MARJAYOUN, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli strikes Monday on Lebanon killed greater than 490 individuals, together with greater than 90 girls and kids, Lebanese authorities stated, within the deadliest barrage because the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah battle. The Israeli navy warned residents in southern and jap Lebanon to evacuate forward of its widening air marketing campaign in opposition to Hezbollah.

1000’s of Lebanese fled the south, and the principle freeway out of the southern port metropolis of Sidon was jammed with automobiles heading towards Beirut within the greatest exodus since 2006.

Lebanon’s well being ministry stated the strikes killed 492 individuals, together with 35 kids and 58 girls, and wounded 1,645 individuals — a staggering one-day toll for a rustic nonetheless reeling from a lethal assault on communication gadgets final week.

In a recorded message, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Lebanese civilians to heed Israeli calls to evacuate, saying “take this warning critically.”

“Please get out of hurt’s means now,” Netanyahu stated. “As soon as our operation is completed, you possibly can come again safely to your houses.”

Israel’s navy spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, stated the military will do “no matter is critical” to push Hezbollah from Lebanon’s border with Israel.

Hagari claimed Monday’s widespread airstrikes had inflicted heavy harm on Hezbollah. However he wouldn’t give a timeline for the continuing operation and stated Israel was ready to launch a floor invasion of Lebanon if wanted.

“We’re not searching for wars. We want to take down the threats,” he stated. “We are going to do no matter is critical to do to realize this mission.”

Hagari stated Hezbollah has launched some 9,000 rockets and drones into Israel since final October, together with 250 on Monday alone.

The navy stated Israeli warplanes struck 1,600 Hezbollah targets Monday, destroying cruise missiles, long- and short-range rockets and assault drones. The spokesman stated many have been hidden in residential areas, displaying images of what he stated have been weapons hid in personal houses.

“Hezbollah has turned southern Lebanon right into a battle zone,” he instructed a information convention.

Israel estimates Hezbollah has some 150,000 rockets and missiles, together with guided missiles and long-range projectiles able to hanging anyplace in Israel.

Earlier Monday night, the Israeli navy stated it had carried out a focused strike in Beirut. It didn’t give particulars. Lebanon’s state-run Nationwide Information Company reported three missiles hit southern Beirut’s Beir al-Abed neighborhood. Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV stated six individuals have been wounded.

Lebanese Well being Minister Firass Abiad stated the sooner strikes hit hospitals, medical facilities and ambulances. The federal government ordered colleges and universities to shut throughout a lot of the nation and started making ready shelters for the displaced.

Some strikes hit residential areas within the south and the jap Bekaa Valley. One hit a wooded space as distant as Byblos, greater than 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the border north of Beirut.

Israel stated it was increasing the airstrikes to incorporate areas of the valley alongside Lebanon’s jap border with Syria. Hezbollah has lengthy had a longtime presence within the valley, the place the group was based in 1982 with the assistance of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Israel’s navy chief, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, stated Israel was making ready its “subsequent phases” of operations in opposition to Hezbollah, and that its airstrikes have been “proactive,” concentrating on Hezbollah infrastructure constructed over the previous 20 years.

Halevi stated the objective was to permit displaced Israelis to return to their houses in northern Israel.

In the meantime, Hezbollah stated it fired dozens of rockets towards Israel, together with at navy bases. It additionally focused for a second day the services of the Rafael protection agency, headquartered in Haifa.

The evacuation warnings have been the primary of their variety in almost a 12 months of steadily escalating battle and got here after a very heavy alternate of fireside Sunday. Hezbollah launched round 150 rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel in retaliation for strikes that killed a prime commander and dozens of fighters.

The rising strikes and counterstrikes have raised fears of all-out battle, whilst Israel battles Hamas in Gaza and tries to barter the discharge of scores of hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault. Hezbollah has vowed to proceed its strikes in solidarity with Hamas, a fellow Iran-backed militant group.

A spokeswoman for President Joe Biden stated the administration was involved about what’s occurring between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon and insisted that getting a cease-fire deal between Israel and Gaza was key to easing tensions within the area.

“It’s in everybody’s curiosity to resolve it rapidly and diplomatically,” White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre instructed reporters touring with Biden to New York, the place he’s to ship his last deal with to the U.N. Basic Meeting on Tuesday.

A State Division official, who spoke to reporters on situation of anonymity to debate the personal diplomatic efforts, stated the U.S. and quite a few different international locations have been eager to current an “off-ramp” for each Israel and Hezbollah to cut back tensions and stop an all-out battle.

The U.S. has “concrete concepts” for restoring calm that it’s going to current to allies and companions at this week’s U.N. Basic Meeting, the official stated. He would not element what the “concrete concepts” have been as a result of he stated they’d but to be introduced to allies and companions for what he termed a “stress check” for his or her chance of success.

U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon close to the Israeli border, in the meantime, have stopped their patrols and are staying of their bases “given the amount of alternate of fireside,” a U.N. spokesman stated. Stéphane Dujarric instructed reporters that U.N. Secretary-Basic António Guterres was “alarmed” on the escalating violence and huge variety of civilian casualties reported in Lebanon.

Monday’s dying toll far surpassed that of Beirut’s devastating port explosion in 2020, when a whole bunch of tons of ammonium nitrate saved in a warehouse detonated, killing a minimum of 218 individuals and wounding greater than 6,000.

The Lebanese Well being Ministry requested hospitals in southern Lebanon and the jap Bekaa Valley to postpone non-urgent surgical procedures to deal with individuals wounded by “Israel’s increasing aggression on Lebanon.”

On Monday, residents obtained textual content messages studying: “If you’re in a constructing housing weapons for Hezbollah, transfer away from the village till additional discover,” Lebanese media reported.

