Senin, 31 Oktober 2022
Delphi murders live updates: Suspect charged in killing of teen girls - ABC News
A Delphi, Indiana, man, Richard Allen, has been arrested for the 2017 murders of eighth graders Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter announced at a news conference Monday.
The 50-year-old was arrested Friday and has been charged with two counts of murder, Carter said.
If anyone else was involved, that person will be held accountable, Carter vowed.
Carter said "today is not a day to celebrate," but called the arrest a "major step."
"This investigation is far from complete," Carter said.
The probable cause affidavit has been sealed, Carter said.
"The time will come when additional details can be released," Carter added.
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Rosemary Grant makes recipes she finds on gravestones - Boing Boing
Rosemary Grant makes recipes she finds on gravestones. Up until now, I was unaware that certain graves had recipes written on them. Including a recipe on a grave is a way to honor the person passed away through sharing a food they loved with the world. Grant explains that there's only around 10 graves in the US with recipes on them. She's started a TikTok account where she cooks the recipes she finds on headstones. These headstone recipes would make a fantastic cookbook.
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Minggu, 30 Oktober 2022
NY to pay $36 million to men exonerated in Malcolm X killing - New York Post
The city of New York is settling lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, agreeing to pay $26 million for the wrongful convictions which led to both men spending decades behind bars.
The state of New York will pay an additional $10 million. David Shanies, an attorney representing the men, confirmed the settlements on Sunday.
“Muhammad Aziz, Khalil Islam, and their families suffered because of these unjust convictions for more than 50 years,” said Shanies said in an email. “The City recognized the grave injustices done here, and I commend the sincerity and speed with which the Comptroller’s Office and the Corporation Counsel moved to resolve the lawsuits.”
Shanies said the settlements send a message that “police and prosecutorial misconduct cause tremendous damage, and we must remain vigilant to identify and correct injustices.”
Last year, a Manhattan judge dismissed the convictions of Aziz, now 84, and Islam, who died in 2009, after prosecutors said new evidence of witness intimidation and suppression of exculpatory evidence had undermined the case against the men. Then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. apologized for law enforcement’s “serious, unacceptable violations of law and the public trust.”
The New York City Law Department, through a spokesperson, said Sunday it “stands by” Vance’s opinion that the men were wrongfully convicted and the financial agreement “brings some measure of justice to individuals who spent decades in prison and bore the stigma of being falsely accused of murdering an iconic figure.”
Shanies said over the next few weeks the settlement documents will be signed and the New York court that handles probate matters will have to approve the settlement for Islam’s estate. The total $36 million will be divided equally between Aziz and the estate of Islam.
Aziz and Islam, who maintained their innocence from the start in the 1965 killing at Upper Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom, were paroled in the 1980s.
Malcolm X gained national prominence as the voice of the Nation of Islam, exhorting Black people to claim their civil rights “by any means necessary.” His autobiography, written with Alex Haley, remains a classic work of modern American literature.
Near the end of Malcolm X’s life, he split with the Black Muslim organization and, after a trip to Mecca, started speaking about the potential for racial unity. It earned him the ire of some in the Nation of Islam, who saw him as a traitor.
He was shot to death while beginning a speech Feb. 21, 1965. He was 39.
Aziz and Islam, then known as Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, and a third man were convicted of murder in March 1966. They were sentenced to life in prison.
The third man, Mujahid Abdul Halim — also known as Talmadge Hayer and Thomas Hagan — admitted to shooting Malcolm X but said neither Aziz nor Islam was involved. The two offered alibis, and no physical evidence linked them to the crime. The case hinged on eyewitnesses, although there were inconsistencies in their testimony.
Attorneys for Aziz and Islam said in complaints that both Aziz and Islam were at their homes in the Bronx when Malcolm X was killed. They said Aziz spent 20 years in prison and more than 55 years living with the hardship and indignity attendant to being unjustly branded as a convicted murderer of one of the most important civil rights leaders in history.
Islam spent 22 years in prison and died still hoping to clear his name.
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Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil's president - ABC News
SAO PAULO -- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro Sunday in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics.
With more than 99% of the votes tallied in the runoff vote, da Silva had 50.9% and Bolsonaro 49.1%, and the election authority said da Silva’s victory was a mathematical certainty.
It is a stunning reversal for da Silva, 77, whose 2018 imprisonment over a corruption scandal sidelined him from the 2018 election that brought Bolsonaro, a defender of conservative social values, to power.
Da Silva is promising to govern beyond his leftist Workers’s Party. He wants to bring in centrists and even some leaning to the right who voted for him for the first time, and to restore the country’s more prosperous past. Yet he faces headwinds in a politically polarized society where economic growth is slowing and inflation is soaring.
