since Steve Jobs introduced the iPad.
Tablets, especially the iPad, connect with me emotionally, much like my vintage fountain pen and notebook made out of Japanese paper. There is a reason why I use the iPad for most of my work, though lately, it has taken a backseat to a new device – the Daylight Computer’s Tablet.
This is one of the most talked about devices in Silicon Valley. It was created by Daylight Computer, a company started by Anjan Katta to solve his problem – he suffers from ADHD and wanted something that allowed him few distractions and allowed him to work with intent. The reason I am excited about that new tablet is because it is optimized around reading, writing, and productivity. This is very different from the tablets we have had so far.
Arun: Daylight at the end of the tunnel
For the last month, I’ve been testing the Daylight Tablet - a device designed from the ground up to encourage focus, productivity and a more mindful digital existence. It will be available to the public in a few months.
PBS NewsHour: Hot weather poses risk as power outages remain from deadly Houston storm
As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands after deadly storms left at least seven people dead, it will do so amid a smog warning and scorching temperatures that could pose health risks.
National Weather Service meteorologist Marc Chenard said on Saturday that highs of around 90 degrees (32.2 C) were expected through the start of the coming week, with heat indexes likely approaching 100 degrees (38 C) by midweek.
Wales Online: Simon Cowell’s surprise call to BGT comedian’s mum after his secret audition gets huge reaction
Alex Mitchell, 23, from Leeds impressed the judges on Saturday’s programme with his self-deprecating humour about dating as an autistic man who has ticks - and viewers were left laughing even more when Simon Cowell phoned Alex’s mum to prank her after Alex’s brilliant audition.
Surely they must mean tics, not ticks?!
“Alex, I think you should phone your mum and dad now and tell them where you are,” Simon said, before taking Alex’s phone and calling his mum.
“Becky? I want to speak to you about your son. As you know, he’s at a stag do tonight and his behaviour has been absolutely appalling!”
“I am so sorry, he gets that from his father’s side,” responded Alex’s mum, Becky.
UPI: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry for killing Black Lives Matter protester in 2020
16.May.2024
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday pardoned Daniel Perry, who had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020.
Abbott signed the proclamation after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously to grant Perry a full pardon and restoration of gun rights.
“Among the voluminous files reviewed by the board, they considered information provided by the Travis County District Attorney, the full investigative report on Daniel Perry, plus a review of all the testimony provided at trial,” Abbott said in a statement.
“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive district attorney. I thank the board for its thorough investigation, and I approve their pardon recommendation.”
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Travis County District Attorney JosĂ© Garza, who prosecuted the case against Perry, said the board and Abbott’s decision “made a mockery of our legal system.”
“They should be ashamed of themselves,” Garza said. “Their actions are contrary to the law and demonstrate that there are two classes of people in this state where some lives matter and some lives do not.”
UPI: Boeing Starliner launch delayed to end of May to fix helium leak
Boeing’s first crewed space mission was delayed again Friday due to a persistent helium leak.
The spacecraft now is scheduled to take off May 25 after NASA scrapped a launch set for Tuesday.
The delay will give time for the team to further assess a small helium leak in the spacecraft’s service module, the agency said.
It is the latest in a series of delays for Boeing’s Starliner mission, which is supposed to send NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams to the International Space Station.
I wonder if Butch and Suni are thinking of other things they have to do that day?
SportsNet: Canucks-Oilers Notebook: Skinner’s return, McDavid’s disappearance, and MIller’s growth
Facing elimination Saturday night, the Edmonton Oilers will fix something that’s not broken, going back to Stu Skinner in goal after a pair of stellar starts by backup Calvin Pickard.
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Ignoring recent trends:
Skinner was pulled after 40 minutes in Game 3 last Sunday, and watched Pickard take the Oilers through the last seven periods. Skinner’s playoff save percentage (.877) pales next to Pickard’s (.915), but Knoblauch is banking on the fact that — since the Oilers turnaround began in the first week of November — Skinner’s .912 was fifth-best among NHL starters.
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McDavid’s production has stalled, with one lone assist in the last three games. He knows he’s the leader here, and this team tends to follow wherever McDavid can take them.
NBC: Supreme Court Justice Alito urged to step off Trump election case over U.S. flag controversy
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday and others urged Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from considering cases related to the 2020 election — including the question of former President Donald Trump’s immunity from criminal prosecution — because of controversy over an upside-down U.S. flag that flew outside Alito’s home more than a week after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitiol.
Judiciary chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., suggested that the conservative Alito was adding to ethical concerns about the court after The New York Times report on Thursday detailing a photo of the flag displayed in that manner outside the justice’s Virginia home on Jan. 17, 2021, three days before President Joe Biden, a Democrat, was due to be sworn into office.
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Durbin in a statement said, “Flying an upside-down American flag – a symbol of the so-called ‘Stop the Steal’ movement – clearly creates the appearance of bias.”
“Justice Alito should recuse himself immediately from cases related to the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection, including the question of the former President’s immunity in U.S. v. Donald Trump, which the Supreme Court is currently considering,” Durbin said.
UPI: Judge says Ohio law banning cities from regulating tobacco sales is unconstitutional
Under the law, Ohio cities would be prohibited from enacting their own regulations on the sale of tobacco products.
Columbus had previously voted for a ban on the sale of flavored tobacco, and Cincinnati leaders are considering a similar ordinance. State Republicans have opposed municipal bans arguing they would hurt store owners.
Republicans don’t want to end the scourge of tobacco if there’s a buck to be made. Maybe they should allow the sale of fentanyl?
WashPo: Dabney Coleman, actor who portrayed comic scoundrels, dies at 92
He found his critical breakthrough in “9 to 5” (1980), portraying a predatory manager who seeks sexual conquest in the secretarial pool and gets his comeuppance courtesy of co-stars Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin.
The next year, Mr. Coleman had a rare sympathetic part as Fonda’s dentist boyfriend in the drama “On Golden Pond” before returning to his unsavory bread-and-butter. He was a chauvinistic soap-opera director in “Tootsie” (1982), a hard-edged computer scientist in “WarGames” (1983), a seedy Broadway producer in “The Muppets Take Manhattan” (1984), a lisping smut peddler in “Dragnet” (1987) and an ignorant police chief in the slapstick comedy “Amos & Andrew” (1993).
On TV, he was among the first sitcom leading men with few redeeming values, memorably playing an insensitive talk-show host on NBC’s “Buffalo Bill.” The program ran for only 26 episodes in 1983 and 1984 but drew a devoted following over the years for the astringent performance by Mr. Coleman, who in character tells one guest, “I don’t care what the jury said, you look like a rapist to me” and reassures his latest love interest, “You’re better than 90 percent of those bimbos out there.”
Last Updated: 18.May.2024 23:55 EDT