Lebanon’s info minister, Ziad Makary, stated his workplace in Beirut had obtained a recorded message telling individuals to go away the constructing.

“This comes within the framework of the psychological battle applied by the enemy,” Makary stated, and urged individuals “to not give the matter extra consideration than it deserves.”

Communities on either side of the border have largely emptied due to the near-daily exchanges of fireside.

Israel has accused Hezbollah of remodeling whole communities within the south into militant bases, with hidden rocket launchers and different infrastructure. That might lead the Israeli navy to wage an particularly heavy bombing marketing campaign, even when no floor forces transfer in.

An Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday killed a prime Hezbollah navy commander and greater than a dozen fighters, in addition to dozens of civilians, together with girls and kids.

Final week, hundreds of communications gadgets, used primarily by Hezbollah members, exploded in numerous components of Lebanon, killing 39 individuals and wounding almost 3,000, a lot of them civilians. Lebanon blamed Israel, however Israel didn’t affirm or deny accountability.

Hezbollah started firing into Israel a day after the Oct. 7 assault in what it stated was an try and pin down Israeli forces to assist Palestinian fighters in Gaza. Israel has retaliated with airstrikes, and the battle has steadily intensified.

Hezbollah has stated it’s going to sustain assaults till there’s a cease-fire in Gaza, however that seems more and more elusive because the battle nears its anniversary.

Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 individuals, largely civilians, and abducting round 250. Some 100 captives are nonetheless held in Gaza, a 3rd of whom are believed to be lifeless, after a lot of the relaxation have been launched throughout a weeklong cease-fire in November.

Israel’s offensive has killed over 41,000 Palestinians, in response to the Gaza Well being Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and fighters. It says girls and kids make up a little bit over half of these killed. Israel says it has killed over 17,000 militants, with out offering proof.

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Lidman reported from Jerusalem, and Mroue reported from Beirut. Related Press writers Abby Sewell in Beirut; Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani in New York; and Edith Lederer on the United Nations contributed to this report.

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Observe AP’s battle protection at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war

Bassam Hatoum, Melanie Lidman And Bassem Mroue, The Related Press

The standard of the Laver Cup discipline comes into concentrate on day two, with a singles lineup filled with gamers from the world’s prime ten.

With the competition poised at 2-2 after Friday’s matches and at this time’s matches value two factors, all six singles gamers in motion on Saturday are ranked within the prime 17.  It ensures tennis of the very best high quality.

Match 1: Daniil Medvedev v Frances Tiafoe
Tiafoe has been Crew World’s talisman within the Laver Cup. Who might neglect his emotional win over Stefanos Tsitsipas within the penultimate match of the 2022 competitors in London, when he saved 4 match factors earlier than sealing Crew World’s first-ever Laver Cup title?

The dangerous information for No.16-ranked Tiafoe is that he has by no means crushed world No.5 Medvedev, in 5 earlier matches; the truth is he has solely taken one set off the Muscovite, and that was pre-pandemic. The excellent news for Tiafoe is that they’ve by no means performed indoors, nor in a workforce competitors, so the American can view the slate as clear.

However Medvedev has been a mannequin of consistency this 12 months; he was runner-up on the Australian Open, a semifinalist at Wimbledon, quarterfinalist on the US Open and has gone far in nearly each match he has performed. That may make him a slight favourite in many individuals’s eyes to provide Europe an early lead, however betting in opposition to Tiafoe within the Laver Cup is all the time perilous.

Match 2: Carlos Alcaraz v Ben Shelton
Maybe essentially the most eagerly awaited match, one which many contemplate could possibly be a significant remaining earlier than lengthy. Alcaraz already has 4 Grand Slam singles titles, whereas Shelton’s highly effective left-handed sport has many pondering he’s a significant champion of the long run.
The 2 have performed simply as soon as earlier than; that was in Toronto 13 months in the past when Alcaraz received in two tight units. If Alcaraz can faucet into the shape that noticed him win Roland-Garros and Wimbledon, and declare silver on the Olympics, will probably be onerous for Shelton to win. However Shelton has an awesome workforce pedigree from his time with the Florida Gators US faculty workforce, and revels within the massive event.

Match 3: Alexander Zverev v Taylor Fritz
That is extremely anticipated match pits the world No.2 in opposition to the No.7, with each gamers within the prime 5 within the race to the ATP Finals. Each are in nice type after terrific runs on the US Open, the place they performed one another within the quarterfinals, Fritz successful in 4 units having additionally crushed his German rival at Wimbledon within the fourth spherical.

Fritz says his US Open was most satisfying as a result of he felt he by no means performed his finest tennis but nonetheless reached his first main remaining. After a break, and a victorious doubles partnering Ben Shelton on Friday evening, the 26-year-old could possibly be able to step up a stage. That may make it powerful for Zverev, however he has dwelling benefit.

This can be their eleventh assembly in a head-to-head that goes again greater than eight years. They’re stage at 5-5, having performed within the final two majors, and on all surfaces this 12 months. However they’ve by no means performed indoors, so this can be a primary and will effectively go all the way down to the wire.

Match 4: Casper Ruud/Stefanos Tsitsipas v Ben SheltonAlejandro Tabilo
Any match involving Ben Shelton has electrical energy, and the 21-year-old American would be the livewire on this fascinating doubles. Shelton kinds a scratch all-leftie pairing with Alejandro Tabilo, the Chilean raised in Canada who performed his half in an excellent match in opposition to Grigor Dimitrov on Friday evening, narrowly shedding on two tiebreaks. This can be the right pick-me-up for Tabilo, who wants a win after a run of what he describes as “tough matches”. Tabilo received his first doubles title this season at Santiago with Barrios Vera, and was runner-up at Mallorca with Diego Hildago, having received the singles title in the identical week on grass.