His victory marks the first time since Brazil’s 1985 return to democracy that the sitting president has failed to win reelection. The highly polarized election in Latin America's biggest economy extended a wave of recent leftist victories in the region, including Chile, Colombia and Argentina.
As Lula prepared to give a speech at a hotel in downtown Sao Paulo Sunday evening, Bolsonaro had yet to concede the election.
It was the country's closest election in over three decades. Just over 2 million votes separated the two candidates with 99.5% of the vote counted. The previous closest race, in 2014, was decided by a margin of 3.46 million votes.
Da Silva’s inauguration is scheduled to take place on Jan. 1. He last served as president from 2003-2010.
Thomas Traumann, an independent political analyst, compared the results to Biden’s 2020 victory, saying da Silva is inheriting an extremely divided nation.
“The huge challenge that Lula has will be to pacify the country,” he said. “People are not only polarized on political matters, but also have different values, identity and opinions. What’s more, they don’t care what the other side’s values, identities and opinions are.”
Congratulations for Lula — and Brazil — began to pour in from around the world Sunday evening, including from U.S. President Joe Biden, who highlighted the country’s “free, fair, and credible elections.” The European Union also congratulated da Silva in a statement, commending the electoral authority for its effectiveness and transparency throughout the campaign.
Bolsonaro had been leading throughout the first half of the count and, as soon as da Silva overtook him, cars in the streets of downtown Sao Paulo began honking their horns. People in the streets of Rio de Janeiro’s Ipanema neighborhood could be heard shouting, “It turned!”
Da Silva’s headquarters in downtown Sao Paulo hotel only erupted once the final result was announced, underscoring the tension that was a hallmark of this race.
“Four years waiting for this,” said Gabriela Souto, one of the few supporters allowed in due to heavy security.
Outside Bolsonaro’s home in Rio de Janeiro, ground-zero for his support base, a woman atop a truck delivered a prayer over a speaker, then sang excitedly, trying to generate some energy. But supporters decked out in the green and yellow of the flag barely responded. Many perked up when the national anthem played, singing along loudly with hands over their hearts.
Most opinion polls before the election gave a lead to da Silva, universally known as Lula, though political analysts agreed the race grew increasingly tight in recent weeks.
For months, it appeared that da Silva was headed for easy victory as he kindled nostalgia for his presidency, when Brazil’s economy was booming and welfare helped tens of millions join the middle class.
But while da Silva topped the Oct. 2 first-round elections with 48% of the vote, Bolsonaro was a strong second at 43%, showing opinion polls significantly underestimated his popularity. Many Brazilians support Bolsonaro’s defense of conservative social values and he shored up support in an election year with vast government spending.
Bolsonaro’s administration has been marked by incendiary speech, his testing of democratic institutions, his widely criticized handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in 15 years. But he has built a devoted base by defending conservative values and presenting himself as protection from leftist policies that he says infringe on personal liberties and produce economic turmoil.
Da Silva is credited with building an extensive social welfare program during his 2003-2010 tenure that helped lift tens of millions into the middle class as well as presiding over an economic boom. The man universally known as Lula left office with an approval rating above 80%; then U.S. President Barack Obama called him “the most popular politician on Earth.”
But he is also remembered for his administration’s involvement in vast corruption revealed by sprawling investigations. Da Silva’s arrest in 2018 kept him out of that year’s race against Bolsonaro, a fringe lawmaker at the time who was an outspoken fan of former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Da Silva was jailed for for 580 days for corruption and money laundering. His convictions were later annulled by Brazil’s top court, which ruled the presiding judge had been biased and colluded with prosecutors. That enabled da Silva to run for the nation’s highest office for the sixth time.
For months, it appeared that he was headed for easy victory as he kindled nostalgia for his presidency, when the economy was booming and welfare helped tens of millions join the middle class. But results from an Oct. 2 first-round vote — da Silva got 48% and Bolsonaro 43% — showed opinion polls had significantly underestimated Bolsonaro’s resilience and popularity. He shored up support, in part, with vast government spending.
Da Silva has pledged to boost spending on the poor, reestablish relationships with foreign governments and take bold action to eliminate illegal clear-cutting in the Amazon rainforest.
He hasn’t provided specific plans on how he will achieve those goals, and faces many challenges. The president-elect will be confronted by strong opposition from conservative lawmakers likely to take their cues from Bolsonaro.
Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Insper University in Sao Paulo, compared the likely political climate to that experienced by former President Dilma Rousseff, da Silva’s hand-picked successor after his second term.
“Lula’s victory means Brazil is trying to overcome years of turbulence since the reelection of President Dilma Rousseff in 2014. That election never ended; the opposition asked for a recount, she governed under pressure and was impeached two years later,” said Melo. “The divide became huge and then made Bolsonaro.”
Unemployment this year has fallen to its lowest level since 2015 and, although overall inflation has slowed during the campaign, food prices are increasing at a double-digit rate. Bolsonaro’s welfare payments helped many Brazilians get by, but da Silva has been presenting himself as the candidate more willing to sustain aid going forward and raise the minimum wage.
Da Silva has also pledged to put a halt to illegal deforestation in the Amazon, and once again has prominent environmentalalist Marina Silva by his side, years after a public falling out when she was his environment minister. The president-elect has already pledged to install a ministry for Brazil’s orginal peoples, which will be run by an Indigenous person.
In April, he tapped center-right Geraldo Alckmin, a former rival, to be his running mate. It was another key part of an effort to create a broad, pro-democracy front to not just unseat Bolsonaro, but to make it easier to govern. Da Silva mended also has drawn support from Sen. Simone Tebet, a moderate who finished in third place in the election’s first round.
“If Lula manages to talk to voters who didn’t vote for him, which Bolsonaro never tried, and seeks negotiated solutions to the economic, social and political crisis we have, and links with other nations that were lost, then he could reconnect Brazil to a time in which people could disagree and still get some things done,” Melo said.
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Carla Bridi contributed to this report from Brasilia.
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Elon Musk, in a Tweet, Shares Link From Site Known to Publish False News - The New York Times
The tweet on Sunday, which was later deleted, posted an article that made baseless allegations about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband.
Three days after Elon Musk purchased Twitter, the billionaire posted a tweet that advanced baseless allegations about the recent attack on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The tweet, on Sunday, raised anew questions about how, or if, Mr. Musk will act to combat misinformation and hate speech on the social media site.
On Saturday, Hillary Clinton, the former first lady and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, posted a tweet assailing Republicans for spreading “hate and deranged conspiracy theories” that she said had emboldened the man who attacked Ms. Pelosi’s husband, Paul, inside the couple’s home in San Francisco early Friday.
In a reply to Mrs. Clinton’s tweet, Mr. Musk wrote, “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye” and then shared a link to an article in the Santa Monica Observer. The article alleges that Mr. Pelosi was drunk and in a fight with a male prostitute.
Mr. Musk’s tweet was later deleted, and it was not immediately clear who had deleted it.
A 2021 editorial in The Los Angeles Times about websites that “masquerade as legitimate local newspapers” noted that the Santa Monica Observer, “owned by onetime City Council candidate David Ganezer, is notorious for publishing false news.” In 2016, for example, the publication advanced a claim that Mrs. Clinton had died and that a body double was sent to debate the Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump.
The police have said that Mr. Pelosi, 82, was attacked with a hammer inside his home by a man, David DePape, who had entered through the back door. The police have said that when they arrived at the home, they found the two men wrestling for control of a hammer. The authorities have said that Mr. DePape, 42, would probably face several charges, including attempted homicide and assault with a deadly weapon. At one point, Mr. DePape is said to have shouted, “Where is Nancy? Where is Nancy?”
In an interview on Sunday, Brooke Jenkins, the San Francisco district attorney, said she had seen nothing to support the idea that Mr. Pelosi and the attacker knew each other.
The tweet from Mr. Musk on Sunday came on the heels of his vow in an open letter to advertisers that Twitter would not become a freewheeling site that allowed entirely unfettered commentary.
“Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences,” he wrote. “Twitter aspires to be the most respected advertising platform in the world.”
Mr. Musk’s purchase of Twitter for $44 billion was completed on Thursday, the same day he fired several of the company’s top leaders, including the chief executive Parag Agrawal.
Ahead of the possibility of sweeping changes at the platform, like reinstating the account of Mr. Trump, who was barred from the site after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Mr. Musk has said he would create a content moderation council.
“No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes,” he wrote.
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Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2022
Biden votes early, casting his ballot in Delaware - Yahoo News
President Biden voted early in the midterm elections on Saturday, casting a ballot in his home state of Delaware.
The president, who turns 80 next month, voted alongside his 18-year-old granddaughter Natalie Biden, who was voting for the first time. After Natalie voted, Biden placed an "I Voted" sticker on her shirt.
Election Day is 10 days away, and early in-person voting began in Delaware on Friday morning. As Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, noted, it’s “the first time that Delaware will have early voting in a general election.”
Last month, Biden flew to Wilmington as part of a quick last-minute trip to vote in the state’s Democratic primary, with nearly an hour left to spare before the polls closed. Roughly an hour after landing, the president and first lady Jill Biden flew back to Washington, D.C. The trip included the usual presidential security detail, two military flights, two motorcades and the use of Air Force One.