Ruud and Tsitsipas shouldn’t be underestimated. Tsitsipas received his first ATP doubles title just below a 12 months in the past, partnering together with his brother Petros to victory in Antwerp in what he described as “one of the emotional achievements of my tennis profession” given it was a household triumph. Ruud shouldn’t be recognized for his doubles outcomes, however his serve is underestimated and his volleys are stable, so whereas the fireworks will most likely come from the Crew World aspect, it appears a really open match.

MARJAYOUN, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli strikes Monday on Lebanon killed greater than 490 folks, together with greater than 90 ladies and youngsters, Lebanese authorities stated, within the deadliest barrage for the reason that 2006 Israel-Hezbollah warfare. The Israeli army warned residents in southern and jap Lebanon to evacuate forward of its widening air marketing campaign in opposition to Hezbollah.

Hundreds of Lebanese fled the south, and the principle freeway out of the southern port metropolis of Sidon was jammed with automobiles heading towards Beirut within the largest exodus since 2006.

Lebanon’s well being ministry stated the strikes killed 492 folks, together with 35 youngsters and 58 ladies, and wounded 1,645 folks — a staggering one-day toll for a rustic nonetheless reeling from a lethal assault on communication units final week.

In a recorded message, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Lebanese civilians to heed Israeli calls to evacuate, saying “take this warning critically.”

“Please get out of hurt’s means now,” Netanyahu stated. “As soon as our operation is completed, you’ll be able to come again safely to your houses.”

Israel’s army spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, stated the military will do “no matter is important” to push Hezbollah from Lebanon’s border with Israel.

Hagari claimed Monday’s widespread airstrikes had inflicted heavy injury on Hezbollah. However he wouldn’t give a timeline for the continued operation and stated Israel was ready to launch a floor invasion of Lebanon if wanted.

“We’re not in search of wars. We need to take down the threats,” he stated. “We are going to do no matter is important to do to realize this mission.”

Hagari stated Hezbollah has launched some 9,000 rockets and drones into Israel since final October, together with 250 on Monday alone.

The army stated Israeli warplanes struck 1,600 Hezbollah targets Monday, destroying cruise missiles, long- and short-range rockets and assault drones. The spokesman stated many have been hidden in residential areas, exhibiting pictures of what he stated have been weapons hid in non-public houses.

“Hezbollah has turned southern Lebanon right into a warfare zone,” he informed a information convention.

Israel estimates Hezbollah has some 150,000 rockets and missiles, together with guided missiles and long-range projectiles able to placing anyplace in Israel.

Earlier Monday night, the Israeli army stated it had carried out a focused strike in Beirut. It didn’t give particulars. Lebanon’s state-run Nationwide Information Company reported three missiles hit southern Beirut’s Beir al-Abed neighborhood. Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV stated six folks have been wounded.

Lebanese Well being Minister Firass Abiad stated the sooner strikes hit hospitals, medical facilities and ambulances. The federal government ordered colleges and universities to shut throughout many of the nation and started making ready shelters for the displaced.

Some strikes hit residential areas within the south and the jap Bekaa Valley. One hit a wooded space as distant as Byblos, greater than 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the border north of Beirut.

Israel stated it was increasing the airstrikes to incorporate areas of the valley alongside Lebanon’s jap border with Syria. Hezbollah has lengthy had a longtime presence within the valley, the place the group was based in 1982 with the assistance of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Israel’s army chief, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, stated Israel was making ready its “subsequent phases” of operations in opposition to Hezbollah, and that its airstrikes have been “proactive,” concentrating on Hezbollah infrastructure constructed over the previous 20 years.

Halevi stated the aim was to permit displaced Israelis to return to their houses in northern Israel.

In the meantime, Hezbollah stated it fired dozens of rockets towards Israel, together with at army bases. It additionally focused for a second day the amenities of the Rafael protection agency, headquartered in Haifa.

The evacuation warnings have been the primary of their type in practically a 12 months of steadily escalating battle and got here after a very heavy trade of fireplace Sunday. Hezbollah launched round 150 rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel in retaliation for strikes that killed a high commander and dozens of fighters.

The rising strikes and counterstrikes have raised fears of all-out warfare, at the same time as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza and tries to barter the discharge of scores of hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault. Hezbollah has vowed to proceed its strikes in solidarity with Hamas, a fellow Iran-backed militant group.

A spokeswoman for President Joe Biden stated the administration was involved about what’s occurring between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon and insisted that getting a cease-fire deal between Israel and Gaza was key to easing tensions within the area.

“It’s in everybody’s curiosity to resolve it shortly and diplomatically,” White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre informed reporters touring with Biden to New York, the place he’s to ship his last handle to the U.N. Normal Meeting on Tuesday.

A State Division official, who spoke to reporters on situation of anonymity to debate the non-public diplomatic efforts, stated the U.S. and quite a few different international locations have been eager to current an “off-ramp” for each Israel and Hezbollah to cut back tensions and forestall an all-out warfare.

The U.S. has “concrete concepts” for restoring calm that it’ll current to allies and companions at this week’s U.N. Normal Meeting, the official stated. He would not element what the “concrete concepts” have been as a result of he stated they’d but to be offered to allies and companions for what he termed a “stress take a look at” for his or her chance of success.

U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon close to the Israeli border, in the meantime, have stopped their patrols and are staying of their bases “given the quantity of trade of fireplace,” a U.N. spokesman stated. Stéphane Dujarric informed reporters that U.N. Secretary-Normal António Guterres was “alarmed” on the escalating violence and huge variety of civilian casualties reported in Lebanon.