Speaking of that trip last month, which was not on Biden’s schedule, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters: “He thought it was important to exercise his constitutional right to vote … and set an example by showing the importance of voting.
“He also had the opportunity to say hello to poll workers and thank them for their work. And we know how under attack poll workers have been these past several years.”
The president’s vote comes as the Democrats face an uphill battle to keep control of Congress.
Biden’s vote on Saturday was part of a weekend trip to his Wilmington home. On Friday night, he and Vice President Kamala Harris attended a fundraiser in Philadelphia that was expected to raise $1 million for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. The state’s Democratic lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, who was in attendance at the event, faces a close race with the Republican candidate, Mehmet Oz, for the U.S. Senate seat.
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Warnock, Obama attack Walker’s fitness for office at rally: ‘You actually have to know stuff to do this job’ - The Hill
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and former President Obama knocked GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s fitness for office at a rally Friday.
Obama traveled to Georgia as one of several stops he is making ahead of the midterms with less than two weeks until Election Day. Warnock and Walker are locked in a tight race for the Senate seat in the state, but the incumbent senator and former president said at the rally that Walker has not put in the work necessary to serve in the role.
“You actually have to know stuff to do this job,” Warnock said.
He said Walker is “not ready” and “not fit” to represent Georgia because the office requires that the holder be someone that people can trust. He said Walker “lies about the most basic facts of his life.”
Walker has faced intense scrutiny throughout the campaign over a lack of transparency following multiple revelations about his personal life.
He has run his campaign emphasizing family values, but reports revealed that he has fathered a total of four children with different women, three of whom he was not married to. His son Christian Walker has slammed him recently for being largely absent from the lives of all his children.
Walker has also run on a platform staunchly opposed to abortion, without any exceptions. But he reportedly reimbursed a woman who eventually became the mother of one of his children for an abortion she had after they conceived a child in 2009.
The woman also claims Walker encouraged her to get an abortion the second time she became pregnant, but she went through with the pregnancy. A second woman accused Walker on Wednesday of pressuring her to have an abortion in 1993 during a multiyear affair.
“He wears his lies quite literally as a badge of honor,” Warnock said, referring to a badge Walker pulled out during a debate between the two candidates.
Walker has claimed that he trained as an FBI agent and has worked with the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in June that he has never been a certified FBI agent or officer and no record exists in Cobb County to support his claims.
Walker admitted in an interview with NBC News that the badge he flashed during the debate was an “honorary badge,” but Warnock has slammed him for “pretending to be a police officer.”
“If we can’t trust him to tell the truth about his life, how can we trust him to protect our lives and our families and our children and our jobs and our future?” Warnock said.
Obama said the race between Warnock and Walker is a “study in contrast.” He said Walker was an “amazing” football player, but that does not make him the best person to represent Georgia in the Senate.
Obama compared the idea of electing Walker to the Senate to having Walker fly an airplane if someone sees him at an airport.
“You’d probably want to know, ‘Does he know how to fly an airplane?’” he said.
He said being a football player is not disqualifying for running for Senate, but players need to “put in the work.” He said there is little evidence that Walker has taken “any interest” in learning anything about public service or helping people.
“At least we don’t really know about it, and that does make you suspect,” Obama said. “Seems to me, he’s a celebrity who wants to be a politician, and we’ve seen how that goes.”
He said issues of character and having a habit of not telling the truth say something “about the kind of leader you’re going to be.”
“If a candidate’s main qualification is that he’s going to be loyal to Donald Trump, it means that he’s not really going to be thinking about you and your needs, and you deserve better,” Obama said.
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Jumat, 28 Oktober 2022
Holiday Recipes Our Food Staff Can’t Wait to Make - The New York Times
Whether warmly spiced cookies, centerpiece-worthy mains or meals to feed a crowd, here’s what we’re excited to cook for our loved ones this season.
When the sun sets earlier and earlier every day and the temperatures begin to drop, it can mean only one thing: The holidays are nearing. And no matter which ones you observe, they’ll call for something to feed a crowd, a nice drink to imbibe or a lovely treat to share. The New York Times Food staff has plenty of recipes that we turn to time and again this time of year, whether favorite cookies, holiday table centerpieces, festive dinners or can’t-put-them-down snacks. Give them a try and see exactly why we love these recipes so much.