Monday’s loss of life toll far surpassed that of Beirut’s devastating port explosion in 2020, when lots of of tons of ammonium nitrate saved in a warehouse detonated, killing no less than 218 folks and wounding greater than 6,000.

The Lebanese Well being Ministry requested hospitals in southern Lebanon and the jap Bekaa Valley to postpone non-urgent surgical procedures to deal with folks wounded by “Israel’s increasing aggression on Lebanon.”

On Monday, residents obtained textual content messages studying: “If you’re in a constructing housing weapons for Hezbollah, transfer away from the village till additional discover,” Lebanese media reported.

Lebanon’s data minister, Ziad Makary, stated his workplace in Beirut had obtained a recorded message telling folks to go away the constructing.

“This comes within the framework of the psychological warfare applied by the enemy,” Makary stated, and urged folks “to not give the matter extra consideration than it deserves.”

Communities on either side of the border have largely emptied due to the near-daily exchanges of fireplace.

Israel has accused Hezbollah of reworking total communities within the south into militant bases, with hidden rocket launchers and different infrastructure. That might lead the Israeli army to wage an particularly heavy bombing marketing campaign, even when no floor forces transfer in.

An Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday killed a high Hezbollah army commander and greater than a dozen fighters, in addition to dozens of civilians, together with ladies and youngsters.

Final week, 1000’s of communications units, used primarily by Hezbollah members, exploded in numerous components of Lebanon, killing 39 folks and wounding practically 3,000, lots of them civilians. Lebanon blamed Israel, however Israel didn’t affirm or deny accountability.

Hezbollah started firing into Israel a day after the Oct. 7 assault in what it stated was an try to pin down Israeli forces to assist Palestinian fighters in Gaza. Israel has retaliated with airstrikes, and the battle has steadily intensified.

Hezbollah has stated it’ll sustain assaults till there’s a cease-fire in Gaza, however that seems more and more elusive because the warfare nears its anniversary.

Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 folks, largely civilians, and abducting round 250. Some 100 captives are nonetheless held in Gaza, a 3rd of whom are believed to be useless, after many of the relaxation have been launched throughout a weeklong cease-fire in November.

Israel’s offensive has killed over 41,000 Palestinians, in accordance with the Gaza Well being Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and fighters. It says ladies and youngsters make up a little bit over half of these killed. Israel says it has killed over 17,000 militants, with out offering proof.

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Lidman reported from Jerusalem, and Mroue reported from Beirut. Related Press writers Abby Sewell in Beirut; Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani in New York; and Edith Lederer on the United Nations contributed to this report.

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Comply with AP’s warfare protection at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war

Bassam Hatoum, Melanie Lidman And Bassem Mroue, The Related Press

Nike (NKE) inventory popped greater than 7% in early buying and selling Friday after the corporate named a brand new CEO amid its efforts to reinvigorate slowing gross sales progress.

Nike stated Thursday that Elliott Hill, a former Nike govt who retired in 2020, will return to the corporate because the CEO and president on Oct. 14. John Donahoe, Nike’s present CEO, will retire efficient Oct. 13 and can stay an adviser to the corporate till January 2025.

Earlier than retiring, Hill was president of Nike’s shopper and market enterprise, main business and advertising operations for Nike and the Jordan model.

“Given our wants for the longer term, the previous efficiency of the enterprise, and after conducting a considerate succession course of, the Board concluded it was clear Elliott’s international experience, management model, and deep understanding of our trade and companions, paired along with his ardour for sport, our manufacturers, merchandise, shoppers, athletes, and workers, make him the fitting particular person to guide Nike’s subsequent stage of progress,” Nike govt chairman Mark Parker stated in a press launch.

The information comes as Nike inventory has stumbled this 12 months, falling greater than 25% amid slowing income progress and issues concerning the success of the corporate’s pivot to direct-to-consumer gross sales.

“This is excellent information for the inventory, each the manager named in addition to the timing,” Bernstein senior analyst Aneesha Sherman informed Yahoo Finance. “Elliott Hill has labored at Nike for 32 years. He is a product man. He is ran retail in [Europe, Middle East, Africa] and US in North America. He is aware of the corporate and the product very nicely.”

The inventory fell 20% in June when the corporate reported fiscal fourth quarter earnings and stated it expects income to say no greater than it beforehand thought within the coming 12 months. The corporate stated quarterly income within the fourth quarter fell 2% from the 12 months previous to $12.61 billion, under Wall Road’s estimates for $12.86 billion. In the meantime, Nike’s $0.99 earnings per share exceeded analysts’ expectations of $0.66. Nike’s direct-to-consumer gross sales declined 8% from the identical quarter a 12 months in the past to $5.1 billion.

Wall Road has been intently watching Nike’s product pipeline because the Oregon-based firm works to fend off competitors in its core athletic footwear market from rivals like Adidas (ADDYY) and relative upstarts like On (ONON) and Deckers’ (DECK) Hoka model.

Josh Schafer is a reporter for Yahoo Finance. Comply with him on X @_joshschafer.

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Canada’s annual Nationwide Day for Reality and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day on September 30 is a time of recognition, remembrance and respect for survivors of residential faculties and a day to study in regards to the lasting impacts these faculties have had—and proceed to have—on Indigenous communities.

The Ontario Tech group stays devoted to listening to the voices of Indigenous Peoples as we work towards implementing the Reality and Reconciliation Fee’s suggestions and addressing systemic limitations.

The college has declared Monday, September 30 as a meeting-free day to create area for training and reflection on Canada’s involvement in, and historical past of, residential faculties. 

As we pursue reconciliation and therapeutic, allow us to honour the lives of survivors, their households and communities, and always remember their tales.       