1. One-Pot Vegetable Biryani
After watching Zainab Shah’s video demonstration for her vegetable biryani, I had to have it immediately. I think I made the recipe that night. I’m looking forward to trying it again for the holidays, when pomegranates are in season and I’m back home in Atlanta with more mouths to feed. I kept imagining how much my rice-loving family would appreciate all of the colors, textures and flavors. It’s one of the most thoughtful recipes I’ve ever made. ERIC KIM
Recipe: One-Pot Vegetable Biryani
2. Italian Rainbow Cookies
I’m taking it easy on holiday shopping this year, so I’m going to make many batches of these Italian rainbow cookies to give away as gifts. I adapted the recipe from Nicole Carpino Frasco, whose grandmother, Mary Carpino, made them for years. I’ve been slowly stocking up on almond paste over the last few months because it’s a little pricey, and the stores sold out last year! The cookies look fussy, but they just take a little time, and the results are festive and so, so fun. MARGAUX LASKEY
Recipe: Italian Rainbow Cookies
3. Maple-Baked Salmon
I am such a huge fan of Genevieve Ko’s maple-baked salmon. It is a stunning centerpiece — I served it one New Year’s Eve to rave reviews — and it truly takes minimal effort. The genius sauce — mayo, maple syrup, whole-grain Dijon mustard and thinly sliced cilantro stems — is a delightful blend of flavors and textures that play so nicely off the tenderness of the salmon. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. KASIA PILAT
Recipe: Maple-Baked Salmon
4. Hawaiian Guava Cake
Here’s a secret: My family isn’t big on sweets! But, this year, I’m hoping I can get them on board with this guava cake. It’s just the right amount of sweetness for an immigrant family who’s used to picking guavas off the trees, and it comes together in under an hour. GINA FERNANDEZ
Recipe: Hawaiian Guava Cake
5. Cheese Crackers
Every year, for my long-running annual New Year’s Eve party, I’d prepare a quadruple batch of Gabrielle Hamilton’s cheese crackers and stash the unbaked logs in the freezer to slice and bake the week before. The party is on indefinite hold, but I still look forward to enjoying these crispy savory crackers with a glass of wine in hand, in the company of family and friends. CATHY LO
Recipe: Cheese Crackers
6. Classic Potato Latkes
On the first night of Hanukkah, I plan to steal a page from Melissa Clark’s book: I’ll fry a few batches of her latkes and set out a spread of crème fraîche, smoked salmon, fish roe, dill, chives and apple sauce for my family to assemble their perfect bites. And, with all due respect to Manischewitz, I’ll make a batch of Lambrusco spritzes to celebrate my hard work. BECKY HUGHES
Recipes: Classic Potato Latkes | Lambrusco Spritz
7. Malt Chocolate and Marshmallow Sandwiches
Though I’ve aspired to be that person who bakes ornate holiday cookie trays for friends and families for years, it took a pandemic for me to actually find the time to do so. I’ve discovered many recipes to love, but these toasty sandwich cookies from Yewande Komolafe are indisputably the best I’ve ever baked. No future cookie platter will be complete without them! ALEXA WEIBEL
Recipe: Malt Chocolate and Marshmallow Sandwiches
8. Hazelnut, Pear and Cardamom Tart
I bookmarked this tart from Clare DeBoer for the holidays because it contains several Rao family crowd-pleasing components. Buttery short crust! Roasted hazelnut frangipane! Ripe pears! I just have to make it. Nadiya Hussain’s samosa pie, made with a hot water crust, is also on my list — I can’t resist a Tall Pie. TEJAL RAO
Recipes: Hazelnut, Pear and Cardamom Tart | Samosa Pie
9. Kaddu (Sweet and Sour Butternut Squash)
This is the only recipe that matters to me on our holiday table. (Well, not the only one, but it is pretty high up there.) Sweet, tangy, spicy, savory — it’s everything! PRIYA KRISHNA
Recipe: Kaddu (Sweet and Sour Butternut Squash)
10. Porchetta Pork Roast
Will I finally cook this Melissa Clark recipe for Christmas? I’ve made plans so many times, researching butchers and farms, measuring my oven. But I haven’t taken the plunge. Perhaps this is the year for garlic- and herb-scented pork encased in perfectly rendered cracklings. We’ll see. MARK JOSEPHSON
Recipe: Porchetta Pork Roast
11. Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
These double-chocolate cookies from Samantha Seneviratne deserve a cult following. Let’s make it happen. EMILY WEINSTEIN
I am psyched to make Alexa Weibel’s mushroom Wellington, a dish I think about all year round. (And probably should make outside the holidays.) It’s so deeply flavored, warm and crisp-tender. Back in 2019, when she was testing it, she brought loads into the office, and I ate it, joyfully, by the office microwave, reveling in its deliciousness. I made it the next year for a close-knit pandemic Thanksgiving, a soul-warmer in the darkest of times. KRYSTEN CHAMBROT
Recipe: Vegetarian Mushroom Wellington
13. Eggnog Snickerdoodles