Occasions schedule, Ontario Tech sources and the right way to get entangled:

• Dawn Ceremony with Kathy MacLeod-Beaver and Tim Smoke to specific gratitude, and appreciation for a brand new day.
  • When: Monday, September 30, from 6:45 to eight:30 a.m.
  • The place: 285 Britannia Avenue West, Oshawa (Windfields Farm).
  • The ceremony will start promptly at 6:45 a.m., which is able to embrace a ceremonial fireplace, sacred medicines and honouring of water and berries. Conventional tobacco can be out there for choices and light-weight refreshments can be offered after the ceremony in Mukwa’s Den (Shawenjigewining Corridor, Room 217).
  • Register by Wednesday, September 25 utilizing the Dawn Ceremony net type.

• Reconciliation within the Establishment skilled growth workshop.

• Campus Library:
• Lighting up for Orange Shirt Day: The exteriors of Shawenjigewining Corridor and Bordessa Corridor can be illuminated orange throughout the evenings of Sunday, September 29 and Monday, September 30.
• Buy an Orange Shirt from an Indigenous Schooling and Cultural Companies authorized vendor:

Three Mile Island, the ability plant close to Middletown, Pa., that was the scene of the worst business nuclear accident in U.S. historical past, will reopen to energy Microsoft’s knowledge facilities, that are liable for powering the tech large’s cloud computing and synthetic intelligence applications.

Constellation Vitality, which payments itself as America’s largest producer of “clear, carbon-free power,” introduced Friday that it had signed its largest-ever energy buy settlement with Microsoft.

“Powering industries important to our nation’s world financial and technological competitiveness, together with knowledge facilities, requires an abundance of power that’s carbon-free and dependable each hour of daily, and nuclear crops are the one power sources that may constantly ship on that promise,” mentioned Joe Dominguez, Constellation Vitality’s president and CEO.

The deal will create roughly 3,400 jobs and produce in additional than $3 billion in state and federal taxes, in keeping with the corporate. It additionally mentioned the settlement will add $16 billion to Pennsylvania’s GDP.

The settlement will span 20 years, and the plant is predicted to reopen in 2028. It is going to be renamed the Crane Clear Vitality Heart in honor of Chris Crane, who died in April and served because the CEO of Constellation’s former mother or father firm.

“Pennsylvania’s nuclear power trade performs a important position in offering protected, dependable, carbon-free electrical energy that helps cut back emissions and develop Pennsylvania’s economic system,” Gov. Josh Shapiro mentioned.

Not like energy crops utilizing fossil fuels, like coal or pure gasoline, nuclear crops don’t instantly launch carbon dioxide or different greenhouse gasoline emissions driving world warming.

The partial nuclear reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island occurred on March 28, 1979, when one of many plant’s two reactors’ cooling mechanisms malfunctioned. The reactor that shall be reopened to energy Microsoft’s knowledge facilities was not concerned within the accident.

“Earlier than it was prematurely shuttered attributable to poor economics, this plant was among the many most secure and most dependable nuclear crops on the grid, and we look ahead to bringing it again with a brand new title and a renewed mission to function an financial engine for Pennsylvania,” Dominguez mentioned.

Nonetheless, some state activists are apprehensive that taxpayers would foot the invoice for the plant’s reopening, StateImpact Pennsylvania reported.

“What could be a greater funding for our cash? That’s the query we needs to be asking. We have been instructed: let {the marketplace} determine. The market determined, they usually determined it’s not nuclear,” mentioned Eric Epstein of the watchdog group Three Mile Island Alert.

Three Mile Island’s working reactor was shut down in 2019, after a legislative effort to bail out the plant failed when it couldn’t sustain with demand for different cheaper power sources.

Former Microsoft CEO Invoice Gates invested $1 billion in a nuclear energy plant that broke floor in Kemmerer, Wyo., in June. The plant will energy houses and AI, Gates instructed NPR’s Steve Inskeep.

Editor’s observe: Constellation Vitality and Microsoft are amongst NPR’s current monetary supporters.

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Annually, September 30 marks the Nationwide Day for Fact and Reconciliation.

The day honours the youngsters who by no means returned house and survivors of residential faculties, in addition to their households and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful historical past and ongoing impacts of residential faculties is a crucial part of the reconciliation course of.

What’s reconcilation? Father Cristino Bouvette explains. Father Cristino is a priest for the Diocese of Calgary. He’s of combined Cree-Métis and Italian descent. Father Cristino is dedicated to fostering therapeutic and reconciliation amongst Indigenous individuals and the Catholic Church. He was the Nationwide Liturgical Coordinator for the Papal Go to to Canada.

What can we do?

PRAY

Pray that our journey of Strolling Along with Indigenous Peoples will proceed to heal wounds and nurture a path that fosters therapeutic and reconciliation.

The Catholic devoted of Canada are invited to enter into at the present time with a spirit of charity and compassion, as followers of Jesus Christ, members of his “residing physique of reconciliation,” in order that along with all Canadians, we might proceed to stroll ahead with Indigenous Peoples on the trail of reality, justice, therapeutic, reconciliation, and hope.

Allow us to recall the phrases of the Holy Father throughout his 2022 postolic Voyage to Canada: “The Church is the home the place we ‘conciliate’ anew, the place we meet to begin over and to develop collectively. It’s the place the place we cease pondering as people and acknowledge that we’re brothers and sisters of each other.”

ATTEND EVENTS

Sacred Coronary heart Church of the First Peoples, the nationwide Indigenous parish within the Archdiocese of Edmonton, invitations you to affix us in celebrating Nationwide Day for Fact and Reconciliation. The day will beegin with Eucharistic celebration adopted by a  dialogue on the that means of  reality and reconciliation,, in addition to smudging, drumming, singing and a soup and bannock lunch. The reality and reconciliation audio system embrace:

• Candida Shepherd, a member of the Metis Nation of Alberta  Area 4. She is a trainer and a First Nations, Metis, Inuit Lead at Bev Facey Group Excessive Faculty. She can be a very long time member of Sacred Coronary heart Church of the First Peoples.
• Bernadette Iahtail, government director of the Creating Hope Society  She is a registered Social Employee and  government director of Creating Hope Society, a society based for the survivors of the 60s and 70s scoop of aboriginal youngsters in care.

SUPPORT HEALING AND RECONCILIATION

The Archdiocese of Edmonton had made a dedication of $3.2 million over 5 years by supporting 34 packages and initiatives for therapeutic and reconciliation in communities and households, tradition and language revitalization, schooling and group constructing and promotion of Indigenous spirituality and tradition.

The native Indigenous Reconciliation Fund is a part of a dedication by Canada’s Catholic Bishops to boost $30 million over 5 years via the  Indigenous Reconciliation Fund,  To this point, the IRF has raised $15,087,459.70 placing the fund on schedule to exceed its dedication.

LEARN MORE

Study extra about Nationwide Fact and Reconciliation Day via the Nationwide Centre for Fact and Reconciliation.

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COLUMBIA — Freddie Owens was executed Friday night by deadly injection, after his attorneys’ last-chance enchantment to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom did not cease it.

Owens was pronounced lifeless at 6:55 p.m., making him the primary inmate executed in South Carolina in almost 14 years.

He made no closing assertion. When the execution started, Owens checked out his lawyer. She smiled at him, and he appeared to smile again, mentioned Related Press reporter Jeffrey Collins. He and different media witnesses who spoke to reporters afterward agreed that Owens confirmed no outward indicators of struggling.

The execution, which was scheduled for six p.m., was delayed by 35 minutes as officers waited on a ruling from the nation’s excessive court docket.

Owens’ attorneys requested justices Friday to place his sentence on maintain pending the result of a problem they filed every week in the past in federal court docket searching for extra info on the drug to kill him, saying they wanted the small print to make sure his execution could be painless and efficient.

In a three-sentence order, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom — just like the decrease courts earlier than it — refused, whereas noting that Justice Sonia Sotomayor disagreed.

The ruling capped weeks of failed authorized makes an attempt for a reprieve in state and federal courts. Owens’ final hope to remain alive fell to Gov. Henry McMaster, who mentioned no.

“I’ve declined to grant any type of govt clemency on this matter,” McMaster wrote in a letter confirming in writing what he informed Corrections Director Bryan Stirling by cellphone.

Owens, 46, died 25 years after he was convicted of killing gasoline station clerk Irene Graves, a 41-year-old single mom of three, throughout a string of robberies on Halloween night time 1997. A single shot to the top killed her as a result of she couldn’t open the secure.

Witnesses included Graves’ oldest son and son-in-law.

The curtain to the dying chamber parted at 6:35 p.m. to disclose Owens in a inexperienced jumpsuit, a white blanket pulled as much as the center of his chest. He was strapped to a medical desk together with his arms out to both facet. Three jail officers stood within the room with Owens, media witnesses mentioned.

Owens turned his head to take a look at the witnesses, his gaze deciding on his lawyer Emily Paavola, who was the one to resolve he would die by deadly injection. He smiled and mouthed some phrases to her that witnesses couldn’t hear behind the pane of glass separating the chamber from the witness room.

At one level, he appeared to mouth, “Bye,” Justin Dougherty from Fox Carolina Information, one other media witness, informed reporters.

A minute later, the drug started to circulate by way of an IV inserted in Owens’ left arm. His eyes closed, and he began respiration closely. After 4 or 5 minutes, his face started to twitch, and his respiration grew to become shallow.

At 6:42 p.m., his movement stopped. A physician entered the room at 6:54 p.m. to pronounce Owens’ time of dying. Owens stored his head tilted towards Paavola all through, media witnesses mentioned.

Graves’ members of the family watched the execution intently, staring instantly at Owens the complete time. In any other case, they didn’t react, Collins mentioned.

Collins, who witnessed six executions by deadly injection earlier than Owens’, mentioned that apart from the wait at first, the execution proceeded in the identical manner as earlier ones. The one distinction was that it appeared to take Owens longer to cease respiration from the time the drug started flowing. That took about six minutes, in comparison with two or three minutes at earlier executions, Collins mentioned.

It was the primary time the state used a single dose of the sedative pentobarbital as an alternative of its earlier three-drug cocktail, which expired after the final execution in 2011.

Who Owens noticed main as much as his dying is unknown. Corrections’ coverage is to not launch info on what dying row inmates do or who they see of their final days.

His final meal was two cheeseburgers, French fries, a well-done ribeye steak, six wings, two strawberry sodas and a slice of apple pie, all from the jail kitchen, mentioned Division of Corrections spokeswoman Chrysti Shain.

Authorized and private pleas

Two days earlier than his execution, the one witness to the taking pictures — who was convicted as Owens’ confederate — signed an announcement saying he falsely recognized and testified in opposition to Owens, newly claiming that Owens wasn’t even with him that night time.

Hours earlier than Owens’ scheduled finish, Owens’ mom made a public plea to McMaster to spare her son’s life.

“Freddie is greater than his conviction. He’s a human being, a son, a brother, and a buddy,” his mom, Dora Mason, mentioned in an announcement launched by the Greenville nonprofit Preventing Injustice Collectively. “He deserves compassion, understanding, and a good likelihood at justice. As a substitute, the system has failed him and the sufferer at each flip.”