It may be shameful to admit this in the newspaper of record, but I am one of those people who starts playing Christmas music on Nov. 1. Nothing marks the beginning of the season quite like a little Nat King Cole — except for maybe Vaughn Vreeland’s eggnog snickerdoodles, which are a fairly new but beloved addition to my holiday traditions. I go hard on the nutmeg, increasing it by at least another teaspoon for a super-spiced cookie. Those, and a coupe of Rebekah Peppler’s mulled, chilled wine? Bliss. TANYA SICHYNSKY
Recipes: Eggnog Snickerdoodles | Mulled Wine, but Chilled
14. Spiced Potted Shrimp
Melissa Clark pulls a Darth Vader move with this dish, encasing aggressively seasoned shrimp in butter like Han Solo in carbonite. Melissa cooks the shrimp with warm spices like mace, along with garlic, anchovies and celery seed before chilling them in ramekins of clarified butter. You can use one large soufflé dish instead, if you plan to bring them to a party. SARA BONISTEEL
Recipe: Spiced Potted Shrimp
15. Baked Alaska
For New Year’s Eve, dessert is baked alaska, which comes with the fanfare built in. I’ve varied it, using several layers of tropical fruit-flavored sorbet like mango, passion fruit, pineapple or coconut — bought, not homemade — in place of the semifreddo. FLORENCE FABRICANT
Recipe: Baked Alaska
16. Homemade Ginger Beer
I love bringing homemade food gifts to my friends, family and co-workers during the holidays. One year, it was cookies delivered in takeout containers. The next I made bottles of Toby Cecchini’s very scalable recipe for ginger beer. A few tips: It’s hard work, but grating the ginger fresh is absolutely essential, and you can find Champagne yeast at your local beer brewing shop or online. Moscow mule, anyone? NIKITA RICHARDSON
Recipe: Homemade Ginger Beer
17. Anne Severson’s Gingersnaps
This simple recipe is probably not the best gingerbread cookie ever (this one with bacon fat is hard to beat). But these are the cookies my mother made for decades at Christmas. I made them with her. My kids and my nieces and nephews all made them with her. I hope one day they make them for their kids. Christmas demands tradition with a side of deep, unapologetic family nostalgia. KIM SEVERSON
Recipes: Anne Severson’s Gingersnaps | Bacon Fat Gingersnaps
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Putting on the spritz: Tombstones reveal recipes of the dearly departed - KCRW
While some people hand down a box of recipes on notecards, others choose a more permanent route, etching the signature dishes of their loved ones on their tombstones. Rosie Grant discovered the phenomenon of graveyard recipes as a graduate student for library science at the University of Maryland.
Her first encounter with a recipe on a tombstone was in Brooklyn, where the grave of Naomi Miller-Dawson shares the ingredients for her spritz cookies. During her quest, Grant has traveled to Logan, Utah to visit the grave of Kay Andrews, which boasts of a fudge recipe, and she just received a tip about a cheese dip recipe on a tombstone of a woman buried in Iowa.
Grant says that most of the recipes are from women and are for desserts, but she is aware of a yeast cake recipe on the grave of a man in Israel, who was a well-known kibbutz chef.
Considering her own tombstone, Grant debates between a macaroni and cheese recipe or a clam pasta, but hopes she has some time to decide between the two.
When visiting Kay Andrews’s grave in Logan, Utah with some fudge, Rosie Grant ran into a family on the same mission. Photo courtesy of Rosie Grant.
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The recipe - TheCatholicSpirit.com - The Catholic Spirit
I’m still unpacking boxes from a move over a year ago. Recently I came across a couple of recipe cards written in my mother’s excellent penmanship.
My mother, God rest her soul, passed away almost 50 years ago and the sight of her handwriting caused a moment of grief sweetened by time.
Father Charles Lachowitzer
Today, recipes are more likely to be on a screen and in an electronic file than on a recipe card in a wooden or metal box. But the structure and layout haven’t changed all that much.
The list of ingredients, abbreviations for amounts and the closing instructions for cooking are simply typed versions of my mother’s cursive. My mother could have never imagined a gazillion recipes from all over the world available at her fingertips with a few typed words on an electronic keyboard.
Recipes are ancient and the time-tested ones were handed down for generations. Traditional foods are one of the characteristics that identify cultures and religions. The consistency of taste over time is because of the recipe.
The early Church had a recipe for discipleship. The struggles of a world with ever-present sin and inescapable death were like a millstone. Conversion to Jesus Christ was the harvest of the ripened seeds of essential grains. The millstone may grind them up but by the grace of God, they became a fine flour.
This flour was mixed with the waters of baptism and the oil of gladness in sacramental anointings. A dash of salt as a preservative from evil and the leaven of the Gospel. The dough is kneaded by the loving hands of the Creator and let to rest to rise ready.
The fire of the Holy Spirit transformed the dough into a loaf of bread. The bread of life come down from heaven. While the bread of the Last Supper was unleavened and is still today, the recipe for discipleship needs the leaven of the Gospel.
Wine is made from stomped grapes and oil from crushed olives. These sacramental elements testify to the mercy of God who hears the cries of those in need. Our encounter with the person and real presence of Jesus Christ rebuilds what sin has torn down and feeds the soul. Though we may be broken, stomped and crushed, we are partakers in the mystery of the body and blood of Jesus Christ and anointed by the Holy Spirit with the oil of gladness.
Bread is such a simple recipe for such a profound mystery of faith. The effects of Original Sin, so prevalent in our imperfect lives in an imperfect world, do have a way of grinding us down.
Yet as a fine flour, the waters of baptism and the oil of anointing prepare us to receive the Gospel. Prayer seasons us like salt and preserves us from evil. We rest and rise ready for the fire of love in the Holy Spirit. As members of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, we become transformed to be bread for the world.
St. Augustine knew the recipe for discipleship and put it this way:
“Listen to the Apostle Paul speaking to the faithful: ‘You are the body of Christ, member for member.’
If you, therefore, are Christ’s body and members, it is your own mystery that is placed on the Lord’s table! It is your own mystery that you are receiving!
You are saying ‘amen’ to what you are: your response is a personal signature affirming your faith. When you hear ‘The Body of Christ’, you reply ‘amen.’ Be a member of Christ’s body, then, so that your ‘amen’ may ring true.”
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Kamis, 27 Oktober 2022
Man who pulled officer Fanone into mob during US Capitol attack sentenced to over 7 years - CNN
The man who pulled former Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone into the crowd of violent rioters on January 6, 2021, yelling “I got one!” was sentenced Thursday to 90 months behind bars.
In the lower west terrace tunnel, a small entryway into the Capitol, the mob fought police with chemical spray, poles, bats, and officers’ own batons and shields against the line of police – including Fanone – protecting the building and those inside.
It was during this battle that a man named Albuquerque Head pulled Fanone away from his fellow officers, wrapping his arm around Fanone’s neck, tearing him into the crowd, according to court documents, which consumed Fanone and beat him unconscious.
“These were some of the darkest acts on one of (our) darkest days,” district Judge Amy Berman Jackson said before handing down the sentence Thursday.
“He was your prey, he was your trophy,” she said of Fanone, adding later that the officer “was protecting America” that day.
Head, of Kingsport, Tennessee, pleaded guilty in May to assaulting a police officer and has been detained since April 2021.
During the hearing, prosecutors played video from Fanone’s body-worn camera on January 6, which showed Head initially tell Fanone, “I’m going to get you out of here.”
“Thank you,” Fanone replied.
Fanone testified during the sentencing that at first he believed Head was trying to help him. Seconds later, however, Head yelled “I got one!” to the mob.
Fanone testified he felt Head “choke me and drag me out into the vicious crowd,” holding onto Fanone as another rioter tased him. The officer suffered a heart attack as rioters beat him and tased him in his neck repeatedly, Fanone said.
“Show Mr. Head the same mercy he showed me on January 6,” Fanone told the judge Thursday. “None.”
The footage also showed Fanone’s first words when he regained consciousness as officers carried him inside the Capitol. “We took the door back?” he asked his fellow officers.
Fanone is now a CNN contributor.
Head chose not to speak during Thursday’s hearing.
“Head appears before this Honorable Court as a 43-year-old seeking redemption and mercy,” his defense attorney, Nicholas Wallace, wrote in a sentencing memorandum, noting that his father had passed away while he was in prison and his mother is in “declining health.”
Head’s attorney also blamed his clients lengthy rap sheet on a former addiction to opioids and other drugs, saying that his crimes came to a “screeching halt” after he became sober several years ago.
Head’s fiancé and mother of his two daughters was at the sentencing Thursday and wrote a letter to the judge on Head’s behalf, which Jackson called “raw” and “true.”
Jackson, reading from the letter, noted “it’s the women who will suffer.”
Fanone told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on “Anderson Cooper 360” Thursday that he thought the punishment was appropriate and that Jackson was “thoughtful in her sentencing,” but added that the long sentences handed to some convicted January 6 defendants may be “inspiring” some Americans to “fight harder and to be more violent.”
Asked if he believed if the long sentences have “a deterrent effect” on potential future attacks, Fanone said, “I would traditionally say yes, but these are not traditional crimes. These are politically inspired attacks on law enforcement and on our democracy.”
“Unfortunately, you still have individuals, a former president, many of his allies, that continue to espouse the same lies that motivated these attacks,” Fanone added. “So while I think that [the long sentences] may prevent many Americans from participating in something similar to January 6, I think it’s also inspiring many Americans to fight harder and to be more violent.”