Mason expressed sympathy for Graves’ household whereas asking the individuals of South Carolina to think about whether or not the state ought to execute Owens, who legally modified his identify in 2015 to Khalil Divine Black Solar Allah.

“To the governor, the Legislature, and the individuals of South Carolina, I ask: Is that this actually justice? Is that this actually what we name compassion and mercy?”

Mason, who nonetheless lives in Greenville, pointed to the identical arguments that Owens’ attorneys have made over the past a number of weeks as they sought unsuccessfully to cease the execution and get a brand new trial.

Within the month since Owens was scheduled for execution, his attorneys have claimed that Steven Golden, Owens’ convicted confederate, had a secret take care of a prosecutor in change for testifying in opposition to his buddy.

On Wednesday, Golden recanted what he informed legislation enforcement and jurists about that night time, alleging the “actual shooter” was another person fully who Golden nonetheless doesn’t need to identify out of worry of retaliation. He got here ahead, he mentioned, “to have a transparent conscience.”

The state Supreme Courtroom dismissed these arguments, noting Golden admitted at trial he was testifying to keep away from the dying penalty. Justices additionally indicated they didn’t imagine Golden’s new story, calling it “squarely inconsistent” with what he’s mentioned since his 1997 arrest.

The primary rejection on the federal problem searching for particulars on the state’s drug provide got here Wednesday. That was the choice appealed all the way in which to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom.

Dying penalty protesters

An hour forward of the scheduled execution, about 50 individuals gathered exterior the jail campus gates to protest the dying penalty. Some chanted “cease the killing,” whereas others gathered in prayer.

Mersedes Mejia, of Columbia, was on her manner dwelling Friday when a sense came visiting her that she ought to take a unique route. She had heard in regards to the pending execution on the information however the gathering of demonstrators exterior Broad River Correctional Middle took her unexpectedly. She rotated and joined the group hoping and praying within the closing hour the execution could be stopped.

Because the clock ticked to six p.m., the group began to quiet.

Lulu Torres, of Batesburg, dropped to her knees and made a silent prayer. She got here to Columbia with different members of St. John the Cross Catholic Church to exhibit her perception that “life is efficacious.”

“It ought to in the end be God’s determination when our final day shall be,” she mentioned. “Another person made that call for Mr. Owens, and that’s heartbreaking.”

Because the minutes handed, a lot of the group pressed up in opposition to the fence ready for information.

A bit of after 7 p.m., demonstrators shaped a circle holding fingers and comforting those that had been crying as Ron Kaz, of Charleston, modified the quantity on an indication counting the variety of dying row executions within the U.S. since 1977 to incorporate that of Owens.

“We aren’t right here to make excuses for the hurt Khalil did trigger throughout his life,” mentioned Rev. Hillary Taylor, govt director of South Carolinians for Alternate options to the Dying Penalty.

“However there’s additionally no justice for younger Khalil, a baby who skilled bodily hurt in his family and bodily and sexual hurt in juvenile jail services right here in South Carolina,” she mentioned. “As a rule, these on dying row are the victims of another person’s violence lengthy earlier than they commit violence themselves. This is the reason we stand in opposition to all executions. At its core, the dying penalty is a declaration that some victims of violence matter greater than others.”

Owens’ life and crimes

Owens was born prematurely right into a household life his attorneys have described as violent and chaotic. Each his organic dad and mom and his stepfather used and dealt medicine, and all three abused Owens and his three siblings. His father and stepfather had been out and in of jail all through his childhood, in response to court docket filings.

Owens went into foster care at 5 years outdated after social employees discovered him and his siblings alone in a home with no meals or electrical energy.

He dropped out of college in ninth grade after repeating a number of grades and infrequently moving into hassle for combating with different college students. As a teen, he hung out within the state’s juvenile justice system, the place the opposite youngsters abused him bodily and sexually, his attorneys have mentioned.

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Sooner or later, which medical doctors can’t pinpoint, Owens suffered injury to his frontal lobe, the a part of the mind that controls an individual’s impulses and feelings. He skilled violent outbursts, nervousness, melancholy, paranoia and seizures at completely different factors in his life, in response to court docket filings.

Owens was 19 years outdated when Graves was shot within the head as two masked males robbed the Speedway comfort retailer the place she labored one in all her three jobs. The youngest of the three youngsters she left behind was 8 years outdated.

The Speedway was the third place that Owens and three buddies — in response to Golden and others — robbed as Halloween changed into the early morning of Nov. 1, 1997.

Golden testified — each in 1999 and 2003 — that it was Owens who shot Graves as a result of she couldn’t open the shop’s secure. The pair of robbers left with $37.29 from the money register.

Owens informed family and friends that he had killed Graves, bragging about it in some circumstances. Past Golden, these testifying in opposition to Owens at his 1999 trial included his girlfriend and one other buddy on the theft spree. Owens’ attorneys have since disputed the reliability of what they mentioned.

In February 1999, a jury convicted Owens of killing Graves. That night time, between his conviction and sentencing listening to the following day, Owens killed a fellow inmate on the Greenville County jail, 28-year-old Christopher Lee.

Lee was serving a 90-day sentence for visitors violations. Owens confessed to the crime, then described intimately how he had killed Lee by choking him, slamming his head into the ground and shoving a pen up one nostril, in response to court docket paperwork.

That case by no means went to trial. Prosecutors dropped the costs in 2019, quickly after Owens exhausted his appeals for killing Graves, with the stipulation that they might convey them again if wanted.

Twice, the state Supreme Courtroom despatched Owens’ dying sentence again to a jury for resentencing. Each occasions, the jury once more advisable sentencing Owens to dying.