CNN’s Sonnet Swire contributed to this report.
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8 found dead after house fire in Tulsa area; homicide feared - The Associated Press - en Español
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — Eight people were found dead Thursday in a burning Tulsa-area house in what was being investigated as multiple homicides, police said.
The fire was reported about 4 p.m. Thursday in a quiet residential area of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, 13 miles (20 kilometers) southeast of Tulsa.
Broken Arrow police said that although the fire and the deaths were being investigated as homicides, they did not believe an immediate threat to the public existed.
Police spokesman Ethan Hutchins said the scene was complex “with a lot of moving parts,” so no other information was being released immediately. Witnesses told police that a family of eight had lived in the house, two adults and six children, but the bodies have not been positively identified, Hutchins said.
“Understandably, this is a shock to Broken Arrow. It’s a safe city. Broken Arrow doesn’t have this kind of situation every day,” Hutchins said.
Catelin Powers said she was driving with her children nearby when she saw a column of smoke near her house, so she drove past to investigate.
“When I got closer to the house, I saw smoke pouring out from the very top of the house, which looked like maybe the attic,” she told The Associated Press.
Two men and a woman on her phone were standing in front of the house, Powers said, when another man emerged from the front door dragging an apparently unconscious, unresponsive woman. “Her arms were flopped to her sides,” she said.
“She was in either very short shorts or underwear and a tight shirt,” Power said. She described the woman as having a tan complexion “and looked maybe to be mid-twenties.”
Suspecting the woman was dead, Powers said she drove on so her children would be spared the sight.
Broken Arrow is Tulsa’s biggest suburb, with almost 115,000 residents.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was assisting in the investigation, he said.
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Arizona Senate Shifts Back To Toss Up - The Cook Political Report
As the overall environment continues to improve in the Republicans’ direction, the closer we get to Election Day, just 12 days out, we are shifting another race rating in the GOP’s direction. A month after we initially moved Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly into the Lean Democratic column, the race now goes back into Toss Up amid a spate of tightening private polling that has left Democrats worried about one of their strongest incumbents.
All of this has been despite the fact that many national Republicans had begun to write off this contest and GOP nominee Blake Masters’s lackluster campaign and candidate baggage. The writing was on the wall, or so it appeared after the McConnell-backed Senate Leadership Fund pulled their remaining ad buys from the state. A patchwork group of coalitions have made up some of the distance, including groups backed by the Heritage Foundation — and Masters’s mentor, billionaire Peter Theil, did finally pledge another $5 million to the race after having spent heavily to help Masters win the primary.
According to data from AdImpact, since Labor
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Rabu, 26 Oktober 2022
Powerball's largest jackpot this year — $700 million — is up for grabs tonight - CBS News
It has been exactly 12 weeks since a Powerball ticket sold in Pennsylvania won the last grand prize. The jackpot grew quite a bit in the meantime, and, after 35 consecutive rounds without a grand prize winner, stood at an estimated $700 million for Wednesday night's drawing.
The winning numbers Wednesday were 19, 36, 37, 46, 56, and a Powerball of 24. It was still unclear if any winning tickets were sold.
The anticipated fund is this year's biggest jackpot so far, according to Powerball, which increased the sum from $680 million earlier this week. It is also the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot and eighth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot.
Powerball's weekly drawings — which happen on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays — have yielded partial wins for players over the last three months. The most recent drawing gave smaller wins to more than 1.2 million ticket holders, who collectively received $13.7 million in cash prizes, according to the lottery.
There are nine ways to win some amount of money by entering the game, but in order to take home the grand prize, Powerball players must hold tickets with numbers that match all six picked during a given drawing. On Aug. 3, a player whose Pennsylvania ticket was a perfect match won the jackpot, which, at the time, amounted to $206.9 million.
That was the fifth Powerball grand prize won in 2022. In January, winners in California and Wisconsin split the $632.6 million jackpot before a Connecticut winner took home the $185.3 million prize about one month later. In April, an Arizona ticket won $473.1 million, and, in June, the $366.7 million jackpot matched a lottery ticket sold in Vermont.
Those who ultimately claim the next Powerball jackpot have the option to receive their prize as either an immediate lump sum, amounting to an estimated $335.7 million in cash value if someone wins on Wednesday, or as an annuity. The latter option offers to pay out the full jackpot amount over the course of roughly 30 years.
According to Powerball, the odds of winning any prize after entering the game are slightly less than 1 in 25, while odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 292 million. The next Powerball drawing is scheduled to be broadcast live on Wednesday night at 10:59 p.m. ET. Drawings can also be streamed online at Powerball.com.
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