However Owens has modified throughout his 25 years in jail, one in all his attorneys, Rob Lee, mentioned throughout a Thursday night time vigil at Washington Avenue United Methodist Church in Columbia.

“Reasonably than wallow within the extreme isolation of dying row, he started to learn,” Lee mentioned. “Then, he started to check.”

Owens took an curiosity in historical past, significantly African historical past. He advised his niece write a paper on Nubian Queen Amanirenas, who resisted Roman rule within the historic Kingdom of Kush. He regaled his attorneys with details in regards to the College of Timbuktu, bonobo apes, and the historical past of cartoon character Betty Boop, Lee mentioned.

He realized to learn and write in Arabic to strengthen his Islamic religion. He referred to as his mom each day to verify on her.

Owens wrote ideas and poems and essays, “creating a brand new recorded historical past of his life,” Lee mentioned.

Vigils forward of the execution

Through the Thursday vigil, a dozen activists made a closing name for clemency. They peacefully walked the road exterior the Governor’s Mansion, holding indicators studying “finish the dying penalty” and “cease state killing.”

Kaz, a board member of South Carolinians for Alternate options to the Dying Penalty, has pushed from Charleston to Columbia to sit down vigil for all however one of many executions carried out within the state since 1985, he mentioned. Friday night time made his forty third vigil exterior the razor wire of the jail gates.

“For me, it will get tougher each time,” Kaz mentioned.

Within the time between an individual’s crime and execution, lots can change, he mentioned.

“The individuals which are getting executed should not the identical individuals who had been sentenced to dying,” Kaz mentioned.

Paul Palmer, a protestor from Columbia, mentioned he disagreed with the concept that executions convey justice for the kin of the victims. After his nephew was killed whereas working a shift at a video poker parlor within the Nineteen Eighties, the prosecutor requested Palmer’s household whether or not they wished to hunt the dying penalty.

Palmer knew that sentence wouldn’t convey the household the peace they had been searching for. He pushed as an alternative for a life sentence, which the perpetrators in the end obtained, he mentioned.

“I don’t need that sort of justice,” he informed his brother-in-law and sister on the time, he mentioned.

Activists identified the uneven methods through which the dying penalty is commonly utilized. Black individuals, like Owens, are disproportionately sentenced to dying, civil rights leaders have argued.

Of the 282 individuals executed in South Carolina since 1912, 74% had been Black and 26% had been white, in response to Division of Corrections information.

Of the 32 males on the state’s dying row, 15 are Black and 17 are white. Folks with disabilities, reminiscent of Owens’ mind injury, are additionally extra more likely to face execution, mentioned Taylor, director of anti-death penalty group.

“The dying penalty shouldn’t be justice,” Taylor mentioned. “It doesn’t cease violence from taking place. It solely creates extra victims.”

It’s possible activists shall be again in Columbia over the course of the following six months because the state Supreme Courtroom schedules 5 extra males who’ve exhausted their appeals for execution, Taylor mentioned.

“Sadly, there could also be many future vigils,” Taylor mentioned.

After his execution, Owens’ attorneys maintained he was killed for against the law he didn’t commit.

“Freddie Owens didn’t kill Ms. Graves. His dying tonight is a tragedy,” lawyer Gerald “Bo” King mentioned in an announcement late Friday. “Mr. Owens’s childhood was marked by struggling on a scale that’s exhausting to grasp. He spent his maturity in jail for against the law that he didn’t commit. The authorized errors, hidden offers, and false proof that made tonight doable ought to disgrace us all.”

Jessica Holdman contributed to this report. 

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Danny Boyle’s upcoming zombie film, 28 Years Later, was shot over the summer season utilizing solely a bunch of tailored iPhone 15s, making the Hollywood thriller, with its finances of $75 million, the largest film thus far filmed with smartphones.

28 Years Later is the follow-up to the massively profitable 28 Days Later, with Cillian Murphy, and the Robert Carlysle-led sequel 28 Weeks Later.

The unique 2002 film was described as genre-defining and was the primary to painting zombies as scary quick reasonably than lumbering corpses, ala Strolling Lifeless. It stays one of many biggest zombie motion pictures ever made.

Set one month after The Rage Virus precipitated the entire collapse of civilisation within the UK, the post-apocalyptic survival thriller follows bicycle courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) after he wakes up from a coma and tries to make sense of the top of the world.

Written by Alex Garland (The Seashore, Civil Conflict), the threequel may additionally see the return of Murphy, though there are not any particulars but on the plot for 28 Years Later, or whether or not Murphy stars in all three motion pictures of the upcoming trilogy.

Boyle is joined by cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle for the most recent instalment. The pair received Oscars collectively in 2009 for his or her hit Slumdog Millionaire. Mantle was additionally a cinematographer on the unique 28 Days Later, in addition to Boyle’s movies Trance (2013), T2 Trainspotting (2017), and 127 Hours (2010).

The pair’s kick-off film, 28 Days Later, was filmed with an innovative-for-the-time digital digital camera – one of many first Hollywood characteristic movies shot with a Canon XL-1. For the most recent horror deal with although, Boyle relied totally on iPhone 15s – not even the most recent telephone.

A number of folks concerned within the movie confirmed to WIRED that the first digital camera system utilized in 28 Years Later was an iPhone 15 Professional Max and apparently, Boyle and Mantle couldn’t get hold of the most recent iPhone 16 collection since filming started too early.

A number of arthouse movies have beforehand been shot with iPhones, together with Sean Baker’s Tangerine (2015) and the Steven Soderbergh drama Unsane (2018).

We will’t wait, and in case you forgot how terrifying the earlier instalment was, right here’s a bloody reminder.

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